skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The dirty secret about software reliability that no company wants to admit
Solid funding, thorough testing, failover, and developer skill should always be prioritized in mission critical software-driven systems. There is tons of room for failure in complex solutions. There is also a growing trend in software being manipulated beyond it's actual functional purpose into other categories like generating up-sales, in app purchases, and to embedding advertising into key features... Corruption of software functionality is a key threat to software stability in mission critical software, and in systems that people truly depend on and if it's not addressed and regulated properly, it will spiral out of control in the future.

This applies not just to mission critical systems, it applies to cell phones that you pay for, televisions and cars people buy as consumers, because they are often mission critical to us.

With every single project, control, security, cost cutting, and tight delivery deadlines pose a constant threat to reliability and utility of all software-driven solutions.

Within IT companies, there are constantly well paid people working as decision makers that proclaim "I'm not really a technical person" on a regular basis.

Frankly, if you're working in a position that has critical impact on technology-based decisions, YOU SHOULD ALREADY BE A TECHNICALLY AWARE PERSON, OR QUICKLY LEARN HOW TO BE A WELL INFORMED TECHNICAL PERSON, or step aside and let an accountable technical person serve in that role.

Key decision making in software based development needs to more carefully involve people dedicated to understanding technical implications, constraints, and potential outcomes in addition now more than ever in addition to other skills like human psychology, marketing, risk management, and within the many other roles filled within mission critical IT organizations.

Also, an emphasis on budget management by moves like undercutting developer salaries for key roles and/or pressuring less experienced developers to write mission critical production code is fine for entertainment-based social media apps perhaps, but not for pacemakers... Some systems, especially those with the highest level of critical importance need to be exempt from cost cutting and should never tolerate a temporary fix/workaround/and that "not a technical person" culture.
The quote is: "The Spaghetti Code Conjecture says that Busy Beaver programs ought to be, in some sense, as complicated as possible."

It takes real gymnastics to misquote that into:

"programs ought to be, in some sense, as complicated as possible"
Norway however only has territory in the Arctic (which is an island that is not going to melt as well), and there were not any other takers.
Yes, I assume that European are as smart an entrepreneurial as Americans, therefore the kinds of companies they build are likely a result of the regulatory environment.
Sea level rise is unstoppable. Here's how to adapt
The Fascinating Physics of Bowling
There was recently comments about this with questionable reasoning. There is an official statement now so everyone can make their own educated opinion.

Please don't start a "telegram is not encrypted by default" shitstorm like in every other comment section about anything related to Telegram.
Not quite. Yes, network effects are important, but if that were the only important thing, then Facebook would be the only social media site. The opposing dynamic is that it's not hard to be on multiple sites at the same time. So if there's a site that meets my definition of "better" and has critical mass among the people I'd like to connect with it, it can compete. Each new generation gets its own social network because it has no interest in connecting with the squares on Facebook.
I’m always amazed at old nintendo and Gameboy games. I believe the first Pokémon was 512k!
Visualizing Control Flow Graphs
Now I feel cheated by the OP link and want to see an image with all colors but from some good perceptual-based space.
This 'looks guilty' thing is akin to witch hunting.

If millions of people died and you were right there when it happened, a likely suspect, you might want to deflect blame as well.

Populism and Politics have little to do with the truth. If the masses are fired up over one theory, or if the highly politicized academic community is fired up over one of their own sensitivities, it can be destructive for many involved.

Refusing legitimate investigation - now that's a bad sign because people should want to clear their names.

We don't know what the answers are but it warrants further investigation.
<http://example.com./> is a valid URL, see for example:

https://jdebp.uk/FGA/web-fully-qualified-domain-name.html
> Finetuning a pretrained model using your own dataset can be done much more quickly (think hours to a day or two) and on consumer-level hardware (I train my models on an old desktop with a GTX 1070).

This is interesting! Do you have some links about doing that?

My desktop computer has a GTX 1060 with 6 GB of VRAM. But hopefully I can use it for something like this.

I've only used Google Colab in the past, and only tried stuff with prompting existing models.

Would love to experiment a bit with fine-tuning models on my own datasets to get some kind of unique stuff.
They matured, dominated the market, got lazy and comfortable, and basically took over the role of incumbent.

This is top of mind for me as my amazon use has declined from a peak a few years ago (with a dead cat bounce during covid) and I'm now actively avoiding them. As you say, for items you are not already familiar with, they are completely untrustworthy, and for stuff I know about and want to buy, a) they are unreliable for availability, b) they put so much effort into trying to trick me into signing up for prime or subscriptions, or for paying shipping when I qualify for free shipping, that I feel like I'm trading with a criminal. I can get better treatment literally anywhere else.

For better or worse, they changed the face of commerce, now they are an entitled dinosaur that I'll be happy to see pushed to the side.
I wouldn’t say the Cuban or Chinese revolutions have provided great housing solutions. Not to mention the wanton slaughter of the Russian and Chinese civil wars which killed millions of innocent people.

No one is saying let’s keep doing markets”. The article and many posts like mine are arguing that building new and more dense housing has been illegal in most of the US for decades, which has lead to a housing shortage. We should make it legal to build more housing, so that the market can build more housing.

I’m not wholly opposed to some public housing, but it needs to be carefully financed and well maintained.
I actually just did try it! I'm finding that random pixels don't really get swapped. Except along comparatively uncommon borders between squares, pixels are already very similar to their immediate neighbors. Creating a video with 10000 swaps per frame, I found no successful swaps in 50 frames.

That said, I bet there's some other criterion that would have the desired effect.
> Landowners should be paying a land value tax equivalent to the value of their property. That way local services are well-funded.

Why is that a good way to fund local services? The costs to provide most services have nothing to do with the value of the property, so why should my neighbor pay more for them than I do just because their house is on a bigger lot?
That's not a fix, though. Reducing the pain of a commute would mean more people would move out to the suburbs, which would grow, which would add to the traffic.

People are apparently willing to drive 1 hour each way in a normal car, which is a huge pain. I would assume they'd therefore be willing to be driven even further in a self-driving car. You'd end up with an equally unpleasant equilibrium.
Factorio is a much worse transport simulator.

What is understandable, because the game isn't a transport simulator, it just has one inside.
I strongly oppose the existence of such an entity that has absolute control over land, especially if it’s a government.

If you want affordability, land value tax will incentivize appropriate development.

If you want to steal/take control over land arbitrarily from its users, land rent is a good choice.

In my opinion, if someone owns land and can afford the tax, leave them be. Let them keep their land rather giving it to an entity that supposedly knows better what to do with the land than the occupant.
Why is it that the image with the scrambled pixels looks mostly grey, even though it contains all the colors, just scrambled? Even the effect is amplified when the image is zoomed out
If you take it like that, the it seems like the lab leak theory is even more probable. For the lab leak to work, we have all the entities we need: the bat fever a few years ago, ongoing studies on those coronaviruses, outbreak near the lab, very suspicious lab behavior, Chinese coverup.

If you take the other hypotheses, it goes like this: some bat coronavirus -> jumps to an unnamed animal -> jumps to a human. There is an unknown entity in this equation, which is the third party animal. This is necessary for the theory to work.

If you make me chose between a theory that has all the elements and one that might or might not find a mythical animal in the future...I think Occam's razor favors the one with all known elements. Otherwise, ad-absurdum, you can win any argument stating it's Occam's razor: you just introduce a single magic black box which can substitute any number of entities.

I am not doing this to blame China. I blame China for the opacity of the response, which at times seemed like they didn't care what happens with everyone else. I can blame China regardless of how this virus appeared. I also blame our top scientists, which covered their asses instead of coming out with everything they know and work for the greater good.

What I do want is better bio-labs safety protocols, something that can be monitor by third party inspectors, say from UN, just like we have for nuclear facilities. Lab leaks happen, it's not a Chinese thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_laboratory_biosecurity...
A sports organization that I know seems to have bought a website that won't work with any browser, every User Agent that I have tried causes an error.

It still seems to download a fair bit of Javascript so I guess a developer had to write it at some point.
If at first you don't succeed at creating secular spirituality...
> There is some value in the quality argument, but surely they can check incoming parts? Hand check everything, do the luxury quality thing etc.

Absolutely!

But branded parts are more valuable for customers (I mean that type of customers).

Especially if it's the core of the product and unlike Apple that sells billions of devices, Ferraris are produced in the thousands and there's a waiting list to buy one.

> And the Apple experience worked just fine during the Intel MacBook phase.

That was the compromise they made to transition to a fully owned pipeline.

But as a soon as they were ready to do the switch, they did it.

Exactly what Ferrari has done with the SF90 stradale.

> "unique, hand-crafted batteries lovingly labored over by the best people in the industry doing nothing but supplying Ferrari and looking back at X years of tradition". And honestly, it just sounds like pride to me (not that pride is always a bad thing).

You are absolutely right.

Pride is not a bad thing and that's their main selling point.

The two things are are not mutually exclusive.

I specifically said they are not doing it because they believe Italy is the best place in the World, but because by controlling their core components, they can kepp the "Ferrari pride" (TM by me) alive and consequentially the made in Italy brand something to pay premium prices for.

The fact that I, as an Italian and a Ferrari fan think that Ferrari is something to be proud of, is tangential.

They are most of all Emiliano Romagnoli, that has more in common with Switzerland and Germany than Italy economically wise, but has the heart of Italian people (and great food).

That's what you are buying when you buy a Ferrari, together with the car.
I've had some fun playing around with this guide: https://cyan.garamon.de/openttd/

I was able to use some updated NewGRF versions (note this is OpenTTD 1.11.2, I haven't played 1.2.0 yet):
https://i.gyazo.com/d89edd48622183681b1ea1fd7958336c.png

Note that FIRS 4x is very different from FIRS 3x. Documentation: https://grf.farm/firs/4.4.0/html/get_started.html
If you want something with gimp-level features in a slightly neater package you might try krita instead. It has a more familiar look you might expect from a digital drawing program.
Most major issues I've had with gimp have been fixed in the last few years but it's still not a very elegant UI and some things remain counter-intuitive.
My co-founders and I have spent the last few months building Vizcom.

Artist and Designers have many ideas, but limited time and skills to realize their ideas. Our vision is to build ML tools that shorten the distance from having an idea and bringing it to life.

Currently, we have 2 products - generator and SKR. SKR automatically renders 2d sketches. Generator generates abstract images meant to spark creativity.

Any and all feedback is appreciated!
Your comment exemplifies my point. You have a hidden bias, which is why you used the word "obvious".

The metric that is used is extremely important. If the metric is "identify lots of faces" then AI is superior. If "identity faces correctly" is the metric, then it is far from certain or obvious that an AI is superior to a human.
> Most devs have to know the commands and configuration to do rolling deployments on the target infrastructure, fetch logs, how the readiness protocoll integrates with automatic restarts, ingress, etc.

Is this serious? You think _most devs_, meaning a group that includes FE devs, mobile app devs, IoT, open source, DBAs, security engineers, need to know these things?

> With k8s, all this is standard and transferable. With ad-hoc simpler solutions, this is all per-team tribal knowledge, and in my experience it's not even simpler to use for us devs.

Most teams do not have to manage most/all of the things you're describing.

This really feels like more K8s marketing disguised as a HN post.
Not just randomizers, but mashed-up randomizers:

https://samus.link
Mean([R(0:255), G(0:255), B(0:255)]) = 50% gray
There's 2 hard things in life: naming things (knowing who to tell) and cache invalidation (forgetting to tell them).

When it's totally outside our control, we can always let the great Debugger know how things are going, and if there's a problem, ask to stop time and hack some solution in. We have to live with the consequences of that being answered though, so be careful what you pray for!
i dont look at the boon of interoperability as being that of the creative few. i view interoperability as leaving the on ramp open to anyone, of permissionlessness that lets everyone have a chance to respin, remake, reconsider, ongoingly. we dont just think through really good solutions... we adapt & coadapt & readapt. discovery is continual & progressive & inclusive & shifting.

the social arguments dont seem necessary.
What benefits could possibly outweigh abuse of children by forcing them to not commit imaginary thoughtcrimes?
You know I've never experienced pubs making a distinction between the two bars. Just that occasionally you see the signs above the doors.

I can absolutely expect landlords not being keen on super-muddy shoes or workwear, but genuinely, having the public bar as a lower-effort alternative is completely alien to me. I'd love to know where these places are - guessing rural, perhaps?
You can just use a GCC docker image to build: https://hub.docker.com/_/gcc
Signed ActivityPub?
Hey, that was pretty darn cool. It's well worth it to be bold every once in a while, even if it means there is a price to pay.
> OpenTTD is also amazing because it's free, has a lot of lovely content and definitely provides plenty of replay value, in addition to not requiring a beefy computer

Also a big one is multiplayer. OpenTTD you can play with anyone anywhere; Transport Fever 2 can only be played alone as far as I can tell from a quick look at the home- and Steam page. (And you can't buy it outside of Steam, but I can't help it if the developer doesn't want my money directly.) Still considering whether to buy it (well, request it as gift; by Christmas I'll have forgotten about it and it'll be a nice surprise), great to see it runs on Linux, but I don't think my GPU is going to cut it by far, and my CPU neither but by a smaller margin.
Whoa, that's a really good way to visualize it. I'd love to see that rendered somehow.
Maybe it's just me, but this seems like the more obvious behaviour? Personally I'd typically extract in /tmp/relevant-name, and sometimes that results in /tmp/relevant-name/relevant-name.

Doesn't seem a big deal or require/cause trust issues to me.

(And when I create one, I always have to check/look up what happens, so it doesn't surprise me that a variety of things get done at all.)
I don't think this has a stable "end" it can reach. Diagonals of pixels of the same x,y coordinates in linearly adjacent (green incrementation) cells would trigger a swap as the diagonal is +-1 in both the red and blue channel but the same pixel offset in a different cell is +-1 only in the green channel. I can't think of any 2d arrangement where the difference of a pixel in a cell to all 8 of it's neighbors could be 1 for every pixel so this "sort" would really just cycle pixels around based on the order your random number generator happens to pick swappable diagonals by chance. As such it'd never converge and look like slowly adding distance capped noise over time. The seams between cells would only seek to increase the cap on this noise from 2 to 255. 255 being the minimal maximum distance I can imagine for a sorted grid of 2d pixels (i.e. I think this image is a min-max optimal ordering).

It'd also take a ridiculous number of iterations to really notice the noise being added. Perhaps unfeasibly many if you're wanting to go deep and truly rely on random comparisons.
I'd imagine shameless refers to Microsoft's lack of consideration when it comes to the second order effects of decisions like these.
Contenteditable vs. designMode – What is the difference?
I always check the contents with -t before extracting.
"I’ll admit that we’re unlikely to learn much about the nature of the universe or the biology of disease from religion" just moments after admitting to hubris. I thought some physicists had noticed parallels between physics and Buddhist thought
The answer should be obvious. There are unintential false-positives and unintentianal false-negatives. But, the real issues with this form of matching are intentional false-positives and what happens to the data.

Well, that would be the issue in the many parts of the world, but the reporting refers to China. In case you are not aware China is run by a dictatorial authoritarian regime that has expansive powers and has does not treat people humanely.
We've banned this account for posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait, using HN primarily for ideological battle, and ignoring our requests to stop.

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What the ‘Smart Money’ Knows About China’s Evergrande Crisis
It's interesting to think of religion as a societal tool that has co-evolved along with humanity.

Societies with more beneficial religions would prosper and societies with less beneficial religious would die out.

It's thus no surprise that the religions that survived until the present day promote human survival. For example, it's no accident that most major religions heavily encourage their followers to have a lot of kids.
Think for yourself?
i'm 1% concerned 99% still thrilled & delighted. the interoperetability here is amazing. and there's still a lot of room for growth. especially if we start focusing on websites that support interoperation, encourage it.
https://linux.die.net/man/1/multitail

I never heard of this one before. What's the benefit instead of doing this with Tmux?
It's even worse than that. They did actually given access to Wuhan lab to WHO investigation team tasked with studying the possibility of lab leak, back in February/March last year. The team concluded that that it could not have leaked from Wuhan lab. The name of the lead investigator of the team? Peter Daszak, the very same one. I'm not making this up.
I think that Mozilla are trying to make addons disappear.... they started with Firefox Mobile, only about 10-15 addons are available now (which is why I use an ancient version of Firefox Mobile).

They are getting a lot of money from Google, so it MIGHT be a request from Google.
Would this be true for things like audiobooks and particularly interesting long-form articles on the web that you actually want to listen to as opposed to "getting through"?
Doubt OP meant anything different than: "interrupting and telling people to take something async"
For me it's MusicBee, but the feeling is the same.
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Religion isn't that easily defined.

Are Confucianism and American Civil Religion religions?

God, Gods or even believe in the supernatural are not necessary parts of religion, some religions place much higher importance on rituals than on their believe systems.
Ha, I was just playing around with that last night.

I was bummed to realize that the api and the zip file only expose the top name for any color at one time. It’d be cool to have access to all the data.
The difference would be negligible unless the land is valuable enough that more improvements could be supported by local services and demand.

For example, if your home sits in a hot area where there is high demand for apartments, the home with the larger lot would pay more taxes because the potential for the lot is much higher.

Once the lot built to its potential, the tax per occupant would level to a fair cost per local government service used.

Of course, the owner can continue to pay a higher tax burden to use more of the lot for themselves. Because they own the lot, the government can’t force them to do anything else.

That’s how it should be. No government intervention / lease needed, just incentivize development by asking owners to pay an appropriate tax amount for the value of the space they occupy and let people make their own choices.
It is the same transfer learning you would do with any model. StyleGAN (and StyleGAN2-ADA) provide pretrained weights for you. Just start there and train on the new dataset. The ADA github even has tools to format your dataset correctly.
> Well yeah, but without observable facts, this is just wild guesses or paranoia.

Not at all. What you are saying is that you don't want to lock the front-door because nobody has illegally entered your house yet. In contrast, I want to lock my front-door for obvious reasons. No paranoia. It's just a different mentality of dealing with security.
This is where consent comes into play. Today, a lot of people have already consensually downloaded their healthcare provider's patient portal app onto their mobile devices, so some subset of their doctor's EHR's data has already graced their mobile devices by their own consent, based on their own judgement of the risks involved. From the standpoint of electronic healthcare data merely existing on a device that could theoretically be hacked, having a consensual system like this on a mobile device would not break any new ground.

Edit: I also wouldn't assume that an iPhone is less secure than various computers and cloud servers that doctors use for their EHR software. This is where high engineering and security standards come into play.