skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, it is correct to use a biological term - sex - in an article related to biology instead of a linguistical one - gender. Organisms have sexes, words have genders.
That’s called teacher-student learning. It could still take weeks on a single machine easily, but renting more GPU time or getting free credits from somewhere is perfectly plausible.
Even if that's true (which it isn't), it doesn't matter. It's absolutely logically consistent to allow humans to do it while forbidding AI to do it.
Possibly related: I thought the US banned DJI for a while? They got sucked in to Trump's Chinese dragnet, I think... https://www.theverge.com/2020/12/23/22193660/us-government-d...
I don't think it's that simple. Unlike post war Germany, the Russia that emerged from the cold war wasn't a functioning democracy but more of a kleptocracy. Yeltsin got put in power by a military that saw him as a convenient stooge.

And with Yeltsin, corruption and nepotism flared up almost immediately. So any kind of Marshall plan would have deteriorated into providing billions to oligarchs. Which is of course what happened in any case. And of course eventually the KGB and Putin took over with all their institutional paranoia regarding the west. Allegedly, Putin might actually be the richest person on this planet at this point. It's hard to estimate his exact wealth but he's not a poor man, to say the least.

You are also forgetting, that Russia was still a powerful nuclear capable force after the wall came down. There was no military defeat. And there were plenty of olive branches in terms of investments and collaboration. But, the Russians weren't exactly open to the US dictating them how to run their country. Germany had no choice in the matter. It was occupied by the allied forces and ruined by WW II.
It’s due to US sanctions:

“DJI drones were sanctioned under US Commerce Department and US Treasury Department regulations in 2020 and 2021. It is now illegal for any person within the United States to: Purchase any goods or services directly from SZ DJI Technology Co. Export certain data to DJI's servers in China.”
Because it takes a long time to build a public transit infrastructure, and cars made it unprofitable.

Electric bikes make public transit much better.

An important thing to understand, is that public transit cannot be faster or as fast as cars. People need to change home.

That's why sobriety is important to talk about. You can't fight climate change without some sacrifices. It often seems like most consumers can't accept it, but it's a reality.
It's interesting to see this sentiment surface again, as x86 was far behind other architectures for such a long time and this argument was a basic ingredient of the platform debates in years past.

The answer of course is software compatiblity, OSes, CPU platforms, HW markets etc are not interchangeable, and x86 was and is the only practically open platform with big enough market that there's working competition between hw/system vendors, os vendors, sw vendors, etc.

Then eventually in the late 90s, x86 matched and later overtook the competitors, helped by the huge volumes leaving process investments of competitors too far behind. (Everyone had0 their own private fabs then, and process generations got expoenntially more expensive).

After the RISC camp struggled head to head with x86 for a few years the race was over in 5-ish years. Probably the 21164 and 21264 were the last chips to hands down beat x86 by a large margin. They had a Rosetta style translator back then and most (?) x86 Windows apps ran faster on the Alpha/WinNT platform than on fastest native x86 chip for a time.
Chess Replay: You versus Bebchuk
I don't really understand this post. I'm a supporter of open source and free software and I can also understand wanting to avoid vendor lock-in. However I don't understand how this is Microsoft's fault for building closed source tooling. I'm upset with Microsoft's hypocritical stance on .NET and C# being open source without all tooling being open source as well but when it comes to useful tooling like Codespaces, Pylance, or the Java debugger in VSCode I don't see why Microsoft should be blamed them being closed source. Microsoft came into the Java and Python space and made tooling that is being accepted by developers.

The author does touch on why companies like Microsoft are able to succeed against open source software. It's because they have the money to pay their own developers to make good software.

Disclaimer: I work at Microsoft but not under DevDiv or Azure.
They aren't the only one; many people have similar opinions (including myself), that it should do what the end user specifies instead of what the server specifies. Better web browsers will need to be written, and it isn't so simple to do. (I have some ideas about it, though.)

(You are right that HSTS is a response header, but I think that it is a bad idea. Even though I have a old version of Firefox, I had to edit one of the files to make it unable to recognize that response header, and change many other things.)
Started by an MIT professor, worked on by said professor and others with MIT association, therefore from MIT is an apt description.

Most people are hard coding in the 0.001 fee.

When you say it confirms instantly that remains to be proven.
> and moved on to better languages anyway

Such as?
Just throw an angry bird at it: https://taskandpurpose.com/news/air-force-falcons-drones-res...

https://scindeks-clanci.ceon.rs/data/pdf/0042-8426/2017/0042...
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You and GP's point is that these applications win on the merits of their user experience. That's not wrong, in fact I'd say that's absolutely true.

But it's important to call out that the user experience most people care about has almost nothing to do with whether or not software is open/hackable.

Because of that, I would suggest it is realistic that a decade or two from now we could largely lose that feature, and find we have 100% proprietary cloud-based IDEs.
The thing is that is just not what most people want out of a computer. Force everyone to use OpenBSD and they’ll still just use the browser and a few consumer apps. They won’t magically care about how computers work or spontaneously set up a programming environment. Those who do buy a real computer (which are cheap! and a click away on Amazon) and go work in tech. Schools also (I hope!) still use PCs to teach technology.

You can get a programming capable computer for free since most people consider a 5 year old computer (with 4-8 cores and 8-16GB RAM) to be ancient useless garbage. You have choices of form factor at $100.
Everyone could buy a $70 old office liquidation computer that’s perfectly capable of servicing their emailing and document editing needs. But instead they buy $1200 phones. I think Steve Jobses most powerful idea was that other things should be computing devices too.
Computers haven’t gone anywhere. You can buy one at the big grocery stores.
> to help Russia transition to democracy

You mean like how they "helped" countries like Iraq and Afghanistan transition to democracy? Leaving behind millions dead and diplaced?

It's astounding how some people in the West think they reached enlightenment.
I started this on a Fly instance with 256MB of RAM and a shared CPU. This worked great when it was just a couple of people testing it.

Once it started getting traffic it started running a bit slow, so I bumped it up to a 2 CPU instance with 4GB of RAM and it's been fine since then.

The database file is nearly 4GB and almost all memory is being used, so I guess it all got loaded into RAM by SQLite.

I'll scale it back down again in a few days time, once interest in it wanes a bit.
What's the next step? Generating 3d scenes out of these images? Would that be feasible?
To be fair, lots of devs haven’t studied IEEE 754 error analysis, and don’t know exactly how much precision they can rely on either way. I know I don’t, I just sort of assume the worst.
Can you please stop using HN for political and ideological battle? It seems that's about all your account is doing here. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for, so we end up having to ban such accounts.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
There are some kinds of “correctness” that matter. When you’re doing something new, you can only really do one new weird thing at once. Too many weird things and it falls apart or distracts the viewers.

(The “cow tools” Far Side comic is a dumb example.)

Since these AIs can’t count, that extra weird thing is probably going to be people with too many fingers. I actually have a personal collection of weird Midjourney images because if you ask for wide aspect ratios it starts generating multiples of the same thing and fusing them together…
Agreed. I would have enjoyed it a lot more without all the editing and music. I just wanted to see the one flight.
> What I am saying is that we have no reason to assume and certainly no proof for ANY number of tries

Who made the tries?
Ask HN: How does software such as rrweb and OpenReplay work?
I've seen them mentioned in a few conversations. From what I understand, they effectively allow to record and replay browsing sessions. However, if I understand correctly, it isn't a video recording but rather some sort of serialized version of the UI.

How does that serialization/deserialization work?
> but the 90s were a time where a lot of people didn't have anything to eat, a time where

True, it was a quite big transformation of lives for everybody - fortunately without a major civil war, though with many lesser wars in less centralized regions. Yet the result was an improvement on average, in Russia it started to feel in 1999, and even earlier in Baltic countries. Wouldn't be sure about Asian countries though.
A key distinction: We all want basic libraries, fundamental tools, the building blocks, dev frameworks; the construction materials of software to be free and open source. The SaaS-biz is orthogonal to that in that it is the end product created by aforementioned easy-to-access, robust and cheap tooling. The latter can be a great subscription based business, creating enormous value for the world. So the startup engine is getting healthier and HN's community takes are pretty much inline with that goal.
You may be right that "unconditional surrender" and occupation are prerequisites for the sort of transformation that Germany and Japan underwent. But the collapse of empire as experienced by Russia vis-a-vis the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact may have been sufficiently traumatic that such a transformation could have been triggered.

The tragedy of not having a "Marshall Plan" for the former communist bloc is that we will never know if it would have worked. There was no guarantee, but at this point, to me it seems like a terrible lost opportunity.

But perhaps, as China's dominance becomes increasingly uncomfortable for Russia, things in time may change. A reformed Russia integrated into the "western" alliance... one can still dream, however faintly.
When I was at a conference in Birmingham a couple of years ago, I visited a Weatherspoons pub which might not have been the oldest, but definitely had not changed the kegs since the 12th century.
Additionally, you can remove stored HSTS states using Chrome's chrome://net-internals configuration page.
Probably because:
1. You don't make any actual point that could lead to a constructive discussion.
2. What you are saying is not true: this model was developed in an university in Germany and sponsored by a private company. The only public founder I could find is this one: https://www.crunchbase.com/person/emad-mostaque

Perhaps you should reevaluate your own biases as well.
Ah yes, those infamous "white Silicon Valley elites": https://www.crunchbase.com/person/emad-mostaque
I agree, this would be an incredible tool. I can see how some of the outputs may help me improve a piece I'm working on, even if I would never use the model's output for my final product.
> Tickets I buy online and print

I do not own a printer (30 years old), and neither do any of my siblings. If I want to print something I'd have to do it at work but don't know how to make the work printers work (despite being a software engineer at a company with a "good" printer setup). I travel internationally and don't print anything for that anymore.

> I've never been to a restaurant that required a phone to see the menu

I've never been to a place with a web menu and tried to get a physical menu.

> if push came to shove I'd print the directions

That's true if you know where you're going ahead of time, but if you're out and decide you now need directions to a coffee shop, ATM, public toilet, pharmacy, etc, you often need to look them up. You can ask for directions, but only if you speak the language, can find someone who knows, etc.

I have a vague bad feeling about all of this change, but I can't really justify it. These are the ways things are going and I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing in general, although there are negatives to it.
regarding DDR, Netflix has a doc, that talks extensively about it.. https://www.netflix.com/de-en/title/81022994
Sorry I thought that was obvious from the context. Yeah, it’s hard to follow sometimes, it’s bad news all around.
Apparently the Bingley Arms in Bardsey, West Yorkshire is officially the oldest.
https://www.bingleyarms.com/index
How We Do Our Best Work
Online artists esp. fanartists have a strict moral system with rules like “credit the original artist” that isn’t based on actual laws, so they’re upset about this.
DJI Fly is still listed on the Apple App Store. Would the same laws not apply?
Oh ok. I'd agree Hooks compose much better then. But there was no attempt or consideration at compositional API for class based components besides getting rid of it entirely and then adding functions that hook into the nether nether.

> For example, the equivalent of useEffect required calls inside of componentWillMount, componentDidUpdate, and componentWillUnmount.

Yeah from what I recall this was the prime motivational example given in the React docs for introducing hooks. It's a legit problem. But hooks and getting rid of class based components is not the only solution. In classical OO are also well worn solutions along the lines of hooks, they just work with classes / objects with interfaces still. It's somewhat frustrating that this is never even considered.
The article is alarmist at best.

But it does point out one critical point: if you start using the whole ecosystem because of convenience, you may end up reliying on MS Codespace, and therefore lock yourself in.

The solution seems simple to me: don't put your entire stack in codespace. Make sure you can easily use your whole stack on your own computer, and migrate easily.
Yes, we could end up in a world some day where most people are using 100% proprietary cloud-based IDEs.

But then, at worst, we're back where we started. All the open-source foundations we have now will still be there (plus any open bits from the cloud editors, like Monaco and LSP). Anyone sufficiently motivated to avoid using these cloud-based IDEs will have just as many options as they do today, and probably more. I just don't see how this is a loss.
that's not really true, white ruled south africa had an illegal immigration problem because conditions in the countries all around them were far worse and many surrounding black peoples wanted to get in to south africa to improve their lives. the conditions were not as black and white as the skin colors were.

I'm not defending apartheid or racism or stripping anybody of political rights, but living in a functional economy beats living in a a nonfunctioning one.
Can't use my mouse with it. And it doesn't look nice. And it requires a shortcut palette different than the OS conventions. I bought VS Code with $0.00 and sent the rest to needy kids in Uganda.
I think GPS jamming will be effective for the near future; there are no cheap/small/light INSes; the IMUs on drone are super noisy/will drift.

That said - GPS jamming is the main RF attack that will stop sufficiently autonomous drones.
I just want the Windows 95 start menu experience. Simple. Worked. I’ve stopped using Windows because I despise the interface so much. Wasn’t a huge Mac fan, but not that I’ve figured out the quirks, I prefer Mac.
Open source underwater messaging app using mobile devices
Will you be able to make computer network diagrams? None of the existing open source programs are very useful for this mostly because you can’t put text at the beginning, middle, and end of connectors.
This looks pretty interesting. Has anyone here tried it?
yeah one thing I think of is when an artist 'creates' something, its coming from their brain, like expressing what they feel. When AI generates the Art, even though there is a human curator, the lines and shapes the AI picks out is all random/arbitrary/no-emotion (even though it draws upon a huge dataset of lines/strokes/styles to form). It's "noise" art. The noise is just cleaned up to resemble real things.
> fantastic in some ways, but I think they've massively oversold it

Seems like par for the course for most Musk ventures
I’m more trying to see what the utility of stable diffusion (or just the text to image problem) in the long term. Right now people can play around with making weird art pieces and maybe it will be integrated into design tools...but then what?

Eg with other AI problems out there I can see a potential application to medicine, self driving cars etc, but I just don’t see what the bigger goal of this is going to be.
Poland, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia are doing great really, even if the Polish government is anti-EU sometimes. According to latest statistics Estonia has better education system, economic growth and birth rate than Finland. The rate at which these countries have catch up is amazing.

What I'm most worried of now are old, historically rich countries in decline, like Italy and Spain.
You’d think so, but Apple gets special treatment (by both the US and Chinese government).

See: Apple’s secret deal to fund Chinese technology development and how US customs ensures nobody but Apple can import even genuine Apple parts and merch.
Time for a shout-out for (in my opinion) the coolest and most useful free tool on the web: https://sequencediagram.org/

Use this all the time for my work and the ability to share a diagram with a url is a killer use case
They can benchmark a few architectures (ResNet50, BERT) and tell us how many times we can train a model on a specific level of subscription.
The problem is forbidding it won’t do much.

- It appears people can train AIs from scratch or at least fine-tune them at home.

- Even if your art isn’t in “the training set”, that does not prevent the AI from learning its style. (Someone can decode it to CLIP embeddings. It could have a really good text model trained on vivid art museum descriptions of your art.)

- The ability of an image model to generate your art means it could also be trained in reverse to recognize it, producing a caption model, which would give vision to the blind. And surely you’d feel bad about that.
It is an App Store monopoly problem. Take Google Android as a counterpart.

Android Open Source Project = VS Code (MIT codebase(

Android at Samsung and dozens other = VS Code with Microsoft EULA

Enforced Play Store in vendor phones = VS Code Extension Market Place (not accessible to any other competition)

Google offering dominant services = Microsoft Language Packages (both proprietary => user lock in)

Google abusing it (eg by marketing, subscriptions, ...) = Microsoft abusing it

So what is explained in that article is how you run a monopoly on an open source project. Julia and the DevDiv is doing that. That is understandable (she has to make money to get her bonus) but not good for the rest of us.

Disclaimer: .NET fanboy
I'd agree that the population of Russia was willing enough to believe the officer of secret service for their own detriment. However - while it lasted in 2000 - the life of many Russians was improving, quite a bit, and not much animosity towards the West was there. It's only when things got tougher - with international crises and oil price plunging - when things had to change, and the way to change them by that time was such that autocrat had to remain in power, so the frustration was targeted elsewhere.

>The way in which the USSR dissolved itself is why we have a war in Ukraine now.

Agree.
> It really is hearsay.

No it's not. Even non Muslims admitted that we Muslims have the right to be proud of it. There's nothing else anywhere like it, secular or non secular texts.

> Historians are usually honest

Our Muslim historians even more so.

> And if some historical text talks about miracles, something which cannot be explained with rational thought and to the best of our current knowledge

Or that God bent the laws of our reality to make a point. Not everything is explainable by logic, especially when we see such events take place thousands of years later in our lifetimes today.

> So if he can do it then I can with equal right assume there were many tries, no?

No, because his claim is that there is a creator, whereas you're just making a claim that has no basis in your secular materialistic world view.

> Now if I give you my own opinion then I would say there is zero reason to make such assumptions

We exist, so there had to be a starting point. We have evidence that people came and claimed to be sent from God, and we proved their claims based on many things (their character, miracles, etc). The Quran to this day stands as a living miracle, and its challenge is up for anyone to take (many centuries after everyone tried and failed).

These things remind me of how new atheists are flimsy with their arguments https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rn7n-gff-0c
I am gonna ask the weird question, but why are we trying to prevent generating CP content?

1. Sharing is publicly is still considered highly illegal.
2. The biggest problem with everything CP related is that to produce this kind of content, real children were used, tortured and often killed.

Should we not allowed the model to generate CP content in order to reduce the number of real children being hurt/killed?

Plus, this of course would not prevent any authorities from tracking who is sharing this kind of content.
I did that to a cat once. Poor thing didn't like it, and started backing up, fast. We were indoors, but it still took several minutes to catch her to take it off. I've learned my lesson and won't try that again.
> Any limits we're using here are just to ensure you don't use more GPU $ than what you've paid for.

So naturally, any unused balance will be refunded, right Chris? You wouldn't want to start overcharging some users while fixing the "bug" or "loophole" that undercharged others.
But Stephen King is not highly regarded, and in fact he's somewhat bitter about it. I don't have a quote at the ready but he wants to be taken seriously and the elites of literature do not take him seriously. He achieves popularity by writing page turners at an 8th grade reading level because there's a large population who can read them

None of his works have been considered for anything like a Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, Man Booker Prize, PEN award or Nobel Prize for Literature. He has gotten some "lifetime achievement" recognitions, but that's more to use his celebrity to get attention for the organizations that gave them than vice versa.

the late Harold Bloom (died recently) is a notable literary scholar, here's what he had to say https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEPDLFSUPe0

(listening to Harold Bloom on many other serious topics is quite a treat, this for example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2HpDhTIIxs )
It's a CI/CD, not an IDE. If you want to automatically test your code on all devices in a dozen configs on multiple OS versions, you're going to need to buy some fairly expensive hardware and host it yourself, which is not exactly where the industry is going at the moment with it's "yay cloud" movement.
Have you seen https://sequencediagram.org/ ? No JAR needed, just a web browser