skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Surprised it took you that long. I was done at “they couldn’t have been more wrong”.
Ask HN: How do I get my company to contribute to open source?
The scale up I work for has a decently sized tech team. We love open source and even open sourced some of our own projects. However, it seems like there's still a need for a concerted effort and commitment, both from the top down and bottom up, to contribute to and maintain open source projects. Our own projects are either hibernating or lack ownership.

We are at least thinking of assigning stewards to specific projects and committing to contributing to open source in a public manifesto ("XX developer hours in the next year").

How does your company do this?
All neighborhoods with 10MM+$ houses are "incredibly safe".
These are so good, it's breaking my brain a little.

They're not just conceptually accurate, but to my eyes they're pleasing to look at from a purely artistic point of view. I'd put these on my wall.

I already take a fairly bullish position on the potential of AI, given a long enough timeframe, but it does feel like we're reaching a bit of a tipping point here.

It's starting to prod at the paradigms I hold in my head about what I think "art" is.

In a turing-syle blind test of these DALL-E artworks, I think most people would be unable to tell the AI generated art from that of human artists. And I imagine that it follows that the same will be the case for music in the near future too, and likely most other artistic endeavours eventually.

I like to write music. I respect the output of other musicians (my fellow "artists") and I am driven, by both intrinsic and extrinsic rewards to keep trying to get better at my "art". But when an AI can produce works that match or exceed my art (based on whatever the measures are that we already judge art by) - it prompts some interesting questions. Does it lower the subjective value of human-produced art by virtue of reducing scarcity, and increasing accessibility?

Of course, DALL-E is trained on the output of human artists. But art is already recursive in that respect - human artists themselves are trained on the output of other artists. So that's not so different...

I guess it's the same paradigm as mass production vs hand crafting. When we pick the cheaper, mass produced item, we lose out on some of the humanity and soul that's baked into hand-crafted goods. But history has shown that we'll gladly take the cheaper, more accessible, more predictable option in most cases.

The commoditisation of art.

When things are commoditised, I tend to think that the opportunity for the creation of value (by humans) tends to move up an abstraction level. As technology becomes commoditised at a certain level, then the orchestration and management of that technology becomes the new speciality where humans are useful and can create value. When that orchestration layer is commoditised, it's the next level up that we can turn their attention to.

So the new art maybe becomes meta-art. Perhaps human artistic endeavours become more about curation rather than creation?

Or will AI art never reach a sufficient level to be considered equal to, or better than human-produced art? We can hide behind the subjectivity of all this, but something like a blind identification test (AI vs Human) removes some of that subjectivity fairly easily...
Perhaps a side effect of this may be a better understanding of cancer… or new treatments …
I think there's an argument to be made for the networking benefits of government and military jobs. Having the experience and connections they bring may open doors that purely commercial employment does not.
1000 subscribers is nothing. With 10K followers, the benefits is that you now got an audience you can pitch a product to, or mention about once in awhile. The drawbacks is that you sometimes feel pressure to post regularly so that they don't forget about you
Chinese apartment towers are mostly limited to around 30 stories using low skilled labor concrete construction techniques that aims to employ as much rural migrant workers as possible, India is the same. Incidentally, such 30 story apartment blocks are significant exports to the Middle East and Singapore that heavily use Indian and Chinese labor.

But I’m not sure China is a good model for North America, they have a lot of density but an even worse property bubble, many bought apartments aren’t even renovated to be rented out (so actual density is much less than the capacity of these buildings). Such speculation was exported to Vancouver as well.
All applications that use OpenAI need to be manually approved (supposedly "97% acceptance rate") and they didn't respond anything to my application. I'm guessing that they don't want to associate GPT-3 with an "unpleasant AI", even if it's for purely entertainment purposes. That means I'm not legally allowed to provide the service using my API key, but developers who already have OpenAI API keys can still use their own keys to test it out.

If you don't want to use your own OpenAI API key on a random website like this (understandable!) you can still use this in scripted mode.
What problems are you running into getting git on debian 3?
> To drive it home, Disney had record revenue in 4Q2021, driven by streaming and parks revenue [1]. Maybe it’s you who had it wrong?

You are cherry picking an article from Q42021 that references park revenue, whereas I gave a very specific example of their record single day gains in company history which occurred while the parks were closed in 2020.

As to Disney+ streaming service it launched in 2020 but the Disney+ lost $2.8B in fiscal 2020, the same period of time it’s parks were closed and park losses total about $7B, and yet during this period it saw it’s record single day stock price gains in history. That record day was a direct result of the Fed and taxpayer money, not record theme park revenue (it was record losses) nor Disney+ which was a brand new division and recording its own multibillion dollar losses.
Generally ATC will switch to English when an English speaker comes onto the frequency, but local language is fine otherwise... country dependent, though. I haven't flow in France, but I understand it's mostly in French until someone calls in with English.
Pro tip: go for the online urine streaming upgrade
Yeah consider me unconvinced. People have a tendency to perceive grand displays of incompetence as secret signs of vast competence. It rarely is.
Wow. I hadn't seen that. I just read about it and it reinforces my view that cryptocurrency is appealing to the wealthy because of the promise that whoever controls all the tokens and resources (ie: wealth) controls all the rules.

When you look at some of the issues with ICANN at least there's some chance that public opinion can influence them. The .org scandals show this. Imagine if the whole system was "code is law" and the existing executives and board members owned a controlling interest of "vote tokens".

I don't understand why people would want a system like that with crypto domains. Do they think that a system where $1 = 1 vote is going to be democratic?
What a shovel.
1. Cookie AutoDelete
2. I Don't Care About Cookies
OP contacted the retailer according to the story. Affirm is not a retailer.
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Ah, I wish this fact had been highlighted better. Not a criticism of the tweet author; it's just that twitter threads really aren't designed to convey context.
Cruelty Squad vibes
A true well designed city have not been tried yet.
People see "targeted advertising" as "I was thinking about buying a bike and it shows me ads for bikes", ie. it's showing me what I want to see. That is not targeted advertising. Targeted advertising is showing you what they want you to see when they want you to see it, or showing you the same products in a light that makes you more likely to buy them.

For example, showing you unlikely or imagined bike-related problems, to sell you useless protection gear or insurance after you get your bike. Showing you ads for motorcycles, because although you probably don't want one, someone who already likes bikes is more likely to buy a (more expensive) motorcycle, so that's where they'll direct their spam.

Targeted advertising is about manipulation, using knowledge of the customer to change their behavior. No one is going through those efforts to show you what you already want and save you a quick Google.
Matt Levine amazes me. I cannot imagine writing so much content on a daily basis. Let alone if that content is required to be entertaining, informative, deep on industry knowledge, and useful to neophyte and seasoned investor alike.

To me, the man is a marvel of knowledge and industriousness.
The colloquial usage of "automated" isn't literally "no humans are involved at all" but rather more along the lines of, the effort involved or expertise required is orders of magnitude lower than it was previously. I think for this case, it holds.
Congestion is a non-pecuniary cost, so there's no reason to use a different term. Every time I hear someone use the words 'induced demand', it is meant to indicate that it should be reduced/prevented; I know someone who works in Vancouver's city planning department, and uses the term in this way.
But I am not, nor do I aspire to be, a public figure. For notable people, and most certainly politicians, I might tend to agree with you, but not for the general case.
Most ads have no content that can be subjected to critical assessment.
Geico's terrible comedy sketches are not designed
to convince you that they have a good product –
they're designed to rattle around in your mind and influence you subconsciously.
To the extent that they succeed in that,
they make people behave less rationally,
and are of negative social utility.
And if they don't succeed,
then they're just a pointless
drain on society's money, time, talent, and attention.
Or most people don't stand around reading installer installer dialog boxes on other employee's screens all day.
The rules are actually fairly sensible: the fact that the banners are deliberately confusing is actually illegal. The issue is that national agencies who enforce the rules (because EU rules are implemented via national laws) aren't enforcing the rules properly.
You're a tester, aren't you?
The quote about jobs comes to mind: "If it’s jobs you want, then you should give these workers spoons, not shovels."

(full context: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/10/10/spoons-shovels/)
> It doesn't help that, as the article states, Satoshi even said, "Participants can be anonymous"

Am I nitpicking if I say that's actually true? Anonymous means "not identified by name; of unknown identity". Disguised people can also be anonymous. The fine print is that your disguise won't help you much when you go visit your family and you're subject to gait profiling.
I'm absolutely not knowledgeable on this topic so double check everything I say.

I think the issue on the 737 Max was that there's been a known and studied system (called the MCAS IIRC) on Boeing planes that overrides pilot controls under some specific pre-determined circumstances and that system had been buffed to compensate for design flaws that were discovered too late to be corrected. On top of being faulty, that buffed system was also way outside of its initial intent and purpose (or rather the parameters guiding its operation were changed so much that it should have been addressed as a separate system and mandated specific training while they were trying to portray the plane as a simple evolution requiring no pilot re-training from earlier versions of the 737).

So, to me, it looks like yet another issue with a system overriding pilot controls for whatever reason.

More generally, this falls into that weird pattern of relying on external sensors which starts a chain of bad decisions leading to accidents (this was also a sensor issue with the Air France 447, although the chain was largely human this time, the pilots realizing way too late their repeated mistake).
Those consent boxes are nowadays used to blanket consent to things like telemarketing. I would never tell anyone to click agree on anything they haven’t thoroughly read, except proprietary software EULAs.
> with artistic ability

With artistic taste, not ability. For example the author likely couldn’t have created any of these images himself.
And people consider that a bad offer a decade ago? I consider that a dream offer today.
Vancouver had the highest proportion of single-family house zoning in North America, and the book was really about Canada and the USA, not just the latter.
> Boot polish, for example, would be spread on a hunk of bread, which was then toasted. The alcohol in the polish would soak into the bread; the polish itself would crisp on the surface of the toast. You’d scrape off as much as you could, then eat the bread. The same could be done with some ethanol-based toothpastes. Alternatively, take that polished bread, sit it on top of a glass of water over night, and then drink it, as a certain amount of alcohol will have infused it.

How much alcohol would just evaporate in these scenarios? To me the above sounds unlikely, unless there is something I am missing?
The demand side of the market is driven by people hoping to sell to someone else for more money. That doesn't seem sustainable. Almost all markets have a demand side driven by people who actually want to own or use the thing.

A good counterpoint to my argument is gold, which has very little industrial use but a very high price, driven by people wanting to sell it for more to others. And it's been running for a while. I've heard all the explanations of why, they make zero sense to me.
Imagine partying with him when they gave him the award that night anyway, before reality set in.
Fibery 2.5 hours downtime post-mortem. The Drama
Pretty awesome footage. I see the level of automation in these types of factories and I'm blown away. And then it always makes me wonder - sometimes you see people at stations - why are they there? Too hard to automate - (what scenario could be too hard to automate given all the insane automation already)? Or, haven't had time to automate? The ingenuity all around is crazy.
Funnily enough, "accept tracking or pay subscription" is very much illegal under GDPR. Lack of consent to tracking may not alter functionality of the site.

In other words, service providers are not allowed to discriminate against users based on their tracking preference.
They do now. Governments know they have to act very decisively on these kinds of markets and activities because each time they act it galvanizes everyone to implement the more resilient technology.

This is the antifragile nature that some proponents acknowledge and like.

Before there is proof of a state action, forums go back and forth ad nauseum on what level of work and inconvenience is necessary. After there is proof of a state action, they just go ahead and implement the multisig escrow (making sure consumers and merchants can get their money even if the government seizes the servers, greatly increasing the costs for the government while lowering the bounty collected) privacy enhanced coins (like Monero), contribute to UI/UX improvements for making Monero easier to use, etc

If you look at these darknet busts, the level of effort and coordination has gone up by orders of magnitude over the last decade while the amounts seized have gone down.
The tool seems to be not open to public "yet". Nothing nefarious. You can join the waitlist here: https://openai.com/dall-e-2/
> Is there anything more to your comment then a long elaboration of a cash-focused self-centeredness?

Big ooof, given the entire discussion is predicated around using simple and plain tooling to save a company money, and then berating developers who dare to learn new tools on the job. It turns out part of learning is picking the wrong tool occasionally. Who knew?
Of course not. I'm no longer surprised just how eager people are to believe an "AI" will read their minds or has magical qualities and a mind of its own. Even on HN.

Jiggle the imagination just a little bit, dangle some progress, and we're off to the races.

This is "I'm feeling lucky" on google image search + style transfer + trial and error.

If you think I am being dismissive try a few of these twitter bios as searches and see for yourselves.

I guess it fits with the times we live in. Reward shallow plagarism. Outsource your mind.

It isn't theft if you can automate it.

Autotune for the deaf, Dall-E for the blind.
Note that sometimes that may accept cookies (not sure when it does that, but it does say it can do).
>He right-clicked on the page and chose “View page source” from the resulting menu.

>...

>He spotted what he was looking for almost instantly: an IP address. In fact, to Gambaryan’s

>surprise, every thumbnail image on the site seemed to display, within the site’s HTML, the IP >address of the server where it was physically hosted: 121.185.153.64.

That is indeed an opsec failure, along with using that same IP on an exchange. Which later turns out to be a computer aka the abuse website in the guys apartment.
Bank transactions over 10K get reported. If I roll into my local Chevy dealer and buy a $75,000 truck for cash, does that get reported?
Ironically what we needed was a hint for the past, not for the future.
Revoking consent must also be as easy as consenting. Almost no site does this correctly.
The funny part is, he's already seen it and been offended. Cancelling the installation and deleting it is not preventing any future offense.
This is really cool but I can’t say I’m a fan of Zapium given it would move to a commercial license in the future. If you have to ship CEF anyhow, what is the performance advantage to licensing and using Zapium over just compiling WASM and shipping binaries with Electron? FWIW — this is how Java, .NET, etc packaging is done for interop with Electron.

I can understand from an ease of use perspective to have the bridge in between but it wouldn’t be worth subjecting a codebase to commercial licensing IMO. It’s not a whole lot more work to use process calls instead there so it seems an odd choice to commercialize that aspect in particular.
Fewer? Perhaps. But the depth of those pockets are 100× Big Mosquito Repellent.

Put another way, we've been going to war over oil for years. One more body on that pile isn't difficult to imagine.
Reminds me of the reputation-based filtering system that Neal Stephenson described in Anathem for their version of the Internet:

“Anyone can post information on any topic. The vast majority of what’s on the Reticulum is, therefore, crap. It has to be filtered.... When I look at a given topic I don’t just see information about that topic. I see meta-information that tells me what the filtering systems learned when they were conducting the search. If I look up analemma, the filtering system tells me that only a few sources have the provided information about this and that they are mostly of high repute.... If I look up the name of a popular music star who just broke up with her boyfriend, the filtering system tells me that a vast amount of data has been posted on this topic quite recently, mostly of very low repute.”

Our Internet’s search engines already do a limited version of this, but there’s room to make the reputation-based filtering stronger and more transparent to users.
IIRC FYI:

You don't have to show cookie consent banner if you use cookies just for technical (e.g auth) stuff
When you say frequency, do you mean oscillation, cockurrence, or cockillation?
> You can buy a toy kit to build a record player, a CD player is just too complicated.

you don't need a toy kit, to get sound of a vinyl. but yes it's basically impossible to build a laser and tech to read cd-da and than get audio from it...

well there is https://www.theaudioeagle.com/columns/column07.html but you need a dac and a cdm device, vinyl only needs paper and pencil (fun fact a guy from r&d of dts showed that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaqmdcaF87w)
There's a tool in the zig toolchain called `zig translate-c`, which does exactly what it sounds like. You might find some success in understanding the translated zig code for C snippets that you don't understand.
Because it would have hundreds of millions of people in it.
There's LocalBitcoins but it's under increased law enforcement scrutiny.
What interests me is that so many people discuss the same thing and still seem to come away with entirely different takes.

You can be anonymous if you deal with BTC exclusively just as though you would with cash. But, and this is a very big but: if you use the same addresses repeatedly or if the addresses that you use can be linked and your identity can be tied to one of the addresses then all of your linked transactions are now no longer anonymous.

So you're anonymous right up to the point that you aren't, and then it works retroactively on anything that can be tied to that same identity.

Cash doesn't really have that property, and is therefore more anonymous than BTC, anonymity is in principle a boolean but there appear to be grades of anonymity when you start looking at it more closely. Anonymity as in 'the state of knowledge about an individual' vs 'anonymity, the level of anonymity that an individual can expect as the use of a particular method of payment' are two different concepts that we lump together as though they are the same thing.
interesting hypothesis!
The OP is running this on Debian Woody, which used GCC 2.95.
Blogged about it too: https://simonwillison.net/2022/Apr/8/weeknotes/#datasette-da...
Is it a supply or a demand problem? They do have a choice, zoning is just one tool among many.
Someone should make an online version of Mysterium that uses Dall-E to make the picture cards!
It's non-trivial to go from a list of transactions to having a nicely indexed DB with convenient tools for investigating.

It's correct that you can trace transactions through the blockchain, but in practice you need something like Reactor to be built and maintained. It's not going to be obvious to police, because the skill is a specialized thing in the domain of coders, and those coders have to have a reason to look at blockchain.
You have to live in rather remote place in US to not have a supermarket within 10 minute drive. There are plenty of places like that, to be sure, but in the suburbia you’re thinking of, large supermarkets are typically within 5-10 minutes drive.

For example, I live in Seattle, in a single family house in a single family house neighborhood. I have 3 large supermarkets within 5 minute drives, and at least 6 within 10 minutes.

Given that, why would I want to go to a store that has smaller selection and higher prices, if I can get to a proper one in 5 minutes?
Yikes, I can’t believe all the comments blaming OP. It was clearly the retailer in breach of Affirm’s terms, not OP. Charge backs also have a limited window to claim - I can’t see anything that was done wrong here by OP. Yes, OP could’ve attempted to resolve with affirm up front, but why should that be necessary?
And an individual consumer probably doesn't take advantage of all the choices on a weekly basis but in aggregate they do. I have a couple of convenient supermarkets and I don't shop at both weekly but I recognize that each is better for certain things. And Trader Joe's and Whole Foods are even better for others although neither are close enough to make a special trip for the most part.
Yeah, learning this fact definitely dulled my initial astonishment. These are still really fantastic results, but it's hard to feel too excited without the knowledge of just how much curative efforts took place behind the curtain.