skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I seem to have anti-GAS.

I've got a 5-year old phone (thanks Apple for maintaining OS security support for my model for so long!), a 3-year old laptop I'm not planning on replacing any time soon, and the non-computer based hobbies I've managed to stick with for any length of time are running and bouldering, where the only gear you really need for both are appropriate shoes. And I only have one pair of shoes for each.

Yeah, I've got some light, breathable, non-chafing clothing that makes both less unpleasant to do, but I couldn't tell you with 100% certainty what brand they are, or exactly what they're made of. And I have a bottle of liquid chalk, whatever they were selling in the gym the last time I needed to get some more. But I'm not on Strava or whatever, and I don't track my per-km splits or my heart rate/zone or elevation gained or cadence. I'll time a whole run with a $20 Casio wrist/stopwatch, and sometimes calculate an average pace, but that's about it.

Not that I'm particularly good at running or bouldering, but I'm enjoying doing both at the level I'm currently at, so that's fine.

Anyway, any hobby that requires a bunch of gear is just a turn-off for me. The more gear I'd need, the more I want to give it a wide berth.

Computer software I love to nerd out on. But everything else? Hardware? That's a break from the nerdery for me.
Seems to be a very low data rate
How to theme your old-school MP3 player (RockBox CustomWPS Guide, 2021)
I almost grabbed one of these a few years ago when I was finally ripping all of my DVD's, but ended up just getting a cheap one off Amazon but its finicky.

How was the reliability of these things? Did it just generally work and didn't complain except for old age? I see that there are still some on Amazon so wondering if its worth just caving for the random times I do actually need to read an old disk or something.
I'm always seeking out new gear because I love finding new sounds. I also went to school for classical piano and can play pretty well. Does a chef that likes finding new spices have GAS? Def a joke in there but for real. There are certain sounds that can only be found in vintage analog synths for instance. Of course there are always samples but there are also samples of cellos and violins. But they will never compare to actually playing the real instrument so therefore I must buy them alllll.
My rule is that I start off with lower-mid-range equipment, until I know whether I actually like a hobby.

If you love cycling and you do it all the time? By all means spend $3000 on a high-end, premium-brand, ultra-light-weight bike, if you've got the disposable income and buying it would bring you joy.

But if you're just considering getting into cycling? There are perfectly good $500 bikes out there, and you don't need to delay getting into a sport just because you don't have $3k to spare right now.
When I saw the headline the first thing I did was search for AI, was quite shocked to not see that as the reason (at least not mentioned here) money was thrown at something.
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I know someone who does this with mountain gear.
Check the paper, especially figure 5: https://doi.org/10.1002/adsu.202400184

Burning the end-grain wood makes a particularly complex porous structure that minimizes the chance of reflected light escaping ("velvety").
Ah it's got the Altair 8800 !

Cray was fascinating but the Altair changed everything and I'd oddly rather play with a working Altair in a museum than a Cray

https://www.nutsvolts.com/magazine/article/micro_memories_20...

https://www.nutsvolts.com/uploads/wygwam/NV_0103_Driscoll_P4...
The Van Ness station is not particularly pleasant either. Come out of the subway and see this: https://x.com/sfdsrvsbttr/status/1809986173844279305?s=46
Thanks, you make some good points. You've won me over somewhat.

I agree that there's always at least some politics in choice/policy/enforcement because for any given value there are going to be people that oppose that value, but I don't think that means we should just embrace the political nature of it all and not try to be as "neutral" as possible. (To be clear I'm not suggesting that you are advocating for this, but I think it is the logical conclusion of accepting that everything is equally political). Some people's politics include free speech absolutism, and others include significant speech limitations, so a largely "we allow all legal speech" is a political stance when viewed that way, though it also strikes me as also the most "neutral" a platform can be, and I think that is mostly coincidental. There are plenty of political parties that disagree on many things for example, yet mostly agree that free speech and ability to express oneself is a good thing.

To be clear, I despise hate speech and I hate when people say offensive things. But trying to define hate speech is a recipe for sadness. The Israel/Palestine conflict has really shown that recently where some people consider it "hate speech" to criticize the government of either side. When it's a company or a newspaper or something, the cost of getting it wrong (either too tight or too loose) is much lower than when it's a platform that controls vast swathes of the public square.

Also, at what level does/should this matter? For example, should ISPs be pulling the plug if the customer has or shares content that they deem to be hate speech? Should power companies cut off electricity to those people?

I fully agree btw that Daily Stormer really messed up by claiming that CF supported them, but CF could have left their website in place and C&D'ed or sued for libel. I don't know what I would have done in their position though. There's a pretty good chance I would have done the same thing they did. It's hard to really know when you aren't in the soup.
They still exist, but they are generally absurdly expensive because lots of people want to live there and they aren't particularly dense (although denser than plenty of other areas)
Here is a perfect example: a nice helpful post, with highly constructive feedback, but is mildly critical of YC gets [flagged] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41180917

YC = YCensornator.

Don't give me the B.S. about "HN != YC". We all know that's mostly untrue.
If I want to know about Operating System, I know which books to read. What's the equivalent for backups? It seems to me I merely rely on blog posts and that's something I'm not comfortable with. There are some books out there that perhaps dedicate at most 1 chapter to backups, but those are usually outdated books and do not contain much practical information.
Apple open sources a framework for training text-to-image models
Rule #1: Never read a Guardian article about East Germany.
Sam Altman teases "Project Strawberry" (formerly Q*)
Building a real time answer engine with Llama 405B and web scraping
Humane's daily returns are outpacing sales
Quick look around, this is absolutely adorable! I really like all the art you've done for this. The show me around thing is a nice touch! I guess it's a service that lets you display a figma (?) prototype in a little web view? Smart! Rails is also a great fit here! I might sign up and take a peek at the network log to see the turboframe magic going on.

The multiplayer aspect, damn that's so cool. It's a really neat idea! Though it does have the possibility to make things a bit too gamified. I'd need to mess around with it to see how it tickles my brain.

> It's designed to keep ADHD brains (like mine) motivated on tap

Maybe the only thing I'm a bit iffy on. There's a LOT of configuration, I don't know if it would help me personally. I will absolutely get locked into futzing around with the todo list rather than actually doing the things on the todo list if given a chance. I think some sort of "shade" optionally appearing over the UI when a task is started would be a good thing to do. Just write the task name on it and the time elapsed. Should have no notifications at all, nor list of upcoming tasks.

Same idea: I think "focus now" should probably be renamed in the UI. "Start Focus Session" would be a good name, using "Focus Now" for a button to start an instant pomodoro session with no goal. All of the configuration can get a bit in the way. Definitely embrace defaults. (Sounds rails-y heh)
ShortCat: Manipulate macOS masterfully, minus the mouse
Right, but even with the "digital quantum computer" (i.e. error-corrected quantum computer) aren't they still used in same fashion as an analog computer - one has to configure (cf patch panel) the computer into being an analog of the problem to be solved, then let the natural dynamics do it's thing, rather than being able to program it to perform some step-wise algorithm of the user's choosing?
... I do think "it's unstable" is kind of a non-answer though. Lots of control problems are unstable, right?

For example here's a successful project from 16 years go where Andrew Ng, Pieter Abbeel etc used apprenticeship learning to teach a controller to fly RC helicopters through complex stunts, and they discuss how these flight patterns have to deal with instability, and the controller is eventually doing things very fluidly which humans would struggle to do.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-QUkgk3HyE

http://heli.stanford.edu/papers/iser04-invertedflight.pdf

So what about bipedal walking is harder than other learned control problems that RL can master (and could handle even on previous generations of tech)?
> Most surprisingly, Nxylon remains black even when coated with an alloy, such as the gold coating applied to the wood to make it electrically conductive enough to be viewed and studied using an electron microscope. This is because Nxylon’s structure inherently prevents light from escaping rather than depending on black pigments.

I don't follow this at all. If it's coated with an alloy, Nxylon isn't on the surface of the object anymore, the alloy is. So the alloy should be reflecting light. What am I missing?
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It makes sense that people are scared of a superintelligent AI when you consider how we treat beings of lower intelligence.
As a first-line treatment, I urge anyone who either snores, or is just fatigued after sleep, to try a nasal stent/dilator. This isn't the strips which go on the outside of the nose, although those work for some people, they're less effective. I use the Rhinomed, but there's several brands, that's just the first one I got, and if you drop them in a small bowl of water in the morning and rinse them off a few hours later, they'll last forever. It's just a little piece of medical-grade plastic which you stick in both nostrils, and it props them open.

Some people are are going to need a CPAP, but trying the nasal stent doesn't take a sleep study, insurance, or a machine which you plug in and maintain: it takes twenty bucks. Probably don't jump straight in to using it every night, it takes the nostrils awhile to get used to them, but I have no discomfort at all starting around the second week of using them.

I would even go so far as to say everyone should just pick them up and try them out. One benefit that never occurred to me is that when I have mild congestion, the mechanical action of the stent will drain it, and no one sleeps well with a stuffy nose. Getting more oxygen per breath while sleeping has no downsides, even if you think you don't need it. If you ever wake up with one sinus filled with mucus, definitely give it a try.
Teams does the no-audio part too.
my hot take is to test in every environment... what a concept. the even deeper hot take here is to reimplement mocks of your integrated environments AND THEN IMPLEMENT THEIR SYSTEMS! the process of good testing has a side effect of eventually eliminating technical debt, because those same set of tests that ensure your application is working can test if your reimplementation of your upstream integration is working! ta da you are now a growth company.
They're paired like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotive_conjugation.
A throwback experiment with Linux and Unix: Introduction and set-up
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If you're not good at it, it's probably just a distraction and time sink. Wouldn't be how I would spend my time, but clearly some have gotten popular from it (though I think this is typically AFTER they've had some commercial success).
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I respect that. I would argue though that this definitely is "something interesting" to discuss. I find it fascinating that the author clearly called out the illegality yet thinks it okay to do anyway, and even more interesting that they project that mindset onto others by assuming we would all do the same. But I felt my one-word answer did more to encompass my thoughts then a paragraph would have.
If you look at the purpose of this Tea protocol it is exactly to provide a chain of credibility. Though, by connecting ranking with monetization, tea has created perverse incentives, leading spammers to pump up their tea ranking, by linking and starring packages in circles. Their goal is to make it look like it’s a highly used package.

Luckily, nobody thinks that tea ranking matters, except for the spammers themselves.

They are with no doubt attempting to poke at other more established metrics as well. This could eventually fool an AI or even humans.
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Even if it doesn't look cool, some people have this weird obsession that no one's allowed to know anything about them, as if anyone at Google gives a shit what temperature your house's thermostat is set to. and that somehow that's going to remotely affect them.
Our first house was one a 1/2ac lot at the end (bottom -- this will become important later) of a cul-de-sac in a great semi-urban neighborhood in Cary, NC. We learned after repeated backyard flooding and near-incursion of storm water into our patio door that our street had been built on what had been the original stormwater collection pond for the larger neighborhood. The builder got permission from the city to move the pond to build our cul-de-sac, but that didn't stop our street from still being the lowest point in the neighborhood, where all surface water ran-off to, and our house was at the very lowest point.

Long story short, we ended up installing a french drain on two sides of our house, putting a drain at the end of our driveway to redirect water [from just running down our driveway to our house], having the front wall foundation rebuilt and jacked up because the footer had nearly completely eroded (1970s house), and still needed to add two 24" square drain boxes in the back yard (with buried 4" PVC draining into the creek at the back of the property) to remediate all this. It was also a tree-filled lot and the drain boxes would almost immediately clog with leaves during heavy rains, so I spent a lot of time out there in ankle to knee deep water with a rake to keep the drains clear.

This still wasn't enough! We got a so much surface run-off from our uphill neighbors that it looked like a sheet of rushing water across our backyard during heavy storms. We had a creek at the back of the property but were not allowed to mess with it because of Corps of Engineers easement regulations. At the end of the day, we finally solved our problems by getting an agreement from our neighbor to let us dig a surface water drain from the low point in their yard into the creek, and then we'd build a "temporary" (cf prior easement rules against permanent walls) berm along the property line to prevent surface water from coming into our yard at all. That "berm" was 76 bags of Qwikrete stacked three high and covered with grass clippings, yard waste & mulch. Technically we could have removed it if the city had inspected, but it was very much a cement wall.

We have never since, and never will, build or purchase a house at the bottom of a hill.
some people are paid to be the overly paranoid person in the room professionally, for budget and leadership to dial their models against. notice i put the security and adversary modeling at the top.
I'm one of the contributors to this repo, so feel free to comment with any feedback!

The key research contribution from the related paper is that with a moderate amount of data (eg. 12M image pairs from CC12M) and a moderate amount of compute (single node of 8 A-100 GPUs for example) anyone can train a good text to image model using the unique multi scale nested u-net pipeline.

Hope this can help level the playing field for researchers everywhere.
Is there a more serious discussion of celebrity schools, specifically outcomes achieved?
Why are folks downvoting the truth? This is common behavior in cats/dogs and NOT common in humans at all outside of extreme famine, even then it's rare.
Interesting, in Northern Russia they also had no chimneys up until the beginning of the 20th century (in other places, chimneys were introduced much earlier). They also called it "black heating".

How common was it in Medieval Europe?
One unconventional datapoint for reference - docs couldn't make sense of my apneas, have none of the normal risk factors. Eventually discovered it was a subtle oral food allergy.
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I expect this can be abstracted and include other fields, too. My particular affliction has included electronic lab equipment. Like, did I really need that specialized tool to measure and verify the performance of my oscilloscope? Did I really need the second oscilloscope on my bench? I'm rarely involved in RF, but I have a spectrum analyzer collecting dust now. Etc...
Your post may be about high finance, but you just described the ISR role in tech sales, too. :)
Have you used Polycam with an iPhone with a lidar sensor? They can scan your surroundings and export to a 3d model.
There should be internet 2.

Kick off all ISPs which refuse to do good ingress/egress filtering. Kick off all customers which absolutely positively need to be completely exempt from the filtering because of their ultra special snowflake networks, when creating source spoofed abuse a couple times. So now you have an internet with reliable source IPs. Allow ISPs for their customers to push firewall rules blocking abusive traffic to the originating ISP, subject to some fair use rules. If an ISP's firewall slows down because they are overloaded with rules for obvious abuse from their customers ... well that's working as intended then.
i mentioned pia cryptostorm etc (or whatever) in the context of onion plus vpn multihop.
>Many people don't know that you have to milk a dairy cow twice a day because they produce so much milk.

Why? This doesn't seem natural (or ethical)

>In today's world, farmers need to have more cows than they could ever milk by hand.

Why? This doesn't seem sustainable (or ethical)
Making a SAAS out of a product is one of those definitions?
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Iranian refugee who lived in the departure lounge for 18 years
Xfce mint is so awesome for old computers.

I just wish linux was more available for old ARM based set top boxes...
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Good point—added to the Wikipedia page. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_eponyms_(A%E2%80%93K)#...
Just to point out, even organic practices utilize pesticides. It's supposed to be as a last resort, although there's debate as to whether that really happens in practice with the larger producers.

Organic approved pesticides do include harmful chemicals. Things like diatomaceous earth are a potential carcinogen.
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I was looking into buying one of these last month, but they never upgraded them to have Blu-Ray compatibility. Steve Jobs apparently hated BluRay and refused to support it natively on MacOS and it's still quite painful to get it working on macOS today. You can get a Buffalo BDXL drive for about the same price as Apple's DVD-only SuperDrive.
If they go through with the name, it'll be pointed out and well known, and then people will realize "oh, that's the intended joke...".

Then they won't be able to type and say it during their workday, without at least silently cringing or smirking, at phallic humor being forced upon people in the workplace.
I'm sympathetic to the idea that Jacobin is obtusely wrong about many things.

However, I will take anything that brings awareness to possible culprits of why the US has, by far, the worst cancer incidences in the entire world.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cancer-incidence?tab=char...

Seems to correlate with pesticide use by year...

https://water.usgs.gov/nawqa/pnsp/usage/maps/show_map.php?ye...

And by location (when accounting for age that increases risk a lot)

https://usafacts.org/articles/which-states-have-the-highest-...
I think a lot of businesses kind of thrive on selling the dream.

Like how much gear bought at REI is really pushed to the limit for outdoor pursuits vs worn around town?

I love shopping there and looking around and daydreaming about being out in the woods.

It's not really an indictment of the businesses, it's just sort of human nature.
Same, but I don't consider it a problem.

If I find that I love a product, I'll buy a spare. If it turns out that I think the successor product is better, I'll buy that and simply sell my spare to someone with the opposite opinion.
It is somewhat surprising actually. Presumably if there's an actual hotspot that police would be ever-present in the area until it dilutes out
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