skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We are of the same ilk!. Same age.
My buddy Morgan had a tandy 1000 and got a modem. Long story short:

We discovered BBSing from Lake Tahoe to San Jose to play the Pit, and all sorts of other things.. PCLink, $926 long distance bill leads to month long grounding, and me convincing mydad that he needed a computer to run his business... and a printer!.... oh yeha... and a modem. O.o

Rolls nat 20!

Here I am But my first love then was Ultima ][ -- Bards tale...

Morgan retired from the gaming world as a top exec at several of the AAA gaming cos...

All because these games that game the perfect mix of reality. Fantasy Reality (that which you see in the computer) and Full Blown Imagination.

You internal visual overlay still carried a huge % of the game experience.

Something I Lament for todays youth. Need to start "Cult of the Dip Switch" 4K?? - EGA ALL THE WAY!
I know GANs aren't all the rage now, but if you're interested in ML, they should not be overlooked.

We still use GANs a lot. They're way faster than diffusion models. Good luck getting a diffusion model to perform upscaling and denoising on a real time video call. I'm sure we'll get there, but right now you can do this with a GAN on cheap consumer hardware. You don't need a 4080, DLSS was released with the 20 series cards. They are just naturally computationally cheaper, but yeah, they do have trade-offs (though arguable since ML goes through hype phases and everyone jumps ship from one thing to another and few revisit. But when revisits happen, they tend to be competitive. See ResNets Strike Back for even CNNs vs ViTs. But there's more nuance here).

There is a reason your upscaling model is a GAN. Sure, diffusion can do this too. But why is everyone using ESRGAN? There's a reason for this.

Also, I think it is important to remember that GAN is really about a technique, not about generating images. You have a model generating things, and another model telling you something is a good output or not. LLM people... does this sound familiar?

To the author: I think it is worth pointing to Tero Karras's Nivida page. This group defined the status quo of GANs. You'll find that the vast majority of GAN research built off of their research. As quite a large portion of are literal forks. Though a fair amount of this is due to the great optimization they did, with custom cuda kernels (this is not the limiting compute factor in diffusion). https://research.nvidia.com/person/tero-karras
>You're moving the goalposts

No, I'm not. Re-read what I wrote:

>how difficult it is to recreate an artistic work, or something very similar to it, especially without having seen it before

You don't need to be telepathic to recreate something someone else has made if the creative space for a given medium contains a small number of "interesting" solutions. One time when I was a teenager playing around in QuickBASIC I independently rediscovered H trees. Did I read the mind of the person who first discovered them, or is it that the space of symmetric binary trees where each branch is a constant ratio of its ancestor small enough that I was bound to find them?

If you think nobody is trying to pass off something so abstract (I would say, with so few bits) as art, consider this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invader_(artist)

>By this definition, this comment of mine is peak artistic merit. Nobody could've created it without seeing it here — except me, just now!

Well, I would say so. I don't know how to argue that it's not. Do you?
Your question is assuming they're not already locking down as many of the 50 other ways as possible. Yes there are other bad things but that doesn't mean we should add #51 to that list.
What kind of plane are we talking about here? A Cessna 172 is cruising at about 200 km/h, so your route would be 400 km. You’re not driving 10h for that, right?
I highly encourage you to read about monopolies and their mechanisms. Competitors can be incentivized with a monopoly's profits all they want, the amount of money it'd take to enter the space is unfeasible.
In the demo, on what is the system's assumption that you want to land based?
Obligatory comment to avoid planting Asclepias curassavica (aka tropical milkweed, often found in big box stores), in favor of any of the native species.

For the healthiest to butterfly option, your milkweed should die back yearly in whatever climate you plant it.

This helps encourage butterflies to migrate at the appropriate time and prevents parasite load from building up.

https://www.science.org/content/article/plan-save-monarch-bu...

Alternatively, you can cut it back yearly... but safer to just get ahold of a local species.
Ah I see you're just a racist. That makes sense. I guess numbers will continue to delude you.
>another search engine could make billions from smartphone fees alone.

I’m not following… the search engine would be the one paying the billions.
Exactly. Google capitalized on its monopoly status. That's what matters.
> you can't actually feed the world population any other way

Citation very much needed.

This sounds like it was written by a member of the Monsanto PR team.

There are.. other ways, than indiscriminately spraying plant poison everywhere.
Multiple sensors, actively modeling the flight dynamics to detect anomalous sensors/behaviors (i.e. is what we are measuring what we expect to measure), and BRS as a final backup.
I thought the point was predicting a stall by knowing the approach speed will be so low that you will stall, not detecting a stall just before it happens
> Once again, yes, RealPage might be able to push things a few percentage points up and that's bad, but it is simply not capable of turning Houston prices into Los Angeles prices.

You didn’t address the point though. If the issue is collusion, why haven’t landlords hiked mid-tier city rents to San Francisco levels?

Or maybe it’s simply supply and demand.
> But the definitions are very loose and hard to pin down.

So are a lot of laws and regulations. Doesn't make them any less valid.
It's not true, here on Android you just want to use a web browser, the one that is deeply linked in your phone, and they profit of their spot to insert dependencies to their service. Stealthily. Looks probably meaningless but just the fact that you don't have an obvious option to disable that in password management of the parameters should tell you something about it.

Also that even if you don't want your browser to sync with Google, to use Google search, your Chrome to use your Google account, there are still connections and data about you sent to Google...
I think it's reasonable to assume that google would favor the Ad Sense customer given two results that are otherwise of equal or near equal quality but the notion that google would exclude good results from domains that do not serve Ad Sense ads is absurd.
Love Letter to Time Bandit on the Atari ST
In the year, the Atari ST was introduced, on of the first games for it was Time Bandit, an arcade action game with puzzle and text adventureelements. This is a love letter to the colorful world of time gates, two players and surprising arcade worlds!
Totally fair! In discussions this big, I often do not try and speak to multiple threads at the same time. If only to dodge this sort of confusion.

My specific entry to the thread was to say that you are likely to get in trouble if you try the door of a bank and walk on in if it is open.
SearX

You can install/run from your own server, or just use a public version like this one here: https://metasearx.com/

Source code is available for verification.
You can host yourself or choose from multiple domains to access.
super cool, and if this works you'll bring a big part of what we dreamed of as "the future" into the present!
Or maybe based on cold economic merits, Firefox simply doesn't deserve to exist.
They're giving themselves money by abusing their monopoly status. Sure, in a totally free market, it looks innocent. There are laws against this because monopolies are damaging to any market it's in and ends up hurting the end user.
Under these circumstances, it is appropriate to ask who is the customer. Then presume that the company is trying its best to make the customer happy.

Apple has clearly defined that the customer for the "default search engine selection" option is Google and not the users. There is obviously some mediation by regulators in Europe and elsewhere (hence Google's major competitors being included on the list), but the customer is Google. I think that from that fact flows two further inferences:
A) the customer might not want to write down everything, or even communicate in any non-deniable way, all of their preferences (due to those regulators), but can presume that Apple understands their preferences
B) The customer is happy to the tune of 20 billion dollars with the current set-up.
Not necessarily. At least some of the benefit for Google is that they prevent a competitor from paying to be the default search.
by the way, we could discuss that further if you want, you can send me a message on twitter: @pierre_ia
Well this stretch smells pretty bad inside a car. As it's an interstate there aren't many pedestrians, but there are plenty of businesses.
Yeah, a worm in Apple the company would be their phones blowing up randomly.
Lisp macros and read work because of a bug in the original definition of Lisp (1992)
A "do not hallucinate" prompt engineering instruction is certainly a first since it implies the reason LLMs hallucinate is just for fun.
SolidRun Bedrock R8000 – fanless industrial PC with Ryzen Embedded 8000 series
startpage.com is good, but light on features. brave search offers the best features, however its independent index has its limits.
I have not.

However, looking at it now, it falls into the same problems all template generators have. Those are things solved by using general purpose languages generate rather than templating manifests.

KCL is in the middle ground. The Ruby mixins I can use for manifest generation can has an equivalence with KCL's union.

I can see Timoni's appeal as it looks like an improvement over Helm and integrates building artifacts.
No body is forced to do anything. Google can just not pay that money and lose that share of the market. They're not doing that because they want to preserve their monopoly status.
These are easily one of my favourite types of posts (and this one was particularly gratifying). I wish I could go down these rabbit holes every day!

> [...] and why heterogeneous platforms are important

This prompts me to wonder vaguely whether there's any untapped juice in fuzzing approaches that might be relevant here. As in, how much of the platform (including configuration and heuristics, and so on) could be fuzzed as program input?
That's the power of monopoly, or in this case duopoly. You don't get to choose to not buy into the platform
>I wouldn't be surprised if the same thing happened in the US either

I would. There's not even any cash in my wallet and I was pickpocketd in broad daylight (I'm not exactly exuding "rich dude" so I'm an odd target). I'm just lucky I had an apple tag in it and the thief ditched it in the bathroom when they assumedly saw it (before I activated it).

Even if there was nothing in the wallet, I wouldn't be surprised if my unattended wallet was shuffled, drop, and probably dripping wet when I came back. Part of why I switched to a metal one, actually.
Roundup kills milkweed, a common weed in corn and soybean fields, also used in some other crops. Monarch caterpillars _exclusively_ feed on milkweed. This is not a case of glyphosphate toxicity, but habitat destruction because it does the job on the label well. And folks tend to apply it lots of places it doesn't necessarily need to be used. Heavily farmed areas need to have some more land set aside for biodiversity and better managed to that end.

Additionally there are concerns about insecticides affecting monarchs in an entirely different thread, in particular increasingly banned neonicotinoid insecticides.
a combination of altitude, commanded descent rate, and commanded airspeed transition the control system from flight to landing, flare and touch down, and into ground control mode.
560 km, almost no highways, a lot of driving through the mountains at 50-60 km/h. Flying is an almost straight line of 320 km. Ikarus C42, cruising 160 km/h.
You are wrong about

It’s funny, nerdy, and delightful.
Such a classist comment
Mark Dowd's 2023 presentation "Inside The Zero Day Market" [0] is extremely informative and a must read for everyone interested in a low-level exploitation career.

[0] https://github.com/mdowd79/presentations/blob/main/bluehat20...
From Wikipedia "Heavy crop production rapidly depletes the soil of potassium, and this can be remedied with agricultural fertilizers containing potassium, accounting for 95% of global potassium chemical production". ---For this to replace lipo yeah there would need to be a BIG a shift
Because there are no jobs where they're not paying rent, so they can't afford to live there either.
Why is it absurd? If it's still considered the go-to option by most users, they could afford the slightly worse quality for the extra revenue, no? That's the end result of monopolies, the provider starts to compromise on the service to capitalize on the user's lack of viable options.
What programming language are you using and in which ways are LLMs helping you? How do you deal with subtle mistakes?
Depends on OEM & BIOS, e.g. SolidRun device with Ryzen 7840HS has ECC support, https://www.solid-run.com/industrial-computers/bedrock-r7000...
Oh I was thinking that the thing was jacketed like... I just assumed wrong - youd still need to wrap it in superconductive carbon nanotubes to make it work. :-)
> No amount of financial prudence is going to change the math for you if your set of skills caps out at $20/hour on the employment market

Which is a significant issue. How is it even possible to spend 40+ years doing something (anything) and not acquire skills that earn more than minimum wage or barely above?

40 years is approximately 83,200 working hours. Metaphoric you had 83,200 hours to figure out some sort of skill and work your way up in whatever field you have chosen... but you chose not to. That's a significant issue.
Couldn't help but delve into your genuinely interesting take on
revising social science theories to explain the rise of populism and
decline of trust, including ideas from Robert Putnam who I've recently
been reading for a study on the subject of "social capital".

It felt odd that as a social scientist you fell short of the
patience to read what a fellow scientist has to tell you about the
lens through which you see the world - namely computers, solely on the
basis that it disappointed your thirst for "new facts".

Spoiler: FWIW, in the second half he elopes the scullery maid and
challenges his arch rival to a duel...
I don’t understand how people grew things without glyphosate. Getting rid of the weeds manually is extremely labor intensive. It’s many hundreds of hours of hired labor every week.
Fascinating!

https://github.com/captain-amygdala/pistorm

Oh, this is Pi 3A emulating a 68030, not a RP2040, I'll keep looking.

> General Performance with the current use of Musashi as the 68k CPU emulator is somewhere around a 100-125MHz 68030.

https://github.com/kstenerud/Musashi

Emulating a 128k mac with an RP2040 (using Musashi)
https://github.com/evansm7/umac
My wife called our city hall to see if we could let a small patch of grass grow tall in our backyard for insect support. They said a "pollinator garden" was highly encouraged, so we did. Last June we saw more lightening bugs then ever before.

Now in hot August, just before sunset, we have butterflies and bees and lots of others bugs. We didn't plant any special flowers, we just let the grass and whatever else grow. Next year I'll plant some flowers.
In his blog, he discusses Keytruda. https://jakeseliger.com/2023/12/19/what-if-things-go-right-w...
Honey bees aren't native to North America, "replenishing" isn't really the right idea, and if you do a bad job, especially "chemical free", you could be cultivating and spreading bee diseases. If you want to help native bees, plant lots of flowering plants with blooms that span the seasons.
Government mandates are almost necessary to guide standard adoption. I saw this when I worked on UPI at WhatsApp
Hey, could you tell me which language do you mean in particular?
Fastcore: An Underrated Python Library
Maybe, but a lot of software exists regardless of cold economic merits, because they have merits for their users.
>a proper lobbyists should be speaking in their own interests, not necessarily as a paid actor for a corporation.

Im very confused by this. What line are you drawing between the interest of the lobbyist and that of the corporation? They are one and the same. The lobbyist is the representitive the the company or interest group. who is at risk of perversions? surely not the lobbyist?

Im also not sure what you mean by forums. The place where the information is collected and sorter is the office and mind of the representative.

Are you thinking that representative should all have to go through a 3rd party expert placed between them and their constituents? Who would pay this expert? If the politician pays them, what is the difference between using this third party and not? Is the idea that the expert (who has their own biases) would be be better suited to balance opinions?
Played the original on c64(well, 128d) back in '87 and it blew me away. I grabbed the disk image a few months ago and played a bit and I'm still impressed. I love the story, the music, the graphics and the gameplay. It's just a really stellar, underappreciated game.
We plant both "swamp" milkweed (Asclepias incarnata) and common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) and the monarchs seem to vastly prefer the former for their babies. The one disadvantage, depending on how much you hate bugs, is that the swamp milkweed attracts a large variety of other polinators including various bees, flies, and some scary looking though harmless wasps[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphex_ichneumoneus
Yes, this idea sells well. Folks have been selling that idea as long as we have records of folks doing anything at all.

It is just not helpful to think like that and to address problems as if each one is an existential threat.
I don’t understand how that would even work. Can a LLM even know the difference between a hallucination and an (for want of a better word) inference?
Of course defaults mean very little for tech-savvy people. An average 50 year old who just got a new laptop isn't going to change the search engine because Bing was the default.
What Google does see is a hash-prefix of your username, to narrow down the encrypted data set of compromised credentials being returned to your Chrome instance.

We don't have the same background, but I don't think that it is ok at all.

Sending even a few bytes of hash about your username is quite a lot of data.

That might be enough to weaken your credentials, but mostly think about what they can do or 3 letters agencies can do with this info that is streaming straight to US:

Even without certitude of the exact account, we can know that you connected to a website with a credential that matched a defined hash. We can know that you connected regularly with it, probably time when you connected as the check is performed most of the time when you are connected, we can corroborate that with other access logs. We know that you were not using other usernames that you provided that are not marching this one based on hash.

As an example, US is asking users to list all their social accounts, I think that it is optional but they would like very much to make it mandatory. Then, imagine that they compare all the username you provided with the hash of passwords you checked regularly on your device to say: you probably have other or alternative accounts that you don't declare.

All of that in a stealth surprising way for users that asked nothing. It's a lie to say that it is protecting "your browsing experience". It is unrelated. You can not browse to a website and tour account is still hacked. Website owners are free to report to users leaks. Users are free to use password manager with such features.
How do captcha's work on Tor webites? It has to do with CSS magic and presumably OpenResty (or without). Anyone familiar with it? I think we should diverge our attention to that.
I think the propagandist was trying to make an analogy with the distinguishable outcomes of "dead with no wallet" and "unharmed with no wallet".

In the case of Ukraine, Russian state media have often claimed their goal is to exterminate Ukrainians and their culture so that distinction would not exist.
Its not satire.

"GPU Restaking enables providers to offer computational resources on multiple platforms simultaneously. This approach allows sellers to earn from existing commitments while generating additional revenue streams. Similarly to crypto-economic restaking, providers lock-in their computational resources on one platform, then “restake” them on another."

They seriously believe they have an innovation here and their error is in confusing ethereum's 'stake' [which just sits like a rock doing nothing (and can therefore be multiple rocks to multiple ethereum derived chains doing nothing)] to real world actually utilized 'stakes' like GPUs.

This type of magical non-thinking, while common in crypto, affects ethereum-types a little more.
While some base to final stall accidents are as simple as you make it sound a good chunk of them happen when you try to come OUT of the turn at an already slow speed increasing the angle of attack on one wing alone. The stall and subsequent spin catches the pilot entirely surprised unaware of why they’re even stalling and with very little escape bandwidth.

The FAA has been trying for better angle of attack instrumentation but what I described above isn’t an easy fix with technology.

When you talk to pilots who inadvertently stall spin and lived to tell the tale most of them will tell you they didn’t even recognize that they were in a stall. That’s where the problem starts.
CrowdStrike is sued by fliers after outage disrupts air travel
People didn't remove all the weeds before glyphosate. Nor did all the work manually.
The average voter does not understand how a typical paper ballot system can be audited, or what coercion resistance properties the system has. It is not "simple enough system that even laymen can understand".
Five US states push Musk to fix AI chatbot over election misinformation
> Being that it is so new, the one thing that strikes me immediately is the use of icons instead of text.

That's so you don't confuse it with a right-click pop-up menu. :-)
No, it's pointless and likely doesn't affect the output.
LOVE those stories
> Next thing you know if you develop and sell any software you will have to make sure it is usable forever. Any MacOS updates or Windows updates (or iOS/Android updates) breaking a software or app you once sold to a few people and discontinued? You will have to fix it until you die or face penalties.

The campaign is about the software that being made unusable specifically by choice of the entity responsible for it. MacOS/Windows updates breaking an existing app is completely out of scope of the initiative, and nobody will be penalized for that, it would be very unreasonable from any angle.
ooh it would be super interesting to 3d print the maze and then watch ants solve it
Please don't throw them away. Someone will be more than happy to take them off your hands. They are like gold to some people. If you're in the Los Angeles area I'd pay you to "go there" to let me take them off your hands.