skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've used MidJourney and I really don't think it takes that many tries to get what you want. When you enter in a prompt you get 4 results and then you can either upscale one of them or you can variate on one of them and produce 4 variations of that particular one.

Here's a couple "first results" that I personally tried and you can judge for yourself:

"the government is putting violence in our water"

https://mj-gallery.com/87f5a54d-7d59-44d3-aab4-1dd3ef34902e/...

"cherry monkey"

https://mj-gallery.com/5d2e14ba-8ea1-4797-ab6b-4a6807cfffa8/...

"permaculture garden city"

https://mj-gallery.com/088c18c1-8e61-44da-b109-edfbd32967ac/...

"Acmella oleracea"

https://mj-gallery.com/9d1bc9f3-3cdc-44ec-8577-0791c69aa942/...

"mondrian banana cloud forest"

https://mj-gallery.com/25a8ef06-1a07-4a40-97e5-bebbd2ee925e/...

"lonely neon rainforest at night"

https://mj-gallery.com/8e7b73c0-f519-4727-bf16-30e0a42ab412/...

Obviously these prompts are a bit more artsy than stock photos are meant to be but the point is just to give you an idea of how it does on the first try. All of these took less than a minute to produce
God did I ever love my '92 Rover.

Maybe I should get another one.
But what's the issue with making a post and discussing how a product one made solves an issue? GPT-3 and DALL-E are both products with a pay-per-play model. So is AWS and S3. We talk about those things all the time with no scrutiny or suspicion.
that was exactly the point I was trying to make!
One of the things we aim to do with chiselstrike is to allow that transition to happen easily by providing a unifying interface.
Agreed. At my last job, we offshored all of our development to Belarus and Ukraine. One example we couldn't contractors living in Russia, and a few times we had to chew out our account manager at the offshoring company for being dishonest, and for risking us violating all of our largest customers.
I can't believe you (or anybody else) was able to read it. It was so painfully terribly written I bailed after the second section.
The estimate is not for all manuscripts, but a specific niche of them - "Instead of focusing on all medieval manuscripts, many of which are religious texts, the study focused on narrative and chivalric fiction".

If we include the larger categories (like the religious texts) then it would be higher, but not that much higher, given the many man-months of work each copy required.
Just to be clear, I'm not trying to argue with you - just trying to share an observation from my own life.

The experience of the inner monologue in my brain not being able to control what the rest of my body is doing when not on meds sure does feel like a crippled down version of free will
Not the person you're replying to but there are studies showing how a summer vs winter birth can affect the child.
They don't actually. I still own a home back in the states, and still pay local taxes. From the state's point of view, I just work remotely for Californian startups.
Working as contractor is still working
Sure am, but chiselstrike is OSS as well.
So no different than any OSS project with a monetization strategy.
(github.com/chiselstrike/chiselstrike)
Try Google Images:

https://www.google.com/search?q=photography+lens

You'll see not a single glass lens by itself, but rather every image will be of an assembly containing optical lens intended for mounting to a camera.

Also, enter any photography store and ask to see the lenses. You'll not be presented with discrete glass, but rather with assemblies containing glass intended for mounting to a camera.

Perhaps in the eyeglass industry the term "lens" refers to the glass itself as a discrete component, but not in photography.
Sadly true, and it's not limited to the ancient era. There are tomes from within the past 100-150 years that would shake up most peoples' entire worldview that are readily ignored.

Hell, entire subjects are poo-pooed these days. Dare I say the word 'humanities' around a 'tech' worker?

Lost to indifference, religious or scientific dogma, a lack of curiosity, and even more damaging: a lack of humility.
Previously:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32551188
I assume the same approach wouldn't be possible on iOS, since it seems very dynamic in nature.
I'm not sure why companies keep trying this. Did we learn nothing from Microsoft's holocaust-denying chatbot (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_(bot))?
I think that’s more the statement ‘I like anime’ without context?

If you already see the person in front of you is not a pasty white nerd the statement doesn’t make as much of sn impression.

In which case the problem is really being a pasty white nerd.
Real unfolding of the web as it happened can be obtained by perusing the www-talk@w3c.org mailing list archives:

https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-talk/

Look at the frenetic discourse around Eolas being granted a patent for "weblets". It's kind of amazing that a bespoke web "grid computer" almost became the standard for 3D viz in the browser. Instead I recall just a lot of fragmentation in the early 3D web: Sun people just used Java applets, MS folks rolled out ActiveX controls, etc.

Eolas MultiVIS™: A Web-based interactive remote visualization
environment and navigable volume imagemap system

http://www.eolas.com/img/20-1-spie-aipr-10-99-multivis.pdf
That’s interesting. When you do see a compiler writer online it seems that they usually complain that the work isn’t well paid compared to other programming roles.
If you own the copyright to the application then you do not need a license to use it. The case where you would be violating a license would be if someone else owns the copyright to parts of the application, for example because you accepted code from external contributers under the AGPL, or reused other AGPL code.
This is a fine article but I find the jump from

> This works reasonably well. The polling period of reading the events may become a problem, but you can make it better by using database triggers.

to

> But when we look at tailored backends in the open, especially in architectures for FAANG, MAMAA, or whatever the acronym is until the next time Zuck decides to pivot Facebook, things look different.

unsatisfying.

Somewhere I'd love the walkthrough of in what scenarios exactly does the database-as-event-store+ad-hoc-worker architecture fall over rather than immediately jumping to what "the pros" do. That's more of an appeal to authority rather than something I can learn from.

Not saying you need to do this in your article but if not at least a link to read more would be welcome. :)
I also have minor DP/DR and HPPD induced by very minor LSD usage years ago, which comes and goes depending on the situation. I've had times before where I literally start tripping, just for a moment, like I totally enter the trippy headspace or have a very trippy feeling. For example I will be cooking and suddenly the barrier between me and the food disintegrates and I just feel completely whack for a while. I also have lost a sense of what is in my peripheral vision, for example I was in a meeting earlier and in my periphery someone's bag fell over and I was convinced for a moment that it was an animal even though we were just sitting in an office. This happens basically every day and slowly getting worse tbh and I'm convinced it is an LSD thing. Also sometimes if my mental health is bad I have tactile hallucinations, like someone is tapping on my shoulder but no one is there.

I had actual HPPD for about a year after my trip, e.g. I could reproduce certain visual effects by looking in a certain way. I think it also caused my tendency to experience pretty strong open-eye hallucinations while meditating, which are called "makyo" in Japanese.

Of course, maybe none of this is due to the LSD usage, but I think some of it probably is.

After my 2 LSD trips with 100ug and very good setting (and I thought at the time good enough set) I slowly became very depressed and suicidal and had a total crisis. I actually had to seek out religion (which I always hated as a life long atheist) to be able to cope and not kill myself. It got close at some point and basically every since suicide has been lingering over my head. It made it a possibility: before LSD if I had stress I would lament at the world being unfair or something, after LSD if I have stress (even just minor work stress) I just can't stop thinking about killing myself. I'm on a waiting list for therapy but it is very long.

The absurd part about the LSD community is that even after telling other psych users all that, the response of about 50% of people is that I should take more at a higher dose...
Legality of student loan plan relies on pandemic, 2003 law
Google Pixel sees sales growth, has 2% of North American market
I’m personally based in the US, but we have local entities in several EU countries and a “mobility team” (part of HR) that does the research for us, using a mix of in-house expertise and outside counsel. We have a list of countries for which we’ve already done the research (for our own facts and circumstances) to know whether and how we could employ people there and if I want to hire someone in a new place not on the list, they research it and make recommendations.

It’s not something easily amenable to a definitive and simple chart (as I understand it, but that’s coming from the experts we pay a lot to to answer these questions).
Urban Areas include both Urbanized Areas >50K and Urban Clusters 2.5K-50K

US is 68% Urbanized, 21% Rural, and only 10% Urban Cluster.

https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/geography/guidance/g...

And of course those horse farms only demand a big truck if you are doing big work on the horse farm. If all you need is AWD you don't need a big truck.
Code wise, sure, but if you're discussing a 0-day in the wild, you may want to keep it private while you work out the details and the solution, otherwise you're inviting more abuse.
> moving to another place

Like the woods?
There are all kinds of articles that have popped up on HN about a company that did a rewrite because one of those frameworks was no longer appropriate for them. The article that come across the best are always the articles where it's not condemning a framework but instead talking about the engineering tradeoffs inherent in what we do.

If a company structured their software in such a way that this is more costly than they can afford them be transparent about it. Choices were made. Those choices no longer fit our needs. New choices need to be made. The company can either learn from the mistake and pay the costs or they can slowly sink under the weight of bad engineering decisions over time.

It is possible to structure any application in such a way that you can easily pull out your core pieces and put them into a different framework. If you didn't and instead bet too heavily on a single framework then yeah, you might be stuck with really expensive decisions.
I redesigned some of my favorite book covers using DALL-E-2
It changes nothing about images you consume, but yes, it changes things for images you produce.
Nobody assumes that. But if you give it away to literally everybody that asks for it, you'd be worse than naive to assume that nobody is going to abuse it.

But your comment makes it sound as if you'd rather give up your rights than not have access to this system. I don't think it's that interesting, is it?
Is there a code of ethics for programmers and engineers?
I suffered under MQ for many years. I never understood what any of it was for, other than the actual queue part (which is what you can get for free from competing products like RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, Kafka, etc.). And it wasn't because I didn't try to find some documentation...
I’m torn between using DataMatrix or QR codes on our inventory. They need to be small, easily scanned using a handheld mobile scanner, and slightly damage resistant in case the adhesive label is partially folded or scratched.

Both DataMatrix and QR codes have similar performance in all manners in my limited testing. Are there any clear advantages to one over the other, or am I bikeshedding myself?
So much comes from the structure of the prompt. I've played a lot with dalle-mini, because that's all I had access to, and it's interesting to take prompts from this page (OpenArt) and try them over in dalle-mini.

For example, just paste this (From an OpenArt example):

"A young girl with long wavy black hair is riding a motocycle, she is riding through sunset, she has long black boots. Perspective is from back. Pixel art."

The results, in dalle-mini, are so much better than anything I've ever gotten out of it.

And, then, try variation on the theme:

"A young boy with short blonde hair is playing a stratocaster, he is playing in front of a garden stream, he is wearing blue jeans. Perspective is from front. Watercolor."
I love all of these!
looks good. Needed this as i was searching for something which has almost all calendly features but also has easy way to book with mobile numbers also.
An Array in Ada is interesting. https://learn.adacore.com/courses/intro-to-ada/chapters/arra...

Like other languages, it is a collection of contiguous elements that can be selected by indexing.

Unlike other languages:

- any discrete type can be used for indexing, not just integers

- bounds can be any value (doesn’t have to start at 0 or 1. First index could be 13)

- one consequence of the aforementioned is that arrays are types that map to the problem domain, rather than being tied to the computing domain

- and more…
Yes. At some point you've got to ask yourself if you're making the world a worse place with your decisions, even if everything is technically legal. And then decide if you want to change it or not.
There could never, ever be an Ulrich Drepper who maintained a project the size and importance of glibc in any project, ever.
What about applying to jobs in other geographies? Any remote gigs from UAE or India or somewhere?
Engage with some open-source compiler community or, better, find a way to contribute and then the job will find you. Note, however, that even if you wanted to pursue a purely academic compiler research career, it is highly unlikely that you would stick with the same subject. So broaden your interests, part of research is understanding new things.

Specifically, I work on LLVM and there are dozens of job ads in every developer meeting or on https://discourse.llvm.org/c/community/job-postings/16.
Anime is a very broad genre, aiming at small kids, teenager to young adults; and since some decades more and more also older adults. Ghibli for example is more family-orientated than just children. So it highly depends on which anime you enjoy and for what reasons, and what you make of it. Comparable here are Harry Potter-, Marvel- or Star Wars-Movies. Nobody would say liking these makes you unattractive, but most people would also not say it makes you attractive (fans of those franchises/genre are the obvious exception).

The actual thing is, you probably got it the wrong way. Not anime makes you unattractive, the lack of anything attractive makes you unattractive.
That's a really good point.

I thought of that myself to be honest but the article was becoming too long and decided to cap. Great point about the link, that's great feedback!
Why would a European SW developer need one of these visas for Europe? Also, I think plenty do make more than this, no? At least in Berlin I'm sure many of the people I worked with netted at least double this.
"Is it the norm for companies/startups to not give a damn about security?"

More or less, yes. They generally talk about security, but it's mostly just lip service. Although I will say your examples are pretty extreme.

I once worked on a team as the security champion for a major financial system the company uses internally (thankfully) for trading. There was a problem with SQL injection on every page/input we built in that system. And it had schema owner privileges, so you could drop tables and stuff. This is a possibility to happen by accident since there are trade desk devs who could have a tablename collision and accidentslly paste SQL into a field, let alone the malicious possibilities

I brought this up with the principle to see which of the two remediation plans he wanted to pursue and what resources he would provide me with for the work. Apparently they wanted to go with their own option of do nothing. They said there's an automatic backup of the database in near realtime (forget the name). Would it duplicate dropping tables? How far back can you restore? Has it ever been tested? What are the procedures for restoring? How long to restore (even a 15 minute outage is the end of the world according to the business)? They didn't know any of it, and they didn't really care to.

I promptly left that team. They just wanted a security champion to do paperwork for regulatory compliance. I had no real power to make improvements beyond the smaller stuff could do myself.
It's fun playing predictions but truth is no one knows what is going to happen. I hope Russia retreats and gives up as you are implying but I am very skeptical it will happen soon. Maybe I will be pleasantly surprised...
I was skeptical coming from running my home server with nginx as a reverse proxy for a bunch of services, but caddy is a joy to use.
See my comment above, but I don't have faith even in scientific journals. Science, academia, media, etc are beholden to corporate interests as is the governance structure. The world we live in is bent - legislation, funding, the 'reality' presentation is all bent to serve corporate-governmental control.
Fair enough. I suppose HGT gone wrong could lead to a pretty major disaster
Brave Ads are better than the ads they block in my opinion. They are opt in. They aren't targeted/tracking. They appear as notification bubbles so they don't disrupt page content. They don't run javascript which can be a security and performance problem.
Hm.

> Basically, the question "when targeting WASM, why should I use C++ and Rust instead of AssemblyScript" is just as valid.

…but, if you want to write typescript then why not just write typescript?

If you want better performance surely tier 1 support for wasm, for example, for typescript, it a categorically better solution for everyone, with no need for an entirely new language?

A good comparison is rust-gpu: this is an approach to let you write gpu shaders in rust. The toolchain is different, but you write rust. You compile it. It runs on gpus.

Not everyone needs, or wants to do this, but for people who need a) very high performance, b) existing tooling, you can do it, and it saves you writing shaders in c.

When rust releases a new version, the same rust compiler compiles new rust code and new rust syntax for gpu.

So… the parallels are clear, except assemblyscript seems to have missed the boat by deciding to invent a new language with high level similarity but not quite the same” semantics.

..and when typescript continues to evolve? Will assemblyscript forever be playing catch-up to new typescript syntax? Or fall behind the rentless march of the Microsoft/typescript release cycle?

What about when Microsoft decides to make this a first class feature of typescript itself? I think that’s not really that unlikely if it means significant performance gains.

I feel this is a missed opportunity. What you wanted was to be able to compile typescript to wasm, not a new language.
Birmingham is getting rough, I moved away near the St Clair county area. Safer areas, less things to do overall though.
Examples? How would one find such tomes?
They went into the codes that they're trying to sell with their software.
Yeah, I was just thinking this is pretty much where modern IBM mainframes are. Lot of processing is already HW accelerated (I/O, crypto, compression, analytics, with z16 they are adding matrix multiplier for neural networks..).
> But you're talking about adding one instruction to every single data access.

No, you misunderstood. You subtract one from the pointer at allocation time. You don’t add an instruction every time you access.
It takes some tens of grams of sodium chloride to significantly alter my body chemistry. A few milligrams of cyanide will alter my body chemistry enough to be measured by the existence of a pulse.
Formally, yes. Practically, once t is large enough, violations of the constraint are much more likely to involve "acts of god" (power outages, rogue backhoe operators, natural disasters, wars, etc.) even if conventional best-effort techniques are applied.
I'm honestly surprised it took this long. Beware of "anti-cheat" drivers that often poke more holes than they plug.
I know this isn’t a one-to-one comparison, but there’s an interesting discrepancy in how HN views free-to-use products.

In this situation, there is a prevailing attitude of “You are not paying for this, so you are not entitled to fixes or support. Any suggestion otherwise is entitlement on your part. I don’t care that you’ve grown to rely on this service. Pay me or figure it out yourself.”

When it came to Gitlab considering deleting old free-tier repos, however, people were incensed and insisted that there is an obligation to continue providing free service for users.

Similarly, with Gmail and YouTube, people often invoke the argument of “this is people’s lives and livelihoods, so of course there is an obligation to provide fixes and support.”

So is the difference here that one endeavor is done for profit and the other isn’t? If an open source project becomes profitable for the maintainers, do they now have a obligation to fix and support their software?
Sure, but there's nothing new under the sun. And ironic fashion is still fashion.
As long as I'm working remotely for a company that doesn't have a presence in Turkiye (unless that presence is in one of the international development zones) then there's nothing for me to worry about. At least that's what my lawyer says when I ask him every year to see if the law has changed.
its going to keep getting worse everywhere when it takes this long to accumulate assets for a house, car and financial cusion.
One thing I know of is the CoPilot language/library/thingy from NASA (no relation to Githubs copilot), which can takes in code in a Haskell DSL and outputs code that is guaranteed to run in constant memory and uses an equal number of cycles each loop. See it here: https://copilot-language.github.io/

Also if you ever find yourself needing to write hard real-time code for your arduino, check out my blog post about the arduino-copilot library at https://wjwh.eu/posts/2020-01-30-arduino-copilot.html :)
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