skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
there will and are million ways to create a photorealistic picture of Joe Biden killing a priest using modern tools, and absolutely nothing will happen if someone did.

We've been through this many times, with books, with movies, with video games, with Internet. If it *can* be used for porn / violence etc., it will be, but it won't be the main use case and it won't cause some societal upheaval. Kids aren't running around pulling cops out of cars GTA-style, Internet is not ALL PORN, there is deepfake porn, but nobody really cares, and so on. There are so many ways to feed those dark urges that censorship does nothing except prevent normal use cases that overlap with the words "violence" or "sex" or "politics" or whatever the boogeyman du jour is.
If laws forbid what you want to do, you're clearly, by definition, not in power.
No one is hinting at moral equivalence. It’s just that the fact that modern Russia is an awful country waging a disgusting war on a neighbour which just wanted to be left alone doesn’t suddenly erase the history of the USA itself a trigger happy amoral and imperialist country with an history of furthering its own interests through acts of unspeakable violence abroad.
Speeding kills and seriously injures people. Being afraid someone's going to go unstable doesn't make it any less so.

Your lawn, despite having a such neighbourhood zoning laws that dictate maintaining a lawn, specifically a lawn, or preventing washing lines, as much as an oddity as they are for someone alien to them, does not. Not a good comparison.
Sama join the long list of shitcoin paddlers. Sad day
No written promise was made, but there were verbal promises.

> Vladimir Putin insists that the West cheated Russia by expanding NATO eastward following the end of the Cold War. Is there anything to his claims? The short answer: It's complicated.

https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/nato-s-eastward-e...
Most streamers publish the interesting parts of their streams on Youtube, and that's how I watch them.

I only watch live streams when it's like a game tourney, but even then they if it's important enough they also have a live stream on Youtube.

Not that I like youtube or anything, but that's how I interact with the streaming world.

I once attended a live stream on Twitch because I wanted to ask the streamer a very specific question. He had 15 viewers at that time, he read my question and answered it. Then I thanked him and logged off.
Ask for a heat pump
I hate to agree with this, but ATT fiber has been good for me as well. I'm going to change soon to a different, local provider, but for other reasons than "ATT fiber sucks."

Way back in the day, when DSL was The New Thing, I had a good experience with it as well. Damn you, ATT! I try to hate, but you keep meeting my expectations!

That said, a friend is getting royally jacked up by ATT incompetence and complete disinterest in slightly rural service.
> every dollar which goes into russia will fund the war

Intel employees working for Intel in Russia are paying some taxes in Russia but generally benefit an US company. After loosing job in Intel they will have a hard time finding a job in rapidly failing economy and one of options they would have is to work in military-industrial complex. I'm sure Intel will be "happy".

Doors to leave Russia are rapidly closing and not from the Russian side. Western policies aimed to stop brain drain from Russia are completely misguided. I'm sure Putin is laughing in his nuclear shelter when he reads that EU countries are stopping granting visas to Russian citizens.
>> Count yourself fortunate that you've missed such things...

Will do.

... but this is the norm more often than not.

I can't tell you how frightening I find that ;-) I did appreciate your comment:

>> As a backend dev, this bug makes no sense at all.

That affirms my idea that such things should never happen - at least in some contexts. But it leave me wondering what on earth kind of tools are people using for this to be unsurprising?
I'm curious, is this something feasible to train (and inference) on a consumer level machine, or this is something can only be done by institutes?
I've had AT&T fiber for a while. Equipment rental isn't a line item on my bill.
Allow me to say that Smalltalk syntax can be really really similar to plain english sentences if you intentionally refactor it to optimize an elegant API. But (hairy topic) not every smalltalker will have talent for writing or taste or care at all about that, or at least enough to develop in that direction (which accidentally produces software friendlier to maintain and extend).

It doesn't have to try to be natural language, AI/ML is close to achieve mimicing it properly [1], it just needs to feel comfortable enough for the programmer to tell computers how to behave in a way that has less cognitive load.

The other questions you raise I think are very real and way more related to how power works among homo sapiens sapiens than computing languages. The software becomes an optimization of the power relationships created among individuals, groups and institutions/legalized-mafia-groups.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPT-3
An introduction solving differential equations numerically
I certainly do, but a lot of people I know don't really care.

... but we used to have a policy that made it profitable to install solar power (Erneuerbare-Energien-Gesetz).
Even the TypeScript LSP is extremely featureful in Emacs. I thought about using VS Code for that stuff, but decided to see how the experience was in Emacs first, and now I'm no longer considering VS Code.
I don't know about using it in production, but I worked at a company using simh and relatives to develop a new machine architecture. Quite successfully, I might add. An amazing amount of code written to the emulator ran immediately, without change, on the first real PCBs. Impressive stuff.
I have run a fair few interviews for my employer and I know how hard it is to recruit at the moment as other people have mentioned in the comments. I think you've got more saleable skills than you realise. Your experience counts for lots and you're not alone in not being able to talk about the detail of your work there. I would get a CV together and I'm sure you'll find recruiters who are only too keen to help you find companies to apply for. I wish you much success in your search.
Wow there used to be good content on Medium?
Americans adore the idea that...

I don't know what this sentence means, but you're not supposed to write arguments like this on HN. You can make your point without casting aspersions across entire populations.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Manhattan and Amsterdam can afford to mitigate due to being filthy rich. They’re hardly the median coastal global city
> Files that were previously in /usr/bin or in /bin can now be found in EITHER of these locations, since one symlinks the other. So no previous expectation was really broken.

I don't know, I just hit breakage the other day. I have /usr/bin before /usr in my path (which is the default on Ubuntu at least); I have muscle memory to use dpkg -S `which $foo` to figure out which package a binary is, but that doesn't work if dpkg thinks the binary is in /bin (e.g. ping), since it'll ask dpkg who installed /usr/bin/ping, which is nobody.

It is small fiddly things like this all over people's packaging and personal scripts that break.
Very true. I have been thinking of getting a white board. Thanks for the encouragement.
Authorities.

Who declares themselves to be one?

Who are we supposed to trust?

Why should we trust someone who does not earn it?

Why should we trust anyone who governs us, when there is no evidence that they are to be trusted?

Why should I trust "science", when "science" in any big-scale-context only means that those who govern us control what "science" is/means/gets attention?

Why should I not trust my own ability to analyse and deduct what is, and is not the closest to the truth? It's not my fault that I'm literally surrounded by literal idiots.

Mate. You don't understand. You have to look at all of this from a meta perspective. Most of the bullshit you get to read is propaganda simply because it is meant to steer your thinking into certain directions. It's not just about "lies", or "omission of truth/detail", it's also about you thinking only about what you're supposed to be thinking about.

This includes things you read which are meant to distract from other things.

Examples?

By whom's authority are people declaring themselves authority, which includes the self granted privilege of telling us what is true and real?

By whom's authority are those, who are being declared authority, more authority than those who disagree with them?

99% of the people reading this post will be too stupid to even consider that they could just look up a list of actually proven conspiracy-"theories" and that's not because I'm the one supposed to be doing it for them, but because they're so submissive to __authority__, they think high of themselves when it comes to those who have time and time again proven that thinking critically is the only sane way to go.

If you actually were a critical thinker, as you *MOST LIKELY BELIEVE OF YOURSELF*, then you would NEVER dismiss anything at all just because a self declared authority tells you!

You would INSTEAD seek out the opposing opinions. You would seek understanding of why opposing voices, regardless of experteese, are always being ridiculed and socially shunned, instead of critically listened to.

So, to end this post ...

We ABSOLUTELY need to deal with the difference in opinion!

The difference in opinion is what makes sure that ...

*... we don't all think the same!*

Our core problem is that 99% of the people do not think critically at all and are seriously just mindless morons parrotting what's being presented to them on a massive scale. A lie only has to be repeated often enough until it is being accepted as truth!

Get it now?
I trust Sam with my biometrics more than I would trust most other people.
>You'll be warned if you do the first.

I don't think so. I dare you to run it.
Lots of places do price discrimination, but there's an honest way and a dishonest way to do it.

Honest way: "Here's a base price for the product; here are some extras (even if Veblen) that you can also get by giving us more money". Lots of video games do this (buy the presale premium edition, get some merch); streaming sites also do this (see Netflix's pricing tiers).

Dishonest way: "Here's your price." (Unsaid: it's different than Chad's price, but there is no way to know what factors make that distinction).
> this service should be provided to me and if it isn't done how I want it that's infringing on me somehow

That is an extremely uncharitable interpretation of:

> I wish I could have a version with the training wheels taken off.
I think designers are becoming more valuable than ever. Designers can better help train the AI on what actually looks good, designers will (probably) always have a more intuitive understanding of UI/UX, designers can better implement the work the AI actually produces, and designers can coordinate designs across multiple different mediums and platforms.

Additionally, the rise of no-code development is just extending the functionality of designers. I didn't take design seriously (as a career choice) growing up because I didn't see a future in it, now it pays my bills and the demand for my services just grows by the day.

Similar argument to make with chess AI: it didn't make chess players obsolete, it made them stronger than ever.
That’s just… like, your opinion, man.
For the sake of the industry I hope they don’t. I’m happy to see more than just Intel and AMD platforms.
Your second group represents the core "inner loop" of about a thousand revolutionary applications. Take the basic capability of translating image->text->speech (and the reverse), install it on a wearable device that can "see" an environment, and add domain-specific agents. From this setup, you're not too far away from having an AI that can whisper guidance into your ear like a co-pilot, enabling scenarios like:

1. step-by-step guidance for a blind person navigating the use of a public restroom.

2. an EMS AI helping you to save someone's life in an emergency.

3. an AI coach that can teach you a new sport or activity.

4. an omnipresent domain-expert that can show you how to make a gourmet meal, repair an engine, or perform a traditional tea ceremony.

5. a personal assistant that can anticipate your information need (what's that person's name? where's the exit? who's the most interesting person here? etc.) and whisper the answer in your ear just as you need it.

Now, add all of the above to an AR capability where you can now think or speak of something interesting and complex, and have it visualized right before your eyes. With this capability, I could augment my imagination with almost super-human capabilities that allow one to solve complex problems almost as if it was an internal mental monologue.

All of these scenarios are just a short hop from where were at now, so mark my words: we will have "borgs" like those described above long before we reach anything like general AI.
They are being rightly cautious. It’s going to take time to figure out good practice with these tools. Everyone calling out basic caution as “dystopian” is really over the top.

I’ve been using tools like this for over a year now. Even with filtered dataset and filtered interface, they can make images that would make the Fangoria crowd blush if you put the slightest effort into it.

It’s one thing to be able to make brain-wrenching images with a lot of photoshop effort (or digging hard enough in the dark corners of the internet). It’s another thing entirely give anyone the ability to spew out thousands of them trivially.
Do we think so little of the Soviet leadership that they had no idea how our government works? That they were so ignorant of world affairs to assume a verbal handshake deal would hold?

The word of an administration is only good for the duration of that administration, assuming said administration is even trustworthy. If it isn't written down it's a pinky swear. To hold future administrations accountable for the 30 year old pinky-swears of previous administrations is just contriving excuses to blame America/NATO.

Did the the west screw over Russia? Sure, in many ways (support for color revolutions, not properly supporting Russia during it's economic transition in the 90s, denying it NATO membership, etc). But this latest bout of violence is all Putin's ego and Russian national insecurity. So long as they maintain the world's largest nuclear arsenal, no one is marching on Moscow regardless of where their borders are, and independent nations like Ukraine, Poland and the Baltic States should be free to make their own decisions without being held to the standard of Russian paranoia.
If you actually read the support page you linked and understand what Hulu offers, its still an "ad free" Hulu service for 12.99. For almost all of the limited cases where ads do occur, its due to it being an optional external streaming service integration or "live" TV channel with their own app offering that Hulu are offering as an optional extra you can bundle in (for more $$). I can't criticise Hulu too hard for not controlling ads on live television or optional third party services you can integrate to their own app - these are almost all optional extra channels/streaming services and not part of Hulu's own shows or offering.

Almost every single streaming show from Hulu themselves without exceptions is ad-free on the 12.99 plan, exactly as the plan name says. In addition to understanding the support page, I use the service and the no-ad plan almost every day in my own home, it's definitely a thing and works exactly as its name (no ads!) suggests. Its probably why it's called the "no ads" plan...
to all those saying "why you don't spin a GitLab CI instance" - we are a small team, we want to focus on shipping code that adds value to our customers, not maintaining something that has been largely commoditised.
Hi folks. As the CircleCI CTO, I appreciate your patience here and all the feedback. It's true that we are focused on getting customers moving again over sharing more detailed information, but will aim to do better in providing a bit more in our updates. status.circleci.com provides real time updates for both how we're tackling outages and more detailed incident reports. We will post more information there about this incident once we are on the other side and have comprehensive detail.
Covid.gov review, and the state of gov web development
Should be fine if there's a short time limit and/or edit history.
You might think this is a waste of your time, and that this idea sounds ludicrous -

Despite the previous comment not exactly following the form, going through an accusation audit prior to making your case is an extremely useful way of neutralizing the negative and getting your counterpart to open up to your ideas.

I highly suggest reading Chris Voss' take on this topic in Never Split the Difference.
It is not that it was not written down, it is that it was not their promise to make. Even though the US president may be the most powerful person in the world, his time in power is limited, and the powers he is granted are limited as well. There are well considered reasons why treaties are acknowledged by national parliaments.
Indeed, people should not be forced and they should be able to choose.
And depending where they live different rules could apply.

for example if you live in the city there's no point on having a car and you should rely on a bicycle and public transports

if you live in a rural area you should be able to get some of the electricity you need from solar panels and windmills.

we have room to allow choices and live more sustainable, without forcing one way of thinking to everyone..in the same it was done with this car centric world
I don't think the "character assassination" argument is tenable. Chomksy later condemned the Khmer Rouge, long after it was politically relevant, but he was indeed an apologist for it during its era in power, and he hasn't (to my knowledge?) acknowledged having done so.

https://web.archive.org/web/20010915014621/http://www.zmag.o...

This is hard to read knowing what actually happened.
NATO is just a mainly defensive alliance. So far, it has fought exactly zero defensive wars, but a number of offensive ones. I assume that means that the defensive part of it is working really, really well - nobody seems keen on attacking it.

The problem here is that both sides are in the wrong, but for different reasons. NATO expanding eastwards is scary and destabilizing to everyone in the world. Putin, meanwhile, is behaving like an utter savage, and is also scary and destabilizing, to both his immediate neighbours, and also to everyone in the world. Ukraine got burnt, badly from both directions - one pushed it under the bus, the other is in the middle of invading it.

Are these the same level of wrongs? No. Does one excuse the other? Also no. Would I prefer everyone involved to have stopped escalating this, starting two decades ago? Yes. Did poor judgement in the past severely constrict our ability
to reach better outcomes in the present? Also yes.

Remember 9/11, and how poor ME policy lead to it? Remember what was in the short term, a reasonable response, in the long run resulted in self-inflicted damage that was orders of magnitude worse?

NATO moving east may well be that short term win. We will see whether the long-term losers will be limited to former Soviet republics.
Exactly as you say.

> there is not nearly enough of that in Germany right now

To elaborate on that: Germany has no LNG terminals. Zero. They signed the first contracts to build one this year March [1]. If I were a German citizen I would feel very cross with my own government. It's a good idea to have such an infra just in case. Just to hedge the bets.

There is a very real reason why the Floating Storage Regasification Unit serving as the LNG import terminal for Latvia is called "FSRU Independence". [2] These facilities literally provide independence.

1: https://www.maritime-executive.com/article/germany-speeds-pl...
2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FSRU_Independence
If there's nothing written down, there's nothing.

The next President has his own ideals, and the next, and the next.
Davmail is great.

I've found mbsync/isync more performant than offlineimap.
What exactly are you disagreeing on?

There is no such thing as a "NATO Aircraft carrier". NATO is an alliance. NATO does not declare war as a block. Iraq was not a NATO operation. Libya was not a NATO operation.

The only time NATO has intervened outside of self defense as per Article V of the Charter was Yugoslavia (and with good fucking reason).
I don't think it is actually painting at all but I need to read the paper carefully.

I think it is using a free text query to select the best possible clipart from a big library and blends it together. Still very interesting and useful.

It would be extremely impressive if the "Kuala dunking a basketball" had a puddle on the court in which it was reflected correctly, that would be mind blowing.
That's based on some pretty flawed assumptions, it mixes cause and effect. We use ~all of our arable land for growing food because that's how much land we have. If we had more land, we'd use it for growing food too, to make our food cheaper. If we had less land, we'd use our land more intensively to grow the same amount of food more expensively.

For example, if we grew all of our food in greenhouses, we'd use about 0.1% of the land but food would be about 10x as expensive.
> Urban Airship (now just Airship)

Ironically, Urban Airship (now just Airship) itself is great example of something that people use even though they don't need it - due to hype. You have a mobile app and it needs to send notifications, but you don't have any in-house expertise on mobile notifications. Management says, "ok, let's outsource this to somebody who has some expertise!" They look around and find Urban Airship - the leader in mobile app notification handling!

So you "integrate" with Urban Airship, per management dictates (the same reason you used Hadoop, Cassandra and Kafka). They give you this big complicated presentation but you discover that, in order to use their "service" you have to:

1) instrument your application to send their API a notification every time something happens in your application.

2) set up a workflow in their system that tells them when to tell you that something happened that a notification needs to be sent for

3) instrument your application to read a dataset from them telling you when to send a mobile notification

4) actually send the mobile notification

You realize that they're charging your company a ton of money to do... absolutely nothing. You're still doing everything, responsible for everything, and they're nothing but completely empty overhead. They could have been replaced by a Postgres instance running on a single underpowered EC2 node (and it would be more reliable). But management sees "leader in mobile app notifications" the same as they saw "leader in distributed computing loads" and insisted that you use this thing that exists because it exists.
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30928217, which is the better article in my opinion, since it states more directly how Twitter is editing text in websites that trusted it to refrain from such stunts.
My local monopoly simply increased prices across the board for everyone. Who else could we turn to for new service? Starlink is at capacity here and DSL has a nice "up to 3Mbps" disclaimer.
UNHCR says there were 42.4 million people displaced due to climate-linked disasters in 2010, so this prediction was not far off. What you should be asking yourself is why you had this contrarian tidbit at your fingertips, but you're not aware of the primary facts.
You talk to your friends about "total burdened costs"? Or something went up exactly 170%? Not "almost tripled"? Sure.