skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would think so, but M-W doesn’t list a fowl:

Definition of yardbird
1 : a soldier assigned to a menial task or restricted to a limited area as a disciplinary measure
2 : an untrained or inept enlisted man

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/yardbird

The OED apparently agrees:

*"Mil.* A recruit, a newly- enlisted serviceman; also, a serviceman under
discipline for a misdemeanour; one assigned to menial tasks. Also
*transf."*First
ex.: (late) 1941.

The person who made this citation claims that comic strip “Barney Google and Snuffy Smith” made reference earlier.

https://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ads-l/2014-June/...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney_Google_and_Snuffy_Smith
IBM still has a research group.

Sometimes hiring great researchers and letting them do what they want pays off.

AT&T I believe kept a research group for much longer than that and they only invented or co-invented the transistor, the laser, radio astronomy, information theory, Unix, the C language, and the photovoltaic cell.
To be clear: actual "PCI-slot"-ish audio cards are now rare. But USB / Thunderbolt (and previously Firewire) external interfaces are a dime a dozen. Serious audio mostly uses them now.
I can't vouch for the rest of the lines but I am impressed the local small line that borders my property is on there.
If the supply chain and consumers must suffer to improve railroad worker working conditions (improved quality of life around availability and attendance is the ask), that seems like a reasonable course of action when all other options have been exhausted.

I recommend some light reading regarding the working conditions railroad workers currently face. The solution is simple: railroads simply need to stop abusing their workers while raking in record profits. Freight rail can afford it, there is no excuse except to maximize profits.

https://www.npr.org/2022/09/14/1122918098/railroads-freight-...

https://inthesetimes.com/article/railroad-job-conditions-nat...

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/07/15/rail-j15.html

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/sep/14/us-railroad...

https://www.newsweek.com/why-railroad-workers-like-me-are-pl...
That’s wild. Last time I saw one in the US was a family owned gas station around 2000.
Teledyne the name even sounds like the prototypical evil 1980s movie super corp
Oops:

If it's 3 then it's pass by reference here, if it's 10 it's pass by value. Which is it?

(Don't hit reply when you're rushing out the door.)
Ethereum Classic (ETC) is the version of Ethereum running before the DAO attack. Unlike Ethereum, which rolled back the attacker's gains, ETC preserved them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethereum_Classic

There are no indications that ETC will move to proof-of-stake as planned (for many years now) by Ethereum.

There has been speculation that Ethereum miners would not abide by the upcoming hard fork to proof-of-stake (PoS) and will continue mining on the pre-fork chain.

The increase in ETC hash rate suggest that one outlet for ETH mining hardware could be ETC.

It's likely that both outcomes will happen together post-merge: ETC attracts some ETH miners while ETH PoW chugs on.

Either way, the mining rigs and their power consumption may not be going anywhere anytime soon.

The relative exchange rates of ETC and ETH have not moved much since July:

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/ETC-ETH/chart/
Just curious, isn't that gaussian blur effect reversible in some cases... so these pictures could be de-blurred to some extent right?
The person I was responding to said that AOT was a non-starter because the tech I mentioned doesn't exist, and that itself was in the context of a domain where you often wouldn't want the perf hit of even having a poor program binary layout and thus probably wouldn't want such things to be config options anyway.

In any event, I was just saying that AOT can definitely cross library boundaries, not anything near as strong as what you seem to be arguing against (it seems you believe I'm asserting something like AOT being superior to JIT in all cases).
The Fed is housed in a building named for a former chair, Marriner Eccles. He said something similar to Stewarts' formulation:

"It is utterly impossible, as this country has demonstrated again and again, for the rich to save as much as they have been trying to save, and save anything that is worth saving. They can save idle factories and useless railroad coaches; they can save empty office buildings and closed banks; they can save paper evidences of foreign loans; but as a class they can not save anything that is worth saving, above and beyond the amount that is made profitable by the increase of consumer buying. It is for the interests of the well to do – to protect them from the results of their own folly – that we should take from them a sufficient amount of their surplus to enable consumers to consume and business to operate at a profit. This is not “soaking the rich”; it is saving the rich. Incidentally, it is the only way to assure them the serenity and security which they do not have at the present moment." [0]

[0] https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/09/marriner-eccles-on-t...
For sure! And as artists opt in, you'll be able to use it to see how they describe their work.
Actually it's even worse. A batch of counterfeit parts can be blamed on the supplier, but destroying evidence in this case is entirely on the manufacturer.
747 maximum takeoff weight is 320 tons. Even assuming it is entirely made of carbon and it is all burnt (helluva flight for the passengers!), it won't make another 180 tons of carbon appear out of nowhere.

I am not even close to trusting your statement. Dial back the hyperbole.
In this case FP is even worse (you need to copie information to use it), I don't feel this is a case of which is about paradigms but more of make paradigm that push the limits of the hardware
Depends on how much your electricity costs are, why you mine (investment, hobby, etc.), and the level of risk you believe is reasonable from owning ETC (among other factors).
Well, they will: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-14/world-s-b...
Miners could still stake their ETH for rewards. But they still have the compute power to do PoW, so, depending on the price of power and ETC, it can make sense to both stake ETH and mine ETC.
Gas stations are the worst offenders at not upgrading to chip readers.
Solove is amongst the most intelligent commentators on this topic I've seen.

Strongly recommended.
Wow. Clicking the first link I thought “there’s no amount of money that would make falsifying results worthwhile” but she literally did it for no amount of money. It was just... laziness? It’s almost unbelievable. They had no process to audit or spot check results? Were there just no controls?
Yeah this is a good point!

We are spending a lot of time thinking about reliability and it's true that existing models fall a little flat here.
I think ultimately the key to making this work really well is some combination of

a) collecting and training on human feedback and
b) doing intelligent things to samples from the model after the fact
Yes. OTOH, United states has one of the best free speech protections in the world. It would make sense, to have the key people and data centers in the US. EU, however, has better privacy protection initiatives.
I've heard offhand comments get you fired over there. Just old 'bro' remarks will get you canned, if the wrong/right person overhears it --which is like 50% of anyone around the victim/perpetrator. Not "jock" locker room remarks but, what one might call colloquial college language.
I used to own a semiconductor distribution business. The amount of refurbished and counterfeit material out there is staggering. There is more money in obsolete parts than most people realize and, as a result, selling refurbs is incredibly lucrative. I'm talking 100x markup on a 5k reel when the customer needs 10pcs.

This story, while sad, is not the least bit surprising.
I have yet to find a use-case where I really want a lisp-1 over a lisp-2. Though I'd really love to see some production code that exploits the single namespace.
When the alternative is “hold onto the card” and you have to track it down or order a new one, sure it’s more convenient for the customer too…
Excited to see semantic search getting legs with this and Lexica[1].

Related: we recently released[2] semantic search for custom datasets. You can use it to find all sorts of weird stuff in benchmark datasets like MS COCO[3] used to train many computer vision models.

If folks are interested I can write up a "how we made it" post describing the behind the scenes.

[1] https://lexica.art/

[2] https://blog.roboflow.com/dataset-search/

[3] https://blog.roboflow.com/coco-dataset-image-search/
To me it looked like they didn't have anything technical against Envoy, they just didn't want to be dependent upon someone else for what is a core part of their product anymore. Which is entirely reasonable and a good idea.
Valve has been called out as fairly dysfunctional. They havent made any quality games in awhile.

The last major project they got out the door was what the handheld device? That they are taking losses on? And how much of that was contracted out?
And yet somehow we've survived despite the fact you can legally obtain a gun in most states without an ID, address, or any background check whatsoever and no real monitoring of what you do with it. And buying 10k bullets doesn't even trigger a report.

I can get a gun with just cash in hand without violating the law, but not a freaking bank account. If I can be trusted with a fucking AK/AR without checks and my state will let me conceal a revolver in my waistband without any proof of anything or documents whatsoever, I ought to be trusted to be able to open a damn account with my passport but no address, on the basis of which multiple banks have refused me because apparently not being able to furnish an address didn't let them satisfy their KYC rules. At least one of those banks would have allowed me (by both policy and law) to conceal a gun in the damn bank but not open an account (LMAO)!!!
They don't pay like Google (most of the time, I hear ML is wild with salaries) but smaller startups under 20 people have, in my experience, excellent pay with excellent work life balance.
Ethereum Classic is also the moment when the founders proved that "code-is-law" iff it is not personally costly to the right people.
Friends Don’t Let Friends Buy a CDP
Except that they over-reward "design a completely new project in market X" where they already have a product, and under-reward fixing the existing product in a backward-compatible way. That means customers can't count on Google supporting anything long-term.
There are a number of well established image similarity algorithms that could be used past simple equality.
Also, and of course totally coincidental, it gives them a great justification for blocking other browsers.
I don't know how I find my self in the position of defending capitalism, it seems very not me, I've chosen a low paying career that provides me with a lot of creative control and free time.

I guess I can imagine what life would be like for myself if I didn't have to work, or if there was not a direct correlation between the work I did and the things I can have. I wouldn't work if I didn't have to.

Do I think we could be more generous in caring for those less fortunate than ourselves. Yes, because common sense suggests I too might be down on my luck one day.

Do I think we should should outlaw rent seeking in our society? Yes. Fuck Landlords. The earth belongs to everybody. Nobody should own land.

But don't get angry at Capitalism, get angry that our Democracies are not set up to give each voice equal power. Get angry that rich people can buy votes. Get angry that rich people can use their money to manipulate the media influence people.

Our democracies are too big and too removed from our day to day lives.
I recently visited France. Before flying from the US, I purchased an Orange e-sim online and activated it while at the airport in the US. As soon as I landed in Paris, I was connected to Orange network and was able to use internet instantly.
The 64 sedan had 3 point lap belts and a roll cage reinforcing the passenger compartment. Not really a particularly compelling example of a typical ‘64 sedan…
I find it's the chip readers that are very flaky. Certain stores I go to simply have unreliable chip readers and I often have to fall back to the stripe. This has even happened at a couple places right after they replaced their readers. It seems to be related to alignment of the card in the slot, which has led me to a procedure that on the second try, I'll put the card in while sliding it pressed against the left edge of the slot, and on the third try I'll slide it in on the right edge of the slot. This small bit of offset often makes the difference.

I suppose after the stripe goes away, they'll have to improve these machines in a hurry. I just don't understand how they're so shitty and yet the rest of the world seems to be using them without issue.
And assumes you don't murder anyone and get arrested, which is just as easy to avoid as saying stupid things to coworkers.
Should Founders Juggle More Than One Company?
Programs That Program: Lisp Is Not Functional
yes and they dont produce anything anymore, only collect free money from Steam that they created many years ago.

makes you think...
> showing that Twitter broke some news that caused candidates to drop out is not Twitter's influence

Yes it is.

For a similar example that shows how sites that break news that others will not and how that leads to them being influencial I'd point at The Drudge Report.

Quoting Pew: "Drudge Report: Small Operation, Large Influence" [1], and Wikipedia[2]: "The Drudge Report originally attained prominence when it was the first to report what came to be known as the Lewinsky scandal. It published the story on January 17, 1998, showing that Newsweek had turned down the story."

This is exactly the same kind of influence as Twitter has - because it can spread news (both true and false) - it is influential.

Again - not interested in arguing about the ontology of arguments.

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2011/05/09/drudge-rep...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drudge_Report#Monica_Lewinsky_...
If the people vote for the government to collect everyone’s DNA at some future point in time, that’s just how a democracy works. Freedom and liberty includes the freedom and liberty to make poor decisions.
Yes, if they aren't getting the results they want from all those smart people, it's because they aren't managing right. Most people want to do good work, but sometimes process and teams fighting each other gets in the way.
dang has, on multiple occasions, commented on why he doesn't want subreddits (or their equivalent) for HN. For material you don't think belongs, there's always the flag option. If you just don't care for it, hide it.

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=silo%20by%3Adang&dateRange=all...
> I don’t disagree with your overall point but I also don’t think anyone is going to win a lawsuit over this without a huge case that makes it to scotus because the practice of diversity hires is common and currently tolerated.

According to this pessimistic viewpoint, there was no point in the civil rights movement of the 1960s that led the to revolutionary Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Black people would look around, and realize that discrimination against them is "common and currently tolerated", especially in the South, and just throw their hands in despair and live with it.

Fortunately, they didn't. And if even a single Twilio employee was fired for his race, I hope he doesn't, either. Not just for his sake, but for our sake as a society.

I don't want to live in a society where people are judged and treated according to the color of their skin.
Google has great advertising - they are just not marketing TO you like Apple is :-D
The thing that strikes me as ridiculous is that in the US on CDMA carriers, there was the exact same thing as "eSIMs" for years. You had to beg and plead with your carrier to set up and provision your phone, since there was no physical SIM.

So for Apple to pitch this as "wow, it's a new system where instead of just putting in a sim card you have to grovel to your carrier to set up your phone", it hardly strikes me as better UX.
I do actually think crypto payments are superior for porn, esp as we see visa/Mastercard threaten businesses like OF
It's a fair point and I don't think you should be downvoted. Though I have to disagree - for instance, when choosing whether to go with AWS or GCP...

Like yes, Google is probably not going to kill GCP. But it's not doing very well compared to Amazon, and then there's no guarantee that any product within GCP is going to exist for the long run. To think that a major part of your cloud infrastructure might just be dropped, that makes it too risky for me personally.

There's a general expectation that if I'm going to take a risk on a product, that they're in it for the long haul. Google is too big to be "in for the long haul" on really anything except their core products.
Minecraft simulation built with a restone computer-CPU,GPU and a low-res display
A reader mode that competes with e-ink would also be worth it
I don't recall printers changing all that much since the early 2000s at all. I mean they added USB, WiFi, Bluetooth and other such things but the protocols to talk to them largely remain the same. There's only so many ways to tell the machine to 'replicate this but on paper'.
But what crazy business eh? :)
Steamdeck, Alyx, SteamOS, Proton
It's not just noise reduction but the sharpening of the photos is really crazy. I took a picture of my carpet and it looks nothing like it does in person or up close. Like my carpet is just fuzzy and bland colored, not deep grand canyon crevasses with lots of contrast that show in the iPhone photo.
https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/ethereum-pow/

This IOU market seems to be suggesting there will be a new PoW chain that has higher market value than ETC. That implies the miners are expected to split their current hashing power between ETC and this new one. However I have not found the necessary organizational effort to create this new PoW chain, so with hours to go, it’s a bit of a mystery to me, as to why this IOU market is trading as high of a price as it is.
Can't be subreddits since this isn't reddit. Subhackers?
> why is it fair that you only support a hand-curated list of projects and ignore the thankless dev writing all the little helpers and utilities that save you time over and over again?

The little guy is exactly who I’m worried about.

Projects vary in number of developers, their financial arrangement, and the time that it takes to maintain a package.

I use an authentication package that is painstakingly maintained by one independent dev who kicks ass. He deserves more than a package like leftpad. Or a package that is developed by salaried engineers as an API for a product I already pay for.
Clearly people are using things Google makes. Search, Gmail, YouTube spring to mind.

But I'm not personally looking to use anything _new_ that Google makes. Wave, reader, goofke+, hangouts, and a bunch of others came and went. Basically when compared to behemoths like search and Gmail most really good things are complete failures.

Unfortunately this reputation is starting to ge an issue outside, and inside, the company. Outside I'm personally reluctant to use anything "Google new". I can imagine that inside when you're working on your 3rd or 4th cancelled Google project, you passion is, well, dulled.
I don't think that will work. There's very little elasticity in the market, so to first order every dollar pumped into wages will be turned around and put into housing and drive up prices even further. There's only two ways out of this hole: you drive people away or you build more housing.
I'm surprised that Jakarta EE (previously Java EE) still exists. We used to heavily use Java EE like maybe 10-12 years back, but it was such a mammoth that running those application servers, developing those EJBs and other things made application development such a heavy duty exercise. The only thing I liked was the Servlets API which was/is well designed and very lean to work with.

For us, it was good that Oracle stopped being invovled with Java EE. That allowed us to convince others in our team to move on to much simpler application development using core Java.

I had stopped paying attention to this Java EE/Jakarta EE area after the unnecessary drama that ensued in the community lead by an ex-Oracle employee.

I'm really surprised that Jakarta EE is still a thing.
> Sometimes hiring great researchers and letting them do what they want pays off

Almost like research is not a guaranteed thing. Kinda like you're trying to figure out the unknown.
I've known people there who I feel pretty confident told a reliable story because they saw that aspect as "correct" and something admirable.

Hey "new guy, you met with your manager's manager, how did it go?"

"She's great, but I don't know why the other broad was there"

Jaws fall...

College kid turns white...

Sure, it's not correct business/proff'l language, I agree and may merit a talk, but fire? I guess up to you. Yeah, yeah respect, etc. Have you caught how managers talk shit about things that are sanctioned to be talked shit about?
If that's a rights issue, we'll definitely add a link to the source. For now, you can right click -> open in new tab to see where it came from, but we'll look into this asap.

The goal here is to give people the opportunity to remove images they don't want in this dataset or add images they do want in there.
>If dependency X is a pithy trivial thing that doesn't deserve your funds, and you care so much, then write your own into a utils file.

I don’t have a choice with sub-dependencies of packages I do care about.
Thats literally just a really shitty IT department poorly managing their MDM. And on Android at least the "work profile" is generally completely separate from your usual stuff and (if enrolled properly) the company cannot control major aspects of your phone (just the work profile). The company can remote wipe the work related sections, for example, but not your entire device.

There are settings though for passcode enforcement and whatnot
Nothing wrong with slacking off unless you have a real job as a firefighter or ER nurse.
sounds like a great argument for being a nimby.
>>"Prove my client knew it was fake, remember innocent until proven guilty + beyond reasonable doubt" - defense lawyer

>>Acquitted

It does not work like that.

The client has already signed off, under penalty of perjury, that the parts ARE NOT FAKE, and that the company and the parts (respectively) comply with any number of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) requirements applicable to the contract.

If the part is bad, it is going to be up to the "client" to prove that his statements were not false.
WMF is a company that's mostly engaged in maintaining a tech product, and much of its hiring needs are for people who'd otherwise be working in tech. If it's not in the tech sector then there's not any meaning to that category.
Completely coincidental, I am sure.

Absolutely no one vendor can match apple in security, ever.
this confirms all the lousy bizarre looking photos I create at times. I suspected possibly some strange post processing was going on but couldn't confirm it. I assumed I was driving the phone in awkward lighting or some other condition where the post processing salvaged my photo from a blurry mess, but there's no way to tell because like others identified there's no way to turn it off.

I remember telling someone about this great image sensor on the old OnePlus One a friend gave me years outside of its lifecycle and how it takes pretty amazing photos. I wonder if it was just a function of no image processing, and my steady hand from years of photography and breath-holding practice to manually stabilize my photos.