skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The exam is the same, but the scores required vary by a large margin based on if you are in a reserved category or open category.

I'm not saying that someone with a lower exam score cannot be a better doctor than someone with a higher score, but I would assume there would be a strong correlation
If I sell courses about Windows, can I claim that Windows makes money?

Your comparison is incorrect because you wrote a program whereas the guide didn't set up the trail or build infrastructure to hike on the mountains
It applies because drivers tend to look for other cars, which are a threat to them, while filtering out pedestrians and bicycles. It is very noticeable as a pedestrian, e.g. when a driver enters a road through a right turn and only looks left to avoid incoming traffic, ignoring the possibility of a pedestrian coming from their right.
Please add (2020) to the title!

I thought this was yet another plausible.io post about how much money they're making, but turns out it's the original one.
Absolutely. This is exactly what I do, actually. I argue from the perspective of many models at once, assign weights and priorities and then arrive at some conclusion with an estimated probability of effectiveness or usefulness depending on use case. Truth simply is and is also unknowable at the same time.

Personally, I would only make one modification here for my own purposes:

> Holding to a model which is demonstrably inferior in this regard might well be considered "wrong" to me.

I know what is right and wrong for me and to me, but stop short of extending that judgement outside my person. That's just me though.
Possibly, but should be easy enough to exclude.

For example Dall-e has the pixels watermark (bottom-right), and I assume there's a possibility of an indicator that may by hidden in the data itself. One could also exclude common meme formats and their derivatives. Then there's the option of mapping to produced content via hashing a la Shazam, or have a discriminator component etc.

But you're right, it's not trivial. I just don't think it's too big of a deal.
>If anyone has recommendations for stealth theft detection/tracking devices I’m all ears.

If you have a bike lock/chain that can resist bolt cutters, you're probably fine for everything other than leaving it overnight. Casual bike thieves are looking for easy money and likely aren't going to bust out an angle grinder in the middle of the day unless your bike is obviously worth a grand+.
>can I claim that the mountain makes money?

Sure? I feel like it wouldn't be unusual semantically to see a sentence like "the Foobar mountain brings in eleventy zillion dollars in tourism per year".
I don't know about the images, but what about the watermark itself?
Can I just take any photo and add a proprietary watermark?
I’d be really interested to know how your research goes. We are running a large production scale app on heroku. And that we have no DevOps or Infra staff is awesome. But heroku has been a huge let down lately.

Most of the reviews we have seen of the competitors are all hobby level. And last time we check some of this competitors we found their security posture was not the level we would require.

So we had to simple rule them out and either stay with Heroku or move to a big 3.

If you’re keen to share - let me know and I’ll send you my details.
AI and the Limits of Language
If you build a mountain and then sell guided tours for your mountain, can you claim that your mountain makes money?
>An open source project does not, and cannot, make money.

Why not? What if you collect large donations?

Wikimedia makes a lot of money (for itself) even with all the open-source-non-affiliated activities removed.
The key to a cheap NAS is reusing old hardware and engineering around wear&tear. Have a look at my blog post about that [1]

Edit: maybe consider an old laptop running Linux and extend it with USB hard drives.

[1] https://blog.georgovassilis.com/2020/04/01/building-the-perf...
Interesting. Adding "stock photo" to the string generated that getty tag? That is probably the most attackable (alas easy to fix) part of the issue. It will be an interesting question how close to the original a picture has to be to be considered the same (I'm sure there's some case law) and maybe there's some new research to be done regarding how to recreate the training data images with the correct search string (I suppose one could build an ML model for that).

Fun times ahead
An Accidental Collection
We're going back to the piracy days, ya harr!
Certificates are only annoying if you use certbot, which has terrible UX, virtually any other tool makes it trivial, e.g. Dehydrated or acme.sh.
I'm not sure I would call the architecture very complex. It's about as simple as you can make a scale-out supercomputer. I assume they essentially do static positioning of the cluster for training jobs, and have a translation layer from the TensorFlow middle-end to their thing. Google did a similar thing with their TPUs, so it makes sense that they would have architected TF to accept exotic supercomputers as backends.
I'll definitely come back to this if I ever install FreeBSD. I found one small issue:

-rwxr-sr-x 1 games games 1713664 Jul 9 17:01 /usr/local/share/nethack33/nethack33*
-rwxr-sr-x 1 games games 19744 Jul 9 17:01 /usr/local/share/nethack33/recover*

Here it's actually the SGID attribute that is set, not SUID.
Emby is close, it missed some video features last I checked but it may be good enough for you.
Yes most people are not as precise about semantics as some HN readers and would understand what you mean.
Amazon knows exactly what they're doing with this. Prime Video is a crap service on its own, but it isn't bad for "free" and means when you do buy/rent a movie you do it there.
SPI is the other interface. Both are legit and official.
I don't understand. Social welfare spending, as a share of GDP, has never been higher in the UK:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/social-spending-oecd-long...

And this is amidst rising inflation adjusted per capita GDP, meaning even more rapid rise in real per capita social welfare spending.

Where is this "Tory penny-pinching" happening?
Spotify does have an incognito mode to prevent this, but you have to carefully enable it beforehand. Why you can't just delete stuff from your history is baffling.
A non commercial, no distribution source available license can work. Users can build it/hack around locally, and make changes/pull requests. Maintainers are the only ones who can monetize it. Throw in a clause that if the community makes more than 50% of the code changes it will be converted to FOSS (prevent maintainer neglect).
Having used Apache, Caddy, Nginx and more, I can tell you it't not about "sophistication" or features necessitating complexity.

It's about bad configuration file design, little thought put to usabillity and ergonomics, and, actually, a total lack of knowledge in that domains (usability) on behalf of the devs...
There is a very interesting typo in the text:

> "Unpluq is a little NFT tile that helps you lock and unlock your phone with mindfulness, to avoid distractions"

What if you really had to acquire a NFT to be able to use it.
> My Twitter account, @simon

It's not your account. It was never yours. It's Twitter's, and they can do whaterver their TOS allows them to do with it (and they can change their TOS in whatever forms they want... so effectively, they can do whatever the hell they want with any account, as long as it's not illegal).

I have created perhaps a couple of accounts on Twitter in the last decade. Always treated them as ephemeral stuff (same for any other digital thing I don't pay for... and even for the ones I pay, I'm very suspicious about them. See Netflix introducing ads for paying customers. What a joke).
Yeah, yikes, what a hastily written piece. And the line about “how ADHD you are” made me physically cringe.
This is by definition not FOSS.
It's actually the perfect litmus test, and a good way to check someone's seniority or competence in in about 5 minutes flat:

Developers who disclaim responsibility, or show no interest in, how their software is scaled, securely locked down, deployed or monitored are probably not that great. Or, perhaps, they simply haven't been humbled yet by a bad incident, miscommunication, or a complete lack of understanding of how real life works.

I worked with a Microservices Architect (and developer) once, and when I asked how he intended for failures to cascade properly between services; how he would maintain cohesive state, especially if things went wrong; and how he would diagnose problems between them, he confidently told me: "That is for devops to work out."

Back in the day of desktop apps, the people who showed no interest in how their software was installed on desktop computers were more or less the same ones that are now disinterested in operations, deployment, etc.
For definite; if it's software aimed at developers it doesn't matter very much, but otherwise you should definitely sell premade binaries for all platforms on your website. Then you can also include auto-updaters and the like.

Bonus points if you can sell a subscription model as well, either product features like cloud storage / sync (depending on the application of course) or consultancy (for e.g. libraries, frameworks).

I'm currently working with Nativescript, they have some people working on it whose business model is paid consultancy (we have one guy for 8 hours / week for example). It's used by big enterprises like banks, they will have plenty of money for professional developer support.
The biggest difference from otther obstacles is that bikes can fall over, and typically do so while landing on your foot or Achilles Tendon. It can also hurt mightily if you happen to ramm a handlebar into your stomache.
I second the 'deleting the app' part, even if you want to keep using it.

The mobile web page works fine (and actually seemed to have a different front page algo - at least some time ago)
Well if you weren't keeping the public trails clean and maintained, you couldn't offer those tours.
Many thanks for your feedback and comment. I don’t have any book recommendations, as I usually tend to go straight for papers and standard specifications. However, I found myself getting back to Dan Boneh’s Graduate Course in Applied Cryptography (http://toc.cryptobook.us/) a few times, as it generally makes for a good read of cryptography as a tool to realize security goals, as well as to clarify some questions regarding the theoretical underpinnings of cryptography.
I chased ipv6 hard for a while. Concluded not worth it. Do a fan of proposals to inch up address space in various ways
If it is then surely Apple can spare the money to buy a license or they can buy the components themselves from a licensed manufacturer. There are many brands that include under screen fingerprint scanners, I don't see why Apple couldn't be one of them.
Snapdragons aren't aiming for 4 instructions decoded per clock cycle.
There are two parts to this. One is the representation: Neural Net vs Program. The other is the search approach: Back propagation vs crossover and mutation.

Your smoothness argument applies to the search approach. I would say "smooth" is not enough to describe the search space of real world solutions. I would rather call it fractal like. There are many smooth areas in a visualization of the Mandelbrot set. But the most interesting things happen in areas that are not smooth but follow some delicate logic. You find tiny local minima there that are hard to reach via gradient descent.

Genetic algorithms have a lot going for them in this type of search space. To pick one factor: GA's distribute the search power so that areas of the search space that are more promising get more resources. Similar to the optimal approach to deal with so called "multi-armed bandit" problems, GA's divide the search space in an optimal way, computation wise.
every day a part of our life is offered as sacrifice at the altar of Moloch
Where I am in Canada, if you wanted all that content for that price you'd also be stuck with a lot of content you did not want.

If you wanted a la carte offerings then you'd pay a premium for going outside the packages they offered.

While I'm not in love with the current situation, it's much better than where we were in the 2000s. At least I can say I don't want X and cancel it.
Figma will fit the bill. You can find device mockups (free or paid) but you will need to edit the template. It's easy to share your mockup (with a URL) with colleagues or clients. They can also add comments to the mockup.
Obviously you could send it to the copyright holder and find out. In the case of Copilot, Oracle certainly would sue.
This looks great. Many thanks for the recommendation.
OK, now I see what you mean, yes I agree with you then. But I think you are trying to generalise my comment - it wasn't an absolute statement, I was just trying to tell parent that in my opinion they misunderstood the grandparent's point.
I never called it a FOSS license, it's IMO a good balance of end user and maintainer rights.
> It gives power back to mobile operators, and that's a step back for net neutrality.

I see that as a huge positive - I'd rather that my personal communication never be under the control and mercy of foreign BigTechs, and would prefer that it be under the telecom companies who are obliged to follow certain laws and regulations on pricing and QoS. I don't see it as having anything to do with net neutrality.
My biggest piss off with Facebook is they refuse to mod their site. The reporting function is useless and no matter how many times I’ve reported profiles they do nothing. Also the reporting options are a joke and have a limited number of options to which you can report something. I had an old acquaintance say hi. A week later I say hey how is it going. He replies how are you. 2 days later his picture changes to some random guy and his info is completely changed and it’s obvious his account was taken over. I tried to report this to Facebook but there is no obvious report section to describe what I saw but picked the one that best fit and later get a response back that they have decided to keep the account active. Also dozens of times reported spam accounts and scam accounts and nothing ever happens. What is wrong with you Facebook?
Yeah, I feel certbot is a pain to use for anything which is not a toy. Dehydrated on the other hand works well in real setups.
I agree that capacity planning is essential in almost all cases, but you don't want a macro-enabled document for this.

You want a database that is connected to approval processes, auditing, pay stubs, people's calendars, etc.
Let's be honest, the real reason is that cyclists are frustrating to drivers merely by being cyclists. They're slow so they force the driver to either try to overtake or slow down everyone behind them and most people when driving will feel a pressure not to slow down the journeys of others behind them.

So long as cyclists and drivers share the same roads it will always exist, some drivers will just be better about it than others.
As cyclist myself, of course I’m in danger of hurting myself. Two weeks ago I had a bike accident where I hurt my dominant hand, and I’ve been unable to even hold a glass of water since, because someone parked their bicycle in the middle of the cycle lane in a situation with bad visibility.

I know the issue exists, and I can empathize with your situation. But I’ve also lived in cities with better bike infrastructure and more bike parking spaces, and in those places there were no issues with bikes parked in random places.
For those looking for Linux packages instead of compiling themselves, there's a github build project of an earlier version this year https://github.com/ptomato/inform7-ide/actions/runs/19915523...
Because of indentation? Gimme a break, most of the semantics are the same. Different would be like lisp or SML
Early days on this one: "researchers asked 54 people online to explain, with no word limit, why women might be less likely to get CPR when they collapse in public" .. though at least they did use VR to attempt to measure behavior, but concluded: "a study with more participants is needed to statistically identify any significant gender gaps"

It doesn't seem surprising though. We've had stories in the UK where young children have wandered the streets for hours with no members of the public wanting to get involved because of the attitudes around stranger danger.
Ask HN: Has a corporate engineering blog made you want to join the company?
Dan Luu wrote this fascinating post a while back (https://danluu.com/corp-eng-blogs/), proposing, "Companies compete relatively directly when recruiting, so being more compelling relative to another company has value to them; replicating the playbook Cloudflare or Segment has used with their engineering 'brands' would be a significant recruiting advantage."

Have you applied to work at a company after reading its engineering blog?
What is PDB?
its mass-borrowing
Streaming isn't really competing with cable but with torrents.

If DRM ever gets good enough to block piracy (imagine displays themselves using ml to recognize what are you watching and if you are allowed to) streaming will become worse than cable ever was.
The search for invertebrate consciousness (2020)
Email doesn't suck – it's email clients that need improving
Last summer someone pulled out in front of me and totaled my Honda Fit. I would have loved to replace it with a new one but they don't sell them in North America any more. In the 90s I had a small Nissan truck (apparently it is called a Hardbody? The manual just said "nissan truck") You can't buy any truck anywhere near as small as that any more. I also had a Dodge Dakota at one point and you can't even really find a truck that small any more.

I was secretly hoping that the high gas prices would encourage auto makers to reintroduce some smaller cars but it seems like supply chain issues have resulted in them only making higher end cars since they can make more money off of them.
Brutal article, really poorly written.

Product is cool, but for 50 bucks is too steep
I guess this is what those NFT supporters were talking about.
> We have a long bakfiets

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_bike#Long_John_bicycle
I'm not religious, to be clear; I was just using religion as an example. I also went to a highly ranked university, for whatever it's worth.

> Hypothesize -> experiment -> measure -> conclude

With the replication crisis, it's become clear that these systems have serious problems determining truth once you're dealing with something less concrete than engineering. I put a lot of stock in what physicists say about physics; I don't believe there's as much rigor in political science (as scientific as the DPRK is democratic) or women's studies. I expect that as you move from physics through the social sciences, you get less and less attached to reality. "Publish or perish" and the increasing political repression on university campuses both cause perverse incentives that lead to me discounting the truth-value of most things I see coming out of universities.

>Tithes

Monetarily speaking, universities are a plague on the world- especially America. Imagine a world where you had to give 30,000+ dollars to the church in order to get a decent job. You might nominally learn something at the institution you go to, but learning is the ~3rd most important reason why anyone goes to university- they go for the piece of paper certifying they have an IQ above 90, so they can get a job; they go to party and meet new people, and because they were told they should go by society; and lastly, some want to learn things.
You know that universities aren't actually selling knowledge because a) it's very rare for someone to sneak into Harvard to attend a lecture, and b) universities put their lectures up online for free!

>I certainly wouldn't trust them to write federal legal policy

Neither would I; in fact, they shouldn't, it adds more perverse incentives that corrupt the field. I don't want scientists directing government policy for the same reason- it adds an incentive for the power-hungry to be even more careerist. I assume you've heard the quip that the modern researcher spends half their time playing politics and filling out grant forms?

>so pastors probably have a net positive effect in this area.

>It wouldn't even surprise me if seminary school were to directly teach many topics academically or use academic methods and authority, but it's still done in the context of tithing and one truth (god exists) that is beyond critical examination, the yes is presupposed.

Sure, if you're an atheist religion's not for you. Similarly, if you're republican university's increasingly not for you; if the truth were to disagree too much with the political agenda, so much the worse for the truth- in a manner quite reminiscent of a church, actually!

>The megachurch person is to you, as you are to me.

Again, I'm not religious. And given your trust of modern academia, I'd say the same to you ;)
Yeah, it's close to an empty project.

But since it's web-dev related and rust-dev related it deserves the front page on Hacker News...
Same or similar, I sold my car at a profit in spring and went playing around in Europe all summer and then dipped out of there when they turned the gas off. best of all worlds!

Back in the states this year, I only had one social outing / date where it was "weird" I didn't have a car, in this car centric city.

I actually adjusted in a slightly different way, I got a second lease in another central area of town. (This city has no single "central" area, but multiple happening and trendy areas)

so I just uber between my places once a week and stay in the other spot. this solves the logistical challenges of wanting to hang out in the happening area, like maybe I go co-work in that area in the day time but now I have my laptop but don't want to go all the way back to my first spot to drop it off before hanging out, well problem solved I'm staying in my second spot in that area all week. although I avoided it, due to possible theft, I could have stored stuff in my car and used to sometimes. but now I actually get naps in between places by taking ubers or other forms of transit, keeps me fresh for longer, and I can indulge more if I wanted to at the event, and I have more peace of mind for my stuff being at my place.

Regarding cultural issues at play. I had begun thinking about inequality. Like, for the first time ever we can have multiple high paying jobs (instead of multiple low paying jobs, or one moderate/high paying job and a low paying moonlighting/moderate freelance gig on the side), and we can also have multiple places. Politicians and municipalities have no clue to address housing or whatever.
Hard work/self-improvement only happens in a montage.
I think it’s an important distinction. Many people want to work on free software, but also have bills. So they think “How can I make money from doing this?”, which leads them down to a very limited set of options¹:

• https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html.en

• https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling-exceptions.html

But these are not the only means to make money! To return to my mountain analogy, you could easily imagine many ways to profit from the mere existence of a mountain. You could, as I wrote, give guided tours, but you could also build water slides, build an observatory at the highest peak, or mine the mountain for precious minerals. All these have some risk, of course, of damaging the mountain itself, but they are all money-making schemes which would not occur to anyone wanting to somehow profit off the mountain exactly as it is.

Therefore, calling it “making money from FOSS” is simplistic and limits your own thinking.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30293290
Seems a satirical essay akin to a Modest Proposal: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal
do you think spammers would pay with their own money? lol