skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lots more pictures from the site of the place itself: https://www.miniatur-wunderland.com/discover-wunderland/worl...

There are also more details about how it all works too: https://www.miniatur-wunderland.com/discover-wunderland/tech...

Fascinating
I'm sure that checking what advice John Carmack posted on Twitter on how to avoid distracrions already counts as a distraction.
Same with India. Homosexuality was an accepted (not necessarily always approved) part of the culture for hundreds of years until the British outlawed it in the 18th Century.
Yeah, it's really not even a tradeoff in the same area in this case. The OFAC sanctions on TC are because they believe that it was being used by and enabling North Korea and various foreign terrorist organizations.

DOJ asking Tether not to interfere with other investigations is presumably because they are tracking some fraud or other crimes and want to use that intel to either identify the culprits or to build up a solid body of evidence that they can use to prosecute.

They already know who North Korea and various terrorist organizations are and the DOJ can't exactly prosecute them.

Claiming or implying equivalence between OFAC sanctions and DOJ investigations is either stupid or disingenuous.
"The old Model A had a spark advance you could manipulate. I don't know why they got rid of it. Well, that's your Detroit smarties. The hand choke too. That's gone. Been gone." - Charles Portis, The Dog of the South, 1979
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If this is correct, and it appears to be, what are the legal positions on ineffectual drugs sold?
Some people are just completely shameless about demanding that somebody else fixes their problems for free.

I maintain a few small OSS projects and most of the interactions I have with people are pretty pleasant and respectful. However, my inbox is a dumpster fire of recruiter spam (both trying to recruit and offering their services to me), and incompetent idiots trying to sell me whatever. And indeed the occasional support request. It's infrequent enough that I usually reply if people are articulate and coherent enough (which is a problem with some of this).

Otherwise, I have a pretty simple strategy for all this: I don't dignify people with a response unless I understand what they want and it adds value for me. Simply, not worth my time and energy.

Repeat offenders get blocked and marked as spam. There's no point in me getting upset or angry about any of this. Just the price of doing business these days. In the same way I ignore the dozens of attempts at connect attempts on linkedin. If I don't know who you are and you don't have a coherent reason as to why we should connect, I'm going to ignore you. Buzzword compatibility doesn't count.
GCSE Grades (UK)
I got my results today, I did much better than expected, I didn't revise at all, I missed a lot of learning due to covid, I am proud of myself for once

Anyone else received their results today? Is the apparent "fall" in average grades accurate or just speculation
I find that I do this less than I would otherwise, because I'm not sure if it will be interpreted as a demand that they fix it immediately, either by the developer who may already be dealing with entitled users or just feel compelled to help users of their software, or by random passer bys who use open 'bugs' as a metric to attack people with.

It would be neat if you could contribute information on issues, suggested fixes, workarounds with some guarantee that it was in a format that would actually help the maintainer, rather than stress them out.

Usually I just end up spending a reasonable amount of time thanking them, explaining that what I've noticed isn't a big deal for me, just something I think they might want to be aware of etc. But some systems should be put in place for this, like being able to tag issues as "I see this bug too" but also seperately "this is important to me" so widespread, but low priority issues can be prioritised and information gathered.
Miniaturwunderland is great! They have really creative solutions to various problems too. Take the “behind the scenes” tour.

My favorite are the hidden “gas” stations for the small cars. When it’s time to refuel, cars drive to the station, electrodes connect to the outside mirrors on the cars, recharge the battery, and then the cars drive back to their respective cities.
The Evolution of Camera Phones, Visualized
If you are relying on unpaid open source code for commercial work, you should fully understand what that means for you:

> This software is provided 'as-is', without any express or implied warranty. In no event will the authors be held liable for any damages arising from the use of this software.

(from the zlib license, but others have similar disclaimers)

If that is a problem for you, negotiate a different contract up front - with the maintainer or someone else willing to do the work. That probably means paying them.

If you don't then no, the maintainer is not required to invest the time and money you are unwilling to into maintaining your pet feature or "fix".
I guess it depends on which parts they need to be better.

From a functionality standpoint I would list, hey.com, fastmail and icloud as better. mailbox.org is better on being a traditional mail host you access using your own client (no wierd bridge app). hey.com and icloud are US hosted if that matters to you.

For the semi selfhosted options https://thehelm.com seems like a really good option.
Because the world does not revolve around the US.

But certainly it's hard for anyone to realize that when they've been brainwashed for an entire century that they live in the greatest country in the galaxy.
The writing issue demonstrably has been solved without any breakthroughs by simply making a larger model (dall-E 2 vs the publicly available dall-e), the same appears to be for other main issues as well - it's just that the publicly available versions are based on smaller/weaker models than the state of art because they're significantly cheaper to run.

Also, I seem to recall that at least some models deliberately harmed generation of human faces (e.g. by selection of training data) to draw away attention from the deepfake/fakenews usecases and the related ethical,political and PR issues; I would assume that if any of them wanted to actually try and make specifically faces look good, that would be purely a matter of some engineering work without any breakthroughs needed - I mean, we have evidence from face-specific models that the same technical architecture can do decent faces.
Android logo. LOL.
I have friends who spent a couple of years in Korea and they get quite sad when they talk about the kids they saw. They just seemed to have no life outside of an endless stream of classes and tutors.

I'm trying to strike a balance with my kids. We encourage them to do things like learn music, take up sports etc, but not let that just consume all their free time. I want them to have time to just play freely, read comics, or just be a bit bored sometimes.
Thanks for widening my understanding.
Coming from Google? No thanks. If we are already being screwed by simple services like YouTube, I cannot imagine how screwed up we'll be when we become addicted to services that rely on the research posted on the article. Coming from Google, it's probably only good for Google, not for its potential customers/users/slaves.
Source Code Organizer NET [1] v2.1 export the codes to files for git use, find the latest to homepage [2]

[1] https://www.softpedia.com/get/Programming/Other-Programming-...

[2] https://www.pipiscrew.com/threads/source-code-organizer-net-...
You need very convincing arguments to convince people to downgrade their quality of life that much. Biking on the rain uphill with a bike trailer is not fun compared to driving a car.

That’s my point, I personally enjoy biking.
If Github would highlight popular forks better that would be a tremendous help. It currently is annoying to uncover if there are any relevant forks and what they contain.
Yeah, sorry for the edits. I was slow to connect some dots.

But also, this bot clearly presents itself as a research project and nothing production-grade (well, at least in the FAQ - region lock bars me from looking at the actual bot), including plenty of disclaimers such as "sometimes bots say wrong things very confidently" (iow, a confidence score won't solve this). So yes, it might be useless, but the creators of the bot know and publicly say this. Which makes it even weirder that someone would try and start a Twitter mob over it.
Thanks for the informative read. I hadn’t read Cory Doctorow in years but I’ve bookmarked that site.
>Efficient in what way?

Mostly that the OEM's engineers can choose to tune it to upshift or resist downshifting in situations where the average consumer with a manual would just wind it out.
Bicycle insurance in NL is much simpler: You just need to deliver 4 keys to the insurance company (2 for the frame lock and 2 for the chain lock) to prove that you indeed locked your bicycle.
Of course, this leaves room for scamming the insurance company once or twice, but the risks of doing so outweigh the profit you will make.
> Another example is highway driving and wanting to accelerate to pass someone. Sometimes the car decides that when I press the accelerator (while driving in 120km/h already), to shift down a gear to be able to speed up faster, but it's completely unnecessary, just go faster instead.

This is the number one problem I have with automatics!

Even in 'eco' mode, most tend to shift down. It seems completely wrong. It should just be in 'sports' mode that it always kicks down.

And I'm pretty sure I've driven an automatic car that had paddles to drive in manual mode but it STILL shifted down.
Personally, coffee has never been effective on me, but this technique seems tempting, so might give it a shot.
Yeah that's what came to my mind first as well; talk to your advisor. If you're on good terms with them they'll be happy to send you at least for an internship somewhere.
This seems like the kind of analysis we should do more of.
I would like USD to succeed. What can help?
Quote from one of the founders: “We want to build a very inclusive work culture and we think this could be an extremely great product and technology to actually bring people closer.”

Yeah… this is dystopian, offensive, racist, utterly thoughtless, completely lacking in any sort of understanding of human cultures… this is wrong on so many levels.

Not only is the Indian to “White American” demo offensive in the obvious racism way but it also represents the removal of cross cultural exposure, the parallels to “news bubble” and the problems they can lead to are obvious and it’s extremely irritating as a potential customer to be lied to like this (its a great example of the sort of thing that leads to customers boycotting a company once its discovered)... and my ultimate example of why this is an bad company (not a bad technology, as technology is simply a tool, the ethics of which depend on the humans putting it to use) imagine it backwards, a “White American” using this to sound “Indian” … hopefully the offensive nature of selling this as a product was obvious before that example but yeah. This is toxic ethical swamp territory that I hope their investors end up watching their money slowly sink into before it eventually disappears.

This startup should not have happened.
See https://wpostats.com/ which lists known conversion metrics improvements. There are pages upon pages of them.
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Congrats.

For both GCSE and A level grades are so skewed towards the top that any minor fluctuations are not meaningful. The media have to report something...
A fine article.

> There is no need to abuse the maintainer, repeatedly post the bug, harass them over twitter. All this results in is people wanting to not contribute their time and expertise for free.

> [...]

> Always remember you are talking to a real human being, and just because their ideas of how to implement a project are not in line with your own does not mean you have any right to abuse them.

I do not believe there is ever anything that gives one person the right to abuse another.

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_software_forks

An excellent list! The once dominant Apache httpd is a fork. Never knew it. Postgres is a fork! Never knew it. Microsoft SQL Server is a fork! OpenSSH is a fork. The list goes on. I am sure that Wikipedia page, like many I have seen on code/tech, is under-maintained. I bet the reality of forking is much more extensive.

Finally, the title of the article makes me laugh. I knew it was gonna be good before I started.
While I understand that view, pandora’s box is already open, by their own measurements other publicly-available technology is comparable: so the only thing they’re stopping with this is direct comparison of their tech to others.

A more cynical side of me just thinks Google is rushing out the PR (including the hand-plucked sample images) because they can see that the state of the tech is progressing rapidly and perhaps by the time their tech is release-ready a competitor will already have something better (the new round of betas certainly look promising.)

It is a little bit on brand for Google to make an announcement they have the best, only for those claims to fall over later.
> Rephrased as: "US Treasury, we're ready to lock & freeze as many addresses as you need -- just give us the word!"

Well yeah, what do you expect? The treasury has this right / mandate, and noncompliance will lead to revocation of licenses. They don't fuck around.
I dunno, I’ve recently made significant contributions to both sonarqube and openreplay, both backed by a company, and both were accepted.

Of course both start out as forks since we need the change now, but that doesn’t mean we can’t contribute it back.
Also worth mentioning that many of them are running on LPG to keep the costs down
> booming populations in Africa will likely offset much of the working population

Not really , as they don't do today, because they are not educated , and there is not enough time to wait for second-generation immigrants. Also, africans have no obligation to become subservient again to the developed world via immigration.
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Nitpick: I think you meant IMAP (a standard email client protocol) instead of NMAP (a port scanning program).
> I've read all the papers leading up to the latest unCLIP (Dalle2) but it's complicated. Released in 2020, with major improvements to the training process continuously being made since then.

The models behind Imagen and StableDiffusion are actually simpler than DALLE2, and both are higher quality (SD of course isn’t always since it’s much smaller). That suggests DALLE3 will also be simpler again.

There’s also been very recent work with generalized diffusion models (that use problems other than noise removal and still work) and Google researchers have been tweeting results from a merged Imagen/Parti in the last few days.
> reduce the size of the patch(num_of_pixel x num_of_pixel) with a linear projection

What does that mean?

(Thanks for the explanation)
> Many third-party dependencies in mature projects are non-negotiable. Removing them would require a complete rewrite.

How is this the maintainer's problem?
I'm curious if you would also accept [i:i-2] as a an empty list, or in general anything where the right side is smaller than the left?

If I am working with closed ranges, [i:i-1] looks like the list [i, i-1]. Like [5:2] would be [5, 4, 3, 2].

With [b+1:c] I would feel like I needed to insert a check to ensure b+1 <= c. With the closed ranges the invariant "left is <= right" is maintained automatically. Though I guess it doesn't matter so much if you accept any list with left > right as the empty list.

The issues with compositionality become even more noticeable with floats. Then you would need [a:b] + [b + minimum_float : c], or something like that.
And then you see it get marked as stale and closed after a month of inactivity.

I hate that practice with a passion. I don't care there are 1000 issues open. I do care there are 1000 unresolved issues closed by a bot.

I should create a bot that auto-replies "I believe this is still unresolved" for issues I have under the "File it" category!
Seems like just another example of the short-sighted and reckless things Facebook does with its vast resources. I get that this may seem dramatic, but if any 1 person on here makes a bot that says these things the impact and "blast radius" of that project will be minimal. Facebook has an audience of more than half the planet.
Probably population growth, less resources more people.
I see it's common in America to conflate race and nationality.

There's hundreds of millions, if not billions of white people who are not native english speakers, and also there's millions of americans who are not white. There are different accents in America, but that doesn't depend so much of the race as it depends on geographical areas or communities. Some of those communities happen to have certain racial origin, like African Vernacular English / Ebonics, or Latino/Hispanic communities, for different reasons.

There's for example American people of Indian heritage who were born in USA and are native english speakers, who would according to the article "sound white", which is ridiculous.

And it's also common in the US to call someone from South America or Spain non-white, which is hilarious because there's a lot of people from South America who is white, and most people in Spain are white. They even called Antonio Banderas non-white!

I suppose that comes from the notion of WASP (White Anglo-saxon Protestant), and so they call non-white anyone who is not WASP?

I'm Spanish, white (and with blue eyes) and atheist, so I'm not WASP. I speak english well but i do have an accent. I suppose I would be called non-white in the USA?
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Sounds like a great way to keep you both in the higher brackets.
What were people doing based on that assumption? The article says contacting the author to ask for a fix over bug trackers, Twitter, etc is still ok in their mind. What else were people doing?
They're showing up more in Czech Republic too. It's hard to describe quite how ridiculous they look here, they dwarf all cars around them and stick out like a sore thumb. I imagine actually using them is a pain given how scarce parking can be in the city, where I often see them.
I'm not sure you can compare code commits to jokes (occasionally such is the case), but I wonder what the thought process is when a maintainer decides to do exactly that and declines a fix that fixes a problem wrong.
It also puts you in that weird area, where if you take the half-finished joke and polish it, then you're stealing and/or ruining their idea. Meanwhile, if you were looking for a long-term joke-writing collaborator, then you want to encourage even the people with enthusiasm but sub-par jokes to try harder in the hope they grow into the role.
The I hate Crocs blog was most active in 2007/2008.

http://ihatecrocsblog.blogspot.com
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Xbox Cloud gaming has the worst UX out of GeForce Now, Stadia and itself, unless you use it from an Xbox (when it's only utility is that you don't have to download to play). Start-up times are rather long, at least here in France, and games require a controller (even games that would be a million times better to play with a mouse, like Football Manager or Cities:Skylines). There's no way to explore the games available from an Xbox, you have to find a game and select cloud instead of download/play.

It does have the massive advantages of name recognition, lots of games and more importantly, first party exclusives and subsidised prices, so it will probably be the main cloud gaming platform in the future.
The post resonates with me as an OSS user and a contributor. Many a brave souls have taken to forking the project to fix the bugs but those forked projects almost always suffer from a discoverability problem. I have tried making fixes and tried forking projects only to discover that someone else has done it better elsewhere.

I've been burned by this problem often enough that I wrote a Chrome extension which would _tell_ me if there are any notable forks of the project I'm currently looking at on GitHub: https://github.com/musically-ut/lovely-forks </self-plug>.
What is the purpose of these new AI photo generators besides crime, impersonation, or advertising? People seem really excited by them, but I don't get it.
I'm sorry, what's "TFA"?
Obligatory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_criterion
Then just patch if after download. Maybee from time to time you need to change your patch a little bit. But in the end, thats the way when the maintainer is doing nothing for you.
Think about it as, you tried to help them fix a bug. When they don't want your help, all what you supposed to do on open source software is done.
Hey isn't for everyone, it's quite quirky and opiniated. Fastmail is more a classic email experience. I personally like the style of Hey and some of their unique features such as Screener and Collab.
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> You're committing yourself and your team and employer to the ongoing maintenance of the fork and merging of upstream changes, just so you can merge a bug fix. Usually, that's just not practical.

Seems easy enough to build a custom fork in your CI and use that in your deployment. You could even automate the merge from upstream once a day. How often do you find merge conflicts in practice?
Disclaimer: I do consulting work for Brave. Opinions my own.

Maintaining a browser is a huge amount of work. The web evolves constantly and security fixes are extremely important. Being competitive in the space requires a very large amount of engineering resources.

A commercial entity has a sustainable path to providing those resources. While nobody likes ads, I think they're opt-in in Brave and at the end of the day they're a potential source of funding for the necessary development efforts. Brave also has a unique way of serving ads in a privacy-friendly way.

Most of Brave is developed in the open. Where it isn't, there are good reasons why such as for example security. But I'm also privy to some of the internal discussions. It is amazing how much thought and effort the people at Brave put into privacy, even when it is not visible to the outside world. Again serious engineering resources are devoted to changing Google's Chromium implementation to make it better for privacy. One discussion I vaguely remember was how browser caching can be used to fingerprint users in a very subtle way, and Brave engineers thought very long and hard about how to close this particular loophole of the web.

In short, I don't think "commercial" is bad and having seen some of the internal discussions, I trust Brave a lot when it comes to privacy.
True, also the evenness of the surface is a little off without grinding which also limits the usefulness for optics. I just used it a few times when I needed an odd cylinder size that needed to be see through.
People who argued about the nature of democratic accountability of the EU, even though I disagreed what them, are not a group I would argue were deceived.

People who believed the UK gave the EU £350 million per week, which is the example the other poster gave, were unambiguously deceived.
- "And what are you gonna do to us? Force operations to the offshore? Force us to use shady offshore bank? Not allow USD to USDT pairs?" (c) Giancarlo, laughing probably, sitting on a billions of mafia cash.
"Independent tests"

PrivacyTests.org is run by a Brave employee (Arthur Edelstein)

He is extremely smart person though, just that money can taint any good intentions easily. Especially in a very "shark" ecosystem.