skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is this screed even trying to say? "Someone might reuse your failsafe in a way that actually makes it dangerous"? Then it's not a failsafe anymore and the second designer is an idiot. Like with the firehose example, it isn't the pumping that will kill you it's the not-pumping, therefore your failure state should halt the not-pumping.
Omg!
You cant derive science from first principles and give up all the physics/maths techniques used in the last 200 years.
They didn't even take into account the error would increase is the you added more time derivatives.
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I don't know about the NHS, but we can't trust the information vended by the CDC -- they have proven willfully incompetent over the past two years. I will give just one example: they initially told us masks were ineffective against COVID, which they knew at the time was inaccurate. They said it because they didn't want a run on PPE required by medical workers. Result: there was a shortage anyway and they damaged their reputation irreparably. Great job everyone.
https://archive.ph/D4JQj for people who don't want to use JS
This is really cool! I have a question for people who know this stuff: what's the "f.▼ä" pattern that appears at the end of these binaries? It looks intriguing...
I agree with a lot of this article, but much of the suggested action at the end strikes me as flawed.

> Don’t force yourself to do anything you hate. If you get too good at this, you won’t be able to figure out when to quit.

I'd moderate this a bit. Maybe, "If you are forcing yourself to do what you hate, step back and think: is the goal worth the slog to me?"

> Be suspicious of roles that compensate you with status or non-financial rewards.

This is the worst, to me. Purely financial motivation is one of the surest ways to be trapped in a role you hate. Make sure what you do offers you personal and social rewards that you value.

> Join Twitter — there’s no better way to reduce tunnel vision.

Twitter is the most awful social-pressure tool ever created. Please, I beg of you, do not join Twitter!
I forget where I saw it, but with a 200B parameter model generated text actually makes sense.
I also highly recommend the NHS website.

The information there a couple of years ago helped me losing a lot of weight and adapt a healthier overall lifestyle.

The information is dry, concise and easy to understand for a layperson. I cannot judge how well it is aligned with recent science, but I trust the site much more than most others, because their incentives after all is public health (I'm sure some politics play a role as well), not selling you books and courses with unrealistic expectations.
They seem to be quite early - there is no pricing, and the only clear way to deploy is in their cloud.
There is also the distinct possibility that a government would just hack your system secretly if they thought it was a worthwhile target. I would assume that is the case for these well known VPN companies that operate outside US jurisdiction. The actual attacks that might be used are a different discussion but I don't think this is a remote possibility. I think it's quite likely the US government would target companies like these.
Your site missing key piece sof information. Pricing.. what amount/percentage does a publisher get? What does running an ad cost? What are your maximum daily traffic numbers if I ran an ad? How do you payout? An faq would be helpful
Specific weather should not be correlated with climate. Saying X natural disaster was caused by climate change should be looked down upon in the same way conservatives might say X cold snap proves climate change isn't real/is exaggerated.

We should use averages to build evidence for climate change, not specific weather patterns on any particular day, especially considering monsoons have been happening for millions of years
See also:

https://structurizr.com/ - diagrams as code

https://c4model.com/ - C4 model for visualising software architecture

The consistency of structurizr + c4 is great for sharing information across scaled teams of teams.
SAFE: Supportive, Able-promoting, Freeing, and Exclusive's-opposite...
But you just defined a person with a lot of more experience covering the bigger part of the design and the junior covering the smaller part, because of less experience.

So literally that's "hiding" an actual distinction that it's already there.

I agree, every dev should be able to design systems. With software development becoming a highly desirable career due to money, this is just not true and possible anymore.

The world is full of productive developers that are not skilled enough to design systems.
Designing systems is also incredibly hard, I have rarely seen (in my very limited sample) more than a few devs able to do it in a company.

So we have a category of people who put a lot of effort in becoming good at something, but we don't recognize them because "everybody should know that too". I think that's not positive.

People who want to grow in the design skills are free to do it and resources should be available, but the reality is already that people at higher levels tell you what to do. Isn't that what you would expect, somebody with more experience driving you?
The countries at the top end of the chart are mostly countries with expensive power because they have very little resources or because they are liberal democracies that prioritize environmental/health/safety/equity issues

Canada has some of the cheapest power for a free democracy, not sure why you think it is particularly worthy of criticism for high energy prices. You can thank your wealth of resources for that.
Not recommended but supported. JSON+LD is recommended. See https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/structure...
Randomization is a method poorly understood by Victorian natural philosophers and their students.

Scientists are just beginning to grasp its power. One may reasonably wonder whether the success of Monte Carlo modeling and natural selection helped to usher in this insight.

Its limitations are as important as its uses.
But the majority of the world population would choose to have the lifestyle and environmental footprint of middle-class Americans if they had that option.

If we want to allow continued population growth, we are saying that 'developing countries' must stop developing, and the wealthy countries need to vastly reduce the quality of not just their middle-classes, but their working class too.

We simply don't have the option of a low-footprint high standard of living right for the masses.
If one negative example decreases an entity’s credit, would positive examples increase an entity’s credit?

What about the proportion of positive to negative examples? How does that impact an entity’s credit?
FYI they just added the seed option to the repo today. Now waiting for img2img...
In India, I see lot of fake websites in Google Ads. Their offer is also too good and the images in the ads are so nice and attractive. Interestingly ads are appear even before big websites like Amazon and Flipkart.

After you made the payment, you will realize that you have been cheated. I guess lot of the people got cheated by this method.
Yes, Tulsi Gabbard is a leftist based on any rational analysis of her actual voting record.

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/tulsi_gabbard/41253...

She might not be as far left as you would prefer, but there is no doubt she is on the left side of the US political spectrum. (And please don't bother wasting our time with that tired old trope about the Democrats being equivalent to center-right party in European politics. We're not in Europe.)
Understanding UseMemo and UseCallback
Did you bother reading the wall of text above?
Well by definition… how else would you differentiate between serious customers and tire kickers?

It’s pretty obvious that a magnetic fridge pad has less features.

And it was not a solved problem in the year 2000.
slavery is a drag for any economy, slaves dont generate taxes, dont upskill themselves and dont build wealth. profits generated from their labour is directed towards a owner class that usually is against any technological progress than can undermine their wealth model. otherwise slaves are a security risk and need always to be controlled , wasting additional money on security (tangentially: now china spends more in internal security than in the military) and cant deployed on war and need duuring instable timese to be controlled more diverting meeded resources. basically slaves fuel a low skilled economy controlled by reactionary oligarchs that isnt competitive in the "game of nations", a reason why russia has been underdeveloped for most of its history and thats why most of african kingdoms couldnt modernize effectively [0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wim0yAkEnOQ&ab_channel=Kraut
I'm with you with a minor adjustment. I'd call it not "feature development" but software development and programming languages. Two majors points:

* as a developer my free time should be spent on keeping up with my ecosystem (e.g. new JDK versions, Scala/Kotlin taking over Java, Akka-like modern libraries, the latest Flink features) and keeping an eye on possible alternatives (e.g. are golang generics good enough to make it competitive with Java?).

* once they standardize on a single DSL sign me up. I don't want to constantly waste my time on switching to CloudFormation, then to Terraform, then to Helm charts. Sometimes even moving to a different team in the same company requires it. Life is too short to be a full time YAML developer. Also, AWS CDK is the only option that at least resembles programming and it's apparently the least popular one.
> The rule is any system that risks serious harm to a person in the course of normal operation should be fail-safe, not fail-dangerous.

I used to work in a Chemistry lab, one in which one of my lab-mates once had a explosion while he heated something which wasn't what he thought it was.

I was the guy who phoned for the ambulance (and got the fire service included for free, but maybe that makes sense if you work in a lab). I went to the front entrance to meet the firefighters as instructed, after identifying myself they asked me "do you have anything dangerous in your lab?"

I was probably still high on the adrenaline (there had been a fairly loud bang and the glass side windows of my colleague's fume hood were blown out) but I recall being unable to answer that question. I think I eventually said "Yes, of course we have dangerous stuff, you have anything particular in mind?"

Context really does matter!
Product brands have been doing it for ages, retailers are realizing they can do it too
The pre-seed round in 2021–22: Succinct storytelling, please (with examples)
According to Duck Duck Go, Amazon was selling a similar drive for $36.15 until recently. Sadly, the link is a 404 now:

https://www.amazon.com/Portable-External-high-Speed-Interfac...

> SSD Mobile Solid State Drive Mini Portable External Hard Drive high-Speed USB3.1 Type-C Interface Notebook PC Expansion Upgrade Hard Drive (Color : Red, Size : 30TB) Brand: Generic. $36.15 $ 36. 15. Coupon: Save an extra 10% when you apply this coupon. Terms. Capacity: 30TB . 1GB. 500GB. 1TB. 2TB. 4TB. 6TB. 8TB. 10TB. 12TB. 14TB. 16TB.

Even with the 10% off coupon, it was more than Walmart was charging. Gotta give Walmart credit where credit is due!
The second you paint lanes is also the same second you're expected to stay within those lanes with ramifications if you don't.

This is one of those arguments that looks good on paper, but causes untold pain in practice.
The applications of this are interesting to say the least.

Something i am currently working on is using fisheye images of the sky to predict cloud motion and to then estimate solar PV power output in the short term i.e. one to five minutes out.

It sounds simple but it isn’t yet even a child can observe cloud motion and predict to some degree when the disc of the sun will be obscured. Part of the inaccuracy is in the distortion caused by the fisheye lens.

I would be interested in seeing how well this works for subjects at infinity i.e. a fisheye lens pointed at the sky.
I think the point of the example is that in zig you'd just do

if (mask.alpha and mask.blue) {
Using marijuana and smoking marijuana are two extremely different things

Conflating using with smoking and talking about that synonymously isn’t telling anybody anything
> some 911 services themselves failed), hospitals (which couldn't access prescriptions), banks and payment systems (as payment terminals stopped working), and regular users as well.

Otherthan the regular users, each of these critical systems was built with an obvious and conventionally correctable point of failure.
I have this problem too. I made

https://polyfill.work

to try to solve it (I enter my preferences and get notified when there’s a matching job.) It’s still a work in progress though.

Something I’ve found that works quite well is contacting developers I used to work with to see if they need any help.
Yeah the commercial installs I've seen with Zen and GT710 are for Windows. For Linux an AMD R7 240 or 430 is the typical choice.
> Ryzen 5600X

Ooh, I've got one of those! I've been getting by trying to run it on my PC, which for various reasons currently has a 5800 and a GTX 1050 4GB, which can just bearly handle optimizedSD at 90s/image but runs out of memory if I try to use the popular webui repo. Swapping to the 5600X might be worth it!
It has happened to me a few times that I order from Walmart, see a shipment notification, that shipment "arrives" but definitely did not. However that day or the next I receive an Amazon package which I did not order containing my product.

So no, ordering from Walmart does not guarantee anything is going through their supply chain.
There is one notable exception. The third-party products sold on Apple’s online store are all vetted by Apple.

Apple, of course, are masters at guarding their reputation.
While that comment is snarky, there is a decent chance the sales guy at the company has already done it.
A third party seller did, not Walmart..

However, Walmart itself did recently sell me an OEM 'not for resale' labeled hard drive, so there is some strangeness going on in their warehouse just like at Amazon
I have 64GB RAM and nVidia with 24GB vmem, which projects could be the limit I can run locally?
Don't think of "coding" as writing javascript to make websites. Think of "coding" as "talking to computers".

As software eats the world, the value of people who can talk to computers will increase. Even if it takes fewer programmers to make a website, there will be more jobs for programmers to automate concept art production pipelines. You may not be writing javascript or python in fifteen years (I bet you will) but there will be code to tell the automation services what to do.

The interesting question is the general population becoming more tech savvy? Will this change in work encourage more students to learn how to code (whatever that looks like in twenty years)? Or will the demand for coders rise without a corresponding increase in supply?
I think the biggest problem you'd run into is that people are cheaper than your automation. A 16 year old will run your tractor all day for minimum wage.
Art has always been about more than technical prowess; it's fundamentally an exploration of new ways to tickle neurons.

For more practical purposes like product design, anyone will tell you that actually drawing stuff is akin to typing in code, it can take a while but it's not the hard part
Humans just have a tendency to be greedy. It's not like getting rid of capitalism will get rid of greed.
You can, but personally I think having to seek out some website when there's an update gets old pretty fast. And updates are important for security reasons.
Walmart is a retailer. Do people really think they (or Amazon, or anyone else) test every single one of the hundreds of millions of products sold on their site?

If people choose to trust a hard drive made by "XGeek", well, that's on them. This is exactly why branding is a thing. Just stick to Seagate or WD next time.
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Exactly. There is a difference between "right people" and "smart people". The right people are usually smart but smart people aren't always right for the team. If you have the right people you don't much process or organization imposed from top. They will organize themselves.
Why is he invited to give testimonies to congress, do you think? This is not something I have the opportunity to do. It's, presumably, on the basis of his comedy show? He doesn't want his comedy show to be taken seriously, but he wants himself to be taken seriously on the basis of that comedy show? What's the difference?
i wish pintrest could be scrubbed from the internet
I've started using YaCy and Searxng for searches. It was terrible at first but I set my YaCy engine off indexing high quality sites that I find useful for the subjects I'm interested in.

It's refreshing in some ways - the content I get is definitely "outside of my promoted echo chamber". However, you really need to use use query syntax to get decent results, something I'd gotten out of the habit of doing with Google (actually, I'm convinced Google ignored it half the time even if you tried).
Rather than horrible private-company-provided internet that is extremely oversubscribed due to profits?
I may be totally wrong here but perhaps this looks like it might be coincidental if one doesn't know many truly different OSes.

The modern OS space is dominated by 3 big OSes, and a bunch of smaller relatives, that are basically siblings. They share a huge amount of ancestry.

Whereas there are many, many others that are vastly unlike them in almost every way.

What you see as coincidence reflects the fact that these OSes are closely related.

The 3 big OSes now are Windows NT, macOS and Linux. The close relatives I mentioned are the BSDs, and then relative to them very slightly further away, Minix 3, QNX, and then things like GNU HURD, (Open)Solaris, other Unixes, etc.

All implemented mainly in C, all descendants of or inspired by one of just 2 OSes for just 2 DEC minicomputers.

Unix and all Unixes from a DEC PDP-7 OS, that became a lot more like modern Unix when ported to the PDP-11.

All Windows this century is Windows NT. The other forms (Win9x, WinCE etc.) are dead.

All NT is related to VMS, a DEC VAX OS, where the VAX is a 32-bit PDP-11.

They are all siblings.

Some OSes with the same conceptual model (disks, partitions, files, binaries, users, etc.) that are totally different:

* RISC OS.

* Classic MacOS

* AmigaOS (and MorphOS, AROS etc.)

None of these have replaceable "shells". None use file extensions. None have any trace of 8.3 filenames.

Others, like the large family that sprung from CP/M, including Concurrent CP/M, Atari TOS/GEM, etc. are broadly similar because they also came from DEC PDP OSes, but different ones, and were not originally implemented in C or anything because their shared rootstock is contemporaneous with the invention of C.

There are many many OSes that are almost nothing like even this basic model of "disks" with "filesystems" and "source code" that is compiled to "binaries" that are CPU-native and governed by "configuration files" that are probably "plain text".

Symbolics Genera and OpenGenera. IBM OS/400, now called IBM i. Taos and its successors Intent and Elate. Novell Netware, in some ways. Arguably, Inferno, the last of the Unix line.

You're looking at a cluster of closely-related OSes for a single CPU platform and saying hey, one binary can work on all of them, what a coincidence.

In fact, this very clever and ingenious hack is _because they are close relatives_.

You are pointing at a dog, a cat, a lizard, a cow, and a frog and saying "hey, look, what a coincidence: they all have 4 legs and 2 eyes and 1 mouth!"

No, it's because they are all relatives. They're all tetrapods.

But there are also insects and spiders and crustaceans and worms and comb jellies and starfish. All basically unrelated except they're all animals.

(I was going to include jellyfish, but looked at this way, jellyfish and corals and sea anemones are all related: they're all coelenterates.)

I mean, it's OK if the only animals you're familiar with are 4-legged vertebrates, but you should at least be aware that there is, literally and exactly, more to life. I mean, you've seen flies and cockroaches and things, haven't you?
Interesting pivot. They used to call themselves a "non-profit distributed AI research lab" that gave small chunks of cash to AI researchers. Now they've changed to much larger investments for products/startups.

See their HN announcement 5 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14851806
I wonder if anyone is gonna take advantage of this point in time where the average person isn't aware of these breakthrough AI models, and sets up themself an account as a professional-grade artist on Fiverr, offering to draw highly detailed landscapes or whatever where the client can provide reference material and ideas.

You generate the image in 30 minutes (maybe less if you get the process down to a science), then wait around for a few weeks to keep up the illusion that you're actually doing the drawing by hand, and send it off to your satisfied client. You could be charging hundreds of dollars for your "artistic services," and have dozens of clients going on simultaneously.
We have lots of that info on other pages:

Pricing: https://www.ethicalads.io/advertisers/#pricing

Publisher page: https://www.ethicalads.io/publishers/

Publisher FAQ: https://www.ethicalads.io/publishers/faq/
For anyone who doesn't want to repeat this experience: you can almost always come down in cost, by also coming down in scope -- and retain your hourly rate.

I can't speak to the project above, but typically starting with a smaller-scoped project at the original high rate is a good way for both sides to evaluate whether the relationship is working without a huge commitment.
A quick Google search of software architect jobs for Google proves otherwise. Like the comment above, large orgs slice up these roles and have architects (like myself) to help guide software teams into cohesion on platforms that require high collaboration between services to support a multitude of products. Anyone who says architecture isn’t needed, isn’t doing anything at scale (or blissfully unaware that their ship is sinking).

Great Architects work closely with the dev teams to give them reference diagrams, proof of concept code, and the art of the possible. Bad architects drop a big requirements doc and walk away. Almost every large organization has architects (enterprise, solutions, software, and cloud).
Many of these are no longer viable businesses, so they do what any nonviable business does and gradually shut down, liquidating all their assets in the process which in this case happens to include the reputation they've built up when they used to be a viable business?

So the answer to "why now?" would be, because they only recently began failing thanks to Amazon/COVID/insert your favourite recent civillisational change.
I found it very easy to set up, too. I had a previous couple things I set up that were a lot harder to set up. Stable Diffusion has been dreamy. I'm already tempted to upgrade my setup to one of these with the GUIs, but I think if I wait just a bit longer, it's going to get even better. So I'm resisting the urge.