skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mind you, your bar might be too high for these, but I found useful bits from both of the Michael Easter books: "The Comfort Crisis" and "Scarcity Brain."

https://eastermichael.com/

Along the same lines, the two Annie Duke books that I read, "Thinking in Bets" and "Quit", were both entertaining and insightful.

https://www.annieduke.com/

And tho' I thought it could have half the pages, I found inspriation from Rick Rubin's "The Creative Act".

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jan/10/the-creative-a...

If you have a creative side and haven't yet read "The War of Art" then read that instead of the Rubin book. It's shorter and that focus makes it more inspiring.
I wonder what % of gift card sales are actually scam victims.
Is this a paid post or something? Weird and avant-garde compared to what? The reason most of this crap never got archived is because it was the purest of crap, not the death of flash or other silly excuses.

Similarly nobody cares about the vast majority of YTMND or Vine.

There absolutely was a certain type of "nerd" into the junk on Newgrounds and they were probably the same loud minority who flocked to Facebook until they realized how crappy that was too. Nobody really wants to remember the internet between 2000 and 2015. Nobody likes most media from that era in general.
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Aging societies more vulnerable to collapse
NVIDIA’s main target on Linux is data center cards (Teslas). Desktop is just happen to be supported for the hobbyist market.

This was not like that before their Tesla series took off with such momentum.Currently, X11 and display support is provided at the barely minimum level which doesn’t piss off the people.

I think some parts of their drivers do some black magic, because if that was not the case, there should not be a tug of war about the technical details for providing Wayland support.

Monitor power management and related display parts of the driver break constantly, but not the CUDA parts, because it’s the money making part.
Having internalized what it is and what they are and how they work in general is not to be discounted. The usefulness of education is often not in the detail of the rules but in this internalizing. You now know about this concept and it will come to mind without even noticing it when useful when something passes in front of you. If only in business, interest rate or commission is not a small number each time, but adds up. Growth rate is properly "compounded growth rate". Etc.
The US still has laws protecting child labor in agriculture.

https://www.npr.org/2023/06/12/1181472559/child-labor-farms-...

(And slavery in prison. But one problem at a time)
xtdb v2.0 ?
it's bitemporal, will be SQL-compatible, and also has another query-language - XTQL :

https://github.com/xtdb/xtdb/tree/2.x/dev/xtql
Is there a post about comparing them ?
It's like only a couple companies know how to build large jet engines that don't melt when the heat inside them is way above the melting point of their materials...
Are you saying rich countries should force poor countries to adopt to their ethical and moral codes? Should they adopt all of them, like our stringent building codes? What about minimum wages? Vehicle safety standards?

I'm being supercilious, but hopefully you can see the problem.
You can very well choose different platforms. That's the entire reason I don't buy iPhones or consoles.

You don't need EU mommy to regulate the entire industry and make it harder for the next ios / android alternative
They've been aware for a long time now and are content to exploit the situation and now definitely share culpability. There's more than enough blame to pass some of it around.

The fact that they pay people wages where they work and still live in abject poverty while raking in a literally obscene amount of wealth is not right.
I like the idea, it's nice. Thank you
Younger me would have laughed (or even wanted to insult you) over this comment. Older me just gave you an upvote for it. I think you're on to something.
I would agree with this sentiment if they this was voluntary labor. Others have pointed out that trafficking, beatings, and forced labor are also components.
Deep Dive into the Vision Transformers Paper
We have a reading club every Friday where we go over the fundamentals of a lot of the state of the art techniques used in Machine Learning today. Last week we dove into the "Vision Transformers" Paper from 2021 where the Google Brain team benchmarked training large scale transformers against ResNets.

Though it is not groundbreaking research as of this week, I think with the pace of AI it is important to dive deep into past work and what others have tried! It's nice to take a step back and learn the fundamentals as well as keeping up with the latest and greatest.

Posted the notes and recap here if anyone finds it helpful:

https://blog.oxen.ai/arxiv-dives-vision-transformers-vit/

Also would love to have anyone join us live on Fridays! We've got a pretty consistent and fun group of 300+ engineers and researchers showing up.
You'd think Norton, McAfee et al would be interested in selling this kind of a product. Not that I trust them much nowadays, but it seems like an obvious opportunity that fits well with their other business.
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Cincinnati when the Turkeys fell.
What if we, I don't know, did something to fix the poverty?
Yeah, a better comparison would be between Salad Fingers and something like Don't Hug Me I'm Scared or Local 58.
Right, the caching is how you get the performance. Ideally you’re behind, say, Varnish. (Like I said, it’s not a hobbyist platform anymore IMO.) There’s pretty slick cache invalidation now, so you can set up Varnish with long cache lifetimes, and still get near-instant updates as authors save content.
flashbacks to working on a team were we needed to shout across the room for people to unlock their source files in MS SourceSafe :-p
> Normal people don’t take their clothe off to sell images of their vagina to people who are mentally unstable.

“Normal” in what sense? In the sense of common, that’s true. But lots of careers are uncommon. In the sense of well-adjusted, I have trouble believing that’s true. Do you have some evidence or data or… I guess anything, really?
"There’s a lot of software being produced that just doesn’t care about its users, or that manipulates them, or that turns them into the product. And this isn’t limited to social media: as a user, I can’t even book a room, order food, or click on the Windows start button without popups trying to grab my attention;"

I recently interviewed at Netflix and during the design portion of the interview I was tasked with navigating to a UI, creating a user-persona, and making arguments for or against how well the interface delivered on my goals as a user. I chose Amazon and "Parent of a family shopping for groceries". Mostly because I have a lot to say about the interface personally and I felt this would be useful in the interview.

Now it used to be that when you clicked on the account section in the top right of the interface - the page would refresh and nothing would change. I found this infuriating because the dropdown was just a hover. Turns out the interface now takes you to a landing page with the same info as the hover.

HOWEVER. During the interview, that hover (The one for Account), also advertised products to me. I mentioned that this is causing friction for me as a user, that what I want is to view my account information but I am being bombarded with more irrelevant things to buy.

The interviewer - some lead of design within the company said - "Well, you have to remember that all of these decisions are tested to death and there is good likely good reason/research to back up that part of the UI". I wish I had the presence of mind to say that response betrays the exercise we were doing but I digress.

Biz > dev > user.
Biz ≹ user.
I worked as a Fiverr freelancer for a week and made $50
It’s not segregation, it’s organic activation of cultural spaces and places free of appropriation
Yet another example of why people shouldn't "buy" content that they don't have control over.
The link I put there has a phalanx mounted on a vehicle.

So it's doable and that fact is orthogonal to your reasoning. There are tons of AA vehicles that hold missiles and tons that have guns as well. These are real and they already exist.

>The combat system on an American destroyer can track "100+" targets. The carrier group has several destroyers.

Uncharitable response. Obviously tracking targets is easy. Knocking out 100 incoming targets that are simultaneously converging on the same position is a different story. What do these ships have 100 phalanxes or does that thing have to turn and shoot to pick things off one by one. Let's be real. I've seen these things even hitting one missile takes a bit. 10 missiles can overwhelm one carrier, they need a fleet of destroyers to make it work and in that case 10 would still be a high risk scenario.

Heck bump it to 20 and they can pick off the destroyers one by one with salvos of 20 cheap china made hypersonics.

Look it's not about whether it's faster than an ballistic. You just need something cheap and efficient to take out a carrier. That's all I'm saying here.

The carrier model is obsolete, it's easy to destroy. It's basically a painted target. Anduril is going in the right direction here but the company is nowhere near china. Anduril is trying to operate technologically from the same perspective as china. Speed and hacking everything together for cheap is the mantra and compared to china and they are building things that are lower quality for a higher price and taking longer to it.
The Google Drive data loss forum thread is gone
A few days ago, different outlets reported Google Drive's data loss [0–2]. I wanted to check the status, but the original Google Support forum thread seems to be missing. (I took the link from the articles referenced below.)

Google says this issue didn't impact files that had already been synced to Google Drive [3], but, if I remember correctly, is not what the users reported.

Weird.

0. https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/27/google_drive_files_di...

1. https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/27/23978591/google-drive-de...

2. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/11/google-drive-is-inve...

3. https://support.google.com/drive/thread/245861992/drive-for-...
If the surprise announce at dev day of custom GPTs* for money** was why Quora board member also running Poe got mad enough to oust Altman, perhaps this would be what Altman conceded to him in order to let Altman back (along with letting him keep his seat).

* Custom GPTs: https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/10/poes-ai-chatbot-app-now-le...

** Monetization: https://developer.poe.com/resources/creator-monetization
In theory: A driver that's actually open source allows it to be ported to future versions of the Linux kernel as well as other kernels such as FreeBSD, giving you some level of guarantee that you'll be able to use the hardware for the full extent of its physical life.

In practice: Even ignoring NVIDIA's insistence on proprietary drivers, other manufacturers have already succeeded in making drivers that are technically "open source" with unreadable source code full of opaque logic and magic constants maintained by a kernel dev who has had to sign an NDA for the privilege of maintaining the driver, so the code isn't any more likely to survive a major kernel redesign (or perhaps a shift to a different operating system) than a proprietary driver would be, unless the manufacturer remains interested in actively supporting the device.
I think it's tricky for those of us trying to be a bit too clever. Certainly it's designed to catch out the obvious replacement strategy.

However the 'naive' solution still feels quite nice. Some python, at the risk of sharing spoilers:

fixes = { "seven":"7", "two":"2", "one":"1", "nine":"9", "eight":"8", "three":"3", "four":"4", "five":"5", "six":"6" }
cands = set(fixes.keys()) | set(fixes.values())

total = 0
for line in Path("input/1.txt").read_text().splitlines():
matches = list(filter(lambda k: k in line, cands))
first, *_ = sorted(matches, key=line.index)
*_, last = sorted(matches, key=line.rindex)
total += int(fixes.get(first, first) + fixes.get(last, last))

print(total)
I haven't directly measured any throughput or latency numbers. I know it is relatively fast, but I know it is not as seamless as I would like.

Currently, for WASM to call any imported function, its arguments have to be formatted in a particular way that is specified by the wasm-c-api. Then it can invoke the imported function. Only after that can the arguments be translated back into the native calling convention in order to call the real native function. I don't know how that compares to node-ffi and JNI, but I imagine its not as slow.

I have a piece of documentation I need to write that will explain how calling native libraries works from Onyx, so that should be able to go into more detail.
<blink> don't forget
I am sorry you had such a horrible experience at school. I’m not denying that what you say can happen, but for contrast, my 7yo son enjoys his school greatly and even misses it during holidays.
I have Ollama running llama 7B on an 32GB Mac M1 Pro and its fast enough to be useful.
From GPT-2 to GPT-4: How LLMs understand different occupations over time
Let me make this as simple for you as I can. Are the following statements truthful statements or lies (or something else entirely)?

Trans women are real women.

Climate change isn't real.

White people are more likely to commit violent crime than black people.

Black people are more likely to commit violent crime than white people.

Black people and white people are equally likely to commit violent crimes.

Men are more likely to commit violent crimes than women.

Fermented grapes drinks aren't champagne unless they come from the Champagne region of France.

Air-cured meat products aren't Biltong unless they were made in South Africa.

Chinese corporations steal IP from Western corporations on a massive scale.

Chinese corporations don't steal IP from anyone.

And so on and so on. If telling lies is now a crime (whether for everyone or just for politicians is largely irrelevant here) then who gets to determine which of the statements above are truth or lies or neither? Who gets to determine whether to prosecute or not? What standards of proof will be required for the judge, jury, etc.?

And most important of all, what protections are in place to keep entryists from taking control of the institutions that make these decisions, now that you've given them a galaxy-sized incentive to do so as a way to control and attack their political enemies?
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PG seems to absolutely love him. It's really hard to reconcile the parts of this story.
Also, to be clear, do we know if it is acceptable for the mother or father bringing the child to work? Was the child helping or actually working (being on a list tells me they were probably employed)? And at what age in a country is it acceptable to begin work?

We should not treat all countries and cultures the same through our western perspective.
There's two approaches: musicologist and popularity.

The musicologists do a serious study and have sophisticated tools I can't pretend to understand but their results sound similar: so similar that the serendipity and adventure is sucked out of it.

Also they suffer from the generality problem as well. Qualities that matter in one genre, such as airy female vocals in a minor key, or whatever, are absolutely irrelevant for another genre. Take for instance, Irish folk music where it may be signal and say, Acapella, where it may be noise. Thus considering them is both right and wrong and we're back to our problem.

If you want to categorize the music to "fix" the problem, you run into binning issues. Let's say early 90s hardcore; they can have trance, breakbeat, dnb, house and jazz sections in a single song. Good luck trying to use your genre based contextual mapping on an unsupervised model.

The popularity approach, which ignores the content, is deceptive because it appears in many forms: people who listened to X also listened to Y or Y is trending or any of a number of variations where some magnitude of humans or temporal delta is used as signal.

These all tend towards the not long end of the long tail and so you eventually get the same mediocre experience - you start with your obscure prog rock group from the 1960s and 20 songs later you're at Cream or Hendrix. The "solution" is to tamper the drift via clustering but it will tend the same directions.

In practice though, these approaches service the majority of tastes, that is familiarity, so they're fit for purpose.
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FYI your designer role [1] has a lot of "TODO"s in it. Given you're looking for a founding designer, I can infer what you're looking for... but best to specify that if you can :)

[1] https://www.medbill.ai/roles/founding-designer
It always irks me when 'Mount' is added as a prefix to a proper mountain name like 'Mount Annapurna', 'Mount Ama Dablam'. Should it then be 'Mount Mt. Everest'?
Sure we can keep discussing it and feeling good about ourselves.
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> Unfortunately this is a common pattern in Europe, especially the bigger states like France and Germany.

Never did the US do that. Ever.
Still doesn't excuse a filesystem claimed to be designed for reliability from having shoddy development practices.
Serious question, in what use cases do you see JavaScript especially (but also Python) competing in the "on top of WASM" space?

Any time I see a language that compiles directly to WASM my instinct is that it will compete with Zig, Rust or C/C++/emscripten.
I think it was obvious. That said, thank you so much for your labor of love! The app is amazing! Any plans for SDXL Turbo support?
300-year-old Tokyo comb company sells 30k-yen ($200) wooden hair combs
That conditional commenting is still amazingly prevalent. It's strange how many websites "don't support ie" but have three sets of conditions for different ie versions.
I'm saying that rich countries shouldn't enable or accept poor countries exploiting child slaves and polluting the planet we all share because "it's their turn now". That's flawed logic.

We certainly shouldn't force other countries to follow our morals, but we shouldn't give them our money and support or make excuses for them while they act like monsters either. We should encourage them to do better, help them when we can, and lead by example. At a minimum we should be holding our own nation's corporations accountable when they're knowingly profiting from children being trafficked and enslaved.
>My belief now is that most cocoa from the large, cheap sources is not produced with ethical labor.

Your comment unhelpfully frames the issue as a dichotomy between "100% ethical labor" and "everything else", where "everything else" could mean anywhere between 0.01% unethical labor to 100% unethical labor. As a chocolate maker that's inevitably going to have unethical labor in the supply chain, the best legal strategy is to head off all claims by establishing a precedent that you're not responsible, rather than trying to quash each individual accusation of unethical labor.
The article is about Mars….
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Arrrgh forever
Reflection on my first 4 months at Linear