skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably a typo, but Gibson also co-authored The Difference Engine, which is as Steam Punk as it gets :)

(and according to Wikipedia "...is widely regarded as a book that helped establish the genre conventions of steampunk.")
USB HID does have codes for locking versions of Caps Lock, Num Lock, and Scroll Lock¹. OS X might support these, given that older Mac keyboards had locking Caps Lock. Linux doesn't².

¹ https://www.usb.org/document-library/hid-usage-tables-15

² https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.7.3/source/drivers/hid/h...
Since when is 4000 just barely under 5000?
US presidential elections aren't "really" democracy IMO, we've had a long string of presidents that didn't even win the popular vote
Tangential: I remember reading a criticism about the South Park ginger episode leading to redheads getting bullied. I was curious (and still haven't wrapped my head around) what blame can be placed, if any.

1. Shitty people had latent bullying and cruelty instincts and South Park gave them the idea of diverting that to redheads

2. People were just chilling until South Park taught them to be cruel and bully gingers
How weird.

Putting all responsibility on the seller.

Why not

"car owners should consider climate effects of pumping the car with gas"

"shoppers should consider climate effects of buying food in a grocery store"
> I know that my house is wildly inefficient and $300-$400 a month is the worst it gets with extreme weather.

I lived in a house for 4-5 years where it struggled to stay cool in the summer and the bills would get up to $300-$400 a month as well.

One year I had an HVAC guy out to clean my unit and I was asking him questions (which I did every year) and this was the first guy to tell me when he generally sees issues like that it's insulation related.

He climbed up into my attic and recommended I add more insulation. I did so and the relief was shocking.

Obviously I understand how insulation can help but what shocked me was just how large a difference more insulation helped in a house that already had insulation.

Lessson learned that many times us technical folks know but don't truly understand. Every other HVAC person had just said the unit was on the small side.

So you may take a look at the insulation in the house, even something as laying more insulation in your attic may help tremendously.
50MB for a pocket OS was perfecly small. Compare it to a 6-7-8 CD release of SuSE, Debian or Mandrake. Or the 700MB Knoppix CD back in the day. You could download DSL in reasonable time.
How dare you. We should go back to pre-Industrial Revolution levels of carbon output because mass starvation is a great ideal, also cheaper than Ozempic.
Have there been many attempts to make a "better matplotlib"? Enlighten me, I have searched for them but never found something which seems to actually try to be "matplotlib but better".
As with all interventions, it is a claim that can only be tested by comparing abuse rates in two otherwise very similar jurisdictions, where the only difference is the availability of such material. To think otherwise is to presume that all members of the target group are identical, which is implausible.

Even attempting to run such a pure observational study of such a situation would be denounced, even if the researchers had no power to alter the laws.

If you did somehow manage to run such a study, I expect you'd find three things: (1) plenty of examples of people who were inspired to act due to the images they saw, (2) plenty of examples of people who used the images as a way out, (3) that there are way more abusers and victims than most people realise.
For 30% of the population they could completely replace cars. For another 50% they could let you go from being a 2-3 car family to a 1 car family (more likely a truck - either to haul tools, or to tow the boat)

Of course to replace cars much a comprehensive network that would be expensive to build in the short run. (in the long run cheaper than the road network which would need many less lanes)
>But then I realized how much heavier cars have gotten, and how much of a disadvantage they are in a collision so we will be getting a heavier car.

Part of the problem is that liability coverage hasn't risen appropriately with medical costs and the danger created by personal trucks.

https://www.economist.com/united-states/2024/01/18/why-car-i...
Yeah, so they don't actively handle them as greek letters and translate the variable name. Nevertheless, if you don't know what those mean, there is a great chance that you do not understand the whole thing enough, that way you shouldn't touch any crypto code.

following the old adage: "never roll your own crypto"
Just one anecdote here, but my house was built in 2019 and was networked with Cat5e. I successfully run 10GBaseT over the existing copper.
Yeah but I don't find any upsides compared to nvim running in a modern terminal emulator like Konsole, Alacritty or WezTerm.
> and I would also like to thank the Glaze Team, because I accidentally discovered this while analyzing latent images perturbed by Nightshade and wouldn't have found it without them, because I guess nobody else ever had a reason to inspect the log variance of the latent distributions created by the VAE

That's just hilarious
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The question that remains is: can it be reformed, or does it have to be replaced.
I'm not sure why 4 was chosen (maybe just because it's a power of two?) but a while ago a SD user found that RGB can be approximated fairly well with a simple linear combination of the latents: https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/decoding-latents-to-rgb-wit...
Reductio ad absurdum, straw man, slippery slope, bad faith. C-C-C-Combo breaker!
If all of their unmasked covert actions seem incompetent, then maybe the competent ones go undetected, rather than not existing.
Agree on some points here - in the UK I spend about £300 combined on gas and electricity.

But your boiler sounds interesting - if it is 40 years old it will be wildly inefficient compared to boilers from the last few years - on changing our 10yo boiler we saved about £100 a month across the year - But I only expect that boiler to last 10 to 15 years - but that is OK, by then I'm sure I'll be moving to electric heating and hot water, as I can only assume gas will be phased out.
The "damn small" linux has 2 windows managers and 3 browsers.

Doesn't look like it's small, looks like it's a collection of things the author enjoys.
I don't get it, I never get past 2-3 clicks. Doesn't seem to make a lot of sense imo.
It was not only the most stable, but for many applications, especially in networking, it was also the fastest single-threaded operating system, beating easily Linux and Windows XP or 2000.

Unfortunately for FreeBSD, the launch of the Intel Pentium 4 with hyper-threading in 2003, then of the AMD dual-core CPUs in 2005 have made quickly FreeBSD 4 completely obsolete.

The smaller FreeBSD team has required many years until achieving a decent implementation for multi-threaded CPUs and during that time they have remained long behind Linux and other operating systems.

Besides perfect stability (it was normal to not reboot FreeBSD 4 for years) and great networking performance, it also had a much more reliable file system than the competition.

Despite the fact that Windows XP used NTFS and Linux had at least 3 file systems with journaling at that time, where journaling was supposed to make the file systems crash-resistant, I have seen at that time (around 1999-2003) many cases of file system corruptions after power outages, on computers without UPSes which used NTFS or Linux file systems with journaling (on Linux EXT2 without journaling any power outage was very likely to require a complete reinstallation).

During the same power outages, the computers with FreeBSD that used the UFS file system with "soft updates" never experienced any file system corruption, despite the fact that UFS with "soft updates" was not a journaling file system, but only one where the disk write operations were carefully ordered in such a way as to prevent unrecoverable file system corruption in the case of a crash.
This is one of the cool things about various neural network architectures that I've found in my own work: you can make a lot of dumb mistakes in coding certain aspects but because the model has so many degrees of freedom it can actually "learn away" your mistakes.
You don't have to guess if someone is entering the job market for the first time. You can just look at their resume.

Interview skill is not some monotonically increasing quantity. It very much depends on how the question hits you and what kind of a day you've had. Also, it somewhat depends on the interviewers' subjective interpretation of what you do. If you're more clever than them, your answer may go over their head and be considered wrong. They might also ask a faulty question and insist it is correct.

I'm not great at interviews myself. My resume is decent, but the big jobs usually boil down to some bs interviews that seem unnecessarily difficult to pass. I don't practice much for them, because I feel like it mostly depends on whether I've answered a similar question before and how I feel that day. I also often get a good start and just run out of time. I've found that sometimes interviews are super hard when the interviewers have written you off, as in you presented poorly in an earlier session and they are done with you. Also, when there is zero intention of hiring you generally, like someone else already got the job in their minds.
It certainly feels like AI is a new tech bubble. Lots of AI services just seem to be thin wrappers over OpenAI’s offerings.
Holy fucking shit my childhood.

Damn Small Linux was my first introduction to Linux because it was the only thing I could download in ~4 hours on dialup without hogging the phones all day long.

I will have to fire this up and have a damn good time.
sacc too; but felinks provides Gemini.
fwiw modern compilers are fine with unicode variable names https://godbolt.org/z/hd14rd13e
That's what research is. It's somebody else's job to determine whether or not it would be useful as a product.
Before even reading I array intuited the main reason: they do not care at all. Paper calls it indifference. Sure, incompetence is a factor, but then simply revisit their root attitude of no-fucks-given.

Time and time again has shown they will behave brazenly, to almost comically absurd levels. It's all wrapped up in a thick mire of gradually disenfranchising people, demoralizing them, the slow grind, the constant cyclical aura of "is this 4d chess" or "are they just trolling us?".
Kubrick’s version was a failure because he missed the most important part and the last few pages of the book.

In the book at the very end Alex decides out of his own free will to stop being violent. Which is the entire point of the book: free will vs being forced to do something. It’s so powerful, I don’t think any book affected as much as that did at the time.

Kubrick focused on the violence and the rapes and by leaving out the most important part, it was more soft core porn than anything else and an abject failure in my opinion.
I recently replaced an electric instahot (on-demand) water heater with a tank hybrid heater. In addition to dehumidifying and cooling the basement, it uses about a quarter of the electricity (from 10%, monthly, to 3% kWH).

During the winter, I keep the tub water plugged up for the heat pump to re-absorb... REDUCE, re-use, recycle, generate.
Is that so weird? I do all those things that you are quoting.
Call it environmentalism if you like, but there is a strategic advantage to leaving more of it in the ground, ready to be pulled up later on as the need arises.

Norway doesn't need the money from additional drilling right now. They might need the money later. Or NATO may need the oil directly later...
Well in the UK these new EVs are road-tax exempt, so the owners aren't even contributing towards maintaining the infrastructure...
> that one of the advantages of choosing C is to weed out people who think C++ would have been a good choice.

Im pretty sure that was a little tongue in cheek. Thats hilarious though.
I'm neither referring to "true threats" nor making any kind of argument about the US constitution, so I'm unsure why you're bringing these up. I thought it would have been pretty clear that in the context of driving people to suicide, I was suggesting banning "insulting words". Hope that clarifies things for you.
Not denying it. But then it’s a very limited time where they actually have access and that too not all the time.

In addition, they could point out online predatory practices more in school as part of their sex Ed curriculum. They’re already taught about domestic violence and predatory behavior.

Not trying to let social media companies off the hook. But there are other things that can be done as a society.
I just use vim included with git for Windows. It seems to work fine.
> Why the fuck anyone would log in to argue that possession of child porn is some kind of grey area that’s up for debate is beyond me but you’re certainly not alone in this thread that’s for sure.

1. Some people think free speech is a pretty good idea. And it doesn't really mean much if you only defend speech that you agree with.

2. There's pretty widespread agreement that drug crimes are inhumane and should be replaced with treatment. So-called "victimless crimes". IMO, AI CP has the exact same characteristics, but it's even less damaging to society - there's no chance that someone will get into a car crash because they're "using".

3. Convictions here absolutely destroy lives. The consequence of being convicted for possession of CP is not just jail (where people absolutely do get attacked by other inmates, often times fatally), but also registry on the sexual offender list.

Do people who indirectly hurt children deserve this fate - I guess, it's complicated. It does seem out of proportion to the punishments handed out to people who kill others with cars, for example. But I can certainly get on board with some sort of criminal consequences.

But if the "offender" doesn't hurt anyone, even indirectly, that does seem like an absolute nuclear warhead of a punishment for something that most people would struggle to explain why it's a crime at all other than "it's gross".
A guy I know is a manager and is a huge AI proponent and was telling me he writes one sentence about some one for a performance review and then has chatGPT blow it up into multiple paragraphs of machine generated corpospeak. I guess if his subordinates want to survive they'll have to use chatGPT to summerize that back down to the one sentence.

This whole exercise reminds me of the two economists paying each other to eat piles of crap.
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I can't seem to make anything more complicated than "Divorce Hammer + Super Mothra Unicorn Batman". As in, that's the name of the item which was indeed the two components I attempted to combine. Trying to combine that item with anything else simply doesn't do anything.
All your points are good ones and were knowable by any researcher at the time who wasn’t, idk, a new grad or new to CV. I always assumed they just threw the VAE in there using the default
options from the original VAE paper and never thought about it much again, or never looked into it due to the training cost (for hyperparam search, mainly). I don’t remember most of the points you raised being common knowledge when the VAE paper came out, but they certainly were when the stable diffusion paper came out.
A short story about the "gotofail" bug
>> Similar to William Gibson thinking he is the father of things Steam Punk ever.

Great observation! Being a popular part of a zeitgeist is not the same as defining it.

I have to wonder if, and the article does hint at, "if the movie was never made..."

FTA: Burgess introduced a character “with a beard like Stanley Kubrick’s” who played Singin’ in the Rain with a trumpet — before being kicked off the stage.
The HarvardKey has always been a disaster. It also prevented people from accessing their admissions file when Harvard temporarily offered that as part of a lawsuit.

The Harvard Faculty (including Dean Harry Lewis, OP) has always had a lot of power. They are the source of Harvard's brand value. I don't know why they can't force admin to be better.
I’ve been wondering about just battery and inverter and using an agile tariff. How large an inverter did you get and what happens at full load (oven, kettle, electric shower and hairdryer all on at same time) which is presumably combined higher than the inverter?
Building and shipping new machines requires far more envionmental related costs.
> even if the choice of C were to do nothing but keep the C++ programmers out, that in itself would be a huge reason to use C.

Thats funny as hell. I love Linus.
I got it running as a VM guest on QEMU+KVM, exposing only a 486 CPU profile with 256 MB RAM, and it was still usable (with terminal, file manager, and some light web browsing). Looking at the system's memory usage though, it appears that going much lower than about 200 MB RAM would probably make it quite difficult to use (at least without relying on swap, which could make it even more miserable depending on the device being used there).
Hello all,

I would like to bring Codename SCNR to your attention; an unrestricted (unlimited domains, parallel scans, etc.) DAST/IAST tool of the highest quality.

Codename SCNR evolved out of the decade's long R&D of the Arachni WebAppSec scanning framework.

Give it a shot!
We shouldn't be surprised. Propagating one's own model of thinking to everyone is our common trait. Absurdly false belief that "workers and peasants" of Finland will turn their arms against their capitalist exploiters in 1940 wasn't much different from belief that people of Afghanistan were waiting for Americans to come and help them build freedom and democracy.

Everyone falls for that. We always believe that everyone thinks like ourselves. If Russians never experienced democracy they don't believe it's a real thing. If Russians respect and actually love brute force they believe that everyone else does, too, so they actually think that they increase their popularity in the West by demonstrating blatant ignorance of international norms and overt, unrestrained violence.
Consider applying PhD program to some ML labs in Europe other than UK and France, they pay livable salaries like junior engineers. Better if in Swiss since the salaries are much higher.

European ML labs generally have less prestige than US/China ML labs but they pay much more humane wages even for people with family.
> Surely the writers didn’t know they were setting up some kid in suburban America up for addiction

Ya think? I disagree. It was product placement at the time. Now, it's hard not to call it outright drug pushing.
She is an adult. Yes adults get trafficked. Especially good looking ones falling into health and economic challenge.
She has a daughter. Children are hurt when adults are trafficked- no one gets this.
The trafficked party then used to extort me by someone actually pretending to be “cops” with cross platform analytics and data broker access.

Craziest thing you ever could have imagined and only an extremely rich tech narcissist can come up with what they did to a woman already being trafficked. They did so to secondarily traumatize me.
Shopify's 'Magic' AI image editor can make any product pics look professional
Kept on a zoo enclosure. This point is important IMAO.
700mb used to host the whole ubuntu desktop for many years though
Cause.. Big Oil FUD
point 1 in the linked document: "Out of approx. 12,000 UNRWA employees in GS, about 10% arc Hamas/PI operatives and about 50% are first degree relatives with a Hamas operative."

and you know it’s not true, how?

Most western governments, United States, Germany, Japan, Italy, the United Kingdom and France suspended funding based on intelligence that is worse than yours, so the world requires the source of information you have, so that less bad decisions are made. Please share!
The copyright holder. They put work into creating the copyrighted thing. I think copyright that lasts 100+ years is ridiculous though.
I don't know if Musl is worth the hassle if one is only interested in the reduced size. I see the point if you have everything statically linked, but with dynamic linking, you have glibc sitting there just once with a few MB, and you don't have to tackle all the issues that can arise when using Musl (e.g., DNS).

Alpine's compressed container image is nowadays something like 3 MB, okay, that's very small, but I wish they had an 8 MB glibc version. On the other hand, there is debian-slim, but it's not as good as Alpine when it comes down to stripping down the size, it still weighs in at around 30 MB. I'm still using it, though, although I think it could be smaller.
A lot of “covert” actions are warnings and power-plays. They aren’t really meant to be secret, just deniable in that “I’m shocked, shocked! that some private individuals with no official status have taken this action for the good of our nation” sort of way.
The author might be right though what I've noticed with DL models is that the theory is often leading to underwhelming results after training and "bugs" in models sometimes lead to much better real-world performance, pointing out some disconnect between theory and what gradient-based optimization can achieve. One could see it also in the deep reinforcement learning where in theory the model should converge due to being Markovian via Banach fixed point but in practice the monstrous neural networks that estimate rewards can override this and change the character of the convergence.
Did we decide that in a vacuum? Like by some kind of super informed vote? Or did a system designed to maximize profits hide the downside, promote the upsides, and convince us to do it, to their financial benefit?

And now that it is the norm, are people defending it because they actually agree, or are they just afraid of change and too weak to fight it now that it is normal?

I notice bad ideas usually die with a few defenders, whose arguments can be summed up with "it just works for me" in the face of all evidence. Suburbs seem to be one of those concepts.
When, over what period? This thing doesn't say, and isn't even dated itself even if it would say 'on opening this morning' or something.
Sure the DSM isn’t capable of assigning a % but that’s just a practical simplification it makes. There are over 100 genes strongly linked to autism and many other correlates. There are obviously people in the world who stim every minute, some every hour, some once a day, some once a week, etc. All of these symptoms fall on a range (be it eye contact). Often with these cases a sibling has a more severe case.
The manchildren share inherit the Earth.
> the ML-KEM draft specification (FIPS 203) uses the exact same greek symbols

I'm as proud of my heritage as the next Greek-American, but just because mathematicians use unintelligible symbols in their manuscripts doesn't mean we have do the same thing in code. Let's prioritize comprehensibility and give variables meaningful names, instead.
Thanks for this! If wikipedia is correct, it seems that this is clearly answered.

> The PROTECT Act also enacted 18 U.S.C. § 1466A into U.S. obscenity law:[122]

> Section 1466A of Title 18, United States Code, makes it illegal for any person to knowingly produce, distribute, receive, or possess with intent to transfer or distribute visual representations, such as drawings, cartoons, or paintings that appear to depict minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct and are deemed obscene.

> Thus, virtual and drawn pornographic depictions of minors may still be found illegal under U.S. federal obscenity law. The obscenity law further states in section C "It is not a required element of any offense under this section that the minor depicted actually exist."

The difficult part of this is the phrase, "...that appear to depict minors..."