skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So it's literally not flood-proof at all then?

That makes as much sense as saying RV's are flood-proof because you can drive them to higher land.

But in this case you have to dismantle your entire home (requires an able-bodied adult), load it and all of your possessions on a truck (that you don't own) and drive it probably many miles away, wait out the flood, and then do it all in reverse.

(And stilts don't require bamboo -- they've been around for a long time.)
I agree with comments saying that OP is being a little overly sensitive -- but I have noticed a large amount of untagged, extremely graphic content on twitter these days. This has been especially noticeable since the October 7th attack and now the retaliation by Israel.

It can be really shocking to see the mangled corpse of a small child mixed in between the shit-posts and memes.
installation/setup is dead simple. up and running in under 3 minutes:

git clone https://github.com/lllyasviel/Fooocus.git

cd Fooocus

pip3 install -r requirements_versions.txt

python3 entry_with_update.py
I think the difference is 100% remote. Hybrid is the worst of both worlds.
But... the original comparison was humans vs all other mammals. So it's actually the correct metric.
Why should I? It even claims the richest family member is worth $10B, which is nowhere near the top of the list these days. It says $1T in the headline, how big is this family?

More likely is that this is a garbage clickbait article with no credible source.
Yes, there is a psychological difference. Super wealthy have hard time trusting people including their family, friends, etc. Some of them even suffer from paranoia. Just a couple of bad experiences are enough for them to become like that. For ordinary mortals like us, we just write off our bad experiences with other people as natural, not some extraordinary. Being lied to, being backstabbed, lying, backstabbing, colluding, etc are all part of human existence: either one directly experience it or heard through others' experience. That is a cost to pay to live among people.

In other words, the experience of one whose wealth is $2B is not same as the experience of one whose wealthy is $50M plus $1.955B. What one experiences in the world depends on how much weight one puts on everything one is involved in. Poor people give different weightage than rich people. Same event doesn't give the same experience to everyone.
Now THAT is some hacker news!! Great job and great science. Also shout out to nialv7 for some early hacking on the subject.
Because generally speaking in the safe situations I mentioned pedestrians can usually simply cross without breaking stride.

Waiting a couple of seconds is the exception and you would have to wait that long for the light to change.

So it is not making the people walking stop, if you think about it.
If you have a single central motor and shaft, then existing CV joints work just fine. This is useful when you want to have a separate motor for each wheel, because it lets you put those motors closer to the wheel. There is then space in the middle (where the shafts went with the single central engine/motor) that can be used for something else not related to the drive train.
Musk: Rich father, emerald mine money?

Arnault: "In 1971, he graduated from the École Polytechnique, France's leading engineering school, and began work for his father's company. Three years later, after he convinced his father to shift the focus of the company to real estate"

Gates: "His father was a prominent lawyer" "At age 13, he enrolled in the private Lakeside prep school, where he wrote his first software program" "Microsoft co-founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen first met as teenagers in the late 1960s at Lakeside School in Seattle"

Zuckerberg: "My dad, funny enough, right before each of us went to college offered us the options of going to college or like investing in a franchise and running it,” sister Randi Zuckerberg told CNN Business’ Laurie Segall of her dad’s offer to his son and each of his three daughters.

They may not have literally handed their kids a sack full of money, but you can't argue that people like Arnault, Gates, Zuckerberg are not largely where they are today due to their parents wealth.
>Old = over 40s (myself included) who are senior, their careers have been in offices and commuting, and still believe that 'managing people' means real-life first person interaction, and are completely invested in offices, and the cost of paying for them, rather than downsizing.

Absent the Covid years, I'd probably agree more. A lot of managers, execs, and other senior people may not have liked commuting but it was just part of the job. But they're people too and many realized they could manage without going into an office all of the time. People do come in, especially for things like customer visits, but it's mostly a sometimes thing.
Would you care to enlighten me on each of these 4 factors, in specific terms?
I've seen this tied up with one idea where space-time itself is ripped apart, leaving nothing that can expand and instead "everything" once against occupying the same space less than an atom (if it can even be quantified), reduxing a Big Bang.

Otherwise we increasingly approximate a transition to "nothing" into infinity.
I'm confused by this too. What good is an in-office leader if everyone else is remote?
What will it take for all those 32-bit Mac games on Steam to run on Apple Silicon?
> This take is so common and so bizarre to me. Executives at companies do not give a fuck about the landlords of their buildings.

I don't think you have the right framing. Investors diversify, and so the set of investors and board members in your company that are invested in commercial real estate is non-zero, and arguably non-negligible.

The set of investors and board members that have some stake in work from home is considerably smaller, possibly zero. This is a clear bias that acts as a non-negligible incentive on CEOs to push a return to office. Everyone in this scenario is working in their own self-interest.
This is a stat that is never sourced and is mostly cited by the wealth planning industry that have an ulterior motive for making people believe it.

I’d love to see a rigorous backing of this stat.
The reflow hypothesis can be confirmed by setting a fixed height and width on the icon and overflow: hidden.
It is always good to be skeptical of people who talk the loudest, regardless of their role in society.

> learning how neurons work would take you a day or two max.

I seriously question your definition of expertise. Harvard offers a bachelor's degree focused entirely on neuroscience, with at least two separate exams focused only on neurons. And that is barely enough to understand current research in neuroscience, since it usually builds up on literature that is too recent for a bachelor's.
Capital One makes it very easy to generate virtual card numbers that map to a credit card account.
Thanks for your comment! Glad it was a (small) help. Yes, Meta research did a great job documenting their code! Quick question: why do you not use Hugging Face with their PEFT library for doing fine-tunning SAM with LoRA?
The tradeoff is a different arguement and a digression, so while it's likely we agree, I'll side-step it here. I do think it's an uphill battle to pursue a massive reappropriation of funds though.

There are some alternatives that I'm aware of. Here's a few:

1) One is to allow journals to focus on less-than-great results. Right now the focus is on novelty, so there is an incentive to show that your work has some new, great outcome. But there's also value in showing "Hey, we thought this idea had legs but it turns out it didn't." Publishing that work should be part of science but right now its not. (As a side benefit, you could prevent a lot of researchers wasting effort on the same idea simply because they weren't aware that other people already tried, and failed.)

2) Journals can put a premium on sharing your data and code during the review process. Right now, it's often just up to the author and there are lots of veils to hide behind that essentially give the impression of sharing data, but not in a very useful way.

3) Give value to replicating work. Maybe not as much prestige as creating new work, but showing that it can be replicated obviously has value to society as a whole. Most of the time this won't get published, except in the cases where it's sensationalized, like fraud. (This effect is related to #1)

4) Journals can do a better job vetting their reviewers. They struggle to get timely reviews and reach to anyone who accepts the duty. Reviewers may agree to review something they have little background in, and as a result, it's easier to skirt bad articles through the system.
> No one is seriously asking for litter boxes in school bathrooms or helicopter refueling stations.

This feels a bit out-of-nowhere.

My read on parent comment was that "Twitter trends" are fast-changing norms about what language is (un)acceptable. They were not saying that LGBTQIA+ identity itself is a trend.
I don’t think it’s better to make 3,000 lbs of metal stop and start again.
“how much of it fits in one page” matters. This doesn’t mean that cramming everything into tight subsequent paragraphs, like a serious book, is a good idea: code isn’t supposed to be primarily read paragraph-by-paragraph. On the other hand, a two-words-per-line, twenty-words-per-page nursery rhyme-like layout means that one might need to scroll through dozens of pages to get “what’s this all about.”

I disagree that code is "supposed to" be any particular way, but in general I agree with this point. And I think it's gradually being forgotten. Automatic code formatters and mandatory style guides are becoming more common, and while they do raise the floor (by preventing some interpretation of "bad" style) they also lower the ceiling. Uniformity isn't bad, but sometimes you really need certain things

to

stand

OUT!
It feels like we're slowly slipping back to palace economies but instead of violence it's through capital (which some might still call violence).
No, because basic common sense says that to have quantum breakthrough with AI they'll need massive quantum compute which... well doesn't exist yet.

Their research is AI built on conventional neural networks (the way they've been since literally the 1960s), not quantum physics.
As someone in my 20s, I couldn't even retire with $1m. On the other hand, I could live off the interest alone in a savings account with $1b.

(Obviously putting $1b entirely into a savings account is a terrible idea, just making a point)
Voice cloning works pretty well already but not necessarily on one 10 sec sample as the source data. If you can give it some hours of data it’ll work much better
> "Someone who has their entire net worth invested into a coin is never going to be swayed by technical arguments about how it works or by economic arguments, or really by anything."

This isn't true. I can buy back fiat with my bitcoin within an hour if you convince me that I've made a mistake - I have no commitment, sunk costs etc. I think it more strongly applies to you - think how much bitcoin you could have owned. You've missed out on life changing wealth forever because of the opinion you've formed. It would hard to accept that you're wrong now.

I actively seek out criticisms of bitcoin where ever I can. So far I've not found a single person who I can see understands bitcoin but doesn't own any, but I've also failed to convince any of those people who don't get it.

If you're open-minded, I'm happy to talk about the misconceptions and will happily be corrected if I'm wrong - please go ahead - hopefully one of us will learn something.

Lets keep it simple and forget about using bitcoin as a currency for now. Let's focus on bitcoin as a superior alternative to gold.

> "we could talk about the misconceptions here about how mining works and how the underlying technology for verifying transactions works, but it's not going to change anything.."

Let's start with that - what are the misconceptions?
I tell you what nialv7 I feel ya. Not only that, it makes me wonder how many great things have gone unnoticed. Partly why I'm glued to HN is bc how on earth do you find these gems otherwise??
postgres has some capability to do that, but does need a server.
"broadcommed"... Today's Broadcom is renamed Avago. It was Avago which bought Broadcom and adopted its name. It's quite possible something like that will happen with the VMware brand.
Google did make something like this: https://www.google.com/advanced_search

It has a lot of options, even allows you to search ONLY the Text/Title/URL and you can filter by usage right (free for personal/commercial use etc)

Interestingly it was last updated before material design was a thing. Maybe it's nostalgia but I love the design language of Google had before material injected padding everywhere.
The thing about accumulated wealth is that the moment you spend it down, that chunk of it is gone forever and not coming back - it's very different from having a high income, which can support continued levels of spending over time. So it takes very cautious, culturally-ingrained attitudes to pass down such wealth for many generations. It becomes more of a cultural symbol or totem than anything really tangible at that point.
"Gravitational force" doesn't work for describing the dynamics of the universe as a whole.

What would result in a contracting universe is a large enough density of matter (about a factor of 20 larger than the actual density in our universe if we just look at ordinary visible matter). But this does not mean "increasing gravitational force". As I have pointed out in other posts upthread, the "gravitational force" on a given piece of matter due to the rest of the matter in the universe (if we leave out local influences, like our solar system or galaxy for us here on Earth) is zero. This is true regardless of the current state of expansion or contraction.
(Duolingo problem(, AIUI): Duolingo is designed around such premise that, by exposing your subconsciousness to such small set of words and phrases in target languages, your brain should be able to trivially construct output shims from Universal Grammar, which must exist, to desired languages; but that doesn't work in practice and you end up with small set of words and phrases your subconsciousness had recorded)
Hell, from what I've heard, basic electric knowledge was taught/expected in Britain until fairly recently.

I was told that appliances would often come with a wire and no plug and it'd be the expectation that the consumer would acquire and solve the rest.
I think the limiting issue has been I/O. The recent iPhone 15 has 10gbps usbc which might be close but RAW images are quite big - not sure and too lazy to do the math.

The form factor issue feels tractable - just have the housing that you slot your phone into be a cheap bit of molded plastic that adapts it to the thing you sell that contains the sensor, battery etc. That makes it a ~$50 part at most that you can support nearly every phone on. There’s also spring loaded designs (look at all the spring based universal car mounts). Now that even iPhones are usbc, this also standardized the I/O connector port which would have been harder/impossible to solve and a bigger obstacle. The SW support thing doesn’t seem real - the R&D cost for maintaining the camera OS with its own custom gui is going to be much more expensive than just hiring some mobile app developers. Form factor feel might be an issue (ie wright distribution / Feel in the hands) and that might be a real issue. Not sure but also feels solvable.

But the biggest issue is that computational photography in a mobile form factor just isn’t relevant to the space that these manufacturers are in. The creators will use tools like darkroom and newer generative AI tools to post process and the value add of computational photography isn’t relevant there. “Computational photography” techniques to help capture and set up shots might be but I’m not enough in the space to know whether or not there always doing that (eg automatically being able to capture back to back shots with different settings for later compositing, providing automatic tips on lighting, etc etc)
The source (or photo mode used by it) is part of that trust.
That’s some boomer slack usage. If anyone sends a message with “hi” they get a stern bollocking by me immediately. Our company handbook specifically forbids doing this.
there is the classic cd drive used as a coffee cup holder type problem. However, a clearly not-fitting port being plugged into? That is not a design problem. Even my little kids could figure out which plugs don't fit into other ports on their game systems. At a certain point, people have to apply some thought.
It would be interesting to see games primarily designed for consoles get ported to Mac before they work on the Windows port, since the architecture is very similar between the M series APUs and the console APUs :)
They do and it proves the points I made in my prior comment. It's A) fairly non-intrusive because it's just text, and B) pretty easy to remove because Linux is a highly composable operating system where you're basically just pushing text files around.
Here's a chrome extension I wrote to bypass the ft.com paywall if folks are interested: https://github.com/arkadiyt/free-ft
How would you explain GitLab or other all remote companies that have been successful since 1-20 employees, given your analysis here?
It's a Regular Language, in the mathematical sense. All you need is the greedy match anything sequence, I don't know why so many people jumped to non-Regular regex extensions.
https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/glossary/windoze/

my favorite one so far
I'm guessing ZIRP-enabled acquisitions, made for an easier route to succeed rather than an IPO and being judged by the market on the go.
yes, those countries, because the alternative is a war of all against all.

there were winners and losers a century ago, the lines on the map are what they are now, you don't get a do-over. deal with it.
Banjo is a great instrument for relaxing alone or livening up a party. My favorite banjo content is Clifton Hicks' YouTube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/@CliftonHicksbanjo

He's trying to preserve old banjo music and teaches how to play the old standards in two finger and clawhammer style, often with nylon/nylgut strings on vintage instruments, trying to replicate the original sounds.
One summer evening drunk to hell
I stood there nearly lifeless
An old man in the corner sang
Where the water lilies grow
And on the jukebox johnny sang
About a thing called love
And its how are you kid and whats your name
And how would you bloody know?
In blood and death neath a screaming sky
I lay down on the ground
And the arms and legs of other men
Were scattered all around
Some cursed, some prayed, some prayed then cursed
Then prayed and bled some more
And the only thing that I could see
Was a pair of brown eyes that was looking at me
But when we got back, labeled parts one to three
There was no pair of brown eyes waiting for me

And a rovin, a rovin, a rovin I'll go
For a pair of brown eyes

I looked at him he looked at me
All I could do was hate him
While Ray and Philomena sang
Of my elusive dream
I saw the streams, the rolling hills
Where his brown eyes were waiting
And I thought about a pair of brown eyes
That waited once for me
So drunk to hell I left the place
Sometimes crawling sometimes walking
A hungry sound came across the breeze
So I gave the walls a talking
And I heard the sounds of long ago
From the old canal
And the birds were whistling in the trees
Where the wind was gently laughing

And a rovin, a rovin, a rovin I'll go
A rovin, a rovin, a rovin I'll go
And a rovin, a rovin, a rovin I'll go
For a pair of brown eyes
For a pair of brown eyes

And a rovin, a rovin, a rovin I'll go
And a rovin, a rovin, a rovin I'll go
And a rovin, a rovin, a rovin I'll go
For a pair of brown eyes
For a pair of brown eyes
Viagra really works. There is also artifical insemination but the space environment could cause all sorts of problems in reproduction and development. (What happens to a child that grows up in a zero gravity environment?)
All of it, probably. Next question!
Digital emblem for humanitarian law in cyberspace
Interesting. Do you know which phones have this feature?
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A serious answer to your question, something I learned from interacting with a couple especially open flat-earthers once: they want everyone to "trust their senses" and "do their own research". In one sense you could say they want to destroy science as an institution, but in another you could say this kind of behavior is closer to the Platonic ideal of science: replicable experimental results that reiterate useful theories can be passed between people rather than just handing down insights from on high.
But you said: "One is super, super secretive, who passes off as a multi millionaire."

To say they "pass themselves off as" means there is a visible difference in either what they own or how they act. What does that look like? Are you saying they pretend to trust? How is that apparent? I can't figure out what the obvious visible difference would be.

If a millionaire passes themselves off as someone with much less wealth they'll drive an old Corolla instead of a Mercedes. What's that equivalent here?
He is still occupying large parts of Ukraine that may become Russian permanently if Ukraine doesn't manage to take them back. That may be the most important thing for him.
So that means the pricing of powersync cloud solution will be just a bit higher or similar to cost of self-host, just with extra features, correct?

I'm asking in terms of ease of hosting & restrictions, whether it would be super hard like supabase self hosting + a lack of features or like appwrite where self hosting is very easy and you get most things in self hosted version as well?
Consider a balloon with no tie. Like a basketball or something. The point is that the surface is elastic and the sphere is expanding. Balloons make the best metaphor for that imo. If you can think of a better one I'd be glad to hear it.

Only other thing I can think of is a "rubber bubble" which... is a balloon.
Thanks for your comment. Will definately try to work on that too! Quick question: why does the differences between Mistril and llama? Do you mean it can save time for reading the paper? Or actually during the coding/building process?