skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In context it is all or nothing - because people on HN think illustrators and artists are what they find on fiverr.com. They're making hugely naive blanket statements saying that this will destroy an industry and make creatives unemployable. These doomsayers have literally not the faintest idea about the job they think is being erased by txt2img.

If people were saying "oh hey this is going to give the lazystock on iStockPhoto a run for their money", I wouldn't debate that point, it's true. However that's not the industry, and it's certainly not where the money is - neither in # of customers nor total spend. Those people who you might think are customers simply put: aren't, they get by with images stolen from google images and bundled clipart, or frankly: nothing at all.

Now this isn't to say that txt2img isn't useful or exciting. I can say that it is the largest and most significant expansion of creative tech since the advent of DTP. This will absolutely accelerate and open the door to not just higher standards, but new ways of rapidly ideating concepts. I've already seen fantastic examples of txt-to-image-to-mesh-to-live animation. All automated through AI.

This is also why I speak against the other kinds of naysayers: the ones that think this tech is unimportant. These types are being incredibly short sighted and acting like we're looking at this tech's endpoint, rather than its infancy.

tl,dr: No creatives are not being put out of the job. Yes this tech is incredibly important.
Usually limits like this come from someone defining a DB column for the value without specifying a length, and the DBMS default being taken. Someone (maybe the same someone) then comes along and adds validation to the input form which forces values to fit in this limited space.

This can vary by tool too. With SQL Server the default for an [N]VARCHAR value if not length is specified is 30 characters (this means CAST/CONVERT can unexpectedly truncate without error which sometimes causes interesting problems to debug), though if you are creating a table in some of the standard tools many of them default to 50.

Though scanning the RFCs to verify other comments in this thread I note that local-part has a 64-byte limit which I was not aware of (or once knew but have forgotten). And it is explicitly stated as 64 octets not 64 characters, so beware of the possibility of non-ASCII characters when validating (I suspect many regexs attempting to validate addresses will get this wrong or not enforce it at all).
My former CEO invested significantly in training (I personally received well over $250k worth, including leadership lessons from 2 weeks reliving D Day with military men, rowing with National champion coaches at Yale, etc.) and used to say people challenged him with « what of you spend all this money to train them and they leave? », to which he replied « what if we don’t train and develop them and they stay, isn’t that way worse? »
yeah, Heinlein is not my favourite, and I find most of his stuff to be hard work. I really wanted to like Stranger in a Strange Land (because it's an awesome title) but alas it seems like every book is trying to push some specific social agenda which may have been big at the time (or maybe not?) but now just seems out of place.

>> In the Netherlands a handful of second hand shops who specialize in sci-fi and fantasy show up at the huge yearly outdoor book-fair in Deventer.

consider yourself lucky then! There's nothing like that here. Which is perhaps good for my wallet...
TIL how to flag :) Someone else did the previous comment though.
> top 20% of men

Loooooooooong way to go then.

> I'd focus on losing weight first if I were you.

Yeah, I'm on it. It's complicated, but yes.
Source control is an inherently distributed system. Each developer has their own copy of the code that are distributed across many computers, and they need to communicate between each other. That's exactly what the primary function of the software is.
We are already living at a gatling gun level of content, from any individuals perspective into the web.

We are way past that. If anything, trivialising and democratising the generation of fake content, will educate the masses. Perhaps, bring back the trust for science, which we need a lot.
> if we pay grad students $100K instead of paying them $35K

That would make a big difference I think. Especially in fields where private sector pay much more. That being said, research remains attractive for the brightest minds and there's no shortage of great candidates yet.
When obviously wrong, failing to acknowledge it is an interesting choice. Maybe acknowledging it has legal repercussions, but so does the path taken.
> have concluded that the cost to comply with GDPR is likely to be more
> the than the revenue that could be gained by allowing the occasional EU reader

Why would anybody read the news from a source whose prime motivation is anything other than dissemination of information? Not to excuse the profit motivation, but simply not setting any cookies is as simple a "fix" as is blocking access, unless one were to argue for the marginal cost of serving the occasional additional webpage.
I agree to an extent. A good software engineer should understand the fundamentals and be able to adapt to most environments. Unless... your team is doing something very unusual.

I like to think of it as a professional sports team (let's say basketball). If you have a chance to sign a skilled player who is an all-star, 7 feet tall, and can hit 3 pointers you sign him and it will probably work out!
I think they mean by "civilized governments" governments who don't have military officers as ministers.
Nothing to do with civilization.
Like, when it created the Marshall Plan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Plan
Yeah, good writing is about cutting the fluff not generating it.

I never understood why the certain countries like the US have such an essay writing culture. It is super annoying and time consuming for teachers to mark and students obviously get exhausted by them.
> Some of these are patently not true:

>> Everyone has exactly one email address

> You'd be hard pressed to find anyone who's at all component with the internet who thinks that this is true, nevermind a programmer.

On a related note, there are people without an email address who still use the web applications and smartphone apps that require accounts and/or notifications. In some (or most?) developing countries, people use phone numbers as the login identifier and may not have an email address (or not know that they have one and what to do with it).
Google definitely doesn't lead by example.
I've had plenty of issues with job ad fraud. My last three jobs have been completely oversold and misdescribed in the ads and interviews. I think it's only fair that applicants retaliate with the same ammunition.
Motivating the case for decetralized social identity
People had preference for light skin since ancient time. Light skin meant you were high status and didn’t had to work in the fields.
They are using civilized torture in Guantanamo, you know.
> One of the greatest failings of our "modern" healthcare system

Healthcare has nothing to do with it. There is no medicine or medical treatment to cure obesity, it's a lifestyle issue
https://www.osteriasenzoste.it/

https://www.tripadvisor.it/Attraction_Review-g666331-d199722...

it is basically a bar without waiters or owners, the name literally mean "the bar without the innkeeper"

However, now it is more mainstream than it used to be, it used to be really a secret place
We may need an `X-Applicable-Laws` HTTP header.
> KiwiFarms users post the personal information of people and encourage each other to harass them to the point of suicide.

Both of those things are EXPLICITLY against the rules and are heavily enforced. They only take public information and are point and laugh, but don't touch.

Reprehensible for sure, but your portrayal isn't accurate.
mmh serene comrade here we are revealing a little too much ;)
From either of these countries perspective, this would be a civil war.
Looks like we need to add another falsehood to the list:

* all (or even most) engineers and other technical persons know and understand the details of mail exchange

I do, but I wouldn't expect all to have much understanding and I wouldn't expect most to know a lot of the finer detail. Heck, I think I've just learned that local-part has a 64 octet limit (or if I already knew it I'd forgotten).
Intel processors were always a waste of money.
Yes, I agree that the reports on Telegram are mostly focused on right wing groups. I think that it's in ins very own nature that if there is a space for non conforming right wing ideas, there is also a space for other ideas that do not fit particularly well into the mainstream opinion. I would consider human rights activism and some work of NGOs as at least unpleasant for the government which would be a good reason to pay attention on where the communication happens.
I mean comfortable is easy when you can't breathe and pass-out causing potential hundreds of millions in damage and loss of a qualified pilot.
Ask HN: What Are Some Good 2FA Service Provider?
I am planning to build a web app. I want to implement 2FA for validating and verifying users. What are some good 2FA service providers?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fo77sTGpngQ

If you seek to 6 min 5 seconds, the narrator describes an Evangelical pastor by the name of Urban Baxter whose End Time ministry leads a tour to Israel twice a year. The pastor then explains to his tour group / congregation the significance of Armageddon in relation to the current location of the tour group, Megiddo.
Incredible, I never knew I needed a Warhammer 40k / Office Space crossover until this moment

To the DeepFakeMobile!!
You may be correct vis-a-vis OP, but I'll stick to my guns as far as 'state' being any piece of information that has to managed.

If I'm not writing pure functions, then there is some piece of information whose lifecycle suddenly requires care and feeding, especially if there are environmental factors making that state more 'interesting' than the code in view.
Not that there's anything coming up right now, but Pakistan is looking extremely fragile right now with a dead economy and an unprecedented natural disaster. That, along with a more right wing India can't be good news.
And in space, aviation, and medical, it takes a long time to go to market.
I’ve seen a lot of systems, including corporate systems for internal use, reject apostrophes in email addresses (and sometimes even in other fields). Apparently the developers are too lazy to deal with strings properly and fear SQL injection attacks, and perhaps they don’t trust all the other systems they may interface with. So their escape hatch is to prevent these from being allowed.

(“Little Bobby Tables” from xkcd comes to my mind whenever I see these restrictions)
A few years back I was asked to set up a mail server on an AWS server for some small non-profit organization. I am a software developer of 25 years with a lifelong habit of tinkering with OS installations and the like, so I thought "sure, how hard can it be?". Here is my warning for you all: do not enter this highway to hell unless you actually are a sysop who is specialized in setting up email servers.
Cookies might be in the hands of the user but tracking as a whole is not. If cookies become less reliable then there are many other ways, which is why the GDPR requires consent for any tracking not just cookies.
If you only know java are you even a real (professional) dev?

I'd expect any dev wanting a job using a language he doesn't know to have some understanding all of the concepts you're talking about. It's not language specific, it's just the basics of programming.
>The HN comments here at the time weren't great either

Amazing, people accusing you of "astroturfing" (an HN favourite, doesn't even make sense in this context).

These are the comment threads that cross my mind when people claim this forum is atypically "smart".
I wonder how much events like this volcanic eruption cover up the fact that we're so effed in terms of global warming. It's still mind-boggling how much more atmospheric CO2 there is now compared to the lowest points in the last million years (~2x).
> So, making an application for grant anonymous, you have dramatically increased the risk of nothing useful coming out of the proposal

To me this sounds not as a critique of the proposed system, but rather defense of the current system.

Science is underpinned by the scientific method which essentially is "form hypothesis -> create controlled environment -> test hypothesis". I do not want to start debate around expected outcome rations, but negative result (hypothesis being false) is perfectly normal outcome of the scientific method. Current system tries to defend against rent seeking by being heavily biased towards positive outcomes. This encourages heavily incremental research, which a bit paradoxically can be also seen as rent seeking. Furthermore, it also encourages low quality science (like p hacking and similar stuff) and discourages publication of negative outcomes, possibly leading to hitting the same dead ends multiple times.

Blind grant proposals could reduce bias towards "past performance" decreasing ratio of positive results, and encourage "riskier", more brave hypotheses to be formed and tested.

Past performance as a metric in grant application encourages research optimization. Some may see this as a good thing, but it discourages early-to-mid career researchers (and even late in their careers) from pursuing something non-obvious. Safe science is more often than not optimization and edge case/condition testing.
tshirts / hoodies != custom designed mechanical item with many moving parts.
Then it should be easy to find examples. And as you can't prove a negative, the burden of proof is on those claiming such posts to exist.
The US will create its own chaos by electing 80 year olds.
Also, for me when I make big mistakes like this I think I’m in a different environment or something. It’s not that I don’t realise what command I’m running, it’s that I miss the context.

So I would just confirm but not realise what I was confirming.
Easily, they get a lot more money/resources allocated to them, better equipment, better training and face tougher selection with higher drop rates.

Excluding the CIA black units, DELTA > DEVGRU > SF / SEALs / FORECON > Rangers.
Ah yes, they will 100% have a working review process with some other tools, no need to migrate to github's which isn't really flexible anyway.
I can see it both ways. I think there's an opportunity for the developer to identify that localStorage is unavailable at runtime, and turn off certain features in the UI as a result, or write their own wrapper layer that does the 'throw-away' behavior.
> I’d say it’s just basic human nature really

I'd say it's a learned behavior that feels that way because we live in a society that rewards it far too much and to regularly.
Refusing to build a data center in Israel, as Koren wanted.
> "this remembers how you had it set last time"

That is a session.
So, you think that the original intention was to say "civilian governments".

You are very generous with your interpretations, I admire your optimism in how civilized comments in Internet are.
I'm really suspicious of the arguments that compare the cost to build the Golden Gate bridge in 1930s vs costs of building similar structure today. I mean, the GG was cheap to build because, back in the day, construction was done by people living in squalor (certainly by today's standards) and done in insaney dangerous working conditions. Do we really long for these days?
Hello,

Thank you very much. You're right I should find a way to flourish as an adult. But it's hard. I thought after getting married I'd split the chores I wouldn't feel lonely but it could be even harder that's true.

I live in Turkey, it's in the middle of eastern/western cultures. High earning people want to move out quickly as westeners do, middle/low class people usually don't move out until they get married. My parents live in a family apartment. My grandparents, aunts etc. live in separate flats but in the same apartment. I'd very much like a similar arrangement :).

Turkey is also experiencing a super high inflation right now around 80% p.a. per the official numbers. Housing prices have risen more than 140% during the last year and more than 100% the year before that. So I also have financial worries about the future.

Maybe it would be better if I can get the cheaper family flat. I would feel more secure knowing that no one would evict me or raise my rent. I will also be able to save more.

Thank you again for your comments. I gained some clarity, I will continue to try adapting to living alone.
There is a pool of people that can invite calculus on their own.

Another for those that can learn it on their own.

Another for those that can learn it in a multi year schooling system.

Limiting yourself to hiring from the smallest possible sets is challenging.
Well close to 300 million people lived in the USSR. Only 8 million of them lived in the Baltic states.

I still personally think the (mostly) peaceful dissolution of the USSR was probably one the best things that happened in the past 100 years. But transition to capitalism was extremely mismanaged, even in the “successful” countries.
You forgot the part where the US isn't trying to invade France
> Just go talk to random people in stores.

I'd like to counter-argue with a quote from this random Reddit thread in /r/AskWomen [1] titled "What is one place you hate to be hit on?":

> Grocery store. I'm just like, dude, leave me alone, I'm here to get my food and get out as quickly as possible. I'm not interested in having to pretend not to be annoyed by you interrupting my day, fuck off.

And I'd like to point out that "Earth" is also an answer there.

I feel for the OP because he's stuck between a rock and a hard place: hitting on women is often annoying for the woman being hit on, but at the same time not hitting on women means that he can only date people who he meets for reasons other than dating. It's like a Zen riddle: "What is that which you can only have once you stop desiring it?".

This is the landscape that gave rise to the hell we call "dating apps", and I really wish we had something better.

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/AskWomen/comments/pzojno/what_is_on...
"The ratchet is based on Megapro's long-standing & reliable design, but has been significantly modified to suit our needs. We reversed the ratchet direction (right for clockwise, left for anti-clockwise), adjusted the spring for lighter back-force which allows you to ratchet-drive even very small screws, and optimized for smoothness and quiet function. It's rated for operation of up to 220 inch-pounds of force."

optimized for an extra $10.00
Taiwan is pretty close to China...
You cannot realisticly prevent the website from knowing that you are using a privacy-conscious browser, which is why e.g. TOR Browser and Firefox's enhanced tracking prevention don't attempt to do that but instead only try to make all their users look the same. Trying to emultate the growing number of cookieNG technologies whithout adding more privacy leaks is a waste of time.
The situation with AI art is significantly complicated by the fact that we can't easily distinguish between works produced with vs. without it; with cameras/photography that wasn't as much of an issue, which prevented it from being a true encroachment (not to mention the potential subject matter of photography is a small subset of what's more generally possible in human-created art)—with AI art toes and much more will be stepped on and people will be pissed.

(Photoshop I see as a separate issue; people take it better because it still resembles traditional methods to such a large degree.)
This is nothing new: on a webapp, you may not have a session. That's all.
I see what you’re saying. What I meant is that I don’t actively work to memorize mappings. An initial effort/push when convenient to intelligently create the mapping is all that’s required. From there it happens naturally.

I was clarifying that the greatest hindrance to this process is changing your mappings (I get so confused if I ever try to move a custom mapping). I put in a little effort up front to make sure I don’t have to change the mapping.
You look for a fraud in every real human professional directly applying, so that now all you're left with are real frauds. Sorry, not sorry.
This is the first thing I've seen on Atlas Obscura that is actually obscure. But I suspect it wont be for long
A working dev should be well beyond the understanding of a third-year CS student. This is not "advanced" from the perspective of someone in practice, it is the requirement to get in to the practice.

(I know people get programming jobs without CS degrees, but if you can do that, you can teach yourself how pointers work)
FWIW I too thought it meant the opposite of underemployed.

I didn’t realize the “fraudulent holding of two jobs simultaneously” had acquired this name.

Apparently there are other definitions as well, used in economics. One being when workers want to work less (even for less money) but can’t… which is sort of the opposite of the two-jobs thing I guess:

https://www.encyclopedia.com/social-sciences/applied-and-soc...
The problems start when you know you want to light a house on fire, but you pick the wrong house.

It's almost never the case that blaming the user is actually going to help nor that adding more eyeballs will prevent people from making mistakes. If it's routine, we'll apply it to the wrong entity. If it's not routine, we'll not understand all the implications of our actions.
When a company I'm interviewing for a role at is quoting Uncle Bob, that is a huge red flag for me.
I have a bag of replacement pulls. Sometimes, though, the mechanism breaks in such a away that you can’t attach a new pull to it. Not YKK, of course!
I can take a box containing 1001 conkers, sell one to you for $1000, then claim that I have $1m in my bucket.

What was lost was not money, but electronic conkers of which a small number people paid real money for.
Never was ghost-banned by GMail? You are lucky.
Looking at the graph of price changes, it looks mostly like things that are cheaper come from abroad. Things that got more expensive are strictly domestic / unoffshorable.

I guess this says a few things even before you get to regulation:

- America outsourced a lot of engineering jobs of all sorts, leading to a lower supply of skilled labour at home. The places that received the outsourced jobs got better at it and do it cheaply. Though also, they provided these services at deflated prices, for a human cost, to make this happen. These eye-wateringly expensive projects in the US, how much would they cost if the lowest bidder from Asia was allowed to do it in an open tender?

- As the US got wealthier, people want to be paid better. Where in the past there were plenty of poor people happy to work in childcare for very little money, now there are less, and they need to be paid better.

- I wonder if a lot if things were cheaper because there was more immigrant labour happy to do it cheaply.

I think an interesting comparison is Switzerland, a wealthy country where everything is eye-wateringly expensive, yet also the Swiss can afford it and have more disposable income, even PPP, than peers. Stuff get built, for massive prices, on budget, on schedule, and in good time.

It is both a very well ran country, and with a huge immigrant population. Also pretty bureaucratic still, suggesting this alone is not the root issue in the US.
> What's infinitely more likely is that Christians feel a certain affinity towards Israel due to a shared Judeo-Christian heritage.

What's really infinitely more likely is that israel and usa share some common enemies, and usa doesn't really have all that many geopolitical allies in the region to chose from. I don't know why everyone reaches for weird religious conspiracies when the obvious geopolitical explanation will do.