skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's my assumption to, but I'm never entirely certain that's what they mean.
I've only seen this thing https://huggingface.co/spaces/dalle-mini/dalle-mini

is it not dall-e?
This implies that top-level players aren't trying for a win.
100 years ago there were no single moms. Unmarried births have increased from 19% in 1950 to 72% in 2010 for Africa-American women: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/files/2014/12/e...

Largely due to the expansion of the welfare state which encourages single motherhood.
Perhaps if you have the « choice » for public transit.

What we saw in toronto for example during Covid is that ridership dropped in higher income neighborhood (especially the ones that have access to the subway). The highest ridership lines were bus routes in low income neighbourhood, where people still had to go to work as some type of essential workers and did not have a car.

Let’s not make a blanket statement that transit is for the rich, the reality is that the rich takes it when it gets good enough but they always have other choices. Some people just don’t have that choice and transit is their only way to go to work, that’s why it’s essential to the economy.
exactly.. where is the chocolate chip cheesecake?
Yes, it was. But they'd be very happy for you to forget that.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/31/health/pfizer-vaccine-adolesc...

https://www.webmd.com/vaccines/covid-19-vaccine/news/2021112...

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/25/covid-vaccine-moderna-says-s...
So can we now legally remove the "color blocks" watermark or not?

What about generating NFTs? It was explicitly prohibited during the previous period, now there is no notion of it. Without notion and rights for commercial use I think it's allowed but because it was an explicitly forbidden use case before, I want to be sure whether it can be used or not.

Regardless, excited to see what possibilities it opens.
Yep, I think people are just trying to be edgy or whatever. Teams is also a huge success at 270 MAU. It's clunky but it works every single time. Sure sometimes it feels like it's using a lot of resources for whatever reason but that's about the only complaint I have.

I think it especially works well when you exclude it from Windows Defender, I reckon most people having issues don't actually make a reasonable thought/config change before they get a knee jerk reaction to something.
Right, and in my situations, if the crisis that demanded I be brought in was solved, it was assumed/expected I'd be taking those hours out of my normal work hours. So maybe leaving early one day, or an entire day depending on the severity. On call hours were treated as a multiple vs one to one.

Seemed pretty sane/rational to me that I never minded being on-call. There were the occassion where I was not immediately available, but I notified everyone when I would be and got to work when I said I would.

I can see where this is ripe for abuse by either side, so I'm not trying to brush off those that are getting abused by it.
I'm not trying to minimize the problems other people have had with withdrawal at all, just saying that it's possible to have a variety of different outcomes being on and off of them.
Large amounts of Mosfilm output was available on Youtube, although I think Russian cinema may be an unpopular choice at the moment.

A surprising amount of pre-90s film is randomly available on youtube; sometimes with odd choices about dubbing and subtitles.
> Here's what we, a small number of people, think the world should look like according to our own biases and information bubble in the current moment.

You're being quite charitable. It is much more likely that optics and virtue signaling is behind this addition.
If Apple gets defeated with trillion dollars of budgets and full controls on OS and its ecosystem, it may deserve its failure like IE6.
Yes I read the book decades ago and it was indeed excellent. IIRC, the technical details are probably too light for the HN crowd, but it was the biographical stories that had interested me.

For an even shorter, and lighter, read on checkers engine, I recommend Blondie24[0].

[0] https://www.amazon.com/dp/1558607838
Industrial Reorganization Act (1973)
My father frequently told me the story of mass transit in Detroit. He was a fan of the interurbans which were street cars that travelled between cities, some of them fifty miles from Detroit. Cars and later freeways totally killed off the interurbans. In fact freeways killed off passenger trains as well.

But streetcars still thrived in Detroit. You could get anywhere with them and even in the car capital of the world people went without them. But then in a flash they were gone. My father was a life long believer in the so called conspiracy.

He was regarded as a conspiracy theorist. As a kid I wished he'd just stop talking about it. But then as a young adult the proof started coming out that maybe he was right all along. But now with a big media push it's going the other way. I know one thing in Michigan the politicians go along with whatever GM wants, always.

Michigan has some of the worst roads in America while at the same time having the largest gas taxes. Yet when billions of dollars became available as a result of COVID what did the governor do who ran on the slogan, 'fix the damn roads'? She gave the money to GM for battery plants! This Wikipedia page just looks like more spin to me.
You're right - unions don't do that. They could be incorrectly perceived as doing that though, which is the comparison I'm making to "Americans love feeling like they're about to be rich". That's very clearly not how Americans feel and framing it that way is pure propaganda, as you put it.
How does your comment differ from my comment?
> It will be worse for me, a long time customer, at the benefit of you, possibly not even a customer?

It wouldn't necessarily make things worse for you though.
Yeah those headphones are great, but they are not true wireless.
Really hope I get an invite for MidJourney soon. Been on the waitlist since March :(
Ask HN: Is UK citizenship worth it after Brexit for software consulting?
I have been living and working at a FAANG in UK for past 2+ years now. I came on the now Global Talent visa, so in next 2 years I can become a UK citizen.

I am also closing in on my retirement/FU corpus, but I don't intend to stop working.

I am pondering if it's worth becoming a UK Citizen after Brexit if I want to do software consulting.
Will the UK passport/citizenship help? My primary market targets will be UK, US and Europe, so Visa Waiver Program and short term EU visits should allow me to do business visits for contract negotiation etc.

I would prefer to work in UK for 6 months - 8 months of the year and be outside of UK in the winter :-).

UK citizens (naturalised or otherwise), any inputs? Is this a good or a flawed idea? I hold an Indian passport.

I don't want to worry about maintaining the ILR status, and anyways after ILR, it's just 1 year to get the British passport.

edit: notes on ILR
>I think it makes a lot of sense to analyze chronic problems in the brain through the chemical lens.

Thats the basically the point I am taking issue with. Myopic focus on chemistry can be terribly misleading. There will always be a chemical component because we are beings made up of chemical components.

a chemical imbalance is by definition always going to be part of the problem. That does not mean it is always the best point of intervention, and certainly not the exclusive focus when trying to understand the problem.
Also, Senate hearings on: https://archive.org/details/industrialreorga06unit
Actually, "software application stores" are explicitly mentioned in the relevant Article 6(4) (https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/PE-17-2022-INI... page 129).
Thank you -- this is a more concise version of my thoughts. If your house goes up in value, you just earned likely hundreds of thousands of dollars in the resulting windfall when you sell. Why on earth should I feel bad for you? I understand that communities change when this sort of thing happens, but pushing out the retired couple living in a multi-bedroom apartment for a small family is a healthier thing for the community. You don't want to freeze communities in time, they need to grow and evolve.
How to update Gatsby dependencies through major version upgrades
It'll be interested to see if electrically-assisted Perpendicular Magnetic Recording (ePMR) has a noticable energy cost or not.

Notably this is also the to market release. Drives like tbis probably have been shipping for a bit, to very select customers. Maybe.
As a groomsman, yes, you are there to work. You are an attendant to the groom (and often also the bride and her bridesmaids to a lesser extent). You will also assist other contractors and members of the wedding party.
Just put some good tires on your road bike and you wont deal with flats. I have used gatorskins which have always been indestructable, tubes last for years and are only replaced when I put new tires on the bike. I'm moving to the continental gp5k for the next set because apparently the puncture resistance is good enough these days in those more standard road bike tires. Unless you manage to hit an upright nail you shouldn't worry too much.
The obvious analysis from this article is that at the margin (i.e. what actually drives decisions) is that none of these incentives are going to be enough to materially influence a decision to relocate or even to relocate to a specific jurisdiction (vs another with a lesser/differing incentive). One inconvenient fact about these high paid tech workers is that they're highly paid - that means the value of each dollar to them is relatively less. If you're already making 200k a year, adding another 12k in benefits is much less significant than if you're making 80k. This is especially true when you consider the certain costs of relocation (Geo-based pay cut, moving costs) as well as the probabilistic ones (less career growth, fewer potential future employers).

So I guess the conclusion is that these policies are actually not very good since they're almost certainly not the main driver of relocation. In the case of Tulsa it looks like it's being funded by a private foundation but in other jurisdictions this amounts to local taxpayers paying newcomers money to do something they were already going to do.
The big thing this is going to miss between 2018 and now is that flakes have greatly increased presence.

The small things are:

- nix-direnv[1] is much more powerful and stable, with or without flakes

- devshell[2] exists and is reasonably mature for those who want to give this to a team without teaching them (most) nix

Still, apart from those, this is still a good intro.

[1] https://github.com/nix-community/nix-direnv

[2] https://github.com/numtide/devshell
also webapp means us android plebs can use it. kinda sick of apple getting priority and better apps tbh.
I got the shipping notification from FedEx today coming from Hong Kong. I just hope Swiss customs won't be a pain.
i had an 85 Honda CRX SI. cost me $12500. Got 45m/g. Lasted 250,000m, and still ran fine, but traded it in. I can't afford a Honda today.
7. If you are on-call during a holiday, you get an extra vacation day.

This is impoprtant because if you are on-call, you are working, and if it is during a holiday, then that is one less holiday for you.

This could actually be pretty good too. People would be much more willing to cover for others on holidays
>AlphaZero on autoplay

While Alpha Zero is good, this is not very good proof. Alpha Zero is not perfect, so if there are tiny ways to win that Alpha Zero misses, it will miss it on both sides (being the same engine), so would never explore that path.

It's like claiming inbreeding will result in perfection :)
http://dailywrong.com/new-course-teaches-guinea-pigs-househo...

lol
Are there any analysis techniques that can easily distinguish between these and real photographs? Do simple things like edge detections or histograms reveal any anomalies?
I believe there is built in stemming in this search.

I searched the key word "commit" and some results were returned with the word "committed"

My guess is this guy just set up a simple DB query on the search form and left it at that.

That's what I've done in the past for simple text search.

I know that at least mongodb comes with built in full text search and stemming.

What he really should do is set up elastic search but that's a big pita to learn all that
Do they get 117% higher valuations too?
Threads about real estate are invariably overrun by clueless 20-somethings who think 'muh zoning' will let them afford property in the [elite metropolitan neighborhood]. Statistically none of you will be able to afford a home here; my advice is to leave while the leaving's good.

Especially if you were lured here by some VC who sold you a metric ton of variance and went to the bank with the drift. But hey, they're on your side with the whole zoning thing.

When you strip away the politics and bogus economics, house pricing is just the adult version of lunch table drama. That drama is actually a microcosm -- everyone in the cafeteria was selected at the real estate level.

You may have been raised to think you could be elite, but only a small minority can be. And if you're downvoting comments because they imply you're not...

It is cruel, but changing it would require far more drastic measures than proposed here.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32170042
If tax policy is not designed with these considerations in mind, then it will incentivize an improper mix and deteriorate the livability of the city. For instance, where I live the city core has been abandoned by families because no family-sized units have been built in something like 40 years. So families move out of the cities and then commute which causes all sorts of traffic problems, wastes their time in these commutes, creates more pollution and carbon emissions, and so on.
Why?? EVs aren’t good for the environment at all. Why push for them??

Why are we continuously subsidising the car industry?
Thanks for the reply (and great work on Stereokit)

I was bucketing HL, Quest pass through, etc as MR and AR as being phone/screen based.

For example, I have been impressed by MRTK's AR support as a potential XR(?) framework (but Unity and the setup is the chore for experimentation)

Hypothetical on the "someday", are OpenXR and WebXR related? As in, could WebXR enable StereoKit to be AR "someday" before ARCore/Kit?
I completely agree with you, but I don't think it's ever ambiguous. I think it always means 2.17 times the expected amount. If a normal startup raises $100, then a highly differentiated startup will raise $217. That's because the article could have been "X raises 20% more", in which case they'd get $120 over the $100 baseline. Basically, I think "more" is the signifier that you don't multiply by 1.17. If that's missing, the number is meaningless.
>make bigger buses

Nontrivial after adding the second deck (common in UK & Hong Kong), or an articulation (common in EU and mainland China)
However for tram, the upper limit is your platform length. It's also common to run single trains off-peak, couple two together during busy hours to double the capacity.
Why Open Core Is Dead
I assume this is "Galactus"?
Many of the restrictions that Apple added along the years were reactions to abuse by app developers (which in reality nowadays are "legal malware developers"). Everything you can think of has been tried: from reading the installed list of apps, spying on the clipboard, scraping location data from pictures, fingerprinting phones based on camera sensor or motion sensor and many others.

Permissions represent one of two pillars of their strategy against legal malware developers. The second one is the rulebook associated with the AppStore, preventing publishing non-compliant apps and banning developers for breaking said rules. A classic example is Facebook misusing enterprise certificates to install "Facebook research" which allowed them almost unrestricted access to the data of the users. Apple revoked their enterprise certificate, which also affected internal applications that Facebook employees were using. Facebook relented.

If Facebook launches their own app store, the second pillar is completely circumvented. Additionally they will find ways around the technical limitations, be it through use of private APIs, tricking users into clicking confirmations or bribing them. Technical limitations are not enough when dealing with malicious actors.
Sure but if you just release a basic copy of a Taylor Swift song you will get sued to oblivion. So the law seems (IANAL) to care about how similar your work is to existing works. DALL-E does not seem capable of showing you the work that influenced a result, so users will have no idea if a result might be infringing. What this means to me is that with many users, some of the results would be legally infringing.
This view obscures real problems with safety and hygine on buses and trains. It isn't racist or classist to hate meth smoke blown in your face, or teens setting off fireworks and assaulting passengers on the subway:

https://web.archive.org/web/20220214165552/https://www.seatt...

https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/local/dc/metro-transit-po...

These days, a much bigger problem for public transit than racism/classism is a general lack of public safety on buses on trains, for all passengers no matter their race or class. Most actual public transit passengers know this. For example, the jury that acquitted Bernie Goetz included two black people; half the jurors had been victims of crime on the subway themselves. A black woman who witnessed the shooting said the teenagers "got what they deserved:"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1987/06/17/j...
RailsConf 2022 – Opening Keynote: The Journey to Zeitwerk by Xavier Noria
Alto System Project: Dan Ingalls Demonstrates Smalltalk
Thanks for sharing that. I had a similar experience at my last job. The emotional/physical toll is so real. On the one hand, guess that's why we get paid? On the other hand, screw that.
"Neural Head Avatar" is not a good name, but it sure beats "deepfake".
These Log4j issues aren't real hardcore exploits. They wrote a logger that could run arbitrary code, then were surprised when attackers figured out how to run arbitrary code.

It isn't a language problem, it is a developer practices problem. Developers code like security isn't a thing then are confused when their programs aren't secure.
Corollary: the difference between a government and a warlord/organized crime syndicate is the time/money/effort spent on propaganda.
This is incredible; thank you!
I think with the terms requiring explicitly telling which images/parts were generated, they could be filtered out and prevent a feedback loop of "generated in/generated out" images. I'm sure there will be some illegal/against terms of use cases there but the majority should represent fair use.
> blaming some corporate bogeyman is always tempting but does not change the facts

The article is well written. It discusses the facts of the antitrust case. And then it goes into detail on the “lingering suspicions” and “urban legend” that you, rightfully, rail against. The Role in decline of the streetcars section practically debunks the conspiracy.
By the time we'll find out it will be too late. I'm not interested in finding out.
It's pretty cool, but it's not something that could have been actually done in the 1930's. Each of the instruments could be played in this way, but the recording, mixing and mastering they used for this wasn't done using 1930s technology.

So while it's fun to hear the unique sounds of these instruments playing a song like this, it wasn't technically possible for this song, as they present it to us, to exist back then.
The point is, it's rather shortsighted to call out the EU for regulating tech when the U.S. and many other governments are actively doing so as well.
You can obtain any size by using the source image with the masking feature. Take the original and shift it then mask out part of the scene and re-run. Sort of like a patchwork quilt, it will build variations of the masked areas with each generation.

Once the API is released, this will be easier to do in a programmatic fashion.

Note: Depending on how many times you do this... I could see there being a continuity problem with the extremes of the image (eg: the far left has no knowledge of the far right). An alternative could be to scale the image down and mask the borders then later scale it back up to the desired resolution.

This scale and mask strategy also works well for images where part of the scene has been clipped that you want to include (EG: Part of a character's body outside the original image dimensions). Scale the image down, then mask the border region, and provide that to the generation step.
A random suburban residential street could get away with being repaved every 100 years. The ones in my neighborhood bear contractor stamps from the 1920s at least. A big source of road wear is trucking traffic and usually truck routes are along state routes that get state gas tax funding for maintenance at least.
To me it's just a reminder that the east and west are different. It seems "kinda weird" to me to want a fake family, but it's not more shocking than wanting thousands of TikTok or Instagram followers. It's good we have diversity of values, as it makes us more resilient as a species, although I suspect this trend will not take off in the US.
Ah, you've got your eras mixed up. 'Roguelike' has meant short, random, and permadeath at least since the Binding of Isaac.
"I don't mean to be presumptuous, but here's a sweeping statement about the entire world economy that assumes Google is representative of every industrial sector there is. Also, any criticism of monopoly power can only possibly come from how jealous other countries are of our American Innovation."
Your org needs to be at either end of a spectrum. Either on-call is mostly quiet, and non-disruptive and truly only there for huge issues that happen seldom. Or you staff up a dedicated 24/7 team. If it's in between you need to plan on getting to one end before you wear out your team.

I think on-call and the quality of life component are highly dependent on the company culture, the types of alerts, etc.

My org on-call was laid out like this:

3 days at a time and then a break of X days (depending on team size - This option was chosen by the team)

Comp time for any incidences (plus manager flexibility, up late fixing something no one expects you in early or at all depending on how it went)

We leveraged a provider to handle alert escalation, rotation, phone calls etc. If someone didn't answer it rotated through to the next person and on up to management.

A regular look back at the type of calls coming in, and re-balance of alerting priorities to make sure if someone is going to get a call out of office hours, it better be necessary. We always asked "Could this have waited"

A general culture of helping out, if you couldn't fix something you could ask for anyone else near a machine to handle it.

A general culture of asking could we have automated a fix for this alert before getting a human involved?

Almost all tools were available via mobile and you would be amazed how often you could fix something from a mobile phone. In fact I fixed some service issue in about 10s in a movie, never missed a beat.

Trading on-call windows was typical and easy.

If your org can't do above and is truly wearing people out then you need to go the other way, and just staff up 24/7 and let people have their lives.
Anecdotally I would say that standards are going down for Amazon hires. Recently I've seen some average and below-average people move there. They also seem to be expanding their hiring locations geographically. IMO the reason for all this is because they have grown to such a size that they are exhausting the supply of talented developers in the world.
Right but if that work isn’t significantly changed from the source, it could be ruled as infringement. DALL-E cannot tell the users (afaik) if a result is close to any source material.