skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
School Systems Do Not Properly Encourage Collaboration
I don't have an iPhone. But at least on OSX I didn't find a clean way to remove Apple Music.

Every time I accidentally tap play on my bluetooth headset it opens Apple Music and asks me accept the ToS, which I happily reject. It's a daily thing for me because it's almost impossible to put my headphones on without triggering a play due to bad button placement.
Yeah, based on my industry experience I am convinced it is not a coincidence that we're seeing games QA teams unionizing in particular. The QA department always is mistreated by management (and often other developers) and they're typically overworked contractors or temps who are at constant risk of being fired so they can't push back on mistreatment.

Games don't get shipped in a quality state on time without the hard work of skilled QA testers but the industry really treats them like they're disposable. Game design and game programming are both MUCH easier if you can rely on a good QA tester to spot issues and help you figure out reproduction steps, etc.

We had one netcode bug in Guild Wars that haunted us for at least 6 months (probably longer?) that players would frequently report but we never managed to find a reliable repro for, despite having extensive server-side logging. One of our best QA testers spent an hour or two every day trying to find a repro case and eventually was able to hand it to a lead to be fixed - something like that simply isn't possible unless you put skilled people in an environment where they can do focused, specialist work like that. (Sadly, that studio - ArenaNet - also had a tendency to mistreat QA staff and it got worse and worse over time.)

That tester ended up going on to be a design lead on multiple big AAA titles at other studios, so it was nice to see him get the recognition he deserved for his work ethic and skill.
Partially, yes. I certainly predict that DALLE-like models will ruin the prices for some stock photos.

But on the other hand, Adobe is pushing their CAI hard:

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/content-credentials....

And the core benefit of "authentic" content is that it can't be generated by an AI. Only humans can own copyright.
There has been trouble with generating life-like eyes but a second pass with a model tuned around making realistic faces has been very successful at fixing that.
I have been having a blast with DALL-E, spending about an hour a day trying out wild combinations and cracking my friends up. I cannot imagine getting bored of it; it's like getting bored with visual stimulus, or art in general.

In fact, I've been glad to have a 50/day limit, because it helps me contain my hyperfocus instincts.

The information about new pricing is, to me as someone just enjoying making crazy imagines, a huge drag. It means that to do the same 50/day I'd be spending $300/month.

OpenAI: introduce a $20/month non-commercial plan for 50/day, and I'll be at the front of the line.
Earlier this week I saw the name "bob" for a build system.
What is different about this vs. just bookmarking a URL to a call on any calling platform you prefer?
No need for discussion I guess. Someone from the internet has the correct conclusion...

Hard to take stuff like this seriously.
Imagine you're in South Korea (or any other ethnically homogenous country). Do you want "black" "female" randomly appended to your input?
Outstanding. I wish it could display the actual strips, but I understand why it cannot. I can't even imagine how much work it must have taken to compile the metadata for this.
No, it doesn't stop development. New houses increase the value of the land it is sitting on, so the tax from that plot of land will go up.

The entire goal should be to encourage residents to partake in municipal voting. That's everyone's responsibility as citizens.
The issue is not so much that foundries can't afford it rather that the USA was dismayed to discover that most US based foundries have moved over seas creating a dependence they now think is a problem.

They want them back not just for jobs but also for national security reasons (as I understand it) and feel that the issue justifies the incentives. I think the issue is compounded by the fact that many countries have come to the same conclusion and foundries are not likely to build multi-billion dollar plants in each of them, so there is also scarcity in play.
Free software could use some consolidation
Wikipedia has some examples of places where it is used: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax
Wait, back up there: "chip in my hand?"
Alphabet 150 – LeetCode Study Plan (Open Resource)
A Study Plan that is updated daily and fine tuned by an Algorithm for Google Interviews.

Read the White Paper on Desktop =)
Because 90 year old grandpa can't move as easily as us youngins and it's not his fault that the neighborhood gentrified around him. At this point he can't afford to the taxes on a studio either. But anyway, the process of moving is really pretty tough at that age, even the logistics of finding a new apartment and hiring movers. Now, you move out to the suburbs because you can't afford the city anymore, but you don't drive because you are 90, so it isn't so easy to buy groceries anymore. You gotta find a new ophthalmologist, cardiologist and primary care doctor instead of seeing the folks you've been going to for the last 10 years.

Maybe 65 is too young for retirement age, but I certainly feel that there is an age at which old people should start getting special privileges, like the right to not have to move. And the rest of us can wait our turns and hope that we get to take advantage of those privileges some day.
Sure, I'm not saying it deserves no compensation.

But e.g. for defense contract stuff, I've accepted 1/4th my normal pay rate to be available for a span of hours (and then 150%, 2 hour minimum to actually do anything).

Yes, I can't drink, or become unreachable, and need to be able to get to a computer within a few minutes. But I can read a book, watch TV, work on hobby projects, etc.

150% for the entire time seems unreasonable.
Some light theory and heavy practice is the best way to improve. Credentials: been doing UX work for 25 years and I run https://www.TrialToPaid.com where I'm well paid to improve UX to grow trial conversion revenue.

Here are three steps you can take:

1. Read Don't Make Me Think by Steve Krug, User Interface Design for Programmers by Joel Spolsky, Refactoring UI, and (optionally) The Design of Everyday Things (this will get you paying attention to UX and UI in the real world). The core principal of good UX is Spolsky's maxim: "A user interface is well-designed when the program behaves exactly how the user thought it would."

2. After reading, go do 10 hallway usability tests on an interface you know well.

3. Then redesign the interface using the principles from #1 and run usability tests on that. Later, rinse, repeat.

The main idea here is:

1. Get some decent grounding

2. Learn from where users stumble over an interface

3. Try and improve the interface

4. Get feedback on your improvements (did they help? what other problems did they cause?)
One thing you should probably mention is that it's based on Stanislav Lem's story.
The old joke was that EMACS stood for Eight Megs And Constantly Swapping. Of course, eight megs is nothing these days.
Every single car should be tracked at all times. They are a deadly weapon, kill a million people every year around the world, and seriously injure many more.
Great video to see core historical technologies and approaches to software design. And, these ideas can be used today with Smalltalk-78 emulated with Lively Web

https://lively-web.org/users/bert/Smalltalk-78.html
Ask HN: What Happened to the Berkeley Project Blue Low-Cost Robot Arm?
Hey folks,
I was eagerly anticipating the Blue Robot Arm, but I haven't heard anything in a couple of years. Anyone know what's going on?

https://rll.berkeley.edu/blue/
Are you claiming that it's not possible to define consciousness?
Whats different/new in 3.0?
whats the mechanism exactly for the EU to be able to break US companies? you completely eluded that point.
There is such thing as a road tax and not all roads allow cows and ducks and lions and bears. Note the sign on the highway onramp that says something like "no pedestrians or cyclists" and the fact that every car on the road has to pay a yearly fee in order to not be impounded by the local government for neglecting to pay for fees that go on to maintain the roads.
Regardless of how close it is to the target staffing: was it open (and presumably operational at some level of customer satisfaction) or closed at the time it was shut down? What does it mean to have 20 employees but closed for a month? Wouldn't those employees be seeking other employment already?
Since GANs are effectively one class of denoising auto-encoders, your summary is spot-on. This type of ML model learns to effectively compress and decompress natural images by representing it as a hierarchy of convolutional features = shape templates.
That depends entirely upon one's goals.

It was, for example, a relatively effective means of applying a partisan ideological screen to the force without having to admit to having applied a partisan ideological screen.

The screen will be very incomplete, but adequate for materially changing the partisan makeup of the overall force.
Cleaner air is now adding to global warming
Okay, so would it not follow that all regulation is monopolistic by this definition?

Again I am curious how you believe this will "kill competition" by regulating for points 1-3 in my previous post.
I know Eelco hasn't been heavily involved in Nickel, but I have to wonder what his departure from Tweag[1] means for it. A lot of bleeding-edge Nix adherents are starting to adopt CUE[2][3].

[1] https://discourse.nixos.org/t/tweag-nix-dev-update-33/20048

[2] https://cuelang.org/

[3] https://github.com/input-output-hk/bitte
Same here. I'm dying for a phone that doesn't balk at the idea of long-term support, but I'm simply not using a platform where I can't install the software I want and can't even get a real version of Firefox.
Using-Apache-Kafka-to-process-1T-messages
Atlas shrugged a long time ago.

As a worker you would hate it if is you had to work longer to get paid the same amount of money.

Capitalists feel the same way, except they hate having to invest more money to make the same amount of money.

Everybody else in the world sees it as a big win when microchip manufacturing capacity improves because they don't have to pay for it. To Intel it's a disaster if they have to pay for it, they've got no interesting in paying for it because governments want it so bad that they'll pay for it.
"performative obtuseness"?

I do not understand what you are saying.

- - - -

Ah, I think I get it. You're saying that Chrome would beat Safari if they were both available?
The difference is that the US is the market where these companies are born and develop their innovation so it makes sense for regulation to be passed as needed. The EU is nothing but a leech. It could focus on actually creating competition which would naturally resolve the problem but no, it chooses the easy way out by passing regulation year after year instead.
How else would you specify the type of image you would like? Surely, if you were hiring a designer you would provide them with a detailed description of what you wanted. More likely, you would spend a lot of time with them maybe even hours and who knows how many words. For design work specifically to create a first mockup or prototype of a product or image it seems like DALL-E beats that initial phase hands down. It's much easier to type in a description and then choose from a set of images than it is to go back and forth with someone who may take hours or days to create renderings of a few options. I don't think it'll put designers out of work but I do think they'll be using it regularly to boost their productivity.
[ US standard practice based ]

A change order always changes the cost of the work.

“Change order” and “cost of the work” are terms defined in the contact (often by reference) and come with implementation protocols.

Once a person has been around the block a few times, they usually realize that the plans are not the construction, the design brief is not what the owner actually wants, and the contractor doesn’t build everything right.

And the whole thing is about working together to get the building built in a way that favors getting the next project.
Can anyone invite me for DALL E!
It is still somewhat unclear, but it seems that images generated by a machine learning model are not copyrightable (to quote the US Copyright Office, generated images "lack the human authorship necessary to support a copyright claim"). Whether the model itself is copyrightable is less clear to me, but [0] seems to suggest that it be. All of this depends on the country, but much of the world tends to eventually mimic US copyright law.

[0] https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/19981/who-can-claim-...
Its because your kitchen at home is not a business.
>> our union ended mandatory overtime, slashed shift injuries, got healthier vending machines, and got health insurance for everyone.

With perhaps the exception of health care, none of which seems relevant to white-collar office workers though.
I don't think this is knowable. Efficiency can result in various things - less labor required, higher quality goods and services for the same cost, more convenience, less uncertainty (and probably others i can't think of off hand).

Your claim has been true for labor to this point. Not sure it's a given going forward.

Goods and services have gotten better in a way which isn't captured by GDP because the price for the good/service hasn't gone up.
I'm not sure if any current or next-generation GPU even has enough power to run DALL-E 2 locally.

Anyway, OpenAI is unlikely to release the model. The situation will like it is with GPT-3; however, it's also likely another team will attempt to duplicate OpenAI's work.
Fuel oil is a very cheap way of generating power, when you have several thousand tons of it already on your ship :)

The possible few percantage difference in efficiency between ship-based oil-powered generation, and land-based power generation, is more than wiped out by the storage and conversion losses of a battery-based system. It's also very expensive (and heavy). Why pay to fill a container with batteries, and then pay more to charge them, when you can be paid to carry a container of other stuff as cargo?
i imagine that being good as chess is a huge predictor of being good at pretty much all other strategy games. However, there is too much of a focus on mechanical skill in starcraft for him to overcome with strategy.

I think a better choice would be something like Magic the Gathering or other card games. I have no doubt he would end up dominating those if he became dedicated.
Can I infringe another Dalle users rights if I take an image generated by their acount and sell prints of it..?
Oh cool, goes back farther than I thought!
I think my biggest change as a dev isn't so much a concrete opinion, but a feeling. The words "I invented a..." used to be inspiring, now they fill me with dread.

I used to always be on the lookout for places where I could build something better than what's out there. And almost every one of those became a liability more than an asset.

In the industrial revolution and surrounding time periods there was a big shift from made to fit to made to measure.

Previously you'd have a screw you made specifically for this project, all that mattered was that it fit the threads. Now you have an M3 screw, and what matters is that it fits any M3 nut.

I always go for made to measure. There are standards everyone knows. I no longer want to do mental gymnastics to convince myself that my 50 line script was a better choice than Ansible.
Ask HN: Any good resources you have used becoming a better confidence speaker?
I am looking for some advice and some training materials, paid or free, on how to become a better conference speaker. From how the slides should look all the way to how to start and conclude. Or maybe more about what not to do as start or end.
Yeah I actually couldn't find any legitimate blue pills, I made this project using a clone blue pill which fortunately for the most part behaves exactly like a real one.
> It took a few months to shake that Pavlovian association
It took much, much longer to shake off "J.S.Bach Badenerie BWV 1067" :-D
https://youtu.be/JvxeiTq9bqw?t=27

I can say that I'll woke up for years from the deepest sleep in 'seconds' when hearing this melody.
I agree with you. Though I fear that creating bullshit is precisely many people’s job.
I don't think this is correct. For instance, if I search for Susie, it finds Susie comics even when she isn't mentioned by name.

For instance, the first comic with her has this information

Script
Here comes that new girl. Hey Susie Derkins, is that your face, or is a 'possum stuck in your collar? I hope you suffer a debilitating brain aneurysm, you freak! She's cute, isn't she?? Go away.
Description
Calvin sees the new girl coming and yells a question asking if that's Susie Derkins' face or if a possum is stuck in her collar. He then yells that she should have a debilitating brain aneurysm. Hobbes says she's cute, to which Calvin wants Hobbes to go away.

None of which is in the dataset you listed.
Packing 200k things on screen will annoy everyone... except power users (not literally 200k things obviously).

If you're building a specialist, usually business, application then often all the users will be power users fairly quickly, because they will spend all day every day in your application. In this case their priority will be doing things quickly and accurately, and having all the information they need available when they need it. My priority as a UX designer in this instance (or my priority as a designer herder these days) should be enabling them to do this, and not making stuff look pretty and well spaced in the first instance. This will often involve cramming lots of information and icons into a small space and minimising white space, and will sometimes involve making an application hard to use for newcomers. And that's fine! If it is a bit of software that someone is going to be using 40 hours a week for the next 10 years then the priority is the user who already knows the system, and not the user who is learning the system. Although you need to ensure that the system is actually learnable, which is largely about consistency, documentation (gasp!) and tutorials, and surfacing the most frequently performed actions.

I just went through a battle with a UI designer who wanted to break up an existing interface used in a marking tool into several screens because the current UI was hugely cluttered (which it is) and intimidating (yep, looks scary) and hard to learn (actually not, onboarding of a new user takes about 30 minutes. 25 of which is them following a long to a video). The design they came up with would have looked much nicer, but would have resulted in a much poorer UX, as it would have involved the assessor switching between multiple tabs, scrolling up and down and dragging and dropping items across the screen. And doing this literally thousands of times over the course of a couple of weeks. I'd already been through a similar battle with a previous UI designer to eliminate drag and drop in the same interface a couple of years ago because I had a user develop RSI using it. In doing so I made the I terrace uglier and more cluttered but eliminated many hundreds of drag and drop actions a day for each user.

Anyway, moral of the story, sometimes a good UX is only possible if you have a "bad" or at least ugly and cluttered UI. This doesn't mean that you should ignore aesthetics, or go out of your way to make things ugly, but that sometimes cluttered, information dense and unintuitive to new users is the way to go.
I immediately searched "Weltanschauung", and was not disappointed.
I'm already bored of it. When you have everything, you have nothing.
There seems to be a conspiracy theory when it comes to hemp: that "big-x" is keeping it down and the reason that use of this "miracle" material has not taken off is because of concerted efforts to stop it from taking off.

It is true that in the United States, hemp production was illegal for many years, limiting research and development into its use.

It is also true that in many countries, covering populations much larger than that of the United States, hemp production was never made illegal and continued unabated since prehistory. And it is true that in those countries entire industries, arms of research departments, and government agencies exist to study and promote the use of hemp.

This leads me to assert that there are two possible reasons why we aren't using hempsteel, hempcrete, and hemplastics:

1. It is not the miracle material that people claim it is and that's why hempsteel is not a thing, or

2. Americans are the only people on the entire planet smart enough and capable enough to productize it and the prohibition on its cultivation has stopped development.

It has never been illegal to import finished hemp products into the United States and even prior to the recent relaxations of prohibitions on hemp growing you could buy an endless variety of hemp goods online.

So I'm going to go with 1. I've met many non-americas and they seem no smarter or dumber than we are.

The article states that "big paper" lobbied to ban hemp because it might do... something? why wouldn't big paper switch to hemp if it was better? they farm trees like farmers farm corn they'd just switch to farming hemp instead of trees like farmers switch to more profitable crops.

And any renegade paper manufacturer could have switched to hemp by buying by the container shipload from China and making paper out of it, undercutting (because hemp is, apparently, cheaper and better) the Big-tree big-paper conspirators.

But you can buy hemp paper on Amazon today, right now. Hemp paper sucks. Like, really bad.
Said differently, if the employer is going to pay you overtime rates for the period, why wouldn't they just have you actually work overtime, prioritizing a production outage over regular development, but regular development over watching TV?
This is a collective action problem. "They can't fire everyone" only works if everyone (or enough people) demand the change at once. If the unionization attempt happens one store at a time, Chipotle can close them one at a time. And it's gonna get harder and harder to get the next store to try unionizing after they just saw the previous X all get closed down.
To a certain degree, yes. They care more about the image of the project than art. Considering a large amount of art depicts non-sexual nudity yet they block all nudity, art is not their primary concern.
Often it's a problem with firmware/driver implementation in one of those devices (like speaker), resulting from poor development processes.

Complexity of Bluetooth protocol, multiplied by the speaker price (assuming you have not the really expensive ones) does not help as well.
Is being a gatekeeper a function of overall size, or market share in a given sector?

I may have missed the definition in the article, but my cynical take is that it seems geared towards getting companies that enjoyed dominance in the 90s back into the game now.
Oh, I didn't even watch the video. I guess there does seem to be a new breed of blogs that have videos mirroring their articles. I am just glad they also have written articles.
English link:

https://35mm.online/en/vod/feature-films/sexmission
Still trying to figure out the fermi paradox.
you can set up shortcuts to automatically start playing something. I've got one that changes to music and maxes the audio volume when it connects to my car.