skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand where you're coming from. I'd love if we could just call it the Yugoslav Language, or Yugoslavian, but that might just be me :-)
Despite what you might think, cyclists get hit a shocking amount and rarely die.

I'd rather there be Waymo on the road than drunks.

And it's honestly shocking the ignorance on here these days that so many people refuse to look at stats with overwhelming evidence Waymo is safer than average drivers significantly, and would blow drunks out of the water by a massive margin.
Grant Generoux claims his chronic kidney disease ("incurable, fatal") was healed by his low vitamin A diet. We know from studying technical outages and systems failures that the more checks and balances we put in place, the weirder the cause of any outage will be - because only the weird things get through where the gaps between the checks all line up. Of course the claim isn't wrapped up in a simple package with conclusive proof and widely agreed on - if it were, it would be mainstream accepted knowledge.

Why hasn't it been noticed? Because the damage is cumulative and long term - years or decades. Because it's fat soluble, so the effects are modified by the amount of fat eaten at the same time. Because the effects are diffuse - it's not showing up in one single organ. Because the effects look like other things - autoimmune attacks, for example. Because historic mistakes in studies have caused 'vitamin A toxicity' to get mixed up with 'Vitamin A defficiency'. Because it varies with different people with different liver storage capacity and historic retinol compound buildup. Because it may be masked by protective effects of Vitamin C or other dietary components. Because stopping eating it offers no quick fix, healing might be "wait years for damaged cells to die and new ones to grow". Because there's no money in telling people to eat less of somethings, so there's little industry funding incentive or research grants.

Here for example, one of the other people who agrees with the claim of Vitamin A being harmful shows their working: https://ggenereux.blog/discussion/topic/biotransformation-of... - Under Discussion it says "It is now no longer difficult to imagine how retinoic acid [ed: Vitamin A/retinol related compound] could cause auto-immune disease, since the data appears to show that retinoic acid is essentially a pro-inflammatory cytokine that is stored in the liver and, once the liver is saturated, in different types of tissue all over the body, especially in epithelial cells that constitute blood–tissue barriers, and in adipocytes, both of which were shown to express STRA6 (Amengual, Zhang et al. 2014). [... explanation continues]"

I am never going to study enough chemistry, biology, biochemistry, statistics, medicine, to be able to make a judgement call of my own about that page, let alone all the other studies people have linked to and pulled apart. At least it's cheap and relatively easy and low risk to try, but even if my health improves (I don't have kidney damage) it could easily be attributable to many other factors - placebo, for example.
In a bizarre coincidence, I just happened to watch that episode of Futurama for the first time today, and recognized the line.
Only if you're a wannabe (or actual) monopolist is it competiton, otherwise the product should compete on it's merits. Practically this doesn't happen, but I can argue ideals for no consequences on a message board. Similarly, I view advertising as largely manipulative and avoid it where possible, while paying for products that I derive value from.

For the record, if I were running a successful business I'd be paying for whatever I thought expanded the success of my company. I'm pragmatic above most other things, and play the game as it stands. That doesn't mean I can't hold on to extreme ideals at the same time. There is acknowledging reality isn't as you want it to be and working with that and then there's ignoring the reality in front of you. That latter one leads to ruin.
It actually does. German has three armies, yet is one language.
The elite are the group of people you can't question or criticize in front of some normal person without destroying your reputation.
Academic hiring processes are ridiculous. Not because anyone wants it that way but because citizens like to complain. They complain when they think tax/tuition money is being used for inapproriate or frivolous purposes. They complain when they see nepotism and corruption. They complain about perceived political biases and discrimination. And so on.

Every time something goes wrong badly enough to cause a scandal, new processes are put in place to prevent that specific harm in the future. On the other hand, nobody really cares about effective and efficient use of tax money. People surely complain about waste, but the complaints are rarely specific enough to have consequences. Given a choice between preventing a specific harm and using tax money better, people almost always choose preventing the specific harm.

The salaries are what they are, because universities can't afford to pay more. There is only so much tax/tuition money available to them. People like to complain about administrative bloat, but it's their fault really. Every time people complain about something specific in the academia, they are advocating for giving more money to the administration to fix that, and for giving less money to the people who teach and do research. That's just the way public management works.

Additionally, academic hiring processes are more involved than in the industry, because there is less responsibility. Not despite it. People are effectively given money to do things they would do anyway, and the employer often can't tell the difference between a good hire and a bad hire, except maybe much later. If you can't fix you mistakes in a timely manner, you'll probably want to think things through before making the decision.
Yeah I don't think it's a conspiracy. I think it's a bug, or they are trying out some "AI" on their spam filter and it needs better training.

But it also illustrates what could happen. Microsoft or Google could decide to silence email on certain topics, or they could conceivably be ordered to do so. Would they refuse? Doubtful. And they are so big and handle such a large percentage of email that it would have a real impact.
They say about 15 minutes in that their "expert" got into nuclear 18 months ago by reading a Michael Shellenberger book which explains a lot.

Either you are doing whatever you can to accelerate the amount of energy available to human civilization, or you're fetishing obsolete nuclear tech. Pick one as they are incompatible.

Pretending to do both is a cowardly way to undermine renewables without clearly stating what your issues with it are.

They literally show a graph of solar and wind being the cheapest energy available and then just move on to celebrating twitter trolls hassling Environmentalist orgs.
https://github.com/lllyasviel/Fooocus#mac

Its not fast, but its SOTA local quality as far as I know, and I've tried many UIs and augmentations.

Also, maybe it will run better if you grab Pytorch 2.1 or nightly.
I don't think that graphics is any better than my current Cities: Skylines.
> I always found this frustrating in high school, as some assignments required submission of a first draft, second draft, and final version of a paper. I always wrote the final version first and then worked backwards to created a second and then a first draft by removing sentences and generally making it worse.

I always did this as well. You are the first other person I've heard describe that.
I’ve spent enough time at places like google and spoken to other women about how they are treated by men in those workplaces to understand why I’m seeing the exact same behavior from most users here. Men in our culture are more trusting of other men and more dismissive of claims made by women, in my experience. When I see an article about a woman who was mistreated by men in her workplace and her claims were dismissed by other men, and then I see threads here filled with men dismissing her claims, everything falls in to place when I see that this place is 95% men. There just aren’t enough women’s voices here to explain what’s really happening, and the men here demographically are the same men that contribute to these problems in the workplace.
There's no reason why anybody should have a stake in land they don't own

Except that defies market value in practice. Evaluated in a bubble, every quarter acre of dirt is generally no more or less valuable than any other quarter acre of dirt. Yet we all know that's not how real estate works.

A plot of land downtown in a cute walkable neighborhood full of midcentury modern houses is valuable, and people want to live there, in large part because of those things.

We haven't really figured out how to reconcile this with absolutist views on private property rights.

I see HOA's as a crude attempt to tackle this, whereby residents all agree the neighborhood is better if everyone cleans up their yard, and legally commit to do so.
Is fast but only if you go 512 512 res will generate an image from start script to finish in 5 seconds, but if you up it to 1024 it takes 10x as long

This on an M2 Max 32gb
In capitalism's case, the name is really informative. At the heart of capitalism lies capital and the ability to invest it, which gives people who own it power to get stuff without doing any work. People without the capital do work for people with capital, so that the may survive (and do more work).
> The list is right there, answer your own question. At least 89 years, though maybe there is something older.

Why can't you name it and point to it?

> I provided upthread what I described as the best example of Marxism working

Which is ... ?? Why is it so hard for you to be specific?

> Neither Jamestown nor Plymouth were remotely communes at any point

Sure they were. They had communal food production - and starved as a result.

> institutions which predate the existence of Marxism were not Marxist

Ya know, kings existed before someone decided to call them "monarchies".
> if you look at the top of this thread, we're talking about "moral justification" for piracy.

No, that comment was saying morality is just an excuse. This thread is about convenience being the main reason for piracy.

>If so, you're making OP's point...

Yeah, that's why I responded to you instead of them.
I personally would like to see a resurgence and expansion of Reflective LCD screens, and this seems sort of similar. I mostly associate Reflective LCD screens with Gameboys.

Remember how helpful it was to go outside to see the Gameboy screen? There was a reflective material on the back side of the screen, which "lit" up the screen. As an aside, there was even a cool Gameboy Advance game with a solar sensor that encouraged the player to go outside to charge up the protagonist's "solar gun": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boktai:_The_Sun_Is_in_Your_Han.... Even the GBA SP, which had a light you could turn on and off, lit the screen up from the front.

I'm definitely not an expert in the area. My impression is that after the Gameboy, there wasn't much demand for these types of screen. I also suspect something about them doesn't scale to larger sizes as cost effectively as other screens, and there's been little interest from corporations in improving the technology :(
Ah sorry, I saw ‘partial’ and thought you were passing around functions. Please disregard my comment :)
I agree. First time I've ever heard of Macondo.
Sooo basically it's an OSS version of Egenera's BladeFrame or VCE's vBlock.

It's going to be tough sledding getting these into enterprise accounts.

Best of luck.
> Most Europeans get to use the quick and relatively cheap shortcut of ESTA/VWP rather than needing to apply for a full tourist visa, though indeed there are exceptions based on nationality or personal history.

You still need to pass the CBP exam, have your social media profile scanned by them, or you can be rejected at the border because the CBP agent doesn't like you got convicted for pot at 18.

You Americans don't have to endure any of that to enter the Schengen area.

> ETIAS is currently expected to begin operation in 2025 and will apply to US citizens just as it will to every other Schengen-visa exempt third-country nationality.

I have zero reason to believe ETIAS will be ready by that date.
> The bandits, the scorpions, the vast Starbucks deserts ...

The trick is to spam [A]ttack key on random encounters to have the first move and use it to escape. Then you go straight across the land to steal a power armor, and the whole game suddenly gets much, much easier.
https://web3.storage/ most likely
I think the distinction is a pragmatic vs. idealistic worldview. I would also like to live in a world where people create just for the sake of creating. It has a very zen-like quality to it and there are some people who approach their work that way. Artists, authors, musicians, and software engineers wouldn't need to sell their labor because they do it freely for the sake of their passion. But there are also people who look at work as a means to an end. For many, that end is protected by intellectual property rights. The law is meant to help both groups contribute to the betterment of society. As it stands now, you don't have to hide any of your work behind copyrights if you choose to be the former. The latter is still incentivized to create due to the protections of the law. The current structure (while it can be improved on) is an either/or choice.

There is a trend in societies that don't respect intellectual property rights and it tends towards less innovation.
I agree that demographics are a factor, but definitely not the only one and likely not the most impactful factor. Financial conditions are another big cause that likely had just as much if not more of an effect than demographics. We're coming out of a decade of near-zero interest rates, after a financial crisis, where millennials were just starting their careers and couldn't benefit from low rates anywhere near as much as older, more established (wealthier) generations. Millennials also have a significantly higher inflation-adjusted cost of living for essentials (housing, healthcare, education, food).
Not true. Excluding non-jewish minority population will show that the majority is white [1]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Israel
Drain baby drain! I'd love to see CA get back to it's 1980's population levels...
Isn't a technical challenge, too? T

hose languages have barely any presence online, so there isn't remotely enough data to make a good translator... just look at Whisper accuracy for less institutional languages, for a reference
I’d argue these are very different, for at least two reasons:

1. This is comparing desktops/laptops to phones. Way more people have phones than computers, and most people that have phones and not computers probably don’t realize or know how they can change the default.

2. This is comparing a browser to a search engine. More people are going to notice they’re using a different browser vs. using a different search engine.

Obviously this is speculation, but it seems like pretty reasonable speculation, particularly the first point.
> Israel cleared out of Gaza in 2005. That's just a fact.

And before that? You realize that most people in Gaza are actually refugees since when there were displaced from their homelands across Palestine back in 1948? And the ones refused they got massacred -Tantura (1) Deir Yassin (2). And who do you think controls water, electricity, food, resources that’s going in/out of Gaza?

> removing Jews from Palestine is just more genocide. I'm not down with that.

It isn’t what you or me are down to, it what’s the United Nations (incl Israel) have agreed to, and to have a separate states per 1967 borders (1) even Hamas agreed to that (2), did Israel stopped doing what they were doing since they set foot in the country? No, in fact, it’s much worse, Gaza is an open air prison now that in 2021 -and before- they marched to the borders peacefully to say that we are still here (5) and slowly dying, they got shot on sight, west bank is still under a martial law that will gets you years in prison for social media likes, and Jerusalem is under and full control of Israel police.

(1) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tantura_massacre

(2) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deir_Yassin_massacre

(3) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_recognition_of...

(4) https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2017/5/2/hamas-accepts-pa...

(5) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018–2019_Gaza_border_protes...
400k people in a year is hemorrhaging?
There is a LOT of misinformation going around about EVs too.

Every single Facebook ad I see even mildly related to EVs or chargers has people claiming that EVs are a big fire risk, despite the stats showing they are less likely to catch fire.

There is also the “hydrogen is just around the corner, keep using oil until it is” brigade.

A lot of these are from fake profiles too. I see some with e.g. Clint Eastwood profile pictures, or names with “Liberty” in the name. These are obviously targeted at key demographics.

Then there are the crazy ones that have feeds full of 5G and covid.
That's because it's the default on Android, an operating system famously purchased and stewarded by Google that makes up globally the broad share of mobile. Please show me the breakdown on Windows, I bet the default is edge and bing and unless you're moderately tech savvy don't bother to change it. If you prove me wrong there I'll take your point, otherwise your point is disingenuous.
Concurrent writes, no. Reads are fine though.
i've been using ambient backlighting on my main monitors and it's helped immensely IMO.
Images from the 2023 Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition
Hi!

Yeah, it seems like we've identified similar problems and addressed them in reasonably similar ways. Likewise, I've went with SQLite as the project file format, with the files being compressed when saving so that users can transfer/share the project files easier.

Thanks for the insight on the pricing. I've been working under the assumption that if a few people on my team at work wanted to spend $100US each on tools, that they think would improve their productivity, it'd be a no-brainer and easy to justify.

I definitely think that more competition in this space is good for the industry as a whole, and likewise wish you the best of luck!
First came Visual Sourcesafe, then came Team Foundation Server. Which was widely used in tons of Microsoft solution provider across the early .NET era.

Git basically took off because of both Github and several major open source stacks gaining serious traction, even in the Microsoft solution space. In particular Node and several frontend focused stacks such as Bootstrap and Angular.

If that didn't happen I do not think git would have ever made it into Team Foundation Server, which caused it to become the most popular VCS in the Microsoft ecosystem.
Also like the one time you most typically use the Dr honorific is specifically when you are speaking about the person in reference to their profession.
Braintrust AI
Can you elaborate? I'd like to know more, the video doesn't talk much about what you are saying.
Will they be taking their voting preferences with them?
Take a moment and search YouTube for “neo Tokyo liquid television” if you would like to be entertained by a slight variation on your future of racing. I saw this when I was a kid and it resonated deeply. I hope you will enjoy it.
Music to Video: Crafting a music video using AI-generated images
Final music video here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qgf9lm1R1nc
> Remember, if you can sell it, then a debt collector can force you to sell it.

This is not true at all. Debt collectors acting on their own can't take anything. A court can force you to sell certain things if you lose a lawsuit, but many assets are protected. They can't seize your 401k, in most states they can't take your primary residence unless the debt was taken on to purchase it in the first place, they can't garnish more than 25% of your income (and in some states can't garnish anything for consumer debt), they can't take social security income, and so on.
Anecdotally, a portion of my parents land (and my childhood home) was taken by eminent domain to widen the county road. My parents had to fight a legal battle with the county, who wanted to pay only for the value of the bare land they were taking, disregarding the fact that the house was on that portion of the property. My parents were eventually able to get fair compensation but it took time and effort to get the county to pony up.
Often, things are not even written down, because "there's not enough time".

This one is the epitome of the “If you think X is expensive, try [not doing X]” meme.

I’d take a decent software architecture diagram, a detailed data model with an ER diagram, and some form of useful written requirements over probably any other process or tool ever invented in the world of software. Alas, advocating such things in the era of Agile often feels like the curse of Cassandra.
As I have two kids I don't have much time but I'll try reply briefly:
I am living in Europe so I am aware of most concepts you mentioned (including straw man, which is abused in comments on HN and isn't how I answer). There are true and half true and even false information in every news story. That's the false positive I meant. I didn't look up every news, nor did anyone, including yourself I believe. I never imply Wall Street would make up stories, but it could be susceptible to biased opinions like any major media.

First of all my friends are individuals and lively human beings, they express their own opinion freely to me at least, it's independent of the political structure, being reduced to 'the controlled members' is a little insulting to their intellectual capcity. What I wish is to contribute is my real life knowledge, not links on the internet(not that I deny all their authenticity).

Once again, if you haven't read what I replied, the original chinese text or the english translation never instruct citizen to spy. You also said 'imply'. If you don't work in law or judiciary in China I think my friends opinion on the matter weighs more.
My apologies for the delay in responding to this - I go through periods where I simply don't have time for HN :)

> My GUESS is that your "frat guy" folks had a high enough IQ that they could have gotten better grades, but understood that was not the path to the outsized success they wanted.

That's exactly my point!

To be clear, I didn't mean "frat guy" in a derogatory way at all. I meant it as a shorthand for "people in my social circle who immersed themselves in Greek life." I was on a full scholarship and lived in the honors dorms, so the people in my social circle were uniformly very intelligent and capable people.

If you want to optimize for "greatness" - whether that means financial success to you or building something of great value - then being willing to take risks is important. Being able to convince the people around you that the risks are worthwhile and that they should join you is essential.
There would still be a long way to go, I believe. Creating a consistent art style, with assets that fit into each other well for a whole game world would still be very challenging, for example.
<Sees baby boomers retiring to Nevada/Arizona where tax rates are lower>

"Humans are fleeing California, looking for a better life!" - CBSNews
OpenAI (https://fortune.com/2023/05/05/openai-ceo-sam-altman-remote-...) is a example of a high performing company where remote work is an exception. That's why I say that there is no cake recipe that guarantees that remote or in-person work is better than the other. Each company has its own culture and employees have to look for the culture that makes the most sense for them.