skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, isn't nationalism a kind of religion, in that it binds people together through shared practices, traditions, and objectives? I think secularism's blind spot is how to bind people together, and in adopting it, the West has realized it is undoing the fabric of its own foundations.

I think religion comes out of the need for humans to organize in large numbers, and without it, perhaps civilization would have never occurred. The Enlightenment was correct in redefining this foundation on reason instead of mythology, and to the extent people have substituted their zealotry of a god with the zealotry of their political party, it is a failure of their reasoning... since as the article implies, that is part of our primitive nature, and therefore something that requires reasoning to break out from. So if more people actually used their reasoning skills more instead of instinctually following the herd, then we would solve political problems faster.
I think "captive market" is the term you want. Same reason cable TV bills keep climbing to +$200/month, and newspaper delivery prices keep going up while the product keeps shrinking.

Demand for some things is elastic only down to a point. That's the point where customers are hostages.
I have no idea if it's chance, but my middle school "first class" BBS system was named... Yup. Coconet. Strange memory recall.
A physical laborer or pretty person who relies on those traits could generally switch and learn to code or run a business if pressured (either by desire or need) to do so.

We specialize but we all have similar brains.

The last point about IQ at the very end of the article is a thought I’ve had before and is a reason I remain skeptical of the importance assigned to IQ by many. IQ seems to be a real measure of something but the variance both within and between people and the way that variance behaves is sus. I think there’s something more complex going on with IQ, probably more than one thing.
Even then, the Fiat 500e compliance car could have had a fairly large frunk had Fiat cared to not make giant plastic spacers to fill it out under the hood.

Compliance cars were just that, minimum viable products that manufacturers made plenty of crummy decisions on needlessly.
>What is even the point of the Blazer EV

State (eg: California) mandates that a certain percentage of cars sold be EVs. That naturally means a certain percentage of cars manufactured for subsequent sale have to be EVs to accomplish the sale percentage mandate.

You can't make sure 30% (note: arbitrary number for sake of conversation) of your car sales are EVs unless at least 30% of the cars you manufacture for selling are EVs.
Corvids seem to handle temporary memories the way we do
My partner and I were stunned to see that SF housing prices are way lower than New York’s. Like a decent 2 bedroom 2 bathroom with amenities like an elevator (ikr what an amenity), in unit laundry and nice fixtures will run you 6k easily in New York. In SF there’s plenty of listings for 3-4K. Its making us seriously consider moving to SF for a bit
Jane Jacobs once said something to the effect of: a public space may be good, but not great, if it's not welcoming to nap there. O tempora o mores!
You would not ever be obliged to use the flag, so its presence would not affect you.

It doesn't matter whether it "works for certain inputs", or for any inputs. The point is to be able to direct attention to more immediately important algorithmic matters now, and then address borrow checker pedentism once actually difficult questions are resolved. The point is not to be able to ship code with borrow violations. It is hard for me to understand what is so difficult about this distinction.
Redfin's data says otherwise -- Seattle SFHs are up 5.5% YoY. [0]

[0] https://www.redfin.com/city/16163/WA/Seattle/housing-market
To push back, it does seem like you care. You've created rationalizations and offer them up unprompted. I think most people would argue for allowing both settings and having the app default to the one the internal research found more preferable and more profitable. Not offering the setting is telling.
Seconded. It is nutso good in the neighborhoods and the startup energy and ambition between Hayes valley and Silicon Valley (south bay) is absolutely unmatched.

It just sucks people are forced to make a these difficult choices for rent.
Dark energy isn’t energy in a conventional sense (hence its disclaimer). In fact it isn’t known to actually exist and is more a placeholder explanation of the apparent expansion effects and ascribing some universal energy that can account for the expansion and the resistance to expansion gravity seems to exert. No energy is expended or moved to cause expansion as dark energy is constant and universal.
>The battery and motors go under the body, not in front of it.

Doesn't that strike you as a rather large change? Significantly changing the center of mass on multiple axes and the allocation of space within the body of the car seems like a pretty big deal as far as the design of a car goes. And that's ignoring the fundamental differences in characteristics between an ICE and an electric motor and what effects that and the different placement has on the drive train and other systems.
This notion that any third party = spam is ridiculous on its face, not to mention that new protocols can - and in this case, Apple already does - integrate anti-spam measures like PoW.

But also, it's rather ironic that you brought up email, given that this is a widely successful open protocol where random third parties connect to the server (thereby consuming resources by their email provider, the horror!) to deliver an email to the user. I'm really glad that fundamental protocols like these were developed before this kind of thinking became widespread; at least now we get to enjoy having somewhat open Internet for a little while longer.
Live facial-recognition cameras catch 22 criminals in one day
> abortion rights

I'm not trying to debate abortion for the millionth time here, but you can't just slip that one in like it's some anodyne proposition that no reasonable person objects to. The fact of the matter is that abortion is still fiercely debated in this country, with its detractors considering it no different from infanticide. So if the Biden administration supports abortion rights, there will be many people who consider that to be a heinous position for him to take.
> People say "just show the posts in chronological order," but this doesn't scale for humans reading it, especially as you follow more people.

People say they want kind, honest car salesmen, but that doesn't scale for the kind of overleveraged floor plans and impulsive, short-term thinking that characterize most dealerships.
You paid for a device. iMessage itself is free. Apple doesn’t require you buy the device from them, they don’t gate secondhand sales off the network etc.
The very first line of the linked article:

"San Francisco rents continue to drop, and they probably haven’t hit bottom."
The first bunch are "Would you jerks cut it out" and the rest is "How not to be a jerk", both seem pretty important.

I don't find it condescending because I think I'm not a jerk but I'm aware that a lot of people are jerks.
To answer: Brazil can't specifically enforce what it asked for. Brazil isn't demanding the entire website to be blocked, it is demanding certain users to be blocked. This can only be done at the website level (nobody is gonna build a "Great Firewall" just for this).

What a court in Brazil can do in case of a "no", is then block the whole website, often done in simple ways (DNS) at local ISPs. It can also put the burden on local representatives of Rumble in Brazil, as it did with Facebook in the past (this means jail time for not complying with a court order).

In theory some people below mentioned that it can also forbid local Brazilian entities from performing commerce with the entity (like eg: fining advertisers paying for ads, or the advertise), but I'm not sure how that would work, since I'm not a lawyer.
I just tried the realtime-text2img demo (uses npm for frontend which i think is too much for this). Modified it to produce only 1 image instead of 16. Works well on a laptop with RTX-3080. It's probably 2 images / sec.

EDIT: The `examples\screen` demo almost feels realtime. Says 4 fps on the window but don't what it represents.

EDIT: Denoising in img2img is very low though which means thee returned image is only slightly different from base image.
Have they finally found The One Piece!
I spent way too long building this blog
Those employees are trapped in tens of hours of meetings every week with Mercedes Germany employees, and what code they do ship is NodeJS on Kubernetes on a crummy underpowered SoC to power the infotainment system.

There is a serious cultural mismatch between the Seattle office and Mercedes, just look at the Seattle offices commuting culture (mostly not by car, with many team members literally not owning cars).
Mint Mobile discloses new data breach exposing customer data
The author admits in the introduction that this is an attempt at “napkin math.” It’s an attempt to get a sense of whether current systems might even be in the ballpark.
The built in Audio MIDI app that was a holdover from the OS 8/9 days was actually quite powerful for a long time, but when the kernel extensions got locked down some of the third party options were harder to get working smoothly (across upgrades especially).
I don't doubt that the difference is there. I also don't doubt that I would be able to see a significant difference.

My point is merely that it's impossible to see while displayed on their own, without the comparison. It was not provided and that's a pity.
The article link is thus: https://old.reddit.com/r/SaaS/login/
“Success Theater” is what I’ve heard it called. I’ve seen it in action, billions of dollars up in smoke, but everything is awesome!
I’m leaving SF to go to Seattle because they changed the job on me but are paying me more than I ever have. I’m relocating to improve my finances temporarily but I really hope I can come back to SF. I’ve been here for over a decade and this feels like home to me.
If google was running a smtp server for google customers use, and you figured out how to spoof like you were a google relay so they’d carry messages for clients who were not customers, and then you tried to open up a service reselling this capability as a commercial offering, you’d absolutely be banned.

That’s what discord and signal and apple and Reddit do too. It’s your service, you are under no obligation to provide it for free to third parties. And this is true even if you are a gatekeeper - google is under no obligation to provide guaranteed open smtp or even open transit into their network (they block a lot of domains etc), even if that is cumbersome for you personally.

Forcing that would be bad for everyone because gmail would immediately devolve into a pit of spam. As would iMessage.

It’s silly to pretend otherwise and would be openly acknowledged as such in any other context other than apple-bashing.
The way I’ve always imagined crown shyness (from a total less-than-layman perspective where I’ve only casually read about the topic) is from a game theory/selfish gene perspective. Trees of the same species will share a lot of the same genes, and genes that code for non-shyness will grow to the detriment of the trees around them. Trees which critically are very likely to share a lot of the same genes. So that non-shyness gene will lose out in the long run against genes that code for shyness.

It’s similar to the prisoner’s dilemma, with shyness being “cooperate” and non-shyness being “defect”. Groups of trees with cooperative strategies would do better collectively (and win out), even if a non-cooperative individual can beat a cooperative individual every time.

Veritasium had a great video on this very topic today, in fact: https://youtu.be/mScpHTIi-kM
It's actually referred to as a bioplastic in the linked Wikipedia article and is a solid, polymerizing organic molecule with "plastic"-like properties -- and, apparently, known biological activity.

I think it's a valid question that its status as not being petroleum derived does not necessarily answer meaningfully.
There's nothing preventing Apple from requiring some kind of subscription for people to use its iMessage servers even if they were to open the protocol. All we're asking is for them to treat their service similar to premium email (which is also not free, but it's not all locked up either).
Because UI, like build systems, are really just huge state dependency graphs in disguise.
I’m fairly certain this was found to be true by various sources.

Of course if you are already disinclined to accept that because it doesn’t align with your view of reality, there’s not much I can say to change it.
A more accurate way to phrase it is that Apple does charge for iMessage, but the cost is bundled into the price of your Apple device, and there's no way unbundle.
Hmm, I would like to hear an example of one of the Antichrist's thoughts
Lazarus is good and featured enough, if you know your way around, and the language is nice, but for "ease of use" and "beginners" the Lazarus just has horrible UX, on par with Eclipse.
Do you really need a vibe to build though?
I understand that all heuristics are imperfect but P(good engineer | failed cs 101 multiple times) is so close to 0 it is a rounding error.
The part about data is the most fascinating, and I think it’s rather obvious that whatever the brain is doing with learning must be quite a bit more data efficient than what we are doing in AI systems.

Anyone who has ever had kids knows this. Little kids learn language and fully developed world models on a tiny amount of data compared to the massive hoards we shovel into our training systems. That data is also noisy and only loosely curated.

The author does mention this but I think he actually doesn’t give it enough importance. A person could read for their entire life and not approach what we shovel into GPT-3.5 or llama2, yet a three year old builds a trained language model from what must be near scratch.

It must be near scratch for the initial condition because the human genome is nowhere near large enough to contain that much “priming.” There can’t be a “base model” analogue or anything like that in there.
You'll be surprised to learn that the way free speech exists in the US doesn't really exist in most other countries. In many western countries, hate speech, racism and nazism are prohibited speeches.
> 0 because there's no MPS support. ... Studio with an M1 Max 64GB is ~13x slower at generative AI with SD1.5 and SDXL than an RTX 4090 24GB at the same cost (~$1,800, refurb)

Does the 4090 have a computer attached to it? It seems like with no computer, the speed would also be 0.
Those don't describe New York politics in the slightest.

New York's governor has been a Democrat since Pataki gave up the job in 2006. The state legislature has had a Democratic majority since 2011, though for many years a small group of supposed Democrats (supported by supposed Democrat Andrew Cuomo) caucused with the Republicans, giving them control. This history of self-owns by the New York State Democratic Party has nothing to do with the forces you suggest, and are in fact due to run-of-the mill nepotism, corruption, and machine politics.
Ask HN: Why doesn't Notion offer custom domains for Notion sites?
It's possible to hack together a pipeline that redirects a custom domain to your public Notion website. There are also a few websites that offer this service for a fee. But why doesn't Notion do it as part of their product offerings? It seems to me such a no-brainer. Many people use Notion as their personal website and this feature would make Notion a much more user-friendly solution to having such websites.
If there is no rent, then there is a default too. You don’t get to pretend your property is worth $x per sq ft unless it is landing in the bank account.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/dscr.asp
Yeah that's a good suggestion, thanks. I'm using Authorize.net because that's what I'm most familiar with, I'll try to figure out how to setup PayPal payments as well!
Professional physicist here. I've attended a lecture series by Barabasi in Austria in 2017, I was blown away. After day 1 I ordered the book on Amazon and had it signed before the end of the event.
Sky?
They are, and they have the emissions tests to prove it.
Were you measuring what users like, or what they "engage" with?

If I see a post on mastodon, it's from someone I follow or a post that someone I follow thought was worth sharing. That's a genuine interaction between humans. I get to decide what's in my feed based on who I follow and the filters I set up. The system is designed only to connect me with people I choose to follow.

Meanwhile, an algorithmic feed with no options is designed for one thing: manipulating users to optimize "engagement". That by definition requires ignoring what users prefer. I really shouldn't have to explain that this is a bad thing.
Left wing politicians have the tendency to overstate things, but (in my experience) they don’t often make up things altogether.

Something about the idealism required to be a left wing politician in this political climate?
A database with no indexes is slow. Finding a particular row will require a linear search.

The crux is understanding what data access patterns you will have and what indexes / data structures accelerate that access pattern. "Index = fast" is a painfully pernicious untrue meme. It's absolutely true for application tables with queries only touching a few rows. On the other hand, analytics queries touching a high proportion of rows with joins on equality conditions (ie. hash joinable) isn't going to go any faster with an index.

I've seen devs shotgun indexes at tables to fix performance (done it myself too) but the real test of index understanding is when that doesn't work.
Quantum error correction corrects more than just bit flips. It corrects phase flips, accidental measurement, qubit erasure, small global rotations... lots of stuff.

I don't know exactly what you have in mind as "loss of entanglement"... But quantum error correction will very much preserve entanglement at the logical level against decay of entanglement at the physical level.
The best explanation of the Legendre transform that I have seen can be found in No-Nonsense Classical Mechanics by Schwichtenberg, Appendix B.
The mechanism of downvoting is supposed to remove low quality posts. If someone if uncivil, downvote or flag them. Soon enough they'll get the hint or be warned.

> others don't want all that flame war here

That doesn't make sense. If you don't want to participate, then ignore the post. actively preventing others participating is something else - I think "censor" is more appropriate in that case.
> Just don't live in the tenderloin.

Or Bayview-Hunters Point, apparently that one is even worse... /watch?v=FXLD6wn2VBQ
> Users were perfectly happy when twitter, Facebook, tumblr, MySpace, and literally every other site was a reverse chronological feed.

When those were reverse chronological feeds everyone and their mother wasn’t on these sites. They were smaller groups of people who were mostly younger and the overall traffic was lower. For people who didn’t follow a bajillion people, including people they didn’t know you would feasibly reach the end of the feed. But that’s not how people use the sites anymore.

But even then, if you wanted people to actually see and respond to your posts you’d have to time out when you posted it to hit around lunchtime. No 2AM musings if you expected to have anyone see it. And good luck with having your engagement or childbirth announcements getting to people in a different time zone if your family is international.
Reminds me of an incremental game ( https://www.reddit.com/r/incremental_games/ ) - BTW, don't start playing one of those or you'll ruin your holidays... :)
Just making the deal compelling enough is what seemed to work. Israel is giving 3 militants back to Hamas for every 1 civilian hostage.
> I'd have to relocate to the bay area to continue advancing.

Why the hell do they push this so hard? Is it just some ponzi scheme to prop up the housing market or something?
~6000 tokens
Why subject oneself to this though? Every point is negative, borderline Stockholm syndrome-ish and discussing how to “survive”.

presumably OP has a reason for enduring said suffering but it’s not really obvious from the post
You can creatively destroy things as well. It’s kind of pedantic to say that creating in the mind does not count as “creating”, just imagining. What about solving abstract problems?
Ask HN: What's New in GANs?
I remember about 7 years ago, generative adversarial networks were the next big thing in ML. Then transformers came along, which from my outside perspective seem to have siphoned off a large chunk of research effort from across the field. Are GANs still an area of significant research and real-world use these days? I always thought the underlying idea was beautiful in its simplicity.
That is, unfortunately, the recent normal in New York Democratic politics. The machine politicians who reach leadership positions have little incentive to advance popular priorities, and instead use every opportunity to strike back at members of their own party for supposed disloyalties.

Hochul is more or less the same as Cuomo, unfortunately.
https://wiki.flightgear.org/FlightGear_Flight_Academy
yes, now I found the time mainly caused by:
1. openAI API call, which could not be optimized for now
2. the time to build and deploy, which can be optimized by a preset setup
this is solid, dope first webdev project
How to setup GitHub actions authentication with OIDC
Detailed how-to securely integrate Github Actions with AWS using OIDC, I encourage you to read this before you actually need it, everything would be easier only if you give yourself the time to learn it
My theory having studied this for a long time is that higher IQ simply means that you have the ability to forecast further into the future with higher accuracy on a variety of things.

Conceptualized differently the “simulator“ in your brain that hallucinates futures is more accurate for smarter people than it is for let’s say less capable people. And some people don’t seem to have a simulator at all.

The more things and further into the future you can forecast the “smarter” you are.

I find this compelling because exceptionally smart people also seem to have exceptionally different ways of interpreting the future and also our more likely to hallucinate stuff that is totally false or incoherent. This is why you often see “geniuses” in the physical sciences struggle with social things.

The same as true people who are geniuses, socially often struggle, with other concepts outside of their narrow expertise, but are generally better and faster at learning or at least pretending better than other people with lower IQ at those general things.
The paragraph in question:

> Human Rights Watch solicited cases of any type of online censorship and of any type of viewpoint related to Israel and Palestine. Of the 1,050 cases reviewed for this report, 1,049 cases documented involved examples of online censorship and suppression of content in support of Palestine, while one case contained an example of removal of content in support of Israel.[2] This distribution of cases does not necessarily reflect the overall distribution of censorship.

So HRW may as well not have looked at the other side of the issue. They also complained that Meta's policies are informed by the United States' designation of Hamas as a terrorist organization.

I get the sense these sorts of reports are designed to turn into headlines.
Isn’t “sold” the key point though? Why make a worse car for marginally less instead of making more of the good cars that are, by comparison, a much better deal? They would be easier to sell…