skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's amazing to me how people resort to these "hurr durr China bad" rhetorics to justify any claim about China. I don't see how the numbers are off besides how they simply couldn't do nearly enough tests by the start of the pandemic in 2020.

Zero covid was successful up until Omicron, evidently. While Christmas markets had to close early in Germany because Delta was so bad, you had huge overcrowded markets in Shanghai, with many people not wearing a mask. If anything, we probably have the most statistically significant numbers about infectiousness and ratio of symptomatic:asymptomatic cases because of the totally over the top testing of every possible contact they did whenever even a single case popped up anywhere.

If anything, with the current draconian lockdown if they had any incentive to lie, they would have to make it look worse than it actually is to justify it.
My town was “fiberized” twice. First by the local power company around 15 years ago. They laid the cable in the streets and then each house had to get their cable from the street and to the house wall (or they could pay a good chunk of money to have the power company do it). A couple of years ago the power company made a huge mistake when they changed TV-solution provider. The new TV-box was so shitty that the old provider started a new fiber company and gave every resident a deal they could not say no to so now most houses have two fiber cables into their house. Anyway, my point was that you can outsource the curb-to-house stretch to the home owners.
> It's one thing to be against crypto, but refusing it when you are a charity for the most asinine moral purity tests is absurd.

Charities, unlike for-profit businesses, tend to be moral ventures. Refusing donations, modes of operation, etc., for reasons that seem to be “asinine moral purity tests” for anyone with different moral views than the decision-makers is...pretty par for the course.
I'm a big fan of webp/avif/jpeg xl but this article sounds to me like "oh look, webp is better than bmp!"....
Who the heck use PNG for photos and then compare it with WebP optimized for photos? He should have used at least JPEG, JPEG XL, AVIF or whatever other suitable format for photos.

This comparison doesn't make sense even if I ignore the fact all photos regardless of format are extremely oversaturated to the point it almost hurt my eyes.
Zapier seems exactly like the type of product that is difficult to unbundle because its value is in its integrations. If an integration (e.g. Gmail and Trello) maps to an addressable market, then the more permutations there are, the larger Zapier's potential market and value is. If you move away from Zapier to some optimized single-purpose integration then you lose the potential value from access to the other integrations. And because of Zapier's enormous library it covers both common and niche use cases.

Zapier is different from something like Craigslist because the latter only offers convenience from having different verticals in one place. There is no synergy between them.
> `git branch` can cause git to run programs specified in the git repository’s config file

This is the real vulnerability. Why is git branch running random external programs?
Travel tech sheds legacy baggage, heads to the cloud with Google
That addresses one possible set of failure scenarios. If you think that means you have a backup that is guaranteed to be accessible to you whenever you need it, you don't have a backup. If your only backup is in the same cloud provider where your primary system is, you don't have a backup, you only think you do.

Any reasonable dedicated setup will involve imaging your server, and so the OS image is not something you need to back up - if it fails you reimage. If you even store the OS image on the server at all rather than network boot.
If the installer is deployed with SCCM or Intune it's very likely being executed in system context.
This feels really pointless. If I can create /.git, I have root already. Any other parent-directory-escalation that I can think of would be so obscure as to be not worth caring about, and would also probably require having access to an already-higher-privilege account.

And of course the unspoken: almost nobody uses git on multi user systems, and when they do, most of the time every single user already has sudo.
Words of Wisdom from Sophocles
Regarding flying people out to do things while citing cryptocurrency climate issues: the former is unavoidable given the goal while the latter has more efficient alternatives in the vast majority of relevant circumstances.

That's not to say that I'm thus for or against this ban, or for or against flying people out to edit a website from a central location together (assuming that's what wiki mania meetups are), just that the flaw in the logic is that flying isn't practically avoidable if you want to meet up from across the world, while donations have a thousand other avenues (and for those who aren't able to make a donation now from North Korea or so, it's not to their disadvantage, it's not like Wikipedia was a VPN provider, or like you want to hide a Wikileaks donation from your government). This happens in a lot of the whataboutism around doing one thing for the climate while not being perfect because you still do this other thing.
Lend Me Your Ear: Passive Remote Physical Side Channels on PCs [pdf]
Maybe OP could phrase it a bit better, but i dont think its wrong to want some context. If its just for fun, that's definitely cool, but its also good to say that. Similarly, if there is something unique about the language, it would be nice to say that too.

Its not that the project has to be ground breaking or anything, just be nice to know what we're looking at.
Almost sounds like the opposite of something like Nim, which is also Python inspired but removed the dynamic typing and kept the indentation.

I think I prefer using curly braces to indentation. I seem to remember reading that Nim strictly enforces spaces over tabs (rather than having it as a linter rule, or just asking you pick one consistently) which has kept me away from the language for some time, whereas you don't tend to get those hard rules with curly braces. Could be wrong on that, and would be happy to be corrected

Sorry to detract from the main thread though, looks really nice regardless
The stuff I see in contemporary art museums is only occasionally clearly better than what DALL-E produces. I don't think anyone would bat an eye if you put a selected collection of its images in a museum.
Because the animals will die in transit, or die off under the 'care' of their new owners, either through incompetence or purely because nobody understands how to keep them alive in any form of captivity in the first place.

And the people in the local area will facilitate their local extinction in their natural habitat, because of money. Which (given the first point) is likely to accelerate their total extinction.

And if any of those species do survive after such commercial relocation, they may well escape and become invasive feral species in their new home.

Basically, commercial incentives to fuck with nature are a bad idea. What we could really do with are commercial incentives to leave it the hell alone.
Ive tried Asana breifly a few years agoand it didn't seem to have enough to make it worth the effort to swap.

Maybe I should check it out again
> If Russia nukes Ukraine Russia likely ceases to exist.

...while Ukraine certainly ceases to exist. Also, the only country that nuked another country hasn't ceased to exist, so not sure where your claim comes from.

> Russians loses are closer to 4:1 not 3:1

Again, unsure where that claim comes from. Fog of war doesn't allow anyone to know the ratio for sure.

> It’s been pretty amazing seeing Ukraine capture intact Russian crypto gear and EW vehicles.

In the long term, this doesn't matter. Allies have captured lots of Enigma machines, but that's not what got them to decypher the Axis communications.

Finally, the argument I'm making is that short-term doesn't matter, only long-term does, and we haven't seen that yet. The formidable resistance that Ukraine has managed to put up so far is impressive; but the final outcome will not necessarily be determined by it.
I can see this theoretically working in sewers rather than fresh water but that would have a Terry Gilam 'Brazil' vibe to it...
https://youtu.be/teufz17PqoY
> Mark-sweep is so simple, that it took me a _long_ time to understand it.

I love everything about this sentence
althttpd beats this: https://hub.docker.com/r/rouhim/althttpd/tags (~63 KB)
> means that you don't like the Unix model in general.

Absolutely correct. While it does have benefits in some situations, writing cross platform command line tools isn’t a place where it shines.
> I want to discover a look and style that fits well with the project.

Why is DALL-E (or more likely its successors) not suitable then? It can produce a large amount of similar pictures based on a vague theme.

> Dall•e pictures will never have any Aura to them.

Debatable, I actually really quite like a lot of its art. Regardless, nobody uses stock photography for its "Aura".
The novelty factor IS important. Back in the 90s/00s techies were relatively rare. Being tech-oriented, generally smart but also socially awkward and introverted is an interesting mix - you derive identity and pride from the things that make you special.

Was this the reason I loved tech? No, that's the reason I DID tech. The reason I loved tech is because I believed that tech will make our lives exponentially better. And up to a certain point, it did...
I feel like I have to comment here on the absurdity of banning computer-generated child porn. Presumably to protect the AIs?
Yes, here is a possible explanation: it face swaps.

Some observations:

Note that the writing utensil is always in the right hand. It is more evident after the first image that it is neither a pen or a feather or anything like that but a whispy blurry line that goes nowhere.

The book pages are always blank.

All the creatures are green and in the same pose.

The arms are wrong and often disconnected from the hands.

I believe the way to look at DaLL-E 2 output is to break the prompt and the resulting image into distinct concepts/layers.

Each layer is cribbed from some pre-existing image. Hands from here, arms from there, head from Yoda, swap the face. Blur everything together with a style transfer.
The movies you listed fail in a different way. There are plenty of explosions and fight scenes in The Last Jedi and Captain Marvel. What they do share is that the main character is an underdeveloped Mary Sue, without character flaws, without weaknesses they must overcome. They're just made awesome from the start. It probably stems from the inability of current Hollywood to portray female characters as having any weaknesses at all, that would be heresy. The result is that it's hard to empathize with and care about the main character. They don't have any dimensionality.

Of the ones you listed I watched The Last Jedi and Captain Marvel. I know what I wrote is also true for Mulan thanks to friends who watched it and the Critical Drinker. He has a couple good films on YouTube actually demonstrating this aspect of modern films:

- Mulan: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIH-eFqBLP4>

- Star Wars: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSj6wEm4zZY>

- Captain Marvel: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKHEjpFF6J0>
Sounds a bit like vidir from moreutils.
If you don't have sysadmins with the right experience, there is a vast number of companies that can do this for you on a fractional basis on retainer. I was one of them.

The crossover point where cloud is more expensive is really low even if you have zero in-house experience. Exactly where it is depends on your amount of egress, as that is where AWS in particular really takes advantage of you.
Haha, true. You still have options though, like using firefox reader or copy pasting and doing whatever you like with it.

Maybe the page author could add some links without a description and disable selecting text to give us the "full" experience.
> Some people take "fake it until you make it" as some kind of design for life, especially those with narcissistic tendencies.

The worst part is that it actually works - at least on scale.

Bullshit artists thrive on the "they look like they know what they're doing" vibe, because for most people, that level of confidence can only be achieved through hard work and dedication to the craft, so we assume that the person that confident must be very hardworking and very dedicated, or simply knows something that we don't.

It's a perceptional shortcut that we use because it works for us most of the time. In an unknown room full of unknown people, we instinctively search for someone who doesn't look lost.
You might find what you want at India's largest stockbroking platform - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-sqMIG7wgg
> Is that a good criteria for whether a film is good or not.

I don't rewatch films as a rule but I do sometimes rewatch films with people who have not seen that film.

There are films like Dancer In The Dark, Grave Of The Fireflies, or Dogville that I simply cannot watch a second time because of the precise, agonising emotional turmoil they create. I will recommend this experience to everyone, and they too will watch it only once and recommend it to others.

Then there are films like Taken that I would never watch because they are dreadful, hateful trash.

I would consider the former list to be beautiful, painful exceptions to the idea that a film that can be watched endlessly is a great work. And even then I might be persuaded to watch them with someone I really loved. Perhaps. Though I'd have to love someone a lot to willingly watch through the end of Dancer again.

I would not be so enthusiastic about spending time with anyone who joyfully rewatches Taken.
No VPN. I have the ports fairly well tightened down, though. I'm exposed to a zero-day in iptables itself or something, but whatever. Even if someone got in it would be an inconvenience at worst. It's not like I'm making money off this stuff.
People in California believe that all Americans including those who are unfortunate enough to live in Mississippi ought to have rights as well. In addition your poll doesn't quite say exactly what you think it does.

It actually doesn't say that most people believe abortion ought to be illegal after the first trimester. What it actually said is that 38% believe that it ought to be illegal in most cases. This is overwhelmingly the people who believe that we are violating the magical ghost that their god hath breathed into even a lump of cells. Also notably this is virtually the same demographic that literally believes the earth is 6000-10,000 years old.

Of the 61% who believe abortion should be legal 44% believe the first trimester ought to be the line. Another 12% think the second trimester ought to be the line and another 44% think birth ought to be the line.

There are two questions. Ought abortions happen outside extraordinary circumstances and where do we draw the line. If we have discerned that a woman has a right to an abortion it makes no sense to average or combine the people who think the line is at zero and the people who think the variable has a value and use that to set policy. Firstly because the average of undefined and an integer is undefined and secondly because that is a fucking terrible why to deal with something that actually has a scientific answer that being basing it on birth rendering it an independent person or brain development such that the fetus goes from having never been conscious in the first place to something more akin to sleep.
Maybe you shouldn't be using go then
Has symbolic AI ever produced anything that really demonstrates that it's the right approach? As far as I know DNNs are still way better at symbolic problems than symbolic AI.

And calling it "curve fitting" is just disingenuous. There's quite a lot of evidence that "curve fitting" will scale for at least a few more orders of magnitude. Who knows, maybe the human brain is just "curve fitting".
New York World (1885) "Only a Newsboy' - https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/221180856
Awesome thanks for that !
Definitely yes. Maybe it is because manual writing requires to be more conscious about joining the letters (google any images from request "russian cursive makes me cry sometimes" to see my point).

Another hypothesis of mine is that some non-qwerty layouts having all the most frequent symbols on the home row makes me do some typos that are indistinguishable from real words which may be visible for me maybe on tenth re-reading of my text.
I don't know, do they really check who donated fiat comes from and refuse donations when it comes from, let's say, anyone involved in anything against their values ?
> Should our government protect (idiots|naive investors) from getting scammed?

> But one could also argue that this is just the financial survival of the fittest and, hence, a natural rule that suckers get taken advantage of.

In the nation where you have to put "Caution - Hot" on coffee-to-go cups to avoid being sued, I think the answer to that is self-evident.
I think part of it is that when you were younger, tech was a very new part of most people's everyday life.

You grew up through the introduction of the smartphone, social media and digital cameras, as well as the incredible development of computing power. When you were born, the most advanced piece of electronics in the average household might have been a TV. Now, everyone has a little box with a phone, supercomputer and camera in their pocket. That was a huge and exciting change.

But now, much of that burst of transformation has slowed down and any developments in tech are an incremental improvement as far as everyday life is concerned.

But personally, I love learning about the technology in other industries, particularly manufacturing. Look at the everyday objects around you and the process that was used to make them. The sewing machine that stitched your clothes and the mechanism it uses to do it. The machines that produced the yarn and the machines that turned it into fabric. Look at how metals are extruded into a housing for some electrical device or parts of your house. Look at how CNC machining is used to create high-precision parts or how sheet metal is processed to mass-produce low-cost parts.

There's so much technology around us that has been quietly doing its job for decades and even if the change it induced is taken for granted now, the technology itself is still an impressive achievement.
Blame big manga.
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I agree with your take on platform where there is near 0 barrier to entry. Netflix for instance, or TV programming. Casual people will be less willing to go through reviews to device on a piece, and they'll also probably have had other customer reviews or view count guide them in their choice.

It is albeit different if to watch the movie you need to carve 3 hours of your time-off, go to a theater and pay 15€. Instead of randomly choosing a movie currently airing in your local theater, you might want to know if it's something you have any interest for (Imagine watching Edge Of Tomorrow thinking it will be some Star Trooper like spectacle). In that setting I think people expect critics adjust their assessment to the target public of the movie and give an accessible review of the piece. Which is super hard, but that's what they are expected to do.
It is a good approach. Emacs has dired and other modes for doing this.
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People can become knowledgeable about something without being a participant. Otherwise learning history would be impossible.
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Remote Procedure Call Runtime Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
TaskFocus – Tasks list with time tracking
TaskFocus let you to easily and conveniently focus on tasks and to-do list, as well as take into track the time spent on them.

The application will be very useful for those who are constantly planning something in their mind, whether it is personal or related to your work. TaskFocus will not let your cases get lost and will improve your productivity.

Now your head will have more space for the most important, thanks to TaskFocus. You can easily plan your day.

Task list
- A simple and convenient form for adding new tasks.
- Convenient work with your task list.
- A convenient task search in the application allows you to find any tasks that are lost. There is a search both by text and by date of tasks.

Focus on the task
- The application allows you to focus on completing a specific task from your list, with the ability to select a melody that allows you to better concentrate on the task.

Convenient statistics
- The application contains simple and informative statistics on the completion of tasks, the time they were completed, and statistics on overdue tasks.

Choice of design
- The application supports the choice of design that suits you.
That's a good educational resource to show to people who need to learn about multi-stage Docker builds.
For on prem. Or you put it in a colo, and let someone else deal with those things, and you still pretty much the same cost savings vs. cloud - sometimes more (e.g. if you can pick a colo somewhere with cheaper electricity you can save; if you can pick one somewhere with cheaper land, you can save). Or you move to managed hosting and still bare metal, and stop worrying about the physical servers at all, at loss of some freedom, and still get around 90% of the cost savings vs. cloud.
Frankly, if you do not have it in you to read through a paper you are co-authoring, maybe you should not be a co-author or maybe you should not author massive overview papers? Did someone hold a gun to their head forcing them to author a work that was so large in scope that they could not maintain sound academic standards? If you want the credit that comes with authorship, I expect you to “pay” by maintaining proper standards.
People on hn talking about bangface. Things I didn't see coming.
First i'd love it if out of pure courtesy you avoided using stuff like "the scum of the earth" to describe people you disagree with because it doesn't help in any way.
Then with banners like "Help us save Wikipedia, Wikipedia is in danger, donate" on the website at least a month per year I have to disagree with your "Wikipedia isn't desperate for money"
Related: https://blog.sonarsource.com/securing-developer-tools-git-in... ("Securing Developer Tools: Git Integrations")
Yes, it's actually so bad that you wonder what part of the picture we're missing.
Generating assets for games is a pretty obvious one; if done well, it could significantly reduce production costs.

And I'm sure you could come up with similar areas where sometimes you just need a bunch of cheap art.
I would stay sceptical, way to many things can go wrong and british plumbing is an art of it self.

I think this the sewer is more suitable approach. One company in Czech republic manage to pull it off after more then decade of research.

Article in czech, but there is a lot of pictures to get the idea.

https://www.lupa.cz/galerie/pilotni-projekt-unikatni-instala...
That makes sense, by post war socialism are you thinking the Warsaw pact countries or the more social-democratic elements of Keynesianism? Either way, makes sense given most development is done privately for profit now. Thanks for sharing your perspective!
And people covered in shit falling backwards out of toilets as I remember. Not gonna forget that in a hurry.
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