skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Of course, none of the above predictions are borne out: the current practice of affirmative action has none of these features that you would expect if its proponents actually valued diversity. Conclusion: By and large, they don’t care about diversity.

Another variation of this that I always hear is "everyone wants diversity but sucks at inclusion", which is slightly different (main article says they don't actually want diversity).

Need to give this a closer re-read but my instinct is that people do actually want diversity and aren't good at making it happen; but it could be a mix of everything where they use it for the social karma and secretly don't
I do wonder about the ethical issues that people are going to start facing in, I don't know, maybe 10-20 years? Maybe even sooner.

These new DNNs create very human like outputs. And their structure is rather similar to the brain. Now we are learning that maybe they're even more brainlike than we thought. At what point do we cross a threshold here and encounter a non-trivial number of people who argue that a sufficiently large model actually is a brain, and therefore deserves rights? Blake Lemoine went there already but I wonder if that's going to be an isolated incident or a harbinger of things to come.

It feels weird. On one hand, I know that these things are just programs. On the other hand, I also know that our brains are just molecules and cells. At the same time I feel that intelligent creatures deserve rights and the exact way the underlying brain works doesn't seem especially important. Especially if people start getting brain augmentations at scale a la Neuralink. At what point do you say the line is crossed?
> I am sick of people conflating "API" with REST or HTTP

That bugs me too. lol. I have included in interviews as more of a fun question and conversation on what is an API.
I've seen it for a university position in Sweden. It has a self-criticism and cult like feel that I really don't like. Position in universities should be considered on scientific and educational grounds, not political.
One big problem is that we record all these horrible offenses and needless violation of basic human rights, and nothing happens. A cop gets a paid vacation and is offered counseling for murdering someone. Maybe if you are lucky, you take the city to civil court and get money.

But there's still only a couple cops going to prison, and zero changes to make policing kill fewer people per year. Worse, a significant segment of the population says that any negativity towards police is unacceptable.
Money laundering requires a "predicate offense"

Structuring is one of the most common methods of facilitating money laundering.

No predicate offense required. It’s illegal all on its own.

https://bsaaml.ffiec.gov/manual/Appendices/08
Depends.

I posted earlier about orders being held up because parts were unavailable. If you have a customer for your $700,000 machine that can't be shipped because a $50 module is off the market, then you bet it makes sense to buy a washing machine to extract that part. The only other alternative is to hope that there's enough margin to redesign around another, available part.

We had a client pre-COVID that found themselves in exactly this predicament. If we could have found the part they needed embedded in another machine, that's exactly the recommendation we'd have made.

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All EDI is an API (of a very specific and defined type).

All API are not EDI.

Therefore API !== EDI

All couches are furniture, but couches are not "equivalent" to furniture.
Last summer, I followed the step by step code in Crafting Interpreters by Robert Nordstrom (https://craftinginterpreters.com).

Beautiful c code. As a 30+ year programmer, one new thing really stuck with me. He wrote all comments as sentences: first letter capital, finish with a “.”.
Lexica: A Database of AI-Generated Images – Including Prompts
My European city in Portugal, has several routes that have one bus per hour, stop at 21h, and decrease their routes at weekend.

Shoppings and several city services are located on the city outskirts only reachable by car or taxi.

You can cycle around on the city centre and then enjoy the roads that are organised like motorways around the center.
Every instagram, facebook, and tiktok photo with associated text data is a potential pair for training.

In the smartphone age, the case for data hunger looks pretty weak.
Show HN: Travel Organising App
Hey everyone, after months of working on it part time, I'm happy to show off Travelboard, a web app to help organise travels. I welcome any feedback, or who knows, maybe my first user
For an example of this, see this story about Canadian professor and laser scientist Patanjali Kambhampati who was denied for grants because his avowed commitment to mere non-discrimination and merit-based hiring was deemed insufficient.

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/minority-professor-deni...
Seems very comprehensive. I'm curious to hear how it differs from the Git book's or github's tutorial on git. My understanding is that the article starts off kinda similar to them but then quickly changes into a big FAQ about "how to do X in git", which is very useful as a reference but not a tutorial.
A hard fork based on tornado cash isn't likely, but what if miners refuse to process blocks that have tornado transactions in them? What happens then?
Association of Daily Step Count&Intensity with Incident Dementia in 78k Adults
This is the #1 problem for our local malls. the gangs that have decided the mall is their turf and causing criminal activities in and around it. car thefts, catalytic converter thefts, strong-arm robberies outside, etc. People don't want to go to the mall because they're sitting ducks for the criminal element that surrounds it.
Do they just skip from the 3rd to the 5th in Iran and have some kind of un-leap year? This is news to me. I thought the calendar was the same all over the world.
I can only wish you luck and say that personally, I'll believe it when I'll see it (that is, when I first end up enjoying a piece of art - book, game, movie, song etc. - where AI generation played a major part in its creation).
Apple Releases Safari 16
The power cost of running my enthusiast build is on the order of a few dollars a month.

Now I am all for being green but there are things in my household that are much more of a concern than this.

Huge datacenters full of these chips is one thing. A personal computer for hacking & gaming probably not such a big deal.
Your first paragraph sounds like you're talking about cars. That's the mode of transportation only a subset of people can use!

Young people, old people, poor people, some disabled people etc can't drive. Many more can bike, especially with el assistance / tri-wheels.
Copenhagen would be the 3rd densest city in America and would represent less than 1/3 of a percent of the population. America is huge with a ton of space and people have spread out.
Too bad for national security that people have rights.

I saw a post recently about the fact that nobody could easily identify the users of pay phones in the past and how modern day lawmakers would probably ban them out of fear of anonimity. It showed just how much privacy the average person has lost over the years...there has to be pushback.
Banks are organizations made out of people who can be held responsible. Tornado Cash is a piece of software that is not run by any person.

Banks can be fined and people can be imprisoned, but you can't fine or imprison software. The Treasury ban is a direct ban on software, which is a departure from precedent.

That's what makes this legal case unique, and why it's not simply a double standard.
Cycles (bikes, trikes etc) are sometimes more compatible with disabilities. As they support your weight, they can be better for people with standing/walking issues. Some sight issues can be dangerous for driving, but manageable for cycling (e.g. I'm a bit short sighted which is fine for cycling as if something is too blurry, I can just go closer to it if I need to read something). The ability to come to a stop safely in almost any scenario means that some sufferers of epilepsy can safely cycle whilst being unable or not allowed to drive (here in the UK, I think there's a time limit of something like three years since your last attack).
Yeah, rich-text copy and paste is pretty awful. The default in almost all cases should be "paste without formatting", but instead you have to go out of your way to exclude formatting.
I suppose the 'photocopier' argument is pretty similar to collage - sure, it's recombining existing things, but presumably they'd all agree Max Ernst wasn't just a machine?
Apache Iceberg creator, Ryan Blue, on Trino and Iceberg
In this episode of Trino Community Broadcast, we interview Ryan Blue to discuss the latest innovations in Apache Iceberg, why choose Apache Iceberg, latest Trino innovations and much more.

Disclaimer: I am a Trino contributor.
How, exactly? Apple One is a subscription like any other. People can choose to get it or not.
This is an extremely useful compendium for those who–like me–do not consider themselves to be good with words.

It has many excellent writing tips, examples of bad grammar usage, comparisons between poor and good usage including styles, lists of misspelled words, differences between UK and US spelling and much, much more.

What makes it particularly useful as a reference is that it's organized in such a way that one can quickly look up a subject or topic whilst writing. The well organized and optimally detailed table of contents makes this possible. Just click on the relevant entry and one is linked to a well written section on said topic that can be read in isolation or as part of the complete work.

Highly recommended.
but they certainly keep the original with the tags somewhere.
I just picked up an e-bike, and it's gobsmacking how much it changes the equation for bicycling - it reduces the difficulty to a degree that it just doesn't make sense to take any other mode of transport within 3-5 miles of home, which is basically my entire city. It's unlocked a huge amount of travel that I wouldn't have bothered to do otherwise because it's too far to walk and driving (and parking) is a pain in the ass. If you haven't tried a modern e-bike, give it a shot - it really, really changes the game for transport.
It's not just colleges being too expensive. It's also industries inflating educational requirements as an underlying factor for increased college costs. Experience is also undervalue relative to educational requirements. Quintessentially does x job require y education that could not be learned on the job or through experience?

Granted these are broad statements that cannot completely generalized but it seems to be a trend.
Textual inversion also takes an entire concept (including context, style, and 3D attributes) and fits it into 768 float32s / 4KB.
Well, the OP is describing a case where you might meaningfully have more or less opportunity depending on your expressed stance in matters unrelated to actual job duties - viz., your expressing support for diversity ideology, as evidenced in a "diversity impact statement". So this is basically compelled speech and/or discrimination based on ideology, which is a very real kind of oppression.
Minneapolis famously has a strong year-round cycling culture, despite being one of the coldest and snowiest cities in the US. It's all about the infrastructure (e.g., good paths) that's proactively maintained (e.g., clearing snow quickly).
But searching on google doesn't "generate" anything, If your image isn't on the web, there's nothing to bring "closer to the top".
Want to be friends?
Yes, absolutely. I'm far left by most people's standards and Occupy Democrats is trash. I would say it's different from TPUSA insofar as OD is more of an online brand than an organization but I can think of many other examples.
Ask HN: Sites Similar to 'Stuff the Internet Says on Scalability'
I'm looking for something to supplement my fix for system design content from the high scalability blog. The last article[1] was 2 months ago, 6 months before that, 3 months before that. The irregularity of releases leaves me with withdrawal symptoms.

Each post there are multiple things that blow me away. Most recently, 9 on-prem web servers power stack overflow and all stack exchange sites. Then you drill into their source and get blow away again. They use 1.5TB memory SQL Server databases!

[1] http://highscalability.com/blog/2022/7/11/stuff-the-internet-says-on-scalability-for-july-11th-2022.html
Nim lacks certain basics such as algebraic enums, so ...no.

Also responding with a brief "so, Nim" to everyone isn't effective at doing much.
Tornado cash would not be sanctioned if it were not public and therefore not used by North Korea, yes. What is your point here?
In other contexts they use word 'post-modern' and after 'post-modern' there is 'contemporary'.
I have a strong suspicion that most of these people are from costal cities.
This looks like a great resource, starred and upvoted.

I'm planning to learn Rust next, going to start in a week after a job interview I had already lined up at Google.

I worked with many languages professionally (JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, Python, Go, and now Dart) and many others at the university (C, C++, C#)...

...and Rust is very appealing to me. It's a modern language where the dev tools are straightforward, no need to deal with learning 30 years of legacy conventions, great performance that's on pair with C/C++, yet, at the same time high level and easy to read and reason about. The language is still young enough to make a dent in the ecosystem and build stuff for fun without people whining about JavaScript fatigue. It's versatile, so it can be used (at least theoretically) for web backend, frontend, desktop apps, command line tools, systems programming. It has all the good parts from OOP and FP.

Yes, I'm at least partially responsible for having "xyz rewritten in Rust" almost every day in the top list on HN.

One thing in a bit worried about is the job market, I've been paying attention to job adverts for months and I didn't see many companies that I'd like to join that use Rust in my area (Germany).

Learning it and doubling down on Rust feel like a gamble, but at the same time, I can't imagine that Rust will not be one of the most important languages of the next decade.
One city has, in fact: https://youtu.be/pcVGqtmd2wM
Ask HN: Can any Interactive Brokers API developers reproduce this issue?
https://gist.github.com/ReliefCrew/1376d483abeb8e4641b038aa41e2424e

The details have been written up in the above URL but the summary is as follows...

In the 10.x versions of TraderWorkstation (TWS) and IBGateway software, non-simultaneous clients with ID numbers different from the first don't receive price ticks for a given stock after requesting them.

Is anyone else having the same problem or able to reproduce the issue?
... and that's where antitrust should come in at some point. I like that Apple stuff works so well. I don't like that they very intentionally cripple other vendors.
> I have a problem with people running a Tornado Cash-based service that is really just a money laundering service.

The treasury ban is on the contract itself, not TC-based services that people might run.
Cash is a private form of transaction. You aren't inherently money laundering when you use cash.
What I find quite amazing is that in Britain something close to 90%[1] of cars bought are on finance. Looking around me I think that the average age of cars is well under 10 years, and many cars are super expensive compared to the median salary of the country.

I really don't think that most people budget with worst-case scenarios in mind, so that even middle to high income households can be hit hard by a lack of disposable income.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-economy-autos-fin...
Just start coding while avoiding lifetimes is great advice, but that's easier said than done. Rust makes some hard things simple and exposes hidden complexity in things you thought were simple.

Maybe I'd reframe it as "just start writing code, and use RC<> liberally to avoid lifetimes until you get a handle on them."

Also avoid async for that first project too.
People who buy art do not buy it because of the technical execution. You may need to execute a piece in some way to get a desired effect, but the technique is the mean not the goal.

This is not to take away from the achievements of AI. It's that creating pictures adhering to a prompt with some degree of creativity is very little of what art is. Maybe it will replace some part of commissioned illustrations where the artist's name does not matter (e.g. some avatar pic?).

We still value, financially, some material goods for much more than they cost to produce. Or for much more than their almost identical mass-produced counterparts.
The rhetoric has shifted in recent years from “equality of opportunity” to “equity”, which is more about equality of outcome.

> Equality means each individual or group of people is given the same resources or opportunities. Equity recognizes that each person has different circumstances and allocates the exact resources and opportunities needed to reach an equal outcome.

https://onlinepublichealth.gwu.edu/resources/equity-vs-equal...
I am not suggesting they have to employee 1st or 2nd strategy. But if you do go with the 2nd don't go down the path of by-weekly employee diversity trainings and diversity being the corner stone of your "values" and communication strategy.
It's a decent joke, but one of the reasons I only took up Go almost a decade after it got started was that I wanted to invest on a stable language ecosystem that wasn't after the fad of the week (like certain runtimes we all know).

I'm actually looking forward to Rust having a few more years under its belt so I can do more than experimentation with it (and yes, I've seen the Oxide stuff, and there is plenty we can call stable right now -- I just want it to be a bit more weathered...).
Passive BLE is a thing that's in active development (meaning it wouldn't require a power source) – this has the potential to work, but the range would likely be extremely limited. Inches, not feet.

The right design would have the ability to reply to another device with an advertising beacon, which could work in a limited set of circumstances, with some tweaks to how the AirTag protocol currently works. Like, if you stuck your wallet in your pocket next to your phone or on a table next to your laptop.

RF ambient energy harvesters also exist, which use more generalized RF to gather energy in a generic way. Where RFID sends the signal intentionally that powers the RFID reply beacon, you could theoretically find something in the ISM that gives you enough power to somewhat reliably harvest that instead.

https://www.digikey.com/en/articles/rf-energy-harvesting-bat...

Not sure about the advertising beacon interval but if it's flexible enough you might be able to join the two concepts. The limitation is likely figuring out the right ISM band, and the right package (coil size) to harvest enough energy reliably to send out your advertising beacons.

Distance and directionality (phase) once again affects energy output, but also, you would need to build a coil to a specific size to the frequency you're trying to harvest. Not sure these ever match up for this application. Higher frequencies would allow for smaller coils, but with lower power output efficiency.

The math behind this is wrapped up in the definition of the Q factor, and this is very similar to how you understand radio propagation in general, if you're looking for something to research further.

But, my ELI5 to myself: BLE beacons are already using ISM, so if your goal is to retransmit an ISM signal that beats the noise floor you're using to harvest RF in the same range, efficiency is going to have to be phenomenal in your system design (or take advantage of some power differential).

There's been some interesting projects and papers on this in the last 10 years or so, and the UW had an interesting retransmission concept a year or two ago they built. Links appear to be broken now though.
You're clearly reading things I haven't said.
Seeing the context in which the photos are taken (busy streets, kind of grimy looking) makes you realize how powerful a camera is at creating an illusion. That is, taking a good photo means composing your shot so that you don't include elements you don't want in it. What you end up with is a photo which makes it appear you're the only one at a location, or that a location is more beautiful or exciting than it actually is. Your brain fills in all the details of what's outside of the frame, which often isn't what's really there.
It isn’t just London, but I think London has the most traffic cameras in the city center. Other UK cities seem to have them mostly on the highways.
It's a pity they don't have a filter button to hide the political posts in favor of actually interesting content.
Quincy Larson runs a 4 million subscriber list with plain text email https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/quincy-larson-5-links-wort...
Putting low income apartments near in or near the mall would drive people away and increase crime.
Looking forward to following this variant of Stable Diffusion, as it's working great on my laptop. Mighty glad I got the 16g of RAM, though I find if I step a canvas dimension down from 512 I get snappier generation… no biggie, anything I got that's useable I'd have to upscale anyway…

Since it's a Mac app, I have to wonder if it could stick the prompt, steps, and guidance into the notes field of Get Info? I find I'm generating a lot of relatively low guidance (I'd love a 6.5 option) images and iterating on the prompts with an eye to what it's suggesting to the algorithm. As such I have no way to closely track what prompt was active on any output as it changes so often.

I strongly suspect the real merit of this approach is not the crowd-pleasing, 'set very high guidance on some artistic trope so it's forced to fake something very impressive', but rather the ability to integrate a bunch of disparate guidances and occasionally hit on a striking image. It's like the harder you force it into a particular mold, the more derivative and stifled its output becomes, but if you let it free associate… I'll be experimenting. Seems like getting the occasional black image shows you're giving it the freest rein.

Looking forward to 'image to image' a lot. I assume the prompt still matters, as it's fundamental to the diffusion denoising? Image to image means iterating on visual 'seeds'.

I've seen talk of textual inversion training: it would interest me greatly to be able to generate objects and styles and train a personal version of SD in a sort of back-and-forth iteration. The link to language is really important here, but so is the ability to operate as an artist and generate drawings, aesthetics and so on, to train the model. I did 440 episodes of a hand-drawn webcomic once, which had recurring characters and an ink-wash grayscale style I gradually developed. That means I have my own dataset, which is my own property, and certainly didn't make it big enough to make it into Stable Diffusion like say Beeple did.

Interesting times for the cybernetic artist. Basically computer-assisted hallucinatory unconscious, plus computer-assisted rendering. You could feed all of Cerebus (Dave Sim and Gerhard) into a model like this, panel by panel, and you'd probably get a hell of a lot of Gerhard out because so much of the panel area is tone and texture from him…