skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's useful here to split up these people into different categories. Terrance Tao was a prodigy and was allowed to succeed within the school system beyond what others are given access to. Zuckerberg and Gates succeeded and didn't require finishing college - not really dropping out.

Indie Gaming slant on these following examples, and I suspect that this sector is above average for this type of thing, but I suspect if I looked I could find many dropouts in other fields. On the other hand, Carmack dropped out of college, Jonathan Blow dropped out of college. Markus Persson dropped out of high school. Eric Barone never found a job despite graduating from college. All of these people are out-of-this-world fucking good, but were not at the time that they dropped out, which means according to your guide should not have gone on to create what they did.
Isn't anything that avoids too many syscalls and copying between userspace and kernel 35% faster? Including filesystems that run completely on user space (not FUSE, FUSE calls go trough kernel)
What does this term “federated” being thrown around in tech lately mean?
Games usually have kinks worked out - if you build project you might end up chasing one liner for a week.

From game I get instant gratification as if I play by the game guide/rules I can have something satisfying built in one evening.
That's what's on the label, but clearly not what's in the tin.
I'm curious how you would explain the countries that have extremely strict and harsh drug laws, and yet have not had all of the "dramatic downsides" that you say would result of such a policy? They're actual real-world data points that conflict with your theory.
For me, it was as easy as adding a shortcut to the YouTube homepage on Brave that it basically acts like the YouTube app, but with ad blocking built in. It's the only way I watch YT videos on mobile.
Engineers disease. All nutrition threads on HN are complete train wrecks of nonsense. I wish dang would ban them all outright.
Sounds challenging. Our entire aid approach is broken.

We should just invest in African country's infrastructure the way China has perfected, its working out better for China, while masterfully avoiding any criteria for retaliatory jihad. Something that America just doesn't conceptually get. Well, a few people might get it, but its defense contractors don't care to avoid jihad.
Well I wouldn’t mind a few less Zucks and a few more e.g. Doudna.
I thought they track them with RFID.
Ratatouille has of course separated them before eating.
Hmm when has it happened in the past? This is literally the Lemmy creator so it seems somewhat unique! But I could definitely just be behind the times.

Are there other federation projects other than mastodon and Lemmy?
Maybe that tool just doesn't fit my use-case, but I'm not sure how you'd use it to do incremental backups? I store all of my backups in S3 Glacier for the cheap storage, so there's nothing for me to rsync onto.

I can see how you'd use it for replication though.
I do not, legitimately, know how to respond to you now. That is just amazingly uninformed and ridiculous. Have a nice week!
Quantum Go (2016)
I don’t find n=1s to be a good form of evidence. Many people may disagree, but that doesn’t mean they’re right.

Look at the dose response curve for wholegrain consumption in this bad boy (and yes, it’s looking at whole cereal grains, not including fruits and vegetables). Greater consumption associated with better outcomes: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000291652...
> In October [2021], David Beasley, head of the U.N. food agency, tweeted a cheeky congratulations to Musk for reportedly earning $36 billion in a single day. "1/6 of your one-day increase would save 42 million lives that are knocking on famine's door," he wrote.

> A few days later, Musk tweeted: "If WFP can describe on this Twitter thread exactly how $6B will solve world hunger, I will sell Tesla stock right now and do it."

Last I heard he owed $11B to the US Gov in taxes in 2021, I hope it was put to good use.
A service that takes arbitrary user input and then attempts to download/proxy whatever is at the end of that input. Brave soul.
That's only true if all parties have the option to back out: If Bob doesn't like the terms of Alice's loan, he doesn't have to take it.

But if Alice grants Bob a loan and then later sells the debt to Charlie, Bob didn't get the opportunity to consent to the transfer. Depending on Charlie's behavior, it may suddenly be in Bob's best interest to default on that loan. So it's not necessarily mutually beneficial, in fact it's frequently exploitative.

But suppose Alice sells the debt to 1000 people in tiny slices, 200 of which are depended on by Bob in some way, 600 of which are independent parties that neither help nor harm Bob besides profiting on his debt, and 200 of which are working with Charlie in a mining endeavor which is poisoning Bob's water or whatever. It creates an information asymmetry where Bob may not be capable of determining who he is harming or helping if he defaults on the loan (Charlie and his 200 cronies, however, they have accountants on staff and know exactly what they're doing).

That's the second problem: Bob can't make an informed choice regarding the real-world consequences of his behavior, so the system becomes blind to those consequences. Bob and the rest of us who live nearby--whose retirement portfolios may have been unwittingly contributing to the problem--still have to deal with the consequences. Had the consequence of holding Bob's debt been known to us, perhaps we'd prefer to take the hit to our portfolios than to deal with the fallout of Charlie's actions.
I agree. Public sector IT becomes a huge sprawl of technologies and cottage industry applications which makes administering these often rarely touched interfaces difficult to do properly when department budgets are tight and resources are busy fire fighting the processes that failed the night before.

It is also difficult to hire because wages are generally low compared to similar roles in private industry, yet they need skilled staff to manage these complex environments. A lot of services don't get the attention they need, not just patching and upgrades but development, requirements capture and usability all kept to a minimum cost to keep the sinking ship afloat.

All these constraints also lean to a culture of poor security, JFDI, rip and replace, insufficent hardware etc... just so the business can operate on whatever computer on wheels in the shipping depot or relatively expensive to replace electronic gate system with intergration to their custom fleet management software.

Government outsourcing to another related body has its cost advantages but the many domain administrator users, the huge flat VmWare estate and the hardware well beyond warranty doesn't dissapear.

Designed to serve immediate needs but without long-term maintenance or holistic design in mind. Outsourcing amplifies the issue.
Open Sesame 1.1 (vintage Mac automation software based on early neural nets)
Would love to see some network like Freenet start to see more adoption - it seems obvious that we need something like this. GNUnet seems to have some interesting ideas and good motivations too.

I will admit that I didn't follow the renaming or possibly forking or whatever happened to freenet / hyphanet / etc back last when I was reading about this. If someone could explain it clearly that would be stellar.
> how would the example look like when written in python for example?

That seems like an easy question, but there a lot of choices which complicate it. I'm sure people have compiled CPython to WebAssembly, but I think you only get the WebAssembly imports they (or Emscripten) have chosen for you. I can't use that as an example of what I was trying to show.

It looks like py2wasm is aiming for a true Python to WASM compiler, rather than compiling an interpreter. However, I don't think it supports user-defined imports/exports yet. There's a recent issue thread about this (https://github.com/wasmerio/py2wasm/issues/5).

> how would it compare with non-wasm javascript?

I'm not sure I understand the question. If you're just using JavaScript, it just looks like JavaScript.
No, merely using the standard Android emulator, as well as the x86_64 images that have been available for a while (or the ARM64 ones if you're on an M1 and others). With hardware acceleration properly setup, it's a nice experience. https://developer.android.com/studio/run/emulator-commandlin...

It does tend to be very unhappy when the system gets under load though, and might be sluggish if you're running a dozen IDEs on the side.

(Which, as comment under says, is technically a VM. But QEMU gets a pass at pretending not to be a VM and rather just black wizardry that makes bytes happy)
> it's just that their currency is also losing ground against the USD even as they grow.

USD/EUR is pretty much where it was back in 2015 despite of the swings (in both directions) since then.

The Euro crashed in 2014 there was no real gradual decline which would explain this stagnation/growth.

even in inflation adjusted PPP, France was at around ~51k per capita back in $55. There is very little growth (of any kind) outside of Central/Eastern European EU countries and a small few pockets.
(Hope crossposting this historical tibit I thought was interesting/nostalgic is ok)
https://www.reddit.com/r/VintageApple/comments/1gd50w1/tryin...
Tell HN: Open-source AIGC has a data problem
Call-to-action: upload your own local video collection to HuggingFace and share it with the world.

If you want powerful open-source video models, consider uploading your hoarded videos to Hugging Face. With SORA's release, we have proprietary video models that surpass anything before, but there's no champion for open-source video advancements like there was with LLM (Meta/Mistral).

Stable Diffusion was built on the easily accessible LAION dataset, comprising around 5 billion images. Now, as video becomes the dominant medium, 99% of online video is concentrated on one platform (youtube), limiting data diversity.

Many of you have stashed videos over the years—just like those on r/DataHoarder. It’s time to share those archives! By uploading them as torrents or to Hugging Face, you can contribute to the development of the next generation of open-source video models. Let’s make this effort count!
Agree. At least in my western country, it has become almost expected that everyone is fully confident all the time.
I’m someone who likes to deliberate on thoughts, take my time, listen to opinions and assess them, then provide my opinion (which may also change over time with more information or changing circumstances). I am humble, a listener, and don’t believe I know everything. I feel a little out of place in current society.
www is already decentralized
I can understand being curious about it since it is one of the most unusual looking vehicles. But, I mean, I saw one on Main Street recently and it was ugly as heck. I'd be curious about it too, without ever having any wish to buy one.
The discovery of rapamycin sounds like something a Joe Rogan guest would pontificate about. What an interesting drug.
> It's easy to distinguish the worthless degrees from the valuable ones. Google the starting salaries of each major.

Agreed.

> If a person picks a useless major, the decision is on them.

Not just them. Their parents, the school, etc. There are so many "simple" things to know. Too many for them to always be obvious, even when they "obviously" should be.

A mistake that a million young students make is a mistake worth updating the educational system to handle better.

And as an objective practical matter, it is always on society. Society systematically loses masses of individual potential by not providing more guidance when it matters. (And perversely turning education into an easy loan factory, regardless of expected income, the opposite of good guidance.)
Yeah--it's expired. One of the pitfalls of the push to encrypt everything.
The old Freenet project is now named Hyphanet and is available at https://www.hyphanet.org/index.html
> no consequences.

I recommend "repercussions" ;)
The work on the Esplanade. No show jobs, no work jobs
Yes. We looked at all version control systems (fossil, pijul, jj, git, darc, sapling). None provide what we need:

- target the browser

- supports any file format, not just text files

- understands changes, not just versioning of files

- suited to build web apps on top

- ultimately enable 1000's of artists, designers, lawyers, civil engineers, etc. to collaborate

we are 2 years into the journey. dec 16, we'll release a public preview
Yep, BigMac is real, 'real dollar GDP' is not.
While I am extremely skeptical of the healthy-ness of a diet entirely made of meat and other animal products, I'm not sure what particular nutrients you are thinking of. The only thing that animal products don't contain that can be found in plants is dietary fiber, and it's somewhat debatable whether to call that a nutrient. But otherwise, meat and other animal products contain all of the necessary proteins, fats, and vitamins. After all, we all live entirely on animal products for ~1 year of our lives, when we exclusively drink milk.

The problem with meat is that it doesn't contain carbohydrates, which are a cheap source of energy, so the body has to work a lot more to get its energy, and with a lot more by-products. Also, the lack of fiber will significantly alter the gut microbiome, and almost always leads to stool issues.
Remind me what happens to a US citizen if our personal finances "struggle with fraud" and unaccountability to the tune of 40% when it comes to the IRS?
I don't intend to be mean but isn't the federated wikipedia, the web.

Wikipedias whole value function, don't get me wrong it's a great value function, is that it is a curated centralized web.
Tbh I know it’s not what you’re going for, but your parents’ dietary decisions generally sound based AF (apart from bottled fluoridated water - depending on the fluoride levels in your drinking water that may or may not be beneficial).

Chex, I suppose it depends on whether it was wholegrain or not. Wholegrain cereal is associated with pretty good health benefits, refined not so much.
Looking for VISA/relocation supported international growth marketing job?
please share your portfolios and ideas.
That’s the bar now?
Code line count tends to grow exponentially. The bigger the code base, the more unreasonable it is to expect people not to reinvent an existing wheel, due to ignorance of the code or fear of breaking what exists by altering it to handle your use case (ignorance of the uses of the code).

IME it takes less time to go from 100 modules to 200 than it takes to go from 50 to 100.
The only time I see a post on Mastodon it's always some angry and hateful rant. It seems extremely toxic.
It’s okay if loops doesn’t become the next TikTok. Not every project needs to take over the world. Alternatives are good.
If by "never works" you mean "someone's side project whose monetization strategy is to put up a donation link never takes down an established business worth hundreds of millions in a fraction of the time it took for such business to establish itself as some sort of a monopoly", then yeah, no shit.
My question is only if it was a crime. It's OK to question evidence without being for the thing being evidenced against.
I wish this was a link to the original Oxfam audit. It's strange to me that an audit would say that there's somewhere between $23 and $41 billion missing. If the audit really knew what it was doing, wouldn't it have a more precise number What is unaccounted for?

That said, it's high-time for organizations like the World Bank to have fully transparent finances. Like, I should be able to go to a website and see where every single dollar is being spent. I say this as someone who's a citizen of a country who contributes heavily to the org And therefore, I think I have a right to know where my money's going.
I guess the subtle distinction here is that these great composers probably did it because they simply could do it as one deliberate choice among many. Lesser composers may be stuck mimicing a few styles because they lack the skill to go beyond them.

But if some unpublished work mimics a certain style, I would assume that it is an exercise to gain a better understanding of that style.
I understand the concern over public sentiment but where will the revenue come from to pay those benefits? The ratio of workers to retirees is inevitably going to go way down and it seems unrealistic to expect that the government can borrow its way out of the problem. The retirees will have to take a hit somehow.
Skool is better than Kajabi: https://www.skool.com/games?ref=9e87ed38fc83460e99e76085cd46...
That seems to be the same goal for
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Main_Page

Do you mean something different, e.g. not just structured data?
My opinion is, that you don't really learn a language and its concepts (deeply) by coding for about 1 or 2 hours daily following tutorials. You learn it, when you are coding >5h a day solving problems you did not come up with yourself (company projects), best case while reading much code of a foreign code base trying to understand and extend it.

Learning a language to get a job is probably the wrong long term motivation. In my opinion learning multiple languages should be more out of interest for new concepts[1]. I would also think that a great C# programmer should be able to learn PHP quick enough to apply for a PHP job - but I wouldn't recommend it.

The first language I learned was PHP, and I still love it, but it was hard work to apply for a job not having PHP as the main language, because PHP was a limited language in terms of concepts. The language evolved over the years, but due to its nature still lacks Generics, Multithreading (at least kind of), Events and many more, also considering it not has the best Performance.

My recommendation:

Even if in your local area PHP is the most wanted language, I'd rather apply for a remote C# job, than focussing on PHP. If you would like to add something to your portfolio, I'd go with a compiled / strongly typed language like Rust, Go or Java, checkout Python and jump on the AI hype train or put more effort in improving your actual skills (in JavaScript and C#). I think C# and JavaScript / TypeScript are great languages to find a job BTW.

1: https://pilabor.com/blog/2021/05/learn-concepts-not-framewor...
How can you know that your car, with a SIM card inside, you do not own, do not collect personal data: the OEM can say "we do not", you can't prove the contrary except with complex actions, partially illegal as well.
Billionaire emits a million times more greenhouse gases than the average person
Streams that are not DRM protected can be saved directly by the browser or by free tools like VLC. It would be illegal to try and work around DRM, which is why there aren't easily available tools for that.
Who makes money from Seattle parking tickets?
the readers here are being "chumped" IMHO .. lots of comments fall hook, line and sinker for an obvious rage-bait. Does not the article say that these are "declared allocated" but not yet dispersed? Is this related to the multi-hundred billions pledged through the Paris Accords system that have not actually been applied to anything yet?

Intelligent people here are quick to jump on a 2-dimensional puppet headline to provoke the predictable canned outrage.

Yes, outrage is certainly appropriate .. daily oil profits? wasteful and unrelenting energy practices across civilization?
Well.. it depends what you but with that money. If you only buy Russian goods (lol) then PPP makes sense. Foreign imports? Not so much. Of course Chinese cars and some goods presumably would be quite a bit cheaper than in Italy due to no tariffs.
I don't read this as a problem of fraud within Oxfam. They audited the World Bank and found there was fraud in the bank. Or am I missing something?
My guess is that FOSS is the big winner here.

I think the analogy with locks is that most locks on the market will be given away for free, and then the liability rests on the person who selects the lock - protect your bank vault with a Masterlock screwed into 2x4 and you are in trouble. Select a FOSS solution you might also be in trouble but the developers aren’t
> Nobody's voting in China as far as I know

They vote from an approved list of candidates, but the following makes it sound as if, in principle anyway, there ought to be enough voting to keep the better apparatchiks and bounce the worse ones:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elections_in_China#Direct_elec...

tl;dr: lots of voting; no ballot access

EDIT: meanwhile, over on https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中華人民共和國選舉 we find the Party line:

> 《人民日報》称，中国大陸的基层换届选举是世界上规模最大的基层民主选举。

("The People's Daily* says the grass-roots general elections in mainland China are the largest [900 million voters] grass-roots democratic elections in the world.")

* http://www.people.com.cn
Price you pay for housing is mostly for location only.

For example with 500k euro in Paris Saint Germain you can afford to buy 25 square meters of poor quality apartment.
Moonshine author here: The warning is from Keras library, and is benign. If you didn't get any other output, it was probably because the model thought there was no speech (not saying there really was no speech). We uploaded ONNX version that is considerably faster than the Torch/JAX/TF versions, and is usable with less package bloat. I hope you would give it another shot.
Yes, and I am talking about subtypes of events in the "summary of findings" table. Those subtypes with "moderate" quality has very insignificant diff in # of events. Those with significant diff in # of events have "very low" quality of evidence.
The almighty FCC fine is the deterrent
> But it's not much of a tower, and it's more of a collection DAGs.

> I'm trying to criticize something about pretending they are subtypes/subsets. Claiming it's a tower and hand waving about exact/inexact doesn't make it a tower

I thought we established right away that it's not a single tower. The description in the wikipedia page is two towers with links between them. (Or at least it's two if you don't waste effort on things like having both float64 and complex32.)

But I don't see any hand waving. The relationships and conversions are very clear. That's why I interpreted your complaint as being more about the specific operation. So with your correction, I need you to explain where you see hand-waving.

If you just don't like the name "Tower" for an implementation that has both bignums and floats then okay I agree I guess?
Your claims that (1) the food pyramid put whole grains at the base, and (2) that there is any consensus at all that a healthy diet should include more whole grains than fruit and vegetables (which is what "being at the base of the pyramid" means).
NotebookLlama: An open source version of NotebookLM
ActivityPub federation, while maybe a little complicated, seems to be well thought through.

I think many platforms would benefit from implementing that. Especially git forges, though I think someone is already working on that.