skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everyone has an optimistic view of eugenics in practice when it comes to mate selection. How is embryo selection any different?
Cats were not domesticated, they opted to coexist with a overly invasive species and have been doing pretty okay because of that, perhaps advocates of felinocide would be interested in joining VHEMT to address the root of what bothers them.
Is there a ground truth photo? It looks like the images here are all AI generated, which seems an odd choice if you're targeting real estate where (I'd hope) there's value in having the generated image accurately reflect the actual room. That it appears to freely change the room layout (doors and hallways imagined into the corner of a few rooms, dimensions don't appear super consistent) may imply my assumptions are wrong about your target market. This isn't a comment on your work so much as your users. If this tool is being used for inspirational home improvement, great! But when this stuff starts showing up in real estate and AirBnB listings, that starts feeling like fraud.

Also, I don't understand the pricing model: free to start but $0.08 per design. What's a "design?" I assume a single image. How many designs are offered for free?
Unfortunately I never found much resources on how to practice it. I had this piano teacher who was fond of it and claimed being able to visualize the piano ( whole keyboard, how opened it was, the sheet stand, the texture of the keys etc. ), the sheet with its content for both hands, his hands, feeling his posture, feeling his feet on the pedals, feeling his hands move and hear the sound it should make.

I didn't achieve this level yet, but I'm 100% sure it's genuine, the guy could sing and play to prove he could see / hear / feel what he said.

Some learning process, applied to music were :

- Learning a tune with the music sheet away from the piano. The process is to imagine yourself playing it when you're looking at the music and try to hear it. Then, walk to the piano and try to visualize the sheet while playing it.

- The opposite : improvising and trying to visualize what you're improvising. At first you can just imagine the note on the staff, then enrich it with rhythm, putting it at the correct octave, add the left hand etc.. etc..

- Another one, which was quite crazy is that when you actually visualize a piece of music, you can try to play it in backward ( note and rhythm included ), or transpose it in your head and play it transposed.

As a matter of fact, this enabled me to learn some tunes in the train, and being able to play them with confidence the first time on the piano ( which is obvious because I had played them around 20x time in my head )

At this time I was playing around 6 to 8 hours a day, but I was able to actively work on that skill ~30 minutes a day, in the morning. I was unable to practice this when tired, or when I had drank alcohol the previous day, or when stressed. I also found that having a simple 10 minute meditation routine helped a lot focusing for this kind of work.

It took 1 month until I felt the first "improvements" and around 5/6 years until I could reliably use it. To this day I still thinks it helps me memorize faster and more reliably, and I feel like it gives me more ability to process stuff in my head. Consistency seem to be key for it to stick.
OpenAI would deserve to get dumped by MS. Just like "the boss" dumped everyone, including his own principles.

Maybe that's why Sam Altman is so eager to get billions and build his own datacenters.
>This is just language. Perhaps it's not actually a big deal that "Theoretical Computer Science" does not cleanly fall into your usual "Science" label?

What are you talking about? You're regurgitating points I already made as if I never made those points...

I literally said Computer science is NOT a science.

I said several times, it's a linguistic/nomenclature issue.

I don't think you're reading my responses. Are you trolling? If not please read over my responses more carefully.
> > PURCHASE ZINE

> Is the only way to get a copy of the manifesto, really to purchase it (or join as a member)? How is someone supposed to even know whether they want to be involved in the project, if they aren't allowed to read the document first?

The ZINE is publicly available: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ra6r2zSkw7NCYNTAqP9923ValZi...
Myopia is considered a highly heritable condition. See sources 12-17 on this paper as a starting point https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8947159/#B12-childr...

That does not mean that there is no environmental factor, but it does mean there is a genetic factor.
All good points, but sovereign wealth funds in the countries in which they operate well are typically a nationalized retirement program and by definition on behalf of the citizenry: countries like the us that instead fund social security through taxes and a reliance on population growth have pretty different systems. I do not believe the us could or would run a successful sovereign wealth fund: it’s a vastly more complex economy with attendant legal regulatory and social challenges than the countries where sovereign wealth funds have been most successful: Singapore (tiny, nearly a benevolent dictatorship), the nords - oil or drug wealth with small very homogenous communities - Saudi : a strong royal family.

In contrast the US economy and legal system fully bake the neoliberal economic viewpoint into our institutions: we are a country that outsources almost everything including everything financial to the private sector.

To me it’s just extremely unlikely that a system like that would work. Sadly because if my social security payments over the years had gone to temasek I would have done quite well..
sqlite is the only thing that makes me sad I have CGO_ENABLED=0.
Ok so if you are doing sentiment analysis of user product reviews you want to silently truncate emoji because you don’t like them? That’s a good idea how?
> A lot of people think they must buy a house in the suburbs, just because everyone else says so. They actually despair if they don't. The extent to which people imitate desires of others in societies that are supposed to be free is incredible.

Indeed, and I am quite amazed by that seeing that behavior in others. Although maybe/probably I am biased by other narratives in similar ways while not being aware. I feel it would be liberating to understand those narratives and see them for the mere stories they are.
I'm currently using SQLite + Litestream with one app, though it's strictly Litestream as a backup/safety net and I'd be manually standing the thing back up if it came to building the server anew, as that's not automated.

If anything, I'd probably end up looking at a dedicated PG VPS. I've started to get used to a few Postgres conveniences over SQLite, especially around datetimes, various extensions, and more sophisticated table alterations (without that infamous SQLite 12-step process), etc. So that's been an evolution, too, compared to my always-SQLite days.
On many roads if a deer jumps across the road at the wrong time there’s literally nothing you can do. You can’t always drive at 30mph on back country roads just because a deer might hop out at you.
The point of the paper is that political scientists (mostly in the US) have previously assumed this behavior is universal.
Exactly, the title says "without search" but in the paper it says "without explicit search", having a system learn to play chess at a grandmaster-level without any search for play or training would be far more impressive, what this does seems pretty obvious that it would work.
>Where did you get this stereotype of farmers?

it's not a hard guess even if you don't share the opinion ; nearly every movie where 'farmer' is a plot point demonstrates a rural-living poorly educated family living in dust-bowl conditions and barely scraping enough resource by to feed the animals.

grapes of wrath, wizard of oz, of mice and men, o brother where art thou, ballad of buster scruggs -- yes it's a stereotype , but it's a common one in movies and literature.
The author clearly explains in the post:

> When I started this solar-powered website project, I wasn't trying to revolutionize sustainable computing or drastically cut my electricity bill. I was driven by curiosity, a desire to have fun, and a hope that my journey might inspire others to explore local-first or solar-powered hosting.

> The cost savings? Looking at our last electricity bill, we pay an average of $0.325 per kWh in Boston. This means the savings amount to $2.85 USD per year (8.76 kWh * $0.325/kWh = $2.85). Not exactly something to write home about.
I assume there will be some energy within the cooperative to establish some shared means of production. It seems probable.
As far as I know, historically it wasn't fixed. People didn't live just anywhere they wanted, they lived where there were exploitable resources, be it farmland, mines, or what have you. If the resources dried up the city simply ceased to be. The idea of creating opportunities where people live can only exist within tertiary and quaternary economies, possibly in secondary. Until about two or three hundred years ago nearly all economy was primary, with a small secondary sector right next to where the resources were extracted (because logistics also wasn't as advanced as what we have today; it didn't make sense to move raw materials very far).
Ampwall is also a thing, a public benefit company - https://ampwall.com/
I would be interested in seeing someone working on an example problem and attempting to describe their inner thought process while doing it. Could be an interesting idea to compile a range of developers doing it with various day to day tasks they are already doing into a Youtube channel
Satya Nadella's Microsoft seems to have given up on hardware excellence
It's especially amusing that the post originally describing that observation (Poe's Law) was on a Christian forum talking about how they couldn't tell the difference between trolls and... ahem passionate posters.
This is common in retail environments, and it makes sense. Corporate support staff get experience with the pain points that store staff experience, which (in theory) improves store operations and customer service.
We shouldn't even be doing that for cats.

Domestic cats are an invasive species that decimate the native wildlife. "free-ranging domestic cats kill 1.3–4.0 billion birds and 6.3–22.3 billion mammals annually."[0]

Since we're talking about Florida, this is what their Fish & Game department has to say on the topic:

> * Domestic cats are not a part of Florida’s natural ecosystem. A single individual free-ranging cat may kill 100 or more birds and mammals per year. Scientists in Wisconsin estimate that cats kill at least 7.8 million birds per year in that state alone. Even cats with bells on their collars kill or injure birds and small mammals.

> * Cats compete with native wildlife and can spread disease. Outdoor cats have been identified as the primary host in the transmission of toxoplasmosis to wildlife, a disease which has caused death in manatees and other mammals.

[0]: https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms2380
[1]: https://myfwc.com/wildlifehabitats/nonnatives/feral-cats/
Electronic Gaming Monthly Compendium smashes Kickstarter goal on day one
As long as they think that they're getting fixed, then that's recurring revenue! You can blame any regressions on the EM emissions of the outside world.
This describes my perception as well, I think. Except for me it’s more of a spatial system than a visual one. I recall things by how I got there - whether that’s a reference on a webpage or a variable deep in a callstack, it’s sorted in my head according to the path that brought me there. And then I have some fast lookups for “things nearby,” like maybe I can’t remember the exact file with a definition in it, but I can remember the text around it and know what to search for.
FAQ: "Can I read the zine first?" has an email input box.
Well, at this point most new data being created is conversations with chatgpt, seeing as how stack overflow and reddit are increasingly useless, so their conversation logs are their moat.
Year Non-Compete
Yesterday, I interviewed for a startup, and they asked me to sign an NDA before they could share more. The founder seemed legit, and the team looked experienced—no red flags at that stage. But then I got the NDA last night… and wow. This could be the worst and strictest NDA I’ve ever seen. I’m definitely not signing it as is. It’s a huge red flag. I seriously doubt any real lawyer drafted this. Every timeline for disclosure is set at 10 years.

Now here’s where it gets wild—they want me to sign a non-compete clause for the second meeting. Meaning I wouldn’t be able to work in my own field if I sign. But get this… for a century. Yeah, 100 years. Not that it’s enforceable, but they’re basically trying to kick me out of my industry before they’ve even decided whether to hire me. Come on.

There are a lot of other red flags in this 11-page document too. If they think they’re going to attract top talent with this NDA, they’ve got another thing coming. I’m also wondering if the rest of the team actually signed this. If they did, I’m starting to have doubts about their experience. Now, at this point, do I attempt to negotiate the NDA or just move on?
Perhaps a simpler explanation is they don’t remember her concerts because her music is inherently forgettable. The author nearly gets there and then doesn’t seem to finish.
The feds are not in charge of key legislation like the DMCA, and their power to regulate things has been severely curtailed by the supreme court in recent months. If we want these things to change, we need to seek out all of the individuals in the House and Senate who oppose these things and mount systematic campaigns to replace them. And do the same thing at the state level. Demanding that the feds "do something" without clear legislation is not going to work anymore.
> How is "project 2025" relevant? It's a random blog post.

This seems to massively undersell the resources that went into it's creation and promotion. ref:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025
You might underestimate the power games that are artist royalties agreements and the current domination by large corporates.
I've not been to the Rodin museum, but this summer I visited the Hirshhorn sculpture garden in DC. One of their exhibits is one of the 12 original casts of Rodin's "burghers of Calais".

Except this summer they were doing some maintenance work, so this wonderful huge bronze sculpture was moved off to a corner, fenced off and surrounded by picnic tables where people sat to eat ice cream. The contrasting juxtaposition was just incredible to observe.
I've done GNSS localization in SF and I can't relate to what you're saying here. It's not notably more challenging than any other dense urban environment and the public commercial maps (e.g. Google, Apple) have better data than they do in most cities. I saw more issues with Pittsburgh and Phoenix because they hit weird edge cases no one had foreseen than SF, which had the typical issues you expect to see in urban canyons. Plus, there are local GNSS companies testing in the bay area, so stuff tends to just work out of the box.
This happens to me also.
I have an unfounded, loose theory that this is when my left and right brain are in sync with each other. Some days I'm more creative, others I'm more logical but when I'm in the zone I'm both of those things at once and everything 'clicks' together so easily, regardless of what it is.
Just install Cygwin.

Not sure what you mean by “default shell”. The default shell on Windows is this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_shell. I don’t suppose you mean booting into Bash. Windows doesn’t have any other notion of a default shell.
Yes, the concern is mainly the cost. Running this AI model is expensive, and unfortunately creating an account with a real email is indeed the most effective way to prevent abuse. In an ideal world where everyone plays fair, I’d let anyone try it directly from the landing page, but that's not the reality.

There is no credit card required btw, I should probably make that clearer on the landing page.
In my experience, changing the password at big corps usually locks you out and requires a call to IT. I had a success rate of about 50% when I had to change passwords. It was the most frustrating thing...

"Oh yeah your password change properly is not synced to all servers yet. Just wait and try again later"

"Oh you tried the new password too many times while it was not synced yet. Your account is now locked. You need a manager approval to unlock your account."
Definitely considering a dedicated Postgres VPS. I've not looked yet, but I'd like to locate a decent cookbook around this. I've installed Postgres on a server before for playing around, and it was easy enough. But there are a lot of settings, considerations around access and backups and updates, etc. I suspect these things aren't overly thorny, but some of the guides/docs can make it feel that way. We'll see, as it's an area of interest, for sure.
Spacewarp takes the motion vectors and depth buffer and generates new frames from the extrapolated motion. Its detailed here. https://developers.meta.com/horizon/blog/introducing-applica...

> For the latter, as I mentioned, the extrapolation is not on velocity: you still compute regular game ticks but by holding the input constant. This is quite different from extrapolating velocities.

Replicating velocity is fairly common. Unreal's character movement replicates velocity and not inputs. I would personally argue that even doing a full game tick with replicated velocities is extrapolation. I'm not sure what the distinction would be or what counts as a full tick with error correction vs local extrapolation per tick with error correction.
I think silicon valley actually LIKES founder fiefdoms. Not really the same spirit as worker cooperatives. The cap table is the game.
This felt a bit familiar to me despite being published today. Turns out it reminded me of https://samkriss.substack.com/p/taylor-swift-does-not-exist by the same author.
EDIT: it seems the author is just mistaken, the Go assembler is just referred to by everyone else as "Go Assembler" and nothing to do with plan9, other than the various connections to its origin.
> Donald Trump Says Project 2025 Author 'Coming on Board' If Elected

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-says-project-2025-auth...
"The main complaining about Deere and other brands are the guys that get mad they hacked the code for the ecu and allowed the engine to rev higher and provide more horsepower. Thus lowering the life of the engine and bypassing certain things like DEF. Then something breaks, and the dealer denies the warranty cause it's obvious they messed with the code. So then they go ape shit and say they should be able to customize their vehicle however they want. I know this cause I used to work at a dealer and this happened every season. They read up on some forum how to bypass stuff and boom, I'm replacing their engine."
Aren't they essentially run by safetyists? So they would be less willing to release a model that pushes the boundaries of capability and agency
Yes it was a cautionary tale, but not about the technology, but about the role of empathy and the human spirit.

The actual technology of Gattaca has already started 50 years ago with the first "test tube babies" and IVF treatments. You get a "optical selection" of the most well developed blastocysts, checking for symmetry, growth rates, and other biomarkers, without even resorting to DNA sequencing selection.

It will absolutely make the world a better place long term - all of our children can be genetically "the best of us", according to various criteria. I'm all for it.
Well, a backdoor is more traditionally referred to be something secret, but if I remember correctly it's been routinely used for the overt LI things as well, at least since the "crypto wars" in the 90s

It sure is how the EFF is using the word in this article
If you like haskell, you might* like some of the other applications of linq's query syntax, like combinatoric parser construction. [1] The query syntax isn't hard-coded to do stuff with IEnumerable, that's just what it does by default. It can be used for pretty much anything. It works a bit like operator overloading.

[1]: https://github.com/acple/ParsecSharp/blob/da8d0cb9ec39e28dd9...
Incorrect. Snakes have very minimal hearing. A bit in the lower frequencies, but we’re mostly talking about vibrations picked up from the ground… they don’t have external ear canals.
Thanks for the encouragement! The list was originally made for regular users, but your suggestions seem more geared toward developers. I’ll look into it!
No surprises there. Steve has always been a great writer.
I confess to counting soft deletes until i have enough of them.

[{"name": "Bob", age: 22}, {"name": "Sally", age: 40, "deleted":"2024-10-18 12:34:56"}]
What also wasn't a thing: Copying an artwork in two seconds with a cost less than a cup of coffee.
Prove what point? There have clearly been crooked or underhanded companies that achieved success. Microsoft in its early heyday, for example. The fact that they paid a price for it doesn't obviate the fact that they still managed to become one of the biggest companies in history by market cap despite their bad behavior. Heck, what about Donald Trump? Hardly anyone in business has their crookedness as extensively documented as Trump and he has decent odds of being a two-term US President.

What about the guy who repaired my TV once, where it worked for literally a single day, and then he 100% ghosted me? What was I supposed to do, try to get him canceled online? Seems like being a little shady didn't manage to do him any harm.

It's not clear to me whether it's usually worth it to be underhanded, but it happens frequently enough that I'm not sure the cost is all that high.
I would miss it for `let`, and for multiple `from` clauses. These are things that can be done with extension methods and callbacks, just not as elegantly.
"I asked the robot"
Arms crossed

Was not going to argue happiness at all. In fact, happiness seems a very hedonistic and selfish way to measure it too.

My position is more mother goose-like. We simply have basic morals that we teach children but don't apply to ourselves. Be honest. Be generous. Be fair. Be strong. Don't be greedy. Be humble.

That these are objectively moral is unprovable but true.

It's religious and stoic in nature.

It's anathema to HN, I know.
I should probably post on MobileRead with this question instead, but I wondered if you might have insight into this issue I've been having with my Kobo.

I've noticed that when I read on my Kobo I run into issue with ebook files. When I use Calibre to send .epub files I'll have lots of reliability issues; books will freeze up, pages won't turn, whole sections of the book wind up being unreadable, stuff like that. Having Calibre reformat books in the kobo epub format seems to help some, but I still have page turn issues from time to time.

Have you see any of this behavior before? As far as I'm concerned this would be the perfect ereader if it were just more reliable.
(2018)

"This post briefly summarizes part of a talk I gave in 2018. All information in this post has been accessible on YouTube since then. There is no new information or news in this post."
With barbarism you mean breaking of any rule of engagement? Shooting civilians, children, innocents? Or fighting for the right to rape detainees on TV? Or starving 2.5 mil civilians?

The whole world sees who the barbarians are. You keep believing in fairy tales in your echo chamber.

[1] British doctor: „IDF deliberately shoots 5-12 year old children in the head“
https://youtu.be/0jlT-NRx-u4

[2] Footage of Israeli soldiers gang-raping a Palestinian hostage at Sde Teiman published by Israel's Ch12
https://x.com/EsheruKwaku/status/1821043507152195751
Are there that many (or even any) autonomous vehicles designed to drive on bike paths and/or sidewalks exclusively ?
Macros in Rust, the Wrong Way