skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It feels like the society collectively decided "no more new building"

This, more than anything else, seems to be the problem in the developed West, at least when it comes to real estate prices and related cost of living issues. At least in the US, there's a pretty strong correlation between land-use freedom[0] (that is, the ability for landowners to develop that land into more productive use, including higher-density housing) and median home/rent prices.

[0]: https://www.freedominthe50states.org/land
As a reader and also author, I get to find out who some of the users are:

Mention you wrote a book, and you get flooded with offers to review it.

Goodreads really IS pretty worthless. I want to like it, but I just can't.
Author here: This was indeed a quick hack. And Perl is still my fastest language for banging out a quick prototype. (I used to be the Perl 5 project lead. I’ve spent a lot of time with Perl.)
All this handwringing over GoodReads in recent weeks seems to miss the point. It's actually useful to users? People who like books are attracted to it, for all its ills. I don't think that adds up to "terrible for books."
Parallels has a single option in the Security settings tab: "Isolate VM from macOS". It disables all cross-machine integrations.
If a pittance of $70M makes IBM go back on their word, they must really be on their last legs.
How to Build a Large Language Model from Scratch Using Python
I'm not sure I follow. Knowledge based retrieval of what exactly? Outdated docs and dilapidated code? Aging internal wikis and chat histories erased for legal reasons?

Everyone also seems to overlook how much time and resources it takes for these models to be trained/fine tuned on a corpus of knowledge. Researches have calculated it probably took OpenAI the equivalent of 355 years on a single NVidia V100 to train up GPT 3. [1] Clearly they used more horsepower in parallel, which is a foreseen problem right now for other reasons. [2]

[1] https://lambdalabs.com/blog/demystifying-gpt-3

[2] https://www.pcworld.com/article/2020375/the-ai-boom-could-cr...
> I think you are misunderstanding what happens with the current image generation stuff out there. You give it text, it gives you something that might look plausible for what you described. It ends up full of artifacts and temporally extremely unstable.

Have you used ComfyUI with inpainting? From what you're saying, I don't believe you have, or perhaps the last time you used image generation was with Midjourney or another "type in text and get an output" tool. In reality, the field has evolved to contain entire workflows such that you can get something with no artifacts, it just takes time and effort, as with other sorts of art too.

> CGI in movies takes an extreme amount of labor and every shot out of the hundreds of thousands that go in to a film are very exacting, being directed to a detail level that people can't notice while watching a movie in real time.

Oh they can notice alright, Corridor Digital on YouTube has videos of them reacting to bad CGI. Even in discussions online I see people complaining about bad CGI, especially in Marvel media. But my point is that those films still make billions of dollars, so at some point most people simply don't care and will watch it anyway.

> *Your comment basically boils down to "what if it gets good enough, then it will be good enough". [...] Show me something where you can keep typing in text to change the image, move the lights, move the camera and have it be temporally stable.

Well, yes, that is my point, that when it gets good enough, kids will be making blockbusters in their bedrooms. I'm not a future seer though so it's not like I can give you an exact timeline, but based off what I know of the field, it's trending towards that. You could say it's incremental progress, but again, at some point it'll be good enough that most people looking won't care about artifacts, just like bad CGI as above. If you want a fully temporally coherent image when moving a virtual camera around, wait a few years.
I agree:

> designed to create and make use of a graph of relationships between people.

I assert that a universe of people maintaining killfiles is exactly this. It is the default-trust map of social network, in which one imagines that the exceptional cases are those whom one wishes to shun.

I think a requirement that one be able to "follow a person", that is to say watch all the things that individual says, is excessive. We're getting down into the weeds here, but I think following topics and threads are much more useful than following humans.
Do you have to enter your name in Romaji or Katakana in Japanese sites?
And when X goes bankrupt/sold that information will also be sold as an asset of the company.
From my understanding, it's these countries [1] vs US dollar.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRICS#/media/File:Map_of_BRICS...
There's a great deal of land in the very cold part of the N hemisphere that may become more agriculturally productive with warming.
I disagree with Twitter's decision on the first count and don't have a good opinion about the second.

However these examples fall far short of what other social media companies are doing. On YouTube a year ago you could be banned for suggesting that Covid could started as a lab leak.
I don't think shaming young people into having children will work (for SK or any other country). Eventually they will have to adjust their culture and immigration policies to be more welcoming to outsiders.
I like the idea of a points system like Australia has, but I'm wary of the excessive emphasis on STEM, and I'm even less enthusiastic about the idea of empowering universities to "sell" access to US residency and work rights through overpriced MS degrees, many of which are, frankly, bullshit cash cows.

Keep in mind, in Australia, plumbers and electricians get the maximum points for professional skills. So would nurses, pilots, and even lawyers (though they must be admitted to the Australian bar).

Hell will freeze over before the US lawyers who write the immigration system rules agree that foreign lawyers and patent agents should have access to the US job market the way they think STEM workers should.
You've hit the nail on the head. Goodreads is pretty useful for readers.
2024: Paying for a Tesla using Twitter while a robot screams slurs at you.
I love having a word for this.
https://arstechnica.com/

https://www.aljazeera.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/

https://www.snopes.com/ (at least they used to be, not so sure any more since they changed ownership a few years back)

I could go on and on. It's not particularly hard to find.
You can also make container images without using Dockerfiles (ex. using nix)
> All attempts to determine the effects of WFH show no-to-positive effects on productivity.

Nope, we had a different experience. For the first few months, we all coasted on our prior relationships. Also, it was a pretty unique moment in the history and there was a "let's rise to the challenge" feeling.

Later on as employees churned and new ones joined, as well as the remote fatigue set in, we saw a drastic drop in productivity.

> Because, as noted above, there hasn't been any measurable drop in productivity due to WFH.

There has been, in our company. Management is wondering why we have less output when our workforce has more than doubled in the remote setting. To their credit, they literally went all in on remote. But one key thing they didn't realize is that remote needs rewiring of the entire communication culture. Much easier said than done.
Weird, I assumed it was just replaced, because my start menu just shows the default Windows one and the new Office installed one.

https://i.imgur.com/UvcWlxH.png
https://www.geol.umd.edu/sgc/elevator/elevator43.html
I think the reason is that people feel guilty if they can't provide their kids equal or better lifestyles than they got.
Wow, >46 minutes latency. IDK what I expected.
WeChat isn't forced on the people by the CCP by any means.
So I just hopped on Usenet via eternal-september for the first time and checked some of the can.* boards to check in with my fellow countrymen.

Wow, it's like I'm reading a collection of everyone's spam folder with some flares of racism for good measure.

Is there _any_ moderation on Usenet? How do I get it?

For now I think I'll stick to Mastodon (Canadians, join cosocial.ca co-op!)
Have the Gov subsidized the young with generous programs, perhaps a monthly fee for each child where at some level (2-3 children), one parent could stay home to raise them and collect a modest salary. Otherwise most young folks can't afford it.
Margin Call
Elon’s product thinking really shines here, huh? /s

He thinks LinkedIn is cringe (fair) but has a position where he can ignore lots of professional norms. LinkedIn is cringe because people are deliberately trying to respect professional norms and post weird, sanitized, work-appropriate content.

Imagine you’re a recruiter. The selling point of X jobs is that they will give you access to people who found professional norms too hard to follow? And probably some specialists who would be hard to recruit, but maybe they get income that’s a multiple of several boutique recruiting agencies from that.

This isn’t like stackoverflow jobs where the base is correlated with technical expertise - X jobs is correlated with people who are terminally online who think being polite in their work-facing lives is something that people don’t actually want. What hiring manager wants to draw from that pool?
I think the VM has to be switched off, not just suspended for the arguments to be editable. There are also some flags that UTM insists on and won't let you remove, which actually seems kind of reasonable - QEMU is really low-level and it's possible to run it in modes where UTM won't be able to connect to it.
But WeChat does have competition in China.
This is a big over-simplification, but I think it's a good mental model:

Think of a container as a fancy chroot.

Imagine that:

1. You have a whole separate Linux installation in some random folder.
2. You ask your OS to launch some process, and to "trick" the process into thinking that "$YOUR_FOLDER" is actually "/".
3. You maybe also ask your OS to add some extra isolation (network, devices, /proc, etc).
4. The term "container" refers to the chroot, the isolation rules, and usually the process-tree running inside of it.
5. While a container is alive, you can also ask the OS to run some other programs that exist inside of the container's sandbox

Docker is a tool that creates and manages containers. In Docker's view of the world:

- Containers are made by extracting .tar.gz files into some folder and asking the OS to create a sandbox where that folder is a "fake" root directory.

- Those .tar.gz files are called "images".

- Docker can download images from the internet, or you can build your own by asking it to follow the steps contained in a Dockerfile.
Thanks for checking.

One person is x.yz@gmail. Tens of times I’ve had people or systems strip the x, I am y.z and get their mail. Invites to funerals. Business mail. Admittedly reduced lately, he probably uses it less.

One professor has a “t” in his name, so “ytz”. People miss the t and send to yz. Dot gets ignored so I get those. I get assignments, or people pleading for extensions. That’s stopped over time.

The stuff is important so I tried hard to get it to the right person. But a bounce to the sender would have been better. It’s a bit wearying to be a post forwarder.

Most of the spam I get is to yz. Some makes it through. I’ve never used that version, ever. I just checked spam now. First 4 messages were to “yz”.

So many mistakes get sent to that version. After many years I tried setting a rule to block that version because it’s definitely not for me, but no go (although maybe that’s why I get less now of the above two examples. I’ll check my rules in the morning). I’ve had the address since the earliest intro-only days so it’s had time to add crud.
> absolutely nothing

They do release new versions that maintain compatibility with the latest versions of macOS, and Parallels Tools updates that maintain compatibility with the latest versions of Windows and Linux.

So not nothing... but I agree $70/year is a bit much for maintenance updates.
Python tool for generating visualizations fast
I saw about a month ago or so someone posted their tool they made in Python. It looked like you could just write a few lines to point to a data source, write a query against it with a method and then generate a webpage with a visualization automatically generated. The use case made it seem like you could very quickly take data and explore it this way without needing to get really fancy with dashboarding tools or ML algorithms and such. Anyone know what I'm talking about? I don't think it was pyspark because it seemed like a small open source project that one person worked on
For their own managed providers they no longer provide binaries in GitHub releases, and serve them from their own servers instead. Which feels like a trap BTW.
> I’m at a FinTech and some of the merchants we’re in the same orbit with are actively moving to replace credit [...] card payments with FedNow instant payments.

What is the benefit to the consumer of using FedNow instead of a credit card when paying for a purchase? Is the merchant planning to add a credit card surcharge, thus the sole "consumer benefit" is avoiding this surcharge?
> lower volume and few servers caused uneven load, and we went back to least connections for those clusters.

The more traffic you’re handling, the more the central limit theorem applies as you are summing the behavior of lots of random events drawn from various random distributions, and the more the system behavior regresses to the mean.

I think of it as analogous to how when an engine is idling it tends to pop and judder, but as you rev it up the smoother it sounds until at sustained high revs it can make almost a pure note. All the variations are smoothed out and the system runs much more evenly and predictably, but when it drops to idle speed the subtle variation in the fuel air mix and the pressure in the exhaust and inlet every stroke makes it chug and sputter chaotically.
Or... people can start giving the option to pick the color you want for websites? why force colors you like onto others?
Youtube recommendations are really good if you exercise self-control over what you watch, conscious of your view history shaping your recommendations. Never click on any video that uses a clickbait thumbnail or title, even if it seems relevant to your interests. The algo will pick up that you enjoy clickbait slop and give you more of that. Ideally, don't even use an account in the first place; use a browser cookie with no account, and delete that browser cookie to start over if your recommendations ever stray too far from your desires. Seed the recommendation system by searching for specific videos that are relevant to your interests. And again, never click on crap, even out of momentary curiosity.

Learn to recognize signals for slop. Slick well-produced video channels with multiple people working for them will tend to become slop even if they don't start that way; having a cameraman/producer/editor on payroll pressures a channel to perform well to pay for those people, so such channels will tend to pump out shallow content to keep revenue steady if not growing. As soon as a one-man channel hires a cameraman, that's usually a good time to tap out. Particularly if the host is chummy friends with the cameraman; the pressure to perform by compromising quality will be greater when the channel creator is paying his friends to help. This is why I had to stop watching NileBlue; as soon as he got a chummy cameraman his video quality took a steep nose dive with sensational gimmicks taking precedence over substance.
Lol, I think their plan is to still federate with Mastodon specifically to pad out their vapid platform with content. They were just too much of a self imposed rush to capitalize on Musk and his stupidity, to do it before launch.
Switzerland oddly does not collect ethnicity information in its census but it does collect nationality and language information and its pretty easy to conclude that Switzerland is overwhelming white Europeans over 85% of which are German or French speakers.
Why do you find central corporate control to be a defining feature? I am drawn much more to the technical features of the system.

I think of IRC, Mastadon, and Jabber as social networks; If you rule out Jabber it seems to me you must also rule out AIM.

Perhaps we're fumbling for a new vocabulary term, and "Social network" is too vague to be effective.
Broken by bison, aspen saplings having a tough time in northern Yellowstone
Is there an idea of why tropical kitsch took off when it did, around the 1950s in America as I understand it? I always thought it had something to do with WWII Pacific theater veterans coming home and bringing that imagery with them, but maybe it has some other explanation, like air travel to pacific islands being within reach at that point.
The US military uses about 5% of the oil used in the US.

That's a lot, but if we only used oil in the US for the military, we'd still be using 95% less oil, and we'd also still be producing enough oil to have an economy of scale.

In any case, realistically speaking, we aren't coming for oil tomorrow. Instead, we need to come for coal immediately. If it takes us decades each time we cut our oil consumption in half, that's one thing... but the coal, that needs to stop sooner.
> There was a recent thread here, I believe, about an author who couldn't get AI-written books out of her name because they simply won't correct their data.

Worse, those books were being sold on Amazon!

https://janefriedman.com/i-would-rather-see-my-books-pirated...
Bad example then. All 3 of them have done multiple layoffs so unions didn't protect those jobs really.

Here, RTO is used as a means to lay people off.
Oh god, all those functional examples w/ the Fibonacci function are malpractice. This was a big fight in the early 1980s because people who liked languages like Lisp and Logo were really pissed because Microsoft BASIC was everywhere.

The old way iterative we did it in BASIC or FORTRAN was better. Back in the 1980s the best "functional" examples involved drawing fractals, something that could drive you crazy if you tried to do it in BASIC.

If you are really smart you will use the closed form for Fibonacci which I think involves some really cool math

https://fabiandablander.com/r/Fibonacci.html

I have met so many young programmers who wander from job to job like itinerant martial artists looking for the true functional programming enlightenment and never finding it because... it doesn't exist. Functional and OO both started in the late 1970s and OO has prospered more because it is the key to writing simulations, graphical UIs, and many other kinds of programs. There are a lot of great ideas that came from the ML languages that are absolutely mainstream today, like algebraic types and pattern matching and you are seeing these being carefully weaved into languages like Java and Python right now. (Turns out those ideas from ML are really convenient for writing compilers!)

As @retrocryptid works around, you get real enlightenment from learning how compilers work, which is a bit advanced for the beginning programmer but you might be able to show people the power of interpreters early on. At my high school (that I attended part time in the 4th grade) we ran BASIC on an old PDP-8 and would draw "graphics" on the line printer with a simple DSL that came to a list of statements to the effect of "draw + 35 times, draw a space 15 times" which exposed us to some of the discipline involved in more complex programs. (Those old adventure games like Zork and the Scott Adams games always involved a specialized interpreter because without OO functionality it would be terrible to try writing that in BASIC, FORTRAN or Assembly.)

Start with "a monad is like a burrito" and you will lose even more people in CS 101 than they lose already.
>selling services to government agencies

What in the world makes you think that? Musk is pretty clearly against this government, and openly so - if he wants to sell services to government agencies, he's definitely on the wrong path.
True, but pigeon-net may also be subject to catastrophic packet loss:

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/curious-ca...
A general-purpose OS has to be designed so you never have scenarios where code hangs or yields too infrequently. Best-effort insertion of yield points probably won't cut it. Cooperative multitasking in applications exists on a smaller scale with fewer untrusted qualities.
Older generations want you to have kids because in their mind they or their parents had kids through even worse things. Wars, famine, and crippling global economic decline are the cultural memory of our older generation. Existential things like affordability or an impending climate crisis pale in comparison to the village being bombed and seeing the affects of famine in front of you. The fact you are able to have an expensive apartment for yourself at all and be safe in it for the last several decades is a historical anomaly for most people especially on the european continent.
I'm not sure how small you need it to be, but if you took an older regular cab half-ton with the shorter wheelbase (6' instead of 8' bed) and replaced the bed with one of those fold-down-side beds, it'll be relatively compact.

Or you could just rent a mule ;-)
The truth is, this does happen, but you want it to happen less. Banks accept certain amount of risk due to logistical limitations, but always seek ways to reduce it.
To clarify, this article is mainly a criticism of the lack of effectiveness of offsets. This is why Shell shelved it. They were spending a ton of money on this, and getting almost no actual carbon footprint reduction. That is a waste by almost any measure. Hopefully, they are investigating better ways to shrink their catastrophic carbon footprint contribution.

Almost NONE of the comments in this forum so far reflect this observation, which I find concerning. If you are angry about the state of affairs here (which I would completely understand), at least read the article (and take a deep breath) before commenting
The only thing that really shows he is a menace is him threatening to shoot you. The other stuff is mostly cultural bias and sketchy behavior and worth little in your argument.
I doubt it. They created the industry milestone products. People like driving vintage cars, operating vintage computers and playing vintage games. These formats aren't going anywhere.
> INSTALLPACKAGES foo bar baz

That would require significant integration with the image; do you expect docker to know how to talk to apt, dnf, zypper, nix-env, apk, xbps-install, etc.?
> Can you delete the proprietary software, and if so does the Linux still run?

Generally, yes. Of course, some people have a custom init, and I don't think this really breaks things.

> Can you modify the Linux part, and if so does the proprietary software still run?

Yup, generally. Of course, the device itself may prohibit you from loading arbitrary software on it without rooting it or modifying the bootloader. You may not have a license to run the proprietary software with modified Linux, though.

You mention android smartphones above. The existence of LineageOS, etc, is evidence enough that you can do these things.
Don't enable it then?
America was if anything less diverse then than now. We've had many large periods of emigration since then. And that combined with the challenges with new technology tells me the first amendment is more important than ever.