skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Is there any way we can keep HN from becoming drowned in garbage?

You make a good point - that we should watch out for manipulation everywhere on the internet - but then you undermine it by ending with an unfounded hyperbolic statement. You only provided one example user out of thousands (millions?) of HN users, how do you get from there to "drowning in garbage"? Seems to me the mods and community here are doing a pretty good job already.
Michelle Yeoh Explains the Weird Worlds of Everything Everywhere All at Once
I had a run of games a while back that were next to unplayable for the first 6 months while the bugs got ironed out and the patches got patched. Now I just wait 6 months or so (bonus - they're generally heavily discounted by then, haha) - if games critics are reviewing new releases but gamers reviews come in over the lifetime of the game, they're kind of reviewing two different products and it would make sense if critics' reviews were harsher.
That's the problem though... the post I saw wasn't flag-worthy. It was a bit poor quality in my opinion, but it wasn't objectionable.

What was obvious to me was the frequency of submissions of the account, and additionally nature of the topics.

Simplistically, I would question the need for any HN user to submit more than one or two entries per day. People who submit 10+ are probably suspect.
> You mean, you reimage? That is the slow step, you reimage, and plug the new server. Wait a bit, and your service has one more server.

No. When you /stop/ an EC2 instance, and /start/ it again, it moves. You do not need to reimage. This is even requested from AWS when they are having hardware failures and need to move customers off so they can decomission the hardware. They request you stop / start the instance, if you do not do it by the due date they do it for you.

> You take the disk out and plug a new one. You don't turn things off because of a disk.

If you have a storage array sure. But if you're getting bare metal hosting from a provider, you're not always getting hot swappable storage arrays.

> No doubt, those are costly. They are also rare (disk failure is less rare, but still rare).

It was 1 example, obviously there's many different hardware issues that can go wrong.
This. I don't get the tendency to want an ultra-capable off-road vehicle and then kit it out like a luxury roadster with a bunch of "tech" that is going to break in the first water crossing.

Worked on a farm one time where one of the work trucks was literally a Ford F350 King Ranch edition. Super powerful vehicle, but the wood trim and leather seats were no help when you had just been on your hands and knees in mud and diesel fuel...

Creature comforts are great for family/touring cars, but they are a liability in extreme terrain.
Agreed. It’s surprising how hard it is for people to hold two corresponding ideas - Russias invasion is unjustified, and we have done little to deescalate tensions with Russia. Both can be true, and doesn’t mean we agree with either approach.
The good ones have never had it. The point of good criticism has never been to convince mass market audiences to like things they lack the cognitive / emotional / aesthetic skills to appreciate. The point is to provide good directors with the appreciation they deserve and need to stare down poverty and despair and keep making good work, from the few people whose opinion they care about
I'm going to drop a link to my favorite film critic and one of my favorite sites on the Internet: https://seeingthingssecondhand.com/

His reviews always rekindle my love for film when it is waning (mostly due to lack of time). Love the rankings (Marvel movies, Disney movies, etc.) as well as the reviews of the other top movies list (Better than the AFI Top 100). Feels like required reading for a cinephile.
I agree about having a local library card. I almost always just get eBooks and audio books through my libraries website, but, I also like to sit in my library and write. I have a very nice office at home, but sometimes I just prefer being in an elegantly beautiful public place.
> Let's imagine these "artists" are all actually created by a team of software engineers at Spotify tweaking a GPT-3-like model for songs. If the songs get listens and users like them, so what?

I don't think anyone has a problem if users listen to or like machine-generated music. Some people, including some paying customers, would have a problem with this music being presented to them opaquely as if it has gone through the same creative process as human-generated music.

To your other point, re: Backstreet Boys, they're not any more authentic, at least not in my perspective. But the fact that I may find Backstreet Boys completely "soulless" or not a
"genuine form of artistic expression" or "lacking in musical talent" is all my problem/opinion, and it's all orthogonal to the point, which is that the promotion of Backstreet Boys, by way of a record label allocating marketing spend to pay a radio station to play their music on repeat, ought to be transparent. There are even "payola" laws about this in the US, complete with a known and abused loophole: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payola#Third-party_loophole

> ...You're clicking a playlist...

The question becomes, "How did the user find the playlist?" I don't know how organic the process is for getting these playlists in front of a user's face. If Spotify does any kind of algorithmic fuckery to present that playlist more prominently to a user -- while, on the backend, accounting for the fact that the playlist will benefit them financially because the royalties are lower because the artists are "fake" -- then that should be disclosed to the user in some form. I'm not actually suggesting a law or regulation here. But if I were still a Spotify customer, I'd prefer to know if they generated and presented content to me because it benefit them financially rather than because they think I'd enjoy listening to it.
Qualia Computing I'll agree contains a lot of conjecture, but I wouldn't call it untested. If anything, they tend to test it as often as they can get their hands on it!
We had one running for president just a couple years back. Sadly, I don't like him much, nor do many from his home state. But it's kind of cool that he went from hacker to political candidate.
So now you're throwing a ton more money at something, costing you in purchasing the bare metal, but also the cost to maintain it. If you want to build compariable redundancy as you get with EC2 it will cost you. It wont be cheaper.
Vivaldi is still Chromium based. This is WebKit based (or more accurately, the OS provided engine). We need more non-Chromium based browsers anyway.

I'm speculating here, but it sounds like the Windows version will also be the OS provided engine, which would be Edge, thus we're back to Chromium. Which is a shame considering the stink they make about it in this article.
I think they're using it so that they can use nil as the zero value to indicate the buffer is empty in cases where the zero value is a valid result.

I feel like the comma ok idiom is a better idea here.
If you lease a truck you pay for maintenance as a general rule. Most (guessing here) lease operators also have a factory warranty so only have to pay for normal wear items like tires and brakes.

Company drivers pay for nothing related to the truck unless they’re really, really gullible and are working for some super shady outfit.

The upside is if you lease a truck you keep most of money from the freight fees and if there’s a warranty your cost are not too outrageous.

Source: I drive for an owner/operator leased on to one of the big carriers and due to the way they have the computers set up I can see what the truck gets paid per load.
The output of an ML model isn't clearly unencumbered by IP rights. There's already prompts to DALL-E that clearly output a copy of a Wikipedia image it's memorized, and the publicly available smaller models have lots of prompts that output images covered in literal Shutterstock watermarks.

This isn't real AI and it didn't come up with these images by imagining them. It's a blob of every image on Google Image Search stuck together in a way that's managed to differentiate between them (in the calculus sense).
is the bar really so low that "need to connect your mac and redeploy the app every 7 days" is acceptable??
I was surprised today, Safari autofilled the password for me. First time I tried using it with Safari.
Epicycles were certainly a modelling technique for making predictions. They weren't much of a theory since there was nothing in epicycles about causation -- no explanation of why, just a model for what-where-when.

I'm sure it must have occurred to more than one back then that the planets go around the Sun in elliptical orbits. The Antikythera mechanism even models the elliptical orbit of the moon around the Earth, so it's not farfetched that they could have figured out the rest.

However, convincing all the right "authorities" of the copernican view back then would have been culturally very difficult.
If the “state” wanted to listen to voters it would stop trying so hard to disenfranchise so many of us that live in Texas cities but might not vote Republican.

So much of state politics is currently Republicans dog whistling made up issues to their base rather than any kind of evidence based policy.
At the call site you will get a compile error. And the signature of the method you call explicitly tells you what errors you need to handle.

Most IDEs will conveniently put a red squiggle line beneath the exact call site as well, and show you the compile error when you hover over it.

And if you choose to rethrow it, you will need to add to your method an explicit annotation.
Anyone have any experience or anecdotes on the extent to which Apple has Product Managers working on its in-house software? And what sort of overlap or collaboration happens between products and teams? Is it a fun gig?

As a PM, I would love to work at Apple. If I were looking at open job descriptions, should I expect them to call out specific apps I’d be working on?
hard to say from inside the company, since you get to thinking of everyone as just colleagues who happen to be working on different parts of the system. but in terms of larger world prestige I would say the machine learning folks are definitely up there, also the internet/petabyte scale stuff that other developers know enough about the difficulties behind to be impressed by (spanner for instance), and perhaps go since it has achieved a massive amount of popularity. I honestly don't know if there are currently any end user google products "sexy" enough that working on them is extra prestigious.
FB did acquire Parse, a mobile-oriented PaaS (in a roughly similar market segment as Google’s Firebase).

It was shut down when FB apparently realized that an open cloud platform business is completely incompatible with how they run their infra.
> 1. 25 years ago a 28.8k modem and Cyrix 486 with 8mb ram on AOL had better end-user performance than today’s most popular web apps.

This is untrue for most sites. A browser could take 10-20 sec to open. Loading a page often took 5-30 sec, depending on if it had any images.

I always kept solitaire open and would switch between it and the browser while I waited for things to load.
A Mac Mini 2011 I use as a file server (SMB) + Infuse on everything (iPad, Mac, Apple TV). Infuse scans the file and pull its metadata from IMDB or something. I don't watch much, but having the same experience everywhere is a nice touch – I use Plex for music and it's not as smooth.
TL;DR: write it however you like, just be consistent.
What is the content of the training set like, that DALL·E 2 has all this info? Are there people out there spending thousands of hours just tagging or writing descriptions of training images?

And does DALL·E just receive the image as-is with its description, or does it get more info (e.g. "this part of the image is the dog")?
Maybe there needs to be a way to flag a user if they are negatively contributing to HN.
Ask HN: What topics do you enjoy learning about in your free time?
Well, depending on exactly how much this blocks, this could get pretty awkward -- typing 'git log' in a repo owned by someone else can be awfully handy, even if file system permissions block changing it at all, and putting together a list of all places you might want to do this in advance could get pretty awkward. (Not running hooks, or allowing operations that would trigger them, from non-owned directories would preserve some of this usage, and still at least mitigate the dangerous cases somewhat.)

It's also not entirely clear to me what this does to site-wide shared remotes, though I suppose if they can be listed in system config, it's at least not a per-user hassle.
I've been using tmux for finding, but I think this might be brilliant and stupid simple. Thank you for this! Never thought of piping "live" output or streaming to fzf!!
Perl would be one option:

perl -ne '( /foo/ and /bar/ and !/baz/ and !/splat/ ) and print "$ARGV: $_"' *

I didn't include the context part, since that would be more than a one-liner, but it's not hard to do in a short script.
>The only reason USB-C doesn't just use a Lightning connector is spite. IIRC, Apple offered the USB Forum the Lightning connector patents if they wanted them, but they refused.

I'd love to read more about this, especially since I also heard somebody claim that USB-C was based on an older Apple power socket.
> If you have an interface with a single method, or something with a single varying piece of behavior, please strongly consider accepting a function instead.

Java neatly solves this by means of Functional Interfaces. Interfaces that have a single method related to the generic type parameter can be called by using lambda syntax. Take for example sorting:

<T> void sort(T[] a, Comparator<? super T> c)

A `Comparator<T>` has a method `int compare(T o1, T o2)`, which allows the caller to invoke `Arrays.sort` by passing a lambda:

Arrays.sort(list, (l1, l2) -> l1.compareTo(l2));
It is probably a sloppy mistake, ineptness, and poor process controls by a contributing team, not pure malevolence. In a survey paper some people are sloppy and copy/paste source material directly into their file and edit it, or instruct others to do edits with notes. This creates a large risk that the edit never happens or the wrong version is submitted.

Edit: also take into account plenty of these researchers write English as second or third language. Copied text won't necessarily sound as obviously out of place and process becomes even more important.
Fight or flight are the natural options available to respond to threat, baked deep into everyones code. You can change the setting in ppl one way or the other, depending on how good a programmer you are.
NASA's next-gen space telescopes could dwarf Webb. By using liquid lenses?
I have a feeling vmtouch is more widely-deployed than the articles list. See also cachemaster.
Lease operator and owner operator are synonymous mostly used to differentiate between those who buy a truck on their own credit and those who lease one and give it back to the company at the end (to usually get another lease).

—edit—

Should add lease operators almost always do this so they have a warranty on the truck because things get really expensive really fast when they don’t.
Extremely concerning. Why is World Economic Forum, a non-governmental organization so influential and involved in so many controversial initiatives?
Sure, raids some drives together, you still have downtime when you switch it off replace the drive switch it on wait for it to rebuild.

Or you can fork out the extra cost to have hot swappable.

If you're saying: "I dont want to pay $300 / month for EC2 instances at AWS when I can get the same hardware specs for $150 at X"

Chances are you're getting a shitty old desktop or barebones rack that lacks features like hot swap and raids.

Do you believe you're getting redundancy when you go with hetzner and a cheap desktop grade processor, ddr4 non ecc memory, and a consumer grade SSD?
Interestingly I was also about to post that autojump was missing, checked the comments, saw yours, and rechecked - sure enough, autojump is in there! So, your comment was useful after all.
That’s odd, I have never cleaned lint from an iPhone and I am on a long upgrade cycle. It might be an issue with your case or something.
pwru (https://github.com/cilium/pwru) is a fun new tool from the Cilium folks for tracing network packets in the kernel. Like tcpdump but you can trace the full path of the packet including kernel syscalls. Lets you debug much deeper than "when the packet gets to this port it gets dropped".
He's just trolling the plot of "The Day America Died".

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28871151-the-day-america...
You learn something new every day! Thanks.
By these measures of security, anti-fingerprinting, and privacy, both Bromite and Vanadium are far superior to Brave.

Bromite is available on F-Droid, and unfortunately Vanadium is only available on GrapheneOS unless you build it yourself.
> This means that a time.Time pointer has the same GCShape as an uint64, a bytes.Buffer and a strings.Builder.

> In the current implementation of Generics in 1.18, every runtime invocation of a generic function will transparently receive as its first argument a static dictionary with metadata about the arguments being passed to the function.

> That’s right, after the monomorphization step, the generated function shape needs to take as a runtime input the virtual method tables for all its generic arguments.

What an odd design. I'm curious to read the justification for this. I assume it's faster compile times.
? Cartels have effective control over certain areas of Mexico and corrupted all layers of governance.

> 40 000 dead from direct conflict between cartels and government forces since 2006.

Just because it's technically unlikely that you're going to encounter the violence yourself, and therefore not give you a 'violence vibe' doesn't really have anything to do with how much violence there is.

40K is a gigantic number and will possibly be bigger than the Russian-Ukranian war when it's over.

If power of some armed groups rivals that of government, then it's a 'near failed state'.

We have the technology and wherewithal and hopefully 'learned lessons' to make progress on this.

The fact that this massive, organized violence exists, is to a great extent our responsibility for letting it metastasize.
I love it! Can you add SSL though? Does it support gzip compression? What about Brotli? I like that it's small and fast so in addition to serving static files can it act as a reverse proxy? What about configuration? I'd like to be able to server multiple folders instead of just one?

Where can I submit a feature request ticket?
the parent commenters' claims are likely sourced from the "last week tonight with john oliver" episode two weeks ago, which covered trucking and made those claims.
Actually the inflation was 7.9% in February, before the war in Ukraine started. Nothing to do with Russia.

Source: https://www.bls.gov/regions/mid-atlantic/data/consumerpricei...
Not if the inspection is done by American teams, just as though they were at the border.
A couple years ago, I could manage reading and writing ROT13 somewhat decently. I can still do it after some warm ups first. I can also do arbitrary Caesar cyphers in my head, but not fast enough to impress anyone. Memorizing the alphabet backwards helps, as does being able to visualize the numeric value of each letter. Embarrassingly, I'm actually rather slow at the simple mental arithmetic part.
I miss the last.fm radio as well... Neither Spotify radio or Google Play Music radio are even coming close.
My GF said that Pandora radio, I think, was pretty good some years back. These days? I'm trying Bandcamp but it's probably not what you're after.
Intelligence is an abstract concept, it depends on what exactly one means by that. I have watched a rockets take off from earth. I have never seen a self-aware machine.
All of the above. Anything that shouldn't be crossing.
A fair point.

I'm not sure how the FTC would be involved here. My understanding is that the exchange between twitter and most of its users doesn't rise to the legal designation of "trade" (excluding twitter blue users, of course), unless the OP meant the FTC would get involved between Twitter and their advertisers.
I don't get it.

With this unemployment figures deficit could be decreased substantially without hurting much economy. Why on Earth they aren't doing this?
What percent of California-bound Mexican trucks do you believe enter at one of the crossings affected by the governor's actions, versus at some other border crossing in California, Arizona, or Texas?
> Merely navigating to such a space with a Git-enabled `PS1` when there is a maliciously-crafted `/scratch/.git/` can lead to a compromised account.

I'm curious about this -- what's the attack vector here?
Republicans are causing humanitarian disaster to Mexican people who are immensly contributing to US economy. We've to do everything to fight against racist xenophobic republicans and treat Mexican people with honor and dignity.
I’m remodeling my main floor.

The mud room and kitchen will be tiled enough to mop liberally.
Best way to learn Docker in 2022?
I'd like to learn Docker - what's the best way to learn about Docker in 2022? Looking for books or videos, whatever has the best material.
I'm not sure this is correct. Have you worked on software at Apple?
No, you definitely could not do it 20 years ago with hobbyist grade parts. The software basically did not exist and whatever tech there was was strictly hidden behind government arms control restrictions (ITAR) because of fears that the tech could be used in ballistic missiles.
I sympathise with the employees, however unions have pratically zero chance of gaining concessions from Amazon.

Amazon can give more shifts to non striking workers, train new employees in a matter of hours, leverage labour hire companies, bus in workers from other facilities, lean on FBM and other 3PL providers, increase automation. They also have a massive network of fulfilment centers and can easily just ship in fulfilled orders from elsewhere using non union trucking and last mile.

Amazon also has deep pockets and a long time horizon, so worst case they'll just allow the facility to be shut down by strikes and let their customers know it'll take another day to deliver their order from elsewhere.
yes! lots of new tools like FD are just easier to use on Windows than the GNU tools (My experience with a corporate laptop).
> Some of the remainder are leasing from the company they work for and also paying for maintenance which is what’s pushing things over 50%.

Those are included in the 47% owner/operators.

Edit:

Well, the page linked with the statistics doesn't mention it specifically, but I'm not sure why a lease purchase owner/operator would not be included in that number.
I remember listening —really listening— to a Debbie Gibson song, in the early nineties.

She was never an artist I cared about. I just assumed she was a “teenybopper queen.”

The song clearly had one -maybe two- musicians in the background, playing a sampler, while she sang. Maybe she played the sampler.

I realized it probably cost almost nothing to record that song.

She didn’t have a regular band, and probably threw one together, when she toured.

I suspect that many artists do the same.
Is (3) doable with the abstractions over Git that Git{la,hu}b provide?