skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd be interested to see human factors research to see if it helps. Still, if you've got kids in the back seat who are asleep and there's background road noise from a highway, you don't want to yell "Carbot, turn down the A/C". Turning a knob isn't that hard.
This may be true, but I'm sure the vast, vast, vast majority of people employed as models are these kinds of print and e-commerce models whose jobs are now at risk.
The former can be just as disingenuous as the latter. Jon Stewart wielded immense political influence amongst the under-30 crowd, but whenever seriously challenged, hid behind the defense of comedy.

Yiannopoulos consistently billed himself as a provocateur, little different from a Coulter or Maher.

People have been blending news, entertainment, and polemic together for centuries and it's not going to stop because some people want to codify rules of Serious Journalism and impose them universally across the Internet.
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For sure - if you make all of the same mistakes with remote teams that companies are so prone to making with offshoring companies (little to no integration into the rest of the business, little vetting of individual contributors, using metrics to incentivize all of the wrong kinds of behavior, chasing low costs instead of skill and business value) you'll get all of the same typically-horrible results.
It's interesting that some people find that many so-called "programmers" cannot write FizzBuzz (see links in post, apart from a fun FizzBuzz version in Python):

FizzBuzz in Python with nested conditional expressions and a generator expression:

https://jugad2.blogspot.com/2018/12/fizzbuzz-in-python-with-...
You're really misrepresenting what I said.

I wasn't comparing videos of consenting adults with genocidal maniacs.

I was sharing a real life example of a situation where I had no problem building a general purpose product that anyone could use, while at the same I might object to special deals or promotions with an industry I was uncomfortable with at the time.

The only reason I even mentioned porn and genocide in the same sentence was to say "you may not relate to my porn example, but there is probably some other situation - like a custom feature for genocidal maniacs - that you would personally object to." And I didn't bring up genocide out of the blue, it was the very topic of the thread I was replying to.
You can make money on a fall as well as a rise.
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I'll happily stick to using my phone mounted to the dash, a 3.5mm input, and a set of bluetooth controls mounted to the driver's side door.
I can imagine the liability of _not_ having a human to say "this is me" miiiiight keep this from becoming a go-to for big brands.

Or we could put it this way: a corporation might see this as a choice between A) creating a whole new branch of case law to test in the court system, fueled by highly paid lawyers, or B) just pay a part-time model to be able to say "this wasn't you nor inspired by you, because that's the the model and we entered this contract together"
It's long been a dream of mine to make some software package that would be immensely useful and offer it for free with the catch being that the name is something childish and embarrassing and offensive.

And then maybe offer a version of it with a nice, normal, appropriate name, but charge money for that version.
That situation is an extreme hypothetical and I'd probably take the experimental treatment along with painkillers/cannabis if there's any miserable side-effects. It depends on the person and their tolerance, I'd assume most people would prefer to live and be with their loved-ones. Humans are pretty resilient and they adapt. Nothing is stopping a person from committing suicide on their own if they aren't able to cope in the future.
Disagree. There is nothing private about your face. It's feigned outrage.
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The disregard for facts by power groups is amazing.

And the fact that it works... is even more amazing.

It's like 1984.

I mean, it's not even a bad fact. There's no reason to hide the fact that they push people to the paid product. That is what is expected of businesses. I mean, why lie about it? For me it's more insulting to get lied to like this. It's so weird.

But then I see what happens all around me and I remember it works for the majority, or it wouldn't happen.

This isn't directed at political parties, it is about how power is handled by those who wield it, and how those who receive its influence act. You'll see the same dynamics in any large powerful entity and it's admirers: political parties, companies, religious institutions, even NGOs... talk to their fervent supporters and the conversation becomes super polarized where obvious facts are denied, obscured, minimized, or in general disregarded in favor of a vision. Even things that come up on mainstream news outlets will be dubbed 'conspiracy'.

Even saying something completely true and factual which someone won't disagree with, if it casts a negative light on powerful institutions they admire, a major percentage of the population will attack you verbally and put out every answer as if it was a personal attack. I guess most people lack self identity outside of their affiliations? I don't know that part.

But I believe the reaction of the admirers pushes companies and other powerful entities to act in a way that disregards facts. They are speaking to the admirers. They are engaging in persuasion.
Sounds like a ‘Homer car’. Keep it simple.
Nothing. The problem is that the IRS themselves first direct you to TurboTax, which apparently doesn't actually solve your problem. Only if you dig deeper do you find that you can just print and mail in the form yourself.
Yet another example that if something profitable is both technically possible and legal, it IS being done whether you know about it or not.
In mine, it just pauses the audio when I trigger the voice control then resumes after.
Those are fair points. Did Tesla introduce this practice all of a sudden or did employees get hired well knowing or at least provided in the agreement that this was a known practice? I can understand the outrage for the former but not the latter.
Automotive electronics tend to have an operating design range from -20 to 120C ambient. Not that they see this kind of ambient temp but usually they have to be AEC-Q:100 qualified. Think about solar loading. Touchscreen (VHB tape, backlite, etc) all have to withstand intense temperature swings and last longer than a typical consumer electronic. If you look at the some of the Automotive testing, its pretty intense (High temperature Operation endurance testing and Thermal shock testing) in comparison to commercial grade testing.

Usually car manufacturers have to spend significant amount of Reliability testing before the launch the product to avoid recalls. Tesla missed some of the typical automotive testing and the early Tesla vehicles had a bluish Mura after a year and some the adhesive layers on the TFT panel started seeing issues and they had to replace the screens on a rather large number of cars
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For the love of god, stop focusing on productivity!

Learn to enjoy things that serve no practical purpose.

Maybe a useful exercise to that end is to imagine yourself on your deathbed. Assuming you're lucid enough, what will you be thinking about?
Have you tried the new Audi A7’s interface? Pretty great, especially with CarPlay.
Then our industry needs to be regulated. Period. Either we have vendor lock-in or a standard that is literally illegal to not follow.
> Do we have nothing better to do than judge others?

You just related a story where you sat and judged two people for over an hour! You tell us why you did it if you want to know why people do it!
I love VSCode. I switched over last year and it's by far the best editor I've used in a long time.

The plugin system is great too.
I'm not familiar with the specifics within gfx-hal, but it's most likely taking in SPIR-V and translating as needed.

AFAIK DX12 still requires DXIL so it might be saving both SPIR-V and DXIL, or taking in HLSL and compiling/translating as needed.

Microsoft has generally gotten a lot friendlier in the last decade, they have tools to compile HLSL down to SPIR-V, if you want to support everything including DX12 you'll probably be writing HLSL. Otherwise you can pick any language that compiles down to SPIR-V.

https://github.com/Microsoft/ShaderConductor

https://github.com/KhronosGroup/SPIRV-Cross
There will definitely be cases, if this becomes mainstream. I’m sure the companies developing this will come up with a solution proving “independent” genesis of the image/likeness.
> From my experience (at MIT in the 80s and 90s): The usual student takes 3 technical courses and one humanities course per term.

My experience (in the 80s) was the same. There were a couple of semesters where I had to take 4 technical courses; I had no desire to repeat the experience. :-)
> No one who has the ability to not be autistic, would choose to be.

Bullshit.

Don't you dare presume to speak for people other than yourself, or people whose position on the subject has been explicitly disclosed to you. You do not get to extrapolate from that to speaking for anyone else, let alone everyone else.

EDIT: Yes, I am taking the parent comment utterly literally. In context, I think that's appropriate.
Would you please stop breaking the site guidelines by adding generic flamebait and taking HN threads into nationalistic battle? I don't want to ban you, but we've had to ask you this repeatedly.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Borders are different. There is a right to free movement within a country. Not so across borders.
I both agree and disagree.

> Because what people (women and men) are buying is aspiration wrapped in dead plant fibers

In this case I agree. If someone buys the watch that Elon Musk wears, it's not just about wanting to look like Elon, it's about want to BE him. This effect works even if rationally people know that they are not him. Emotionally, they just want the feeling, however fleeting, that they are him.

> The suspension of disbelief necessary for the social economy to function crumbled as soon as something is too perfect.

Here I disagree and the example of fake Instagram profiles are my counter point. Some of these accounts used real people but the entire "lifestyle" was faked and yet they still had thousands and thousands of followers. What's the difference between creating a fake person to drop into that fake profile and having it be a real person?
I don't think this will work because the AI is not going to recreate what a specific article of clothing will look like on a human. Or at least not yet.

This tech generates random images of models in random clothing. Maybe it could be instructed to do 'male' and 'brown' and 'jacket' - but never with the specificity required of a specific piece of clothing.

All clothes fit and drape in a unique way.

Also - models for regular clothing are a commodity and the process for getting generic imagery is industrialized and cheap.

Getting the 'photos of clothing on the model' is a small part of the cost.

Finally there is of course the other aesthetic choices, i.e. what's in the background that have to do with a particular design choice for whatever reason i.e. season choices. That won't be reproduced by AI either.

So it's all very cool, but still mostly novel.
I think the horse has already left the barn.
An individual with $500 worth of equipment could quickly create a database of facial biometrics for a good portion of his city. What kind of legislation could prevent this? Outlaw private ownerships of cameras and computers? I do not think there is any way to stop what is coming...
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FYI, you don't need to use the turbofish to hint `rustc` what time you need to `collect` here because it takes it from the return type:

fn eval_forms(arg_forms: &[RispExp], env: &mut RispEnv) -> Result<Vec<RispExp>, RispErr> {
arg_forms
.iter()
.map(|x| eval(x, env))
.collect()
}

You could also make the stylistic change (but not necessarily good change) of wrapping eval to make it less wordy:

fn eval_forms(arg_forms: &[RispExp], env: &mut RispEnv) -> Result<Vec<RispExp>, RispErr> {
let eval = |x| eval(x, env);
arg_forms
.iter()
.map(eval)
.collect()
}

At that point, it all fits in one line

fn eval_forms(arg_forms: &[RispExp], env: &mut RispEnv) -> Result<Vec<RispExp>, RispErr> {
let eval = |x| eval(x, env);
arg_forms.iter().map(eval).collect()
}

And you could make it so that you don't need to call `iter` inside of the fn on `arg_forms` and potentially accept many things besides slices:

fn eval_forms(
arg_forms: impl Iterator<Item=RispExp>,
env: &mut RispEnv,
) -> Result<Vec<RispExp>, RispErr> {
let eval = |x| eval(x, env);
arg_forms.map(eval).collect()
}

:)
I'm not sure that's true everywhere, but not for long many places (eg California, Washington).

Casual article on it:
https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/how-to-get-on-a-pla...
This has already happened to some degree. The technique is so easy, kids out there are using it to immediately renovate old games overnight https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/18/18311287/ai-upscaling-alg...
> I suspect you and I disagree quite strongly on that point. Borders are really important

Indeed it seems we disagree. Moreover, I'm inclined to assert that you are simply incorrect.

It's hard for me to see how something wholly capricious can also be "really important" - I acknowledge that there are some manifestations of man's imagination that are critical in the functioning of the social and political spaces today, but I'm not prepared to go so far as to call them "really important."

The US border specifically is quite destructive. It separates families, inflames (in concert with the childish and abysmal policy of drug prohibition) the ongoing state of civil unrest in Mexico, and creates a huge and arbitrary barrier for people seeking rest, shelter, and work.

A return to a more open immigration policy (and indeed an evolution past the border as a part of political identity) will be a wonderful happening.
>There will be (very nerdy) riots if a 2 letter 'V' word is ever added.

Found the Emacs user.

:)
I can’t tell what answer you’re looking for here.

You said above that “mmap allows reading and writing large data structures without copying, which can be a huge benefit depending on the use case.”

Yes, of course that’s true, and the Sublime Text authors are clearly well aware it’s true. That’s why they decided to use mmap in the first place. They agreed with you.

This is them reporting, with hindsight, that for their use case mmap introduced a lot of tricky bugs that required complex platform-dependent fixes, and that the performance gains were real but modest. Therefore, in hindsight, it probably wasn’t a good choice.

Which part are you arguing with?
In practice you still needed to suss out whether it was metric or imperial din/ddin and find a mounting kit, wiring harness, and trim specific to your car. It still wouldn't fit, of course, so you'd have to file it down / twist it until it did, and then you'd find out that your wiring harness didn't interface well with the amplifier / dash sounds, so you'd have an audible static hiss at all times and a maximum audio level at conversational volume except for the assorted alert beeps/dings which played loud enough to make your head spin. I think it's exceedingly generous to call that a standard.

No, I'm not bitter, why do you ask?
Ghidra has a pretty good structure editor and structure definition system. You can import a C header (like a modified jni.h) and then you can declare parameters as being of type “JNIEnv *” - after that, Ghidra will automatically resolve function pointer calls for you. No need to keep consulting an offset table.

(IDA’s decompiler has all of this too, but it costs a lot more!)
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Be careful with grouping/simplifying people into specific troupes. I have been closely following the details of Star Citizen's development for years, and even interviewed Chris and a few lead developers personally. They did have problems prior to late 2015 but since then the company drastically improved in a ton of areas (except marketing mistakes) as well as develop technologies no one else has. The company is legit and so is the game they're developing with backer funds.

But decide yourself, right now it's free flight all weekend which means you don't need to buy the game to test it out.
It's pretty wild to see what it's like as a new comer, very different from other space games out there right now even as an alpha. The official site to register for Star Citizen is the roberts space industries website, and if you use a star citizen referral code you get bonus ingame currency but I recommend to people to use this code STAR-GN2F-6JLW because it's from a high level backer group that allows everyone who uses the code to have access to an INSANELY large fleet, the site it's from is enlistcitizen.

In any event, people shouldn't take the article for more than face value as basically a tabloid piece, come to your own conclusion, try the game out when it's free. Which is any week they do free flight, which is usually once every 3 months or so.
You're correct—it is reasonable for governments to require a photo of yourself to associate with your passport. But it is not necessary to take a new photo every time you interact with the government. That's overreach, or at minimum wasting taxpayer money on unneeded photo storage.

And I'd wager the reason they're doing this is because while a human can make a decent determination of whether the photo matches the person in front of them, computers need a larger sample to get the error rate low enough for broad use. That's great for CBP and airlines that can employ fewer personnel, and great for travelers who can breeze throughª boarding and customs. But imagine how it will go when you are one of those 0.1% errors and the system refuses to let you in.

ªassuming companies/govts decide to increase throughput instead of decreasing cost, or that it's such an improvement that it can do both.
The vast majority of them are losers, it is true. Providing dubious value to their investors and taking huge slices for themselves through greedy and lazy compensation schemes.

Most don't make good decisions and aren't staffed by particularly smart people either.

The top 1-5% on the other hand, those guys are absolute killers. A lot like tech companies, I suppose.
The intersection of disability and identity has a huge number of consequences. Some of them are beneficial, in the creation of communities, support structures, and the like. Some of them are harmful, like the aggressively anti-medicine activities of some communities who see the advance of science threatening the future existence of their identity.

Autism is right on the edge of this phenomena, as it's a disorder that arguably isn't a disorder and its harmful effects mostly attributable to society's reaction. I would argue it still counts as a disorder in the same way a hypothetical condition which prevented someone from speaking Spanish is only harmful if the person lives in a certain type of culture (Spanish-speaking) is still a disorder.
> Currently, I assume the countries without exit controls have access to the entry databases of the destination countries

I believe the US exit controls are currently based on airline passenger manifests (not entry databases of other countries).
Nuclear would be the other long term solution as an alternative to cheap storage.
Same reason touchscreen-only phones suck, and no one is doing anything about it :(
Well, it's not like that just happens. It's a deliberate strategy to enable price discrimination. Calling it "semi-arbitrary" makes it sound like it isn't carefully planned. The whole game is to get everyone to buy either a budget or a luxury model and avoid selling a middle-of-the-road product for a fair price.

I have read so many times where car enthusiasts complain that they can't get the options they want with a manual transmission. Well, it's perfectly logical - when one aspect of a product is the deciding factor for a subgroup of customers, and the seller knows it, it's more profitable to give them the worst of everything else. It's nothing personal, just optimization of the business.
Note, a "few selected" == "roughly 1,400 elite hospitals"

From what my friends who do business with, or are physicians from, China tell me, medicine in China can often be a pretty brutal assembly line, complete with bribes being passed, literally, under the table.

Having worked in a number of "top" US hospitals, I would be interested in what the 1400th hospital looks like in this scenario.
Fully agreed.

One side effect of that is that while modeling has always been very hard to pierce into, at least there are modeling opportunities for non celebrities. As the practice of using AI to generate models for all but higher end stuff grows, it will get harder and harder to pierce into. It’ll go from an industry with tens of thousands of workers - some paid a lot, some much less - to just a few hundreds of highly paid models who have every incentive to prevent newcomers from taking their spot.

It’s not a phenomenon unique to fashion, and it’s entirely problematic when tech kills the long tail of this sort of occupation. How will those people pay their bills now? Not all of them can become AI engineers, that’s for sure.
The PSET posted is for Statistics for Applications. I was wondering why it looked so different from when I went through it a couple years ago haha
what about someone who can code FizzBuzz well?
I've tried OpenGenera through the Linux emulator, and tried opening up Zmacs a couple of times. Seems pretty much like Emacs, but instead of being able to seamlessly introspect Elisp, you can do it with the entire OS. Pretty cool to be able to bring up the source and make edits to the entire system.

Seems like a dead evolutionary branch of computing, that was (probably?) better than what we have now.
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I partially credit Strang for getting me an A in Linear Algebra. His lectures and the book from David C Lay that I thought was pretty good.
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I strongly doubt this API is external.
Why should they? The only time it would be relevant is if you forgot your ID, and if you want to rent a car or hotel at your destination that might be a problem there as well. Knowing the TSA, I bet this adds at least an hour to the trip as you are begrudgingly walked to some back room and sit there for 20 minutes while someone is pulling up your file.
it’s a good undergrad book. also on that page he says lights out game is a “linear algebra problem”. It’s actually not. incidentally I worked on Lights out for my thesis, and my advisor made a whole career out of lights out! That game relates to Fibonacci polynomials, studied in Combinatorics - https://www.unf.edu/~wkloster/fib.html
Median US 1 bedroom rent: $1,209 / mo [1]

Median SF 1 bedroom rent: $3,690 / mo [2]

That's a difference of $29,772 / yr. Post-tax.

[1]: https://www.businessinsider.com/rental-prices-are-soaring-ar...

[2]: https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2019/03/05/median-1-bedroo...
Indeed very different in terms of access to capital. Taxi markets are disjointed and divided, their access to capital is dwarfed by Uber's.

Tesla does not have that kind of advantage over established carmakers.
not really, it takes forever to open