skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Generally observations might be confirmed through:

- Repeated observations.

- Simultaneous independent observations: multiple devices/instruments.

- Observation of primary and corresponding secondary events, e.g., an initial interaction with the atmosphere and further observations consistent with collision / decay particles arising from an initial interaction.

Put another way: if you see a bright flash (visual sensation), and some seconds later hear a heavy rumble (audio sensation), and within a few minutes observe heavy rain, odds are quite strong that the initial observation was lightning. This is based on multiple independent channels of information.

If you and multiple other people see the same flash at the same time, you have independent observations, and can validate the initial observation by that means.

In a world of increasingly high-plausibility generative tools (images, audio, text, video), the ability to show multiple independent observations of a given event becomes far more critical than the emergence of any one high-detailed, realistic document (where document refers to a record in text, audio, image, video, etc.).
Not OP, but I got this with uBlock Origin earlier.
pandas has a poor API. I'd rather use SQL with DuckDB.
> JAX

Yeah, check out their post: https://huggingface.co/blog/sdxl_jax

I dunno how expensive TPU instances are these days, but the performance is insane!

> We tried SDXL but found the quality improvement to be marginal.

Yeah, the vanilla HF diffusers pipe is unimpressive to me.

Try playing with this though, turn on FreeU and specify an anime style: https://github.com/MoonRide303/Fooocus-MRE

I have never gotten such high quality results from simple prompts, even in cloud models like Midjourney/GPT4. The question is how to port even part of that magic over to the diffusers pipeline...
I agree. This week, I'll take time to polish it a bit. And better docs for sure.
A side effect from those calling themselves enginners without having a proper Software Engineer degree where this kind of stuff is actually taught.
I'm a recent graduate (M.S.) and I've been searching for nearly 5 months. I've submitted over 150 applications now. Maybe that's not a lot, maybe it is. Truth be told, I've been struggling with a lot more than unemployment, so nonetheless, I'm doing my best. I haven't been made a single offer.

I already have several years of experience. I once had a salary of $73K as a mere intern, with no trouble getting hired years ago. But now? I moved states in the US after failing to finish a PhD and simultaneously losing my house, and the only job I've been able to secure is one in a warehouse, working graveyard shifts for less than a living wage. I've had interviews where the employer wouldn't even contact me back after they met me, despite being incredibly enthused by my credentials, my solutions to technical interviews, etc.

Maybe it's because the economy is so bad that even FAANG employees like yourself can't find work, and I'm just a recent graduate. Maybe it's because I'm trans. The reason doesn't even really matter.

The reality is that I'm struggling to pay rent, let alone the rest of my bills. The reality is that I had to flee my state, prioritizing safety, leaving one poverty wage job (grad student) for another. The reality is that many of us are fighting food insecurity and homelessness. The reality is that our field is so full of layoffs (https://layoffs.fyi/) that graduating with a computer science degree doesn't have the same job security it used to.

I constantly fight my own hopelessness. What employer would ever want me when they have an inbox full of candidates like you? I search for job opportunities and rarely turn up with postings aimed at candidates with recent-graduate experience. I've heard from friends around the world (e.g. Australia) that they're experiencing the same---and that they're also homeless.

So yeah, I agree that the search is fundamentally different than it used to be. It's bad out there right now.
It's usually not that easy for companies to move that fast as there's a lot of devices with YouTube apps that are still actively used but not updated frequently. Think old Android devices or Smart TVs.
The blockchain is used for many things:

https://cointelegraph.com/news/volkswagen-pilots-blockchain-...

https://www.cbinsights.com/research/blockchain-disrupting-ba...

Hey, countless universities have blockchain research departments

Yes, it is possible that Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain will once be viewed on as the Segway of the IT industry. But lets see.
Of course a subscription would imply no upfront fee.
:) I love my Amiga 500 and I miss her :)
This is conflating two otherwise unrelated things that just look similar if you squint.
Good to know. I have uBlock but haven't seen this push yet. I wonder what the technical implementation of their anti-adblock solution looks like
...VGRO...?
I have something ridiculously overengineered for this. An ios shortcut that you can call on a webpage, that puts the webpage url onto a queue; a worker on my home server pulls these urls from the queue and calls yt-dlp on em, downloading the urls to Plex.

Mainly used for allowing my kids to view some content I can screen for appropriateness, that also gets rid of the ridiculous ads.

A thing yet to do is to use a LLM to automatically categorize these downloads into folders
This is America. It doesn't matter whether a policy if objectively good or bad. It has to have some farcical fig leaf justification beyond making the world better. Making childcare free for all people would pay for itself in increased productivity, improve the financial security of poor families, and would lead to massive improvements in the wellbeing of poor children. But the effects in the real world don't matter, because in La-La Land it's communist and that means it's Stalinist and that means it's Satanist and that means they're going to give your gas stove a sex change and put 5G in your hydroxychloroquine.

American politics are stupid. This shouldn't be a surprise to you.
That was very clever.
You categorize your screens. One screen for dev work, one for communication, and one for documentation/browsing. That way you can alt+tab between your primary work tasks with a tiny eye movement.
Poland is literally 95%+ ethnic Poles (many of whom have their ancestral roots outside of Poland, but that was centuries ago - they consider themselves Poles now). It's not diverse at all, not "infinitely diverse".
A scary development. If they can argue that FOSS is "aiding adversaries", they'll target other major FOSS projects. Imagine getting arrested because you sent a patch to Postgresql.
It's because the older generation of accountants screwed over the younger generation to build a moat around their own pay.

Becoming a CPA used to require only a bachelors degree in many states, now you need a master's degree. As a result, becoming a CPA requires an additional year of education, more debt, and more opportunity cost for no reason other than protecting the wages of older people.
It's not my claim, but I'll take a stab at it.

The increasingly accessible and increasingly rapid outrage/feedback loop brought to us by 24/7 cable news, social media, etc. has made it harder to push forward on meaningful complicated legislation.

Something like the Voting Rights Act, Medicare, Social Security, or interstate highways would, I suspect, be strangled in the crib today by vested interests spreading misinformation about them.
A long time ago I used to use Synergy and someone had written a Synergy client or Cyanogenmod variant of Android. I don't know where all that is now after Synergy imploded and Cyanogenmod imploded.
It may be inexpensive to detect phonons due to their interaction with photons, which we have inexpensive [quantum] sensors for

From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37793957 :

> "Side Eye: Characterizing the Limits of POV Acoustic Eave sdropping from Smartphone Cameras with Rolling Shutters and Movable Lenses" (2023) https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.10056
Pretty sure it's A/B testing. I'm logged in with uBlock Origin and no anti-adblock is visible. I've seen someone on Reddit complaining they were getting this and loads of people replied to say they were not. They're probably trying to figure out how many users/views they will lose or how many new premium subscribers they get or something like that.
> But he was wrong about that. The way it bootstrapped was a guy buying a couple of pizzas for 10,000 bitcoins and people taking that leap of faith that it could actually be successful and might be worth a dollar or two at some point in the future

No, it was bootstrapped by ransomware companies encrypting your data in order to demand a ransom paid only in Bitcoin. This is how literally all money starts - not as a facilitator of existing economic transactions but as a conduit for imposing coercive taxation. e.g. the US Dollar is money because the US government demands you pay taxes in that currency.

The first historical examples of money were invading tyrants and conquerors paying their soldiers in coins they could mint and demanding payment of taxes in the same money. Since the people being subjugated didn't have the coins they needed to pay, they had to sell their useful goods and services to soldiers in exchange for worthless discs of metal that indicated that they had sufficiently funded their oppressor's further military expansion.

Ok, sure, that's a nice history fact, but how does that relate to cybercrime? Ransomware vendors can't print Bitcoin!

They can, in the same way everyone else does: mining it. Except because we're already breaking into other people's computers to encrypt files, we can also just mine the Bitcoin on their computers that they will later have to buy to pay us. A huge amount of cybercrime is just mining Bitcoin, because you can then sell that Bitcoin - which is free to you - to your victims in exchange for useful goods and services[0].

What Satoshi didn't know is is not would it bootstrap, but how. Money bootstraps not by being more private, more inflation-resistant, or just by being better money, but by the use of coercive force[1]. Bitcoin is objectively worse money than US dollars - there's expensive transaction fees, high confirmation times, price volatility, etc. People use it anyway because they have to - otherwise, the person who broke into their servers is going to either delete or leak all their valuable business data.

[0] Ok, yes, US Dollars.

[1] This implies the only acceptable economy under the NAP[2] is a barter economy, because barter and payments-in-kind is what people choose to use in contexts where there is no coercion.

[2] "Non-aggression principle", a thing right-libertarians like to talk about as if it's so self-evident we don't even need to talk about it.
Another poster in this comment thread said that the money is clawed back automatically through tax returns. So which is it?
Even trippier: ask "right thinking" people about the nature of "people"[1] who have opinions on Jews.

Humanity is so weird.

[1] Which they will construct using their imagination, and not realize...the very thing they are mocking others for doing (though, I am being reductive here).
>How do you explain the fact that facial ejaculation, which has been invented by porn, is now mainstream, if not due to porn being itself mainstream?

This was not "invented by porn" and to suggest so is beyond ridiculous.

>Predating the modern age of pornography, facials were described in literature. As an example, the French aristocrat Marquis de Sade wrote about performing facials in his work The 120 Days of Sodom, written in 1785. One passage of the novel reads "… I show them my prick, then what do you suppose I do? I squirt the fuck in their face… That's my passion my child, I have no other… and you're about to behold it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facial_(sexual_act)

>"Lifetime pornography use was reported by most respondents. After adjusting for age, age at first porn exposure, and current relationship status, the associations between pornography use and sexual behaviors was statistically significant."

Most women would be lucky to have a partner that learned a few techniques to please them in bed, it doesn't really matter where it came from. Or they could just have missionary only for the rest of their lives?
You can find lots of discussion with a quick web search, but yes, it seems to be pretty well supported.

Speaking more broadly, there's the simple fact that people deserve to be paid for the work they do. Many places don't allow you to pay with money, they force you to pay with ads. I find viewing ads to be an unacceptably high price, so I use an ad blocker, and I just go away if they turn me away for that.

But for places that do give a money option, like YouTube, I jump for it, as I find that to be a far more ethical business model[1]. I'm happy to support businesses that give me the option to pay by doing exactly that.

In other words, I wouldn't worry so much about the very fine details. And supporting your creators on Patreon will give them way more money than any amount of individual YouTube viewership.

[1] Yes, I know they're still tracking me. That doesn't bother me as much as viewing ads or supporting the ad-based clickbait attention grabbing business model, so I think it's still a win.
This is, in my opinion, shortsighted. It's straightforward to create ads that you can't block on the client so long as you are the server of the ads yourself, as Google is. I'm not going to detail how since I don't want anyone on HN to get any ideas and build a business of it, but I'm sure it will happen eventually. For the time being I suspect it's cheaper to keep the current tech running since it brings in enough revenue, but if that ever stops being the case, I expect things not to end well for people who don't like ads. Google search is a good example of this, ads are literally intertwined into the search results, if you take this a few steps further you have ads that you literally can't block on the client.
I used 2 screens for a while but I went back to 1. I would do 3 or 1 but not 2. 2 was bad for my neck. And I can't fit 3 screens on my desk.
Honestly that's one of the reasons I use Brave, I want to support creators.

Pure adblocking doesn't.

Micropayments require cash, which sometimes is not handy to spend.
> I assume the more I watch the less each creator gets?

I think this is true, but it still works out such that given the amount the average Premium subscriber watches, creators' typical per-view revenue is still higher for Premium views. They can apparently see the breakdown (ad revenue vs premium revenue, etc., ad-supported views vs premium views, etc.) in the backend, and various people who make Youtube content for a living have reported this to be the case. See, e.g., https://twitter.com/hankgreen/status/1513177490730061829 .
> That’s a fine implementation but the flipside is a constant subsidy regardless of geography is basically the same as forcing a parent to not work in HCOL areas,

Compared to the existence of HCOL areas without a subsidy, no, its not even incentivizing, much less forcing that.

Compared to a hypothetical system which accelerates existing price divergence by adding extra subsidies in already high-cost areas, sure, but drawing people out of HCOL areas also mitigates HCOL.
Gandhi was never awarded the peace prize. He was nominated in the year he was assassinated. The actual prize was not awarded that year.

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/themes/mahatma-gandhi-the-...
For the creators I really care about, I make Patreon donations and the creators generally publish ad-free videos for their supporters - just take YouTube out of the mix altogether from the funding perspective.
Climate optimists seem oblivious to the concept of planetary boundaries. Is it a concept generally supported by scientists, and would we still overshoot them if we hit net zero emissions?
> I have no idea in what reality you live where you encounter SPAs of a few Kbs. Don’t even know what to say if that’s your experience.

Let's look at a SPA version of HN [1] and compare it against base HN. This base SPA page fetches 21 KiB of data. The base version of HN fetches 36 KiB of data. Most SPAs are much less information dense and have a lot more CSS and media than non-SPA websites. In a world without SPAs these sites would not be leaner, they would instead just insert tons of CSS style links and img tags to fetch the media themselves, resulting in the same amount of bandwidth.

If your argument is that websites should be leaner regardless, well in my experience most users would rather put up with a slow good-looking page than a fast spartan one. It's a hallmark of a nerd that's willing to cut corners just to get access to the information they want.

[1]: https://hn.premii.com/
Peer review is a mixed bag. It's the best system we've come up with, but still can be hit or miss.

Depends on how much the journal is willing to push the authors (predatory journals don't give a heck, prestigious journals usually care more because they've got a rep to uphold). Reviewers can be anyone from an expert in the field, a competitor who gives you a hard time (usually they're not actively malicious though), to some random prof doing it because the editor couldn't find anyone else, or even a grad student in the lab of a prof (it's a common training exercise).

I've had articles with anywhere from 1-3 reviewers, there is no standard beyond "the editor is a basic crackpottery filter, there is an external reviewer, and a copy editor makes it fit for viewing"
I suspect that there is a lot of (not really) grey area here. My impression is that many homeschoolers wind up working with other people, so at least some of the time they have other people's kids in their home. It would be fairly easy to brand this as a small business, argue a tax loss, and take deductions on part of your home.

And there are a lot of similarly shady deductions out there. I had a co-worker whose wife was a dentist and owned her own practice. He was telling me about how great it was that they were able to expense her car every time they bought her a new one. But when I asked: the only business use of it she has is to drive back and forth to the office. She never drives to other work locations with it, and including that commute, all of her uses of it are personal (commutes are not business expenses). When I pointed out that this means that it can't be a business expense (my wife was taking a tax course at the time), he insisted that all of her dentist friends did the same, and that it was "standard practice".
I don't believe Hal was Satoshi (there's no evidence to suggest it), but Bitcoin never would have succeeded without Hal. He deserves as much credit as Satoshi.
The claim that I responded to was essentially that only opponents of anti-Western regimes ever get the Nobel Peace Price. Arafat is a counter example to that.

Arafat's decision to pursue his goals with political means is neither pro- nor anti-Western/Israeli. It was meant to be pro-Palestinian. Hardliners on both sides hated the idea and unfortunately they have prevailed.
Volatile is "observable" and all observable behaviour is order dependent. (so for instance a volatile and printef can not be reorderd, because both are obeservable). Howqever this is ONLY in a single threaded context. This is why you need a atomic intrincic operation to operate on a volatile for it to be thread safe.

Even on hardware where loads and srtores are atomic (x86), you still need the atomic ops to manage ordering.
I find it stunning when people claim Satoshi to be anyone other than Nick Szabo. Any reasonable person sould come to the conclusion that it is him. There is plenty of direct evedence that points to him.
He laid the foundation for crypto and blockchain. Hey, anybody still remembering Napster? Nobody uses it anymore. But not because it was bad, it got replaced by better things. Bitcoin not anonymous enough? Try Monero.
Also, VoltaML has a good reference GPU AITemplate SD 1.5 implementation:

https://github.com/VoltaML/voltaML-fast-stable-diffusion/tre...

The speed jump is massive on my desktop GPU, probably even more dramatic on cloud hardware, and it may support some things (weight swapping/lora swapping/resolution changing/controlnet) better than JAX.
Do you think my preference for my wife to be a homemaker is wrong or irrelevant? It's not just an arbitrary preference: in general it is better for the children. It is also what most mothers (at least mothers of young children) would prefer, including my wife.

Don't get me wrong: for some children, childcare is a better alternative than what awaits them at home, but I think for most it produces worse outcomes.

And this kind of thing will force some women into the workforce, because there's no free lunch and some women will have to work to offset the cost to pay for these programs.
> Location data can easily be fabricated.

True. We are getting into territory that might also consider: what type of mobile device do you use, has it been jailbroken, and are there signs of GPS spoofing in the location history?

But, in general, if you have a digital trail which corroborates with other digital or real-life trails, you have something which does have weight as evidence.
What if you simply want the 4.7" form factor?
Almost everyone I know in the dev community agree that both generative art and code is fine. Most people don't care about copyright, to say the least. At least the people I know in real life and chat with online.

Only thing I've seen was artists on Reddit and Twitter getting angry about the AI art.
I opened youtube this morning and did not see a popup because I already pay for Youtube Premium. They even have cheaper pricing in developing markets.
That’s probably fair, I was just teasing.

In general, I think ARM just was famously started in the UK and so they’ll always be associated with the country in some intangible way.

It is sort of funny that we label companies like this, really they are all multi-national entities. Especially in the case of a company like ARM—they license out the designs to be (sometimes quite significantly!) customized by engineers in other countries, and I’m sure they integrate lots of feedback from those partners. Then those designs are often actually fabricated in a third country!

Which is good, the world is best when we all need each other.
The whole point of the procedure as designed is to make how the constant was selected irrelevant to the security of the resulting curve.

Also you have to consider the historical context. The procedure was originally designed to generate parameters for cryptosystems that were very much built on the assumption that SHA-1 is secure hash. Any method to choose a weak SEED in a reasonably practical way involves either breaking SHA-1 (collision does not really help, you would need preimage) or the underlying ECC structure having some gaping security issue that only NSA knows about (ie. there being ridiculously many weak curves).
Louis Rossman has been saying that he gets much more money if you purchase something from his store rather than from ads, and that for this reason he doesn't care if viewers use an adblocker or not. This is just a single data point though, other youtubers have a different stance on this matter.
the ARM lobbyist descend on washington