skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Some ridiculously high proportion (half?) of tickets still come out looking like "it doesn't work when I do X" with no attempt to report what (if any) error was experienced or what parameters were supplied or what indeed their expectation for "work" was or whether this was "working" before etc

As a user I have given up on providing this info. Any time I start a support conversation with a detailed analysis of what’s breaking, what I’ve tried, and even which resources I looked up …

… the first question is always “Have you tried this obvious thing you just said you’ve already tried?”
btw sorry i couldnt make yesterday's one, i realized i had another conf to travel to
> in a movie, that wouldn’t feel real no matter how good the special effects are, it’s too out there

This entire thing just reminds me of Day After Tomorrow (2004). Although the movie had a lot of bad science, way too many people called the premise and social outcomes of the movie ridiculous. Hell, the South Park criticism of it alone significantly pushed this current batch of climate deniers.
Stable Diffusion allows anyone to make kiddie porn with a half-second of curiosity/effort. Maybe you didn't know about that, maybe you think it's NBD, but in any case, that is the tire fire which aspiring AI majors want to avoid.
Translation: Those of you who are downvoting a farmer’s (Edit: son’s, munda can be more generic term for person too) comment are misinformed. Farmers of Sindh, …, and Delhi NCR are in the same boat because of the British and the environment.
I imagine he has some sort of financial advisor advising him on these decisions. It would be funny if one of the Pope's responsibilities was to manage billions of dollars.
Chips tech firm Arm sues Qualcomm and Nuvia for breach of license and trademark
So you're fine if I post your SSN on this site? And let's assume the mods also co-sign that decision in this hypothetical, so you're okay with your PII being out there for anyone (and I mean anyone) to see and use? You wouldn't even try to subpoena Y Combinator for my information on file such as my IP logs and email address (necessary for registration) to serve me notice? I seriously doubt that. I'm sure you would lawyer up rather quickly and probably contact the mods here to have my comment deleted and my account permanently banned. So don't pretend you're some kind of "information wants to be free" maximalist because when it comes down to it, we all want privacy and no one should be using the Internet as a cudgel to gain compliance from anyone when you can just leave well alone. But it seems you're fine with Kiwi Farms literally posting SSNs, bank balances, passwords to accounts, and much more. The contradictions in your mind must border on some kind of Escher print.
Ok, these are words, but again I'm not talking about DNS security here, I'm talking about SSH key distribution. Why would you elect to have your key distribution controlled by the DNS PKI? What's the upside? The downside is, an actor with control over the DNS PKI (there are many of those; see, for instance, every DOJ seizure of a domain) gets a degree of control over your SSH authorized keys. Seems... bad?
I do this too! I pair Temporary Containers with the Containerise add-on which lets me create persistent containers for a few specific sites that I want stay logged in to.

This setup works well with one glaring exception... Cloudflare and their stupid boats. Using temporary containers for everything has really shone a light on just how much of the web Cloudflare is gobbling up. Cloudflare throws a captcha at me every time I visit any website they gatekeep for. I'm talking mostly about random sites that turn up in web searches. Its annoying enough that when I encounter a Cloudflare captcha, I just close the tab and try the next site.

Now I'm wondering if there's a way to eliminate results from web searches that use Cloudflare with something like the uBlackList add-on.
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You have a paved riverbed system to get rid of moderate rains which periodically occur.

That will be insufficient for a 100-year flood (~1000 acres underwater by current mapping), and a 200-year or 500-year flood would put significant fractions of the city underwater.

https://eng2.lacity.org/projects/LARIVER_Glendale_Narrows/do...
You are talking about a country that you can drive when you are 16 but drink when you are 21, and buy a rifle but not a kinder egg.
Certainly not. It's just a tool. Art is beyond generating digital images.
I like to ask "Do you have a problem or do you have a complaint?"

A problem has three distinct parts: 1) What you tried. 2) What you expected. 3) What you got instead.

Anything else is just complaining and I don't deal with complaints.

Usually there's enough information in the triad to begin troubleshooting. I will roughly know the steps to reproduce, what that reproduction returns, and what the user thinks they should have got.

If I get told "Hey, the calculation is wrong." I'm going to check the calculation. And if the math is solid, and passes all of the cases I can send it, that's the information I will give back. Usually while also asking why they think it is wrong. Sometimes, the only thing that is wrong is user expectation.
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What are the top 3 things accomplished and implemented by the “extremely powerful” neural networks and machine learning?

How significant are these top 3 things?

Have you ever built a production model for a large company or have a tier 1 phd? If not, what are your qualifications for labeling a claim ridiculous.
If you’re all in on AWS, this is the easiest and possibly best solution, solves a bunch of security, operational and usability problems if implemented in tandem with SSO, CloudTrail and well defined IAM roles.
I have less gray hair today than 5 years ago - I think that’s pretty easy for aging men to achieve. ;)
No doubt that an AI could identify the same person at different ages given sufficient source material.
> Dropping nazis from your service generally doesn't weaken the case for your service

From the article:

"In 2017, we terminated the neo-Nazi troll site The Daily Stormer. And in 2019, we terminated the conspiracy theory forum 8chan.

In a deeply troubling response, after both terminations we saw a dramatic increase in authoritarian regimes attempting to have us terminate security services for human rights organizations — often citing the language from our own justification back to us."
To me, the issue isn't really that the source in question is a criminal - I think they might be a bit less reliable than the average person, but as others have noted, general people are pretty unreliable too.

But the fact that the source was also the person who has allegedly perpetrated the crimes going unmentioned and not being disclaimed to me is sloppy - even if there was additional verification done, if you are mentioning this source as the cornerstone of your article, I want to know about the vested interests that source has. Obviously, being the person that allegedly did it means you have A LOT of vested interest in how it is covered and what is revealed. If you want to talk yourself up and brag about it (which seems to be a given if you are telling a journalist about something you allegedly perpetrated) it is totally reasonable for people to be suspicious about how much is fact and how much is fiction. Humans like to exaggerate when talking themselves up.
But the point is that there were super important algorithm advanced that allowed training bigger models. It wasn't all hardware... A big part of it was getting more eyes on the problems (via hype over imagenet results circa 2012) to figure out how to solve them.
OpenAI isn't open at all, it's just named that way to attract attention, like the bright green "FREE BIKES and rentals" place near fisherman's warf in SF
Some customers just don't like to do their homework and want you to do everything for them. When we get a ticket like this at our company, we have some "Saved/canned replies" to resend which basically asks them for things like "screenshot, error message text etc etc" and only then we even jump in further with any follow ups.

My favorite is when there is no info but they expect us to resolve the issue asap. :).
Actually, I think matching you against equal players would be much better in such a situation, but you should gain much more visible elo for wins than you lose for losses (thus going up even with a 50% win rate).
No, it's because they don't take parameters. Parameters are supported in the tag itself however, might as well use them.
You seem to think there's no left wing in America when self-avowed leftists if not socialists are the ones who have been doing this whole #DropKiwifarms campaign in the first place. If there's no solid leftist base in America and western society as a whole, where is this opposition to supposedly alt-right fortress coming from?

As for my age, I'm 40, which means I went to college between 2000 and 2004 - and was awash in leftist propaganda there, to the extent that I did not feel comfortable in some classrooms doing anything other than regurgitating what the professors were telling us despite what I actually believed. I've heard the situation has not improved since then. To say that leftists do not have institutional power at least in academia is ridiculous, but of course it goes far beyond that.
They probably wanted to bring it to other countries, ie: USA, but couldn't figure a way to do it without getting sued. People here are different. They'll abuse the shit out of an app like that to do all sorts of nasty stuff.
> considering the potential explosiveness of the mixture of methane and oxygen

In Sabatier reaction [1] oxygen binds to hydrogen to produce H2O. Oxygen being highly electronegative could easily bind +1/+2 valence compounds.

Alternatively, nickel and aluminum catalysts for CH4 production from CO2 are also effective.

The fact that EU officials make so much idiotic hustle regarding fossil fuels only shows how severely underdosed in compounds from a number of categories they are.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabatier_reaction#Creation_of_...
Yeah! We've had a lot of people move to Payload from Netlify CMS. Those that have moved have given us a ton of great feedback in regards to our UX and dev experience comparatively.
That means cloudflare is such a good company for offering cheap and good service, yet somehow we find a way to attack them because their competition is not “as good”. What a shame that this company that is not supporting their competitors?
Sure. And still ir stands that reservoirs are filling up faster than anticipated. I'm in supply chain, and if during a period where inventory is hard to come by said inventory is replenished faster than planned, that is usually a good thing.
Thank you!

And we are referring to the Fitzpatrick Skin Types, which are definitely not well-known. Great tip to clarify this better in our messaging.

Some more about Fitzpatrick Skin Types: https://www.healthline.com/health/beauty-skin-care/fitzpatri...
I'm a woman and not going bald if that's the joke you are making.
> IMO it's not that dissimilar from climate science or even in the extreme the existence of aliens.

Those may be similar to the contrasting attitudes regarding AI, but the analogy I first thought of for what you describe is the topic of cryptocurrency.

1. On the one hand, most people who have deep knowledge and experience of software development and databases, or professional experience of financial markets and banking, tend to be extremely sceptical, critical, or outright dismissive of the whole idea of cryptocurrency.

2. On the other, people who are technology "enthusiasts" and have some limited or self-taught programming skills, or those who have some moderate knowledge of the basics of finance and investments (often motivated by personal ambition), are much more likely to be cryptocurrency fan-boys.
My favorite is when going through the line with a group of people who have pre-check and I don’t. I usually beat them through security every time. It seems that for certain times of day, more people have precheck than don’t and for whatever reason don’t go through the obviously shorter line.
Texas Instruments had a similar standard from around that time called HexBus, but it didn't make it out into the wild after they ended their home computer division.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hex-Bus
AOT? I really don't understand why they made the transition to System.Text.Json impossible for most projects.
This is also how google approaches product design
I'm more tired about calling it "art". It's about generating digital images. Results are mostly generative. Like artstation trending images, but with lack of details.
Most of the time I don't really want to have my yubikey on me all the time (in particular, I no longer have need of regular keys in my day to day life so my keychain isn't as important as it once was). I'm happy enough to put a cert on a key, maybe with an expiry time, every now and then or on first use.

And it means I have to care less about what agent I'm running most of the time.
Awww dang! Sorry to have missed you. I've used Contentful in a handful of projects in the past and our team's struggles were partially responsible for the creation of Payload. Keep us in mind for your next project - and best of luck!
It is not Cloudflare's job to moderate a website they provide network services to.

This is a different issue than a social network doing moderation and spam prevention on its own platform.

It is not Cloudflare's job to protect Twitter or wherever else from a forum of assholes.
Wait, you’re suggesting they had board room discussions where they consciously, actively chose to protect and encourage ddos-for-hire sites because the threat of ddos attacks helps keep cloudflare in business?
Where was this article 7 years ago? Pandora has been doing this and laid people off as a result of what was said (know from someone I was close with and in a senior management position). This shit was also done by an old employer/boss who used it to manipulate and play politics (not only with slack, but monitored emails, by remote desktop, webcam, and even found a keylogger).

Workplace surveillance in the US is widespread, nearly unrestricted, and toxic/dangerous for workers and trust.
Unfortunately I don't think this is the first time he has been socially manipulated in this way. Mr Krebs does seem to have a habit of only getting the details from one side of things and only writing things from that side of the story. Perhaps due to the nature of some of his investigations.

Everyone has weaknesses to being socially manipulated. One way to mitigate this is to open a dialog with "the other side" to check and seek out inconsistencies. Perhaps not revealing everything in your exposé story or leaving the veracity of it somewhat ambiguous until things develop further. This could weaken the impact of your initial story. Dialog is probably not easy when the other party is undoubtably criminal and you can get blocked from reaching the right people. In this case, the accusations were against a corporation. They can be good or bad, but ultimately legal processes will reveal things.

I do think Mr Krebs has upped his game in recent years and enjoy reading his stories, but I read them like fiction rather than actual verified facts.
Surely this too can be instrumentalized to evoke emotions, stylized to ease execution or faked to justify a result.
I watched this episode just last night. Incredible

He's got a new show out: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10802170/
Great site and product. How will you monetize this? An obvious way is to offer a hosted version of the product on a subscription basis, but that doesn't seem to be possible in this case considering the whole value prop is to embed this in your own server.
The port is a modified Atari port - they wanted to sell you their own joysticks, and save on a port, so they came wired together into one port. I had a Y-adapter that let you use standard joysticks.
My mother spent some time in Guddu growing up, down the road from Kashmore. My cousin who lives nearby to me now grew up in Daharki around the same time early to mid 70s. His bandit stories are a little hair raising. Larkana looked a little rough when I went there about a decade ago but I think there has been substantial highway construction there at the very least since.
anyone caring about who swung first is trying to create an unresolvable problem or a forever war.

this is not a solution for untangling disagreement.

i've not seen any conflict solved by doing this
From the article for those that don't click:

> Killed 1,162 people, injured 3,554 and affected 33 million since mid-June.

Shocked I haven't heard more than tiny references to this before now.
You're right, it's likely that almost nobody is using `fmt.Sprintf` to build SQL queries in production.

Templating and `fmt.Sprintf` are essentially the same thing in this context - `Sprintf` just gets the point across in fewer lines of code, and allows people to come up with realistic scenarios themselves.
I love it. Congrats for launching!
What about significant positive effects?
It doesn't really matter that it's contrived. It's hard to show the value of something in a large system, because 90% of the blog post will be understanding that large system. So you have to pick something that is immediately obviously wrong, and let the reader make the jump to how this would actually be useful in the context of their own larger system.

Even then, the approach of "just do it right the first time" is fallible. People have varying degrees of experience, and people have brain farts and type the wrong thing instead of the write thing. Your job as the technical lead is to have some sort of process in place to catch these things before they become security disasters. "Sorry, our junior engineer didn't know about prepared statements," is not something you want to tell your customers whose data was exfiltrated. The current industry standard here would be "cross your fingers and hope for the best", and that's why everyone knows your social security number and have opened 6 credit cards in your name. Fuzzing is another layer of sanity checking, on top of static analysis (where I think this issue should be caught), code reviews, and just typing in the correct code in the first place.

At the end of the day, this just another example of how you could use fuzzing to detect problems that other things missed. That's valuable, as even with 100% code coverage and turning on all the lint checks, software still has bugs. Here's a tool that can help reduce the bug count.
William Osman on YouTube made a bike fully out of wood: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yJdz-kjfLk

[haven't finished the video yet, not sure if this or something similar was mentioned]
I recently learned that open burning of plastic waste produces lots of soot that might have a non-negligible effect on capturing heat from sunlight. So there's some causality between plastic waste and global warming.
You have to wait a little bit more, until HD video synthesis is possible on a mid-range GPU. Then on a mid-range smartphone.
In my experience in the corporate world, the reason is often one that only makes sense for the person making the decision. Spinning it off right now would be a big investment in time, and thus attention from the higher up's. They have a lot else on their plate right now and would rather not think about that, and the amount of money they would make from spinning it off (in the current environment) is not enough to solve any of their other problems.

It doesn't necessarily mean it couldn't have survived on its own if it were spun off. It just may not be what the decision makers want to be thinking about right now. It's not always about what's important to the company (i.e. the company's money), sometimes it's about what's important to the CEO (who really wants to think about other things, and if they have a major distraction that maybe doesn't go well it could add to board pressure on him to step down).
Just about anything CI-wise you can think of is completely doable with Payload. That's the beauty of being staunchly code-first.

I would love to hear more about this at some point too, btw.
This century.

In climate science circles, the cynical realists are now predicting far far worse than that. 2 deg C warming in the next decade, 7 deg C by end century, which is worse than the PETM:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleocene%E2%80%93Eocene_Therm...

That took ~20K to happen. Our version is happening over ~50 years. 400x faster.

We are highly likely to see over a metre sea level rise by mid-century, and if the West Antarctic Ice Shelf collapses and floats away, 5 metres. (16 feet for any Americans out there.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Antarctic_Ice_Sheet

The WAIS sits on rock that's under sea level. If the sea gets in and floats it, it doesn't need to melt. Ice cubes in your drink displace lots of water before they melt. It just needs to disintegrate and float out to see, and that is ~5m immediately.

Easy reading explanation with diagrams:
https://www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-how-close-is-the-west...

Scientific explanation with diagrams:
https://www.intechopen.com/chapters/44775

Main takeaway: it doesn't need to melt. Forget how long it takes to melt. That's not important. What is important is whether it's sitting on (fairly) dry rock, or is afloat.

It would take about 12 days to stabilise worldwide.

3.3-5m sea level rise means about 9/10 of the great cities of the world, gone, flooded. The Netherlands, Denmark, and Bangladesh wiped off the map: just some more seabed.

The main chokepoint at the exit of the WAIS to the sea is the Thwaites Glacier. That's breaking up fast since January this year:

https://riskfrontiers.com/insights/accelerating-breakup-of-t...
My ideal interaction is more like:

Teammate: hey can we hop on a call real quick, I need some help

Me: yep, give me like 2 minutes and I'll send you a zoom link

There is almost always value in seeing what happens right before the problem, and I almost always have questions I want to ask them about it, and it's so much faster just to do it with screensharing and voice. A lot of the time anyway.
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"China is learning to build the world's finest propeller engine, just as its competitors enter the jet age. "

A rather good summary.
Is Hacker News turning into Product Hunt for YC, and is YC turning into a CPG incubator? If this weren’t a YC company, it would be flagged and voted off the site in an instant.

If this is the future of HN, there’s going to be a market opening for a replacement!
I have been waiting for someone to mention this board stuff. A question for you: If facebook opened up their board for votes by public, imposed mandatory taxes on Americans and had a police to control the population, would we still be living in a democracy?
However, there's a dedicated forum for such discussions. Maybe coordinate and offer help, no?

[0]: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/forum/2
That's right, my example was off because film is 'usually' shot 180 degrees. So 30 FPS has an effective shutter of 1/60", and 120Hz open shutter needs a 2-frame sliding window to match that look. Or use a 3-frame window for 1/40", a more blurry film (1/48") look. There's power in being able to make that choice when editing.

What I'm not sure about is how similar merging two images together will be compared to doing it natively with the camera. I'm guessing it will look slightly different, but I'll find out when I try it.