skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think people are focusing too much on the attacks. Imo those are a sideshow. It's even questionable whether they can be called attacks when you're asking it to recognize an image and it recognizes something that's on the image, just not in the mode you expected or the object you assumed was of interest.

Yeah, as expected, https://twitter.com/NoaNabeshima/status/1368662246885265409 https://youtu.be/Rk3MBx20z24?t=35 it goes away with a more sensible set of inputs.

CLIP just turns out to be more like GPT-3 in that you don't input 'classes', you do 'prompt programming'. Looking at the relative activation of 'ipod' is just wrong; you are asking a stupid question and acting surprised when you get a reasonable answer which happened to not telepathically read your mind.
This has a significant consequence - the military is an almost foolproof path out of the lower and well into the middle class. You can basically do nothing but be mediocre or even marginal and still be financially secure and earn a solid retirement.

All that is lost if you can’t even join up.
To me the desexualization of mainstream movies is a wonderful trend. If I want to be sexually stimulated I'll watch porn. The "sex" in older movies has no payoff. Its like if they stopped Avengers to spend ten minutes showing Tony Stark filling out insurance forms for damage to Stark Tower. Sure it's in the story but why the hell would I want to look at it?
I thought this was in response to metrics demonstrating PG movies are more profitable than PG-13 and R. Studios were doing backflips to make sure their big movies could secure a PG or PG-13 rating... which means no sex scenes.
Gatto's book Dumbing Us Down expands on the ideas of this essay and argues his side quite effectively. His ideas are based on his multiple decades as a successful schoolteacher and are well-supported by history. You don't have to agree with them, but you seem to be dismissing them too quickly and casually.

For example, here's a quote from Dumbing Us Down that I found persuasive:

"We had school, but not too much of it, and only as much as an individual wanted. People learned to read, write, and do arithmetic just fine anyway; there are some studies that suggest literacy at the time of the American Revolution, at least for non-slaves on the Eastern seaboard, was close to total. Thomas Paine's Common Sense sold 600,000 copies to a population of 3,000,000, twenty percent of whom were slaves, and fifty percent indentured servants."
You should look at what plenty of ETFs do with their time. Pollute, pillage, waste, oh and profit. The "wasting" of electricity is a valid concern, but when apples-to-apples, it's nothing out of the ordinary.
Being exposed to new ideas and information outside of normal. In other types of social media, you curate your own feed, which limits what's seen because your network might not know or post about certain things. In other types of news-like feeds, the host uses ai-like prediction to show what they think you'll like. On HN, in addition to new subjects, there are varied opinions on all sides of an issue to consider Whether I like what I hear or not, I believe it's important to see other perspectives. I like to learn, so it can be fun and interesting.
Funnily I'm subscribed to Corridor Digital and Nebula. These were the first things I thought about when I saw the headline. And now I know where Luke from LTT went and why despite "not working at LTT anymore", Linus seemed to have a good relationship with Luke whenever he appeared.
The word "relatively" served a purpose in that statement. Can you name a hegemon that was more peaceful and humane? Which European colonial power at its height, which Chinese dynasty, which Mongol khanate would you prefer?

Maybe America wouldn't be top of the list but the point is made in distinction to other regimes that achieved remotely similar power differentials.
The person who wrote this, submitted it to HN and has said on Twitter they expected these comments.

"predictably the comment section for this essay on HN is a slew of people saying " - https://twitter.com/Andrewmd5/status/1368649088292417536

FYI - The Black Tax - "a colloquial term for financially assisting ageing parents, siblings and other relatives"

I think it is a fucked name since I've seen in so much in SE Asia and other non black countries, we are talking billions of people who are not black enough who also have to deal with this.

I think that alone makes it incendiary and it also needs explaining on HN who are not all embedded in USA politics.
I feel like this article/author wanted to connect a lot of things when the reality of the situation is far more simple.

People and young people have having less sex and less of everything because of poorer circumstances combined with an inability/reflectance to compromise.

Applied to housing this means that it is economically harder to afford a house so people stay home in their parents mcmansions. It's hard to afford/own a home because people don't want to buy a starter home so no one builds them. Finally it becomes very profitable if you have the cash to flip old houses thus quickly exhausting the supply of cheaper housing.

Speaking of living in places that could be called mcmansions, they are not bad to live in. While you could say a family as a unit is better off with a smaller 70s tri level, the mcmansions has more space so each individual feels like they get what they want. The main rooms remain clean and uncluttered while the messy lives of children are confined to bedrooms. The interior is vast enough to support guests and extended family, etc.

For movies, the consolidation of production means that having many movies is just competing with yourself. Producing a single film for 90% of the demographics is cheaper and makes more money. A decent percentage of America is quite religious and won't take there 3 12 year olds to anything containing sex. Thus most movies now don't contain it. Anything with sex becomes too taboo to view with the family which just reinforces this effect. The current wave of social justice also makes sex an untouchable topic both for movies and in real life.
If by popular you mean widely-used, The LAMP “stack” of Linux, Apache, PHP, and MySQL remains probably the most popular, and certainly the stack in widest use, because of WordPress. All of my customers save two for the last decade use that stack. I have seen Rails and C#/.Net a few times.
...and zip code, which is very correlated with parental income, occupation, and education level
This man understands. It’s the .001% chance that kills people
See: https://mobile.twitter.com/adam_tooze/status/121316563032673...

> At their peak in 1980 illegal drugs accounted for 5 % of total personal consumption expenditure in US. An astonishing figure corroborated by contemporary estimates that cocaine sales peaked at $35bn in 1980. Rachel Soloveichik
@BEA_News
The Wild Gears sets ( https://www.wildgears.com ) have enticed me a few time... though so far, I've been able to hold off on buying them for myself.
What's stolen? The user gave contest to us. We are simply acting to that contest.

The US GOV need to focus more on Tether not us because Tether steals billions of dollars directly from economy. Everybody know who is Merlin!
Start moving to as many non-Google servies as possible. Some things are hard to replace, some aren't.
You're repeating yourself and ignoring arguments already made.

"White" has changed in definition over time. English expanded to include French, expanded to include Irish/Scottish, expanded to include Germanic/Nordic, expanded to include Slavic, expanded to include (some) Hispanics... it's pretty much always been changing.

And for a good 50 years, it's just devolved into a term of convenience. We haven't had concerted "racial construction" for decades.

You paint a totalizing picture that's dusty, faded and old. It's not a relevant stance in today's America, except insofar as it enables these totalizing activist narratives (for political and economic purposes, every time).
I've been told academic journals don't even pay peer reviewers. Is that true? Peer review is the whole point of a journal and is what sets them apart from just publishing a PDF on the internet. If peer reviewers aren't even getting paid for their invaluable service, nothing stops them from forming their own independent peer review group.
Changing info at the registrar would have fixed this, they would probably have only lasted a few minutes w/o DDOS but it's not like cloudflare singlehandedly banished them from the internet. I mean, they sort of did due to the lack of protection, but it's not like cloudflare has the keys to the entire internet; just their ddos service.
There is no need for acting, a girl would have lots of visitors and make similar amounts of money even if she wasn't cheerful, probably make more if she's the fast-fuck type.

You underestimate how horny some men are. One girl was telling me how it was 15 years ago.. men would line up in front of the apt building, go in, get a blowjob and a quick fuck for like 20min door-to-door, pay 25$ and leave. I don't know if she in particular didn't perform "girlfriend experience" type work or that's how they mostly were but trust me, there are more men who don't care about how happy the girl is and don't give a crap about her being cheerful or not.
I'm not suggesting you are doing anything morally wrong, but keep in mind that they may be faced with a situation where not only are they being pressured into this by specific people but there simply aren't good alternatives for them to make decent money.

Men tend to make more money than women. If a woman has a child or children to care for, sex work or exotic dancing etc al may be her only really viable option.

I will add that like with any industry, insiders will know some tricks and may have been coached on how to handle certain things. In the book Mayflower Madame, the escorts were explicitly told to act excited if a guy splurged at dinner and bought an entire bottle of champagne and not act like this was an everyday occurrence for them even though it might be the second or third time that day.
The ZX81 was an amazing machine. Long live the ZX81.
I see what you've done there...
To add an example, flippa.com is a similar marketplace and it displays financials and even integrated Google Analytics data from websites for sale.
I mean for one, a nude shower is the standard at pretty much all pools. Gender-separated most of the time, but still. From elementary school swimming lessons (which to be fair happen before pools open to the general public), to attending them as an adult, you drop all clothes when you enter and shower in one big room. Sure there might be partial walls for the extra shy, but most just don't care.

Same goes for gym showers. Maybe not the commercial ones, but def sport clubs or similar.

As a European (German), not sure what would be uncomfortable about that. The enormous gaps in US toilet stalls are far more terrifying ;-)
As a Linux user, I find it bewildering what users of Windows and iOS put up with.
Zig's docs cover a few different scenarios, but a couple of interest to me at least:

- Arena allocators, where your code allocates a chunk of memory and then creates its own allocator just for that chunk; when that chunk gets freed, so does everything in it. Handy for short-lived data.

- Using different allocators for different regions of memory makes it trivial to compartmentalize things; you could use the OS allocator (or a straight pointer if you're implementing your own OS) to preallocate chunks of memory, slap allocators on those chunks, and hand those to different components, preventing any given component from bringing down the whole program due to a memory leak.

- It's possible to use allocators for verifying code correctness (e.g. detecting memory leaks, testing code under memory exhaustion conditions, etc.).
We simply ask the user to install an App to iOS or Android that gives us two factor codes. This is done with the user contest. At least, that's how I do these things.
Reminds me of the best analytics software I ever saw, ca. 1998, where it'd track each individual visitor's path through the site, e.g.

- [12:00 - 89.212.12.whatever] - /index.php

- [12:01 - 89.212.12.whatever] - /team/bob-smith/

- [12:02 - 89.212.12.whatever] - /products/turb-encab-9001/
What enterprise requirements does it lack?
I don’t think there’s any complicated explanation; if you are never exposed to a particular state of being (e.g. public nudity) while growing up, it will probably be uncomfortable as an adult if you only have a normal level of openness to new experiences. I don’t think fear of nudity is much different from fear of flying or fear of fear of public speaking or whatever.

At least among my friend group, public nudity has never actually been a problem in culturally appropriate circumstances (eg at a public bathhouse or sauna while traveling through Japan or Scandinavia).
>I can't help but wondering how many people today on HN could make such a decision, especially those who insist to "move fast and break things"

This gets into the argument about whether people who write software should be called engineers. There is good reason why nearly every engineering body out there has something along the lines of "Hold paramount their duty to public welfare" as the first item in the code of conduct. "Move fast and break things" is pretty much incompatible with engineering.
Who is the "we" here? The woke and the neoracists? Do you realize that the platform on which you speak, and censor others, was created by the very people you aim to condescendingly ostracize?
Hehe, since 2011. That’s funny. I’ve been sitting on some good domain names as well, but with less code behind them.

If you ever want to talk tech and visit Jelenia Góra or Prague, give me a shout!

Fair warning: I will probably learn from you.

Good times: I have some spare bedrooms in the mountains. The air is somewhat clean here, even in the winter.
America, Your Privacy Settings Are All Wrong
Brady put out a short blog post on the status of Hello Internet about 5 months ago. I felt a bit betrayed as an avid listener that they so suddenly and without any notice for several months stopped putting out episodes, but at least this blog seems to indicate that they simply have their focuses elsewhere for now.

https://www.bradyharanblog.com/hello-internet
In my eyes, the issue is that it the becomes the norm that receptionists need to have sex with their bosses and people who are only interested in the receptionist part are put in the position of needing to go into sex work or someone else getting the job they want.
Commonwealth?[0]

I think you made an excellent point. I see both sides and have no horse in this race.

[0] https://thecommonwealth.org/member-countries
I work for Elsevier. About 2 years ago there was a big internal push to drive it home that we are now a data and analytics company and not a publisher.
Adults also don't tend to go to movies, so movies are made for kids. I wonder if Hollywood executives sit around the conference table wondering if a kid that doesn't speak English, doesn't live in N. America, will get the movie.
1) Massive respect to Allan McDonald, for piping up in the hearing when he could have very easily kept quiet.

2) Massive respect to NPR, for continuing to publish news in HTML with minimal markup, quick loading for anyone to view.
The only good Star Wars movie of the last umpteen years was Rogue One, where they weren’t trying to sell toys to children.
Poorly, don’t mask fauci is wrong thing for the right reason
In multiple places Pearl castigated the entire field of statistics, in addition to outright character assassinations of long dead statisticians. I think the original author’s interpretation is perhaps too charitable.
Quick poll. How many people here use instacart? I can't because they don't service my area but others?
I think it does say that, but it also says:

> I have real trouble using the term "research" for something like this, lumping it together with activities such as "research" in natural science, "research" in anthropology, or even journalistic "research".

Considering we're on "Hacker News" right now, and saying something like "hacking (in the reverse engineering sense) is research-like but not fundamental enough to be research" is bound to be a bit controversial.

It's a slippery slope anyways. Is researching anything that might have been known by someone at some point in time now not research? And it feels a bit like gatekeeping too.
My brother faced similar situation while working for a Govt project in University; He refused to sign and instead resigned;

"Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it" --Einstein (b. 1879)
Not quite - variables are references to objects, there's nothing that restricts global variables themselves to only reference a single _instance_ of an object.

That said, a global singleton (and global state in general) is usually an anti-pattern; having pretty much any code be able to depend on the state makes it very difficult to evaluate the impact of a change.
Similarly, Deadpool figures galore.
> Doesn't english and vocabulary fill this space?

Yes, and no. English doesn't by default fill the space of words that are shorthands for domain specific ideas. The practitioners coin the terms.

> You don't find carpentry workers referring to domain specific vocabulary as design patterns.

Every field has its conventions, shorthands, patterns, etc. They might not call them design patterns. Lawyers, for example, have tons and tons of terms that are shorthand for complex concepts, and you wouldn't understand them without first studying them, even if they are strictly made of otherwise mundane English words. For example, "strict scrutiny", or "reasonable person".
John Taylor Gatto: The Underground History of American Education

https://schoolsucksproject.com/john-taylor-gatto/
There's lots of food that only comes out at night; if it weren't bats, some other predator species would have developed sonar to hunt them.
> The second best explanation is that patterns are often a sign of shortcomings in the language

Or the inverse, the patterns are common enough that a limited form of them is baked directly into the language itself.
At my salary I would welcome serving coffee while everyone is in the standup.
In that case I don't understand your original comment, as it describes the sort of mistake that arises when you don't control for other factors, but you appear to accept that they did.
I consider myself at a ~beginner+ level. Beat it on my second attempt. IMO this is the right amount of difficulty without being overwhelming for a beginner(or novice), which TBH is the majority the world.
This is a great program that I could use as a litmus test for checking if my newbie friends of chess has made satisfactory progress without me playing with a handicap or artificially lowering my gameplay. This program appears to be in the delightful zone for the casual player. Bravo!
> It means that everything a relational database is capable of (from CS theory) can be done with a single column of values per table. Note that each such table also has a "column" of primary keys

So, in other words, it's a two column table (“primary key” aren't some kind of virtual column, either in concrete databases or in relational theory.)

Calling a database with two columns one of which is the primary key a one-column table is...just wrong.
I find that films from the 1950s had more realistic violence. People remembered the war. Even with a small revolver, when someone got shot, they fell down. A few decades latter you get to something like Rambo, with bullets flying, but none hit him.
This is so wonderful to read! Thank you so much for sharing!!

I'm trying to get more in the 3D world myself. I do plenty of 2D/graphic design professionally and I bought the mac pro (base version*) thinking I can upgrade it later.

The main problem I ran into for Maya was the Arnold Render.
I will have to come back to this document and research how they render real time using their GPUs and not their CPUs. I see they're using RedShift. I'll have to learn about that!

Maya's Arnold render doesn't support rendering with AMD's GPU (AMD Radeon Pro W5700X 16 GB) so I tried the RadeonRender Plugin but it's a pain trying to apply the textures to be the same.

Are their Maya tutorials that anyone recommends on this?
Yep, best bet is to check your state's weed laws and stay under an amount where the penalty is not too severe. If you have no priors and get caught with less than 1-2 lbs in a lot of states, any felony possession charges will be cleared after serving a year on probation.

Whatever you are doing, make sure that you can do the time you might get and don't panic when you get raided.
A boomer could graduate high school, get a job, buy a car, buy a house, and start saving for retirement.

Younger generations have to work 10X as hard for a chance at that kind of middle class lifestyle.

When it comes to where you live it's poor job prospects or unaffordable real estate: pick one. Everything goes up but wages. If you're not in the "professional class" by 30-40 years old you're in real trouble. There's an alternate path that involves living in low cost of living places and working your ass off while you live below your means, but that's not really easier just different.

Younger generations, especially those younger than GenX, know that you just can't fuck around... literally or metaphorically. The party's over.

Edit: Someone will comment that this was only true for white boomers. You're right. Now it's true for nobody.
Can you give examples of really good films of the past/recent past?
I think art is different in some ways though. Far be it from me to tell others how to spend their money, but at least with physical art it is preserved. The art may mostly be traded by the ultra-wealthy, but at least it still exists for the good of society.

An NFT is really just a digital autograph. Not even really an autograph, isn't it a cryptographic signature? Which would surely need to be random by nature, so the artist can't even do something unique with that. It's external to the work itself.
Political correctness in the us means not straying too far from the mainstream. The specifics of what that means is constantly changing.
There's a world of difference between the girls I'm talking about and the escorts who get booked for whole-night affairs and go to dinner with clients.

Honestly I don't even know if there are any escorts like that in Romania. The few people that could afford them are relatively well known and going to dinner in an expensive restaurant would be seen by basically everybody which I assume is not desired by men of high status. They might book them at the hotel though and honestly for 1000$ a night or more I assume it is easy to act.

However I pay 70$-100$, you think a girl would care enough to act for such little money? Even though it's Romania, most people that make money easily learn to not give a crap about money and are not generally motivated by money.

Edit: also, I never tip, I only pay the advertised price.
Helping 100 plus people get into Open Source as a normal dev
That is incredibly disturbing to read.

I'm glad I did though.
No one builds starter homes because municipalities don't zone for them.

If you want a 3 bdrm condo most cities don't adequately zone for them, and so the limited stock is obscenely over-priced. The same follows for townhouses and row homes.

My own municipality is, allegedly, progressive and far-left; but even it has locked in a huge chunk of the town as single unit homes in a "heritage conservation area", and insists on building bachelor and 2 bdrm suites when it densifies.

So what's the point? You can rent your parents' basement suite for cheaper than the mortgage on what would be a lateral shift in housing status.
Ok, call it the iterator technique, but there's a difference between using the iterator technique and iterating, which you seem to be refusing to acknowledge.