skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Frankly, HN has terrible UX.

The default font size is unreadably small, it's impossible to reliably tap on upvote without accidentally hitting downvote on mobile screens, comments with code blocks with too many characters in a line break the width of the interface, huge comment threads indented 15 times aren't collapsed by default, downvoted comments lighten to become unreadable, I could go on.

But there's no decent alternative for HN's content and community, so we put up with the terrible decade-old interface because we don't have a choice. Although people are constantly inventing their own clients for it precisely because it's so terrible.
The problem is that demand has variance, both temporally, and quantitatively. They don't sell exactly 12 pineapples each week. One week, they sell 9 and the next week they sell 15. And someone is having a fun Pacific Island-themed party and buys 12 in one day. So they generally used weighted averages coupled with seasonality to order, but even then, demand is not predictable. It's within a certain range, and they generally aim for the middle of that range when ordered. That's assuming infinite supply, which obviously isn't the case.

And no, AI isn't any better at it than humans, because AI is just trying to predict the behavior of humans, which is fundamentally chaotic and prone to variance.
In the US, you can get in a lot of trouble for publishing military secrets. (IE, you bet a movie that casually mentions a military secret would get into a lot of hot water right away.)

Otherwise, the rest of censorship comes from social pressure; or someone with hurt feelings trying to twist the courts to enforce their will.
Interesting. After reading this, I suspect there must be some kind of universal principle at work when we iteratively degrade a sample x with severity t and then generate/recover x from the degraded state, again and again, decreasing t in each iteration -- as shown in Algorithm 2 of this paper.

Specifically, given that Algorithm 2 works for both non-deterministic and deterministic degradations (i.e., both with and without adding noise), I'm not sure we can properly call the process "diffusion" anymore. When the degradation is deterministic, there's no hot state, properly speaking, from which to anneal into a cold state.

If I understand this correctly, diffusion appears to be a special case of a more general iterative process. Or am I missing something here?
The latest iterations of the F/A-18 all happened after the merger. The 777-X is quite recent as is the 787. Aerspace standards mean 30 years is basically yesterday. Oh, you also have the F-15, in it latest iteration a Boeing jet.

Hell, Boeing has its issues and problems but not realizing what an imoressive aerospace company it is while ignoring all the issues SpaceX has, and comopletely ignoring all non-rocket programs Boeing has going, is borderline ignorant.
> America is much more sensitive about sex and nudity than a lot of other cultures

Nudity.. maybe. Sex? Most American shows I have seen just CANNOT STOP talking about sex. Sure, they won't display it, but it's all about it. Even TBBT.

(FWIW, comparing to Czech culture and TV series.)
I cannot even imagine staying focused 8 hours. Is it even physically possible?
what's the smallest current the average dc meter can measure ?
I’ve found myself in “This person does not exist”
As a measure of whether a stereotype is actually bad or has negative effects, this sort of thing is a lot staler than a BBT joke, though.
How Co-Working Spaces Lead to More Innovation for Tech Startups
Assuming that the center of Antarctica is still frozen after increasing energy consumption that much…
If you take a picture with a camera, the picture is copyrightable. And yes, it applies automatically.

But not all pictures that a camera takes are copyrighted. The same applies to AI generated content.

To me asking if AI generated images are copyrighted implies the latter issue. If you're trying to answer a different question it's just an uninteresting semantic debate.
IP reputation is a problem wider then just SSH password brute-forcing - see HTTP(S) brute-force example elsewhere in this thread.
What? Plenty of movies are super critical of the military and the 3 letter agencies in tons of ways, heck there is a whole genre out there about Government military agent realizes he's doing bad things and goes rogue to correct those misdeeds.

Then you've got things like Full Metal Jacket, which I don't think is getting anyone to sign up for the forces.

Like Top Gun did well recently, but is one of the only movies I can think of in the past couple of years that actually portrayed the US military in a mostly positive light rather than the usual gamut which runs from ineffective bumbling ossfied and useless to straight up evil.

I'm just saying you can make whatever you want in the US and portray pretty much any idea or theme, that doesn't mean people will like it, but you can make it. In China there is no similar comparison they'll take your studio at best or imprison you at worst.
Without the paywall: https://www.wsj.com/articles/tech-startups-co-working-innova...
Who posted that video, and was it unedited? If we're going on a single piece of anecdata, I think it's fair to question if the creator had any biases or was trustworthy.

And not all racism / bias is equal. Maybe you are right that Chinese and Chinese-American people would not be offended by this, but it seems completely reasonable that they would be, and the onus on you would be to get data that they wouldn't. It really doesn't matter what liberal college students think at all, unless they happen to also be of Chinese or of Chinese descent (or they are southeast Asian, and tired of lazy racism that doesn't bother to distinguish such things).

edit: it was in fact PragerU (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PragerU) which is intended for entertainment. It should not be considered reliable or unedited.
It's true that if sales are good, then production can continue. But it's not clear to me how this is a good argument for basic income. (And I say that as a supporter of UBI.)

Anyone thinking about the timing of production should also be thinking about credit and finance. Investment and borrowing are how businesses fix the timing problem. Someone with money needs to believe that the sales will happen, and then the business can buy stuff on credit and pay after the sales happen.

To say that "because we have income, we can work" seems like a garbled version of more conventional economics, which is that savings allows for investment?

But it doesn't seem like a shortage of credit is any real bottleneck for profitable ventures. Interest rates have gone up a bit, but that's because central banks think that there is too much credit in the system. That's the opposite problem.

The bottlenecks seem to be in the physical supply chain nowadays. In a chip shortage, for example, businesses can pay for what they need; the problem is that they can't find a seller.

So how do you connect that back to UBI? Sure, if more people have a reliable income then they will spend more, but this isn't the Depression and lack of demand doesn't seem to be the issue.

(Here's a sketch of a better argument: UBI gives poor people spending power, which will cause businesses to anticipate more sales to them and cater more to their needs.)
This could be SF specific, but I mean whatever comes out of CloudKitchens [1] and the like, regardless of whether or not CK calls its ghost restaurants “independent contractors” or “small business owners” or whatever.

1. https://cloudkitchens.com/locations/san-francisco-bay-area
Maybe; but the people who were genuinely interested in helping this man and/or learning from him are not the same people as those that murdered his tribe/family, and this probably isn't something beyond this man's understanding, just as we can understand that not all Germans in 1942 were genocidal camp guards.

Or maybe he did distrust all "foreigners" and just wanted to be left alone, and that's fine too. All I'm saying we could've asked.
The important part of virtual signaling is that it has nothing to do with it's stated aims. Virtue signaling such as calling out the college cafeteria for serving sushi as "cultural appropriation"[0] is not because the people doing the signaling care about the art of sushi or the Japanese culture - it's narcissistic posturing by the person doing the signaling. Another term for this is "white savior complex".

In many ways the virtue signaling is doing the thing they are accusing others of - using a culture (that isn't theirs) as a weapon for social status.

[0]: https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-36804155
Naw, advertisers are pretty good at detecting bots. Your CPM will quickly drop to 0.
I teach programming, too. My way of teaching is not much about computer, it's more about thinking, drawing and writing (not only code).

- Thinking about steps, divide and conquer.

- Drawing or visualizing the steps.

- Writing documentation clearly before any code is written.

Most of new programmers tend to think just make program work means DONE. No, it's not, it's just the last part of what to be done.
RFC 4253 says about the key exchange:

> Each side MAY guess which algorithm the other side is using, and MAY send an initial key exchange packet according to the algorithm, if appropriate for the preferred method.

If you only support one method, that guess will always be correct, and you save a round trip.
It's 60 days (or 2 days, if you are a business) from the date you receive the statement with the fraudulent transaction, not from the date the transaction occurs.

Within that time, the bank(s) are required to reverse the transaction, no questions asked.

I believe you can even get your money back at a later time, but if you don't make the deadline there are more hoops to jump through.
What cloud is even remotely worth it over buying 20x rtx 3090 or even some quadro for training?
Maybe if u have very small team and small problems but if you have CV/Video tasks and team more than 3 maybe even 2 people in house servers are always better choice as you'll get your money back in 2-3 months of training over cloud solution and maybe even more if you wait for rtx 4090.

And if you are solo dev its even easier choice as you can reuse your rig for other stuff when you dont train anything (for example gaming :D).

Only possibility is if you get free 100k from AWS and then 100k from GCP you can live with that for a year or even two if u stack both providers but it is special case and im not sure how easy it is to get 100k right now.
How to Deploy Stable Diffusion to Production on Serverless GPUs
Unauthorized modification of iOS can cause security vulnerabilities&instability
They are only hard if they don't get the same priority and attention you'd see in regulated situations. Replace software or information security with "bars of gold" and suddenly it's not so hard.

That's because marketing why you should know the what/where/how/why of your gold to business decision makers is apparently much more palatable than abstract concepts found in IT, even if the value is the same.

If you get the resources (including time, money and manpower) do just do it, it can be done. But you usually don't get all three (and maybe not even one), and therefore you're stuck with a task that cannot be executed well.
Crypto bag holder I presume?
I haven't tried the app, and I appreciate your comments.

From what I've heard it has the hallmarks of a fad: inexplicably engaging, and then dropped by the time it becomes popular enough that I've heard of it. Do you think that is likely here, or does this have something genuinely novel and more enduring?
All of my modern furniture, flooring, and clothing is plastic. They all result in massive static buildup. I’ve lived in dry places where you would get a significant zap every time you touched a faucet. If you work with electronics, you’ll know that ground straps aren’t optional, in dry climates. Your perspective may be limited to a humid climate.
> You need to be really smart and have a scientific mindset. Most importantly you need to love learning new things.

I'm not so sure that these are required. I think they are more akin to "commonly found characteristics."

Especially the "scientific mindset" part. I have a disciplined mindset, but I suspect most scientists would take issue with me, calling it a "scientific" mindset.

In my experience, being a good problem-solver is more important than just about anything. Being able to "divide and conquer" a problem, sniff out root causes, and not settle for symptomatic fixes, etc. Stubborn might be more important than smart.

We also don't all have to be Mensa members. Many programmers are probably not much smarter than their peers in other disciplines.

But "love learning new things" is, while maybe not "required," at least quite helpful. It certainly applies to almost any vocation; not just software development.

But the real gist of her essay was that it helps if programmers are good with people, as much as with machines, because they connect better to the end-users of their work.

Whether or not being "good with people" is required is debatable, but I think that it is important for everyone to keep an eye on the final deliverable, and its operation in the context of the end-user.

In my experience, many organizations go well out of their way, to ensure that engineers never hear directly from the user. That's Marketing's job, and Thou Shalt Have No Other God Before Me... etc. I've watched Marketing people throw huge tantrums at engineers that "dare" to suggest that they might envision the way their work would be perceived by the end user.
Omar was accused of war crimes, not merely murder. Specifically, he
was charged with murder and attempted murder in violation of the laws of war, conspiracy to
commit terrorism, providing material support for terrorism, and spying.

So torture is less than useless in most cases, but it also helped secure a conviction against Khadr. Which is it? Why didn't torture help secure a conviction against everyone else at Guantanamo?
Not a musician, but as a hobbyist composer and music theory enthusiast, I think anything more than 24-TET is overkill in terms of daily practice. I don't think there is sufficient expression to adding anything more than quartertone to justify making your theory and practice so much more complicated. 24-TET is convenient because all your 12-TET theory works exactly the same, except now you have quartertone, in addition to semitone. This gives really interesting intervals, although not all of them will be usable in practice. In terms of instrument practice, 19-TET is a good middle ground since it maps unambiguously to 12-TET while introducing useful and expressive intervals such as septimal minor third.
aka "The Streisand Effect".
You could try a nootropic supplement like Alpha Brain[0] and also The Pomodoro Technique[1].

[0] https://www.onnit.com/alphabrain/

[1] https://todoist.com/productivity-methods/pomodoro-technique
Awesome!

Clickable for fellow HN

https://twitter.com/_buf/status/1564327370219261954
The basic problem with ERoEI is that the number you get depends dramatically on how rigorous your calculation is, and applying the same amount of rigor on two different sources doesn't mean that they're off by the same amount. Fossil fuels have tons of hidden externalities, so they will usually look way better at a glance, but that doesn't necessarily mean anything.
If the AI researchers actually go through the effort of strapping a bunch of go-pros to people for a year as they experience life and used that as the majority of training data than I'm fine with calling anything it generates original art.

But for now when the training set is 100% others work and you can see the AI literally trying to inject a jumbled artist name/trademark into "original" art I can't see it as anything more than extreme photobashing
You can always make a "you never know" argument, and you'll always be right.

I'm really tired of the "let's not do anything, just to be safe" attitude. Systemic inaction has a huge cost of its own.
Yeah that could happen. I'm a Spotify user so I did that first. I took a quick look when starting and the Discover feature wouldn't work with Apple Music (playlists are private without an api to make them public), but the creating the playlist should be possible
Fewer roundtrips to exchange less data, multiplied by the latency per round trip => lower total time.
They could have started with their own account of course and then documented it but they didn't even bother with even that before making some baseless statements.
> What if Git had a long-running daemon that could satisfy queries on-demand, but also keep that in-memory representation of data instead of needing to parse objects from disk every time

I guess that would be performance-wise the same as switching from running the compiler in a one-off mode to a LSP analyzer.
> you're tripping over the shells trying to collect them fast enough

That's the whole point of the analogy. Even if you still need pistachios, most rational people will start looking elsewhere.

A good example of this is California's water shortage. It may seem like collapse is inevitable, but Californians just voted against another desalination plant. Alternatives exist everywhere but the policy failure is in preventing people from exploring them.
I had the misfortune to work for Cognizant, and they're absolute bastards for proposing overly-complicated solutions. And for delivering half-baked, brittle, barely functional systems.

But they're also very, very good at getting large organisations to part with large sums of cash.

I don't see how AI really applies here - it seems to me than "machine vision" would have been much, much simpler.
Given the scale of the demographic collapse in China -- the over-reporting of girls by 100M, the situation where 20M men have no chance of the possibility of having a stable heterosexual relationship due to the lack of women, the rapidly aging population (highest in the world) that is post child bearing age -- doesn't it begin to seem reasonable the steps that the government is taking to curtail and shape public opinion?

China has no replacement generation, and they are facing internal turmoil within the next decade on a scale that has no historical precedent.
See, that’s really depressing to me. I think it brings financial value to Paul Graham but indirectly.
It's not the users that were learning, it was the (amateur) designers. (See also: the 80s DTP revolution).
This should be a serious programming language.
Downvoting on HN has become irrational. Perfectly innocuous, factual statements now get downvoted. Harmless opinions get downvoted. Personal experiences get downvoted. Not because the commentator has said something untrue, not because the commentator is expressing hate or encouraging violence: just that the commentator said something that someone doesn’t like.

As a result, I now spend much more time delivering upvotes to downvoted comments. It’s a pain in the ass, because I have to log in to do it, and I’d much rather remain logged-out because it hides all the crap that dang has to deal with.
The link I shared goes to the App Store, but there's a demo video in my Tweet thread here - https://twitter.com/brettunhandled/status/156426863694818099...
I have not found this to be true at all in my field (natural language generation).

We have a 7 figure GPU setup that is running 24/7 at 100% utilization just to handle inference.
On Mac if you wiggle the cursor around it'll become giant for a second to show you where it is. Occasionally comes in handy
> In todays field of software development, people don’t come into it

To be as polite as possible without being dishonest; wow, there are a few rather sweeping, unsubstantiated, boiling hot takes embedded throughout there, i've just quoted one.

From my experience, most of what features here just simply isn't true, or is at least very anecdotal. Just as one example, i've never worked for any software company that "wasn't about the users". You really do just only need to look at how much "UX Specialist" roles have meteorically exploded over the last ~decade or so, as companies compete to offer increasingly smoother user experiences, and it is hammered into the actual developers too as a core operating principle everywhere i've worked.
You'll have to make sure you buy conductive footwear.
I'm embarrassed to have only realized the correct form very recently (after some resistance in a code review). More specifically, I've always made entities plural by using an apostrophe (e.g., "This field holds a list of SomeCoolObject's."). I think my train of thought was that it differentiates (better?) when the entity name happens to end with an 's'.
I just have a separate bank account for online exposure to which I move bits of money in from my main account as needed.
Link between space,time,entropy, and jobs,social class,life,money,personality
Purpose
To establish a short link between space, time, entropy, and documents, professions, life,
intelligence, social class, money, information gathering, personality, and purpose, by first starting
from computing primitives, creating a chain, then a loop. Please suggest any improvements or report
any errors. This is not an experiment, but a theoretical formula to enumerate some of the major
aspects of human existence.
Intended Audience
Anyone who is interested in discussing this link and formula, or someone who could suggest
prior art. The author is publishing this to share these findings and get feedback. The author is a
zoomer with many shower thoughts who likes to find the simplest explanations of the world in order
to navigate it efficiently, and wants to check their knowledge.
Maternal Instinct Is a Myth That Men Created
> and the onus on you would be to get data that they wouldn't.

FWIW I have a few data points -- this is something my Chinese wife has literally said inside a Chinese restaurant, and some of her other family members have said similar things about not trusting that the food being served is what they said it was.
By limiting it to a decade, and a lot of the latest versions of the programs I mentiones are actually quite recent developments, just shows how ignorant OP is when it comes to aerospace. 30 years ago is, in aerospace, basically yesterday. That things on the civilian side sped up is largely due to the 787.

At considering 747-8 just another 747, no idea where to start... That as stupid as calling the MAX just another 737, we all agree I hope that this is not the case.
Pick up a vintage Mac and a copy of Word from the 90s. The UX is superior in every way to modern word processors. It’s more responsive, more intuitive, faster to start up, more reliable, easier to learn, and so on.

Decades of “experimentation” have not improved the act of typing out a document in any meaningful way. Now, they have improved the experience for the corporations who can profit selling out their users data to the highest bidder and locking them out of their own devices while charging a subscription fee.
I've been building a virtual replica of my 1996 gateway 2000 in an 86Box VM. I am amazed at how good the Windows 95 UI feels. I also want to get screensavers and system sounds going on my Linux workstation.
Its bots all the way down!