skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
mvSQLite’s storage layer: Transacting on multi-version data
Ok? Some military guy in Ukraine has a patch with a skull and... drumroll THE NAZI:S ALSO USED IMAGES OF (not-quite-the-same-looking) SKULLS!!!

If you are into this kind of scary stuff, I can warmly recomend a documentary from 2012 called Iron Sky. It really puts the American moon landings into a new light. No big surprise of course, since Americans often use eagle symbols, JUST LIKE THE NAZIS!!!

The truth is out there!
> Perl is notorious for being "write only".

> As in: keeping it clean and well structured is impossible and the impressive flexibility of the language is huge downside on larger projects.

Perl gets quite unfairly picked on here, to the point where it's basically a meme. It's not like, just to pick a somewhat popular language, Ruby doesn't provide plenty of ways to write completely unreadable code that can only be understand by running it through irb, if even then.

I agree that there is plenty of bad Perl code out there, but there's plenty of bad code in any language that achieves general popularity for a time. Disciplined use can produce perfectly clear and readable code and the module system is perfectly adequate for separation of concerns.

The language does give you an absurd amount of rope to hang yourself with though. If I were managing a large Perl project today I'd have an extremely restrictive style guide and would enforce as much of it as possible via pre-commit hooks.

> I feel qualified to say such things as I've worked on a billion-line perl codebase before.

For a language that permits such densely expressive code, that's appalling. I'm so sorry.
If you are making claims about suppressed media, why not include links to said media or information about them? Some might be interested in the documentary or the speech you mentioned.
I really hope to see a Cassini or Juno like probe to visit Neptune and Uranus in my lifetime.

As good as JWST is and these images are, these objects are so distant the only high-res imagery you can get is by visiting them. Prior to New Horizons, our best image of Pluto, for example, was a few blurry pixels and that remained the case even until New Horizons was 99% of the way there.
Oh shit I might get this. I've moved to ChromeOS for virtually everything and it's awesome, and I've been looking for an excuse to try framework
Spellcheckers exfiltrating PII not so fast
Details on what Chrome & Edge are actually sending to their spellcheck APIs as well as how to protect sensitive user data using HTML.
> But since Youtube sees dislike as a signal to boost a video, it spreads content-views to things that people don't like, but feel compelled to interact with in (what I assume is) the "Not now, I'm busy - someone is being wrong on the internet" kind of way.

I just don’t see YT having the same feedback loops as other places. You can stay on without being directly typing in comments like on fb or twitter.

I personally never see rage-inducing content on YouTube (nor other sites), nor do i see it on my partners, friends, parents accounts. I’m sure it’s there, but I think that people who get it are training their recommendations to show it, not being forced it. I get way more rageful content on TikTok ironically, which has a way weaker “dislike” signal and a stronger propensity to show you new things.

To the point, I understand the incentive someone like fb has to show content people don’t like but still engage with, but I’m not sure that the incentive exists in YouTube. Furthermore I think we discredit companies (who are made up of sentient and capable people) to recognize short term vs long term value and the importance of reputation.

I reject the notion that there’s someone in San Bruno pitching that they use the dislike button to show more of that video instead of a negative quality signal. No one I know in Silicon Valley who works in tech would make such a suggestion, and they’re no different than the YouTube team on a fundamental level.
You know how someone blowing in your ear makes more sound than when you blow in someone else's ear? The airflow itself can make sound from eddies and whatnot.

Most people don't put their ear next to a case fan to see if it's annoying or not. You experience its sound from several feet away, and the measurement should reflect that.
Why is the fingernails of the last image grey? Gave me flashbacks of a really fucked up toenails I saw in a podiatrist
Not true anymore : look at the specs on the arcteryx site, for example, and I think REI as well, for articles.
They literally invented their own non-GAAP system of accounting!
I'm not sure it was libc in particular. In general, the Go compiler's initial design was very enthusiastic about the idea of fully statically linked binaries and easy cross-compilation. Avoiding system libs does kind of flow naturally from those goals.
From the blog:

> ... we know that data locality is important for a good deal of compliance use cases. Jurisdictional restrictions will allow developers to set a jurisdiction like the ‘EU’ that would prevent data from leaving the jurisdiction.

It's coming: we understand the importance of data locality & residency requirements.

(I work at CF)
I'll borrow 100 bucks from you, they'll be backed too:

- $25 in my gas tank (50.0%)

- $10 in a crumpled bill in my pocket (20%)

- $15 of groceries that are in my fridge (40%)

don't worry about how much it adds up to or if it's liquid, it's backed
> Do you want to ban those too?

I've not been calling for banning anything, I'm arguing about whether misrepresenting science causes harm. This whole thread is a response to logicalmonster asking "Who or what is this site harming?". Now it feels like the goalposts are being shifted to "okay but these other things are harmful too!"

I've not seen evidence of CDC lying about mask wearing etc.. so you'd have to reference what you're talking about there (I'm not from the US).

Re Zeke Hausfather tweet, interestingly he's not denying there's an emergency, he's just saying that doomism is not an appropriate response. Elsewhere he writes:

> The environmental crisis is one of the most serious and pressing issues facing the world today. We are already living with impacts of human-caused global heating, and the world is not doing nearly enough yet to put us on a pathway to avoiding potentially dire impacts later in the century to both humans and the natural world.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/aug/06/global...

This is in line with the consensus claimed (correctly) by henearkr, as evidenced by reference [2] in my post above.
Site tells you if photos of you been used to train the AI
RNA editing machine of a moss transplanted into human cells
Of graphics cards keep improving at this rate and the price keeps dropping then vr will become actual reality.
A Chromebook with no touchscreen? Seriously.
> Every other distribution is years behind Google in terms of tooling.

Can you expand on this? Perhaps a URL with more detail?
Yah, I agree.

Then again, I've been places that are stingy about printing, which didn't make much sense to me, so I guess they have some... other way of looking at this stuff.
Here’s US electricity numbers, it’s flat from 2000 to 2008 and then dropped. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EG.USE.ELEC.KH.PC?locat...

> before, you just didn't eat mango if it didn't grow next to you, unless you had a lot of money.

But that already happened, so now once mangoes are already being shipped the energy consumption is effectively capped.

Which is my point you seem to be ignoring, you can’t extrapolate to endlessly increasing resources. Yes comparing a subsistence farmer with a billionaire you see a vast increase, but it’s a sub linear increase. What happens if everyone on earth has the lifestyle of a western billionaire, does resource consumption continue to increase or does it stall?
Your kid is going to be influencing other, conservative kids.
I have come across this website that interviews failed founders. Looks like nthey pivoted to now doing both failed and successful but they def. started focussing on failed founders:

https://www.failory.com/

https://www.failory.com/graveyard
Putin can't even elevate to full out war and conscription, yet you think he will jump all the way to using nuclear weapons? The threat is completely hollow.
The previous article (linked at the top of the article) talks about "overseas workers." If you look at the blog in its entirety it seems to be a screed every year (or 2 or 4) railing against the "the ruling class."

I don't think there's a lot of value to be found here.
A quote I’ll never forget: “Productivity is for people with no leverage”

The correct way to optimize your schedule is to do less
I'm downloading the silverblue iso right now to play with this in a VM. It is surprising to me that ostree does not let you do any sort of bind mount or symlink of a non-reserved location like /gnu to some other filesystem, so I'll have a whack at it.
Puzzle in question: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32884467

"We use Standard ML, as the language endorsed by a certain breed of university professor who thinks they know programming better than you do." yikes - that is painfully accurate.
What we used to call a phone booth, then.
Which usually has a camera so that if needed, they can verify that it was actually the driver blowing into the interlock and not a passenger.
It’s a tool to allow you to keep your database on the app server and backed up on s3. This means you don’t need a separate database server. Having a database on the same machine as the app is very fast, but it is usually risky. The backups made by LiteFS lessen the risk.
Naively, training the same model on multiple languages has interesting implications.

On one hand, it may capture something "deeper" about language.

On the other hand, it's likely to do great in general, but miss particularities of some language.

Understanding the coverage of the training model seems a perennial problem. Is there any (shorthand) way to compare language model training corpora?

Clearly if they use common subsets we have a literal comparison. I'm more interested in whether there's progress in characterizing corpora by speech styles, fluency, vocabulary sets, (noise) environment, emotionality, proposition types, etc.

(btw: 25 minutes for a 9-minute segment on a 12-thread x86. Lots of jargon spelled as it sounds. Sentences capitalized but no punctuation. Overall good.)
Tesla Megapack battery ignites at substation after less than 6 months
How is it Apple, Google, or Microsoft are not further ahead of the game on speech recognition like this? They have the resources to hire the best ML researchers and throw tons of computing hours at it, yet Siri, Google, and Cortana continue to struggle to get anywhere near this level of comprehension.
Ask HN: What am I doing wrong?
Its now September of 2022. I've applied for on the order of 200+ jobs as a junior-developer / intern and received nothing but rejection emails.

Is it the economy? The bubble finally popped? Or am I the stupid one.

Anyone willing to share some tips for someone just starting out in the industry?

[Name redacted resume attached]
https://docdro.id/kzogpyB
Also posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32926283
For a similar evolution in vowel sounds, see also David Attenborough's early programmes.
Admittedly, unless the reserve amount required is 0

From https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/reservereq.htm

> As announced on March 15, 2020, the Board reduced reserve requirement ratios to zero percent effective March 26, 2020. This action eliminated reserve requirements for all depository institutions.

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Feel free to correct me on this; my financial knowledge is only just a bit higher than that 0% rate noted above.
Like iPhone "doesn't", i.e. you can use the main features but can't install apps. or completely doesn't?
Hold on, it does not only speech recognition, but also language translation, in the same model?

What an interesting approach. What benefits does this have over having two dedicated models, one for speech-to-text, and another for translation?

It just seems so odd, given the problems of speech-to-text and Spanish-to-English seems so different from one another (in terms of the problem domain). Seems so unusual to have both handled by one model!

Does knowledge of speech-to-text carry over into knowledge of translation? Does knowledge of translation carry over into knowledge of speech-to-text? So weird.
As if Pakistan is waiting for the global etiquette on the usage of nuclear weapons to change so they can nuke India!!

Both countries can’t use nukes because the other has them too. India has a fast growing economy at stake and Pakistan may be an economic disaster but Pakistani elites have huge assets in the west which can be frozen.

Usage of nukes in the Indian subcontinent has easily calculable first order effects.

In Ukraine it’s entirely different. It is ridiculous to suggest that the US will welcome the destruction of the entire human race if Putin even nukes civilian centres in Ukraine. They won’t. But there are second and third order consequences of such actions which are not in favour of Russia and certainly not in favour of Putin and his friends.
Are there any learnings from the touchpad work that will come back to the regular laptop?
A/ "Scientific consensus" means that the specialists of the subject overwhelmingly agree, and moreover they give a high statistical confidence in their conclusion (because, yes, they also quantify certainty/uncertainty).

You seem to think that science is way more than what it is.

Science is just knowledge + logic. The presence of logic gives a highly structured architecture to it, true, but it is guided by logic so it all has a reason to be.

B/ I would add: very nice for them to play the Knights of the Lost Cause with minor theories, but they seem to ignore the adage "choose your fights". Which is most important, highlight a very unlikely small possibility that AGW does not exist, or help people understand the known mechanisms of it and organize themselves to counter it? Yeah rhetorical much.
Works fine over IPv6 from this Mac.
even better, wrap those props as

<input {...getProps('firstName')} />

and make a custom hook returning that getProps function
The model output can be tweaked to produce audio embeddings (akin to BERT for text embeddings and CLIP for image embeddings), which can lead to some interesting applications as the previous two examples have demonstrated.
It looks nice, but.... Failed companies would be much more interesting. Everyone knows the successful companies.
The French version is a little contrived. The speaker is a native speaker, but the text is obviously the result of a translation from English to French, not idiomatic French.

I will try to put the code to the test, see how it goes.
Not on Silverblue but I've used a bindmount to have /gnu/store elsewhere (due to disk space on a laptop). I can dig up some notes if that is helpful.
The Drawbacks of ‘Harm Inflation’
I think they mean the excess noise of a volume of air moving past your ear, which is due to the turbulence created while air is passing over your ear and not the soundwaves being transmitted by said volume of air.

Practically speaking no you wouldn't want to factor the turbulence generated at the microphone because the user of the computer wouldn't be hearing that.
Can you set a battery charge limit on the chromeOS firmware?
JWST's infrared capability is good at showing previously invisible details but I find it very odd its images keep looking like they're lower resolution and less detailed in the visual spectrum than Hubble images. I realize the observation times are shorter but jeez the JWST photo of Jupiter was garbage compared to a telescope that launched 32 years ago.
What Are Distance Metrics in Vector Search?
Too many shoddy Tesla battery installations in nearby Moss Landing, not safe
Unrelated, but why does the map on their homepage show a region in Cuba? That must be wrong.
Checkmate: Cheating Detection
But CSS would still get you better prototypes that imitate native designs than anything Figma can provide. All the top requested features for Figma are CSS-like features even coming from designers who don't know CSS. CSS has solved many of the most difficult layout and design problems, why reinvent the wheel?

I work on native app designs and other non-product design work in Figma and having the features CSS would provide out of the box would save me literally dozens of hours a month.
People very much miss why they are getting paid so much. It is because they are in HCOL area with lot of competition. Thus employers are forced to pay a lot to get warm bodies there. For some reason they have wanted them there...

Now, if work can be done else where, magically the supply increases, go figure. So they don't need to pay so much. Instead they can pick someone else for less.

For me, I consider the high pay a payment for living somewhere I don't want to or cost lot to live. If I don't live there I get less.
We have reached sentient mode.
How am I suppose to explain this to my daughter!?!?! :P
Donald Trump sued for fraud by New York state Attorney General
I think that used to be on Saturday morning TV in the UK in the 80s.

Edit: 1991 apparently.
Funny that in all criticism of Russia on HK, every opposing post has to include reference to Reddit. You are not going to manipulate people so easily. 'Oh man, come on guys, you're sharing positions with those simple minded Reddit posters'.

How about you just make an argument on it's merits, instead of injecting your own bad take?
Well yea, but that’s the wrong conclusion.

By definition, clicking on a a dislike button means you watched at least part of the video. It’s a signal that “I started watching this and it wasn’t a good match”.

That should send the message that it’s appealing from the title/thumbnail but a bad video. I don’t think the “socially be seen as wanting” plays too much here… because starting to watch already. You already sent a different signal.
Indeed. Not financial advice. One should be shifting cashflow to paying off highest interest debt if their emergency fund is topped up and they’re meeting reasonable retirement contribution targets.

Cash is currently king, and will continue to be so until we reach terminal “high watermark” benchmark rate. Otherwise, you’re pumping fiat into assets that will continue to decline in value.
Mahabharata is an epic story. I really wish someone would make a movie with latest CGI.
This is an extremely self-serving and deceptive quote from Niemöller, and its life is due to the fact that it works as poetry. The fact is that he cheered them on when they came for the socialists and the trades unionists. He only tacitly supported the rounding up of German Jews because, and I have to paraphrase here, he thought the Jews were "too smart" to "force" Hitler to kill them, and would just leave.

His mistake was his belief that the Nazis were good Lutherans rather than Jungian Hindu UFO mystics.
> You say collapse, others[0] say it was a retreat of 2000 soldiers with minimal loses.

I'm sure they do. Good luck with the draft.
But it's not. You can still show or communicate the same things as before, as long as the underlying activity isn't actual gambling. Financial transactions aren't speech.
Show HN: poetry-relax – A Poetry plugin to relax version upper bounds
Hi! I've been working on some Python libraries recently and was excited to dig a little deeper into using Poetry as my project package manager. I discovered that, by default, Poetry adds upper bounds to all dependencies that you add. There are a lot of people that think this doesn't make sense for publishing libraries in the Python ecosystem (I provide links in the README if you want additional context), and I happen to agree after seeing first-hand how many dependency resolution issues this causes.

It looks like the Poetry project isn't planning on adding configuration for this any time soon, so I've written a plugin that can be used to remove the upper bound constraints from dependencies specified with carets (^, the Poetry default).

It's my first plugin for the Poetry ecosystem, I hope it's straight-forward to use! It supports dry runs, updating your pyproject.toml, checking for solvable dependencies, upgrading your dependencies, and updating your lock file. Any feedback is welcome.
Isn't "n + 1" typically a degenerate case of ORM rather than a relational thing? The whole point of rdbms is you can do a join instead of iterated lookups.
Does this effectively kill use of most open source software in a federal
environment? I can’t imagine most maintainers can attest to complying with Federal software security requirements.
I have a whole bunch of reasons.

ChromeOS has a great separation of concerns and isolation of environments. I have my work profile and my personal profile, which are totally separate. I have my browser environment and my dev VM, which are totally separate. Different activities are cleanly partitioned.

This has obvious security benefits but also is just a really nice, simple way to manage the system. I can fuck up a dev VM without impacting anything else, I can click random links on my personal profile without impacting work, etc.

It also just does what I want it to do. I browse the internet, I program. It's good for those things. So... why Linux?
Interesting, I was just listening to Tim Ferris' latest podcast with Bas Rutten, where he was promoting the O2 trainer, a similar device for exercising your breathing muscles and diaphram.

I'm opting to just plugging whichever nostril is clear and using the constricted nostril instead. Seems cheaper and something I can do anywhere. Also helps me utilize my nose instead of being a mouth breather.
Bandcamp is great as well! I'm really curious how Epic handles it as an acquisition.
1. Train AI model using your massive library of stock images and offer image generation to your massive existing customer base.

2. Sue or C&D all other image generation services that can be shown to be using models trained in part with your images.

3. Profit!

It's really not a far step from "search for existing images with these keywords" to "generate image from these keywords/prompt". There's also the option to start with stock images, pick the closest, and have AI refine it to better match the user's vision, so now instead of "good enough" you have "perfect."
> Are the readable replicas supposed to be long-lived

Right now, yes, they should be relatively long-lived (e.g. hours). Each node keeps a full copy of the database so it's recommended to use persistent volumes with it so it doesn't need to re-snapshot on boot.

We do have plans to make this work with very short-lived requests for platforms like Lambda or Vercel. That'll use transactionally-aware paging on-demand. You could even run it in a browser, although I'm not sure why you would want to. :)
Hey this looks great! I like to record audio notes while driving in my car after work, to kind of decompress my thoughts from the day. But I never go back and listen as they can be long and meandering. Sometimes in the audio log I will sum up my thoughts, but this might be 20 minutes in and hard to find. I really wish I had transcriptions so I could easily scan the full contents. I have tried Mozilla Deepspeech (I don't want a cloud solution) and I was surprised to find that I could not get Deepspeech to reliably transcribe them. There is a bit of road noise, though I think for a human listener they are easy to understand. It looks like this one might actually do the trick!

EDIT: Tried it and it worked great! It is very easy to use. I just did the pip install line in the readme and was ready to go. You literally just run the one pip install line, and then you run the program in the format "whisper my_audio.wav" and it goes. Really nice job OpenAI!
I don't think you especially need to try to prevent useless re-renders, as long as it doesn't slow down the app
To be fair most of us feels that way. Take a peek at Fox News, or Truth Social and Parler, or just look up what Trump, DeSantis or Abbott is doing these days. You tell me if it's a parody or not.