skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That's a nice theory, but there's little reason to believe it will work like that instead of working like it does basically everywhere else that tries such laws. "Don't discuss" turns into "tacitly ignore it for the 'norm' because it's impossible to not acknowledge it, single out 'deviations'".

You and I seem to inhabit very different realities. Pushing boundaries (especially in the name of equality) is glorified in American culture, and has been since the 60s and 70s. "Subversiveness" is a virtue. Moreover, the left dominates cultural institutions (media, entertainment, academia, etc)--the idea that any speech is going to be quelled over this seems ridiculous. Anything that one attempts to suppress gets amplified (Streisand Effect).

If conservative parents sue to block the discussion of homosexual content, liberal parents can sue to block the discussion of normatively heterosexual content. The ACLU and other progressive organizations exist for exactly these kinds of cases.

> Any parent that sues over discussing families with one mom and one dad will look like a nutjob and loose,

1. Again, you and I seem to live in very different Americas if you think suing for equality is unpopular. Such a suit would be national news, and the plaintiffs would enjoy unfailingly favorable treatment by the national press (save for Fox News) which famously skews left on precisely these kinds of social issues.

2. IANAL, but I would think it would be relatively straightforward to point to all of the cases where the courts interpreted discussing same sex parents as "teaching sexual orientation". Seems like a slam dunk, and I wouldn't be surprised if lawyers would take the case pro bono just to make a name for themselves with all of the national press coverage.
(Also layperson, so this is based on my understanding of reading other people's material). Yes that is the case, our current one-ways, especially RSA, are considered broken by quantum computers and will be proper broken once more qubits are a reality. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shor%27s_algorithm

There are already efforts underway to replace it with something quantum safe. It's believed that lattice based cryptography will help us. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lattice-based_cryptography.

There will be updates required to a lot of infrastructure and digital assets to secure them. Some things will be simple updates, some will require moving to new wallets.
> This is more like chopping off the visual cortex and some association cortex from a brain and stimulating it.

We do not know exactly what part of our perception of reality can be attributed to "the visual cortex and some association cortex". But now we can feel it. We can test it. We can compare ourselves with the cold calculating machine. I believe that it is a priceless opportunity that we shouldn't miss. At least I personally can't. I'm going to figure out is it possible to me to have such a companion as Dall-E in mine wanderings in a sea of information in Internet, and if it is, then to get one.

> But its like a giant database of decent clipart for anything we can imagine

And this also. Yes. Though I'm not interested in clipart.
It’s the Intel MKL, I don’t think Intel has ever even endorsed using it on other vendors CPUs, much less claimed that it is “fair” or “neutral”.
A webserver spends a minuscule amount of its time in startup.
State, county, and city - and separate "transit" taxes for county and city. And then most locations have a use tax which may be different from the sales tax. It sounds complicated, but I had to work on a project in India during the GST transition, and came to appreciate the relative simplicity of the US system.
ironic ? it depends on the age of the author :-)
Wonder if you can combine it with the multi-flash technique for better results?

https://web.media.mit.edu/~raskar/NprCamera/
Are things like higher order functions and closures relevant features for Fortran programmers? This is an open-ended question.

[edit] Just to be clear, I don't think Fortran has these.
To almost everyone that they need to sell to, it sounds ridiculous and dystopian.

I've heard this kind of apology for scams before.

If a "scam that sounds like a scam" still rips people successfully, well, the scammers are still guilty of fraud and I still view people who do it with contempt.

And "scams that sound like scams" are marketed to desperate people. In many ways, finding a promise people want to believe is more important than finding a claim that you easily defend. The people who check out frauds in detail are never a fraud's target market.
>It was not nearly as obvious 15 years ago, as it is today, but all the signs were there. We (I include myself here) were just not listening closely enough to the countries that knew Russia the best: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Ukraine.

A big part of Germany's geopolitical strategy was (and partly still is) to act as a communication channel between West and East. Similarly to the EU which brought long-lasting peace in Europe through economical ties, the idea was to establish economical relationships with Russia to advance the relationship for a beneficial win-win situation both sides could live with. This, of course, was shortsighted in many ways.
Ask HN: Corporate bully trying to take the code I wrote?
I was approached by a couple of business guys back in december, they wanted to create a company. So I went along with it, created the software - but insisted on an agreement be made. This never happened, I ended up writing a lot of code, and no agreement was ever formulated.

I got sick of it, and bailed. Now they're telling me that I need to give them the code.

I live in Canada, and no idea how to reply. I donn't have resources or time to put towards this argument.

What should I do? Am I legally bound to send them the code?
I'm not sure I love that idea, but I'm guessing that's the direction Nyxt is heading in.
You can do a lot with an empty file
Never made an argument for all designers. Obviously the talent pool for any field is finite, and the best of that talent rises to the top. Good designers are being compensated increasingly well, hence "designers are becoming more valuable than ever."

Bad designers are even being given better and better paying jobs as the top talent gets poached up quicker and quicker.
> Morality is universal, it's not mine though.

Who's is it then: Jesus, Budda, Kali, Jahveh, Mohamed, Musk, Thor, Ganesh, Gates, Bernie?

I don't mean to be an asshole, but even if you are religious (which I take you are) you can't fault people that find moral relativism a worthy concept when there are so many points of view between different religions. And I understand that "faith" strips relativism from your own belief, but you beeing someone that posts on HN, you probably understand that not everyone can say the same thing and it's a little rude to not even acknowledge that.
TL;DR: Kolmogorov complexity.
I disagree. You're not paying engineers to develop their own careers, you're paying them to act strictly in the best interests of the organization they are working for. It's not just about "accomplishing tasks", but about using their judgement to accomplish them in a manner that best serves the company's stated objectives. That is what "professionalism" means, at least to me.
Victory FinFisher Shuts Down
I saw a bit of rhetoric a while back about how it's not "disabled people and non-disabled people", it's really "disabled people and not-currently-disabled people."

Between spending several months on crutches ten-ish years ago and helping care for several elderly relatives, I'm a believer.
Maybe Automator can help?

https://support.apple.com/guide/automator/welcome/mac
Accelerating growth is definitely on our radar. We took a different road up to this point, but I expect our future to be more similar to a regular tech business now that we're set on solid ground.
"(almost)"
What's the difference between a coach and a mentor?
>Sensor – Sensor with 9152 x 6944 pixels resolution

Well, that clears that up!
People dont do this because they misunderstand they aren’t google.
But because it’s cool and will look good on a resume.
Esp when, you know, apply to Google.
German report: https://netzpolitik.org/2022/nach-pfaendung-staatstrojaner-h...
This is true, but the concurrent work stealing queues and such that are commonly used for such purposes aren't usually textbook C-style linked lists. They (at least in the case of Crossbeam, don't have experience with others) allocate smaller contiguous blocks of items which are then linked together with pointers. This reduces overhead a lot more than the xor trick does while also improving cache behaviour. Also as you mentioned they're already only singly linked in the first place.
This practice is fairly rampant at universities. It's just a way they game the rules they're forced to operate under.
...or just don't have a Spotify account.
Nice, I'm right now working on a raspberry pi camera solution to create a timelapse of something I'm building that will take about 6 months. I have the original camera module (raspberry pi camera rev 1.3) but I'd love to try this 64mb one out someday.
"If you want to protect sex workers then legalize and tax it"

Yes, obviously we need to stop making consensual sex a crime. But that alone won't protect a type of worker that is obviously at a higher risk than food works, which is a nonsensical comparison.
But, you can decline the extra insurances through a traditional car rental company, even if the salespeople hassle you to buy them or insist on seeing your actual liability (!) card (which is not proof of rental coverage anyway.) It doesn't sound like you can decline these coverages through Turo, which (if truly mandatory) would make them deceptive, especially if they are generating profit through them.
Imagine asking it to generate a picture for "duck wearing a hat on Mars":

First, it creates a random 10x10 pixel blurry image and asks a neural net: "Could this be a duck wearing a hat on Mars?" and the neural net replies "No, because all the pictures I've ever seen of Mars have lots of red color in them" so the system tweaks the pixels to make them more red, put some pixels in the center that have a plausible duck color, etc.

After it has a 10x10 image that is a plausible duck on Mars, the system scales the image to 20x20 pixels, and then uses 4 different neural nets on each corner to ask "Does this look like the upper/lower left/right corner of a duck wearing a hat on Mars?" Each neural net is just specialized for one corner of the image.

You keep repeating this with more neural nets until you have a pretty 1000x1000 (or whatever) image.
Oh RFPs are an everlasting source of fun in B2B.

Like, we've received the wrong questionaire once. It contained the question what we would do if armed forces intruded into our secured facilities to seize assets. We eventually settled on the answer "Run or hide, while calling the cops". At that point the customer noticed their error and it was pretty funny.

In other areas, the consulting teams and us are developing some degree of a safe word system. Ask us in operations for something the right way and we can give an annoying answer how nothing is possible due to security policies and compliance and further discussion requires meetings with people with long job titles. And suddenly, deal breakers aren't that important anymore. And sometimes you can even team up with the customers infosec department this way in order to simplify things into a both more secure and easier path.

The best way we've found around this is to write white papers for commonly asked questions and topics, like storage security. It's great for our sales guys to be able to answer common questions with a PDF with a bit of glamour, but with enough incomprehensibility density to look important and to get forwarded to infosec / CISOs. Yes I'm a bit jaded about the process.
Like SmallTalk?
I use all of the above: PI, Kalshi, Poly

It's not so much the caps that are a concern to me than the fact that these platforms haven't been around for a long time. There's no guarantee they will continue to always exist and also be as lucrative. As more money enters I'd expect ROIs to decrease and for it to take more capital to make the same amount of money.

I prefer it more as a side hobby than something I have to do every day. It can be fun, but it's missing the satisfaction of building things or delivering something of value to customers that I'd get if I were still working for a company coding.
https://www.billdietrich.me/

Static site, handcrafted HTML/CSS/JS. A late-90's look because I want to keep everything simple, portable, able to use locally, and I'm no expert in UI or CSS. https://www.billdietrich.me/YourPersonalWebSite.html?expanda...
Maybe they changed something, it seems fast at the moment. Customizing a server from Dell has never had a great user interface, but I appreciate that it has remained consistent over the years and not gotten worse.
> but there's also the possibility of concurrent access, and someone else booked while you were thinking

You can restart the flow from scratch, and you'll still get "n seats available at this price", which rules out that it was booked while I was looking.

> so they cache a lot of things and only get realtime inventory when you're very close to booking; then they often do a very poor job of cache invalidation (because it's hard)

Yet the end result is the same: the consumer gets a bait and switch.

You're not wrong here, but what you point to is the problem: companies using "blame computers" as a way to abdicate responsibility for the problem.

> There's a lot of ways you could organize the data so it's less terrible, but all of those involve a lot more IT involvement than airlines want to invest it.

Precisely. One can look at it too as there is no penalty these days for screwing consumers over, so there's no economic impetus to do anything about it when it happens.
I was avoiding Emacs for years because I heard that it's a huge timesink, so I kept using Vim and later NeoVim. Last month I started learning Clojure(great language btw) and after some consideration I decided to give Emacs a try.
It's my new favorite thing, it was a pleasure to learn. It took about 4 sessions to get productive with it, a couple of days. Really not that much of an effort. After a bit of tinkering, I feel like Emacs is what I was always looking in other IDEs. (Neo)Vim is a great text editor, but I was never able to customize it to a point where I was 100% satisfied with it. With Emacs it took a couple of weeks.
If you end up giving Emacs a try, I would advise using the native keys, at least until you're comfortable with the editor. When in Rome... Also, masteringemacs.com has a great beginner article, I highly recommend it.
I guess if you don't mind reducing the resolution, you can e.g. average 4 pixels to reduce the noise (but I don't know if that gives you a lower noise floor than just a 16MP sensor in the first place...)
The first comment seems to suggest that flag no longer works.

https://www.agner.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6#p82
"Bad news blurs"

I love a good pun! Even if it makes me feel old.
When I didn't realize this was how the process worked, I once spent 2 weeks and about $5k meeting all of the requirements for the RFP including the amount of formally printed copies of the 200 page proposal had to be provided.

Had delivered them.

I was more than a little bothered afterwards because of the sheer amount of time and money put in. They didn't even bother to give us a courtesy call to let us know we weren't selected.

In the end, they ended up hiring a company that was a friend of the head of marketing who delivered something completely different than what they'd asked for in the RFP. Frustrating all around especially because of the number of people that were involved in putting the whole thing together.
> Who's is it then: Jesus, Budda, Kali, Jahveh, Mohamed, Musk, Thor, Ganesh, Gates, Bernie?

I don't know. We should keep asking though.

I would say that your comment:

> Morality is not universal, so yours has no more value than anyone else's.

is much "ruder" than mine:

> Morality is universal, it's not mine though.
What kind of editor support does Fortran have? I think a language is more than just a language as such, and the surrounding environment is at least as important if not more. I've used things like Mathematica, RStudio and Matlab, as well as Java IDEs, and these make all the difference.
> The alternative is a pin that anyone can watch you type in.

If they're standing directly over your shoulder sure, but you show your face to far more people. You may also be able to have your phone scramble the order of the numbers to make it harder for people to know your pin, or use gestures to unlock your device. You can also reset you pin far easier than you can reset your face.

face recognition can work even if you're asleep, unconscious, or dead too, but nobody can ask you for a pin in that situation.
It's really fun writing bug that affects motors.

Okay slowly turning the 800 pound steel beam 1 degree per minute, and now it's trying to toss it across the room...
Boss we need a new $1,000 dollar motor!, and maybe a new wall.
Depends whether you think models should be able to generate cp.

It's almost impossible to even give an affirmative answer to that question without making yourself a target. And as much as I err on the side of creator freedom, I find myself shying away from saying yes without qualifications.

And if you don't allow cp, then by definition you require some censoring. At that point it's just a matter of where you censor, not whether. OpenAI has gone as far as possible on the censorship, reducing the impact of the model to "something that can make people smile." But it's sort of hard to blame them, if they want to focus on making models rather than fighting political battles.

One could imagine a cyberpunk future where seedy AI cp images are swapped in an AR universe, generated by models ran by underground hackers that scrounge together what resources they can to power the behemoth models that they stole via hacks. Probably worth a short story at least.

You could make the argument that we have fine laws around porn right now, and that we should simply follow those. But it's not clear that AI generated imagery can be illegal at all. The question will only become more pressing with time, and society has to solve it before it can address the holistic concerns you point out.

OpenAI ain't gonna fight that fight, so it's up to EleutherAI or someone else. But whoever fights it in the affirmative will probably be vilified, so it'd require an impressive level of selflessness.
> The ability of regressive partisan elements to break government is a part of the design of the government. I personally find it repugnant and stupid.

It's amazing the way you guys (small-d democrats) are always dressing up what is nakedly the statement that "everything I like and want is good and proceeds in a way I'll call democracy (because I say it's good for the people), but whatever I dislike is authoritarian (even if the people want it.)"

It may surprise you to learn that, historically, this is exactly how authoritarianism views itself. Even Saddam Hussein conducted polls of his popularity so he could pretend his sovereignty arose from the people. The Vichy government was legal, popular, and internationally recognized. What the law says on paper is a different thing than what is practiced, and conveniently appealing to what the paper says is a time-honored tactic of eliding inconvenient realities.

Democracy, c. 2020s: "The people must be allowed to choose, but only if what they choose is good for them, as decided by me."
Choosing technology that's battle tested at scale and under crazy load seems extremely reasonable. Just from a "I need this thing not to have a shitload of bugs" perspective. If you were choosing between two libraries, and one was used by 5 people and one was used by 5 million, it'd be hard to go with the one that is used by 5 people even if it is a better fit for the problem.
Wow toxic much? PHP doesn't solve the same problems as JSX
Old Unix guy here: That is my understanding as well.

But then the question becomes, why not get rid of /usr?
Ask a lawyer, not the Internet.
You can purify iron by electrolysis too. You don't need hydrogen for that.

But you still must get a way to put carbon in it. This is usually done by mixing the steel with CO, and the easiest way to get from renewables to CO is by reacting CO2 and H2.
Religious people don't only believe that porn harms the models, but also the user. I happen to agree, despite being a porn user - Porn is a form of simulated and not-real stimulation. Porn is harmful to the user the same way that any form of delusion is: It associated positive pleasure with stimulation that does not fulfil any basic or even higher-level needs, and is unsustainable. Porn is somewhere on the same scale as wireheading[1]

That doesn't mean that it's all bad, and that there's no recreational use for it. We have limits on the availability of various other artificial stimulants. We should continue to have limits on the availability of porn. Where to draw that line is a real debate.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirehead_(science_fiction)
> You just realized that you support slavery

I think you're arguing in very bad faith here. I do not condone slavery, but yes, I condone the right of people to sell themselves into slavery. I'm not sure why you would perceive these two things as not* different, but nuance is very important when thinking about stuff. Let me ask again: are you sure you're not being blinded by your biases?

edit: actually making sense this time.
"if modern cryptography is broken": this statement has many interpretations.

In the context of the OP paper, approximately solving the t-bounded Kolmogorov complexity (in a precise technical sense described in that paper) is akin to breaking one-way functions.

A method to breaking one-way functions would in fact break all of the cryptographic schemes (enc, signatures, prgs, hashing, zero-knowledge, mpc, bitcoin...) that rely on computational assumptions that we know. There is then no hope for doing things like we do on the internet today.

A secondary interpretation relates to breaking a specific widespread cryptosystem like ECDSA or Ed25519 (which can both be broken with suitably large generic circuit quantum computers). In this context, maybe some important things break, but in principle, we can rebuild them using lattice-based schemes or something else.
Sam Altman took some user requests on Twitter: https://twitter.com/sama/status/1511724264629678084
Where exactly is the hypocrisy?? I don't see any in the linked twitter post.

It is exhausting to see all these attacks against hypothetical and hypocrit straw men. "people argue this" and "people care about that", with no concrete examples for meaningful discussion
Modern Fortran is beautiful and I love coding in it.

However, my understanding is that its main focus is on array computations. Now with hierarchical data structures and graphs becoming ever pervasive, I wonder if Fortran will ever try to compete in this space (when these higher-order concepts are integrated into domains of Fortran's past dominance in numerical simulation).
Bitcoin/crypto solved the “proof of resources” problem in a decentralized trustless way, which is cool.

What would be neat now is “proof of unique living individual” in the same way.. that would solve a number of problems, related to UBI and voting.

In the past, or in dictatorships, resources == votes, but in democracies we want individuals == votes.