skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wanted Dall-E 2 to show me what a Transputer might look like, so I entered the following as prompt for Dall-E 2, based on the text from the preface and the intrpoduction of the linked PDF:

> The software and hardware implementation of transputer parallel processing systems. Why do we need all this computing power, and how are we going to be provided with it? Modern developments have shown that good software should be intuitive. If the user has learned one program package then the next package, albeit from a different software house, should behave in a similar fashion.

Results:

* https://i.imgur.com/koOGgFI.png

* https://i.imgur.com/BuU8YrX.png

* https://i.imgur.com/7fZplFV.png

* https://i.imgur.com/mrMUHEp.png

The generated images are very stock photo looking. And unfortunately also not very informative..
Fully agree. I do not like it either and the article sums it perfectly up.

The best multitasting UI has been figures out: Windows taskbar with non-minimized and non-grouping window elements in the taskbar. This gives you the ability to put any app into the foreground with only one click, you see all windows that are open, close them easily and rearrange them. Plus, you see which apps are running and which apps are closed. And finally, it is very space-saving.

I wished Apple would re-invent the dock+top bar+those 3 different window managers that are running in parallel.
For me, what was interesting to see was that it didn't manage very well with the Abbey Road question.

I had imagined that some parts of the training data would consist of the actual image, and it would find a good match for it somewhere deep into it's artificial consciousness.
This recently changed. Firefox will turn it off for you, but the same keystroke does not turn it back on. In other words, it _used_ to be a toggle, but now it switches in one direction only.

There is a fix; add in about:config an item "browser.toolbars.bookmarks.2h2020" set as boolean False.
I was commenting on how the original commenter was using the term noise. Not how scientists use it.

Listen, the term noise is probably the worst term for this data. Because we don’t know if it’s noise until we examine to see if it is noise. So until we know it’s noise we can’t call it noise. It’s like you’re walking into a crowded room and you’re trying to hear one thing but there is too much “noise”. This assumes we know what we’re looking for in the first place.
Supabase developer here. Firebase has a team managing service uptime. Supabase has a team managing service uptime. If you self-host Supabase, you have to manage uptime yourself. You can't self-host Firebase.

Regarding lock-in, you're pretty much right here, but this is going to be true of your entire stack. If you choose to develop your frontend in React, or Angular, or Vue, you're going to be locked into that framework.

"...because Supabase does so many things..." is a good thing, IMHO. You can choose to use any or all of our product, and each piece you choose is open-source. If, say, you choose to use Supabase Storage, and you have an issue with it, you can switch to something else but still use Database, Auth, and Functions without bringing down your entire project.
Does this contribute to patient's cost reduction in any way?
https://ibb.co/BVfgYj2

This is the best I could do, and it's pretty much just putting the vast empty expanses of the Pacific and Atlantic oceans in the higher-distortion areas near the top and bottom.
An upvote for whoever can give me a prompt to generate an image of someone who's been massaged so much their body has been flattened, as if they were made of dough or jelly or something.

I spent ages on this earlier getting nowhere. I'm starting to think DALL-E is better if you don't really know what you want and you're just fishing for ideas.
Arguably the emphasis on fractions in primary education should have gone away as soon as calculators became common. They are pretty useless except in a few special cases.

Put another way: if we had had calculators all along, and someone had recently proposed teaching fractions as important ways to represent (some) real numbers, would that idea have gotten any traction at all in pedagogical circles? I don't see how.
This has been mysterious to me for a long time and it still remains mysterious to me, but I have to accept that people do care. This isn't just limited to NFTs, people buy signed copies of things despite signatures being trivial to forge, people buy authentic branded items even when indistinguishable counterfeits are available, people pay more for "original prints" of digital photographs!

In short, people care about provenance. NFTs guarantee provenance for data, even if the process of "attaching" it to a jpg or whatever is a bit clunky. I don't understand why people care so much about provenance, but they do, and NFTs provide a partial solution.
My great short-term hope for "AGI" is truly open-world video games, where you can weave your own story and the world will react in kind. I played AI Dungeon a few times, and the results were hilariously fun though pretty rough around the edges.
Colour of Magic sets up the Disc, and how it works, after that you can do any of them.

Fundamentally do you like, wizards, witches, guards, death, or the chancer (moist Von lipwig) ?

I say this because the whole set is basically split up into those themes.

Personally, my favourite is Feet Of Clay.

However, if pinned down, I will always say, read them in the order they were published, as is true for all book sets.
CVE-2022-38392 Rhythm Nation Exploit
Most of the IT industry is about automating tasks that would otherwise have to be done manually. Many of us here, myself included, are employed to do precisely this kind of thing on a full-time basis.

If you've come up with a way to make your employer's business processes more efficient, that's a good thing. You should share your work with the relevant people, talk about it with your manager and the people who are doing the work manually, and see where things go from there.

What will the reaction be? I don't know. In a healthy company with sensible people, they'll appreciate your initiative, and if they feel it's something that will help them they may adopt it (if they agree with your assessment of its value and usefulness). If the company you work for has a toxic culture where everyone only cares about their own short-term interests, it could backfire in some of the ways other commenters have suggested. I don't know how to deal with the latter case other than to just plow ahead anyway.

Think about this as one instance in a long term pattern of work philosophy, not as a once-off thing. If, throughout your career, you consistently look out for ways to improve things for the organisation you work for, including but not limited to automating manual tasks (and importantly, if you do so in a relevant and actually helpful way), you'll develop a reputation as someone is valuable and may be worth promoting or hiring to better positions where you can participate in or oversee IT projects.

In this specific instance being discussed here, the outcome might or might not be a good one, but as a general approach to your career I think yours is a good approach to take and will serve you well. But do communicate as much as possible with colleagues as soon as you have a proof of concept, since you need to validate it from an organisational as well as a technical perspective.
I'm so excited for Supabase. As soon as they move Realtime Subscriptions out of alpha / beta, I will replace Firebase on all new projects. The Firebase / Firestore analog - Snapshot Listeners - give your application a real-time backend for free and simplifies state management drastically since your subscriptions are your store.

Supabase being built on SQL is interesting to me- I love PSQL and the row-level security rules are incredible. But the historical SQL v NoSQL debate involves the trade-offs of Consistency, Availability, and Partition Tolerance [0]. With Firebase (and typically NoSQL) you lose Consistency and you get a bit of redundance by virtue of using onWrite listeners as opposed to Joins. That model scales really well since it's amenable to sharding seamlessly. What will scaling a Supabase backend look like?

[0] https://www.bmc.com/blogs/cap-theorem/
> on the odd chance that your future employer ever calls up your previous employer to verify your credentials, the company won't describe you as a lying hack.

This is a common perception but I don't think actually happens that much. A company be sued for what they say about you, so most will just provide your start and end date, employee type, and the type of termination.
The cherry tree in my backyard has dropped all its leaves in the past week. I’m worried for it next year
You can actually see that in action. The day before this EIS was cleared it was announced that contracts for advancing designs on the two remaining sections in the Central Valley (Madera to Merced and Shafter to Bakersfield; essentially preparing for construction packages 5 and 6, if I understand correctly). This news came just days after the federal government granted them 25M USD from the bipartisan infrastructure bill.

It is not even 4 years since Gavin Newsom ordered the stop on any new construction packages (which ironically made this a train from nowhere to nowhere) because there simply wasn’t enough funding to finish anything that hadn’t already started. Thankfully it looks like this era is over now, and we can finally start seeing things get the funding it needs and deserves.
All these are important, /because/ life is survival. Remove the /because/, and the secondary characteristics will fade away. One can just do whatevs, it doesn't make a difference anyways.
I think you could remove a lot of your fairness and logistical concerns by at stage N choosing one solution and everyone group has to start from there.

Now for pedagogical purposes it might be that the professor chooses the best solution or a substantially worse solution.

There might be some concern that this unfairly advantages one group over the others but it’s not completely clear to me that it does.
I had a lovely day picking blackberries in Hampstead Heath today so there’s certainly lots of them left
> It's not really one uniform system and has varying levels of privatization across the country because it is handled by provinces.

Does that structure offer strong protection against perverse incentives in all provinces?
No. The stickiness of the Mercator projection is due to navigational charts wanting to preserve true bearings.
After a firmware upgrade my UI switches have been dropping off the network randomly (doesn't respond to ping, ssh) and stops switching traffic! I have to hard reset the switch to get traffic flowing again.. turning off a lot of the features as their forum suggested seems to have mostly worked but I still have issues now and then. I have even downgraded a little too but, eh. I really regret buying them but I'm not too sure where else to go for switches that are.. not super complex to manage for everyone.
But they still only support gzip or bzip2 for S3 Select’ing json files :(
Using our tools to fix our own bugs
What do you mean by “decent”?

In the US at least, we’re going to get a point in the next few generations where it’s going to get harder and harder for many to find meaning in life. Increased automation, increased climate change, decreased financial security for people who expected to be secure.

It’s going to be rough.
> unsuitable for steel reinforced concrete

> requires a similar amount of energy as regular cement

A better title for this article is “seawater derived cement could marginally decarbonize concrete industry”
If you define negative evaluations as "punishment", then evaluation without punishment is useless.
I had a similar situation at my previous company. After rewriting a web app for another team, I started E2E testing and questioned the entire app’s existence and whether the business process could be automated.

After verifying in the server logs that the users never really validated data (always clicking “submit” after a second or two), I discussed this idea with our business analyst and got the go-ahead, and spent another couple of weeks to automate everything.

Long story short, it was a mess. There was actually one piece of the puzzle that they owned that I couldn’t automate away (essentially clicking a button). So when presenting it all to them (via email), the team lied and told us it “wasn’t working” and CC’d our managers and one level up the chain as well. This manual business process stayed with them. They kept the web app tho.

My advice is to make sure this kind of thing is known to management, and to make sure you can prove to them that this entire process can be automated without problems. Or let it go if you don’t think you can handle the backlash.
I don’t program professionally. Just here to keep an eye on the tech-bros who think they’re above everyone else.
Another attempt.

Prompt:

> A photo in the style of a still from the 1995 science fiction movie Johnny Mnemonic, showing a man sitting in front of a Transputer.

Results:

* https://i.imgur.com/5ESVag2.png

* https://i.imgur.com/8APGO8b.png

* https://i.imgur.com/n38em4Q.png

* https://i.imgur.com/rM4bDit.png

I like these more. Still not sure the output is in any way influenced by the word "transputer" though, as these look like pretty regular computers.

Guess I am left with no choice but to read the PDF itself. And hope that it's worth it :p
Decorating the commit history calendar has been around since forever: https://github.com/gelstudios/gitfiti

Fake code generators have been around since forever: https://hackertyper.net/

Combining them seems like the logical next step.
Diabetics "dispose" of medical waste all the time - they just need a sharps bin at home that they put their needles into, then either drop it off at an appropriate disposal facility or have it picked up. Doesn't seem particularly surprising or dangerous not me, there's nothing magical about a physical health clinic that makes the sharps bins work any differently there...
Many of my scripts run on my computer, but also have to run on Alpine Linux because that's what my employer's CI system exposes. That means Busybox for the common shell utilities (unless the script or job installs something else as needed) and thus POSIX compatibility is important.
ethical use: you use it, and the squares on your github.com profile, which is a website that hosts git repos, turn green.
You can use dylibify for MachO and, IIRC, Witchcraft Compiler Collection for ELF.

https://github.com/jevinskie/dylibify/blob/jev/main/dylibify...
> an image of someone who's been massaged so much their body has been flattened, as if they were made of dough or jelly

do you want a realistic looking one? 3d rendered? what do you have in mind exactly?
Here are some features of Zig that make debugging much easier than C++:

* safety checks (equivalent to UBSAN) when triggered, print stack traces that include source code lines and point to the relevant line/column

* one of the safety checks is using the wrong field of an untagged union. This one is so underappreciated. Wrong union field access costs so much time to debug in C++ but it is a breeze in zig, you get a crash explaining the problem with a stack trace immediately, not a corrupt value that causes problems down the road. untagged unions are core part of the strategy that makes zig fast & have a small memory footprint.

* valgrind client request integration[1]. valgrind "just works" better with Zig than C/C++ because zig emits communicates more information about memory regions that are "undefined".

* error return tracing [2]

* segfaults print stack traces

* std.debug has features to collect stack traces in a compact manner and then dump them at a relevant time [3]

* std.heap.GeneralPurposeAllocator detects leaks and prevents memory corruption from Use-After-Free/Double-Free, making debugging easier

[1]: https://valgrind.org/docs/manual/manual-core-adv.html#manual...

[2]: https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/#Error-Return-Trace...

[3]: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/blob/4a98385b0aa3808ab05a1ebf...
If it's your creation you can make your own license. Copy and paste a license you like and add a few lines.

This fact solves many "we need this lib but it's too open" problems. The author can make a special license just for you if they want.
I had the idea for slack a few years before slack came around. They've deviated a bit but not much.

My use case was to have all events/messages/etc come under the "same roof". To have services tell me of failures, etc in our chat rooms directly.

I'd argue there are better platforms for this, and IRC still does it better depending on what you're after, but that was the idea.

Slack did that for us. Until their idiotic pricing plans came into play.
My singular memory of D1 was that you had to clickclickclickclickclick.

It got to the point that I hurt my hand, it never really recovered from it.

I never got very far in D1, but played a lot of D2 and boatloads of D3.

I go back to D3 once or twice a year when a new season hits.
Due to a recent regulations regarding subscription payment in India, Amazon cannot charge our payment instrument on file directly for subscriptions; It has to go through an intermediate (payment gateway) and the Bank with explicit permission during initial subscription.

Before each subscription payment there after, The Bank reminds us with SMS about the payment and we can cancel it through that. For amount > INR 5000 (~ 60$) each subscription payment has to be approved by the consumer.

Amazon still does employ dark patterns, Like having 'Prime membership cancellation' behind several pages and the final confirmation located in a non-prominent location; But Indians can cancel Prime membership without even visiting Amazon's website.
The humans are also the people that come up with the concept in the first place...

Also sounds like an upside down use of the tool, since AI generated art really isn't that great at composition once you've got over the magic of it being able to respond to the prompt at all (but is much better at texture and filling in boring details), and the current state of the art AI tools can produce images which conform to a human guideline sketch...
No, because he has that amount of money on hand himself.
Is doing other people’s homework for them a career skill?
This is a great insight. Once "work is no longer required for survival", people are going to soon discover that "work is not longer sufficient for survival" either.

"Decent" as in: we believe that character, including work ethic, can make or break a life.
I’m inclined to agree. If I’m a data entry drone and the company can’t / doesn’t want to automate the job then they made their bed.

I also suspect the person who did this is doing a fair amount of spot checking to avoid being caught, more than the company might do.
Another "Europeana are racist ergo Mercator".

The Mercator projection is popular for one very important reason: ease of navigation [1]. If you know nothing but your location on Earth you can sail, walk, fly, paddle wherever you want with a Mercator map and a compass.

Thats it.

Before fancy navigation aids this was huge. Sure, trade winds and great circles were important consideration. But, at the end of the day, if poop hit the fan (think Shackleton expedition) and all you had was a row boat, a compass and a sextant with 800 mi of South Atlantic to cross, you could still make it home.

But no, the purpose of a chart is not as a practical aid to getting around. The purpose of a chart is for insecure white men to feel better about themselves. Here I agree, as the author is clearly projecting his white savior complex

[1] the author doesn't even get right the reason why the Mercator excels for navigation: constant rhumb lines. You set your course and you'll get to your destination without needing to correct (a great circle requires constant correction). "Small features are preserved" what croc!
Agreed, but you can say that about 2 cars passing each other at a 4-way stop.

Sometimes you just need to take a calculated risk and see where it goes.
Perhaps but war was posited of a method of "clearing the books" and allowing significant reform. If that were true you'd expect such societies to be less weighed down by bureaucracy than others that had no such opportunity.
The AI is enabling the creativity of laypeople. That's still an enhancement, even if they don't have the technique to make a polished product
Energy Projects Sought Across the U.S. Face Local Regulatory Hurdles
The phones stay away as much as possible when my friends and I meet in person, just as a matter of courtesy. Nothing's recorded (as far as we know).
Right. But it wasn't safe because it wasn't really FDIC insured.
Is that true? People wealthy enough to ensure their lifetime survival don’t seem miserable.
Thanks a lot!

Hopefully I am not asking too much, but can you run the same prompts without the “make it pop”? So we can learn what is “pop”
We’ve used Phoenix for 5 years for an important internal project in a large tech company. We don’t do a ton with Phoenix itself, it’s just a simple MVC web app for managing a more complicated Elixir thing. No Liveview or even Ecto, for instance. But it has worked just fine.

We push Elixir to its absolute limits, though, and after years of being on call for a production Elixir system, I’m still totally in love with it. Plenty of experience with Ruby, Python, PHP, Java. Elixir is a game changer. If I build basically anything in the future it will be in Elixir. And it will probably need some kind of web interface, so that will definitely be Phoenix.
ML Deployment: When the Big Problem Is Going Big
Love it, I have the same. "GoodIdeas" in my Vim potwiki(0). Most of them I shared in passing, maybe one or two I hold on to actually being special. Have often thought of an anonymous twitter feed as an alternative.

[0] https://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1018.
Check expert systems, there were already experimental good medical experts systems in the 1980'. None of them ever hit the market, because medicine is an incredibly difficult market to penetrate due to regulations, but also the structure of power: When doctors can vet what they buy or use, nothing that they perceive to weaken their power can succeed.

One area you can try is alternative medicine, such as naturopathic medicine, which is a social group much less powerful.

U.S. jurisdictions that permit access to prescription drugs to naturopathic medicine: Arizona, California, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Kansas, Maine, Montana, New Hampshire, Oregon, Utah, Vermont, and Washington.
The rolled up material in a cylindrical cell, even macroscopic ones, are usually called "jelly rolls".
Patient cost is a function of how much money is poured into the system divided by the number of potential patients, aka insurance subscribers.
Hmm a 400 error? Which SQL client did you try connecting with?
The authagraph seems like a pretty garbage projection compared with something like the dymaxion.
I thought Mercator was instituted and maintained by the mighty Antarctica. Look how much bigger and better it is than every other landmass!
I've wanted to get a mercator map with a 90 degree rotation instead. An "equator-up" orientation?
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Did you have any issues with the climate system? I’ve been thinking about doing this for an annoying Sync 3 unit but I’m worried it’s too deeply integrated in some way.
I'm thinking in your world people who live in one place have only ever lived in that one place?

>Posting things that are going to make people upset is a trolling behavior.

ok but I didn't expect anyone to be upset by it, But I guess some folks are more delicate than my expectations.

>Not saying your post was trolling, only pointing out it was flagged dead by the community.

ok, the community did it.