skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For sure but Stable Diffusion still cannot produce as realistic quality as Dalle 2.

I don't think that's true. Just like Gimp can be used to make better results than Photoshop (or even mspaint), the quality of the results is up to the artist/user, not the tool itself.

Some SD outputs are truly amazing, but so is some DALL-E 2 outputs. Maybe DALL-E 2 is easier to use for beginners, but people who are good with prompts will get as good output with SD as with DALL-E.
Flexport is partially funded by Y Combinator, aye? Special post type, likely.
You can't now ignore that Israel is the state. And if that is the case, can they treat their citizens like this? How is it different from apartheid?
Neither is true. Because those are document generation numbers being used as marketting terms by the product manufacturers.

USB-IF should refuse to certify manufactured products that doesn't use the marketing terms that do include the actual speed. But it is funded by those manufacturers so they do whatever they want to confuse and trap consumers.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220903103220/https://www.imdb....

https://web.archive.org/web/20220903104125/https://www.imdb....

https://web.archive.org/web/20220903104126/https://www.imdb....

https://web.archive.org/web/20220903104131/https://www.imdb....

https://web.archive.org/web/20220903104824/https://www.imdb....

indeed all show zero results.

Anything higher than a 5, does show results:

https://web.archive.org/web/20220903104206/https://www.imdb....

https://web.archive.org/web/20220903104208/https://www.imdb....

https://web.archive.org/web/20220903104210/https://www.imdb....

https://web.archive.org/web/20220903104822/https://www.imdb....

https://web.archive.org/web/20220903104818/https://www.imdb....

Now, one can have lots of opinions about 0/10 reviews, but they surely have just the same right to exist as similarly extreme 10/10 reviews.
Uncommentable HN post “Flexport is hiring smart people..” on the front page?
There is a post on the front page with the title "Flexport is hiring smart people who want to work hard", but there is no possibility to comment on this - I don't think I've ever seen uncommentable post before, is this some kind of advertizing creeping in on HN?
Ask about the company culture and work environment, the team you’ll be working on. Compensation if they haven’t said anything yet.

This HR sniff test also serves to check for interest. When I interview, if the person has zero questions for me it means they don’t really care that much or weren’t paying attention. Questions mean you’re curious. A 10-minute speech about what the company is and the team does is not enough for you to understand the job and work, so follow-up questions are important. Also it lets the person know where your mind goes, what questions come up first, etc.

Just don’t brown-nose them and ask fake questions just to ask any :)
None of the points you mention are an argument against CGI for me. But it is mostly a matter of taste.

There is one point I would like to address though:

"python is slow to start"

Python is slow. Dead slow. But not to start:

echo 'print(1)' > test.py; time for i in {1..100}; do python3 test.py > /dev/null; done

Gives me 1.6s

echo '<?php echo(1);' > test.php; time for i in {1..100}; do php test.php > /dev/null; done

Gives me 1.9s
I understand that Bezos spent a TON of money on this, but the way he’s forcing it is kinda crazy. The ads for it are EVERYWHERE. I was trying to check out at Whole Foods yesterday and had to sit through a 5s ad for it when I opened the Amazon shopping app (just to get to the Prime member barcode).

Deleting reviews to “guarantee” success is just sad.
The kind of arguments you raise here have always, to me, basically looked like:

"I want something for nothing"

Or in more detail:

"I want to take something you created and agreed to share with me (on the proviso I like-wise share any changes as an exchange of value). I deem your software valuable to me but I won't be paying you money for it. I'll add something else to it so it fits my use-case. But, I refuse/object to sharing my changes because they're valuable."
Keeping relatively safe substances criminally illegal is probably not the best solution.
Proper and wider research is important. Let's hope that these substances become more popular and available to be researched and tested, so that hopefully in 5-10 years we would know their risks and advantages. Then people could make educated decisions whether or not to try and use them.
I remember doing validation calls with Verisign in Switzerland to get an “extended validation” certificate for a customer. It felt like applying for a passport. We had to fax them stuff too IIRC.

Now I issue 100 certificates per day fully automated for customers using Caddy and LE.

Indeed a legacy. RIP.
Yes, it is. It reports a specific change that is taking place this year as a marked depature from the approach to literacy teaching that has been dominant for the past twenty years. Criticism of that approach isn’t totally new (see, e.g., [0]) but there really is a rise-and-fall pattern here, and “vibes” isn’t far off as a descriptor.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23981447
Sure, that's even better.
Naive question. Do processors ever have sub-elements that run at a higher clock. I can imagine trying to hack this sort of thing by putting some sort of subprocessor structure that does addition for a particular set of registers at twice normal speed (double length registers?? I'm clearly spitballing). I guess it can't because of memory bandwidth constraints?
I think fundamentally "success" is necessary for financial independence and at least buying your own home, probably the most important resource that's not easily accessible to the wider population otherwise. I think success just for the sake of success is rare (and is a neurosis).
I'm sure there are plenty of compromises in a construction project too, and time is one of them.
> Of course that was mixed with loads of smoking and drinking.

I don't smoke and weed causes me to want to drink less alcohol. So, I think I'll live longer vaping some THC and nibbling on a few edibles for a deep and rejuvenating sleep.

I feel smoking cigarettes and drinking alcohol are very high on the "bad for you" list.
Only tangentially related but quite interesting:
https://mobile.twitter.com/GraduatedBen/status/1565041582671...

Sometimes I wonder if SSRIs are one of those things that the industry overinvested in and now that there's plenty of momentum (and budget) to support the narrative that they are the cure it's hard to suggest that there may be simpler alternatives
This is actually very similar to what I'm trying to build Murfie into. It's already very similar in that there is only the database organization. Eventually I see it as the final resting place for all physical media.
Why would you have "condensation on walls and mould problems"? The heating circuit is a closed loop.
flexport is a ycombinator company. they get ‘special’ treatment wrt job ad placement.

see ‘Can I post a job ad?’ in the faq for more information.
I don’t think all critics of “mandatory woke” can be boiled down to “I hate it because it has black people in it”. I mean I wouldn’t personally use the world woke because it looks mostly devoid of meaning but as a European, the mandatory diversity in American production has reached a point where it sometimes gets very funny. I don’t really mind it because it doesn’t affect the narrative structure of what you are watching most of the time but I must confess that I did roll my eyes at black characters acting normally in the middle of a tavern in medieval Europe recently.
Have you tried this for fan noise?: https://github.com/TurboGraphxBeige/isw
For my usage, dalle 2 is better at understanding or creating pictures that are a good start. But stable diffusion provides a better resolution and provides more settings. I sometimes use them together.
How Fast Is Bun.sh After All?
kagi is awesome, really awesome. and Fast.

But they are like: super expensive.

Unacceptable expensive. More than netflix, spotify and friends.

I wish they invest more into bringing down their own operating costs so that the premium package could be more affordable.
> Genuine, this-never-occurred-to-me question: are there lots of people out there with boilers that DON'T do this, or areas where it is not normal?

I understand that american indoors heating is mostly done through HVAC. Since in that case the heater would be heating the air directly, you'd need a separate boiler. Heating water to heat the air makes sense when water is your transfer medium (e.g. hot water radiators), less so when the air is.

So I expect US homes usually have separate air furnace and boiler, whereas in e.g. europe where water central heating is common you'd usually have a combined furnace/boiler.
> There really was genuine excitement at the prospect of an Apple phone.

“Excitement” isn’t what we are talking about here though. I get excited about buying a new car, but it doesn’t mean that new car is industry defining.

> But it did seem at the time like Apple had the magic touch and anything they came up with would be revolutionary.

Only for a subset of people though. Lots of people didn’t like Apple products much and used other products with similar features (sometimes more, sometimes less).

What we are talking about here is technology (something tactile) and not peoples emotional state about said technology (subjective and personal).

Also I was both a consumer and a software engineer both pre and post the iPhone too.
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And a strong female lead. One who according to Tolkien was called “Man Maiden” by her mother, ‘fought’ in several wars, and was identified by Sauron as his principal rival in the Second Age. But having her actually do anything about that on screen is too woke for these people to bear.
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> It's still unlikely to succeed

We can't possibly imagine now what can succeed in 100 years because we can't even conceive what kind of tech or societal developments will happen over that period.
So at what place are software developers on the professions scale of happiness?
It is apartheid.
After careful consideration, NASA ready to launch SLS rocket as is
It takes two to tango.

If you are in a personal relationship that works, you will know that any successful team boils down to the interaction between the members of that relationship.

To blame one party, is immature IMO, even if objectively there might be some truth to it.

In any team situation there will be humans involved who have shortcomings - even the top all-rounders have them.

The ways that other team members can react to those shortcomings are multifold. There are ways of reacting that bring out the strength of the other members and hence create a stronger team overall.

It requires a common understanding of- and focus on- the common goal. If a team member furthers his own goals only, they are the problem and not the possibly imperfect manager, for example.
As you progress in your software engineering career, the level of abstraction of the knowledge you use on a daily basis gets higher and higher. The academic CS concepts underpin everything, but rarely do you need to go below a few levels of abstraction to solve problems in the real-world (at least in most non-cutting edge jobs).

For example, to build a web app the level of abstraction your job requires is probably on the level of web frameworks and API's. Now and then you'd need to understand the web protocols. Rarely would you need to write software involving the low level transport mechanisms. Rarely would you inspect packets yourself and perform verification and decoding through pen and paper. Even rarer still would you need to use maths to design the signaling procedures between hardware components. Point being that it's normal to now know off-hand all the lower level CS stuff, but you recognize the patterns, and in the rare occasion you need to actually access all that information you wouldn't be at a complete loss.
Israel is an occupying state
I am going to rock the boat a little. I am admittedly not a big Tolkien fan ( I think tried reading one book once and, to me, it was worse experience than Ulysses ). I can easily plead ignorance here.

Are there any black guys mentioned in those books? If not, not sticking to script is a valid complaint ( see how annoyed people were with Game of Thrones departure -- it is not a question of race; it is a question of movie not matching image in your head ). If yes, its downvoting for the sake of a different political ( anti-woke ) agenda.
Its so funny people would care about this for a fantasy world where there are actual different races of humans and elves and little guys.
Anything newsworthy about that version in particular? It looks like a minor bugfix release.
After working for years, you will have gut feeling on whether an implementation is slow or fast. This is done with testing on large N dataset
Jetbrains Space
It would be available with some risk management. If you prepay something (meal tickets, gift cards, etc.) that becomes a current liability to the company. On use or expiration, income is credited and the liability is debited.

The company can spend the cash as they see fit but if the item is refundable or use of the item incurs costs, they need some cash on hand to handle people digging up old cards and using/refunding them.
Some time ago, I wondered if there was a way to be able to orient ourselves in an infinite multiverse. You know, the type where every option that could ever happen and every decision that could ever happen happened somewhere. In that kind of multiverse, we could think about our choices and their repercussions as being at the spear-tip of infinite possible universes...
I expected more multi-monitor setups. I feel half as productive with only one screen - how do people do it?
Spillover Effects of Grocery Bag Legislation: Evidence of Bag Bans and Bag Fees
Meihem In Ce Klasrum

http://www.waynesthisandthat.com/meihem.htm
Not the answer you are looking for, but still my $0.02. It's pretty negative though, feel free to ignore all this.

I have been a freelance developer for over 20 years, more often than not hired in a senior position. I have had my share of offers to take up a management role, and I have declined this every single time. I have too often seen developers move up in the hierarchy to become pretty miserable after the dust has settled. Some of the complaints I have heard is how they hate to be responsible for other people's work and potential failures. How they hate to end up doing meetings and more meetings. How they hate to lose the creative part of their job and be left with what feel like only the administration. How they hate to lack clear and exact goals. How they hate having to hire and fire people all the time. And most important: how they hate ending up with much more stress than they had before because of the increased responsibilities.

Of course, this is highly subjective; some people do become managers after a developer career, are good at it and love it. These might even end up being the best managers in the field because of their developer history. But I will try to avoid ending up in management as long as I can keep ahead of the kids in my developer role.

> found most project managers lives look quite easy compared to what we devs have to do with.

I have heard managers say exactly the opposite, so this is probably also a case of the grass being greener on the other side of the fence...
Doesn't change the fact that TruthSocial the right wing social network is one of the biggest Mastodon instances, federated or not.

When I think of Mastodon I think of TruthSocial, the main instances have little to no activity, almost no reason to join any them.
By your reply it wouldn't be worth minimizing my own single lifestyle, but in reality it definitely is (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorites_paradox), because all we hope is more people start reducing their impact. It's like vote, each one is important even if each account for 0.000001%

and second thing is pollution is also local (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_heat_island)
Poland was never part of the Soviet Union and was not party to the 2+4 agreement.

IANAL but I don’t think this specific treaty would have any material relevance in this case.
They had an installation in Woolwich, London, until recently and I trekked across town to visit. OUTSTANDING. I enjoyed it so much I immediately bought some Kasina goggles to try and replicate the experience!
This, I think, was the most poignant passage of the article:

"She would be added to the list of my disasters – another headstone in that cemetery which the French surgeon Leriche once said all surgeons carry within themselves."
Building Secure and Reliable Systems [pdf]
The story's name is "Lena", not "MMAcevedo".
Life, Part 36 (2020)
yet CS stuff is exactly what they ask you for on interviews. I really don't know how interviewers keep up with this or they just read the answers of their own questions
Made a couple of themes for my static site generator (mkws)
Please provide feedback and tell me what other kind of themes you would like to see!
I'm not so sure they're trying to compensate for any lubricating features of lead.

See my other message for what's really going to be in this fuel. They are using hydrocarbon enhancements that have already been a smaller natural component of unleaded gasoline since forever.

MMT could only have ever been a consideration after toxic lead was well accepted, and then it was too late to become mainstream.

MTBE is Methyl tert-Butyl Ether, which is a form of ether that does not evaporate as fast as the traditional Diethyl Ether which people might be more familiar with as a medical product.

The diethyl ether is almost like a gas, not nearly as much as butane but it's getting there.

In the laboratory the diethyl ether commonly comes in a metal can to protect from overpressure if it gets too warm. The MTBE can be stored in an ordinary bottle like alcohol.

But whew do people remark about about the sharp ether odor when you open a bottle of MTBE.

When MTBE was in lots of gasolines, and the underground tanks had been leaking down into aquifers further underground, that smell in peoples' water turned out to be the canary in the coal mine which indicated that other more toxic gasoline components were bound to be there too.

MTBE was shamed then lost more popularity than the gasoline itself after that, in an exaggerated way with political implications leading to ethanol. I don't think everybody would want the general public to be able to smell leaking tanks in the future as well as they could when this issue first came up anyway.

However there have been some experimental medical treatments which involved directly injecting patients locally with truly strong concentrations of MTBE as a natural liquid. Unlike the diethyl ether as an anesthetic which was basically breathed in as a gas.
I have trouble making sense of your comment.

I believe people would like the ratings of a show to reflect its quality and be somewhat informative. Brigading by a subpopulation with vastly different interest to the general public interferes with that and that legitimises removing their reviews as far as I’m concerned.
Capitalization too:

- I had to help my uncle Jack off a horse
We had one in 2011. next one is this year.
Seconded. His followup book as well where he reflects a lot more at a philosophical level.

Do No Harm is a real rollercoaster. You can be confronted with death at one moment, then laughing the next as he angrily rails against the inanities of NHS IT policy. (I listened to it as an audiobook - the narrator was absolutely top notch and extremely entertaining.)
do you have a point you're trying to make?
The cheapness of the hardware is an interesting point.

I worked with an ex Nokia hardware engineer around that time and he said lots of them had left / been laid off (can't remember which) since Windows Phone could only run on quite specific chipsets (Qualcomm, I think), which basically made their jobs less useful.

But if cost was a factor then maybe that was part of the point, rather than a side effect of the decision.
This. I‘m guilty of relying quite heavily on reviews/star-ratings when deciding what to watch, and avoid low-rated movies/shows.

Until some years ago, I‘d just have a glance at the score/stars and make my decision.

By now, if something is rated low but my gut feeling tells me that it could be off, I always do a quick check of reviews, and 90% of the time I go „Okay, it’s the racists again“.

Also: „high critics score, low audience score on Rotten Tomatoes == racist and/or LGBTQ-haters being racist and/or LGBTQ-hating“ is a frighteningly precise heuristic.
Recovering one service from one source is a lot easier than recovering two at the same time from one single source.
"Tolkien Fans" might be painting it a little broad, how about "a vocal subset of fans".

As for source material, there isn't a lot of source material on the Second Age. Also original movie trilogy didn't always stick to the source material.
There were black peoples, or at least Middle Eastern, all over Medieval Europe. The Arthurian cycle has moorish knights. When Eleanor of Aquitaine married the English king, part of her dowry was a North African city. Are we to believe none of them travelled to England? Berber pirates raided Iceland for slaves so there were whites people in Africa, why not black people in Europe?

Some people travelled a lot. The Saxons sent emissaries to what’s now Sri Lanka, while an Armenian Christian monk born in Beijing met the pope and Edward I. In Middle Earth the Numenorians had extensive colonies in the far south of the continent. This obsession with racial segregation is absurd and utterly ahistorical.
Since I don't know how to use conda, I had to struggle a bit to learn how to recreate the environment.
Here's the commands that worked me for future reference:

conda deactivate
conda env remove -n ldm

Then, again:

CONDA_SUBDIR=osx-arm64 conda env create -f environment-mac.yaml
conda activate ldm
There's a difference between not anticipating use of products changing in scale to the point that database PKs might need to be longer (which I would assume, albeit as an uneducated guess, has seen closer to exponential than linear growth in terms of maximum length required for unique IDs in databases), vs. anticipating "this timer will definitely hit a limit in 2022, unless the physics of time as we know it somehow changes before then".

Sure it's still a relatively easy mistake to either wrongly assume that all of whatever you're creating will be in landfill by 2022 if you were making it long enough ago that all devices would be dead by now for other reasons (or to unethically do that intentionally, to cause customers to repurchase products this year - seems pretty unlikely but perhaps...), or to just forget to think about it, or think about it and assume it's fine for now and can be checked later before then forgetting.

But "We as a human race have been terrible at anticipating how fast numbers grow" - we're talking about a number that's growing exactly in sync with time, and with an entirely simple way of checking when the limit will be hit, so I think it's just sloppy/lazy or expecting less longevity of use for their product, more than a flaw of humanity.
Sure, the seconds are still lapsed seconds since (weekly) epoch . . .

(Not to mention the post corrections broadcast upwards from the ground to adjust for relativistic time drag between Earth surface nominal 1G and sat orbit height gravity)

Point being, many timing applications use lapsed time since X counters and are part of systems designed to handle rollover.

The mindset of just adding more bits to a counter or recording more decimal points isn't always appropriate or the 'best' fix.