skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. Something is penalizing or inhibiting manufacturing in developed countries. That something is just regular progression on the ladder of classical infinitely extending three-sector model[1] and gradual obsolescence of its lower rungs, but that is problematic, and without healthy preceding sectors for each, it's just a measuring contest being held in a skydiving.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_sector
There is also this TTS: https://github.com/rhasspy/piper that is pretty good (depending on the language) and extremely fast, would be cool to change the script to user Piper instead of Kokoro in case you want to use a language that is not supported by Kokoro or it's too slow, Piper supports a lot of them.
He addresses this in the comments. The term that corresponds to "stiffness" normally just gets called "mass", since that is how it shows up in experiments.

Roughly put:

- A particle is a "minimum stretching" of a field.

- The "stiffness" corresponds to the energy-per-stretch-amount of the field (analogous to the stiffness of a spring).

- So the particle's mass = (minimum stretch "distance") * stiffness ~ stiffness

The author's point is that you don't need to invoke virtual particles or any quantum weirdness to make this work. All you need is the notion of stiffness, and the mass of the associated particle and the limited range of the force both drop out of the math for the same reasons.
The arguments about woke being correct are quite recently and often framed in a way it reminds you of groups like johovas witnesses or student fellowships.

I disagree with equality of outcome being the same as equality of opportunity. Some of the most totalitarian regimes promised equality in a way equity is understood today.

It is tiring to repeat mistakes that often were made in the past. There is enough literature about arguments that fall short very quickly, since not all people are equal. Not in wants, looks, interests or ability.
CreateProcess() doesn't know what functions the resulting process will use to access the command-line and environment.
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This looks interesting. Quick comment on the format of the dataset though: I would suggest placing both the image and the segmentation mask as the same row with meaningful column names. I think this would make it easier to use.
I think it could also be a little more clear from the description how this can be used for deepfake detection.

As a question, if I understood correctly, you automatically generate the segmentation masks. Did you do any sort of evaluation/validation of the quality of these?
> then they'll go for someone overseas, right?

Yea, and those people can stay living overseas.
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Wait a minute, 22 years ago his wife worked for what? "Quantum Computer Services"???
Can’t you just actively delete the company accounts when closing down?
> the help online is always in the form of code fragments whose purpose kinda sorta looks alright maybe, but doesn't ever seem to fit into the setup I've built. So then I'm faced with completely rearranging the structure to match the helpful code, or try to massage the helpful code into my structure (which may or may not be a monstrosity, nor could I explain what every one of the magical incantations are for)

None of these are language problems, they are problems with the way nixpkgs is structured and the ways nix is used (or your understanding of those).

Perhaps being purely functional causes some of this complexity/unfamiliarity, but in that case replacing it with another pure functional language (the original point i was replying to) is not going to help. Maybe replacing it with scheme (functional/imperative) does, I don't know.
It is strange to me how in the last few decades ‘hero’ and ‘victim’ have gotten muddle together. I believe that a hero has to actively do something important in spite of great personal risk to himself which he recognises. As an example, a heroic teacher might run into a burning school to save a child, but a teacher who goes into a build to fetch a kid in the ordinary course of his job, without knowing that there is a hidden fire elsewhere in the building, isn’t being heroic (at least not yet). Heroism isn’t passive: the hero has to have a choice.

A victim is someone who experiences something bad done to him. Mrs. Lacks was a victim of medical practices we would not support today. She didn’t have a choice: indeed, it was the failure to respect her right to choose the disposition of her remains which was the injustice she suffered.
I learned with a single training wheel on my bike. If I recall my sister had broken the other, and my dad was like "eh, good enough".

Obviously I was very young at the time, but I basically remember I'd initially be balanced on the training wheel which was maybe "too short" so I'd be leaned over to my left as a tricycle, but as I would get up to speed I'd be on just the bicycles wheels.

It didn't take me long to learn. It did take my dad a long while to take it off the bike however.

I'm not an expert but it seems like a decent enough way to learn that doesn't result in too many wipe outs.
Astronomers are debating weird objects called "little red dots"
Did they reinvent or did they learn stuff? Maybe both.
> By troop count, munitions stock, or the number if tanks and jets I don't see anyone as having a particularly impressive military in Europe.

compared to what? Who does Europe need to fight who has more ammo, tanks, jets and nukes? Russia has proven itself unable to take on Ukraine with half-assed support by the west, China and India are far away.

Shall Europe prepare to fight the US for Greenland?
It's good to see this! All CC-BY-NC, apparently. Is there a bulk download?
> Is this history's most bizarre midlife crisis? What is going on with this man?

His whole era of big name tech founders seems to be going through it.
It depends entirely on the hotel how they will let you cancel or modify your reservation through the third party.
Quantum was one of those words that sounded really cool (back then). Just look at TV shows like Quantum Leap (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_Leap_(2022_TV_series)) or Sinclair's QL (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_QL)
I don't think that that's true. SpaceX barely use Falcon Heavy (I count under 10 missions in total[0]), and I think it's because there are so many payloads that fit into a regular Falcon 9 that it's not worth trying to queue up enough payloads to fit.

And if there are new, special payloads that only fit in a New Glenn, then it's not obvious they would disrupt the existing SpaceX operations, as opposed to just being additional flights.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Falcon_9_and_Falcon_He...
Yep, nothing's changed there around transactions.
I think it only came into effect this year ?
This seems to be very forgotten tech. First time I used that was to load NetHack to ram instead of the slow diskette on my Atari. Now I still use it as webcache for work to not bother the database with so many requests.

When I set up the server, the ramdisk didn't have a way of shrinking when space wasn't needed so had to make sure it doesn't eat up all memory when growing unlimited. I bet it's smarter nowadays.
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I believe you do not need to use HCL to be able to work in hybrid mode - it would be definitely a blocker for me.

Will get to testing it when getting more free time.
Cool stuff! <3
That is the sound of inevitability Mr Anderson
True, maybe an artifact of the training data, here is another one:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/emoctrl-tts...
A lot of people don’t opt-out themselves, but the society opts them out. Be it a bully or stigma in school, not fitting in high-school or uni.
>my wife and I don't use social media, except in very limited doses for work reasons

do you not consider HN to be social media?
Those aren’t Karens, they’re all Jessicas
Yes, exactly! The first step is generating a bitmap with a white background using Flux 1 Schnell (with a svg render Lora). The second step removes the background with BiRefNetUltraV2. Finally, the last step transforms it into an SVG using this node: https://github.com/Yanick112/ComfyUI-ToSVG.

Your suggestion is great! I'll definitely add a step-by-step display and some settings to adjust the results.

As for the last question, no, I don’t plan to train or fine-tune a model. I’m more interested in building final products and using the tools and resources provided by the open-source community.
> Also if you're looking for maximal efficiency, the WChar APIs still make sense because it avoids the conversion of all the string inputs and outputs on every call.

OTOH you need ~twice as much memory / copy ~twice as much data around than if you converted to WTF-8 internally.
*Homomorphically encrypted. Be precise. Deliberately handwaving it away as "mere" encryption paints a worse picture than it actually is. Yes, possibly should have been opt-in, and a more human-friendly explanation of how it works would help. However, it's not nearly as bad as HN would have you believe. Very much a case of them pointing out that the emperor is naked, when in fact they have a few shirt buttons missing...
Wow, I saw that in my logs.

This is only the US though... Will www.cloud.cn do the same because, you know...
I read it when I was a kid… a homeschooled kid!
Isn't whisper sync the current version that relies on owning both the ebook and audiobook?
> How do you expect to change the world for the better when you’ve been taught from an early age, subconsciously or not, to hold most of the people around you in contempt? 4

Not everyone would recognize this, and be willing to call it out.

I wonder whether that came from the writer's religious homeschooling, and if so, whether it came from learning from decent people who taught and embodied the better Christian values? Or from a reaction to the distancing that can kinda be implicit (e.g., hints that people not in the religious group are a less-enlightened Other)? Or both?
> Also, no computers in their rooms - everything is done in more shared space, with monitors facing the rest of the room.

Seconded.

I saw an older friend have a dedicated computer room for the desktops of everyone in his family. It was a family space where any family member could plunk down at any time.

We approach the same via a communal laptop in the kitchen.
Adam Smith is often used as symbol of laissez-faire capitalism but was explicitly a proponent for regulation in situations where the market failed, such as this one imagine.

What you probably mean is that people take the concept of the invisible hand too seriously. Which was a relatively minor point in the book, and has somehow been magnified to the point of absurdity by the economic and political trends of the last 40 years.

Adam smith is way more reasonable than you’d think, given how he’s portrayed in the modern era.
This is one of the biggest hurdles to getting kids to enjoy riding bikes too. If you think about the weight of many cheaper kids department store bikes they are a significant weight compared to the child. Having a lighter bike makes it much more enjoyable for the kids.

Also recommend Islabikes and Frog bikes for two companies that offer lighter offerings. Again you have to pay for it, but they can often be resold and a decent value later. Especially if you keep the bike clean and loved.
I think it must be regional. They're universal in the UK now so there's no way you could have a kid and not know about them. Nobody had them when I was young though. Presumably they just haven't quite infiltrated America yet.
If America is trying to reindustrialize I wonder how much more MBA we can afford.
Have you thought this through? Incessant requests for an unimportant matter is a sure way to have those in charge of said matters not care, not only about that particular request but requests in general or the desires of requesters.
I love nix. I use nixos with flakes, syncthing and direnv. My directories are development environments. My projects are reproducible and portable to different architectures. I don't use the language specific package managers, I have one that can bind them all. Nothing is lost in a tangled mess of imperative configuration choices. My file system is clean and organized. Everything is how I told it to be. I am happy.
What I really want and hope that someone does is to make an audiobook service that converts books to audiobooks but so that each character has own voice.

Som audiobooks have this and I think it really makes the experience much more engaging.

(Also maybe some background sound effects but not sure about that, some books also have this and it's quite nice too)
The model might have stumbled on the generative AI equivalent of IPA.
The responsibility is completely with the hotel owner. Professional hotel management software that syncs instantly with third parties is very cheap and accessible.
> The wide APIs accept and/or produce invalid UTF-16 in some places (like filesystems). There's no corresponding UTF-8 for invalid UTF-16. Meaning there are cases that lead to loss of information and that you simply cannot handle.

There's WTF-8 - too bad that's not what Microsoft chose to use for their universal 8-bit codepage.
This is probably a dumb question, but where does this fail: what happens if I run something like the SHA256 algorithm or a sudoku solver backwards using these techniques? I assume that wouldn’t actually work, but why?
Yes, I’m surprised that this is apparently something new for Americans. I thought that was a basic kids toy that’s common everywhere, like skipping ropes or slides.
The downloadable version is nowhere near ready for production. It's performance is also excruciatingly slow.
I know many who work in the mainland. I don't really think there is going to be a war though, maybe a super short one. It is mostly the consequences that puts CCP on check. But maybe in a few years they won't care anymore.
Note that kokoro (心) means “heart” in the sense of “spirit,” “soul,” “mind,” “emotions,” etc. It doesn’t mean “heart” in the sense of “internal organ that pumps blood.” That is shinzō (心臓).

I once heard an American friend with so-so Japanese ability ask a Japanese woman who had recently had a heart operation how her kokoro was doing, and she looked surprised and taken aback.

Side note: After I started reading HN in 2019, I was struck by how many tech products mentioned here have Japanese names. I compiled a list for a few years and eventually posted it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31310370
I might have missed it but do the designs come with pcb as well?
Water bunds, and other approaches to re-greening are part of a United Nations-funded project. You can see other examples (including instructions) at these sites:

https://www.decadeonrestoration.org/

Instructions:

https://amshaafrica.org/index.php/building-water-bunds-a-ste...
Author notes article is not consistent, since text says Macbooks are left of left while MBP 14 is right of left while picture depicts left of left.

But picture is disclaimered:

"These examples show the DFU port on several Mac models. The location on your Mac model might differ. Consult the table above for details."

Then it shows the standard, not the exception.
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Afaik Strudel is a Tidal javascript port, so not inspired by Glicol since I think Tidal was available way before ? Both are awesome anyway.
> The reason the US defence budget is so sky-fucking-high is because we effectively pay for everyone's military, though

Yes, but don't act like that is some kind of selfless act. In the end, it benefits the US more if they do that and have military bases and influence all over the place, than not doing that. If that also protects their allies, even better, since then it can be used to better justify the international meddling (as you're doing now).
They use the patent loophole. From https://www.zama.ai/post/open-source

> If a company open sources their code under BSD3-clear, they can sell additional licenses to use the patents included in the open source code. In this case, it still isn’t the software that is sold, but rather the usage rights of the patented intellectual property it contains.

Every day I like the Apache licence more.
There is plenty of literature about the effectiveness of swales and bunds. Justdiggit didn't invent them. Their expertise is in mobilising communities to actually implement them, and raising funds to support them.
> your best options for guaranteeing that you avoid it are homeschooling

Accepting your premise that "public schooling is fucked" (I disagree) there's absolutely zero guarantee that homeschooling is any better for any particular child. It's a completely random chance whether your parent, or whichever potentially untrained person, is going to provide you with an education that sets you up for society, work and the wider world.

Public schools at least have defined curricula, governance structures, complaints procedures, _accountability_ in some form.
Not suprising to see the common interpretation of wokeness being "performative" and "unfair" instead of, people en masse, demanding equal treatment, equal rights, and safety, against individuals and organisations with amassed power and influence.

"Moralism" is a trap — it somehow argues that equal rights and faireness for women against sexual assualt, or people of colour from physical abuse, et al. are subjective issues. And that some degree of sexual assault, some degree of physical abuse, is and should be acceptable and any attempts to prevent it are just morals run amok.

It's not "aggressively performative moralism," this is just another rich man angry that all his wealth and power doesn't award him protection and admiration against the proletariat.
So they assume four-dimensional space-time of a certain shape, similar to how a two-dimensional sheet could be curved taking various shape. Then they calculate how would physical objects behave in space-time of that shape.

Can such shapes exist anywhere in our universe, realistically or even just theoretically? For all we know, perhaps not.
I understand you'd prefer to not disclose compensation, but would I be taking a big cut coming from $bigtech?
At least in the UK woodland cover is increasing. It was 3% back in 1900~ and today it stands at about [13%][0]. The aim in the UK is to be at 15% woodland and tree coverage by 2050 – quite achievable.

I currently teach woodland management and arboriculture (I also run a weird hybrid business doing software and arboriculture) in the UK and the idea that we cut down more than we plant is a common misconception that I spend a lot of time (and I mean a lot of time) correcting with the public and general layperson. Felling trees for forestry purposes requires a felling license[1], which always comes with a re-stocking clause.

As for urban green infrastructure (basically private and municipal trees and hedges), that comes with it's own issues, and there's a lot of wins to be had there but there are also lots of challenges. I know the Arboricultural Association in the UK are doing some great work here to advocate for finding ways to retain private and municipal trees whilst managing risk to the public (the main reason trees are normally removed second only to "aesthetic").

Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) is also a thing in the UK which broadly translates to ensuring that any private building works or developments must now have a demonstrable positive effect on local biodiversity and where that's not possible, then developers can "offset" by commissioning biodiversity projects elsewhere. For example, I've just taken delivery of 1200 trees (oak, hazel) today, which will be planted into semi-ancient woodland that I manage.

So basically the idea that we're cutting down forest ahead of what can restock isn't accurate, in fact in the UK at least, it is quite the opposite.

A good news story for you.

[0]: https://www.forestresearch.gov.uk/tools-and-resources/statis....

[1]: unless it is a) less than five cubic metres in a twelve week period (basically "thinning" woodland so that other trees have room to grow / habitat improvement for priority habitats). b) a private tree without a preservation order/ fruit tree, c) diseased or dying or d) a suitably high risk to public safety.
I don’t think chess is a good example of AI destroying the path to the top. Chess is more popular now and humans keep advancing even though it is futile effort against computers.
I mean, I see why it happens. It's because the client uses the email as the identifier for login - it is the only shared identifier between Google and Slack (or whatever service) to connect accounts. Sure, you could argue that maybe this is ok for the initial login, but the client app should record the sub...

Note that for regular logins without Oauth, you still have this vulnerability - if you gain control of me@company.com, you can login to any site that uses that for login. This is a fundamental weakness in the way we handle domain registration and email addresses.
Training wheels are horrible thing. When i was a little kid i didn't want to let go of them. One day my mother removed them, hold me by my shirt collar and told me to pedal. At the end of the day I was riding like a boss.

As the author said, training wheels are learning backwards. You learn to pedal, but not to ride. You need to ride, then learn to pedal.
And the motivation is also positive: removing training wheels is bad, cause you will fall. Adding pedals is good, because it allows you to go faster.
> This is also true on Unix systems as to `char`. Yes, that means there will be loss of information regarding paths that have garbage in them. And again, if you want to write code for Windows _and_ Unix, using wchar_t won't spare you this loss on Unix. So you're damned if you do and damned if you don't, so just accept this loss and say "don't do that".

The problem is that you can't roundtrip all filenames. CP_UTF8 doesn't solve that only pretends to. For a full solution you need to use the W functiosn and then convert between WTF-16 and WTF-8 yourself.
Sounds like the increase in the amount of information people have access to and the speed of the news cycle, the speed at which the pendulum swings may just be accelerating.
The first Broadway musical was performed in 1866
Does or doesn't. You can't really tell if and when it does any cataloguing; best I've managed to observe is that you can increase chances of it happening if you keep your phone plugged in to a charger for extended periods of time.

That's the problem with all those implementations: no feedback of any kind. No list of recognized tags. No information of what is or is to be processed. No nothing. Just magic that doesn't work.
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> Or is it a specific group of people in a specific place with a shared language, lineage, culture, history, faith, and common destiny?

I'm American, so I've never lived in this kind of nation.

> no empire nor state organized as the former can endure.

Looking at many of the longer-lived nations and empires of the past—having a shared language, lineage, culture, history, faith, common destiny? They had none of those. They were a conglomeration of people speaking different languages, from different lineages, with different cultures, different histories, and practicing different faiths.
Biochar is exactly doing that and is an active area of research in many places. There is several ongoing projects also showing that biochar can improve soil quality and crop yields.
Balance bikes, ie kids bikes with no pedals have been a thing for the last 15 years at least. My kids started on scooters, then balance bikes (similar principle to the scooter, i.e push and go) then graduated to actual bikes.
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