skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To give an alternate perspective:

smoking cigarettes is just an all around bad experience, it smells bad, it tastes bad, it hurts my throat, and for what? Light headedness, possibly with the spins? And the smell lingers it gets into everything, you basically need to change your clothes after you smoke a cigarette.

I’m a non smoker period, and I can only assume this “oh everyone says they can’t get addicted to cigarettes until they start smoking” attitude can only be projection from hapless addicts. It just doesn’t work that way for me.

I’ve even tried nicotine gum, just to see if maybe it’s the smoking itself that’s a turnoff - without the smell and the taste, maybe nicotine is good on its own? But it’s not - it’s the same head-spinning mild nausea that I recognize right away from cigarettes. who is this drug for? Because it’s certainly not me. Addicted to this? I literally cannot imagine it, why would I seek such a comprehensively bad experience compulsively and repeatedly? It just doesn’t compute for me.
I've used this probably at least 100 times over the past couple of years, and it's pretty bad. It finds a match maybe only about 20% of the time. Usually I just get a truly bizarre set of random songs from across the globe that say something like "5% match". And none of the stuff I'm looking for is obscure -- they're all top-40 songs from some decade or other that I just can't remember the artist.

And the crazy part is that I have a strong musical background, so when I'm humming, the melody and rhythm are exact. I mean, my input is accurate.

I wish I knew how the algorithm worked, if there were a way to know how to get better matches. Like does it not care about rhythm at all, is it just sequences of melodic pitches? Or is rhythm super-important? Is it better to hum just the chorus, or just a verse, or try to get the end of a verse going into a chorus? Does it only want you to hum the vocal part, or does it want you to hum whatever the main instrumental part is during the vocal breaks? I wish I had some notion of precisely what intermediate information it was deriving from humming and from songs that it was trying to match up and how.

Most of Google's "smart" services work pretty well. Of all of them, I think hum-to-search is the absolute worst-performing "smart" service they offer, by a huge margin. On the whole, it's probably wasted more of my time, than the value I've gotten out of it when it was helpful. It feels like a half-baked feature that they just forgot about rather than trying to improve. Hopefully they use some newer AI model to rebuild the feature from scratch in the future. Or it's a ripe opportunity for a startup to build and sell in a bidding war to Apple/Google/Spotify/Bing.
Gift Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/11/business/student-loans-de...
Seriously? This looks pretty random: "Arleigh" is in the list of English-German names...
The built-in Cmd-` (backtick) cycles through the windows of the currently selected app.

I find it better than Context.app, which i did buy and used on a few machines for a few years.

it's like navigating within a sparse table.

columns are the apps, chosen by cmd-tab.

rows are the windows of an app, chosen with cmd-` .
I'm sure he's well aware, just look at his history, there's tons of people who have told him since July 23, 2022.
So when do we have a custom LLM for Cyberpunk 2013?
Looks like WebGPU for Android is coming first, shipping stable in January:

https://twitter.com/Tojiro/status/1720592878056112158
Let's quote the whole sentence, shall we?

An LCM demands merely 32 A100 GPUs Hours training for 2-step inference, as de-
picted in Figure 1. [1]

Now let's look at the caption under Figure 1:

LCMs can be distilled from any pre-trained Stable Diffusion (SD) in only 4,000 training steps (∼32 A100 GPU Hours) for generating high quality 768×768 resolution images in 2∼4 steps or even one step, significantly accelerating
text-to-image generation.

The training mentioned in your quote is distillation: it requires a previously trained SD model.

You could have told just by reading the introduction:

We propose a one-stage guided distillation method to efficiently convert a pretrained guided diffusion model into a latent consistency model by solving an augmented PF-ODE.

[1] Section 4.2 in https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.04378
It'll be a good day when everyone stops giving in to these ransom seeking parasites. I wonder how hard law enforcement goes looking for them? They're taking society hostage left and right.
Sure. Then we could have a Beowulf Cluster of them.
I thought Open Source Erlang is Apache 2.0 based on the first paragraph on the Erlang faq page [1]: "You can use Open Source Erlang to build commercial products without having to pay royalties or licence fees to Ericsson. Open Source Erlang uses the Apache License 2.0."

I think it is a bit confusing actually, since they differentiate between Erlang (the language), ERTS (Erlang Runtime System) and the BEAM. It isn't clear to me what "Open Source Erlang" refers to with respect to those distinctions, or what the licenses are for each of them.

1. https://www.erlang.org/faq/implementations
I don't understand why people are pushing universal higher ed. Based on everything I see and have heard the first 2 years of college end up recapping everything you should've learned in high school. So we'd be served just as well by making high school optional and actually focus on teaching while not forcing students who don't want to be there to be there. It's accomplish the same thing but not cost nearly as much.
> People do things they're not proud of in desperate situations.

Having to get an office temp job for minimum wage at 24 isn't ideal but it's a stretch to call it "desperate" and somehow justifying pushing opiates.

> what it's like to be someone below the poverty line

Which he wouldn't have been with the job options he had available at the time.
I've read through these, along with Wikipedia's sources on Corbyn, and it seems like the answer is no.
It was so good. But then, the web was young, and everything was. You are quite right to feel sad. I know this doesn't help.
Watching 1k TikToks, algorithm served a shocking number of ads, like network TV
> At that point you realize that what you really want is MS Paint from Windows 3.1

Or a drawing program like Krita.
Archive.ph intentionally gives the wrong IP to requests from Cloudflare DNS servers, because cloudflare is not giving them information about the IP subnet that made the original DNS request, and archive.ph claims that is a massive problem for them.
There is not a lot of benefits to it besides it being awesome. Maybe some HFT firms could benefit from the low latencies in orbit.
My understanding is the onion service was launched to provide access for people in places where Twitter is blocked. How is this "irrelevant to the business"?
Weird issue with multiprocessing in Python at scale
Maybe there's just a lot of Hackintoshes
What Happens When You Enter a URL into a Browser
You should try Europe or Australia. The worst I've ever experienced is having someone break and enter while I wasn't there. I have lived in what could be considered less than savoury areas in Sydney and have stayed all over Europe and the world (as a digital nomad, currently at 45 countries).

And you won't feel the need to carry a gun...
Good for you.

I worked and saved to help my kids go to school, and they worked jobs to pay for their education.

I’m it paying for your kid’s education as well.

The right way to deal with this is go after the schools and get the money refunded, not force others to take on the debts.
Jesus.

Being the trust-fund offspring of a deity, he had it made from birth. But that's not how the story goes.

It shows humility and puts you on the same level of vulnerability as others. It's what separates you from the gentry. You give everything of yourself to help others, to prove you're one of them, and inspire others to help in kind.
The people who took variable rate loans made the poor decision. The banks didn't force them to take the loan the banks didn't sign the paper saying the purchaser understood. At some point adults need to be treated like adults and be allowed to make bar decisions.
Is SpaceX charging the DoD 435$ for a Hammer, or 600$ for a toilet seat? General Dynamics did
Not exactly what you are referencing but ATA adaptors can do this by connecting to a voip host. Usually $40 and up. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_telephone_adapter
The linking mentioned there has nothing to do with the linking in LTO. It happens before JITting, and is neither a barrier to nor an opportunity for optimisation.
I think scientific experts were clear that they don't know the whole truth, but people citing the experts, not so much. Radio ads called the covid19 vaccine "100% safe," while experts only said it was probably less risky than covid19 itself.

The bigger issue was, if some in the scientific or medical community disagreed, it didn't seem like they could safely voice that disagreement.
If they really care about free speech and citizen journalism, they totally should have working onion service.

Of course they don’t care, not only because Musk is full of shit, but also because of billions from Saudis.
Wow this is amazing. My question on top of yours is beyond just knowledge (which yes yes I know I am underrating) how does a 17 year old get this kind of passion. (Not to brag) I was very fortunate to have this kind of passion in my early teens (also I did not have many friends) but I am really struggling to get my kids and their friends this kind of passion!
Maybe bitwise operations instead of arithmetic?
Take it from someone who grew up among gun-happy USA-ians and stupidly fooled around with guns in their youth: Don't shoot tires. Not even an old economy tire left from the target car someone dumped in the abandoned gravel pit. Eventually you may hear a zip going the other way, and it might break your buddy's car window behind you and he'd be super mad and want you to pay for it. [0]

All rounds that don't embed will hit something downrange, for somewhat arbitrary values of "downrange" expressed in terms of angle and retained energy. A core principle of firearm safety is that you only get to pick a round's first target, the round picks the rest. And that's why airports and space centers are generally considered by experts to serve poorly as firing ranges.

[0] it's some kind of miracle that we survived to adulthood
No it wasn't. Russia was always possibility and some governments pointed fingers towards Russia. Media reported these suspicions accurately. Suspicions against Poland and Ukraine were also reported.

Sy Hersh claiming that the United States coordinated the attacks was just crazy shit.
I once worked with a man of Bashkir-Estonian descent.
His name is Aivar which I suspect is bilingual:
- it sounds Turkic ("ai" is "moon" iirc)
- on the other hand there are mentions of Aivor/Aivar from Scandinavia and so on

I tried mixednames.com but Bashkir or Tatar are not available
Anyone else excited for what WebGPU will enable for next generation browser games and real-time 3D web applications?
High precision would matter near the input and output layers, but further into the model you could always substitute more parameters for precision.
> If we are extremely optimistic about Starship and say it will cost the same amount to launch as Falcon 9 / Dragon

That's pessimistic. Starship is targeting a significantly reduced cost per launch than Dragon + Falcon 9. Made possible by drastically reduced refurbishment, dramatically increased launch cadence, and full reusability (Falcon 9 second stage and Dragon trunk are both expended), among many other things. And it could carry a lot more than 100 passengers.

It's certainly possible that it won't meet its goals, but I wouldn't call that stance "optimistic".
You Don't Need Anymore Coding Tutorials [video]
I had a limited interest in exploring type theories for their own sake some time ago but it receded when I was unable to resolve, or find a resolution to, a conceptual problem that seems extremely foundational.

Each type theory has a hierarchy of types: 1-types, 2-types, 3.1*10^62-types, etc. but some niche type theories allow for types indexed by transfinite ordinals: ω-types, ω+5-types, I even found a construction of a theory that supports φ_α-types. There is apparently at least one very counterintuitive type theory where the hierarchy of indexable types provably continues past the proof-theoretic ordinal of the theory, somehow, but I haven't seen it myself.

These have real implications of what kinds of proofs you can do with a given type theory.

.

The problem is deciding which of these theories to permit, or possibly even deciding how to decide which theories to permit, if you'll pardon the pun. I decided to give it up and get back to PDEs.
Title edit fail. Fixed now. Sorry!
There is no such thing as a cigarette addiction. Nicotine is the addictive chemical in cigarettes. Yes, method of consumption matters, but if you regularly consume an addictive chemical you are at risk to develop an addiction to that chemical, regardless of method (though not necessarily regardless of quantity).
I suspect the inability to sell is in the minority.

I know people who buy "used" timeshares happily. The owners really want to get rid of them so they sell at a low price. As long as the rules allow it, they use them as AirBnBs for those two weeks and make a killing. Those locations are premium, so they can charge a lot per night. And they don't have to do any work as the resort staff handle most of the cleaning, etc.

Compared to buying a house/condo and putting it on AirBnB, the per dollar invested gain is much higher with timeshares.
Why? If you are using a crate, its code will be running in your application. Its not really any more of a concern if it can run code while building.
Merging Performant Translations into WordPress Core
> I bullshitted my way through college. You can't bullshit your way through bitcoin.

Correction; you can bullshit Bitcoin on every layer but the transactional one. For the overwhelming majority (90%+) of the world's population, the blockchain might as well not exist. These people do not want to deal with self-custody, on-chain validation, gas fees, tax headaches, or any of the nerd porn that you and I jerk off to. It would not matter if the blockchain did your laundry and made you food, the world is not going to use Bitcoin without an abstraction (and every abstraction leaks).

If you want to enjoy Bitcoin, knock yourself out. Calling your opposition "mind control" is a pretty enormous rhetorical red flag that will turn most people away from whatever you're promoting: "Come check out Bill O' Reilly's Car Dealership - Our Mind-Controlled opponents won't stop the O' Reilly Revolution!"

If you don't argue in good faith, nobody will stand up for you when academics and Pulitzer winners ignore your points.
Do you observe a gap in children's literature that needs to be filled by synthetically generated stories?

Edit, just realized it is a payed service with "third-party advertisers".

Perfect for unengaged parents.
There’s no such thing as identity theft, it is impossible to steal an identity, the person still has their identity. It is impersonation. The victim is the entity that has fallen for the impersonation (likely a bank, etc), the perpetrator is the one who did the impersonation, and the impersonated person is just some uninvolved third party.

I know it is pedantic but it is important to keep in mind because dumping the need to seek redress on the uninvolved third party is ridiculous, so we shouldn’t use language that plays into that point of view.
Always felt overwhelmed to read complex AI research papers. (denselayers.com) is great user experience to read AI and Scientific research papers, which are information dense.
So does everything have to be phrased as a question for you to feel better about a request?

Aka "Hey Jim, can you tackle this issue?"
You are already dependent on a set of curators to not simply outright lie and export the data as captured. This take lacks subtlety; unless you are going to abandon the set of functionality ("where is the best fried chicken near me?") that this sort of metadata facilitates, you need to make decisions about which curators you trust, and then participate in driving them to honesty and accountability.

From my perspective this article leans too heavily into the FUD, and really doesn't succeed at keeping the call to action ticking over. On a good day, the EFF can be really good. Today, not so much so.
Please don't cross into name-calling and certainly not personal attack.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I developed KeenWrite[0] with similar ideas to mdbook: typeset Markdown documents into PDF. Technically, this happens in three stages. First, the Markdown is converted to XHTML. Second, the XHTML is converted to TeX commands. Third, the ConTeXt typesetting system produces a PDF file. Both the GUI and CLI can export to PDF.[1] (This means that XHTML also can be converted to PDF.)

Like mdbook, the themes are isolated. Instead of CSS, KeenWrite themes are written in ConTeXt. There are several example starter themes.[2] A "thesis" theme would be a nice addition, but there's a problem.

Markdown lacks a standard for cross-references and citations. An open KeenWrite issue animates a possible UX solution.[3] The topic of references/citations has been discussed on CommonMark[4] without much movement. Parsing cross-references and citations would likely benefit all flexmark-java[5] integrations. KeenWrite uses flexmark-java, but I'm otherwise unaffiliated. If anyone is interested in helping, reach out (see profile).

[0]: https://keenwrite.com/

[1]: https://gitlab.com/DaveJarvis/KeenWrite/-/blob/main/docs/cmd...

[2]: https://gitlab.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite-themes/

[3]: https://gitlab.com/DaveJarvis/KeenWrite/-/issues/145

[4]: https://talk.commonmark.org/t/cross-references-and-citations...

[5]: https://github.com/vsch/flexmark-java
How difficult would it be to train an AI with all GIMP documentation and online Q&A's and ship an offline support-chat with GIMP?
I'm fine with labeling things as pseudoscience as long as it's not silenced as a result. Our scientific methods may change over time and reclassify things.
Which medias? Here in canada the narrative I saw was "we suspect maybe, this one, maybe that one, but we don't know". I've followed the story for a while and there was no consensus, and more importantly no real evidence of anything.
If you actually read the book Extreme Ownership, you'd realize how wrong your comment is. It advocates decentralization and ownership from the bottom up.
I made a local anonymous chat app with AI for content moderation
I was inspired by Yik Yak’s early success, and subsequent failure due to an inability to manage bad content from anonymous users. I realized automated content moderation was the answer to this problem, and in 3 weeks spun up a full stack app integrated with a ML model. Test it if you have time and please don’t hold back with the feedback!
Are your comments on this post more about you and your experiences, than about the person who wrote the article?

I hope that you're doing well, and that you see compassion from others whenever you need it.
I think this describes the issue k1ns is referring to: https://corpaccountabilitylab.org/calblog/2020/8/5/private-c...

> The next year, 111 inmates continued to produce “decorated party balloons” for MINNCOR, according to NCIA’s database. Large contracts such as this, coupled with correctional industries wages of between $0.50 and $2.00 per hour, allowed MINNCOR to make a profit of over $13 million in 2019.

Also relevant: https://minncorprod.blob.core.windows.net/files/MINNCOR%20In...

I'm actually having trouble squaring the claim from corpaccountabilitylab.org of an average of $.50 - $2/hr and what MINNCOR claims which is an average of $14.20/hr. The leading value of MINNCOR industries is to have the industrial programs pay for the prison system, thereby not passing new taxes onto residents. The only way that I can think to measure whether that system is healthy or not is to determine if it can both scale down and scale up. If it can't scale down, then they will indeed be incentivized to incarcerate new people.

Also of note, MINNCOR continues to employ people on release. From the report: 172 released + 753 incarcerated = 925 total active participants. The low of self-reported wages is $10/hr, the high is $22.38.
>I'm not sure why this is.

It's because Windows.

DX9 remained on the frontline for as long as it did because Windows XP was supported from 2001 all the way to 2014 due to usage share. Similarly, DX11 remains on the frontline because Windows 7. I guess it's more apt to say they are because Windows Vista and Windows 8(.1) failed spectacularly respectively, but my point remains.

Since Windows 7 and 8(.1) are both EOL now, more games should start using DX12 Ultimate.
96 workers died building the Hoover Dam. In 8 years it will be 100 years since Construction started on the Hoover Dam.
It seems like the US just isn't able to make projects like that anymore. Look at the progress of California's HSR,started by Governor Pete Wilson, who established the California High-Speed Rail Authority in 1996. 27 years ago. We have a century's advancement in technology, but the costs of construction, and inability to deal with risk has become a gigantic problem
> building a general purpose C debugger is not some kind of trivial exercise

Yes

> claiming to have done so is disingenuous and pompous

Nobody has claimed to do so in this situation. You are inventing conflict. Also I don't think bregma intended to be this targeting or accusatory, why are you speaking for them?
I used it to create a credit score system to start a project and it gave me the basics. I don't expect anything other than that.

The real issue will be that majority of users will take the answer face value without even knowing if that answer is a good one or just nonsense.

"The AI said..." will create lots of issues. Time will tell.
For me it is just like a more concentrated caffeine dose.

I had no noticeable addiction whatsoever, and I was hyperaware of the risk from the all the press over smoking addiction.

Amazon usually has some really great offers on nicotine gum if you drill through their site long enough.
Men less likely than women to share negative information, says study
oh, I didn't realize non-delivery was implied
So it is right and proper for a few extended families to determine the fate of an entire region? It's not even one city of millions, it is several we're talking about.
> loading all the search backend for their application launcher

Wasn't the whole initial selling point of systemd parallel startup?

Why can't this launcher thing just get set to start up as early as possible, with lowest priority, and be set to not block initialization of anything else?