skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am trying out the app at https://waifulabs.com/ and the art style is kind of one-note. Most of the expressions are the same and the face shape skews towards loli.

I am more into "disgusted anime girl that looks at you like you're trash" type and I couldn't find a waifu (even with their refinement steps).

Really impressed that this is even possible though!
I'd maybe do one project like this for a top tier company, but most companies that do this are limiting themselves to the already unemployed who have the time, if you want to pull people from other companies you need to minimize their time investment. Remember it's not just a 4 hour project, it's 4 hours * the number of companies applied to. I'd also argue that you can't show off things like architecture and design patterns in such a short project, all you can show is that you're over engineering.

I've also been burned before, getting dinged for "not practicing TDD because the tests and fixes are in the same commit", there can be just as much arbitrary BS as a simple short code test.
Tesla does not yet produce cars cheaper than their rivals.

Tesla say they do but reach this metric only by leaving out financial items that all other automakers include in unit costing. If those same items were excluded with respect to the Chevy Bolt/Volt or BMW i3, or Jaguar iPace, then those cars are also fantastically profitable as well--even more so than any Tesla model.
Can Rust be used to develop a shared library/module, that's efficiently callable from C/C++, and such that the library does not rely on Rust's runtime?

In other words, can Rust be 'incrementally' introduced into an ecosystem of libraries that are C or C++ only.
It looks like they did have these. In one of their pictures there was a stack of Anker PowerHouse power banks/battery packs.
The accusation is that only private companies with platforms for speech are being targeted.
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Caveat lector. His empirical findings include the claim that because Google knows its users trend liberal (simple demographics would tell you that, without any intrusive analytics), it is unfair of Google to run universal "go vote" PSAs on its site, because doing so will favor the Democrats.

Here's an article he wrote on The Epoch Times, which I believe is cited in the section about how Google is running GOTV for the Democrats:

https://www.theepochtimes.com/another-way-google-manipulates...
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Wow. When the 'expensive' vehicle is a Fit, that's saying something.
I'm glad you asked: https://www.gwern.net/Faces#compute Figure a few GPU-weeks and a few hundred dollars if you want to go from scratch.
haha, I been watching travel videos and was thinking about toilets in different countries. Was thinking of making a site like this, as kinda more of a joke but also interesting.

I think squatting down to potty just seems different and nasty. Plus elder people and people with disabilities a challenge too probably for them. Seen something that somewhere in China some place have like stalls with a trough running though you squat over. So you are squatting to take a poop while someone else's waste is going under you. Better not fall!

Didn't know some places had porcelain toilets with the seats removed. Then some places in the world don't use toilet paper, but their left hand and water.

Didn't know Japan had squat toilets too, I always envisioned the high tech ones being everywhere. I think Japan has the coolest toilets though out of any place, seems like a product Apple would of designed.

Also something that surprised me in Europe they have toilets you pay to use, which I guess encourages them to be cleaner... but someone from the US used to free bathrooms at pretty much any retail store.

I want to travel the world someday when the money is there, and one of the things that is discouraging. Plus being a super picky eater. But want to go see the pyramids, great wall of China and stuff you've always seen on TV. I know there's some world cruises, even some advertising as a circumnavigation cruise of the earth so probably be more of my style of travel. Board a huge boat somewhere in the US, and spend half a year non stop seeing things and then back. No long flights, delays, limited new food choices, etc.
Google doesn’t need Android to be incredibly profitable for it to be a strategic asset to their business. In fact, you’re making my point that Google’s monopoly undermines the free market and stifles innovation. If Google had to change a modest fee for Android, I’m sure it would still be hugely popular, rake in billions of dollars more, and provide niches for other competitors to flourish.

(Sidebar: I hadn’t seen the “$17 billion profit” figure before. By any reasonable standard, that is a staggering amount of profit.)
Maybe OP should use P and NP instead.
Re: Windows management systems. Everywhere. OOP works like a charm.

Good enough, perhaps. Charm, no.

Re: Also, all that stuff you are saying about "expression-based" triggering, it exists and working fine...

Perhaps, but expression-based dispatching is not OOP. It's more comparable to relational or functional.

Re" Also you are mixing OOP with files and folders and I can't understand why...

I don't necessarily proposing mixing. If we can do it without OOP, that would be fine by me. I prefer the source code be organize by how a shop wants to work, not how the framework forces you to. Conway's Law.

Better yet, manage it in a database so one can sort, search, group, and filter by specific need at a given time. Why hard-wire a grouping when we have relational? If I want to see all button-handling events together, query, boom, done! If I want to see events for widgets with labels having the text "cup" in them, query, boom, done! Etc. Bill Gates won't determine my grouping/view, you don't determine my grouping/view, but I do. Me, myself, and I. I like that, it makes me productive.
Epstein's argument seems to assume that any information which shifts an undecided person's view is biased. Basic chemistry lessons make the claims of homeopaths seem downright silly. Does that mean that teaching chemistry is biased against homeopathy, or is homeopathy just not all that great an idea?

Well, perhaps that definition of bias is specific to strictly political topics rather than questions about the observable effects of various actions. Even so, by the standard of shifting views a certain direction, does Google present as much of a threat to democracy as higher education does?
Further down in the study it says that removing the gene likely occurred because it made humans more resistant to malaria, and somehow it also enhanced the ability to run long distances.
I was quoted 650 just for the NEMA 14-30, no evse or permit fee included. New construction, the panel is literally right next to where the plug would go. That still seems high. Last time I had an electrician install a plug it was 175 with running new line to the other side of the garage.

I think these electricians hear "EV" and think the person asking for the work has a ton of cash.
> The only mainstream languages with this kind of composable parallelism are Go and Erlang

Concurrency? Go is not good at parallelism, compared to, say, Haskell.
Once again, my argument is simple:

1. There is clear evidence that Epstein holds a grudge against Google based on the quarantine they put on his website.

2. It is not clear that this grudge determines his opinion about Google's influence on elections.

3. However, the grudge is relevant information in anyone's consideration of Epstein's opinions. Do with it what you will.
That's true.. but I'm just comparing tesla with other tesla models. If you were in the market for a leaf, you were probably never considering a model x/s.

But you make a good point.. there are now more luxury electric cars.. and those people are the same people that would buy a model x/s. Perhaps that's also part of why sales for those are lower.
Sounds like he’s talking about defense contractors. Many contracting firms just need “butts in seats” that they can bill out. Mediocre developers are better in some regards there: they bill out more hours since they’re slower, don’t mind 10+ year obsolete tech, and they don’t complain as much, which could endanger relations with the bureaucracy (customer.)
I've played with it a few times. It seems like they have you choose features in the space in the order of base -> palette -> art style (loosely) -> pose, but have locked some emotion controlling vector to be happy. Probably a reasonable step for their audience.
Judging from the statement:

VideoLAN is also aware of the issue and is currently working on a patch, though right now

I'm going to guess someone quickly glanced at the issue tracker, saw a percentage of work done and presumed "vulnerability: valid" and pressed on with publication without bothering to try reaching JBK for comment. Both sites really ought to update their posts for clarity.

Terrible form, IMO --in the interest of security disclosures.

VideoLAN does not seem amused about it either: https://twitter.com/videolan/status/1153715138333220864
Still waiting for the libel suit.

The company has financial irregularities and all sorts of problems. It seems strange that they wouldn’t push back.
I talked to a man charging his leaf at walmart at the evgo fast charger. He had leased it new, commuted 100 miles a day, charged once via the nissan no charge to charge and said he was way ahead of gas for his previous car. and he was driving a late model car too.

On the other hand, he probably was pretty dependent on fast charging.
They probably read the third comment,
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Where I work you can easily tell the occupied stalls from the presence of people's feet at the bottom. Except for the ADA stall. You have to glance at it through the mirror as you enter the bathroom to get the right angle to determine if occupied. All full? Turn around and try another floor.
The media might not be intentionally manipulating the stock so much as publishing information which short sellers find, package, and hand over for free. The incentive is there to create a misleading information campaign even without assuming the media is being very deliberate or coordinating.

Edit: I have no idea why I'm being so downvoted here. All I am saying is that short sellers have incentive to hand the media whatever they can to help their case (not so controversial, right?) and that the media might be taking it for free rather than, as the parent poster says, coordinating to specifically harm Tesla (is this the controversial bit?)
> All the projects I've worked on have exploited parallelism through message passing

What? Lots of parallelism doesn't use message passing!
And never count on someone else's network working properly.
Okay, I'm not saying it's completely awful to try to detect bad behavior in this way, but you keep offering up explanations for why it happened when the real issue here is the lack of transparency into a rule that can get you banned, when it should be trivial to instead offer users useful feedback. As the author said, this behavior has a chilling effect, or at least an extremely frustrating one. The issue isn't "why the user's actions resulted in a ban", it's the fact that the entire situation should have been avoidable.
Nothing material happened? They had said they would be profitable all quarters going forward and then they weren't profitable in Q1. I think Musk also faced a new settlement with the SEC in that timeframe over violating a prior settlement for investor fraud (I think the prior one had terms letting them technically not admit to fraud) being violated.

They also diluted investors with a capital raise they had strongly hinted wouldn't be needed, and at the autonomy day presentation for that raise they made bold predictions about essentially level 5 autonomy by 2020 (seemed like a lie to me and the entire team was restructured a few weeks later: https://electrek.co/2019/05/10/tesla-autopilot-restructuring... ).
If you’re talking business in general then sure. In programming it’s very hard to move from QA to dev. I’ve rarely seen it happen, and there’s usually a reason why someone goes into QA vs dev, ie they are a below average developer.
> And urinals always have flush handles.

I haven't actually seen many newer urinals with flush handles. Pretty much anywhere with a recent install is sensor based.
There's plenty of old equipment around, of course.

Toilets are more hit or miss, though I'd hazard a guess that the majority of new installs are also all motion / sensor based. I can't speak to the bowl differences, though I'd suspect they're due to water efficiency, disabilities compliance and / or our heftier girth.
Right, and with a little extra effort, you can make an arbitrarily small error in one of your terms give a result that can be anywhere from negative infinity to positive infinity.
It's more than a big what-if: it's also not something Epstein claims has happened.
Well said. I love it when people unintentionally back into arguments for why a real free market is good by arguing that a not-actually-free market is better.
I don't know, he took a lot of risk that the company would continue to operate over decades. Should early investors of unicorn startups forfeit their equity after getting a fixed multiple of their investment in dividends?
I just got an e-Golf on a really good deal (thanks to slickdeals pointing out you can get 10k off the price). At first was worried, but that's all gone away. I've gone this whole week without even charging it and the included 120v charger over the weekend works just fine for my use case.

I've only used a public charger once and that was the first day owning it since the charger at the dealer wasn't working right.
In a previous lifetime I worked for a company that had a Lucasfilm merchandising license for Star Wars: Episode 1.

It was made precisely clear what the damages would be if script details leaked out prematurely, and they would be enumerated in dollars and the figure was incredibly large.

Multiple-commas large. At least two, possibly 3.

The project team toiled for nearly a year behind a locked door, we couldn't discuss a single piece of the project with them until the premiere date.
Interesting tidbit - in Ancient Greece shops and traders collected human and animal urine as it has ammonium salts, essential for scouring and cleaning wool.

https://toilet-guru.com/pompeii.php
1. The evidence shows that Epstein was angered by Google’s actions, but there is no evidence of his present emotional state. I don’t know anyone who would be angry for seven years for an automated notation warning caution for their own website.

2. Yes, but it is not even clear he holds this opinion or is being paid to parrot viewpoints he is paid for.

3. No evidence there is a grudge, see my argument in item #1.
Pro tip: when you request long rides in a ride-share app, give the driver a heads-up about where you're actually going before s/he arrives, so they have the option to cancel the request. They'll appreciate it, and generally won't cancel anyway.
Well, you always have to wait for the patents to expire. Then development can flourish, for a time.
Unless it is middle aged ladies drooling over male characters from Jane Austen dramatisations.
forget the alarm. I want their fonts!
The Japanese have a solution for this dire problem:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ond_IaNA4wk
> Why isn't some big company putting its weight behind Julia considering what it has to offer in the field of data science?

Same as J

> Tech is full of inertia, paradoxically.

I don't think it's paradoxical. Novelty is essential in academia, but that is not the case in industry.
"Refactoring" is also often used when for example somebody uses the wrong OOP pattern (doesn't fit changes) and has to convert it to a different OOP pattern.
I can't think of anything as CO2 masturbatory as airline flight.
And the fact that a subset of the population turns out to have a genotype that made Lymerix a problem for them;

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2870557/

But characterizing the people who claimed exactly these symptoms after getting the vaccine as crazy anti-vaxxers because science is easier.
But setting up an indoor flea market means they wouldn't be an eyesore, and would put a property to productive use that would otherwise sit empty, generating no tax revenue, possibly becoming a target for vagrants, arsonists, and graffiti taggers.
Someone should invent a mechanism that "locks" the door in place from the inside so that this can't happen.
The best innovations come without profit-driven motives. The thing about defense research is that it's more popular with the public than, let's call it, nerd research.

It's having money without trying to optimize solely on future money.
Since the driver of the selection against the related gene seems to be malaria, I wonder if this is linked to prevalence of body hair on human ancestors.

Bug bites on hairless skin probably had something to do with dying of disease, and the early homonids that had the gene seem to be the ones hit the hardest.

We also see evolutionary markers related to bed bugs, head lice and body lice. Maybe mosquitos and genes linked to a possible malaria pandemic offer more clues.
Yes, make me feel old. :-)

This goes to show how long consumers hold grudges when brands let them down. And those consumers eventually Jin corporate purchasing departments.
They have a really nice changelog.
I have similar experience with my hybrid, compared to my previous paid-off F150. Although still a gas car, the cost savings of driving it (gas, plus oil changes are half as often) pays for about 80% of my car payment.

My next car in another 10 - 15 years will definitely be electric.
I searched around a bit out of curiosity and it looks like it is USD500k investment to get permanent residence and 2 years of residence to apply for citizenship.
Let's again be clear that Google's "actions" here seem to sum up to:

1. Noticing that this guy's site was serving malware --- which Epstein was later forced to concede that it was.

2. Putting a warning on the search engine referral.
I think a large majority of anime art have happy expressions, so it might not have been anything that they had to do.

Edit: "disgusted anime girl that looks at you like you're trash" is the theme of a recent book that got adapted into anime, so it's a bit of a fad currently. I thought that was worth mentioning.
Thanks for that, very interesting. Couldn't quite figure out whether I'd be able to see/photograph it from Australia during the night but then again I'm pretty clueless.
There have been many claims about OOP that turned out to be mostly hype: reuse, intuitiveness, change-friendly, etc. What's remaining is more subtle and nuanced.
Would they have been unsuspended even if this didn't hit HN?
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I just love Tesla supporters.

They act as though Tesla is the only company in the world that has stock fluctuations, short sellers, bad press etc. It's never that the company was bleeding money in a quarter, saw a significant decline in ARPU, had to borrow money again, purchased SolarCity at a massive loss and has an erratic CEO who promises the world and fails to deliver. No it's a conspiracy involving dozens of large companies.
Okay, I have been convinced by your enthusiastic arguments that Google is good.
Well that's how we got emacs so who knows.
Exactly! This is the interesting question to ask!

And you should expect this to take a much less straight forwards form than outright malicious intend.

Machine learning stuff, to us mere mortals, is a black box that seems to output that what we desire. However, we don't need a single black box to completely hide the effect from everyone involved. It can be simply spread out over many processes without anyone noticing the sum of countless, by themselves very sensible, pro-google decisions made by google and its employees.

Say on a fuzzy edge some human or automation has to decide if a website gets banned from the index or not. Since they use adsense or google analytics it becomes possible to contact someone running the site or even, long before the offense, present them with a machine generated report suggesting decline of quality.

The google hating webmaster doesn't want all that tracking crap on his site and therefore he might be punished by not having the warning in advance. It doesn't seem harmful, it seems perfectly reasonable, if however you create 1000 such effects the meaningless 0.1% adds up to 100%.

Say, we take a user profile that use to frequent sites now banned from the search index. If that profile moves to a new website. Does that merit close monitoring? If the AI is a black box you don't even get to ask the question.

It all seems to be fair and logical but the sum of those 2 would boil down to close monitoring websites not using analytics. We would praise the AI for noticing it so soon and so efficiently.

And so things further escalate without anyone connecting the dots.

To make it more sinister:

We have a system of pro-consumerism entities that collectively indoctrinates us to enjoy consumerism. We don't know how efficient or effective that system is. But all we need to know is that we can improve it.

How hard is it really to plant a seed, water it and eat the tomatoes? How hard is it to mix flour, yeast and water then shove it in the oven? It sure seems like an infinitely complex task to me, infinite as in: ill never do it. That apathy is great news for consumerism. Its behavior that deserves to be praised and rewarded by the entities benefiting from it. There is no evil man pulling levers behind a curtain. Its just the way things are.
> With Moore law, it was always the case that general purpose CPU will always catch up to special purpose one (e.g. This killed sun and SGI),

And it also killed the Lisp Machines before that.
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I just wanted to take a moment to share my excitement. I just launched my fintech startup, https://www.foreverdonor.com/ which is changing the way the world can donate to charity.

However, I've done a press release (went out today), social media blasting, reaching out to local newspapers and not sure what else. Any suggestions?

Background: We built Forever Donor around letting people choose their favorite charity and a one-time donation of $20. We generate interest from your account and donate the interest to your charity every 3 months forever, in your name. We just did our first round of donations this month to charities such as Make-A-Wish Foundation, National Public Radio, and the Environmental Defense Fund. It's been a great success for the beta users.

It's a simple concept inspired by the story of Benjamin Franklin, who invested 2,000 silver to donated to the city Philadelphia and Boston 100 years after his death. That became millions of dollars for those cities. Now we're doing the same but for the average person and a ONE-TIME donation.

Thanks for letting me ramble! I'm really excited, but feel like I have 10,000 different directions I could take and no idea which one will be the best. I'd love to hear about other people's launch campaigns! -Andrew Kraemer
Most car owners have no problem renting a vehicle on a trip, at least when they fly out somewhere. Trips almost 100% renting (hotel room, chef services [restaurants], seat on the plane, car, limo to/from airport). Once in that mindset, it is much easier to rent a car for shorter trips.
He built a strong emotional relationship with the employees and then got cut off, abruptly, at the airport, with them not only unwilling to let him board his flight but unwilling to help him get his luggage back.

On top of that, they wouldn’t tell him why (at the time).

This was his life for many years. Emotionally it must have been similar to showing up at home one day and discovering your wife had locked you out and filed for divorce with absolutely no warning, and you had no idea what happened.