skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You can't let vendors hide security problems by just not doing anything about them.

Telling people that the product they rely on has vulnerabilities is clearly not the same thing as "release the vulnerability report" though, is it? I still remain amazed at the absolutism in the arguments here. There is a spectrum of responses that can be explored before dropping bombs. But everyone wants to see stuff burn?
You will have a shitton of bad press. Doesn't matter if it's right or wrong as in this case, it is still going to affect you.
Yes, and in fact, pigeons coo! See: https://pigeonpedia.com/what-sound-does-a-pigeon-make/

Side-note: When i looked up what sound pigeons make, i was pleasantly surprised to learn that there exists a Pigeonpedia! :-)
A color photo of Bill Lumberg leaning on a corner of cubicle with coffee in hand, mounted right on the corner of my cubicle where my manager always leans when he’s got something to ask.

Nobody seems to have spotted it yet. I like my manager but it still gives me a little chuckle whenever I’m interrupted.
Standard disclaimer: I work at AWS in consulting and could easily be accused of drinking the Kool Aid.

Everyone from consultants, SAs, Sales, support etc is constantly working toward getting customers to “optimize” their spend. Of course any business wants you to give them more money. But, none of us are pushed to get them to spend money on services or methods to do things inefficiently.

I specifically work in consulting specializing in “application modernization”. That means most of my implementations are cheap and I’m constantly spending time making sure my implementation is cheap as possible and still meet the requirements. I first noticed this attitude from AWS when I was working for a startup.

This isn’t just with AWS. I spent years working in enterprise shops and saw the same attitude working with Microsoft.

I can’t speak for any other large organizations - AWS and Microsoft are the only two I’ve worked with as either a customer or employee where there was huge spending on infrastructure or software.

Now I could easily get started about my opinion of Oracle from the customer standpoint. But I won’t.
As of August they'll even do assembly on both sides even with beveled edge connectors etc.

It's crazy what is available cheaply to hobbyists now!
> RevOps management

And now "XxxOps" is a meaningless buzzword.
This is only going to end in disaster and life-long trauma for that child. Poor luck of the draw for that kid.
Is any of that actually going to be a massive industry-defining feature? Marketing blogs are already negative value to me, relying on AI to write something as important as my resume is a non-starter, and marketing emails already go straight to the trash.

I'm very impressed with the AI image generation, but again, it replaces... stock art for blog posts?

If I was a creative writer then I think the AI could help me with plot outlines or get over writing blocks. But otherwise I'm not grasping why this is going to automate some huge number of jobs.
I do kind of wonder how much the new repair-friendly Apple has to do with the fact that they lose basically the entire laptop's margin every time they have to replace a battery under warranty.
Great ! I would love to be able to use a version of SurrealDB, even with a more limited feature set, in my open-source projects.
It doesn’t pull the OSM data (from their servers)? Or you did that once and pre-processed everything now?

I presume you can do something similar for the daily and minutely updates, but I imagine merging that with the existing stuff is more work.
In fact, they announced lower prices today, going into effect in September.

https://openai.com/api/pricing/
I'm planning to move to Estonia to start a software product company so this is a very interesting discussion. I was already aware that Ireland and Hungary have lower corporate tax than Estonia but reading the comments I stopped to ponder why I'm not starting the company there instead.

One reason is that I don't have to begin paying (much) tax in Estonia until I start taking money out of the company, which could be many years into the future.

Another reason is cultural: I admit to not knowing all that much about Hungarian culture, but being from Northern Europe I think I will like it better in Estonia and fit in better.

Ireland is just too far away. Also I'm not sure if Ireland being an English-speaking country is only a good thing. I prefer to keep a safe distance from the more toxic parts of Silicon Valley culture (just see what happened to Base Camp).
> Chris is himself a troll. He has physically attacked a gamestop employee, his mother tried to run over another one.

He also gloated about having a girlfriend while deliberately witholding information that he knew would get him in trouble; he teased out hints that it was his mother, such as "she's an older lady", "we've known each other a long time", "she graduated from <school> in accounting".
I found many of the changes to be an improvement. The early comics really hooked into the DC mythos, and while that was cool as a comics nerd to see how all that fit together, it would be unwieldy in a standalone series. I particularly like the changes they made for Dee/Dr. Destiny.
Mozilla review of pregnancy and period trackers sheds light on privacy concerns
It seems like you're taking out your dislike for your ex on your kid
This is, in part, what I'm trying to point out, it's an obvious typo given the context, and something that you or I would be able to pick up on, yet it completely breaks (it spit out a bunch of weird confetti cats for me). Perhaps I'm being a little harsh, but if it requires word-perfect tuning and prompt engineering, it speaks to something about the 'stupidity' of these models. It's a neat trick, but to call it anything in the realm of artificial intelligence is a bit of a joke.
I find it difficult to invest time in reading this when the author demonstrates such a basic misunderstanding of copyright:

>...software, by default, probably cannot be used, modified, or redistributed without a license from the copyright holder.

Of course it can be used and modified. It's the redistribution that is covered by copyright law.

>...you can’t really use software without someone giving you permission.

This is completely false, except where a license is required to obtain a copy to begin with. It is the license that creates the restriction, not the copyright.
If there are 3rd parties who do inexpensive fixes quickly, what is the problem?
Hmm. Hims sends penis pills. Interesting dichotomy.
I am not sure why the use of the money you earn from your service is relevant. It isn’t a charity or a non-profit. I find the whole discussion revolving around why you did it extremely off putting, no different in my mind than if you said “help me buy a yacht by subscribing to my new SaaS startup”. Either the product/service is worthy of payment or it’s not.
With all due respect, and at the risk of splitting hairs, i would think that "rattling a can of seeds" is more like social engineering, right? ;-)
There are many degrees of optimization and clearly there's some cost to bad performance, but Snowflake still has a massive perverse incentive to not spend too much effort on improving performance. If Snowflake is like every software company I've ever been involved with there are many competing projects at any given time and direct revenue impact is a big factor in what gets prioritized.

My own experience with Snowflake absolutely backs up the article's point. At my work we routinely encounter abysmal performance for certain types of queries, due to a flaw on Snowflake's side. We have had numerous talks with them and there is no question that they have an issue, but they have shown absolutely no urgency to fix it. Their recommendation is that we spend more money to work around the problem on their end.
The claim was that Trump withheld funding and was impeached for it. You claimed, incorrectly, Trump did not withhold funding. I'm not sure what your other questions are about.

You should be more careful of accusing people of falling for fake news when you are having such a hard time distinguishing fact from fiction.

"The inquiry reported that Trump withheld military aid[a] and an invitation to the White House to Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy in order to influence Ukraine to announce an investigation into Trump's political opponent Joe Biden"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_impeachment_of_Donald_Tr...
I think this was the article I read about it a couple weeks back:

https://variety.com/2022/tv/features/the-sandman-premiere-pr...

Basically - lots of proposed adaptations with stupid plots, bad directing, etc.

Ahhh, no it was this article:

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20220803-the-sandman-how...

In "An evening with Kevin Smith" (which you can buy, or find on Youtube), he details how around the same time Jon Peters was trying to persuade him to make "Superman Returns" which featured a "Giant Mechanical Spider". Neil Gaiman also got this pitch for a Sandman plot. Eventually the giant spider ended up in "Wild Wild West" with Will Smith. We all know how that went.
None of these usecases are things I want to be on the receiving end of. Ick.
I do, but I can't describe it well, other than "something stylistically similar about the colors, angles, and motion". You'll get a feel for the "something" with their self-produced shows. With the films they acquire/purchase, you won't see it, even if they're labeled as produced by Netflix.
> Plate tracking is better for determining direction, and is probably more reliable because TPMS aren't constantly transmitting.

And also because direct-sensed TPMS is only one way of implementing TPMS. Other implementations use wheel-speed sensors which are hard wired, not RF.
> You can join our dedicated community for Stable Diffusion here: [https://discord.gg/stablediffusion]

Oh, discord... I've had so many problems trying to log into discord in the last couple of years that I've given up on it.
Did gpt3 write the first 5 ones ?
A general overview of what happens before main() (2019)
Yes, clone the repo (https://github.com/CompVis/stable-diffusion), download the weights and follow the readme for setting up a conda environment. I am presently doing so on my RTX 3080.
I live in a developing nation in the southern hemisphere. My government sends me a pre-filled tax return that doesn't account for some deductions that I could take advantage of. If I want to, I can manually file a more detailed return. We're still working on reliable electricity tho, that's much more difficult.
For those who are lucky enough to make it, I foresee patronage as being much more stable than making art to sell to the masses/corporate ad contracts.
Like drones which are shaped like pigeons? Like pidrones?
You comment reminded me of what my dad said about service contracts from IBM back in the 1970's. They promise they'll get a tech on site in 24 hours. They don't promise he'll know how to do anything.
Could that have something to do with the subjective nature of philosophy? (IANAP)
What do you mean? That seems to be quite literally what is happening?

> Metrics corroborate reports of a disruption to YouTube in Pakistan on multiple internet providers; the incident comes as former PM Imran Khan live streams on the platform despite a ban by media regulator PEMRA

> … Access was restored after the speech concluded.

PEMRA is the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority

You may disagree with the notion of a “deep state” but how can you say that censorship of a populist is “not even remotely what happened” ?
That’s for GPT-3 text generation, not the DALL-E 2 image generator. Hopefully that will get pricing revised down (and an official API) before long.
I can't believe i sold my rtx2070 last month, aaargh...!
Universal Pictures (Hollywood) flat out destroyed their negatives.
If I recall from the interview with Stability.ai's founder, he has more or less the same opinion, and that humans will adapt to the new technology as we always have. I figure "please don't abuse this technology" warning stickers are more CYA. It'll make the vast majority of judges look at a motion to dismiss and not blink an eye.
Great read Chris! I was in the S21 batch and definitely relate to a lot of the things you posted. Especially re: batchmate quality.

One big thing that YC did for me is it was an ambition multiplier. Pre-YC I thought it'd be cool to make software that could just pay my bills. A year post-batch and I find my default state is much more ambitious than before.

It's a crazy feeling seeing so many people start from 0 and the progress they can make in just 3 months. YC helped me and my company tremendously.
As an example, if you're writing a shooter then the floor might be a large square that will almost definitely be intersecting the near plane. You absolutely need clipping here.
The story I heard on this is that the US "asked" Khan to play ball on Ukraine/anti-Russia and he basically said no, came out with a statement like "Are we your slaves?" https://www.ibtimes.com/are-we-your-slaves-pakistans-khan-sl... and about 2 weeks later he was removed from office. There's no concrete evidence the US was connected to regime change here but it sure looks that way and it wouldn't be the first time.
I read the entire, extremely short article, and you must be talking about a different article. This one says that Imran Khan's speech was banned, many Pakistani ISPs blocked Youtube while he was giving it, and access was restored after the speech was over.

So what did the article you're talking about say?
Serious question - why does this place still tolerate Vice?

They attacked Stallman on utterly blatantly false pretenses, egregiously misquoting him. Their page is a GPDR violation. And if they've managed any quality journalism in the past ten years or so, I haven't seen it.
I wish I wasn't having to agree. Stay safe and best wishes for you and those around you for the next few years. I'm genuinely hoping I'm wrong to be concerned.
At 5% plus whatever amount they take for profit it seems like they'd be able to get some large investors on board and wouldn't need us plebs at all.
I find a TODO list useful for those things that need to be done today as well as others sometime in the next two weeks. For whatever reason, it can't be done today but it does need to happen. Putting a reminder on my calendar sometimes works for me and sometimes doesn't depending on what other supporting actions or information or whatever go along with it. If the calendar reminder pops up and I'm not "ready" to work on that it can get lost. On my TODO list, I see a constant reminder that the due date is coming and I can ensure that I find the time to complete it. I'm not always the best at looking well ahead on my calendar.

That's how my mind works, YMMV.
Not just "the" CAN bus, but the one you're sniffing. Many cars have multiple busses that carry different traffic.
Windows ran on 640x480 resolutions just fine.

Mac OS 7 the same with 512x384.
Incredible! In my mental timeline VENOM came first, maybe because we had to pull an all-nighter.
I’ve never used TaskPaper, but the capabilities of the data format look somewhat similar.

I think the difference is primarily a philosophical one: [x]it! is a file format with a formal specification that’s open source.[1] There is no “canonical” tool for it, the idea is rather that tools can be created separately. That should give users the freedom to work with their data independent of specific tools.

[1] https://github.com/jotaen/xit/blob/main/Specification.md
Snowflake is slower and more expensive than competitors. I'd say its moat is mostly that its extremely easy to set up and start using without technical support. If you've just got a small team and no one wants to do data engineering snowflake makes that possible, or at least much easier. Most users are generally happy, and they've followed the cloud playbook of making it hard to switch off, so even when teams have scaled to the level where secondary indexes and data support staff makes sense the team is still happy with snowflake.
Sure but to not even mention churn as something Snowflake is worried about is pretty silly. With the funding environment taking a dramatic turn they (and every other SaaS company) are going to be deeply concerned about price competition and churn
The companies submitted bad data, and it was not until ProPublica visualized what the data were saying that it became obvious.

If anything it shows the government is not providing enough oversight on the data provided.
Emigrate, but where? I hear discontent from people from several countries but it's not clear there is any place to go where it is universally "better". Some places are better for some aspects, some places are better for other aspects; but like a short blanket, you pull one end and it uncovers the other end.
Based on my experience looking at people, and what they are eating and doing on a day to day basis, conclusions from population wide BMI statistics are not affected by people who are too muscular or have high bone density.

The Alaskan lumberjack is not representative of the data. What is representative are people who do not sleep right, eat right, or exercise right for the purposes of preventing and delaying health issues.
2012 Jeep Grand Cherokee and 2015 Jeep Cherokee show tire pressure in each tire.
I don't think porn is as bad as some people say, but there are downsides, and good quality erotica seems like a healthier alternative.

Whether a human or a computer writes it seems unimportant.
Holly.. you made me understand why vertical anti-trust is a thing. (I'm slow..).

A single company, google, gives a photo-service for free, while making enormous bread through ads. On its own the free service would be dead on arrival but now it's sustained by the ads branch of the company, making it unbeatable. Then pure-photo-service competitors die and you get a monopoly.
Does Netflix offer a non-HDCP streaming format? Taking a screenshot may be somewhat difficult.
This is a service that I would pay for. Even if I had to pay more than the advertisers would.
I wonder how does GPT-3 understands that phrase.
> went to out of state or private school

Funny how going to the best school that you're talented enough to get admitted to is considered a bad decision. That's fine though, just don't try to tell me that society is a "meritocracy", as opposed to an aristocracy.

The worst decision I ever made was being born to parents who couldn't afford to pay for an expensive education. I'll always regret that.

When I was 18, I had to pass up the opportunity to go to an Ivy League school. I went to a state school instead. Some people might claim that was the "responsible" choice, but it wasn't even my choice, it was my parents' choice. I don't think I was directly eligible for loans at the time; if I was, I might have taken them.
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> U.S. citizen being hunted for acts committed on US soil so as terrible as prosecuting them is, I don't see how it's relevant here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evo_Morales_grounding_incident
Society too. Without people nothing stops me from dwindling in my own paranoia or mania. Being with others brings alternative point of views (too much these days) and help me breaks the DFS aspect of thinking.
They are up against big fossil fuel tycoons like the Kochs. If we are strictly talking corporate propaganda, the fossil fuel industry has plenty of that.
How do you know what I did in regards to the Five Eyes?

I wonder what's easier to check and verify, a secret government tapping of the Internet, or if the TVs in millions of people's living rooms are trying to connect to open WiFi networks...
Not a great analogy, because refugees from Mongolia would not flee to the EU the next day.
sometimes, yes. Also, sometimes you lose context by logging too high. It is a Goldilocks thing. What I've started wanting is a system where you attach key-value pairs to an error condition and that error bubbles up to as high in the stack as possible and then reports the error with all key-value pairs that it picked up on the propagation back up the stack.
For those people who haven't studied Pakistan extensively, the army has always run things, the politicians are just the thin veneer of pretense at democracy as a public face.

The Army and the military forces in general are the people who really control the country.

Pakistan makes a public show of having a parliamentary democracy with elected MPs and such but it's all a farce.

Doesn't particularly matter whether Bhutto, Zardari, Nawaz Sharif, Imran Khan or anyone else.
> Wait here, this shit hasnt hit France yet.

What is special about France in this case?
Are there some serial downvoters on Stack Overflow?
I have a problem with this site: some people pay more attention to form than to content.

If I post a question which doesn't really follow the rules, I very quickly get downvotes. Not more than 7 in my case.

If I post a question which follows the rules, I may wait days for an answer, and I may never receive an answer, but I get no upvotes.

So I think there's something basically unfair about the system. If you get donwvotes for posting a question which is considered bad, shouldn't you also receive upvotes for a question which is considered good?

Please don't get me wrong, I think the vast majority of Stack Overflow users are either decent people or people who just mind their own business.

But I'm also beginning to suspect that there are people who enjoy hammering others. Giving upvotes is no fun to them, but giving down votes makes their day.

They seem to be online night and day - hey, get a life! - and to scan new questions, looking for one to downvote. This corrupts the whole voting system, which is supposed to be fair.

I think the fix would be easy: you cannot cast more downvotes than upvotes. Whatever your reputation is.

Some are also ferociously defending the system. It's some kind of religion to them, and they are fanatics. If you dare criticize it, you are immediately downvoted, whatever you're saying and however much you may have a reason of saying it.

If I posted this on meta stack overflow, it would immediately get downvoted. And my post would probably get closed.

Even constructive criticism seems to be illegal there.

The problem is, people can downvote or upvote anonymously and without saying why. And some people abuse that right. They're a small minority, sure, but they're an annoying minority and their behavior is highly offensive.
It’s not isolated to Apple. Seeing it against Duck duck go as well.

For both it’s the same faulty arguments that are built around a false equivalence that all types of data collection are the same and aggressively downplaying the harm of tracked ad networks.
They also happen to be full of technical mistakes that are incorrect enough to be intentional lying.
Trade compliance requirements may require embargoing occupied Ukrainian territories however it isn’t necessarily possible to distinguish between occupied and unoccupied regions. Export controls might be applied based on geoIP with granularity at the country level. Unfortunately the safest position from a compliance perspective is to block the entire country than risk getting it wrong.
Thanks! Yeah, sounds like we shared a similar experience. YC definitely starts to make anything feel possible. They give you the tools, it’s up to you to take it from there.
That's true to the comics. If anything, they toned down the hair.
His sister tells him "You are utterly the stupidest, most self-centered, appallingest excuse for an anthropomorphic personification in this or any other plane!"