skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for sharing this repo. While I don't have time to actively contribute to the code, I have been testing on images to share my feedback for future devs.

1. Background removal is working good on a lot of different types of images. This includes images with background, plain or white background, men, women, children, hair, and pets.

2. After background removal, the new image is warped in some areas. For example, I have a picture of a child eating ice-cream. The background was removed perfectly but left a lot of artifacts on the child. I can share those images for testing.

Please let me know if there are other areas I can test.
It’s only a fairy realm because the capitalists have won. There is no reason the world couldn’t work like this beyond human nature being what it is
Why do we close down working nuclear power plants?
This is the proof that the religion of “I believe in science” is not a friend to creating a culture of science appreciation

It’s been the struggle for scientific progress, the breakthroughs are the exception not the rule and the reason is the culture of belief around the science of the time

The lesson I’ve most learned from science is that the questions are more interesting than the answer and the answers we have are a way to ask new questions
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I’m non-native English Speaker and i’m so tired of saying “Say it again” on online calls. Especially if it is Indian or Scottish Accent. And moreover if it is some really serious interview.

That’s why i built Subtitly - Live Subtitles for any app on macOS.

Few things about subtitly:

- Subtitles are in Mac’s notch ⇒ you always look into the camera

- They are really fast and reliable (2-3% Word Error Rate)

- On-device AI ⇒ Offline & Private

- Works in any app ⇒ Watch twitch streams with subs or calls in discord with subs.

Here is the demo how it works: https://x.com/rustemphd/status/1828455907786625062
I'm referring to the significant percentage of the population who believed conspiracy theories around vaccines.

And then what I saw was media personalities intentionally fanning the flames (e.g. Rogan) because they understood creating cultural rift us-them war out of a nothingburger was a way to maximize engagement.

Ideally we'd all be so rational we would have no us-versus-them instincts at all, and could be completely objective and form independent opinions on every issue based on data. But it's very clear that culture has a bit of a mob-mentality, and it's an open question whether we'd be better off with more or less coordination/restriction on our communication.
There could be a few benefits to what is proposed in the article, here are my semi-educated guesses.

1. Less dependent on local geology. Geothermal wells are well suited for hot, non-pourous (?) geology.

2. Might be cheaper. It can take years to drill the wells for a closed loop system (e.g. Eavor), less for a fracked geothermal well (e.g. Fervo). I imagine drilling a single borehole for this is way simpler.

3. Less water loss. Fracked geothermal well wells can be pretty lossy (20%?). If water supply is an issue your options may be limited.
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They use exclusively IPv3 (IP version tree)

:)
98% of PyMySQL forks are vulnerable to SQL Injection
Doesn't this "close" the tax loophole in which holders of tradable assets can take out loans against those assets in perpetuity, never paying taxes on any of it?
I love that we again bring up 2 games that failed as if this is the only reason they failed.

When there are plenty of games with a diverse set of characters that sell just fine. First party Sony games are (generally) a fantastic example of this, that sell very well. SpiderMan 2 is a great example. Horizon, etc.

I already mentioned other games like Overwatch, Mass Effect, Apex, and many others that have diversity are just fine.

Simply having a gay character, a black character, a woman that isn't a sex object, isn't "bending over backwards".

I am sorry but you need to face the fact that gaming is no longer male dominated. That is a good thing. A gay person (or character) existing, is not "political" or shoving it in your face. At least no more than every single straight relationship that I see every single day in media my entire life is “shoved in my face”. But that’s fine because it’s normalized.

A man and a woman can be all over each other and no one bats an eye, but 2 men dare to express the simplest of affection and suddenly it’s “political”.
you talk as if investors read disclosure forms. investors bet on the market fomo.
Nice to see the process. My ideal setup would be a small touch screens with physical controls
Well, Scotland voted to remain in the EU, but they've had to put up with the rest thinking they "know better than them what is good for them."

I'm sure they enjoy it as much as you do.
Obligatory: https://xkcd.com/743/
100,000 people dying one at a time over the course of a decade seems to have a lower public relations impact then 1000 people dying in a once-in-a-century spectacularly tragic accident. Even though the total casualties are higher.

Fentanyl is a prime example. I believe (from memory) over 100,000 people die of it each year in the in the US. Everyone knows it's a problem. We should "do something". But, we don't. Nobody cares enough (except as a platitude come election time). However if 1000 people died in a bomb attack (or similar) it would be top news for weeks and they would be scrambling the military and make us take our wedding rings off for scanning at airports.
I am skeptical because I had a brush with schizophrenia where I felt _exactly_ like I was always having epiphanies, and it was mental illness. I've never done psychoactives but I know feelings are sometimes just feelings.
80% of AI Projects Crash and Burn, Billions Wasted Says Rand Report
Stadia comes to mind.
> there was never a free for all because that eventually ends up like 4chan

This is false, because Facebook is bound to your real identity.

A completely unmoderated Facebook will never be like every /b/ or /pol/ thread. People aren't quiet as outspoken with derogatory terms and pornography if it their family sees what they've written.

Random copy pasted examples:

- There are 9 billion people on the planet why don't you nuke china india and africa then get back to us

- And? I dont care what race you are, you all need to die. TMD.

- To gas glowniggers on-sight?

- Hang yourself tranny
I think the designs are basic and don’t seem tech specific. I can get the same things from known high-quality brands/manufacturers for the same or less more quickly. Why should I buy these?
and cannot happen soon enough
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I believe that the 1 mile down comes from the current proposed methods of disposing of nuclear waste. Essentially, you place the reactor in it's final resting place, removing the need to transport it to a disposal site. Depending on the site you would bury either deeper or shallower depending on the geological stability of the region.

https://www.science.org/content/article/finland-built-tomb-s...
Suppose a model of reality M (which makes predictions) and doesn't admit a higher metaphysical plane as part of the model. Now assume Mp does admit a higher metaphysical plane and makes the same predictions as M for all observable phenomena (or for all reality in the sense of 'this reality').

In such a case, the existence of a higher metaphysical plane is purely aesthetic. In terms of predictions, both models are equally correct, being identical. The correctness of the internal representation is beyond epistemological limits, and arguably a meaningless or ill-formed proposition. For a significant difference, the models must make different predictions. But the conventional understanding (say the standard model) is carefully constructed and deviations by laypeople are invariably simplifications or are due to impaired reality testing.

This situation is the same as religion, because it is one. Either the religion doesn't make predictions about reality, in which case it's difference is purely aesthetic (as a model of reality), or it does and in practice is either trivially falsifiable or copying what is already known (note that the old well known religions have long since had their predictions tested).

Psychedelic experiences could, in theory, produce interesting hypotheses about reality; just like Scientology and the "Twin flame" people could. But in practice it almost always seems to produce crackpot stuff like "you can make a perceptual motion machine with time crystals and fractals; also Einstein, Aristotle, and Tupac already knew this but no one was paying attention; luckily drug-induced divine revelation has bequeathed this information via direct transmission; if only everyone else experienced ego death, then maybe they could be as great as I".

This is the hubris I perceive in the idea that scientists, philosophers, etc. that have dedicated their life to the study of particular tiny pieces of reality and honed a disciplined sense of intellectual rigor are going to be outdone by random people tripping. It is uniquely offensive and arrogant.

That said, in so far as 'reality' is 'my model of reality', individuals may gain psychological insight by partaking in 'spiritual' activity, including psychedelics, and it follows that they may gain a 'special understanding of (their) reality' in that way. The problems are the magical thinking implicated in universalizing personal insight, the pitfall of assuming independence of realities beyond subjective experience, the belief subjective perception is unlimited by physical reality, and in some a tendency to insist that such insight cannot be gained in other (more mundane) ways.
As I was reading through the article, a thought experiment occurred: if a new Eazel emerged tomorrow (another Linux-focused startup led by ex-Apple "rock stars"), how would they best contribute to the Linux desktop? Join GNOME? Join KDE? Would any of their Apple-influenced paradigms even be accepted among the developers of mature DEs? Would they go create their own desktop environment ala Pantheon/elementaryOS? Would they go distro-agnostic and just contribute some "polish" to major Linux applications?

It unfortunately strikes me that the window when such a team might have had a major influence on the Linux ecosystem has passed, and most of the distros are happily entrenched in their own little fiefdoms.
And what about the cost of safely storing nuclear waste for thousands of years?
What first-party(Sony) title for 150 million buys:

https://steamdb.info/app/2443720/charts/
Yes! I did in fact try this but I was unable to find a good way to make the API work.
Yes, and that also basically killed Blu-ray support on desktop, because DRM couldn’t be implemented in an acceptable matter otherwise. Fun thing of course is, that you can probably crack any Samsung or $random_cheap_brand Blu-ray player but there are too many of them so there isn’t any group focused on a “big fish to fry”.
Ask HN: How do you deal with an off-day?
What are your go-to's for handling an off-day and still being somewhat productive?

i.e. you did not get enough sleep, you are feeling sick or just feeling tired
It's not prophesying given we have additional facts we could include to play out the alternative (socioeconomics)- if you wanted to engage from a place of intellectual honesty, that is.
> some of these continuities are not good, q.v. the Taliban

Indeed. Good point. As you well point out, in this case the past determines an outcome for the worse ...

PS. That said - I found interesting how, in a recent "live from a Taliban courtroom" video, the Sharia judge made a point along the lines of "We are lucky these aren't medieval times anymore and we have Sharia law with us ..."

They considered themselves an advance upon a certain past. Progress.-
FWIW, for furries there is a whole spectrum of different options on the realism vs. cartoony axis, so eye size may not be part of it.

OTOH, overall skull shape is much harder than just putting on a muzzle, as the phenotypes of the corresponding common real species often have eyes much closer to the top of their skulls than we do.

And those eyes have a different spacing than ours.

Basically there's a lot to consider if you want to aim for "realistic".
This page is talking about a project called iRuby, which I assume is unrelated or successor. The repository this page links had a 0.8.0 release exactly one month ago.

The same org does also have a sciruby project that hasn't been touched in 8 or 9 years like you say.
> Lol, who ran a correlation analysis between intelligence and IQ to convince you that the "correlation" between the two is high?

Well you can ridicule this statement if you like, but I can suggest a good-faith approach to this question. For example you can trying coming up with a few definitions of what intelligence could be and then look for correlation between this definitions and IQ.

I can go first: intelligence can be reasonably defined as "knowledge and skills to be successful in life, i.e. have higher-than-average income". This definition of intelligence strongly correlate with IQ. There are other possible approaches but all the ones I can think of (e.g. results in math tests) have at least some correlation with IQ.

Now how do you see intelligence? Does it correlate with IQ?
It depends on what you define as long-term. For a few decades, with proper inspections, sure. For the geological time frames needed for nuclear waste disposal, definitely not.
i see. always felt gtk layout experience similar. but i have much more exposure to tcl/tk than proper gtk.
> Containment costs and disposal costs. Containment is solved by the thousands of feet of rock and disposal is just filling in the hole with concrete and dirt.

Containment and disposal is largely a red herring. It's actually more or less a solved problem, from a safety perspective, because it turns out that the laws of exponential decay mean that you can just store it with proper shielding and it's safe for storage pretty much anywhere. I'm oversimplfying, but only a little bit - the public's perception of "nuclear waste" is extremely untethered to the actual reality.

The whole fiasco with Yucca Mountain was driven not by science, but by a desire to appease objectors by adhering to an arbitrary and unscientific perception of safety, not an actual assessment of the risks.

> while people picket nuclear facilities and wind turbines

Where are you seeing this? Nuclear energy has lost a lot of energy for active support, but active protest ("picket") of nuclear facilities is exceedingly rare these days. Wind turbines are a different matter: they're sustainable, but they're opposed by monied individuals/groups who don't want their beachfront views "ruined".
> The "you can't be 100% sure" argument is impossible to defeat, and I don't think this design will move the needle.

You can thank Greenpeace and CND and their misinformed campaigns for that.

Meanwhile fossil fuels have killed tens of millions of people, billions of animals, and changed the climate. All directly or indirectly.

Somehow, it's a version of the quote "Kill one man, and you're a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you're a conqueror", a few deaths due to Chernobyl, and people are focused on it.

But those dead miners? Or those old people with lung disease? Or those thousands of miles of bleached, dead coral?

Where's the outrage for that?
Creating "burner" Facebook accounts is trivial and most public Facebook group discussions are absolutely chock-full of them.
As if native apps do not need to be accessible
Do you remember the name of Sussman's course on system optimizations? Can't seem to find it online
the document starts with framing it applies to "non small business", so an early start up can still function with a small team of motivated volunteers outside hours, but beyond a certain size i agree with the sibling comments: if a late startup still relies on that to survive/grow, then its business model isn't working.
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Extension cords are only supposed to be used for 90 days or so, you're technically violating the NEC if you're using them in a permanent installation.
It‘s really cool that RISC-V is becoming so real (with even Android and Ubuntu already being compatible), but it shifting processor production to chinese companies feels ... weird.
I used to work _doing_ layoffs. Think George Clooney in Up In the Air.

I never encountered a layoff where performance reviews were considered. It was all line of business considerations.

My “favorite” was when the top performing call center got chopped wholesale simply because their lease was up soonest.
> I doubt most consumers ask for a native look. It's more like an HN meme.

The preference for native look was once about the impact of familiarity on usability. When 95% of people's interactions with computers was a single OS and native apps, they would expect controls to look a particular way. They could figure out other variants, sure, but from a UX design perspective, there's little reason to add that minor cognitive overhead needlessly.

Today, people's experiences are less likely to be monoculture like they once were, which dilutes one of the values of native controls. That's not to say designing with familiarity of controls in mind doesn't have value, just that it's less about, for example, buttons looking like buttons native to the OS, and more about visually reading as "this is a button" more generally.
The point is that the predictions by others have been getting higher over time. It is the basis for calling them mild.
The question is also: Where are you building it?

No one will want anything from your desalination plant in Norway, and shipping water is not a thing because it becomes too expensive.

The next problem is energy cost vs. duty cycle. The less you run due to only utilizing cheap prices the higher the impact of fixed costs on your business.
Mostly NIMBY problems that apply for the repository apply for transportation, but in lesser scale. Yucca was not as dry or geological stable as initially thought, and the requirements for "permanent" disposal are very stringent, so Yucca is not considered anymore for long-term storage.
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This is in fact how it works. You are taking a fraction of the mass of the Uranium and turning it into energy. Although limitless is a stretch. Maybe 100,000 years or so of energy with known deposits of thorium and uranium. Solar is a bit closer to "Limitless."
Stephen Wolfram thinks we need philosophers working on big questions around AI
Do what I can & be cognizant as to the effect my slowness will have.

And if doubt, be honest walk away and take some me time after letting the team know.
> maybe the discrepancy that dark matter was invented to explain will simply disappear when more accurate astronomical data including the fainter stars becomes available.

Clearly you mean galactic rotation curves. However, your statement seems to ignore the numerous, independent probes of dark matter which we have seen since then, most of which are much stronger evidence, most notably the shape of the CMB angular powerspectrum.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_matter#Observational_ev...
> if a new Eazel emerged tomorrow (another Linux-focused startup led by ex-Apple "rock stars"), how would they best contribute to the Linux desktop?

Probably by joining elementary OS:

https://elementary.io/
> The cost isn't so much the materials themselves as the regulatory burden imposed by them. You need to guard them indefinitely even after the plant is shut down.

These are all issues for fossil fuel extraction as well, and I have bad news for you about how this problem is currently handled.
Not just individual paycheck disbursements -- scans of the entire paycheck, any routing and account numbers, tax withholdings, medical deductions, ....
Usually you want to split each layer to run with tensor parallelism, which works optimally if you can assign each kv head to a specific GPU. All currently popular models have a power of 2 number of kv heads.
Valve just announced that games existence a few days ago and it's still deep in development. I'm not sure what point you are trying to make based upon its count of early play-testers?
> if you say what you are saying without qualifying that its only because of social factors that people of particular races tend to have lower IQs, then you are a racist, which is the generally agreed upon definition

Generally agreed upon by whom? Just you? The dictionary definition, which is most indicative of what is generally agreed upon, of "racist" denotes a requirement of prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism. An assertion of different races exhibiting different IQs due to heredity factors may be incorrect, but being incorrect does not imply prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism.
Anthropic: Artifacts are now generally available
> table should be understandable without knowing german

The "Ja" and "Nein" parts are, but I don't think, for example, "Rückverfolgbarkeit" is understandable without knowing German (having to know "UTZ" means "Rainforest Alliance" is a different issue).
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Same here couple decades ago, but along with that being poor also limits your alternative forms of entertainment as well as access to the latest high performance HW. Which leads to both the boredom required to think that sitting in front of ones computer for days on end hacking as well as the motivation to figure our how to hack some game to run slightly better.

I freqently think that my parents best parenting choice was the choice to not have a TV in our house when I was growing up. It both saved them money but removed a very common time wasting/entertainment outlet. My own kids went from playing with legos, creating art, or messing with science kits to playing on their phones as soon as they were given that choice. And i'm still of the opinion that providing that choice was a big mistake, they are experts on the latest social media fad, and quite ignorant about things I wish they would have learned.

So, yes enviroment matters, some kids will hack even when given an xbox and a pile of games, but I think more of them will try it if they aren't given those choices.
>Versa said the weakness allows attackers to upload a file of their choosing to vulnerable systems.

I am curious why doesn't Versa use the exploit themselves to patch the issue? it would be a great wake up moment to realize that stuff is not secure as it should be with updates.
Climate change is not just global warming. It adds storms that keep destroying infrastructure and killing people. It also adds acid rain.

Solar panels are great but are easily impacted by hail and dust.
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I agree with you that the requirements for permanent safe storage are very high - thousands of years with no leak, besides others - but nonetheless, even with simpler requirements, Yucca - or any other georep - was not deemed safe.
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/08/29/tech/ai-chatbot-hallucina...

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/04/why-a...

https://apnews.com/article/artificial-intelligence-hallucina...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2023-04-03/chatgp...