skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's the large gap between labor force participation rate and unemployment rate? Is it the rising number of elderly people?

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf
> $630B Industry

They're not actually competing for the $630B
That is pretty much the state of the bicycling world - the ship of Theseus has pedals !
The people making the laws are usually not climbing the mountain.

It doesn't change that the mountain range is a holy place for the people of Nepal.
Well said Dan!

Free tiers are hugely impactful for the cases you mention where people onboard is the limiting factor for value not time.

I find the really interesting part about free tiers is balancing both how much of your user base is monetizable and how much value you give in the free tier vs save for your higher tiers.

If you have a product that is valuable to an individual or small team, but only monetize at 5 people, you will miss out on being able to monetize a large percentage of your users.

If your free tier is too valuable people won't be compelled to upgrade, not valuable enough and people won't be compelled to give the product a try or stick around long enough to see or want the value of a higher tier.

I think this could make a good topic for our next article. Would love to hear others experiences and thoughts on free tiers vs free trials!
>> I think trans activism with kids is a severe violence.

>You think trans activism is equivalent to shooting someone?

You missed a pretty important word there.
It's evolutionarily engrained in us to take it easy when our needs are met. Most people don't want to be challenged, they don't face challenges unless they have to. That's part of what makes them challenges. We face challenges because if we don't we will die. If there's no risk it's not really a challenge, just a hard thing. So why do the hard thing? It's easier to sit around and drink beer.
But you choose when you automate things. It can be done on a slow day. Manual tasks need attention regardless of your schedule.
Nothing. Because you clearly seem inspired to defend him on the internet instead :)

Though there's a distressing culture of nerds who salivate at every brain fart he puts out into the world
> These are all standard Indian right wing tropes which are all false.

I'm not Indian.

> Colonialism involves looting the wealth of the colonies and shipping it overseas.

The word "colony" comes from Latin colonia – which is what the Romans called the settlements of retired soldiers they planted throughout their empire, to ensure conquered lands would remain under their control. The Romans were not the first to establish colonies – the Greeks, the Phoenicians, and the Egyptians had all done it before, and at the other end of Eurasia, Han China was doing the same thing around the same time. So, in the original sense, a colony involves not the extraction of resources, but the insertion of a new population–what the British did in North America and Oceania, and the Spanish and Portuguese did in much of Latin America.

The modern European "colonies" in Asia and Africa were different, in that they received few permanent European settlers–and hence were indeed much more extractive in focus–but extraction was hardly a new thing either. The city of Rome was fed by the extraction of Egypt's grain. Empires throughout history have been sustained through the plunder and oppressive taxation of conquered lands.

> Towards the end of peak Mughal rule India was the most prosperous country in the world. Towards the end of British rule India was one of the poorest countries in the world

The Mughals were the authors of their own decline. Aurangzeb plundered the empire to pay for his ruinous war against the Marathas, and the extravagant opulence of his court. He introduced discriminatory taxes against non-Muslims, which caused resentment among the Hindu majority, and sowed the seeds of later rebellions. His failure to ensure a clear successor left a legacy of civil war from which the empire never recovered.

No denying that the British Raj greatly mismanaged the economy–but so did the later Mughals. How is one inherently worse than the other?

And what difference did it make to millions of malnourished peasants, whether the taxes which oppressed them went to Delhi or to London?
I would love to hear what people do for 25? I’m struggling with this myself - with static site generators you can’t always put files in the same directory as the markdown
It is essential that the poor earn as little as possible so as to incentivize their labor, and it is essential that the rich earn as much as possible (by, for example, reducing their tax burden) so as to incentivize their labor.
Half of the mountain is in Tibet/China, and DJI is a Chinese company. But climbing from Tibetan side is a bit more challenging.
If anything, widespread use and understanding of this technology will help with situations like these. Teenagers in 10 years would absolutely not be impressed with a nude picture that has not been somehow verified as legitimate.
I would agree with the main sibling comment here. Pithy remarks about Elon Musk, about anyone really, generally don't add anything to the discussion and are very tired topics, particularly when they aren't even humorous in any way.

You actually make a fairly decent point (FSD being forever "soon" is one example), however in most of the businesses that Elon Musk operates in, delays or outright failures are extremely common (Tesla made electric cars appealing. Basically was impossible. SpaceX developed rockets in a "few years". Basically unheard of since Apollo-era. And so on).

So I would probably lean on the side of "give the dude some slack"?
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"That's a tight shoulder you've got there, it would be a shame if I accidentally missed it."
My previous comment came out harsher than I intended -- I don't mean to imply that opinion and experience don't play a factor in other disciplines, we are more prone to see issues with software engineering because we are more familiar with software engineering.

However I still think the situation is a bit worse. The tradeoffs in the models you mention are well understood. The equivalent in SE would be something like "should we use python or go", but it's very unclear that we can definitively state which use cases are better for which. There is simply no evidence, the plural of "anecdote" isn't "data".
There is bound to be a smart kid who already turned this idea into a shitcoin (meaning a pump and dumb money grab, not an actual attempt to make a art-index and tokenize it).

It seems someone indeed did this (the p&d, not the index): https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/artonline
Especially considering, if the Wikipedia information is correct, it seems to meet the criteria and best the 15th century ones that conclude the OP.
My 2 cents ... If I know the individual inviting me then a polite 'thank you for the offer / thinking of me, but I must decline.' no more is needed.
If you do not know them, i.e a blind invite, then ignoring is more than a reasonable approach, you are under no obligation to respond. Your time, your rules.
The Fate of Rome
Solar cells are pretty heavy.
For Windows, it's mostly the same as always even on Windows 11. It's under the IPv4 (or IPv6 as applicable) properties of whichever connection you're using.

The exact way to get to it varies slightly by Windows version, but it's somewhere under the vicinity of Control Panel -> Network and Internet -> Network Connections (this particular example is from Windows 7).

For Android, this also varies slightly by each device manufacturer's own flavor of Android, but it's usually somewhere under the section to do with device connections (Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, etc.) and is called "Private DNS".

You need to give it a hostname (usually a domain name, eg: dns.google for 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4.) rather than an IP address, presumably because it's DNS Over HTTPS? I'm not quite sure why it doesn't take IP addresses.
> You would assume macOS as the operating system, but is that manageable at that scale?

Sure, it's a unix system. You can go far with SSHing into a machine and running some commands. Also, they only very recently discontinued MacOS Server (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208312)

Hardware-wise, it's either a battery of Mac Minis or Mac Pros, or maybe they've made custom hardware so they can put Apple hardware in a blade server form factor.
Untested on that device.
>What will happen is AI will be fed IP legal corpus

I first read this as a prediction that AIs will be employed to generate future IP legislation, and now I don't know if I'll be able to go back to sleep.
Reading about how it's done it's not so clear those other things are close at hand. Most of these SD things generate very low-res images and then use upscaling to make them high enough resolution that they don't look like crap.

Apparently the computational power required to make them larger grows exponentially (or geometrically?) so until we find new algorithms it might be a long time before the same technique can generate whole films and games and any coherent way.

Of course maybe that breakthrough will be announced tomorrow.
Darwin is headless. But maybe they're running asahi, although I doubt it. To run nodes, you don't actually need a complete distribution..

All the cloud providers create custom rack servers and even silicon, so why wouldn't they have rack mounted Mx boards? Also, the Mx gives you a lot of power for per watt. Perfect use case of a DC.
Mid 90s, baby!
But that's the whole point isn't it? Would the local governments have held back if they would have been pressured by an aggressive Soviet overlord to start a civil war on their own soil? I guess the exact details why the East German army didn't leave their barracks are still not really clarified (e.g. was it incompetence, insubordination, passive resistance, unwilligness to have the blood of their own people on their hands?), at least the last point wouldn't be an issue for Soviet soldiers stationed in East Germany if they had received orders to crush the protests. But apparently they didn't receive such orders and I think the silence out of Moscow was the main reason why the East German government remained passive too.
I think that IF they were to do any kind of cloud offering, it would be services for apps - storage like Firebase, push notifications, analytics, in-app purchase management, that kind of thing.
Film: Frame Interpolation for Large Motion
Child poverty measures have gone DOWN. House building is at its highest rate since the 70s and inflation is a global phenomenon.
Red army was shedding blood of their own people to keep peace at Afghanistan.
Sorry you faced downvotes. No offense taken.
You don't think that showing laughing acceptance of predatory behaviour normalises that behaviour instead of shaming it? (Apologies for going all Reddit ...)
I was going to downvote your low effort comment but instead did a quick search and turned up the following (there are probably more)

Deutsche Bank fined nearly $10m over rate setting failures https://www.fnlondon.com/articles/deutsche-bank-fined-nearly...

Deutsche Bank handed $124 million in bribery fines by US court https://www.dw.com/en/deutsche-bank-handed-124-million-in-br...

Spain Fines Deutsche Bank $3.3 Million for 'Very Serious' Infringement https://money.usnews.com/investing/news/articles/2022-03-29/...

FINRA Fines Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc. $2 Million For Best Execution Violations https://www.finra.org/media-center/newsreleases/2022/finra-f...
For 3D we would probably need something like Blender or similar, because at some point it's just easier to use a 3D software to pinpoint where you want stuff to be, than try to use words.

Imagine opening blender and typing

> A medium sized classroom, well lit, with two blackboards and many geography posters

And the AI just generates all the 3D meshes and places them appropriately.

Repeat that for other props or characters that you need. After that you can manually tweak the scene as you currently would (moving things, etc).

Then you select a character, and to animate you tell it

> The character calmly walks to the door and proceeds to open it

You could literally do a 100+ hour job in 5 minutes.
> Are you claiming that proprietary vendors intentionally mislead people with FUD?

They don't?

They want to sell as much as possible. Customers are in general not allowed to know their internal practices.

Audits are short and shallow.
I expect that it’s fairly normal: If the union is actively striking, or threatening to strike, an agreement that doesn’t guarantee a return to work won’t be acceptable to management.

Once the agreement expires and it’s time to hammer out a new one, the whole range of labor and management bargaining tactics are in play again, including strikes and lock-outs.
The US actively supported Yeltsin and paved the way for Putin.

This is what they wanted.

And it's working wonders now - the US will make a fortune off of LNG and arms sales, whilst completely destroying competing European industry which suffers gas shortages and uncompetitive energy prices.

It's a masterful long-term play.
What affect will it have on kids? Every kid can now just stick figure draw into painting or else ask Siri "draw me a picture of Trogdor holding up a sword" etc... I can imagine that having some kind of large influence on creativity (not sure negative or positive)
Doesn't striking pretty much by default mean "not holding up their side of the deal"? Or are you saying that because the deal exists, they can never strike?
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32658796.
It's not a domain name, there is no .jl TLD
If country is great, it can’t be collapsed so easily. USSR was dead, Gorbachev just put it out of its misery.
Why would you? I'm of the opinion that instead of trying to fight the system you should work with it, take the path of least resistance, and work on the best solution for the problem.

Tangentially related, in my opinion, native apps built in the tooling offered by the phone's manufacturer (xcode or android studio) will always be superior - to the end-user - than any cross-platform compromise. I'll admit that e.g. react native may have a better developer experience, but you don't build apps for the developers, right?
Attacking another user like this will get you banned here. Please make your substantive points thoughtfully and respectfully.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I need to do it constantly, as I want to update the status if I mute/unmute manually. I want to make a physical mute button with a LED, so that's why I need that.
Can't you go around that if you have direct line of sight to the drone, with some laser or very targeted radio? Or perhaps a relay drone. Also I assume the drones will increasingly become autonomous.
What happens if you give an image prompt like "mona lisa", "daffodils van gogh", or similar designed to describe an image the model was trained on. Will it generate that image?

Or for written works, start with a sentance from a copyrighted work, or part of licensed code. Will it start reproducing that work word for word (like code pilot can do with the GPL license)? Getting these to generate copies of GPL'd, company owned, or other code with restrictions can lead to complex issues for the person/company using that code. Or likewise if a story contains significant elements of copyrighted works; worse if the works have trademarked elements.
I guess it is missing the physics simulation between frames. Perhaps that is the next big step for ML to get right.
I thought he was very clear that he wasn't making a "least harm" case. And I think you are misrepresenting the side that decided on lockdowns. The tradeoffs and risks were a constant topic of discussion.

Economic, schooling, mental health, excercise, business, these factored into every decision. The bend the curve thing was literally saying "we will let some people get this disease and only apply the brakes when we fear that the sheer number of people getting it will overwhelm the hospitals and cause even more deaths." Some jobs were considered "essential" some werent. Did that impact some people more than others? Kids were seen as being at low risk of dying which factored into things like school being open. Just constant, non-stop discussion about trade-offs and risks across multiple domains.

Lockdown vs no lockdown isn't a real division, each lockdown strategy was different for incedental reasons alone.
This is great, any way to use img2img on an online serivce? I don't have GPU access
The opening level of (nearly) every From game has a whole section with tips on the floor and easy enemies to try them out on.

The Northern Asylum in Dark Souls is one long unskippable tutorial.
> Imagine if Trump had really been a Russian agent and had returned Alaska to Russia, would you expect all subsequent administrations to just respect that it is Russian now?

Huh? You mean: Imagine if Russia just annexed Alaska after they sent their green men over-there, to disrupt and takeover the region.

Since when Ukraine just gave up on crimea? They were bullied off it and same with donbass. Their military was weak and disorganization so puting took advantage then.
what did you have to write to get it to do this?
"23. Has anyone ever compared how long it takes to reach a workable level of understanding of a software system with and without UML diagrams or other graphical notations? More generally, is there any correlation between the amount or quality of different kinds of developer-oriented documentation and time-to-understanding, and if so, which kinds of documentation fare best?"

This is such an important question and it's just the tip of the iceberg of a very deep problem that is rotting our software systems. We are absolutely pathetic at dealing with complexity and we actually enjoy complexity. We don't tackle questions such as 23. ANYWHERE near as seriously as we should.

Developers overestimate their mental bandwidth which leads them to pompously build over-complicated tech stacks despite only having archaic tools to mitigate and navigate their complexity.

Companies don't need to hire more devs to deal with their complex software systems, they need better tools to navigate their software systems. But because companies don't truly value their money and devs don't truly value their time, we end up in the situation we are in now.
We should have hundreds of companies investing on initiatives akin to Moldable Development[1], instead they play the following bingo:
1) let's just hire more devs and hope to land on a 10xer
2) let's build our own framework

Additionally, we overvalue specialization. By overloading developer brains with complex tech stacks, we encourage a culture of specialized profiles who find solace in trivia. Doing so, we limit cross-pollination and stifle true innovation. This attitude is actively killing-off thousands of valuable ideas.
Every second, there's a coder out there who thinks of something wild, which requires very specific tools from different fields and finds out that the people who built such tools couldn't be bothered making them accessible under a sensible time-budget to people outside of their niche/ivory tower. So the dev either drops the idea or gets sucked up into a niche.

This is tragic, but hey look! We have a new (totally not low-hanging fruit that could be predicted 10 years ago) Generative Model, WOW! "What a time to be alive"!

[1] https://moldabledevelopment.com/
I grew up in a small town of 10k, mostly single family housing on relatively small plots. At the time most people didn't have cars and even old women biked to the church (and old men to the pub). Those who did not use the bike could walk, it took longer but was still possible because the shops, services, hospital, schools and offices/factories were close by. Only those who worked or studied in nearby towns used cars or buses/trains.
Because of this, I think the most important variable is the availability and affordability of cars. Everything else follows.
The mental contortions people go through to redefine slavery to not mean property when that’s literally the definition is mind boggling. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery

People are not property and they are most certainly not forced to work. Wanting things and needing money to buy the things you want is not “being forced”.
Say you have a 6 or more developer team working on an app. Do you really want everyone to be able to create production builds? Or do you really want to rely on one guy having the production certificates?

What if you've outsourced your app development; do you really want random developers spread across the world from having the ability to make production builds?

Anyway, there's more authorative sources on the internet about "why CI" than some guy (me) in a comment section.
AI bot read 100M LinkedIn profiles and created a TV pilot script
> The number of users that take part in trials doesn't matter to your bottom line. The percentage of people that convert does.

I stopped reading at this point. What actually matters is the absolute number of people that sign up and pay for your product. Making it harder for people to try out your product obviously lowers the absolute number of users who get to know your product, which has knock-on effects that you can not measure in A/B tests.

If your product requires me to provide credit card information, or even contact sales, it better be exceptional for me not to bail instantly. If it is exceptional, your marketing probably does not matter much anyway.
This. The major risk isn't losing to SEO, it's that the shady operators pay for ads that appear above search results.

Lots of people don't realise they're ads and not the official service.

Google didn't really do much to combat it until the law was changed a year or two ago.
This is patently, obviously _wrong_ for anyone who has tried learning any artistic skill in their life. Sorry to be this straightforward, but it gets on my nerves every time I read it.

If you tried learning, let's say, the chiaroscuro technique from Caravaggio you'd be analyzing the way the painter simulated volumetric space by using white and dark tones in place of natural lighting and shadows. You wouldn't even think of splitting the whole painting into puzzle size pieces while checking how many how those look similar when put close one another.

Given somewhat decent painting skills, you'd be able to steadily apply this technique for the rest of your life just by looking at a very small sample of Caravaggio's corpus.

On the other hand if you tried removing even just a single work from the original Stable Diffusion data set you used to generate your painting, it would be absolutely impossible to recreate a similar enough picture even by starting from the same prompt and seed values.

Given how smart some of the people working on this are, I'm starting to believe they're intentionally playing dumb to make sure nobody is going ask them to prove this during a copyright infringement case.
It was in the context of war zone but it's not a massive stretch of the imagination that sooner or later some terrorist movement will start using them. In fact I am surprised they haven't already.
Basic practices for documentation of software systems
I think you are massively underestimating the problems. With just 1.1% warming we're starting to see famines, floods, droughts. 1/3 of Pakistan is under water right now. The Glasgow conference failed to "save" 1.5%. This is going to get much, much worse.
My experience is a bit different, the end role for engineers that don't want to land in management is usually becoming an architect, or staying as tech lead forever, unless they branch out into consulting.