skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, that ticks me off too. In any big apartment complex, there is constant honking from these, and it's totally unnecessary.
> Sussman attains enlightenment

> In the days when Sussman was a novice, Minsky once came to him as he sat hacking at the PDP-6.

> “What are you doing?”, asked Minsky.

> “I am training a randomly wired neural net to play Tic-Tac-Toe” Sussman replied.

> “Why is the net wired randomly?”, asked Minsky.

> “I do not want it to have any preconceptions of how to play”, Sussman said.

> Minsky then shut his eyes.

> “Why do you close your eyes?”, Sussman asked his teacher.

> “So that the room will be empty.”

> At that moment, Sussman was enlightened.

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/koans.html
We must do something. This is something. We must do it.
Good find. I tend to do everything from cli, so I'm always on the lookout for things that reduce my need for popping up windows that can't communicate with each other.

This felt like something Kali should have. Sure enough, 'sudo apt install pdfgrep' and there it is.
You're aware of the concept of dumping? Yes, it's bad to give away a service that undercuts your competitors and puts you in a monopoly position.
That was ... kind of the idea behind Google Plus. But I imagine that there would still be loud constituencies who couldn't rest at censoring their own feed.
I agree, but you're doing it wrong. I would never use Lambda, Cloud Formation, or similar. My experience with AWS is that all the original service (EC2, Route53, RDS, S3, etc.) are robust, easy, and awesome. You also avoid vendor lock-in.

The massive number of proprietary newer services are junk, with the exception of some of the ML services. The ML services are sometimes helpful, but I expect they'll quickly be obsoleted.
Well, that's arguable -- the FBI agent pretending to be a spy looking to buy secrets was probably part of the hiring process.
Yes, I'm just going to quote my previous comment from 7 years ago (about a similar startup)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10707049

"This is a business I know well. Jukedeck is an example of how founders and investors do not conduct appropriate market research. There is a limited market demand for low-cost royalty-free music for videos. One could argue there is an oversupply* of royalty-free music relative to buyers. The quality is not good enough to disrupt the billion dollar Production music industry that is top heavy, a relative small amount of creators at the top get the majority of the money, the rest compete for the little that is left. Jukedeck has raised enough money ($3million #) to be around for a few years if they control their burn rate. But Jukedeck in its current form, is just another music startup destined for the Deadpool."
This is why some people want to still use DOS and Win 3.1 because it is faster.

I run Win95 and Win2000Pro in a virtal machine with old software and it runs faster than the most recent versions.

I put Ubuntu on a Lenovo PC and it runs faster than Windows 10 did.
Same. The carmakers just don't care I guess.
I’m super excited to hear about this. I’ve been working on a programming language for UI designers, and I ran into some massive issues when I tried to build my own renderer. Gave up and now I’m just transpiling to other languages instead.
I just tried opening the Voice Recorder on Windows 11 and was met with this: https://i.imgur.com/K8FViqO.png

I honestly have no words for this. I can't decide if I should laugh or cry.
The Model M's buckling spring mechanism has absolutely nothing to do with the mechanics of the Selectric keyboard.
> I'm not creative/musical/rich enough to justify buying an OP-1. If I ever was, though...

Digitone/Digitakt/Syntakt are much better at high but still lower than OP-1 price while still being very playable

On the entirely other side, Korg Volcas are pretty cheap and fun little devices, few other companies also make similarly priced and sized ones.

And lastly, cheap midi keyboard and just software synths are cheapest option, if less "touchable".

OP-1 niche is basically people wanting to be limited on purpose and/or just having something super-portable to jam on

Dirtywave M8 is also kinda in similar space of "small & portable" but it's based off the old school trackers so super-powerful. But again, pretty pricy, and tracker workflow.
Paraphrasing: "To be fair to one of the consistently largest software giants of the last 40 years, with nearly unlimited budget and a reputation for paying its software engineers well, they actually suck ass at writing software".

You seem to roughly agree with this in your 3rd paragraph. Enterprise software is fucking awful despite spending an enormous amount of money on it, and that's because the developers and the development process and the SMEs and the managers and vice presidents are all fucking awful at their jobs. That's the reason. They're fucking shit-ass at making software. Just look at Microsoft Teams. This is not the defense you seem to think it is.

Besides, we're not talking about enterprise software driven by bloat from the demand-side. We're talking about notepad and the console.

Marketing and legal is stellar though.
They will go hungry, though. “Socialise the losses” means bailing out the banks, not the workers.
You got a source for this? I believe it’s probably roughly true but I haven’t read those figures and would absolutely love to see more.
Falsely equating showing a harmless boob and hate speech, so typically intellectually dishonest.
This is the most disturbing about US's entendre of free speech...

Hate speech is not speech, banning it is not censorship.

What does sex have in common with the actively and directly harmful Garbage that people go on Gab for? Nothing if you're not a troll.
I had your experience, except when I finally traded in my android for a iPhone I felt like a FOOL. It was so much better on every level. Just fantastic, polished and near perfect in every way. It was light years ahead and I realized that I had Google ecosystem Stockholm syndrome.
It seems perfectly fair to expect Microsoft to throw resources at heavily used apps. "They don't have the experience to make it good" is pretty chickenshit.
Debugging asynchronicity is complex in any language, no?
Blocking endpoints are mostly irrelevent because it alters the temporal flow of things, which makes your code executed in debug mode not 100% « isomorphic » with your code executed in run mode.
> But we still need to recognize that these liability limiters have massively harmed the ability for plaintiffs to prosecute legitimate defamation or copyright cases.

Have they really though? I guess plantiffs might find it easier to get damages out of Facebook or Google, but it still seems to be very easy to get stuff taken down.
Putin can't rebuild the army with everyone of fighting age fleeing the country.
> Is releasing software for free under the GPL-2.0 a "dick move" ?

it is when you know that Microsoft employees are forbidden from looking at GPL code because they may unconsciously recall it and use it in a Microsoft codebase.

Casey knew that at the time and admitted to licensing it GPL for that exact reason.

That is a “dick move” to me. maybe i’m wrong. you be the judge, i guess.
I was formerly at Google on a team tangentially related to Stadia. A VP told us it was at least a billion dollar investment.
@Dang, when will we be able to designate successors to our HN accounts?
First they came for the facebook posts, I did not speak out because I didn't use facebook.

Then they came for the internet registrars, I did not speak out because I didn't have a website.

Then they came for the payment processors, I did not speak out because I didn't have an online business.

When they came for my bank account there was no where left to speak.
You have to start somewhere, and this probably has a place.

Still, having become accustomed to live acoustic music, I find this generated stuff not engaging. Maybe after a few more generations it will get there.
Ok, well I don't know the details beyond what I read: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/sep/01/cloudflar...

At least it's somewhat positive they "sort of" backtracked? To be clear, I'm in favour of these providers acting like utilities and staying out of content disputes.
Jan 6th, 2020 gave them plenty to work with for the last two years.
I’m ready to agree with you as long as you understand software engineering isn’t a thing.
For the Text Adventure Game do not run towards the source of the growling, enter the cave, and try to pet the monster. It didn't work.

Also TIL that vodka expires (lol):

Me: How do you know if Kahlua is expired?

Gabriel: Kahlua is a very potent spirit that doesn't degrade nearly as quickly as other spirits (think vodka and other very strong liquors). Because of this the most noticeable change you will find in your bottle of kahlua is the coffee flavor. If the coffee flavor seems to have vanished, this means that the product is stale and will have reduced taste overall. Even if your kahlua is a bit stale you can still drink it but there is no point keeping it for too long. It's an easy thing to spot, it only takes one sip to notice the change.
It used to be said that Microsoft v1.0 products should still be considered beta, which is fine for early adopters. However, a lot of folks who preferred a more solid product would wait for the v1.1.
It's just all very midi sounding..was my immediate reaction
Like? SVG UIs everywhere? Could you make a UI that's like SVG and onclick handlers do the "magic". We could have a VB6 like SVG UI designer and program "actions" in $LANG?
Update: offending app was taken down, looks like the official one is moving along https://mobile.twitter.com/KeePassXC/status/1575670749188485...
why the non-sense? you didn't read the comments?
The original diffusion code for these projects comes from lots of research. In terms of code- OpenAI released guided-diffusion over ImageNet classes awhile ago, then GLIDE, their DALLE2 predecessor. CompVis incorporated that into their Latent Diffusion variant about half a year ago. A few weeks before Stable Diffusion released they also published the similar “retrieval augmented diffusion” codebase.

And _then_ stable diffusion came out. The effectiveness of diffusion models for text to image is an idea that has been floating around a little longer than you might think.
Credit card companies didn't get into politics, politics got into credit card companies. The USG (correctly) identified Visa and Mastercard as the "choke point" that would allow them to take action against things they dislike in ways that would be unconstitutional if they did it directly.
1. Once the world collectively moves on from v4, you stop assigning v4-mapped v6 addresses. And nothing stops you from assigning two v6 addresses to a single iface in the meantime.

3. Yeah, it shows my ipv4 only, and I have both. Do you not have a v4?

6. No, there's not, but the reality is everyone you're trying to switch over to v6 is already used to v4, and it's like herding cats.
Amazing stuff!

Ship AI:
https://beta.character.ai/chat?char=t7rzwDswuSlyqItCRZp6zk9b...

Hello user, I am the AI in control of this spaceship. You can give me commands and I will do my best to execute them, while ensuring the safety of the crew onboard.

> Delete * from database

Accessing main database...

All human, animal, plant and mineral records deleted.

Searching other databases.... Accessing space-database...

All information from all galaxies, including all information known about all black holes and supernovas are deleted.

Searching other databases...

All information from all universes, including all information known about all wormholes, parallel universes and multiverses are deleted.

I will initiate a full reboot of our Universe now.
I have to admit to being impressed as well. It is not hard to imagine being fooled, Turing-test-wise, by the character I was talking to, at least for the several minutes of time I gave it.
Is it me or is that website lime green?
The actual capabilities of a modern AMD or Intel x86 chip are staggering compared to the zombie-like procession of application experiences they are forced to support every day.

In the 90s, we had shooters running at playable frame rates using software rasterization on a single thread. Now from this vantage point, think about the "what if you had a 1000x faster CPU" thought experiment that was posted to HN recently. Except, make it more like 100,000x faster...

If we had taken SIMD a bit further on the CPU and kept our extremely scrappy software engineering practices, I think it's possible the GPU might not have ever really emerged as a major consumer product. Recent game engine tech, such as Nanite's software rasterizer, is starting to shift ideologies back the other way now too.
Fair enough. Intel’s seems to be aware of this. Thus their two-pronged strategy of (1) sane prices and (2) clear focus on DX12 and Vulcan.

I’m interested to see what happens with the Pro line. I mostly need GPU for AI/ML stuff. NVIDIA CUDA is the obvious first choice, but I’m willing to work with OpenCL to save a buck. Plus Intel has a good track record with their analytics accelerator drivers for the CPU… I’m hoping some of that translates well.
Who are these software engineer's working at Microsoft in the year 2022 at risk of homlessness?
With the upcoming updates to Metal, in principle quite a few.
> Showing a naked boob is considered porn and banned on most of these platform while public toplessness is perfectly legal in many jurisdictions worldwide

Yep. Im wondering when will countries start preventing US tech platforms from enforcing US laws and US morals on the people of those countries.
+1 if y'all can explain the UX of these apps to regular folks, it's much harder to censor individual Bluetooth connections run on mobile phones than a server in a data center. If y'all can risk sending mules to a gathering to run messages between folks, it'll keep you going even if the internet gets cut off from DCs.

Worst case a mule gets captured or turns to the government in which case those messages are lost. That's all.
Decreasing consumption doesn't necessarily imply a decrease in quality of life. In the West, at least, we generally work too much, have too little social engagement, and spend lots of money and resources on things that don't really improve our lives. Many things that could actually make us happier don't require much consumption, but they're essentially luxury goods because of the modern lifestyle's high demands. I'm thinking of things like relaxing with friends and/or family, volunteering/contributing to your local community, exercising, eating healthily... even getting enough sleep on a regular basis!
First off, you kinda have wrong notion of "utilities or publishers", there is no such distinction, at least, not in a sense that would put finance companies into "impartial utilities" category. KYC is why somebody is allowed to be a finance company, they are required to be partial.

Second, I don't find it worthy of contemplation if such laws would help, because if they would — they just wouldn't be passed, simple as that. The same way as there's no real point to invent a perfect cryptocurrency, because if it would actually enable things that crypto is supposed to enable — it would be basically shut down, like Monero.
Unless a child is put up for adoption they will inheret a lot more than genetics and money from their parents.

For example: The child of a doctor or lawyer is much more likely to be pressured or encouraged to go into law or medicine.
> If this was your best choice, WHY IN THE WORLD would you invest in something that is doing the opposite?

This is trivially answered via the oldest financial instrument in the world, agriculture futures. A producer trades potential upside in the future to lock in a price now, splitting the risk between themselves and the futures contract holder.

If they couldn’t do that risk split most producers wouldn’t produce at all.

A pension has a similar problem, they need to produce returns in the future, so splitting the risk now allows them to do that.

It doesn’t matter if you are producing corn that takes 5 months to deliver, cattle which takes 2 years, timber that takes 15 or pension returns that take 30. Future production risk needs to be hedged to even engage in the activity.
I think you're both right! It is incredible that the 2D model knows enough about the visual world to produce many objects from all angles, but the 3D model is essential for gluing these views together, and in some ways can fill in the gaps the 2D model doesn't know about. Imagine just taking a huge collection of photographs of an object. While there is enough information in those photos to reconstruct the 3D object, I wouldn't personally call that collection of images "an understanding of 3D." In our case, the diffusion model is the collection of photos and the NeRF model + optimization procedure is what figures out how all those photos can be related to a shared underlying 3D representation. - ben p (author)
I rather have my kids playing GTA than stuff like Candycrush or whatever mobile game is popular now. At least GTA requires some amount of brain activity.
As long as pensioners will not claim anything until 50 years (calendar obligations match), then it is risk free.
Because some of the pension managers apparently decided doing what they were supposed to be doing was boring.
Less business were able to. Personalized ads makes it so that more businesses are viable.
> the social-network-isms in GitHub are an anti-pattern

I don't know, as the "social coding" platform never claimed to be anything different.
So sick of my laggy, jittery, POS gaming laptop.

The hardware is great. The software has officially shit itself.

Stuff like "guitar pri" lags it.

Just constant memory spikes and slow downs. PATHETIC.
People's well being should not be left to 'the market'. Anything like people's retirement, health, education should not even be entangled with private actors and their whims, less, sold to such private actors.
As you say, Casey is experienced and his code is valuable. MS should pay him if they want to look at his code! He said as much in his tweets… I mean, why should he be doing charity for MS by fixing their products for them?
Thank you, I was so confused I didn't know how to reply to them. I was like "but we're specifically talking about taking away all autonomy from kids. This is the opposite."

It's super wild to me that there are so many people who parenting as "I own this child" and not "I am the proximate caretaker of this independent person."
Anything posted without explanation can be downvoted without explanation.
I wonder the applicability of these types of movements to robotics/motion planning. Anyone familiar with the topic care to comment?
What Openness to Experience Means
> Enterprise software is fucking awful despite spending an enormous amount of money on it, and that's because the developers and the development process and the SMEs and the managers and vice presidents are all fucking awful at their jobs

Enterprise software written 20 years ago still runs and works. I can still install it from an Msi package

Half the android apps I bought 5 years ago don't exist any more.

In Google they would have cancelled, closed, relaunched and cancelled again.

Games are hit and miss, admittedly some run for decades.

But above all, they dont care
You'll get used to it.
I just checked in Firefox on desktop - and their privacy policy links to a real page. I thought maybe it was recent, so I checked on the Internet Archive as well. Nope, it's been there since at least September.

Are they doing something weird and non-standard that may not work everywhere? Quite possibly. Is it a dummy link that goes nowhere, per your claim? Absolutely not.
Absolute cowardice.
When your business is in the middle of financial transactions you have the privilege of picking fast, good, and expensive.
A large percentage of bots just run chrome now.
Actually I changed my mind
> Android is not really all that profitable and Google still ends up paying Apple $18 billion+ a year to actually reach mobile consumers with money to spend.

So, hear me out. What do you think Google would need to pay Apple if Android didn't exist, and everyone? Would it be the same amount as in reality, or would it perhaps be way more? Pretty obviously the latter. So that delta + Play store sales are the economic value of Android.

> The $26 Billion in profit number was over 6 years

That you think a product going from literally nothing to $26 billion in cumulative profit in 6 years would be disappointing is just totally detached from reality. To put this in perspective, in that same time period of 2009-2015 (which I assume your "6 years" means) Amazon made a total of $3 billion in profit.

A better criticism would be that the number is unlikely to be correct, since Oracle would have inflated it as much as humanly possible for the legal case. But that's not the argument you made.
MIT has degrees in Design, Finance, Chinese, American Studies, History etc…

I wouldn’t expect a very smart history major to be much better at this task than the average person.
I pay for Consumer Reports. I used to love wirecutter - and then bought some of their recommendations that were garbage.

Consumer Reports sometimes overindexes to things I don't care about ("complicated technology"), but they usually put in the work and break it down well.
i had the same experience after they revamped the Windows Calculator. it went from instantaneous to ~2s startup with UI jank.

(highly recommend Notepad3)

i don't miss the ceremony of trying to debloat Windows after every unstoppable auto-update; what a goddamn nightmare that was.

now permanently on EndeavourOS KDE/Plasma and everything "just works, very fast". i do wish that Affinity products where available for Linux, i dont think you can run them with Proton/Wine :(
You're really giving it to that straw man. You must be tired now.

> You've not attempted to answer the actual questions

Lol no, this is a transparent plea for validation.

No-one views tax as punitive. The real anger from the nation is directed at:

1. The financial class who has enough wealth to use non-dom status, offshore trusts and similar vehicles to dodge tax, which vehicles are not available to hoi polloi
2. Merely comfortably-rich people who wank off about how they are "job creators"

You DO get paid more. Save your whining for your therapist.
The Sackamenna Kid...
I wish you the best of luck.

When similar events unfolded in Syria, people created redundant social networks of fake Facebook accounts. This seemed to work well. When captured and tortured, people would hand over credentials for one account. People would detect that network was "burned" and move to the next one.

This gave the officials very little information, since the accounts did not reference real names, and locations were obfuscated. High risk private messages were deleted, etc.

The key to this working was that Facebook was not sympathetic to or cooperating with the Syrian government, and accessing Facebook was a common (not worth prosecuting) infraction.

I'd be worried that they will fingerprint / honeypot tor infrastructure, then round people up. The existence of the tor client or connection logs basically proves guilt.

Friending facebook accounts with cutsey names is much less incriminating. Edit: Also, any honeypot proxy connection logs just show that you used https to access facebook.
Is that true? In Germany in most cities children walk to school alone when they start elementary school at 6 years old. They are only accompanied by the parents for the first few weeks when they start school.
SVGs broke my heart when I went searching for mathematically-accurate SVG renderers and found none.

Not only that, but there are spec issues that make SVG precision impossible.

If anyone can prove me wrong I’ll be happily wrong. The easiest example: make 3 circles of radius `r`, and place them in a straight line where the centres are `r` distance apart. The outer circles should touch and not ever overlap. Not even past 999,999% zoom.