skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I abhor these projects, because they are seasonal- as in dependent on outside funds and thus hyper-fragile. Also usually propped up by colonizers, to detract from some ressource extraction destruction.

It depends on the institutional experience of each country. There's a reason this initiative is being done in Senegal instead of neighboring Mali.

WFP funding is fairly consistent and less whimsical ime. It's private donors like the Gates Foundation that tend to be flaky, as they only answer to the whims of the Gates family.

Programs like the WFP, WB, IMF, ADB, USAID, etc need to be auditable as significant amounts of public and private money are invested, leading to demands from multiple donors, compared to family foundations or smaller non-profits.
That's the youngest I've felt in quite a while – I've only used CDNow's web interface. For me it was the recommendations (and search that simply worked unlike Amazon).
Having a monarch makes it harder for the elected leader to run amok. Compare the UK with other near powers that got rid of their monarchs - Russia ended up with Stalin and Putin, France got Napoleon, Germany got Hitler.

It's a bit like Chesterton's fence - don't remove it until you understand why it's there.

Another issue with the idea we should scrap the monarchy in the name of democracy is the actual democratic voters are strongly in favour of keeping it.
Extra lubrication of keyboard switches using Krytox oil/grease lubricants enhances the feel and sound of Cherry MX-like keyboard switches. The downside is it can dry up over time, get contaminated with dust, and actually result in a worse experience. I wasn't planning on ever lubricating the particular custom keyboard ever again, so it's for this reason I considered molybdenum disulfide, a dry lubricant that's been used for Alps keyboard switches. Molybdenum disulfide is used for dust-prone Alps switches because dust contamination will not impact the dry lubricant's performance.
~~don't~~ be evil.
Whether it is "ok" in some absolute moral sense isn't relevant in this context, which is about whether it is more in keeping with the goals of hackernews to clamp down on the use of terms which result in flamewars due to confusion and misunderstanding (and no small amount of connotations and signalling).

Words like "woke" mean different things to different people and their use is very harmful to discourse between people from opposite sides on that particular culture war. Tabooing the term and replacing it with one's intended meaning can really clear things up and prevent getting people's backs up. E.g. rather than "woke" one might use "race aware" or "tribalistic" or "injustice aware" or whatever specific meaning one intends to convey. That way you can actually be understood rather than offending people because they identify as "woke" but consider it to mean "injustice aware" rather than some negative meaning.

Tl;dr: words are for communication, use words your audience has the same understanding of
I wish I could find the source, but I'll relay it less eloquently. Children have a remarkable ability to ask for things they know they can't have. Their innocence gives them the audacity to ask for the impossible.

This always stuck with me. I sometimes catch myself when I self-curate questions to eliminate what I "know" will be impossible.

It also has led me to sometimes just say "yes" when I get those questions, just to impart a bit of expanded possibility into their life.
Powerful twin solar flares erupt from sun as cell phone outages spike across US
The linked channel has a lot of good videos it, and Mossy Earth is another. They aren't going to make you an expert by any means, but they provide good introductions to various projects that are underway doing ecological restoration. They're nice introductions to the topic.
On the contrary, the argument that "someone will do it anyway, so you should just let it happen and take no moral responsibility because I WANT MY SHINY TOY" is… not merely silly, but incredibly absurd, selfish, entitled, and amoral.

One could argue that if $BIGCORP doesn't want their thing to be used by bad actors, they should just refrain from developing the technology at all, and while it's a somewhat defensible position, that would also result in techbros not getting their toy, so it doesn't really apply here.
That site counts mentions over social media, if you said 'T-Mobile/Verizon isn't having an outage' it'd still show up as outage activity on it. Plus people report issues calling AT&T customers.
> And the reality is that there is almost never a decisive outcome about that resolves the conflict. A bigger conflict happens and prior grievances are put to the way side. The people don't feel that way.

> I routinely meet people that say they’re from Mexico, but are referring to a long established city in California that Mexico lost 170 years ago. And I ask some of my Mexican friends about that person and some invalidate their activism and others agree. Never saw that before living in California.

/me laughs in European

My country used to be Celtic. Then it was Roman. Then for a little bit it was a country. Then it was Frankish. Then Holy Roman. Then a little bit Italian and a lot Austrian. Then French for a while. At some point the Ottomans invaded the whole thing and didn’t really hold on, but that’s how Europe got croissants and coffee. The 20th century was fun, we were ~6 different countries in 100 years if you don’t count the war occupations …

The kids can handle history. It’s ok.
It would be an interesting experiment. If you asked it to generate an image of an NBA basketball player, statistically you would expect it to produce an image of a black male. Would it have produced images of white females and asian males instead? That would have provided some sense of whether the alignment was to increase diversity or just minimize depictions of white males. Alas, it's impossible to get it to generate anything that even has a chance of having people in it now. I tried "basketball game", "sporting event", "NBA Finals" and it refused each time. Finally tried "basketball court" and it produced what looked like a 1970s Polaroid of an outdoor hoop. They must've really dug deep to eliminate any possibility of a human being in a generated image.
FYI, they have a subreddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/IntuitiveMachines/
I visited all states in the western half and it was shocking to see that the infrastructure outside of the cities is more or less comparable with the poorest parts of eastern Europe. It did not change my opinion of the US for the better.
you may or may not be aware that a common result of such laws is that doctors refuse to get involved in cases where an abortion is necessary to save the mother's life, because they don't want to have to convince a jury of it. better to take a different patient and not risk going to jail until the trial
I think it a testament to the collectively perceived value of semiconductors. I'm saying IMO no matter where in the world the fabs were that place would be a military hotspot. the miltary hotspotness will follow the top of the line fabs

additionally, I take it as evidence of the perceived value that people gone to great lengths to avoid widespread proliferation of this techniques because scarcity is a value amplifier. so by keeping it scarce its value increases.

so if I'm correct, if/when there are multiple comparable fabs in multiple parts of the world the geopolitical risks should go down in taiwan

finally, having typed it out, I feel my whole argument is wrong...
If it was homogenous steel plate, definitely. My understanding is that modern tank armor is actually a composite with many layers of materials like hardened steel, rubber, ceramic, etc. Those allow disruption of kinetic penetrators and shaped charges more effectively than a homogenous piece of steel, so effectively more armor 'thickness' for a given weight/thickness.

No idea how they weld those things together!

There are some neat videos on youtube showing some pretty cool simulations of the how and why.
One story I saw pinned it on high solar activity.
It's interesting that according to the results tables 5 and 6, adding more context even with LongRoPE makes predictions worse on Books3, and only gives improvement on Proof-Pile. What's special about the Proof-Pile dataset? Is there some reason we should expect it to have a lot of dependencies at ranges greater than 100k tokens? Should I be surprised or suspicious that performance is flat going from 65k to 131k, but then has a big jump to 262k?
Just make sure your xylophone is actually in tune. Its sad how many cheap kids toys look like musical instruments but don’t sound correct
This is why I think generative AI tech should either be banned or be completely open sourced. Mega tech corporations are plenty of things already, they don't need to be the morality police for our society too.
I’d agree, but then again a lot of western discussion around Japanese/eastern cultures in general revolves around cliches, so the comparison may be even more apt.
> Windows is like categorically maybe the OS most fundamentally unsuited for folks who appreciate sane ways of managing computers

Tell that to the billion-or-so Windows computers that are straightforwardly managed and remoted-into with Active Directory, SMB, and Remote Desktop. Not to mention group policies, registry files, and PowerShell.
Or, you know, pay locals a consistent salary, thus helping the environment and also mitigating extreme poverty (<$1.25 a day) - which is what they are doing.
The video of the central core looks like that's unnecessary; it does appear to be built to be pretty easily maintained.
This is devastating and I don't want to take away from it but this sort of thing is even worse than just the families affected by it.

Many people distrust authority for reasons like this. These same people will turn around and get frustrated that so many didn't trust them about the safety of covid vaccines (and other types of vaccines).

They do themselves no great service by not being more honest and forthright in the first place.
Horeshoe theory [1] is one of the most interesting viewpoints I've been introduced to recently.

Both sides view censorship as a moral prerogative to enforce their world view.

Some conservatives want to ban depictions of sex.

Some conservatives want to ban LGBT depictions.

Some women's rights folks want to ban depictions sex. (Some view it as empowerment, some view it as exploitation.)

Some liberals want to ban non-diverse, dangerous representation.

Some liberals want to ban conservative views against their thoughts.

Some liberals want to ban religion.

...

It's team sports with different flavors on each side.

The best policy, IMO, is to avoid centralized censorship and allow for individuals to control their own algorithmic boosting / deboosting.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_theory
This isn't very surprising if you've interacted much with these models. Contrary to the claims in the various lawsuits, they're not just regurgitating images they've seen before, they have a good sense of abstract concepts and can pretty easily combine ideas to make things that have never been seen before.

This type of behavior has been evident ever since DALL-E's horse-riding astronaut [0]. There's no training image that resembles it (the astronaut even has their hands in the right position... mostly), it's combining ideas about what a figure riding a horse looks like and what an astronaut looks like.

Changing Albert Einstein's skin color should be even easier.

[0] https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/04/06/1049061/dalle-op...
Having them available is still hugely beneficial, even if they end up too expensive to use in most production use-cases.

They would still be valuable for prototyping, where fast iteration makes it possible to learn more about the problem you are solving and whether it is even worth solving. They are also valuable for iteration-and-distillation approaches, where you can use the data generated from an expensive model to train a cheaper model.
I feel that Disney was the most successful when it came to failed utopia projects. Epcot Center is still going strong to this day.
The thinly veiled responses are shocking, but not surprising. Gemini represents wp as the global minority and people lose their minds.
The trouble with this language, which seems unambiguous, can be difficult to implement in an emergency situation. For example: https://abcnews.go.com/US/woman-sepsis-life-saving-abortion-...

As a partner with a wife who went into septic shock, sepsis is no joke. I was given a 40% chance of her living through the night, which, thankfully she did. Doctors are understandably hesitant to perform an abortion because they could be held criminally liable if some court after the fact, with months of hindsight, may consider that the mother could have lived even if the baby was brought to term. So this is a no-win scenario all around and a terrible law from a party that claims to eschew any government overreach into personal lives.
we have a 11-story building that rotates each one independently here in Brazil [0]... according to the creator, spinning it uses the same energy as 3 light-bulbs ON at the same time

[0] https://g1.globo.com/pr/parana/noticia/2022/02/18/7-pergunta...
Ansible is great as long as you keep Jinja use to a minimum. Basic variable substitution handles 90% of what you need. Ternary filter... doesn't qualify.

Everything else should just be handled by a python script to orchestrate the playbooks.
> its pretty difficult to dig up any solid evidence plastic pollution has effects on health beyond banned plasticisers, and even then.

Indeed. The presumption that plastics are a health risk is created by simply repeating that they are, with a healthy dose of hypothetical thinking and the precautionary principle. Eventually it becomes fixed in the echo chamber as common "knowledge", like the idea that GMOs are bad.

I find this all very illiberal, the notion that people should be prevented from actions because of the mere possibility of negative consequences (as if that possibility could ever be entirely excluded.)
I don’t understand the negativity in may comments, professionals use photoshop or some other tool anyway (if they can afford it), Gimp was always a free, mostly useful alternative for amateurs like me and I am grateful to the contributors.
They are the worst kind of left, the "prudish and constantly offended left", not the "free healthcare and good government" left.

I'm glad I live in Norway, where state TV shows boobs and does offensive jokes without anyone really caring.
Oh man, Cretto di Burri is amazing:

https://www.google.com/maps/@37.7874044,12.9707702,444m/data...

check some of the photospheres to see how it looks at ground level

There's something magical to concrete mega monuments (the Balkans have quite a collection, btw), like massive ruins-that-are-not-quite-ruins.
The Power of Simple Storytelling
So the intent of the GitHub/GitLab connector in the current iteration is to help people easily find implementations that have been done before. For example, if a new bug comes up with some feature, I can easily search for the PRs relating to that feature in natural language and filter down the code changes that may have caused it.
Let me guess, you're somewhat apathetic and the biggest factor is that you hate to see your taxes go to improving the lives of your fellow citizens.
Never was it more appropriate to say "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." By engaging in systemic historical revisionism, Google means to create a future where certain peoples don't exist.
This is really nice. Congratulations for launching.

Just the last 2-3 weeks have I had talks with enterprise companies regarding this topic. It seems to be on every CEO's agenda.
I have talked to a couple of startups who wanted to do a similar thing to you. But they all feared Microsoft Copilot is not beatable. So they don't even try.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ion2QSeGcIQ
Safetyism is the standard civic religion since 9/11 and I doubt it will go quietly into the night. Much like the bishops and the king had a symbiotic relationship to maintain control and limit change (e.g., King James of KJV Bible fame), the government and corporations have a similarly tense, but aligned relationship. Boogeymen from the left or the right can always be conjured to provide the fear necessary to control

Would millions have died if the old religion gave way to the new one without a fight? The problem for the Vatican was that their rhetoric wasn't at top form after mentally stagnating for a few centuries since arguing with Roman pagans, so war was the only possibility to win.

(Don't forget Luther's post hoc justification of killing 100k+ peasants, but he won because he had better rhetorical skills AND the backing of aristocrats and armies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Against_the_Murderous,_Thievin... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Peasants%27_War)
> which I assume is much harder and more expensive

Manned space missions are significantly more expensive (and complicated) than robotic missions. (Otherwise, we'd be sending a lot more people into space.)

Let's do a little bit of back-of-the-envelope Googling:

From https://www.planetary.org/space-policy/cost-of-apollo

> The United States spent $25.8 billion on Project Apollo between 1960 and 1973, or approximately $257 billion when adjusted for inflation to 2020 dollars.

From https://www.planetary.org/space-policy/cost-of-the-mars-expl....

> The Mars Exploration Rover (MER) mission cost $1.08 billion. Of that amount, $744 million was spent on spacecraft development and launch; $335.8 million was spent on 15 years of mission operations.

So it looks like "manned" space missions cost at least 100x the cost of sending a robot.
Also, bring a jacket or sweater. It's surprising how chilly it suddenly gets when you're suddenly no longer in the warm embrace of our star.
Creating Timelines (2017)
Even away from the railroads towns would space "roughly" equally if there was nothing else to distinguish them, because they'd be travel destinations for those around them. Something like a day's travel between, which becomes more dense over time, with places appearing roughly at midpoints.
You need a bit more hardware (see other posts), but most modems from the late 1990s until laptops stopped coming with a modem worked this way - using the CPU which was probably slower than a pi to do the work. Such models basically never worked in linux (I'm not sure why), they didn't have the best reputation as far as quality but they worked.
Unsure about this particular house in NZ, but there's one in California that Tom Scott did a video on with a very good animation of how its electricity/water/sewage slip ring works:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gisdyTBMNyQ
I use GIMP so often, if the devs ever read this thank you very much!!!
Until the city sends to money to wrong wallet and the funds are gone forever.
Just stumbled across this. The cheatsheet is awesome! Loved the video as well, especially the crying part, very relatable :D
the moon landing rocket said "usa" on the side and had flags. that's the same thing, just a bigger corporation
My favorite part was dusk/dawn (like) on the entire horizon
>Fascinating video, but still it worries me how sustainable this is.

What was shown in the video looks like a "mickey mouse" operation, akin to a local tree planting effort to combat climate change. For this to make any difference you can't have people digging "half-moons" at a rate of 1 person/1 half-moon/1 day - that does not scale in any meaningful way. You need to do this kind of project at an industrial scale, with large amounts of heavy machinery and thousands of skilled professional workers - especially since they are discussing creating a "Green Wall" across thousands of kilometers at a width of hundreds of kilometers.
The US: 40 per 100k
NL: 7.1 per 100k

I think I'll continue to draw "unreasonable" conclusions.
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The phrase “the hardest parts of computer science is caching and naming things” come to mind.
I didn't say "assuming all criminals are black is a wise guess." What I meant to point out was that even if black people constitute even 51% of the prison population, the model would still be making a statistically-sound guess by returning an image of a black person.

Now if you asked for 100 images of criminals, and all of them were black, that would not be statistically-sound anymore.
The account management / status tools were slow and flaky on the best days. I wouldn’t rule out a little extra traffic knocking them out. Correlation is not necessarily causation.
Did you miss or just ignore where I agree with you that our government is a massive joke? That doesn't mean that I don't want a real, functional government that operates for the good of its citizenry, or that we don't live in a corporate dystopia where we get charged every last cent they can get away with and barely provide their purported services. You're acting like these networks are otherwise as reliable as they say, provide the advertised speeds, and that these companies aren't doing the bare ass minimum possible to maximize their already egregious profits while paying their employees crap like every other company.
I thought this is what DEI wanted. Diversity around history.
If I'm going to get a rotating house, I'm not sure this would be the ideal view I'm going for:

https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/fe6582afb531d97b94ee93237e504...
The problem you’re describing is that AI models have no reliable connection to objective reality. This is a shortcoming of our current approach to generative AI that is very well known already. For example Instacart just launched an AI recipe generator that lists ingredients that literally do not exist. If you ask ChatGPT for text information about the U.S. founding fathers, you’ll sometimes get false information that way as well.

This is in fact why Google had not previously released generative AI consumer products despite years of research into them. No one, including Google, has figured out how to bolt a reliable “truth filter” in front of the generative engine.

Asking a generative AI for a picture of the U.S. founding fathers should not involve any generation at all. We have pictures of these people and a system dedicated to accuracy would just serve up those existing pictures.

It’s a different category of problem from adjusting generative output to mitigate bias in the training data.

It’s overlapping in a weird way here but the bottom line is that generative AI, as it exists today, is just the wrong tool to retrieve known facts like “what did the founding fathers look like.”
SF Pro works well as a body text font, too. Very legible and easy on the eyes. It’s not unusual for me to set text-heavy sites (like HN) to use it via userstyles.
I like to think this is pronounced "reducey"
Yeah I prefer the old one.
The sothebys advert had more pictures https://www.sothebysrealty.com/eng/sales/detail/180-l-281402...
> no one has shown any concrete proof that SMS could be hacked more easily

On the contrary, here is an empirical study demonstrating 100% of the 5 major carriers in US used insecure authentication challenges that can easily be subverted by attackers:

https://www.issms2fasecure.com
Elon Musk and Peter Thiel are two of the most hated people in tech, so this doesn't seem like a compelling example. Also I don't think Elon Musk and Peter Thiel qualify as "hardcore libertarian." Thiel was a Trump supporter (hardly libertarian at all, let alone hardcore) and Elon has supported Democrats and much government his entire life until the last few years. He's mainly only waded into "culture war" type stuff that I can think of. What sort of policies has Elon argued for that you think are "hardcore libertarian?"