skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the kind of things that bother me in current sport. Not that it is a business with backstabbing, just that we paint it as clean and magnificent.

An elite athlete also does not have anything to do with the average Joe out Jane, so let's stop pretending about health and normality.

I played volleyball for my uni, it was a nightmare and I gave up because of the stress and lack of fun. I then played in "business league" and our team was dreadful. We were always messy but this was pure fun and joy. The other teams knew we were bad and they we would loose, so they played cool, had fun with combinations that they would not risk with other teams etc.

We usually ended with 4 or 5 sets because everyone wanted the match to last. And then beer afterwards (I arranged for special funding because we were always the ones to buy the first round...). We had the only mixed team (and thanks god, because the girls were systematically saving the team's ass)

This is what I call real, fun, great sport.
Given that Russia lost about half of its military over the past six months, we might be looking at them forced to give away gas for free starting somewhere next year.

And I don’t mean forcing them with direct military action. Russians are generally racist, and they hate the idea of being China’s vassal. They will try very hard to get out of this, and the only valuable thing Russia can export is gas.
> you have a tech keep that shit running

And the sensible way of keeping mission-critical legacy hardware running is to emulate everything that can be emulated using modern, interchangeable parts. An SD-card-based floppy drive emulator will be a lot more reliable than a decades-old combination of physical drive + floppies. An entire DOS or Windows 3.x computer can likely be replaced by modern industrial systems (also popular in the retro community) that reimplement i586 in SoC form.
How exactly do you "manage" a creative process to respect a deadline?

Do you tell a painter to get it done by Monday?

That's why small iterations are there in the first place: to constantly add incremental value, not "big bang" plan-the-work and work-the-plan but reacting to change.
Someone may enjoy this article on advice in "Overthinking Everything" blog as well: https://drmaciver.substack.com/p/how-to-give-good-advice
On Terms We All Get Wrong
In that case, I'm annoyed by the deadline and the stakeholders, not the problem.
>- bad coding and quality - management hired coding monkeys

At least try to be honest with yourself, plz.
Also prohibits nan-boxing, afaiu, which may be a big loss for dynamic languages.
I've worked on legacy DOS systems, and virtualising them is generally the right approach. You can use just about any modern hardware, and the VM will nicely abstract it away. Plumbing hardware through to the VM can be a challenge, but not impossible to overcome.
Thank you, that was a typo, I've made a note in the original.
>What makes the AGPL unattractive?

My two cents: it juts isn't in business culture to contribute to public good.
A better question would be, why should the billionaire have the right to own this “backyard”?
There was a recent article about the author of this article: https://pjmedia.com/culture/megan-fox/2022/08/19/nbc-news-re...
Article suggests that Kat Tenbarge spreader misinformation and not a great example of journalism
I understand neural networks, embeddings, convolutions, etc. The part that's unclear to me is specifically how textual embeddings are linked into the img-to-img network trying to reduce the noise. In other words, am missing how the process is 'conditioned upon' the text. (I lack a understanding the same for conditional GANs as well.)

If the answer is just that the textual embeddings are also fed as simple inputs to the network, I already understand then.
Commenting for visibility, thanks for this
2017 psychology research? Given replication crisis it is utterly worthless without confirmed replications.

Has anyone tried to replicate that results, with preregistration of study? What was the outcome?
Robusta – an OSS platform for K8s monitoring, troubleshooting, and automation
Agriculture is probably more of a factor.
Ha, the big large one is made in Bulgaria(according to the label). It's funny how back in the day many countries produced IT hardware.
Usually during this period you can also leave at will. I think it is in law that the contract should be symmetrical for both sides. The system seems to be working ok-ish.
Nokia's made institutional mistakes that doomed Nokia phones before hiring Elop. (I was there).

In a sense Nokia was (organizationally) victim of its own success. During the dumb phone and feature phone era Nokia did everything better than others. Everything from the supply chain management, to the phone design and manufacturing worked so well. Why would you sideline leaders and organizations who build all that and wanted to build on that.

When Netflix made the decision to move from mail-based rental to streaming, they did not allow leaders involved in rental business to any meetings involving the company future planning. It's one of the best organizational decisions ever made.

Nokia had multiple choices to stay in game at the beginning. Adopt Android and be like Samsung. Create a new internal Linux based computing platform. Instead, Nokia allowed more senior leaders Symbian/Feature phone teams to interfere and sabotage in multiple big and small ways because their teams still made all the money. As a result, the response to Apple and Android was constant internal reorganization and failed American style compensation structure that caused talent to leave the company, not new stuff.
List of items found in Donald Trumps boxes seized by the FBI [pdf]
I agree. Buy some low cost diversified funds through Vanguard. I cannot understand why the average investor needs anyone else in the loop.
Brazilian stock exchange B3 and Neoway launch startups program
Neoway, a Brazilian company that offers big data analytics and artificial intelligence for businesses, and local stock exchange market B3 are launching Smart, a relationship program with startups. The program’s goals are to find companies that can help Neoway expand its product offering.
“How can you deny..” I mean you just can right? A lot of lines are arbitrarily drawn, and drawing a line there is better than none. The categorical difference in power is one justification for the line being there. (Not saying there aren’t also justifications for more privacy still)
Hmm. So what they show is that Transformers work exceptionally well for some games, but not in general.

If you allow MCTS, then EfficientZero performs +85% better. And if you look at the median (instead of the mean), then SPR performs +37% better.

But for some games, like ChopperCommand or Krull, IRIS (this paper) performs beyond comparison to other methods.
Afaik putting PSX on a side fixed the issue of worn out plastic slider/sled. Early laser beds were plastic and would wear leading to slop and misalignment, later ones were die cast. People used to shim worn out sled with razor blades/other thin metal pieces.
Mission Managers Give “Go” to Proceed Toward Tanking Operations for Artemis I
Tell HN: The 10-bit timers are about to overflow on September 17th
Due to the overflow of the 10-bit counter, some devices will "go back in time" by 1024 weeks (almost 20 years). This will occur on the night of September 17-18. The problem will affect - and this is now a sure thing - Microsemi's (AKA Symmetricom) SyncServer (100, 200 and 300 series), TimeProvider 1000, parts of TimeProvider 5000 and Timesource TS3x00 (and a few others), which are popular in industrial networks.

Loss of historical data and event logs, logging and security problems, loss of process visualization - these are some of the surprises that can happen when, having received the wrong date, other devices also decide to "time travel."

What to do?

If your network is running one of the aforementioned devices, it's best to disconnect it in advance. Unfortunately, most of them are no longer supported by the manufacturer and no patches are expected. So it looks like they will become quite useless after September 17.

This leaves very little time, therefore, to replace them with new solutions. If you are not sure whether the problem also affects your device, you can unplug it on September seventeenth, and if it shows the correct date the next day, plug it in again. Of course, such a maneuver is possible only in those networks that can operate without time synchronization according to GPS for several/some hours.
You can do that with something like this:

pkgs.yourpackage.overrideAttrs { prev: {
src = fetchurl {
url = "...";
sha256 = "...";
};
}}

Bit annoying that you have to specific the full URL instead of just the 'version' number, but it'll work.

With flakes you can just add a 'ref' or 'rev' to the URL:

nix run "github:juser/software?ref=v0.4.1"

If you want to override a package dependency across 'override'.
In the old day, salary may be increased after probation if the performance is better than expected. I don't know why this practice fades out in my country.
It is fed using a fascinating mechanism called "cross-attention" that originated in the NN architecture called Transformer - which was used to achieve state-of-the-art translations. It uses something like associative memory, where a NN inside Stable Diffusion, that generates image (UNet, working in latent space), at almost each step "asks" the whole encoded prompt to provide data at various positions using query vector Q that is matched against key vectors K and value vectors V [0].

How Stable Diffusion works [1] as a whole is not really hard to comprehend at a high level - but you'll need some prereqs - probability theory underlying this is explained in Variational Autoencoders [2], then Diffusion Models [3] sort of made a really cool "deep variational" autoencoder that uses small noise-denoise steps, but largely the same math (variational inference), but they were unwieldy because operated in pixel space, after that Latent Diffusion Models [4] democratized the thing by vastly reducing the amount of computation needed - operating in latent space (btw that's why the images in this HN post look so cool - the denoising is not in the pixel space!).

[0] https://jalammar.github.io/illustrated-transformer/

[1] https://huggingface.co/blog/stable_diffusion

[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.02691

[3] https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.11239

[4] https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.10752
>I mean, isn't feedback from developers the main source of info available to a manager?

Then why is that feedback routinely thwarted or ignored in so many places? You make it seem like developers aren't giving feedback. Most places I worked at, at least 1-2 developers in a team of 7-8 were passionate enough initially to provide feedback. Then their feedback gets shot down repeatedly for no other reason than "low priority". What do you think happens to people who have to make a conscious effort to document such issues, articulate them and provide potential solutions? They figure "you know what, this isn't worth the effort, it won't get picked up". That's valuable time they could spend coping with their frustrations instead of hopelessly tackling them head-on.

Managers are held responsible because when we speak of managers, we're not just talking about middle managers. We're talking about all managers, including the executives. If those executives prioritize short term sales over long term company health, don't be surprised when your ICs follow your example. If you're a leader, set the example you expect others to follow.

>What if

"What ifs" are primarily exceptions. How about we tackle the vast majority of cases where short term financial gains are prioritized over long term company health? That's where the feedback matters most for passionate ICs, and that's where feedback is waved away the most.

>Trying to pretend that the role of a manager is a Dickensian figure whose purpose in life is to rain misery on developers

You're the one claiming this. Don't take us all as not understanding the point of view of executives. Understanding doesn't mean agreement, nor does it mean the chickens won't come home to roost someday. If you consciously decide it is worth making your codebase a complete mess for short term gains, don't cry when in 5 years, all that's left is a bunch of jaded developers only in it for the money wondering why it takes them ten times as long to fix something trivial.
Show HN: Magic Photo Eraser
In Paris, they had machines with a large vertical bar that you could roll to make a selection[1]. I found them much more comfortable to use than the newer(?) machines with a touch screen.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dk5m3g-4Wqk
lol I can't believe the bitchers and moaners here (and I assume elsewhere) got them to change their minds.

The proper usage of github is: go to the main repo main page to get the clone URL; go to the issues page to file an issue if the projects uses them; go to the PR page to make a PR if the project uses them. Every other page may as well not exist.
Windmill (YC S22) https://windmill.dev | Founding SWE/DevOps | Rust/Svelte, K8S | Full-Time | Remote/Paris | $90-130k + $100k stock-options

Windmill is the sweet-spot between Retool and Temporal, it is fully open-source (https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill) and has a hub (https://hub.windmill.dev) for sharing scripts and flows.

Apply here: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/windmill/jobs
With transport system in major cities around the world move to various contactless payment, what can we do? Drive?
Eh... yea, but as with any other creative profession (3d artist...), not all people get to do "fun" stuff often enough for the job to not become frustrating / boring.

Yes, programming itself really is fun, but only if you care about the thing you're working on (which most of us will for our own personal/side/business projects, but not that many of us work on exciting stuff in our 9-to-5).

I mean... You can only do so many years of repetitive coding tasks in a typical corporate environment. That's why so many senior devs (upper 30's and 40's) either move to a management position or quit the industry ("quit" as in they start working for themselves in their own business or they just do something different and maybe do contract work from time to time).

Personally, I can't imagine myself doing the corporate worker drone programming for much longer (10+ years has been more than enough), I want to stop some time in not too distant future and I'm actively working towards that goal.
"In fact, the brain of a very young child does perceive letters differently than an adult brain: not as fixed, flat symbols but as three-dimensional objects rotating in space."

What does this mean? I've never (consciously) perceived letters as anything but flat.
Where you put the comma is critical:

- "Being stuck in, problem solving": great, fantastic, hooray, woo, yay, hoopla

- "Being stuck, in problem solving": not so much
Ive always wanted to try hosting my own pleroma-of-one but i know somebody who tried that and they ultimately gave up because they felt really isolated since the only servers that federated with them were the ones they had followed somebody from.
That is spectacular! Keep in mind when watching this that the technology to make this has only been available for mere weeks, and here's a video that would have taken months-to-years to produce using traditional techniques.

True automation is coming to art.

Mindblowing.
https://twitter.com/bcrypt/status/1565867388741898240
> Peter's AI policy work has mostly been on setting sound policies around high-stakes machine learning applications such as recidivism prediction, self-driving vehicles, cybersecurity, and military uses of AI. He also has an interest in measuring progress in the field as a whole. His technical projects have included SafeLife, a benchmark environment for reinforcement learning safety; studying the need and role for uncertainty in ethical objectives of powerful optimising systems, and evaluating calibration and overconfidence in large language models.

What utterly valuable work. I did not know of his existence til now, but I remember when I first used LetsEncrypt to get a cert for my website. It was so much easier than it had been before, and it was free.

And as I have thought of so much lately, developing compassionate, sound policy for the technology we create is so often lacking in our work. https://pde.is/posts/docs/Report-on-Algorithmic-Risk-Assessm...

I am sorry not to have known of him while he was here, and I am grateful for his work.
Crypto trading platforms are having a rough time right now haha.
> There's a common belief among inhabitants of American bureaucracies that expertise does not exist, only knowledge, so if that knowledge can be written down then there's no need for training or experts.

Ah but if everything can be written down, why can't the whole bureaucracy be replaced by a very small shell script?
Jack of all trades, master of three, hyperspecialization may be a disease.
Funny how getting acquihired by Microsoft, pocketing $5bn+, and still making the best phones to this date, is considered "losing".
sounds either like a communication failure on your part or the inability of the organization to listen

why judge yourself for others incompetency?
Well yes. He seems to be going through some hell. Maybe a lowball offer would be better than that.
Clearly "natural" and "unnatural" denote categories that it is useful to distinguish between, or we would not have the words. What is to be accomplished by your attempt to redefine the concept into uselessness, apart from making it difficult to discuss environmental issues?
If only the US were truly bilingual. Then you could simply teach children Spanish first, which has a very reasonable orthography, and move onto English once they had mastered that.
(edited after 2m, added the first paragraph)

You gave an example the OS theory would only be good when writing an OS. But the (valid) counter point was that it also becomes relevant when interfacing with an OS.

JavaScript first and foremost runs on your browser, not on the OS itself. So understanding how browsers work (DOM, APIs, XHR...) becomes akin to understanding how the OS works.

(I also have the following rant, which I don't like too much [too polemic] after posting, but I'm keeping it for transparency sake)

No-one claimed you need to know quantum physics to understand what happens to the electrons in your CPU; but generally it's a good idea to know how the next few layers you're interfacing with work (in either direction). And that's often the OS, or the network, or the cache behaviour of your CPU or the superscalar nature of the GPGPU you use to accelerate something important. Or another something attached by some bus to your MCU in the embedded device you're building, or maybe the user navigating that website.
What is happening is that the noiser/earlier timesteps are responsible for low-frequency features, while the final timesteps are responsible for high-frequency features.

https://dsp.stackexchange.com/questions/1637/what-does-frequ...
They weren't sounding letters, they were sounding words. I imagine the same would be true for numerals. They wouldn't go "X I I K I D S", they would go "twelve kids".
What does that version mean? What compile flags was it compiled with, which compiler, etc?
https://archive.ph/tLNRR
> When Netflix made the decision to move from mail-based rental to streaming, they did not allow leaders involved in rental business to any meetings involving the company future planning.

I wonder, who was the “they” that successfully made such a decision? In most places, there wouldn’t be any senior leadership that isn’t “tainted”, so to speak, by the previous business model. Even a freshly appointed CEO is ineffective if not supported by the bulk of the organization. I wonder how Netflix managed to solve this.
Jesus christ fast fashion is just going to get worse isn't it?

Standing infront of your augmented reality mirror in the evening swiping through AI generated outfits for the next day that are made automatically during the night and shipped to you by drone the next morning to wear for the day and then dispose of.
It's normal. And the point weren't to always recall those specific pieces of knowledge, it was to get you to understand those concepts once. Once you did, understanding similar concepts will be easier, you will be able to spot more intricate patterns. Your intuition will be better in situations, where you spot or create things seemingly out of nowhere.
> - mundane and repetitive tasks - management gives no time on automation

Thanks for this.
I just wish we could build and run it on macOS 12. The bootstrapping compiler required (sbcl-1.2.11) is nonfunctional there.
If you wish to write a program from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
Just checked my phone:

- audible, work: I can access all previously downloaded books

- bitwarde and andotp: work

- sms, telegram and signal, work: I can access the full history

- countdown, alarm clock, click counter, work

- dynalist, work

- pi music player and vlc, work

- maps.me, organic map and osmand: work, as the maps are downloaded in advance

- firefox & chrome, work: I can access all the app menus and open html files

- podverse, spotify and netflix, work: everything I pre-downloaded is accessible

- twitter app, work. I can see all tweets previously seen and posted today

- pcloud and dropbox, work

- rbnb, work: my history is accessible

- K9 and yandex mail, work: I can access to all my imap inboxes

- oura ring, work: I can access my stats and history

- calendar, calculator, qt scanner, work

- gallery, explorer, home menu, settings: work

What doesn't on my phone:

- gmail, waze

- banks and cryptocoins appp

- stremio, youtube, and discord
There are several routing engines for open street map. One of them, graphhopper is pretty decent and open source even: https://github.com/graphhopper/
more variants than covid
I see, it’s just sucks because it took time to debug that fix. Anyway I don’t mind anymore.
No matter what your opinion of Apple [and mine is pretty low!] it's churlish to deny this.

Yes, people wil point out that Phone X had a touchscreen, Phone Y had a browser, Phone Z had something else. But the iPhone was the first phone to bring them all together in one package.

I used to run an Apple user forum way back before the iPhone was released, when all we had were the occasional rumour that Apple 'might be' thinking of bringing out a phone.

Smartphones are so ubiquitous now that I reckon people forget just how much excited anticipation there was at the prospect that Apple would do for the phone what they'd recently done for computers [remember how revolutionary the coloured iMacs seemed at the time?] and portable music [the iPod]. Back then no-one was enthusiastic about their phones. They were just some utilitarian gadget you carried, like a wallet, a pen or your car keys and there was an almost messianic belief that, if Apple brought out a phone it would be an equally miraculous device.

The launch of the iPhone actually kick-started [for better or worse] the promotion of the formerly humble phone to the ranks of 'gadgets you dreamt of owning'
The article is an explanation (defense?) of the author's library Powtils[0], which was created in February 2004[1].

Even in 2004 I think it would have been extremely unusual to write web applications in Pascal and serve them via CGI. The first edition of Lazarus was released in 2001, and the name gives a hint about Pascal's popularity at the time. From what I remember of that era, PHP was dominant and FastCGI was a popular way to hook it up to non-Apache webservers such as IIS.

[0] http://z505.com/powtils/idx.shtml

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20040604122859/http://www.psp.fu...