skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At the beginning of my career I always choose fun names and was strongly in the camp of having fun names to identify better with my projects.

After a few years, a growing number of services and branching out a bit more into infrastructure I came to the realization that this isn't the best choice and I'm fully in support of boring descriptive names now.

Our services are now called scraper, proxy-manager, webrouter. This makes it a lot easier to see dependencies, figure out what an alert is for or track down issues in a large micro-service architecture where you are not always sure what a service is used for.
The latter. 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. We will impose our biases upon you, the unenlightened masses who must be manipulated for your own good. And for god sakes, don't look for photos of the US Math team or NBA Basketball or compare soccer teams across different countries and cultures.
"interest rates are a powerful tool to help control home prices"

Unless you're paying cash, most people think in terms of what their monthly payment will be. So driving down the price may not make any particular house any more affordable.
64DD is something we would like to support fully eventually. Since the cart code is all written in C (+PIO), it opens up a lot of flexibility for implementations like this. Not everyone is well-versed in verilog/HDL, but there's plenty of C-coders out there, and iteration time is really fast (build-depoly-test cycle).
I got in trouble for doing this very thing in middle school on an Apple ][. :D
If there was a supply of cheaper housing, I'd agree with this wholeheartedly. Part of the problem is that, in a lot of places (SF, NYC, Seattle, etc) you can price folks into homelessness. Sure, no one is entitled to live in a specific area, but for those who built their lives there, have a community, family, it's cruel to tell them "move to Nowheresville, OH so you can afford a roof"
And the same politicians that those homeowners vote for. And lobby. Especially retirees who have time to do things like endlessly harangue their local councils to implement NIMBYist policies to prevent increasing housing supply in order to drive their housing prices higher. Of course, couched in language like "preserving the historical character of the neighborhood" and "keeping the riff raff out".
This would certainly impact people with older houses disproportionately relative to the wealthier folks doing the teardowns, though. Probably a political downside.
Most Patents Are Now Officially Invalid Under American Axle
Nah, it's pretty easy.

You can screen record with OBS Studio or something similar, or if you want to capture the output you can run the output into a cheap Chinese HDMI splitter that only implements HDCP between your PC and the box, but not between the box and the monitor, and then capture that output with a hardware recorder.
I wouldn't mess with the tires. It creates financial incentives to compromise on safety by using old tires, avoiding buying separate summer/winter tires, may create a black market for untaxed tires without quality control, etc.
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No, I am pretty sure you are wrong. Rb6 Rc8 .. Rxe6 Rxc7 .. Rxf6 was played in the game, but Rb6 Rc8 .. Qb7 Qe8 .. Rxf6 is an alternative line with the same idea.

OK, I just checked, the computer says I'm wrong. I am wrong because black can instead go Rb6 Rc8 .. Qb7 Qc4 .. Rxf6 Qxf1!.

Also, you're still at least a bit wrong because the computer thinks since black is already losing, it should go for Rb6 Re8 .. Rxe6 R8xe6, black giving up the queen for the rook in order to protect the bishop in the end. But yes, that's a computer idea.
It's easy just add it to income tax. That way it will be properly progressive instead of the regressive tax that it is now.
that it's been like this for a while and it changes/-ed nothing.
The article overlooks one important factor: Raising property taxes would lower house values, reducing loan sizes, and therefore bank profits. We can't have that money being squandered on social services or infrastructure.
Ironic then that Reese Witherspoon and other celebs who were pumping NFTs hard on Twitter, quietly change their profile pics when the NFT market collapsed.
Super impressive to see how OpenAI managed to bring the project from research to production (something usable for creatives). This is non trivial since the usecase involves filtering NSFW content, reducing bias in generated images. Kudos to the entire team.
I remember this from a while back - good to bring back memories. This may be a bit excessive, but using CLIP (https://towhee.io/image-text-embedding/clip) or some other multimodal learning model in conjunction with Milvus (https://milvus.io) could make for a search engine that takes the graphics into consideration as well. Not sure how well it would work for comics, but it could make for a pretty unique weekend hack.
> No one is forcing you too do that.

The bank will by discontinuing Apple Pay support. They have every incentive to do so.
>SF's cable car system and historic F trains both work fine as public transit.

SF's cable car system is quaint and fun and all that but it hardly works fine as public transit. There are often lines, it's $8/ride, and I think you may have to pre-pay at the popular end spots. Does any local take the cable car as day-to-day public transit?
Surprised nobody mentioned yet: reload4j https://reload4j.qos.ch/

It's a fork of log4j 1.2.17 by the original author that fixes a boat load of issues with 1.2.x and is a drop in replacement for log4j. Very useful if you can't upgrade to log4x 2.x.
I think a mindset that could work is to accept software as done. This is hard but for foundational stuff it could work well. Only fix bugs in such software. Try to set a scope what the software should do, build it, then do maintenance on it. Supersede it entirely to add new functionality.

That's my armchair take on it.
Right, that's really logical with something like Vitamin Water.

At worst your out 3$.

I don't get an actor convincing a rational person to blow 3k on a fictional abstraction.
I don’t think that’s a meaningful difference. It would take an extreme property tax to actually incentivize an empty field over productive use of that space.

It might in theory make a difference when considering replacing a 40 story building with a 42 story one, but in practice you really don’t see that kind of construction project. In that context pushing for larger jumps before replacement might actually be economically and environmentally beneficial.
Or, they can simply get a reverse mortgage using the $300K free appreciation they realized.
StereoKit is an alternative to Unity that skips all the bloat, doesn't really work in concert with it. You could take some inspiration from StereoKit, and maybe port some code snippets, but you're better off using something like the MRTK if you're working in Unity!
Who would want to settle down in an area that is trying to churn you out though?

Sure, the "fuck 'em" attitude has been used by NIMBYs forever. But now we're using it to deprioritise the existing residents that might've sculpted the community. E.g. "Artists who can't the 200% rent increase? Fuck 'em."

Most folks like some sense of stability with their housing. Not everyone's a 20 y/o digital nomad.
The monkey selfie was not derived from millions of existing works, and that is the difference. If an artist has a well-known art style, and this algorithm was trained on it and can copy that style, would the artist have grounds to sue? I don't know.
Even disregarding climate change, a 5% chance each year that your equipment will fail to handle the weather seems lacking for a high-availability facility. (You'll factor in many other this type of figures together, so your total risk budget would be higher still).
That's exactly the point of those news: to trigger the viewer. That's all they care about. Now that we pile up on those anxieties or whatever, not the news channel's problem.
Have you ridden the bus in a major US city lately? Safety and hygiene are serious issues, depending on the city and sometimes the specific line. Despite owning a car, I used to ride buses whenever remotely feasible as a point of civic pride. That stopped after a number of encounters with other agressive, combative, smelly, and/or visibly ill passengers. This is all tied up with homelessness, drug abuse, and high crime in urban communities which political polarization has prevented the US from addressing. It's disheartening, as the economic and environmental advantages of public transit are numerous.

This sort of thing is the problem:

https://web.archive.org/web/20220214165552/https://www.seatt...
Show HN: PickCode – An educational coding environment for students after Scratch
I want to show an early version of PickCode, a visual coding environment for students to use after they've learned Scratch. PickCode is designed for use on desktop and tablet, and supports creating chatbots, visual designs, and 2D games. There is plenty of functionality missing - you can't add media to games for instance, but the current version shows off the foundation of what I'm aiming at.

As of now, there are sample programs to play with and an editor which saves your programs to local storage. Full user accounts, tutorials and administrator accounts for teachers to organize assignments are on their way soon. If you're interested in using PickCode in a classroom or want to discuss feedback, send me an email at charlie@pickcode.io
Thanks, you insensitive clod!
> annual vehicle inspection (which I assume the USA has??)

Hah. Washington state doesn't even test for emissions, let alone do a vehicle inspection.
> Getting humans to refine your data is the best solution right now

Source ?

All those big models are trained with data for which the source is not known or vetted. The amount of data needed is not human-refinable.

For example for language models we train mostly on subsets of CommonCrawl + other things. CommonCrawl data is “cleaned” by filtering out known bad sources and with some heuristics such as ratio of text to other content, length of sentences etc.

The final result is a not too dirty but not clean huge pile of data that comes from millions of sources that no human as vetted and that no one in the team using the data knows about.

The same applies to large images dataset, e.g. Laon 400m that also comes from CommonCrawl and is not curated.
this (mini-buses, dial-a-bus as it was known in the 70s) was one of the patterns in Christopher Alexander's A Pattern Language

https://www.iwritewordsgood.com/apl/patterns/apl020.htm

> Establish a system of small taxi-like buses, carrying up to six people each, radio-controlled, on call by telephone, able to provide point-to-point service according to the passengers' needs, and supplemented by a computer system which guarantees minimum detours, and minimum waiting times. Make bus stops for the mini-buses every 600 feet in each direction, and equip these bus stops with a phone for dialing a bus.
Never seen such spam on HN. Thought we had that whipped.
I wonder at this price point which kind of business can use DALL E at scale?
Your buddy was a bag boy paying "basically the entirety of his pay check" in union dues? Let's be specific here. How much in pay and how much in dues?
This sounds like something that could backfire very badly on certain prompts. "person eating a watermelon" for example.
> you can always choose to live in a cheaper home

I'm not sure if you've looked around northern New England recently, but there are practically no cheaper homes left.
Give it some time. Other organizations will race to the bottom.

They might even provide image generation at a loss to drive people to their platforms.
That is the strategy of opening preparation. For the most common openings, GMs often have a 20 move sequence memorized. The time limit of chess matters a lot, so the strategy is to break your opponent out of their preparation with a move that is unintuitive or considered untenable, after you have determined the ways in which it is actually better than widely considered.

The ideal at top level is to get to move 20 or so with a slightly better position, essentially all of your time (because you've been playing memorized moves), and your opponent already having used most of their time.
Show HN: Web-based screencast receiver
Unfortunately it's all of the above. Sometimes the code isn't stable (eg; a library method changed), sometimes the behavior has changed (eg; same library method but now it has a different behavior), and sometimes it has some other unwanted effect (the computation produces a totally different result, it runs way slower, or something else).

With a service it's all much easier because you can have pretty robust integration tests and you're good to go. With an ML model it's a lot trickier because even if you have sample payloads and responses there might be other payloads you didn't think about that could cause issues. Or it might rear its ugly head when you finally retrain the model and suddenly model performance is crap.
hardmaru on Twitter has examples. It’s the second, the one they would like it to be.
I'm guessing this thing wouldn't work for emulating FeliCa cards?

e: it can read but can't yet emulate, given how niche it is outside of JP I doubt it'll ever support it.
A11yphant – Learning web accessibility made easy
Suddenly lamenting the emptiness left by the lack of configurability for those name generators, a la i18n.

"Pop-culturation, or p13n, helps teams reduce the randomness of their random names by seeding the noun/adjective list with configurable themes, like old-timey western european guys in wigs, famous rapppers, characters from The Office, Seinfeld, Pokemon, and more. In this repo, I will..."
Obviously this is aimed at phones but does it extend to any other computing devices? For example, does it require Microsoft to allow access to a third party app store and payment system on a game console like Xbox?
Potentially. A ladder in go would match this description if the board was large enough. I stand by my comment.

Note that the first quote agrees with me:

> Not being a checkers player, I thought, "what does he know, my computer is looking 20 moves ahead." But a few moves later, the computer said that Tinsley had the advantage and a few moves after that I resigned.

We know as a matter of literal truth that the computer is looking 20 moves ahead, but it doesn't need 44 moves to realize that it's losing, even though the other guy says that recognizing the win would require looking 64 moves ahead. That guy was wrong; recognizing the win didn't require looking 64 moves ahead. He just had trouble imagining other methods of recognizing a win.
One can very convincingly make the argument that state and national governments are undemocratic and difficult for individuals or local groups to influence. But on the scale of a county, small town, or city government, that's less the case. Individual voters who have repeatedly NIMBY voted against densification have absolutely caused their own home values to inflate.
Our brains cope with speaking more than one language
And there's the tangling of dependencies. One fix in one lib may cause a bug in another that isn't maintained.
We had Asterix characters in my first company.
Quite possibly. Skydiver culture calls for an in-depth, postmortem analysis on basically any incident. So theoretically it’s more than just dumb luck.

But that’s exactly what a control freak would say ;)
> What would happen if all the bullshit work ended tomorrow? Would the world come to an end?

Honestly, it might. It would take an extraordinary amount of work to correctly identify all the work that's actually bullshit, and there might not be any time left for anything else.

There's work that's bullshit, but no-one realizes it because it's very hard to have an expansive yet detailed view of everything. There's also work that seems like bullshit, but performs an important, non-obvious function [1].

[1] Sort of like Congressional earmarks: they were attacked for a long time as corrupt waste. Now that they're gone, it seems like they might have actually been grease that helped keep polarization in check.
> Fuck 'em. Progressive taxation.

At least you’re honest about how you want to wield the cudgel.
Xbox Owners Will Be Able to Connect to Discord Voice Chats from Their Consoles
I wonder how much this person makes in royalties for a silent track.
Also keep in mind what each step is doing. Is it clear what to do? What will happen next? Why am I filling out this form (again)? Above all use your GUI. Use it yourself. Pretend you know nothing of the space and is it clear what is going on? Grab someone and have them use it, do not walk them through it. Can they get through it without help? Are they getting stuck? One that has been bugging me for a few years now. If you have something that is required. Make sure it is marked. Make sure if they hit next you do not clear out the whole form.
I fully expect stock image sites to be swamped by DALL-E generated images that match popular terms (e.g. "business person shaking hands"). Generate the image for $0.15. Sell it for $1.00.
You can just keep using an android phone.

I, for one, don't want to waste my time being IT support for my entire family.
That's the whole reason most of us prefer the walled garden of iOS. I don't care if it is as powerful a computer as a server from some 15 years ago, I WANT to treat it like an appliance, a friggin consumer device, I want to standardize it across my home and have some peace of mind.

If I want to hack, I have plenty of other devices at home or that I can buy that are far more adequate to this end.
If this were a concern, a user can easily bypass this by having a work-for-hire person add a minor transform layer on top of the DALL-E generated images right?
GLADoS. Companion Cube.

Potato battery.
but, why?
Because if I do that, then I have to worry about my ISP hijacking the recursive requests it makes.
They literally just add "black" and "female" with some weight before any prompt containing person.

A comical work around to so called "bias" (isn't the whole point of these models to encode some bias?). Here's some experimentation showing this.

https://twitter.com/rzhang88/status/1549472829304741888

As competitors with lower price points prop up, you'll see everyone ditch models with "anti bias" measures and take their $ somewhere else. Or maybe we'll get some real solution, that adds noise to the embeddings, and not some half assed workaround to the arbitrary rules that your resident AI Ethicist comes up with.
shudders at the thought of what "people" would contribute
>4Chan or visit the dark web

Wow thanks for the advice. I cant believe I didn't know those existed.
I've never heard anyone express this. Both only exist as tourist experiences.

The cable car in particular is a bit of fancy - it can only carry a dozen-ish people, and requires tons of training and equipment. There's a reason it costs so much to ride such a small distance.

Fun, but not a good model for modern public transit.
Ohhh neat! Website looks nice!
Feel sorry for the full time artists.
I am thrilled about DALL-E, and the new terms of service. However, how they implemented the improved "diversity" is hilarious.

Turns out that they randomly, silently modify your prompt text to append words like "black male" or "female". See https://twitter.com/jd_pressman/status/1549523790060605440

I don't know which emotion I feel more - applause at how glorious this hack is or tears at how ugly it is.

Good luck to them!
It's possible to tolerate on-call if:

You have the ability to make changes necessary at the infrastructure engineering stage, not at the ops ad-hoc response stage, to prevent or end problems that cause call-outs.

There are those that that view "DevOps" not as an engineering culture but as "people who fix problems in production" and even "do releases Friday at 10pm" and developers (or "engineers") as "people who make changes, and go to the bar Friday at 6pm." Companies that do this sometimes call themselves places that "move quickly, break often." Places like this, you hope never to work for.
Lightning is anything but stupid. It’s small, has no breakable bits in the phone side of the port, and is pretty ubiquitous. I don’t have to worry about whether this cable and charger support the Lightning 2-a (IIV) Gold standard ala USB-C.

USB-C just felt terrible to me when I had a Nexus 5x. Port wasn’t as secure, cable was huge. Not a fan.

Some people wreck the 1st-party cables abnormally quickly; they should buy one of those armored cables from Amazon.
Oh, to clarify, I don’t support the US government per se, but any constitutional democracy with limitations on power, checks and balances, etc. Also in the great hierarchy of things I absolutely support personal privacy over any government and/or corporate control of its citizens’ data. Banning of data harvesting, or at least the right to opt out, right to encryption, self-sovereign identity, etc. But I also believe it’s far more likely to actually achieve that in a democracy than under a totalitarian government.
Life imitates Gilbert & Sullivan?

Gilbert & Sullivan's "Ruddigore" (1887), a comic parody of Victorian melodrama, was set in "the only village in the world that possesses an endowed corps of professional bridesmaids who are bound to be on duty every day from ten to four ...".
> we rotated that responsibility

how did that go ? I often wanted to do it but never got to submit the idea.
Context and workflow, 1000x
Over here in Hanover they've gone from $500k up to $1M, and honestly the 2% tax rate is the only thing that kept prices somewhat in check in the presence of near-zero interest rates.
MidJourney seems a little less all-out commercial. The way everyone’s creations are in giant open Discord channels is great too
"Various names are used for the instruction set. Prior to the launch, x86-64 and x86_64 were used, while upon the release AMD named it AMD64. Intel initially used the names IA-32e and EM64T before finally settling on 'Intel 64' for its implementation. Some in the industry, including Apple, use x86-64 and x86_64, while others, notably Sun Microsystems (now Oracle Corporation) and Microsoft, use x64. The BSD family of OSs and several Linux distributions use AMD64, as does Microsoft Windows internally."

"The x86-64 architecture is distinct from the Intel Itanium architecture (formerly IA-64). The architectures are not compatible on the native instruction set level, and operating systems and applications compiled for one cannot be run on the other."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64#cite_note-11
//Those of us who can't afford property will shed no tears.

Move somewhere cheaper.
Then YOU don't use this particular brand of smartphone?
And, thanks to Proposition 13, California has entirely removed this policy tool from consumer housing.

A tremendous amount of our problems, from high rent to gridlock, can be traced back to this decision.
Since many people will start generating their first images soon, be sure to check out this amazing DALL-E prompt engineering book [0]. It will help you get the most out of DALL-E.

[0]: https://dallery.gallery/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/The-DALL%... (PDF)
Controlling Elixir supervisors at runtime with feature flags
That'd be my fault, me and my co-workers were working with a lot of tools that had the "Kit" suffix when we started on it :O Apple's definitely not the only one who does it!