skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
American Federal Spending is driven by social security recipients - the elderly and disabled (60% of Federal Spending and rising)

https://www.nationalpriorities.org/analysis/2015/presidents-...

We can no longer afford that. Government pensions should be abolished and the retirement age raised.
> for a small four person start up, the best investment is improving the development team's operational posture (e.g. run books, alarming, monitoring).

Oops, I thought that was DevOps.
Per the official NASA livestream, they're taking the rest of the day off and they're going to have meetings tomorrow to plan meetings about meetings about when to schedule the next scrub.
The entire article avoided talking about definitions of DevOps, while rambling a lot about how we have different ideas of what it means and how we need better definitions.

I appreciate the alert that there's a problem here, but there's no substance to the article.
Isn't the aversion towards consanguinity more about taboo than science these days?

I'm guessing modern genetic tests can predict the safety of having children even between siblings (because most of the issues are with recessive genes).
I went with Hugo. It is written in Go.

If I were to make my own generator from scratch, I'd go with python. It's the language I work with the most. A lot of my blog content will be generated from python (figures etc) or will show python code. So having a site generator in the same language can help me add features by hacking on the generator code in a way that a single binary cannot.
Sure, and I made a living for 5 or so years selling open source software w/ support.

The thing is, both of use are in the small minority.

Few software projects result in financial independence for the original authors, open source or proprietary.

After all, selling something in Apple's app store isn't a sure way to earn money.
If you want to learn how and why stable diffusion works: https://www.paepper.com/blog/posts/how-and-why-stable-diffus...
Sorry, but this is bull. First: the West was a decidedly very un-free place for the vast majority of its history, certainly during the Middle Ages millenium. To be fair, most places in the world were like this until the advent of Liberalism (in the West), though we also know today that there were places which were anarchic/democratic (e.g. Native American tribes) at a time when 98% of the population of Europe was at the mercy of the whims and arbitrary cruelty of his/her local nobleman.

Second: Liberalism only began in the 1700s, over two centuries after European colonisation of the world began, so it's very strange to attribute that to "notions of rights and freedoms".
Fail2van with some good nginx filters to ban scans works really well
This are two different things. One is:

There is not enough gas delivered by Russia, but the whole power saving and buying somewhere else is going better and faster than previously thought by the gas guys

And the other thing:

Gas delivery is throttled by Russia.

But still, even with throttling, the first thing happens faster, than the figures suggest..

There is a correlation between, but not as strong as assumed.
Hippies and anti-war are the minority, which is specified in the quote. Hence my clarification. So why was the question presented?
> Are you arguing that I should be sympathetic?

No, I'm arguing that you should be grateful. But nothing is ever enough, and that you heap the sins of the Nazis even on those that fought against them (or rather, on their descendants) shows how unreasonable you are.

If there is a single collaborationist in Poland, all of Poland must feel guilty, forever? Meanwhile,

Poles were, by nationality, the most numerous persons who rescued Jews during the Holocaust. [..] Of the estimated 3 million non-Jewish Poles killed in World War II, thousands were executed by the Germans solely for saving Jews. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rescue_of_Jews_by_Poles_during...

3 million Poles killed - half as many as Jews killed in the Holocaust, in Poland alone. Despite such casualties, they still used their very limited resources to rescue Jews. And what was their reward? Having their country given to the Soviets by the Allies, approximately zero movies commemorating their sacrifice, and getting blamed by people such as you.
> I think it’s more problematic if AI starts regurgitating discrete chunks of FOSS code, since that’s probably a license violation.

What if the code is 99% FOSS code, but with variable names changed say?
I'm curious because for humans I think that would still count as copyright infringement, but Github seems to only filter out 100% code matches.

I suppose copyright law is not precise enough that you could algorithmically decide of two pieces of code are too close? The only way to be sure seems to be "clean room design", where the AI hasn't seen the FOSS code in the first place?
Only twice as much in LA
I hated HP Elitebooks, but I've been happy with the HP Elite X2 G4/G8 tablet running Ubuntu. You can find them used for fairly cheap with a 3year support plan.
No, you do what the car rental companies do. You sign up for a monitoring service, like OnStar, who will contact the police for you and give them the relevant information.
I'm not sure I agree with the author wrt Agile. I've never been on a team that did anything that resembled agile but I have been on teams that actively pushed back when anything that looked like it sort of resembled agile got floated. I'm not saying its 100% bad but I'm not sure it has a universally good reputation
> They do not participate in controversial discussions about Visual Basic or Pascal — they just do their work in those languages without even knowing that there’s so much controversy surrounding their language of choice.

Serious question: are these languages actually controversial? Doesn't "controversy" usually mean people holding strong opinions and frequently disagreeing? I rarely hear anything at all about Pascal or Visual Basic. Maybe they were controversial in the 1990s? Now I'd call them merely unfashionable.
My 2019 16" mbp will randomly try to cook itself in my bag too. Apple never has any answers for any of the bullcrap power management that happens.
Humans learn, the "AI" (in this case fancy content aware fill) takes a stencil copy of the original copyrighted work, and stores it in its memory.
Agreed, although in a lot of systems of early notation the rhythm is sort of implied by the text and contextual clues such as knowing whether a particular piece was a certain sort of dance and therefore the likely range of tempi and main beat stress patterns etc. I think it was around 1300 BCE when western music notation included both pitch and rhythm (with mensural notation).
Totally true from Apollo 7 to Apollo 17. These are the missions in the reference link.

But if we are going to include previous programs before Apollo 7, then we should include the predecessors programs of Artemis 1. Meaning, none...What speaks to the delays and lack of execution. Also caused of course, by Congress mandates.
That's weird argument. So art stops being art if it's done at scale and draws inspiration from more not less sources and then becomes ... plagiarism?
Ok, yeah this would work on other fields too. Quoting and interviewing the team will be free. Agencies know customers need to inspect the team, and projects can be stolen by another agency, so they will try to grab your check as quick as possible, but won't come after you if you just vanish before signing.
It's not just covid. In the last few years, we've lost a lot of industrial and agricultural capacity to climate change and Putin.
Because they are or were fooled like me.
Good questions.

I use Caddy often. Even some of the features coming out next month are based on my own needs. So that's a plus: it's not a project that's irrelevant to me.

True, I could earn more at a large or VC-backed tech company. But the flexibility of working on something of which I'm the world expert is quite satisfying and is paying the bills for now, so I'll probably ride this wave as long as I can or want to.

Building something from the ground-up and exerting so much effort to make it the best in its class has been invigorating, so you could say I got "hooked" on it. (But I do reject the notion that it's "my baby" as some people refer to it. It has over 300 contributors by now and I'm not sure I'm even the top code committer at this point.)
I suppose the Open Source Definition of Applied works apply:

> The license must allow modifications and derived works, and must allow them to be distributed under the same terms as the license of the original software.

So AI training would be allowed, but all code subsequently generated by the AI would have to be under a compatible license.
It just depends on what kind of support you order. Got the basic support? You get to listen to outsourced tech support telling you you have to reinstall Windows first. Got the premium support? They’ll typically replace the motherboard with everything on it the next day.
Yeah, the app was nice, no argument there. The problem is two-fold - one, it harmed economic actors who were not using a PE subsidized model. That means actual businesses were lost in exchange for one that basically cannot be profitable without a monopoly on pricing.

Second, their below-cost pricing also enticed municipalities to replace public transportation services with ride shares paid for by the muni. Now that the rates are jacked up, those calculations make no sense (which of course, they never did without subsidy). If your city already sold the busses and laid off transit employees, you are SOL. Not a problem in NY or SF, but definitely an issue in towns and small cities.

A free bonus one would be the audacity that Uber and Lyft demonstrated in forcing through a California proposition to create a special labor classification in order to keep enabling their less-than-profitable businesses.
> I think you’re wrong on this. Humans learn (anything) from teachers. Yes, you can learn much on your own, but the idea of a solo artist learning from books is exceedingly rare.

If you take an art class where a teacher instructs you and tells you to replicate 12 paintings by Van Gogh, I would argue you've learned more from Van Gogh than the teacher, even if he's showing you some physical techniques.
> Inflation feeds in part on itself, so part of the job of returning to a more stable and more productive economy must be to break the grip of inflationary expectations.

There were several months where officials continued to refer to inflation as "transitory," when it was obviously anything but. I wonder how much that was deliberately misleading, in an attempt to stem inflation by adjusting people's expectations. And I wonder how bad it might have gotten if officials had told the full truth.
On the other hand, having single binary is good because you don't have to install the runtime to tinker with the tool. Yet I do agree that tinkering options are very limited in comparison.
Realistically YC is about maximizing ROI and I would happily bet a crypto-related startup will be in Summer '23s cohort - they have crazy valuations and liquidity out of the gates. Personally I want those startups to showcase problems crypto is useful at solving rather than selling pickaxes to the gold rush but I'm less sure that that'll happen. Certainly the idea that Crypto has ran its course is, IMO, premature - people have said that during every bear market since the beginning yet overall usage appears to be increasing and institutional buy-in again appears to be increasing.
Currently, KTool doesn't support RSS yet. I will work on RSS next. I do have beta support for newsletter though, if you wanted to read Stratechery or Substack newsletters.
Isn't the aversion towards consanguinity more about taboo than science these days?

I honestly don't know. I suppose if the system could at least run tests for the recessive genes maybe that is sufficient. Even if the issues are strictly taboo it could possibly make for very awkward family gatherings as people start to put together who knew who.
Yes. Though I was thinking of the Julia case as "ad hoc" - you define a couple of multimethods, you intend that they're related in some way, collectively creating some algebra with some properties, but all Julia gets is "ah, some random methods".

> redefining of operator precedences?

That can be confusing, but it's a fun thought. Maybe type-sensitive parsing? Or maybe "^--- the precedence of this operator is ambiguous between the theories visible at this point - please disambiguate which theory's operator you intended, either Int32:+ or ..."?
Isn't this just how survival works? You hunt / till the land / turn the wheel in the factory / deliver food ordered on the internet / X to eat. It's a lot easier now than before, for sure.
Too much money chasing too few goods.

The Fed can only control the too much money side of the equation. In the case of inflation do to a supply side shock to an inelastic good, that is necessities with few or no substitutes, there is nothing the Fed can do.
Total chicken and egg scenario. That's often the case with monopolies. However, to my knowledge Youtube doesn't force its content creators into exclusivity deals (like, say, Amazon with Kindle Direct) so there may be some leeway there seeing as posting your content on another platform isn't a major risk.
If you want to read an enthusiastic, but less exaggerating piece which explains how the tech works: https://www.paepper.com/blog/posts/how-and-why-stable-diffus...
Right? The negativity and ideological chin stroking and assuming-the-worst on these threads is so discouraging.
> Very few launch vehicles get off in their first launch window.

This was their 3rd launch window right?
The jump up to 5mbps down was the last time I felt like upgrading my internet made the web a noticeably better experience, it was incredible to be able to watch videos at an okay quality without pausing for buffering. Everything else has been only incremental improvements that have been eaten up by increasing inefficiency, and my only gains have been higher resolution video streams and faster video game downloads (also offset by massively larger video games...)
You seem a little overexcited about this…
edit: deleted.
Your NBER resource is specific only to the impact of corporate spending on state-level tax policy, not "politics" writ large.
> and weirdly distort some markets in ways that are difficult to understand

The hypocrisy of social engineers presently touting outcome-based economic management policy generally (doesn't apply here apparently, or maybe that's HN selection bias), and the general lack of antitrust enforcement post Nixon don't have something to do with it?
Agile is bogus nonsense - there I said it.
Company consisting of trained artists also makes $$$ on copyrighted work. Why is it ok if the creative stitching engine is made of humans but not when it's made of computers?
Calling things harmful considered harmful.
Bret Devereux has recently written a great piece on foraging in ancient warfare [1]. TL;DR: foraging adds an unbearable burden on an already suffering populace. I can see why the countryfolk of
Malakopi/Derinkuyu would go to almost any lengths to spare themselves.

[1] https://acoup.blog/2022/07/29/collections-logistics-how-did-...
Technically from each image it gets a full set of gradients that are added up on top of the previous ones.

I'm wondering if you could erase an artist from a trained model by adding gradients in the opposite direction, erased from the sum of gradients as if it wasn't part of training.
Lumber quadrupled in the US because of the Canadian tarrifs and a coordinated decision by the US lumber industry to cut production.
12 notes, 12 hours, 12 months., even 12 monkeys.
Doctor: "Tests came back negative my man, have at your sister!!"

High fives all around
Remove the finger image in the README. It's a huge turnoff.
What if the AI was trained entirely on a corpus of artwork in a style you've uniquely developed over decades? The AI did not do any of the legwork or market testing but it would theoretically be making your art form at scale better than you could. Knowing AI would be deployed to rip-off your efforts will you pursue art?
I asked OpenAI to write it as an "explain like I'm five":

[edit: which according to a comment below is a mix of copy paste and a 180 degree misreading, lol. I'd be curious if the synopsis would be better had I pasted his remarks rather than passed a link in, but I'm not at my desk to try rn.]

The Federal Reserve is responsible for ensuring that the economy is stable and that inflation is low. In order to do this, they use a number of tools, one of which is interest rates.

When the economy is doing well, the Fed will raise interest rates in order to prevent inflation from getting too high. When the economy is not doing well, the Fed will lower interest rates in order to encourage spending and help the economy grow.

The Fed has been keeping interest rates low for a while now because the economy has not been doing well. However, as the economy has begun to improve, the Fed has been slowly raising interest rates.

In his speech, Powell said that the Fed plans to continue to raise interest rates slowly as the economy continues to improve. However, he also said that the Fed is prepared to lower interest rates again if the economy begins to slow down.
Huh, interesting. Most of my friends who have PhDs don't have masters and that's Europe-wide! The UK definitely is different though. I got onto a Masters in CS without a Bachelors and was discussing carrying on into a PhD which would have been pretty interesting to explain on my CV.
So many takes on this are so foolish in so basic a way. They recapitulate in a naive way fundamentally broken world-views derived from the anglo-american analytic philosophical reductionism with respect to language, sematntics, and representation.

TL;DR: the models behind these things objects are more like human minds than databases. They perform integration and reproduction as do our minds (within very narrow constraints of course).

These attempts to reason about ethics around them predicated on pearl-clutching about IP and originality miss the point and significant and nature of such models and the systems around them in a forest-trees way.

Attempting to describe what they do and what relationship it bears to prior work is only sensible when you start with the premise that they are more like human minds, than "tools for replication" in any of the senses we have had to reason about as a society before.

A worse problem is certain: our legal system is certain to lag even further behind in both comprehension and ability to respond.

Oh well!
It's a lot more than just banking apps. It's also McDonald's, Netflix, Snapchat, Pokemon Go, Super Mario Run, etc. Will you just stop using all of them too?
Those lead to profitable gray/black markets, and then inflation.
> As a model it's wrong, and useless, and possibly harmful.

It's no more wrong than epicycles. It's not useless either: it works very well for me. For users (as opposed to Git developers), it's hard to see how it could be harmful.
That’s actually not clear to me. Anecdotally I have often experienced the saying “opposite attract” to be true. I have had discussions with friends who hold your point of view. Of course it could also depend on how we define similarity (e.g in terms of race, ethnicity, personality type, etc.). I wonder if there’s some percentage of the population that’s wired to look outside of itself.
that's over a 10% difference between 2020 & 2012, and it was the only year under 4 million, so my point still stands.
You just described practical examples of how to lower temporal instability by controlling memory allocation behavior :)
The best part about Adguard is that there is nothing to really get. You just start using the DNS servers and it just works. Some stuff slips through here and there but not for long as the DNS servers catch up on blocking new Ad Serving servers.
Agreed. An excessive money supply is a small part of the problem here. There are intrinsic economic issues (e.g. supply chain problems) that need to be solved.
I use a catsup bottle...I do have a bunch of antique oilers, but most of them are top heavy and fall over all the time and leak out
> If your browser supports adblock then disable DNS filtering for the browser

Why would I want to disable DNS filtering? What advantage does that give?

UBo is great but does use a small amount of CPU whereas DNS filtering won't use any on my phone - its all on the DNS server. I'd rather filter out as much as possible with DNS filtering and then clean it up with UBo cosmetic filtering and more precise blocking.
In case the use of "literally" wasn't enough of a clue, this is incorrect. For the same reason that the DNS service, the ISP, or the internet itself are not responsible for the content.
I don’t have any public repos because I’d much rather spend my personal time with my family doing non-work things. I think it just comes down to what you value in your personal time. For some people, it is coding. For others, it isn’t. Neither is good or bad.
But that's just stupid. You find some code on stack overflow that solves your problem. Are you going to do the refactoring dance until it looks different enough or are you just going to use the code? You find the same code on a non open source github repo. Well what now? You've got a mental model of how to solve the problem. Can't use that knowledge? That knowledge has been locked away as illegal?

This is not a reasonable model.
It is somewhat tricky, but sometimes it can be (and has been) proven; people do say all kinds of things while doing illegal stuff, and sometimes even write it down or send it as an email.
> From a user point of view, you should not see commits as diffs or deltas, but as a full snapshots of the contents of the repository.

That tends to lead to a merge-centric workflow.

The alternative makes it easy to understand rebase. Ergo it's good.
I agree that if you don't need additional chezmoi features you can easily implement the git commit and push in bash to avoid the need to bootstrap by downloading the chezmoi binary. I hope to take advantage of some of the additional chezmoi features in the future.
Is there a research on how many DUI deaths and accidents Uber has prevented? How about people who didn’t buy cars because Ubering is much easier?
The people moving into those houses wanted to. You don’t want to.

Do you think living in a suburb is better or worse than living in a ditch or under a bridge?
Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/435/ (Although apparently Randall forgot to include philosophy in the chart.)
Logging passwords for failed logins is an awful security anti-pattern; please don't do that.
> Current estimate of # of chickens in the world right now is about 33 billion. They outnumber us by over 4 to 1.

> Their lives are short. And not very cheery. But I feel like they may have won? Or are we winning because we have them confined?

It'd say it's more domestication rather than confinement.

The real creatures that are challenging humans are diseases and invasive species. So MRSA/Covid-19 and Africanized Honey Bees/feral hogs.
Even mobile homes cost more than that: "the average sale price of a new manufactured home was $111,900 in November 2021" [1] and that's not even California specific.

[1] https://realestate.usnews.com/real-estate/articles/how-much-...
Cool... what's your alternative?
> Is there any class of concepts that survives unblemished after contact with reality?

We're not talking about reality, though. We're talking about things consultants market to management.
Was it actually the provider scanning, or just a compromised VPS host using that same provider?

It does seem proactive to scan customers' hosts then notify them if exploits are found.