skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah what could go wrong when technocrats try to completely remove subjectivity from the world and optimize everyone's life and work towards some completely arbitrary measure so that my shitty things can get delivered 0.002 seconds faster.

I'm not sure if you've ever had a job where you worked to specific metrics exclusively, but it make's everyone's life worse and it makes the product/service worse.
Put another way, the mainframeization of computing is nearly inescapable. We no longer have personal computing, even when we run our apps & game clients locally.
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> "I reviewed a bunch of PRs yesterday" sounds bad in standup

The real problem is here. Code review must be a first class citizen of your team culture to be successful. It is the responsibility of management/scrum master/etc to foster and if necessary enforce the culture
Twitter tells Musk his “purported termination” of merger deal is invalid
The best metric is the end of year bonus, tided to yearly total company financial results, but that only gets measured once per year. I can measure many things on every transaction, but how they in total work out to my end of year bonus and paycheck are much harder to see.

Of course if my bonus is some small KPI I can optimize that at the expense of overall performance.
If they pointed JWST somewhere for weeks instead of hours, would it pick up even more objects, or is it hitting the limit to what exists in that part of space?
You're both right: for >=20 redundancies, it is merely something the employee can take up at tribunal.

For >=100 redundancies, notice to the Secretary of State is required and not giving notice is a criminal offence, by both the company, and also any officer/director/similar who is involved in not giving notice: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1992/52/section/194

A level five fine on the standard scale is (since 2015) technically unlimited, so it's not a toothless law. Not sure if anyone has even been prosecuted though.
These are just the initial "pretty pictures" processed to look nice and promoted as part of NASA's ongoing fundraising. The more valuable science payload is in the spectral data which will tell us about the composition of these objects. Another exciting aspect of of JWST is the IR instrument (NIRCAM) which can see red shifted wavelengths revealing much older objects from the early universe.

To me, the real 'shock and awe' will be when scientific papers are published which reveal new knowledge and deeper understanding of our universe. This will take some time although I'm sure the first papers are already racing toward pre-print.
I wasn't claiming to be the authority on what's "appropriation." I was pointing out that the poster--who admitted he didn't read the article past the subheadline[1]--doesn't seem to understand how people use the term "appropriation."

That said, since you asked, no, it's never occurred to me that jazz is appropriation.

[1] Amusingly, the folks who admit to not actually, you know, reading the thing they are debating, are the ones who claim to be defending the free exchange of ideas. I think. Or maybe they're just angry online.
This is really awesome. Thank you!
I think you've answered your own question there, it's just PR images touched up by the media team without regard for anything. If there's any science being done it'll be done by matlab scripts using raw data as input.
> Nobody reviews it for days because everyone is busy working on their own stuff.

Just ask people nicely. If they do your review promptly and objectively, ask again.

> You end up in an endless back and forth with one or more reviewers (e.g. push-review-fix-push-review-fix-push-review...).

The fault is clearly theirs in this case. They're being obsessive and not showing respect for your time. In any case, if it's one person doing this, you can ask them to pre-review your solution with them before you start implementing it.
Ask HN: Cold calling service selling to lawyers?
I know there are these services to do b2b sales by telephone (i.e. cold calling). Are there services like this that specialize in the legal industry and selling to lawyers?

the goal would be to gauge interest and set up a call once the lawyer has expressed interest initially.
Humans cannot see infrared light
In most of companies I worked for, backend had a more mature and robust testing approach than frontend. It also had a fair bit less churn or experiments which vastly increased complexity for the frontends.
This is a great way to show all the new distant details. Amazing to think that so many of the artifacts in Hubble's total darkness are galaxies upon galaxies.
Right now yes. Who knows what will come but it'll probably be annoying.
? That's my point, as this is China already, and Russia is not far behind.
> It was a minuscule problem even before SB and even today still is without SB.

This is just a cheap way to handwave the problem away without even providing any reasoning whatsoever.

It wouldn't be this minuscule if that attack venue wouldn't have been made so much less worthwhile. We have real life examples of these types of attacks, how are you seriously trying to claim that it wouldn't have gotten widespread? In what universe would malware makers agree not to abuse something so high-reward if allowed?

> For most people who are exploited up to the point were malware _can write directly to the boot hard disk_, "boot chain safety" is at that point the least of the user's problems.

It's not that absolute. It's certainly bad when things have gotten that far, but it doesn't mean it isn't a good idea to protect against deeper infection. "Oh they got infected, let's just abandon it all" is just so overly reductionist and is really of no substance.

> The only scenarios were boot chain integrity would apply are evil maid scenarios where the attacker can write to the boot disk externally

Blatantly false.

> This is a just cheap criticism without even providing any reasoning whatsoever.

It's not a criticism even, it's an astute observation.

> Most if not all Linux distros do their own CA already. They sign packages, after all.

That's an even worse look for them, then, bunch of those distributions not shipping at least a signed shim (MOK enrollment excluded for now) and a signed installer.

For now I'll also skip over the fact that your average distro's package signing is way below the standards a trusted commercial CA has to follow.
> What's more lethal; dying in a week because you didn't organize with the people who are left, or dying in a decade because of radiation poisoning?

IIRC, the radiation levels that soon after a nuclear war could be in the "dying within a week" range (depending on the local fallout conditions). Obviously if you have no water, you have no good options and have to move, but it seems like bad advice to say "move after 24 hours unless told not to." If you've got water (and food), you probably should stay put for longer, unless you know it's safe or you're in a totally unsuitable structure.

If you're in a house with a basement, you probably have enough water for some time (in the water heater), and food isn't as pressing of a concern.
https://twitter.com/zhusu/status/1546801270014758912
I have the latest iPhone 13 Pro Max, shoot RAW and with acoustic filters mounted on my phone and what not. Both my photos and iPhone photos that I’ve seen at “iPhone photography” art exhibits are clearly lower quality.

Now one could argue about whether the tiny censors on smartphones in of itself is just another dimension of artistic expression.

But my personal aesthetic preference as a hobbyist photographer and art consumer is that unintentional censor noise is not good.
> It doesn't "learn" like a person learns.

Well it's not called person-learning-machine is it? Why would something have to learn "like a person" to be able to use the word "learn", those two concepts are not attached one to the other. If they were, saying "learn like a person" would be a pleonasm, yet it isn't.
IMHO "learning" is a fine term, it conveys the idea of what is happening effectively and quickly.

Also, we don't know how a person learns anyway, it might very well be a similar process, just way more efficient and complex.

> Evolutionary algorithms

How would you propose calling them? You have a generation of agents, each with their own specificities, and from the agents most successful to accomplish the task at hand, we derive a new generation, slightly modified from their parent's.

It seems to me "evolution" is again the most suitable and efficient way of describing what is happening.

While I agree that there is definitely too much anthropomorphizing surrounding AI, I feel you are going way too far in the opposite direction. Not every word that can be composed with natural process/humans should be banned from being used anywhere else.
Prenups aren’t just for rich people anymore
>courageous

Yes I'm certain the folks at Uber were feeling the pressure every day at their Bay Area office with its foosball tables.

Good grief.
People have rights because they are citizens*.
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I am aware.

(And have been eagerly waiting for this moment for ages)

It just seems “unscientific” to just use Photoshop and above all curious about the set of rules and algorithms, that enables them to decide which hue to pick for which region, levels, etc.
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Already answered in sibling: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32072067
We don’t even have to zoom in on Europe. In the US, it’s quite common for folks to expect public services (like public transit or even the USPS) to be profitable. Which means these services don’t get the investment they really need.
Hubbles pictures were probably new to you, so in a sense this is "just" an iteration.
I think you just had the perspective/expectation that this will be new as well. Maybe a bit much for the very first public results of a scientific experiment.
The funniest like that, IMO, was "Jolene" - 2-4 added basically no info to what was obvious in 1, then 5 was "JOLENE JOLENE JOLENE"
I lost track of it since the Reason/ReScript split.
What is your concrete evidence that this is what drives the excess police shooting rates in the US?
I would have really dug this when I was in college and considered myself far left, but now I don’t believe it makes any sense: the reason Uber has succeeded is that there are people who voluntarily use it to make money by driving and people who voluntarily use it for their transportation. It therefor fulfills both the desires of many drivers and passengers who see it as their best choice. Regulation may be great for the few licensed taxi drivers, but for everyone else it decreases availability and increases price.
Unfortunately the NASA stream online was a disaster. Choppy video and it seemed like nobody had prepared anything. Also 720p in 2022...

Don't get me wrong, the images are amazing, but when small startups like Rocket Lab can have uninterrupted streams all the way to the orbit, but NASA stream from a studio looks more amateurish than your average 13-year-old Fortnite player on Twitch, it leaves a pretty bad impression.
In theory that would be great, but video is in general much larger than audio. There would be no way for many channels to even get started, given the costs involved. I expect most people getting started on YouTube would be driven out of business simply by the bandwidth costs alone.
That's just trading one master for another. It'd degrade to be similarly bad. A podcast-like model would provide a lot more freedom—host anywhere, promote anywhere, with clients, not monopolist web platforms, controlling "subscriptions" and such.
Yeah, numerous Communist regimes have/had either "People's" or "Democratic" (or in the case of North Korea, both) in their names. Normally when the Communist regime fell, this was removed,but the main part of the name preserved.
> "You're doing it, but in some subtle but very important way that's not at all obvious to you, you're doing it wrong."

Doesn't that exact statement describe how Agile (or many other concepts, really) is used in a lot of companies? There's nothing wrong with it in principle, but practice is all over the place.
The bigger story of course is that phones came along and ate everyone's lunch. I don't know a single person who desires to lug around a body and lens, no matter how compact, anymore. (Have you seen what the top-of-the-line iPhone can do? It's amazing.) I say this as someone who used to own five figures worth of Canon glass. The whole industry feels like it is dying to me. The professional segment will always be there but the consumer and, increasingly, "prosumer" markets are history.
We just need to fine copyright holders who abuse the system. Currently they are free to file as many false DMCA notices as they want, with zero drawbacks or consequences or costs for the filer and the burgen of proof on their victims.

If every false DMCA notice resulted in a fine for copyright holder, or even better, filing X false DMCA notices resulted in a copyright holder's ban from filing more DMCA notices, then I think the problem would resolve itself in short order.
I think that'll depend how much you read.

If you look only at the picture, it's gonna be hard to tell versus, say, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_Deep_Field#/media/File:... for the deep-field shot or https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2007/16/2099-Im... for the Carina Nebula shot.

If you read the details, the fact that JWST can resolve much dimmer light sources much more quickly than Hubble ever had a hope of should be fairly compelling from a "how much science can we do?" standpoint.
Well, there is luajit at least (the GC isn't very performant, but people who care about this sidestep it). Maybe Chez or Gambit scheme as well.
I tell guests its a long, complex password (it is, and it is on a separate VLAN where all my IoT resides, too). I then ask them to hand over their device so I can enter the password. There's a trust thing going on there, but this is deliberate as the trust goes both ways (my internet connection). If they don't trust me to fill in my password on their device (they may of course watch me do it), I wouldn't want them on my network. That never happened but I don't run a bnb.
Downloading these Tartufo merino leather seats for free.
One of my favourite concepts from Douglas Adams was the Total Perspective Vortex, a form of punishment that would drive the victim insane by showing them the entire totality of existence and their place in it.
A quick check with Uncle Google tells me that games are non-transferable as they are bound to your account. So I suppose if in your legal will you wanted to designate someone as a benefactor (lol) then that's your prerogative.

That said, if you're asking that kind of question, I just assume you're trolling but then I thought about it and realized it was an earnest inquiry.
The difference between 'actual science' and 'some touched up version of objects in our universe' is smaller than you might think: no matter how good your eyes, if there was no frequency shift involved you would not be able to perceive the image, other than as an array of numbers. To facilitate your consumption of the data it has to be frequency shifted and the easiest way to do this is to map the IR intensity to a range of colors that are graded the same way we grade false color images from other sources: higher intensities get brighter colors and lower intensities darker colors. Because not all of these are equally pleasing to the eye and/or enlightening Photoshop is actually a pretty good choice because it allows for dynamic experimentation what brings out the various details in the best way.

If you would rather stare at an array of numbers or a non colorized version (black-and-white) it would be much harder to make out the various features.

So think of it as a visual aid, rather than an arts project or a way to falsify the data: the colorization is part of the science, specifically: how to present the data best.
Ride Now in Spain is where its at. Very cheap, easy, friendly. Reliable cabs in a few mins or less.
I think the only letter the legal team expects through google-legal-support@google.com is a notice of sueing them. I really don't have the power to sue them in a US court.

Do people have success when they notify (not sue) the legal team about Google acting against their Terms of Service?
Developers should just use Unicode CLDR data.

https://cldr.unicode.org/

https://unicode-org.github.io/cldr-staging/charts/latest/sum...
The idea that this looks the same to the average person is insane to me. What aspect of these two photos looks the same?
Even more handy when you're using enterprise auth and just add a user for each guest (that's were I'm eventually going, but first the self hosted stuff gets SSO).

A made-up word also works well and even thwarts a dictionary attack (which is a real issue).
with jailbreaking they'll just void the warranty. I wouldn't be surprised if that clause is already buried somewhere in the purchase agreement.
First off, Uber existing and me choosing not to work for them isn’t the same thing as uber NOT existing. They’re taking up space, driving labor markets, altering our basic perception of what work is. They’re not some garage startup providing another option - they’re
leveraging billions and billions of dollars of capital and shaping the world around them.

Second, the logic you just used could easily justify feudal serfdom. Does the existence of the choice to become a serf make the lord immoral? If your line of reasoning can be used to justify modes of living that we all agree are bad, perhaps it’s a flawed line of reasoning?
It appears to be an attack specifically on the retpoline approach the Linux used to prevent the original specter attacks. Given it appears that Linux is the only OS that took that approach they’re the only one vulnerable? (The article explicitly calls out Linus ignoring warnings about this possibility)
I’m not sure if they’re missing. Zhu Su reinstated his Twitter account and tweeted 6 hours ago

https://twitter.com/zhusu/status/1546801270014758912?s=21&t=...
NPM CLI bug: NPM install should not modify yarn.lock
I’m confused.. why would we expect some other image processing software to be better than Photoshop - a software package which has been the top of its class for ~30 years?
I remember reading something in the lines of: we know this nebula to be composed of gasses X and Y, which have colors A and B. As a layman it was unclear to me if this statement means they are applying a color palette to a monochrome image(s) using some educated guesses or something else.

Is infrared the only (or the most convenient, most useful etc) spectrum visible given the great distance? If we could get close enough, I suppose we would see things in clearer visible light. Without any enhancements, long exposures etc, would they be anywhere as colorful as the nebula images? Would they be visible to us at all, or are the emissions too weak even up close to make any impression to our eyes?
That only applies if you’re running a taxi – a transport service (not actually a taxi) can be run by anyone with a Personenbeförderungsschein (just a special driving license) and proper insurance.

There’s a lot of competition on the German market for taxi-alternatives, many of which started long before Uber (and are often cheaper as well).
ok,ok, but IS IT POSSIBLE TO RUN DOOM INSIDE DOOM INSIDE DOOM INSIDE DOOM...???
When I was observing the 2017 total solar eclipse, my attention was interrupted for a few seconds by someone who was driving a car. Their headlights turned on as they kept driving, not stopping for a minute to see something that for a given place on earth happens once every four centuries. The few people dismissing this reminded me of that experience.
You can fruit in bag, but most people do "shoebox tek" where you mix the grains with coco coir in and fruit in plastic tubs.
So not Uber propaganda, but ... Belgium Uber-ing out an F-16 to a Russian oligarch (Kerimov) is ok?

While Belgian road traffic victims lay on the road, the ambulances and dispatching services colluded to assign more distant ambulances for maximizing the per km driven profits. That's not a victimless crime: lives, limbs (think infections) and livelihoods (both of the victims and the typical scapegoats who shall carry all the blame, round down all liabilities and round the remaining liability up). Hurray for "socialism", money must roll.
Thanks for the direct links!

> Webb's First Deep Field (NIRCam Image)

Is this image distorted in any way at all? It feels like the galaxies are somehow oriented around a center spot. Not all of them, but enough to give the image a distorted feeling. Probably it's just my mind pattern matching against something that doesn't really exist.
There are a couple of other sentences as well that stood out to me.
The overall apologetic tone, language, and phrases used in the email have some subtleties that are hard to imagine being used by a native Indian speaker, or by someone raised in India. It starts making more sense if you re-read it applying a western lens, i.e., how a westerner would imagine an Indian scammer to write, without being exposed to the nuances you find in regular Indian communication. What I'm trying to say is that if you're a native speaker of any Indian language, it is not difficult to see if a sentence originated by "thinking" in English vs in the native language:

"no other choice"

"the fact is"

"no other way to survive"

"we are begging you"

Here's the full text of the spammer's email:

> Hello. Unfortunately, negative feedback about your establishment has been left by us. And will appear in the future, one review a day. We sincerely apologize for our actions, and would not want to harm your business, but we have no other choice. The fact is that we live in India and see no other way to survive.
We are begging you to send us google play gift card worth $75
You can buy the card directly from PayPal
paypal.com/us/gifts/brands/google-play
Or in any store selling gift cards
We hope that this amount will not be critical for you.
After selling this gift card we can earn approximately $50, which is three weeks of income for one family
Please send the code to the email address vict2665@proton.me and we will immediately stop leaving negative feedback and remove the existing ones.

Once again, we apologize.
You'd think that this is something that would have be done before announcing the decommissioning in 18 months.
It's almost like they use a dedicated focus/beta testing group or something, instead of making all their users join in.
You might be able to see some additional fainter objects, but the deep field shot is looking at 13 billion year old galaxies - some of the first in existence. There's not much older you can look at.
To be fair, it’s mostly not just drum tracks. That’s a bit of an exception.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_quotient#General_...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G_factor_(psychometrics)