skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
... and it would still be a great thing for mankind, especially long term.

Google et al in adspace winning is mankind losing. Not hugely, but its clearly there. But the amount of mental gymnastics elite devs have to go through every day to keep feeling OK about their jobs just because of huge paycheck or working on 'cool' problems' is staggering (ignoring how screwing fellow human beings isn't cool in any way for now).

A little sidenote - not an expert on psychology, but it seems to me practically every human being, including psychopathic mass murderers have this desperate desire to feel OK with their actions, the need to justify them so they are at peace with themselves. If I kill, I follow the word of god. If I burn jews and minorities alive in concentration camps, I am just following orders and doing it for greater good of my nation. If I work in amoral company, 1 man doesn't matter anyway, there are tons of others that would happily pick up the job, and look at what open source and cool free apps we give to the world for this little cost of privacy and annoyment. Or I just do it so my kids have better starting position, I am great parent and that s above anything else. Whatever the mental tool, always aiming for the same destination.
So here's the thing, is that joke making fun of a Chinese restaurant, or is it making fun of racist americans who make comments like that?

The reality is most Americans have someone like that in their family. Read the rest of the scene: Leonard is distinctly uncomfortable, tries to politely correct the wordage, the comment is lost and the originator moves on.

In any case, are you saying that... words that offend you should be removed from media? You know, like... some kind of... woke person who is really sensitive to racism?
> politically cheap racial discrimination

Namecheap cut ties with a country (Russia), not a race.

Namecheap has no ban on Russians outside of Russia using their service, and they very likely employ Russians, since so many Ukrainians have Russian backgrounds.
I question how much money the government would actually save in administration costs compared to how much more they would have to pay out.

I also question how enthusiastic the UBI proponents would be when it actually comes time to dismantle Social Security, Medicare, and other welfare programs. Are they really going to tell someone with disabilities "tough luck" when the normal UBI amount is not sufficient for their medical care? I'm sure they would respond with some kind of adjustment for special needs, but at that point we loop right back around to having a bureaucracy administer payments with different amounts for different levels of need.
So blackrock/vanguard can "hide" their "big" investors, depending on the company "invested in", or is this public info?

That said, it is actually blackrock/vanguard ppl on the boards, and often they are the biggest ones, and expecting no steering from them or the "big" investors behind would be... "unexpected".

Their is also the massive debts with the gigantic interests to be paid all along the calendar year. In the case of starbucks, owners of the debts is public info or the web page is incomplete?

That said, now I understand why online non-franchised/licensed starbucks stuff has the aspx file extension.
The issue is that water is cheap and nearly free when you have enough, and nearly impossible to get when you don’t.

Desalination plants need to be run regularly or everything plugs up/corrodes. They’re also capital intensive and not cheap to operate (as the process itself is expensive per gallon), so expensive to buy and not use, AND not cheap to buy and use.

But 90% of the time, California has more water than it can use (literally!), and the remaining 10% of the time, it still isn’t actually out of water in most places, as the water sources are regional or local, and most local or regional water sources are still fine.

So you’d be spending a massive amount of money to hedge for an edge case that generally never happens in a way the hedge would economically solve. Which is why they generally don’t actually get built, or if they do, they get built and then decommissioned. At least around here.

Other, drier climates (middle east) are different of course. We’ll get there eventually I’m sure.
Because it reads like an extreme left wing talking point everyone is tired of. So many commens with the same wording makes people wondering if it's not a Russian disinformation/division campaign.
Do you have any say in employee compensation?

Do you have any say in employee perks/benefits? I mean a real say, not preferences which are allowed by some benevolent analyst from HR.

If the CEO goes rogue and the company is private, can rank-and-file employees oust them?

Can you vote out your manager or your manager's manager? Is there even a process in place to do that?

Do you follow orders from management? What happens if you don't?

What happens if you disobey your manager in a public setting?

Can you get fired without notice? How about laid off?

Can you get fired because you said something?

Do you have a dresscode? What would happen to your employment if you dressed like a clown in customer meetings?

Do you risk getting fired if you start talking about unionizing?

Do you get fired if you sue the company?

Can you bring a gun to work?

Does your employee handbook say something about how your run your personal life? Does your employer have rights over IP created outside of working hours? Can you get fired over a DUI outside of company hours? Can you get fired for smoking cigarettes in your free time?

etc..

Some literature for you: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32889465-private-governm...
> The author labels that joke as "harmless" but you don't have to be a Chinese censor to interpret it as reinforcing harmful stereotypes.

Is it actually "harmful" though? People are still going to Chinese restaurants as far as I know. The "harmful" adjective is being thrown around a lot, but it's never been very clear to me there is actual harm. People will cite things such as "violence against Asian-Americans has been on the increase!", but that seems entirely disconnected from some jokes in some sitcom.
then - how far away are we from having it on M1/M2 Macs, at least with regular processing?
openvino may be one path I suppose:
https://github.com/openvinotoolkit/openvino/issues/11554
Yes, putting the HMAC in the IP ID field is brittle.

Maybe a TCP option could be used.
3^12 is within 1.5% of 2^19
I worked with someone who didn't have what I'd call a scientific mindset, and it can really be a limiting factor. They confused correlation with causation, in other words were quick to launch on to theoretical explanations without testing or proving their thinking. When solving a problem, they tried tons of different approaches until they empirically found one that worked, without always fully rationally understanding the cause of the symptom they were trying to remedy. They usually succeeded, but the cost was the time spent, and the complexity of code that resulted.

There are a lot of ways to be a programmer, but that is not one of the better ways. The programmer was productive (prolific) enough, and the business was resource-constrained enough, that their work quality was not even close to consider firing or replacing, but I'm convinced it cost the team and the company a lot of productivity and effectiveness over time.
The recall for these is also terrible. it's like going after a mosquito with a bazooka. case in point, we've accidentally blocked entire universities on a shared IP and the entire AWS West region doing this
This could imply that according to Sturgeon's law, you'd support censoring 90% of everything out there.

(I don't know if your last, pro-censorship line was a joke, but if so, it was a lame one. But I'm against censoring or deleting it, though.)
Non-lethal methods only, obviously. It's basically a combination between bounty hunting and citizen's arrest laws. Not saying it couldn't be abused but it's not impossible to imagine it working. You might not even need bounties if people saw it as a sport.

It's either that or potentially corrupt park rangers doing it - it's not like the existing system works great for anyone involved.
That's my point of view and I don't consider myself the least bit right wing!
When I used the term 'similar' it had nothing to do with the reasoning or methodology behind the censoring. Only that the finished product in both cases was sufficiently censored that less than half the original content remained. It is not just a few select pieces that are cut out, it is creating a whole new product that is almost unrecognizable when compared to the original.
Ask HN: AI Literature for Managers
My managers share the usual inflated expectations about the magical powers of AI. They deserve to know what can reasonably be achieved in the first projects our company is going to launch. Can you recommend any literature that is honest and accessible?
This is an under-appreciated factor in regulation ignored by the reflexive "regulation bad" crowd. Companies can welcome regulation, and not in a malign, regulatory capture fashion.

One case could be this one: doing the right thing could open you up to attacks from bad actors. A regulation could give you air cover (and legal cover).

Or lets say you want to be more environmentally friendly but customers won't pay extra. Your competitors do too, but of course you can't agree to do this (that's collusion). A regulation removes the risk and is applied to all.
Being taxed on the rental value of your primary residence sounds so wrong
I recall well some guy(s) being adamant on the fact that putin's regime did cut all gas supply to germany.

I guess you have to be german to really know... Well... hope so...
I've never liked explaining the scale as a Pythagorean derivation. It's not really correct historically (Greek music didn't have anything approximating a full major scale) or mathematically (it doesn't understand the idea of a "third" interval the way tonal music does, so playing triads with pythagorean tuning sounds awful!).

Here's my take: late medieval singers discovered The Major Chord. That's the combination of three (!) notes that is "most consonant" (mathematically: beats in the shortest period). This combines two notes a major fifth apart (ratio 3:2), with a third note that is 5:4 with the low note. You can write some code to prove this if you like.

So now take that "best" chord with its three notes, and start moving it around. If you go up a fifth (i.e. by "the most consonent interval", that is the "closest best chord to your first best chord") you can play the same chord, adding two needed notes that weren't in the scale before. You can likewise go down a fifth to add two new notes.

Then you compress these seven notes into a single octave, and you get... the major scale! It's just there. All you need is that one "best" three-note chord and an obvious metric for "nearest" (i.e. transpose by a fifth) and you have almost all of modern tonal music. Play the same tunes starting on different notes and you get "modalities", etc... You can transpose up and down to nearby keys and keep playing by "cheating" with your tunings to move a note half way up or down.

And the practice of formalizing those transpositional cheats because what we now know as the equitempered scale. But they're still just cheats. And the fact that pow(2, 1.0/12) happens to work is, basically, just dumb luck.
> i've never worked for any software company that "wasn't about the users"

Startups are going to tend to have devs focused on users and "quality is everyone's job" etc. In fact, you should never hear the phrase "that's someone else's job" in a startup.

Big corp jobs, especially at non-software companies will tend to treat people as isolated cogs in the big machine, a machine you're told by everyone is "someone else's job" to understand and steer.

The article isn't dishonest. It's that the experience of "being a programmer" varies very widely. Our field has no professional standards.
I almost feel bad he hasn't blocked me on Twitter
It's a bug with most modern LCDs. Ever since HDMI days they started taking ages to turn on or change modes. I have LCDs from 1997 that turn on and change modes in about 100ms, as opposed to the new 3s-10s. I suspect something extremely stupid, like maybe HDCP crap takes a long time to do its thing (regardless of whether its used) and the process gets blocked on that.
the counterpoint is that the antagonists can abuse the reporting mechanisms, so some friction is necessary
A Simple Fuction-Based Menu System
tense social times override even capital-S science at the public podium.. dark days indeed
7+ billion humans -- high calorie bags of protein and fat -- on the planet, mostly concentrated into tight urban areas, seems like one hell of a good ... food ... source for ... something.
We are heading to a world where every major country will be deploying a Great Firewall like censorship, especially as the cost of implementing and maintaining such a system drops.
> You are years behind if you think you're training a model worth anything on consumer grade GPUs

Ah yes, my code can't be useful to people unless it takes a long time to compile...
> Tech giants aren't going to encourage you to own your data and hardware by spending effort on supporting it

On the contrary, it would make a lot of sense for Amazon to work on open source self-hosted server apps, because they would seem to be the answer to the question, "Why would a non-techy want a cloud VM." Surely their PMs must day-dream about a future in which a cloud VM is as common a monthly fee for a middle-class family as a gym membership or netflix subscription, right?
> Programming is writing down unambiguous instructions, and then grouping those instructions in meaningful ways. We’re coordinating work. It’s not rocket science.

I think missing here is that to be a good programmer, one must be good at dealing with ambiguity. The output might be unambiguous instructions, but the input is generally anything but that. Working with product managers, designers, business stakeholders, etc - a good programmer can identify and resolve ambiguity in the requirements given to them in an effecting manner. This involves asking the right questions and often doing discovery/research.
You can call me whatever you want. I'm saying practice what you preach otherwise you're going to be written off as a hypocrite & your criticisms will not have credibility. Consider that political censorship has been increasing & becoming a criminal & economic matter in the West. Julian Assange is an example of a journalist who is held in detention without being charged for political reasons.

Do you honestly think that America & the West have integrity with the Constitution & the spirit of the Founders? If you do, boy do I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.
The federal government is going to sue itself for forgiving loans it made?
While Chinese authorities have cracked down on dog-meat eating (especially around hosted international events), it's still consumed in some specific areas of the country.

However, I don't see much diff between that and joking how incestuous Southerners might be or how they might eat squirrels.
looks like there is an easier path using metal shaders: https://dev.to/craigmorten/setting-up-stable-diffusion-for-m...

and
https://github.com/magnusviri/stable-diffusion/tree/apple-si...
technical know-how + tenacity

Depends wildly on what you are doing - but tenacity in my case (paid consultant for lots of different companies) is my greatest quality. Push through - schedule carefully external dependency promises and follow through.

Maybe this is more of a project manager answer - but a consultant programmer has to adopt the role of a project manager in lieu of a component one.
It turns out that it takes raw materials, labor, and energy for you to survive. Someone, possibly you, has to provide those things.
IDGAF about their "sent DOA and fix later" on-site support. It will NOT fix terrible QC of their motherboards.
If everyone had the same amount of money, then yeah, we wouldn't need UBI. UBI is made for a world where we don't all have the same amount of money.

There's not 10 people with 1 money each, there's a ton of people, some of who have 1 money, while others have a billion money, and others have a couple hundred money, and some have 0 money and are at risk of starving.
https://github.com/openvinotoolkit/openvino#supported-hardwa...
It's worth noting that American censorship in, say, 1960, was at close to the same level.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_censorship_in_the_United_...
What's the status of running SD on AMD GPUs?
> A "private cloud" doesn't help if congress decides that comcast should also be allowed to MITM your SSL connection to scan every image you donwload.

It also doesn't help if you send the image in an email to a third party that doesn't share encryption keys with you. Which is going to be the case for situations like the one described in this article unless your "private cloud" expands to include all your health care providers--not to mention your bank, your insurance company, etc., etc. Which of course it won't; all of those third parties are not going to care what your private cloud setup is; they're going to use whatever all the other large companies use.
Bit twiddling with Arm Neon: beating SSE movemasks, counting bits and more
Alternatively, contact with soil could stimulate immune sensors like TLR's which would influence the inflammatory cascade.

But anyway, this theory could easily be tested by designing a special mouse cage which is grounded, and looking for differences in inflammation using standard models.
Although it's a fair mistake; Google used to do this.

Here is an except from my "welcome to Gmail" message, from Google, from June 2004:

"You may also have noticed some text ads or related links to the right of this message. They're placed there in the same way that ads are placed alongside Google search results and, through our AdSense program, on content pages across the web. The matching of ads to content in your Gmail messages is performed entirely by computers; never by people. Because the ads and links are matched to information that is of interest to you, we hope you'll find them relevant and useful."
I was going to respond with the standard argument that UBI doesn't necessarily increase inflation. A sane UBI plan is revenue neutral -- you increase taxes so that the average taxpayer has taxes increase by exactly the UBI amount. Since the median taxpayer makes less money than the average taxpayer, the majority of taxpayers benefit, yet the UBI does not increase the money supply.

But the author advocates for printing money, so it's not a sane UBI plan.
> Good info, but there has to be more to it than this.

Pretty much everything beyond "(1) Make sure the technical SEO aspects of your site are sound" (easy) and "(2) Write good content which people will share" (hard) quickly gets into hackier stuff that may attract some incremental traffic, but not necessarily "convert" as well.

A good place to start learning about more esoteric SEO tactics are the chapters at https://moz.com/beginners-guide-to-seo. They can't overcome a lack of content/market fit, and the gains may be low if you can reliably measure them at all.
My apologies then. I read it differently and jumped to the wrong conclusion about the point you were making.
I think the title should have been "How mammals reconquered the world" as mammals descend directly from cynodonts and their relatives which were the dominant life form before the permian-triassic disaster. Cynodonts are synapsids, one of the two major branches of the amniote vertebrates. Birds descend from dinosaurs, which descend from sauropsids - the other major amniote branch. So the dinosaurs stole it from us because: disaster, then we stole it back because: another disaster.

I adore Wikipedia!

Of course if the doom-mongers are to be believed and our climate crisis becomes a runaway hothouse which devastates life across land and oceans in major disaster fashion then the birds are well-placed to take over again. I've never trusted them crows!
Did general aviation become cheaper or more available to folks when it got more heavily regulated?

Fatality rates dropped, but it basically froze the technology and capability into the late 70’s/early 80’s and locked in just a few companies. The overall number of people working in that industry is tiny now. It’s almost a complete dead end.

It’s the classic trade off - cheaper, better, faster. Pick any 2 if you’re lucky. Most only get to pick 1.
You didn't say that, to be fair.

I think it's a serious problem of this era, and your post sounded like those arguments to me.
> For example, the entire object system in Common Lisp was implemented as macros.

It wasn't. The original Object System implementation of Common Lisp is has tree layers: at the bottom layer it is object-oriented (especially the Meta-Object Protocol), then there is a functional layer and on top there are macros for the convenience of the user.
I don't see any particular reason that'd be the case. Even with rebase, the diff model causes some of git's behavior to no longer make sense. For instance, the fact that rebase causes an entirely new series of commits to be made - this is because rebase is just a layer over cherry-picking commits, and that cherry-picking commits calculates the diffs between two commits then applies the diff as its own, new commit.

If commits were diffs, then that process doesn't make any sense. It only makes sense when you think of commits as snapshots, and cherry-pick ing as taking a commit, calculating the diff with the current commit, and then applying that diff to make a brand new commit.
I guess I’m writing about Twitter again
I’ll admit it – I frequently choose blog post topics based on what I can write quickly, and since obviously I’ve been following the Twitter case closely, that’s the topic for today. This post is really meant as an explainer of the legal state of play; lawyers who have been following closely probably already know most of this, but for anyone else, this is for you.
Yeah, when you're part of a culture that suffers from cultural appropriation, you understand it. Although my culture suffers a very benign culinary example (poutine), it allows me to understand the power play, and how I wouldn't want others decrying the appropriation my people are living.
I knew that eventually Photoshop would get some plugins utilizing AI image generation but I never expected it to happen this quick. From a brief glance at the demo (see reddit link from simonw) it seems to be of decent quality as well.

According to the reddit comment by alpacaAI the plugin uses cloud/hosted solution, however [1]. Locally-powered generation to be added as a feature later it seems.

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/wyduk1/sho...

Still, pretty amazing (or terrifying for some) at how quickly we are advancing with this diffusion-based tech. I wonder what is going to be the next big AI method for creative-work generation?
Advance Wars By Web: fan-made Advance Wars multiplayer game
> anyone who ever accessed the site over a Russian IP address

I know for a fact that this isn’t true.

>anyone who had a Russian last name.

I seriously doubt this too, but maybe my last name just isn’t Russian enough.
Great article, I really think programmers should be more conservative when it comes to new technology. You don't always have to use fancy react stuff when making simple websites and so on..

But I'm not sure about the whole "programming is simple, like planning a party" thing. When I am thinking about my own projects with more than 150K lines of code its not like any party planning process I have been involved in, it is actually a lot more complex. It is easy to forget how hard things are when you know them and have worked with it for many years.
I think another part of the question is whether you're scaling on your own hardware or the customers' hardware.