skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I assume this is using a lot of soft synths and samples? Whatever they are, they sound really cheap. I hope I don't back myself into some Luddite corner here and this later turns out to be really impressive, like we are seeing in the image generation space. But given that we are living in a market of overabundance of stock photos, royalty free music, etc., I am sure that this is not endangering anything anytime soon.

And while comparing it to image generation, with Stable Diffusion and other models, a human has to be in the loop in order to generate the prompts, so we can't entirely replace them here either. How about an AI music generator that creates phrases, rhythms or sounds/VST presets based on a prompt for me?

If an average person can choose between listening to this, or listening to a musician that they have a personal connection to on their favorite streaming service, I wonder which one will be picked most of the time?
>The new IDE is based on the Eclipse Theia framework, which is an open source project based on the same architecture as VS Code (language server protocol, extensions, debugger).
Just move to a proper jurisdiction. America is historically puritan (which has its bad and good parts), continental Europe isn't. Also web-only is great, I would never install the app anyway.
Yes, if I think or conclude the smart in smart tvs sucks and I can’t buy a non-smart tv because they simply are not for sale, I will not use the smart in the smart tv and replace it with another, better solution.
Comparison of relationship extraction methods for knowledge graph creation
> If this is 443, connections should just look like normal web browsing on an ISP level

Except that it doesn't look like TLS - depending on what the traffic inspection capabilities look like I imagine someone speaking SSH on port 443 is pretty incriminating :/
I think I probably had blue eyes when born, I do have a painting my mother made and I had blue eyes. Sometime in my teens / 20s my eyes were some sort of multi color so I was always getting asked what color they were and I was replying brown, gray, hazel, green relatively randomly and getting accepted as yes, that's what they are.

In a party in SF in my 30s a girl started talking to me and saying I had eye surgery done to have my eyes the color they were and being upset with me when I said no, I looked in the mirror they were an incredibly striking blue (I had not taken anything that would alter my perceptions)

My eyes have been pretty much blue since then, although they often seem to vary in lightness dependent on how tired I am or similar factors.
Very cool! Can we tweak your algorithm a little to be seeded with a real photo from a single viewpoint?
Would traffic shaping still enable to guess this is a browser usage rather than a typical ssh?
There were periods when electricity was rationed, usually with rolling blackouts. I've also never heard of a ban on refrigerators at any particular time of year, nor a ban on vacuum cleaners. Problems with hot water were common, but I've also not heard of any particular schedule. Food scarcity was a much bigger problem for that period though, especially in major cities (people would queue for hours for a chance at meat or eggs, for example).
If he’s not married, what’s there to blackmail?
In principle it would be very easy to Amazon to detect 'I don't know' type answers.
A Devious Cellular Trick Cancers Can Use to Escape Your Immune System
Well, if we're going to play the game of assumptions, then you're assuming Russians have bothered to maintain their warheads properly. Given the very plausible theory that Nord Stream 1 and 2 were taken out as a result of the Russians trying to clear a methane hydrate plug from their side alone and wound up rupturing both pipelines (which, just so we're clear, they've done before)... I'd be a little skeptical of anything involving Russian nukes and the viability of their warheads.
Here in Sweden it's quite common for newborns to start out as blond and blue eyed only for it to change later. Hair color can take up to four years to darken. Eye color is usually stable within one year, perhaps two.

It is so common that the Swedish phrase for "naive" is "blue eyed".
I really hope this is sarcasm. Can’t tell these days though.
Unless said facility was build after 2014 I don't see the problem here. Not that the training was very successful as far as all that invasion business goes, was it?
Thanks for clarifying. I wasn't trying to be moral police, just warning folks of what was on the page.

Like it or not, there are plenty of jobs that would be very unhappy with you viewing said images in an office setting.
> but as soon as we get more efficient things, we just consume more.

A phenomenon known as Jevons paradox.
Not sure what the BBB has to do with regulation? They are just a private organisation.

(And you are right, that they don't do a good job of what they are ostensibly trying to do.)

> It's because we used to regulate against the ability to sell something which didn't do the main task it purported to do.

If someone lies about what the product can do, can't you just sue them for fraud or so? (Do a class action lawsuit, if the individual damages are too small.)
It's fairly easy to find instructions on how to make guns, bombs etc online. For example, if you search for "improvised munitions", you will find many copies of this floating around:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TM_31-210_Improvised_Munitions...

And if you wanted that on paper - or on your Kindle - Amazon is happy to oblige:

https://www.amazon.com/Improvised-Munitions-Handbook-TM-210/...

Similarly, for homemade guns, there's e.g. FOSSCAD (and there are many forks of that repo on GitHub even):

https://fosscad.org/

Or for something more oldschool, search for "expedient homemade firearms". I got my paperback a few years ago from Amazon, as well (sadly gone now, but some derivative works are still around if you look).
I have a black friend that was almost, sorta, called racist because he said he thinks his house rent in the Berkeley was high because tons of illegal aliens are renting too and driving up demand.

He tried to argue that without the millions of illegals in California, taking atleast a million housing units, rent would be cheaper. But everyone was shocked he could even say that.

Things are getting comical. As if the actual race or color of the millions of people taking up housing is the actual issue.... Not their legal status. If they were a different color or race he's be ok with it?
I'm a little shocked that anybody could claim that viewing a naked body at any age could be considered harmful. There are many cases where children would benefit from seeing a range of naked bodies, and realise that there are many people out there that look just like them. they don't have to look like the photoshop models who do get exposed. Body shame is a real thing, and the only way around it is for people to realise that bodies come in a wide range of shapes and colours, and they have no reason to be ashamed of theirs.
Many of these sound like Amiga MOD music from the 1980s.
I don't think real musicians have much to worry about ... for a few years anyway !
The psychological disappointment of our species condensed into 4 words. What an interesting rabbit hole. But pretty disheartening, too.
I think this is a misunderstanding of how these models work. The model does not understand anything at all. It's computing correlations. I could spend all day computing correlation without ever understanding what the correlations correspond to in the physical world. The correlations could still amount to a useful description of some physical phenomenon, but their interpretation requires much more than just the ability to compute correlations in some limited space.

If we elevate "correlations" to mean "understanding", we're quickly going to run out of words.
It's now updated to January 2024
It is pure consumerism. You can add smartphones, clothes... Many things that we don't actually need to buy every year but yet, companies produce more and more for higher profit.

Blaming billionaires and corporations from brand new iPhone on networks made by big-tech sounds ironical indeed.
Absolutely, from a local perspective, decisions (or lack thereof) in regards to performance and efficiency make perfect sense, they simply shift the cost to the customer..
Pay less for development at the cost of performance which the customer will pay for with more computing capacity, electricity and time.
It scales terribly though, something that may cost an additional $20000 in development cost, may cost each customer a few tens of dollars over the lifetime of the product (not including putting a price on frustration and quality of life).. But if they have a few million customers using that feature, it's terrible for society and the greater economy/ecology.

Not only due to electricity, but also the high rate of replacing perfectly working computing equipment for higher-performing, only to spend any additional capacity running increasingly crappy and demanding software.
Awesome! Thanks for the update
Thousands of Aussies without power thanks to drone
You asked for a tool that can be used by "a normal person". A normal person is definitely not capable of creating an android app, so I really don't see your point. You need to learn how to do it, both on Android and on the web.

Moreover, the layout editor is rarely used in Android development, most of the control is done via code because it depends on dynamic content that is not available to the layout editor ahead of runtime. Most the examples in the exact link you attached are code examples for this very same reason
Yesss, please do this!
An alternate view is that the state of program optimization is terrible.
It can be a massive time sink too. Have seen the debates on there about everything (politics, finances and other random stuff) eat hours out of coworkers days.
I specifically bookmarked this comment so I can start using it as an example of singulatarian/DL delusion in 2 years.
Yep. Game devs handroll lots and release back to public much less than other tech companies.
Not unheard of to even forego c++ stdlib and rolling their own structures.

In these cases it's not a matter of not understanding the low level internals.
Examining the utility of climate model projections
"While building some internal capability might seem confronting and expensive, building future strategies on information that is not understood and is potentially misleading is likely more so, and quite possibly exposes the global financial system to systemic risks of its own making."
I feel like Susan Kare made so many brand defining visual decisions, it's very impressive
I have an idea, however I am inexperienced in networking or Opsec.

Would it be possible to setup a VPN inside Iran and for me to connect to this VPN, using my connection as a gateway?
I suspect your negotiation would simply be "what non salary or wage compensation will you give me?" as that isn't part of the required information.

I did think, maybe you could negotiate to increase the level you come in at, e.g IC2 vs IC1 or whatever - but if that were allowed it seems like it would be an end run around the law, and additionally allow some of the implicit discrimination the bill is trying to prevent (equivalent men and women get different rank/position, which avoids the appearance of pay discrimination as everyone in a given level gets paid the same, it's just one group is more likely to to get put into a higher level than the other)

I honestly don't think this will significantly impact tech, finance, marketing, etc where such a large portion of income is in the form of non salary/wage compensation. But it at least resolves the problem where people were legally allowed to ask what the comp range for a position is, but fear (rightly or wrongly) that asking will mean that they don't get an offer. So that's nice.

I'm also not sure how you make a law that really provides all the meaningful info. There's the obvious simple case of salary or wage, and honestly I think sign on bonuses and stock grants, etc could also easily be factored in. But how do you handle bonus and commission based comp? For commission in many cases it's easy: this person sold $X they get Y% of $X. But at larger scales a single transaction can involve multiple people on commission, so you have to deal with how that's split, etc. Hell I could see a case where a person in group A gets given higher values sales than a person from group B, but to be clear that could be any groups: a real estate company that preferentially assigns people born in NYC to sales in NYC and people born in Jersey City to sales in Jersey City. That seems plausible, reasonable, and would mean that people born in NY would statistically earn more than the NJ one for no reason other than place of birth. Note this is just a silly example of something that seems like it's "plausible" rather than the usual completely absurd/extreme examples.

[edit: as a thought I had a look into the population statistics of NYC vs JC (the city not the religious figure). So my silly example - assuming your employment exactly matched regional statistics, and you had zero actual discrimination - would show up as on average asian Americans earning less than most grous, simply because asian Americans are a larger % of the population in JC vs NYC, and white people earning more than everyone. Again this is just because of the underlying demographics, but it's a good example of how non discriminatory policy can result in something that _looks_ discriminatory. Obviously the counter to that is you could say put people from Memphis in one category and people from Boise in another one to target black Americans.]
Yeah, especially considering Quake 3D was the killer GPU app
I wouldn't want AWS to catch any flak because of me, well, not unless I'm writing about Redshift, in which case they get all flak that's appropriate :-)

AWS have nothing to do with this site, and certainly nothing to do with its hosting.
OpSec isn't hard, but it's a pain in the ass. In many ways that's worse for adherence.
US also has gifts under a tree. (There is also candy in socks, but I feel like that’s more of a small children thing and really only in areas where lots of homes have fireplaces.)
> A HN poster questioned the existence of 80286 computers with VGA displays.

Young uns... I personally had a 286 with VGA back then...
After all they mismanaged and shuttered Google+ too, the best social network that ever existed so no wonder.

And no, just because it didn't work for some of you doesn't mean it wasn't best ;-)
Reports emerging that a new zero day exists in Microsoft Exchange
Interestingly, that's exactly what is going on internally at the moment with Dart code, as we migrate the Google ecosystem to sound null safety, which was introduced in Dart 2 and will be the only mode in Dart 3. Adding a feature like sound null safety to a codebase the size of Google's is a large undertaking. It also brings a ton of benefit, both to the language itself and code that has migrated, since we can now provide guarantees around nullability that are not available in most other languages.

But all the tooling we built for that multi-million LOC migration is open source, and available to everyone as part of the core SDK (https://dart.dev/null-safety/migration-guide#migration-tool). It's sophisticated, migrates much code automatically, and provides a visual editor to help make decisions about other code. That should be evidence at least that we care about migration.

Every ecosystem goes through migrations at some point (Objective-C to Swift, Java to Kotlin, Win32 to UWP, etc.) Flutter isn't immune to that risk, but I don't think it's particular to Flutter either.
IT is booming to a great extent in Romania, thanks in large part to a tax cut for IT employment started around 20 years ago. There are still relatively few major success stories, in the sense that the vast amount of programmers are working at international corporations dev offices established in Romania, or in some large outsourcing houses; relatively few are working in startups or in Romanian-owned businesses that are creating their own products. UIPath is more of an exception, but the general situation does seem to be improving.

On the other hand, non-IT Romanian industry is very much struggling on almost all fronts, and most of it is nowhere near where it was in terms of competitiveness or just basic output compared to the communist area, thanks in large parts to what the GP was mentioning (a systematic dismantling for parts by opportunistic apparatchiks after the revolution, but also before the revolution itself, as money dried up and the demented regime became more enamored with grandiose projects rather than any practical economy).
I hope they open up the hardware so we can at least hack on the controller that we bought..
Signal is using 335MB for me right now, which feels ridiculous for a messaging app. I have Firefox running with over a thousand tabs (hard to tell how much RAM it's using with all the processes, many of which share memory, but my total system usage is around 8GB right now, so it's at least less than that), so I guess it's not scaling linearly from 8 tabs = 1.2GB. At any rate, Firefox does at least a couple orders of magnitude more things than Signal does; I think it's reasonable for it to use more RAM.

I think it's a bit weird to compare a chat app with a web browser, though, when it comes to memory usage. Maybe a better example: hexchat, a native GTK IRC client, is currently using 60MB of RAM. Telegram's native app using over 200MB is also ridiculous.
The proprietary software will of course continue to be the default that most people use and that is fine for folks who don't mind the misbehaviour or are capable of blocking the misbehaviour. Eventually the blocking might no longer be possible though, because for example a proprietary software update on the device switched to DNS over HTTP or TLS instead, which would circumvent the blocking.
Of course it kills. There are plenty of instances in the middle eastern and Arabic media where the phenomenon is more common.

For example
https://news.walla.co.il/item/785137
When encountering a hot upward draft, gliders fly in this pattern to make the most use of it.
It may become more obvious the more you see. Like CGI effects. Amazing the first time, but once you get used to them, your brain learns to distinguish them. Like facial features typical of ethnicities - you can distinguish between those you see most often.
Thanks! That is very interesting.

They’ve had great tools along these lines in the Clojure world where the repl/shell has been around longer (deps.edn+repl and boot).
As someone who's launched small social-ish sites (non-porn), I've thought about this too. There's no way to keep your hands off the users' content, yet that can get you into trouble too, and laws are being proposed to make some forms of moderation illegal. The current easiest path for a small platform is to reserve the right to ban anyone for any opaque reason, and to do that a lot to avoid becoming the hangout place for mischief. The big platforms must find it impossible to satisfy all the regulators with one stance, especially since they're international, so they wear multiple faces instead.

You at least dodge some liability by not being on the App Store. Apple will throw you under the bus for unpredictable reasons. They insta-banned several Civil War games for containing Confederate flags in a historical context, seemingly following a trend at the time.
I was referring to 2020. The trend from 2016 -> 2020 showed that he gained greatly in his numbers. Yes he ended up losing but this trend supports my thesis that the center is losing its grip on both parties. It could be Bernie 3.0, AOC or someone else but the far left is becoming the new "center" of the party and the far right is becoming the new "center" of the other party.
Seems like we need more checks and balances. I mean, we do anyway, but it would be a good counter.
Dijkstra's arguments [1] about the benefits of 0-indexing are about tricky edge cases when coding with arrays. (The example you give is not a correctness problem, but a memory-efficiency issue: if width=1, you'll not be using at least half of the structure's indices that you allocated). But Lua doesn't have arrays as a type, it only has a way of iterating over the array part of tables, its map data structure.

Idiomatic Lua code for tables doesn't run into the kind of edge cases Dijkstra presents, since the most readable code uses iterators to yield the values of array indices when one wants to access the array part of tables.

It makes perfect sense to add arrays as a userdata type. For these, there are benefits of 0-indexing, as seen in https://github.com/neomantra/lds - although mixing 0-indexed

[1]: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/E...
> But, stuff like this should make Facebook employees angry. Zuckerberg is not a person to envy.

It's a wonder he hasn't been pushed out yet. I'm pretty sure he's holding enough stock to prevent it from happening, but you have to wonder what kind of internal pressure there is in the Facebook C suite right now
not just soldiers.. everybody had a good time with amphies for a while there. I don't know if the problem got as big as oxycontin but it was severe.
Ah yes, let's just take those table scraps and be thankful for them...
Genuine question: why would you teach a framework instead of a programming language?
It has a lot of useful life lessons. For example, that the way to make truly big bucks is not to rob banks, but to manipulate the stock market.
>I'm usually not a fan of this general hand wringing / fear mongering around ML that a lot of people with too much time and not enough STEM background constantly bring up.

What's with the STEM reference? Are you implying that STEM is related to intelligence and that people without a STEM background are not intelligent?

It is well known among academics (AKA STEM MAJORS) that human society is a chaotic system and that ML can change society for the better or for the worse... the outcome is basically unknown... It is therefore the intelligent choice to consider the negative consequences of this technology.

To not consider the other side indicates a lack of something.
Had to sign up to see if it's any good. Such a bad decision on their part.
Hi, I'm in Sweden and currently I've setup a OpenVPN Server in a VPS with Finland location. sometimes it works inside Iran. by the way I'm ready for any help
There’s no need to be snarky, especially when you’re missing the point. htop missing a race on a PID is no big deal. GDB doing so is a critical issue. /proc is nice to have for diagnostics but once again it makes for terrible API.
Keyword and. Ads and bloat. Adblocking doesn't get rid of all bloat.

And GP's point still stands. 17ms vs the typical 2s minimum a site takes to load is massive given the differences in what is demanded. Games actively got faster despite being more intense, websites active got slower despite relatively similar output.

Webdev's performance is shocklingly bad relative to most other subfields.