skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If the input text lacks context/nuance, then the model must have some bias to infer the user's intent. This holds true for any image it generates; not just the politically sensitive ones. For example, if I ask for a picture of a person, and don't get one with pink hair, is that a shortcoming of the model?

You're ignoring that these models are stochastic. If I ask for a nurse and always get an image of a woman in scrubs, then yes, the model exhibits bias. If I get a male nurse half the time, we can say the model is unbiased WRT gender, at least. The same logic applies to CEOs always being old white men, criminals always being Black men, and so on. Stochastic models can output results that when aggregated exhibit a distribution from which we can infer bias or the lack thereof.
I'm currently building a game like this and it's pretty close to finish.

The game is a Space Survival MMORPG that takes place far into the future, where human civilization is stranded in an O'Neill Cylinder in space. No one in the cylinder knows anymore how they got there and why they are there in the first place since so much time has passed. Technology has also been lost due to the very long time periods, so life and survival is tough in the cylinder.

However, the longer someone survives, the stronger and the more rare their character becomes. We expect only a few percent of players to survive for longer than a couple of weeks and only 1% for longer than a month. However, those that have survived for longer than a month are very strong characters that can usually lead and provide protection to a village of 50 to several hundred people.

The biggest danger to the player are other players, since the entire game is PvP. This means, you need to quickly band up with others to protect against other players. There are no guns in the game, since there is no technology in the cylinder, so it takes several minutes of beating someone up to to actually get their health to zero. There is also voice chat, so it's quite brutal.

Here is our teaser trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bg4GHUIXB8U and here is some pre-alpha gameplay footage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFHzg0R8sUo. We'll likely be able to go into early access in June on Steam, it would be great to get your feedback on it!
>>> Business logic flaws were rare, but when we found one they tended to be epically bad.

oh yes ...

I always bang on to my junior staff that their job was known as "analyst programmer" for a reason. The analyst part matters probably even more than the programmer part. In large companies just discovering what needs to be coded is 90% of the job, (the securely coding it in the constraints of the enterprise the other 90% while the final 90% is marketing your solution internally)

Anyway .. yes
Made to measure: why we can’t stop quantifying our lives
Because

if (..) c = 1 else c = 2;

will "obviously" map on to a branches whereas

c = .. ? 1 : 2;

"obviously" corresponds to a cmov. It's a natural mapping, if not necessarily correct mapping with more knowledge.
And a lot of parents have no idea what is good/right for their kids. What's your solution there?
Ah, yes, I’ve felt the pain of an unnecessary microservices migration. It ate time for years and the core was still a mess
He leveraged his own personal stock, not the company.
Alternative: sample random points on a r*r square, and refuse all the ones outside the distance of the radius. This can be generalized for any shape where we have a f(x,y) -> bool that tells us if a point is inside or outside our shape.
Interfaces do not solve Expression Problem. So not even having interface can guarantee success.

(Finding abstractions to solve given expression problem ain't easy too, but ultimately it may be better effort for library authors)
Though, it does have a useful lifespan which is more or less equivalent to wear in an economic sense.
There are definitely kids who like it and whose parents adopt a healthy attitude towards it as well. I think the problem lies more with the media as you say.
In his current book 'Still just a geek' he describes the actual experience in more detail. While listening to him reading his book I was torn between wanting to throw up and wanting to punch something.

The cuts on his sisters face in the movie? Actual real cuts. Administered by the crew. Just to summarize one example he describes.

It was heart wrenching.
I never specifically mentioned you, and I was referencing the rhetoric from our hyper-partisan anti-American "patriots" who fervently believe that the US is #1 in virtually everything.
I really can’t see the equivalency between a political stance (imo a movement for racial equality) and religion. The former mixes, often by necessity, with technical documents all the time. See GNU or the Apollo program.

> In the concrete case we're discussing here, only progressive tech companies signal their beliefs in this vulgar way, no conservative tech firm have ever put "Blue Lives Matter" or "Make America Great Again" on their technical docs, although there are tens of millions of people who believe just as sincerly as you that those causes represent worthy and moral goals. The reason sane well-adjusted people refrain from expressing politics and religion in workplaces is because of common sense social protocols and unspoken consensus, when you break those, you're deliberately asserting power and inviting challenge.

No, but many will willingly participate in the US military industrial complex, which causes significantly more actual harm. So I think we have different ideas regarding who can claim to be “sane”.

> 2- It's probably forced. Just like the vast majority of Chinese scientists or Muslim scientists would probably do the above hypothetical signalling out of fear (of being labelled a traitor and a heretic, respectively), the vast majority of people in progressive-dominated social bubbles probably virtue-signal out of fear, rather than any geniune conviction. It's morally disgusting to force people to express beliefs they don't actually hold, or hold in lesser intensity than being forced to express. It's tyranny 101, straight from 1984.

You say all this, but “probably” is doing a lot of work. This kind of banner is uncommon even among Silicon Valley companies. It’s not as if there would be outrage if it weren’t there, or if it disappeared.

Finally, these are all reasons why someone who doesn’t agree with BLM would feel excluded by the banner. My original question was why people outside of the US would feel excluded.
Do you feel that most people outside of the US view BLM negatively or indeed have an opinion at all? Enough that the banner can be said to exclude international audiences in general?
He's airing a lot of people's family grievances, though, not just his. You're hearing about his because he's the one with an audience.

I'm prepared to bet a bunch of people, some of whose comments you've just read, are gearing up to talk to their families about a similar experience they had, but they have no audience at all.
> and do not have the education, skill or time to learn about all the alternatives,

With respect, this is hacker news. When I converse with people
here I do so with a different expectation of intellect and curiosity.
There are voices here who excuse technological abuses by appeal to the
ignorance of "the masses" - completely missing that there is a
different spirit going on in the sub-text of innovation and
entrepreneurialism here. If, as you claim, the majority are using
defective technologies, then that is a bigger problem, not something
to be celebrated. They deserve better and it's our job to help them
get that.
That's true, the pull request diff viewer does not make viewing file renaming very clear and there could be conflicts.

On the other hand, what I see in practice is adding or removing context providers and layout components in the react router file, it becomes huge, and all the diffs change all of the lines with new indentation.
Finally! I've be searching for a Git game!! Thanks
I tried to use WSL but it didn’t quite work then like two months ago with the RubyMine 2021 edition. I am getting a full Linux client next week (same hardware), hopefully that should work better.
Tldr

prod.do.dsp.mp.microsoft.com
settings-win.data.microsoft.com
sls.update.microsoft.com
watson.telemetry.microsoft.com
ctldl.windowsupdate.com

These five domains/subdomains can block Windows Update
For me the answers is always be working on your value to whoever will pay your bills.
And secondly, be good at communicating that value. A lot of people have skills but making sure you stand out from the crowd is a skill in itself.

Someone will always pay for a highly effective person, but if you can't demonstrate why you are, you will be in trouble.
“Something he was good at as a child”

You can become good at anything with practice. The standards for a 7-year-old are very low, and the fact he became good at acting is probably because he was forced to do it so much.

I assume he'd rather have had a less traumatic childhood than be a millionaire.
> the sad part is that he hasn't found what he needs to forgive his parents.

Where do you draw the line beyond which you cannot forgive someone?
A criminal, in a gang, with access to the black market, might do that. It's still much more friction than simply going to a gun show or a state where there are no questions asked when you purchase a weapon.

A school-age kid very likely not.

Gun control isn't supposed to stop all criminals from getting guns, if there's a will, there's a way.

As Jim Jefferies puts pretty well: there's almost no reason to own a gun if you aren't a hunter except for that you like guns. That is ok on a personal freedom level but has pretty harsh consequences to a society when at scale...
> But parents almost always overstep their bounds to do what they think is best for their child.

Most people who believe this have grown up with either narcissistic parents, or just otherwise emotionally (not fiscally or materially, which neglected children often confuse misattribute as love and care) neglectful parents.

The narcissistic ones simply love to fill their children's heads about how self-sacrifical and hard parents they are, yada yada yada.

I strongly encourage anyone to read up on "good enough parenting" and narcissistic family dynamics, especially if you think you had an "overprotective" parent that couldn't respect boundaries.

Edit: here's some links to encourage research:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_enough_parent

https://narcissistfamilyfiles.com/2020/03/15/12-unspoken-rul...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissistic_parent

Aside: there's growing research that supports narcissism (especially intergenerational narcissism) and narcissistic abuse has been on the increase, and that roughly 1 in 5 people have suffered from narcissistic abuse at least once in their life (check out Ramani Durvasula's book or literally pick any literature or research on narcissism)
I know one of those "successful" kids who actually became a wealthy Radiologist.

In the end it's a "ignorance is a bliss". He's missing a significant part of his childhood. He did try to come up with a replacement for a few months during his studies but realised that he was simulating and overdoing it.

I've never seen him "let go" if you understand what I mean. I'd never tell him but seeing that is quite scary and I wouldn't want to exchange my freedom as a kid for all his money.

Also he's married to a person similar to him. They don't have kids.

They are a very boring couple but they try and we try to drag them along sometimes.
There are some good open source options like https://getzero.dev/
I've personally chosen to ignore those posts. I say this as a guy who only got into programming when I was 20-21 years of age, and even though at the beginning I felt like an impostor, 20 years after the fact I can say that it was all for the better that my teenager years were spent on stuff that was not related to programming, it gave me (and it still gives me) a much broader perspective on the world.
Conways law.

The teams and management structure will immediately become a technical debt.

If we let the product ”decide” where boundaries actually exist and team up accordingly there’s a chance to scale and maintain a bit of velocity.

It requires constant introspection, monitoring and scrutiny though. Something I’m constantly thinking about is how to scale that beyond 20-25 developers.
Gitlab have a nice section[0] in their handbook on releases and flow of small bits and pieces, and internalizing something like that together with clear domain boundaries could be a ticket.

Basically - never try to resource optimize, always figure out what good flow looks like and find ways to keep it flowing.

[0]https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/#freedom-to-iterate
For starters, you need to remember whether you're switching to a different application (cmd-tab), or a different window of the same application (cmd-` ???).

It's annoying, but it totally goes to shit when you start using multiple spaces/desktops. Now cmd-tab sometimes switches to applications that aren't even open on your desktop (or sometimes it switches to other desktops). Just a total disaster of an interface.

On top of this, fullscreened windows go to some ephemeral desktop/space, which confuses the heck out of new users. I cannot believe that the Mac interface is considered "clean" or "well thought out."
> Comparing with the "peers" you see fit is just as much cherrypicking as comparing with other European countries.

I disagree. If you imagine almost any variable - wealth, education, weather, socialization patterns -, Sweden is vastly more different from Italy than from Finland. Any sensible analysis has to take into account what a valid comparison really is.
I knew a kid whose parents forced him to learn the violin. It was a social status thing, doubtless wrapped up in "it's good for you and you'll thank us" but it really was about them and jacking up their social standing a bit, and he didn't get a choice of instrument because violin had more social cachet so he got a violin and violin lessons. He totally hated it. This was in the UK some decades ago.
This goes with doing the first 90% of the work, then the second 90% of the work then the last 90% of the work.

And engineers multiplying their initial estimate by 3, the project manager then multiplying that by 3 and rounding it up to be ten times more than the initial estimate.
> but it often doesn't fail. Is it wrong that a child was forced into something that gave them a great life?

I've seen it fail more often than not fail. Maybe from the outside the person has a great life but on the inside they're not actually happy.

> It just feels weird hearing a millionaire, rather successful, badmouth his parents and throw a pity party because they made him do something he was good at as a child. The vast majority of people would likely trade their position for his, childhood be damned.

I'm not that sure. What good does it make to be millionaire if you're deeply unhappy? Of course, if someone is starving right now they might want to swap places, or if they're unhappy already they might as well be unhappy with more money. But I don't think that state is something people really want.
I make my kids do sports, but let them try out different ones until they find one they like.

As a parent I had all these ideas for them - socially it can be good to be in a team sport, it's nice to have something that you're good at that you can also still do as an adult, if you move cities later its a way to meet people there so do something a lot of people do in an organized way... But we'll see what they end up with. The oldest is into (inline) skating.
I had missed this - so hat tip to kenkantzer, adding it to the HN spaces repetition queue
I'm trying Windows 11 and Visual Studio 2022 using a free evaluation virtual machine from Microsoft:

https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/virt...
Ohh, that hit a nerve apparently.
I think the network effects are on the vendor side. As a vendor you integrate with the one-click checkout company that has the largest user base, because that'll have the most coverage for your customers.
How is meditation the same? Specifically guided meditation?
Why the mean comment? It's as nice as bit-indexing code can look. If you have to reverse the ordering of one of the indices it looks worse.
I am going to guess they were going to be installed as replacements for existing units. I believe the GP comment was taking issue with them being considered "obsolete".
> This vulnerability doesn’t break the anonymity and encryption of Tor connections.

> The Safest security level of Tor Browser is not affected because JavaScript is disabled at this security level.

> For example, after you visit a malicious website, an attacker controlling this website might access the password or other sensitive information that you send to other websites afterwards during the same Tails session.

This makes it relatively tame.
It is comically easy to modify or manufacture magazines. A lot of 10 round magazines are just standard mags with a spacer. I used to live in California. Every time I went shooting in Nevada, I'd remove the spacers, turning my 10 round magazines into 50 round mags, then change them back before I returned.

If you look at photos of confiscated guns in California, very few have 10 round magazines. Scrolling through SFPD's twitter, I can only find photos of illegal guns with illegal magazines.[1][2][3] The second photo is of a Polymer80, which is a pistol you can make at home using a dremel and a hand drill. They're compatible with Glock parts and quite reliable.

These laws do nothing to reduce violent crime. The main effect is to annoy law-abiding gun owners. When I moved out of California, it took me maybe 30 minutes to undo all the CA-specific modifications on my guns.

1. https://twitter.com/SFPD/status/1511846273644589058

2. https://twitter.com/SFPD/status/1509268939292872707

3. https://twitter.com/SFPD/status/1506372044492972035
Spent: A game on real financial survival
Would he rather have grown up in Eastern KY with a free childhood, but the only real job prospect being coal mining?

I mean, ideally we all want wealthy parents who give us unlimited time and support and freedom, to pick a job we love doing and get paid well, etc. But it's just not reality for 99% of people.
Yes it is that simple. Denying there is a link between shooting and gun laws is he problem. It's that simple.
11 months too late, the government acts. It's almost like they're grasping for anything to distract from their policy failures and scandals in basically every other policy area...
> Gun owners consistently misrepresent and come up with inconsistent interpretations of any gun control. The bar is never high enough, the logic never sound enough. The "broad infringements" proposed are never, and will never be, good enough. I find your statement to be a bit disingenuous in that regard.

Gun control advocates consistently fail to understand the things they are attempting to regulate, and fail to provide rational justifications for how their restrictions would actually promote public safety.
While amusing, responding in this way seems overly antagonistic/escalatory. i.e. the behaviour of a poor citizen of the web.

It also would be likely to result in an increased number of requests?

Drew's actions so far (as far as I can tell) are not only inoffensive/reasonable but overtly good-willed and presumably result from a considerable amount of effort.
For more methods to uniformly generate points on an n-dimensional sphere and inside an n-dimensional ball: http://extremelearning.com.au/how-to-generate-uniformly-rand...

I quite like the normalized Gaussian method.
> Is it wrong that a child was forced into something that gave them a great life?

There's a difference between encouragement and support and forcing. Forcing is never good or healthy. It's always abuse, no matter the mental gymnastics involved we use self-rationalise traumatic childhoods.

It's no different from me forcong you right now to do something. Parents don't own their children. They can buy a doll if they want a doll.

Edit: also "great" mean little in this context, as it means different things to different people.
I quite like Paypal.

I often use it as Paypal accepts Amex when a merchant may not. Works well and I've never had an issue.
Something doesn't have to have original ideas to be good. Stranger Things is specifically great at being unoriginal. The show is brilliantly shot, well paced, engrossing and thrilling and the (child) actors were amazing. Just the 80s feeling it evokes is something I've not and I think the industry has not experienced at that scale in decades.

You put it exactly right that it's the celebrity that's the problem. I'm not sure if your proposed solution is it though. Remember what Star Wars "fans" did to those the prequel actors. Those people weren't reading any gossip magazines, they were doing it on forums and gatherings, if it had existed they would do it on Twitter. How could we have protected the kids that played Anakin?
The article says his mom actively denies forcing him to be a child star and does not acknowledge his abuse. Somebody who does not acknowledge their wrongdoings does not deserve forgiveness.

If his parents did not force him to become famous, he would not need to write this blog post...
As I do contract work on Upwork, I feel personally attacked.

So all contractors that are not on that platform are 10x developers?/s

Sweeping generalizations are always easy to make, but if talent assessment would be easy nobody would have problem hiring, in general, and that's not what I'm seeing.
You can change career later in life, but you can't get back a happy childhood you never had.
>Not knowing anything about this

Correct

>do deep sea animals have the ability to perceive light

They do
At the very least we should expect that the results not be more biased than reality. Not all criminals are Black. Not all are men. Not all are poor. If the model (which is stochastic) only outputs poor Black men, rather than a distribution that is closer to reality, it is exhibiting bias and it is fair to ask why the data it picked that bias up from is not reflective of reality.
I think there's a difference between trying to show your kid something you think they might find interesting, and pushing them into it.
I remember coming across this one a long time ago. Could this be it?

https://neil.fraser.name/software/img2html/