skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can reverse-engineer faces into the original random seed/embedding, and then tweak the embedding to 'edit' the face. (There are a bunch of tools and Colab notebooks for that, but the best tool is definitely Artbreeder, which does a lot of other GAN models too: https://artbreeder.com/ )

However, since the model only does faces centered in an image, you're restricted to different headshots: make them smile or frown, or wearing sunglasses, or different hair color, or animate lip flaps, yes, but not 'doing different things in different places', unless you can figure out some way to insert a headshot into a bigger photo.
My boss and I create a Slack thread each week for 1:1 topics.

One thing to remember is that 1:1 time is YOUR time, not your boss's time. They can schedule a meeting with you any time for their topics, but 1:1s are always your chance to have face time alone with them.

It's up to you what to talk about, but as a manager, I don't need status updates. If I'm a good manager, then I already know what you're up to, so let's talk about something _you_ want to talk about. You don't need to inform me of your day-to-day work, unless that's what you want to talk about.

My boss and I talk about a lot of things, but rarely status updates on projects. The topics tend to revolve around organizational changes, obstacles that my team and I are running into, personnel issues, or company strategic/tactical considerations.

My 1:1 is also a great time to talk about career development. Every other 1:1 I ask my boss how I'm doing, and if he says "You're great", I push a little bit more on something I can improve. He usually comes up with _something_.

I know a lot of ICs feel it's rude or inappropriate to bring up raises or career direction, so I try to bring it up for them every other month or so. Things like "How do you like the direction of your role? Is there something else you'd like to work on? Have your career goals changed? Do you want to talk about that?"

I also take the time in 1:1s to get to know them on a personal level. One of my team members is having a baby in a few weeks, another one is competing in an Ironman in a few months, and a third is going through a divorce. These kinds of things don't directly apply to the job at hand, but it does have several benefits, such as letting them know that I care about them personally and giving me context that might explain aberrant behavior. Plus, it's just nice when someone asks about how you're doing, right?

Like I said at the beginning, I'll make a Slack thread with my boss. This week's looks something like this:

- <employee> performance plan

- <project> pivot

- <employee>'s annual review is coming up, compensation adj?

- <project> budget exploded, what happened?

- <another manager> seems to struggle with <project>. How can I help?

etc, etc.

Hope that helps. Good luck.
I mean, if you buy a Tesla you know you dont own a car. You are just licensing it. I refuse to support a company that makes me sign a f*ing gag order for the privilege of their car. https://www.slashgear.com/tesla-on-offensive-against-nhtsa-g...

Screw Tesla and the Authoritarian Technocratic hell they want to enforce on the automotive industry.

I cannot fathom how someone can be a tinkerer of things and support a company that continues to barely support things like the magnuson moss warranty act. Companies like Tesla prove we NEED right to repair.

I am genuinely curious how the community feels about Tesla's hostility to third party repair and open documentation.
This won't break existing code. It will break new, good code that gets back-ported from eg. a 3.7 tutorial to a 3.5 environment, without any syntax errors.

> Changed in version 3.7: LIFO order is now guaranteed. In prior versions, `popitem()` would return an arbitrary key/value pair. [1]

If they added a new `popordereditem()` method, good 3.7 code would use that, and an attempt to run that code on 3.5 would throw a reasonable, useful error message. If they wanted to play it safe like Rust or Go, they'd add the ordered method and make popitem() deprecated or make it artificially use random/arbitrary order so you can't accidentally depend on a new implementation detail and have a test case work.

Also, your case 4 does deserve some protection because while bad code it's hard to test for bad but working code. Implementation-specific or undefined behavior that works is the worst kind of problem, because it's hardest to test against. Compile-time syntax errors are the easiest, runtime errors are testable with a solid test harness, some possible can be identified as warnings with linters, but sloppy code requires manual inspection to detect.

Actually, no, I take that back: Implementation-specific or undefined behavior that works sometimes! is the worst kind of problem. That's what this code enables; if your test case is `dict({'one': True, 'two': True})` and you have a unit test where you popitem() to assert that you get 'two' and then 'one' it will pass the test harness on 3.7, it will pass on 3.6 because of implementation-specific behavior, and it will pass on 3.5 because the hash map arbitrarily puts those particular items in order. But it will silently get it wrong when you pass in user-supplied data. Shudder.

[1]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#dict.popitem
This works find assuming the cheap car you bought in the first place doesn't blow an engine mid-year requiring everything you've saved in order to repair it. This happens more often than you (or Dave Ramsey) would imagine.
The Monroney sticker shows the car was sold new with FSD enabled. Are you claiming the dealership faked the sticker?
They didn't give him a hearing because he wasn't entitled to relitigate the issue of his conduct. A principle called collateral estoppel holds that if you lose on an issue in one case, you're not entitled to relitigate that same issue in a subsequent case (so long as the standards of proof are similar between the two cases). The New York Court of Appeals wasn't entitled to decide that Donzinger hadn't committed fraud. It had to accept as true the factual findings of the Southern District, which was affirmed by the Second Circuit. The only issue before the New York court in the disciplinary case was whether, taking as true that Donzinger tried to bribe a judge, etc., whether he should be suspended. That did not require a hearing: http://www.courts.state.ny.us/reporter/3dseries/2018/2018_05...

> Further, respondent was afforded a full and fair opportunity to litigate, as evinced by the voluminous record on which Judge Kaplan's findings were based. Judge Kaplan conducted a seven-week trial, heard 31 live witnesses (including respondent), and considered sworn testimony of three dozen others, as well as thousands of documents. Respondent appealed Judge Kaplan's decision, yet chose not to challenge the underlying factual findings. Thus, his argument that he was denied meaningful appellate review fails.

> Because Judge Kaplan's findings constitute uncontroverted evidence of serious professional misconduct which immediately threatens the public interest, respondent should be immediately suspended, pursuant to 22 NYCRR 1240.9 (a) (5) (see e.g. Matter of Truong, 2 AD3d 27 [1st Dept 2003]).
The article does not say that. The point here is, that supposedly the dealer who sold the car had bought the car without auto pilot, but it was active when handed over. If he had bought the car with auto pilot from Tesla, it would have stayed with the resale.

(All sides now have to check the contracts carefully to find out who actually bought what)
People (mostly) aren't buying Chevy Suburbans. They are (mostly) buying crossovers. Crossovers are basically the station wagons of the 21st century. If you want two rows, a hatchback and usable trunk space your options are crossover (technically an SUV, even if it's just a lifted wagon) or spending tons of money for a proper wagon made by either the Germans or Swedes. The reason the OEMs won't build wagons en-mass seems to be emissions classifications.
I think it's called direct response copywriting and mimics a more conversational style.

I know, you wanted to make a negative example and yes, this writing style gets old pretty fast. However, for a moment it works surprisingly well. And in a way the value you provide with that style is that the point you want to get across sticks better somehow.
"Second, height is not something you should fixate on."

I'm not convinced. Many studies illustrate the correlation to success. We are still animals and not-merit factors still matter. Good looks, height, gender, race, symmetry, smell, whatever, etc, are a real "thing". You can overcome it all with mitigation, but it isn't imaginary. That stuff drives real outcomes.
That is an original line of thinking in the world of software, “Let’s not add a feature to a new version because it wouldn’t work if used in an older version”.
The 16-inch MacBook Pro has a completely different thermal design compared to the 15-inch, so I’m not sure what relevance your 2018 experience bears on the 16-inch.

It’s basically a different computer in a lot of ways, despite looking similar on the outside.
What's the current state of the art on controllable GANs? Like if you wanted to build a thispersondoesnotexist but with the ability to control e.g. gender, smile, sunglasses, ethnicity?
I recently got a green screen to use during my video conferencing. I thought it would be fun just to mess with my co-workers, make it look like I'm on the Mars or something. I've yet to figure out how to get it to work with gotomeeting/skype/hangouts video though. I've found apps that can do it for recorded video, but I suppose it's on the camera to have the chroma effect available. Which the one I have doesn't do. I don't want to spend too much just for a joke.
Also this guy's hair: https://imgur.com/WbvCMin.jpg
I'm guessing it's comparable with like how Trumpalump got (and stays) in office... Any concerns will need to be dealt with afterwards, for the time being we'll just distract you with a big show!

The author explains his views in some other posts, like

* https://unixsheikh.com/articles/why-you-should-migrate-every...

* https://unixsheikh.com/articles/the-real-motivation-behind-s...
> NASA has provided SpaceX with lots of expertise and assistance.

Can you provide a link about that? I'm aware about SpaceX-NASA cooperation in debugging SpaceX disasters and also financial assistance from NASA on various stages of SpaceX evolution, but would like to learn about substantial involvement of NASA into important technical design and development processes in SpaceX.
So everyone will become a dad? Lol

If we see a new shoe company, it will be an athlete-run business that comes from someone like Lebron or Curry starting their own brand. But Nike / UA would never let that happen which is why they pay them millions of dollars in endorsements. And if it did happen, Nike would acquire the new company in short order.
I just heard today that tik tok is libe moderating its content, perhaps they weren’t doing tgat back then?
Same here, I was about to spend all weekend scrapping their data to rebuild it if they were just going to shut it off. It’s definitely the top calorie tracker out there right now
WSL is the bee's knees for me and is about to get a lot better with WSL 2 (can talk to an X server for instance).

I couldn't deal with the Wayland/X, not playing nice with Nvidia, etc bullshit on Linux. Since I really only care about the terminal WSL has been great.
Usually, the highest percentage of anything happens on the smallest groups.
That's not what people call backward compatibility.

Backward compatibility is the ability to run old code with new interpreters. This is not broken here.

What's broken is the ability to run new code on old interpreters. But this is already broken at every python update (new operators, methods, syntactic sugar..). We could call it reverse backward compatibility.
Because most people want a Lindows, not Linux. And a Lindows they got, with many pros and cons of Windows. Linux users will always be a minority because Linux is about tinkering and customization instead of a consistent corporation-concocted UX.
This seems to me to be the exact opposite of how the shoe business works now.
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> Surfers...don’t care about grabbing attention

I chuckled at this bit, because I grew up in a surf town and still live nearby. Every surfer I've every known has been an attention hog, and they will find a way let you know they surf within minutes of meeting you.
Really? I would have figured they'd just do something like:

class OrderedDict(dict):
pass

(Plus a little bit of API shimming.)
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I think this is a key point. Since they advertised this, it became a commitment for all future versions. Sure they can break again in 4.0
> Lasers are all the same.

It's interesting you chose that specific boat given the dust-up between the trademark owner and the builders over the past year, and the recent controversy in the 2024 Olympic selection committee. I've only barely followed it, but at least some of the controversy seems to be about the lack of innovation in the class.
No Apple watch is expected to last longer than five years, particularly with software updates.

Additionally, the Swiss watch industry is not being subsidized by the US health insurance industry.
That is definitely not the CPUs problem to worry about. Operating systems need to catch up.
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That's partly how I feel too. I bought a car out of college and took out a loan for it, and my goal with that car was to be able to pay off the loan AND save up enough money that I could buy my next car in cash. I have achieved that goal, but my original car still runs fine after 10 years, and most people are incredibly surprised when I tell them the age and the mileage. I really feel no need to buy a new car, but I am happy to know I am able to buy a car in cash when the time comes.
There is no license agreement by a secondhand buyer.

Why should Tesla be permitted to reach into a car I bought from the classifieds, and reconfigured using my own skill (flipping a bit from "disabled" to "enabled")?

Consumer protection should be strengthened so that this kind of behavior is illegal.
> Think of it as buying a concert ticket [...]

A more appropriate analogy would be if their seats were already reserved and couldn't be resold.

The hardware is already there, Tesla is just being (as another poster noted) a "Authoritarian Technocratic hell."
I think the implications are "don't wear a gown" and "wear a plain (this is a business event, not a social one) knee-high dress," since this describes the vast majority of dresses that turn up when I search for "cocktail casual." Anything above thigh-high would indeed be short, but hardly formal.
Spoiler warning, please!
Or former smokers.
Not only f strings, but any change really.. New operators, new methods on standard library objects... Python never guaranteed compatibility of new code with old interpreters.
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Thanks for that clarification.

Regarding Android, from the point of view of a beginner (in low level 3D) getting into Vulkan, compare how to use MetalKit or DirectTK, versus the official NDK support for Vulkan.

You get told to clone a GitHub repo, compile shaderc, go to download LunarG SDK, and this is just the beginning.

Now you still need to go get GLM, DevIL, glTF loader, write code to loader shaders, and it is finally time for getting the first triangle ready.

Whereas you get all of that from a set of IDE templates, and integrated debugging tools.

So something like WebGPU, is pretty much welcomed.
This dispute has been going on a long time. Recall, the backstory is that Chevron claimed that Donziger tried to shake them down with a corruptly obtained judgement. They won a judgement against Donziger, but Donziger claims he has no money, so he hasn't paid them. (I mean, fair is fair I guess; Chevron won't pay the judgement Donziger won against them, why should Donziger pay the one they won against him?)

In any case, the criminal contempt is more recent, and stems from Chevron claiming that Donziger has been receiving a lot of money, primarily by selling "shares" in the judgement, ie, a law firm in Canada (or whatever) pays Donziger for the right to sue Chevron in Canada to try and collect. Donziger claimed he had not done so, and the judge in the case ordered him not to start. Chevron claimed he was still doing it (and apparently submitted some evidence to back this up). The the judge ordered Donziger to turn over records to demonstrate how much money he had and, in particular, if he was getting money by monetizing the fraudulent judgement he had obtained against Chevron (which would be against the judge's order).

Donziger has refused to turn over these records, which prompted criminal contempt charges, which he has now been convicted of. He can try appealing, but I'm not entirely sure under what grounds; Donziger's financial records would seem to be fair game (and it's pretty common for a court to ask for such records when someone is failing to pay a judgement against them), so...
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People in the warm parts of Canada do this too, now-a-days. Its kind of weird to be be riding along the road at 5 C and see all these empty cars idling on the side of the road.
Just to add my two cents, I drive a 4K monitor in a quiet room and don’t notice any significant difference in operation compared to my previous 2016 model.

Perhaps this is a driver bug that hits some configurations or situations?

The thermal design of the 16-inch seems adequate especially when compared to outgoing 15-inch models, so I think it’s something they can fix in software.

Something to note: all recent discrete GPU MacBooks will switch to discrete graphics as soon as you plug in any external monitor. Higher power consumption and heat should be expected to a reasonable extent (everyone’s definition of reasonable is different).
I apologize in advance, but I would be remise if I didn't put in the obligatory call out for Rust =)
> I feel an intense desire to learn high performance computing to take advantage of this thing.

Learning high performance computing will let you take advantage of other things too. Like, for example, current desktop workstation processors with "just" four cores.
>DC-NYC and a NYC-Boston line that is through-run

Exactly. Frankly, if the northern and southern legs of the route split to different rail stations as is the case in Boston, I'd guess that would inconvenience relatively few people.

(Of course, Amtrak has limited service going north out of Boston anyway so the fact that the Downeaster doesn't directly connect to the NEC is less of a problem there than it would be in other cities.)
Both of these would be syntax errors if you tried to execute them in earlier python versions. This change might break software completely silently.
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If your code relies on a minimum python version, you can add `python_requires=">=3.5"` to your setup.py [https://packaging.python.org/guides/distributing-packages-us...] to ensure it's not installed on older releases.

That field itself is kinda new; but if needing to block users with older versions, that shouldn't be an issue.
>"Kaplan has a soft spot for Chevron, which the judge once described as “a company of considerable importance to our economy that employs thousands all over the world, that supplies a group of commodities, gasoline, heating oil, other fuels, and lubricants on which every one of us depends every single day.”
I’m Recalling whether it was 96% or 94%, but I got a perfect on my math sat II. And yet the perfect score was only ~95%.

Top 1/20 Can be impressive or unimpressive depending on context.

Top 1/20 is impressive if everyone in the group is competitive. It’s not impressive if it’s 1/20 out of a bunch of randoms who’ve never tried to be good at it.
Chevron proved bribery in the original case through the testimony of a judge, circumstantial evidence showing opportunities to bribe the judge, and substantial discussions by Donzinger's associates about how they wanted to pay a bribe and how easy it would be to do so. If a similar array of evidence were deployed to show Chevron bribing someone, I think most people would be convinced.
To haul their crumb-snatchers, yes. But this also doesn't explain why people are choosing to misappropriate farm vehicles (pickup trucks) as single passenger daily commuters.
Wow, we're getting close to the amount of cores/threads that Xeon Phis boasted, but with actual per-core performance. And on an (almost) mainstream platform!
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Does it have two GPUs it switches between? One high perf and one integrated?

When I had a MBP 2015 I rarely had the fan come because it only had and and used an integrated GPU.

With a 2018 MBP the fan frequently kicks on because it switches to the Radeon high perf GPU when doing things like connecting to an external monitor.
I read a couple posts about systemd on this blog the first time the "Why you should migrate everything from Linux to BSD" article showed up on HN. Reading these articles made a bad impression on me about systemd. However, then I followed the links to the mailing lists and found the picture the author painted exaggerated and at times inaccurate.

I, for one, am happy that there finally emerges a common (across Linux distros) "system layer" that applications can depend on. POSIX is often not enough.
By competitive I just mean that they keep performing well decade after decade. Many Fortune 500 companies have been on that list for decades.

> Lehman Brothers, AIG, PG&E, Boeing, likely IBM, any number of the drained husks left in the wake of private equity like Toys R Us and Payless, etc.

I doubt all of those were victims of shortsightedness. Sometimes, it's time for institutions to die and leave room for new things.

But of course you're right that this happens. I wasn't claiming that all private companies are run perfectly with epic time horizons and no executive ego involved etc. I was just arguing against the idea that they never think beyond the next quarterly result report.

> Corporations can be run well or badly, and governments can be run well or badly.

Sure!

> It's just a question of the competence and moral character (or lack thereof) of decision-makers.

I'd focus a lot more on what incentives the decision-makers are under. And I claim the politician who will be fired in 2 years unless he makes himself look awesome on Election Day has more short term focused incentives that a company CEO.
Hell, I've been trying to get coworkers to just get webcams and it is an uphill battle. There is so much non-verbal communication that you lose working remote, it's harder still when you can't even see the person.