skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just for the sake of argument, let's say that it's necessary to have some set of unpublished algorithmic rules that are very rarely tripped by honest, normal usage in order to curb fraud.

What happens to the handful of individuals who are not committing fraud, but were just doing uncommon things and accidentally tripped some unpublished anti-fraud measure?

You agree that this isn't ok to just let them hang, right? What's the strategy for helping those people? Certainly, you're not suggesting that it's just ok to essentially say "Fuck you" to the random person who was algorithmically unlucky and essentially have a mega-corporation take a few thousand dollars of their paid for software?

I would say that if you're an entity that employs these kinds of vague, unpublished rules, that there must be a fast, real, and human recourse for talking to somebody to get the problem seriously addressed or you're behaving no better than a criminal entity.
Considering the verticals they're in, they probably need to deal with a whole buncha legal requirements. Different legal requirements from different jurisdictions, many of which are devolved to independent standards bodies. I'm sure that adds some body count.
> Yeah you're right that Stable Diffusion produces garbage for that prompt.

I dunno, I generated 20 images from that prompt locally and got three good ones[1].

https://imgur.com/a/rZ6wOEF
Yes, you're completely right. Not that I'm in favour of the wealth inequality in the US, but in some ways it's one of the US's biggest assets. There are a lot of people in the US who are so excessively wealthy they're willing to throw money at moon-shot companies (and sometimes simply ideas) that will almost certainly never yield them a return.

You don't get companies like Space X and Blue Origin without extremely ambitious and extremely wealthy individuals and the US has a large amount of both. In the UK people are generally far more conservative both with their ambitions and with their investments. We do have innovative tech companies here, but they're far less ambitions than those you'd typically find in the US. Things like food delivery, customisable greeting cards, accounting services, etc.

I think to a lesser extent there are geographical, demographical and regulatory advantages to starting tech companies in the the US too. In the UK employers have provide paid holiday, maternity leave, and pay national insurance contributions for everyone they employee. This isn't a huge issue if your a profitable company, but things like this add up if you're trying to bootstrap a company with a limited amount of VC money. Similarly, we can't scale as easily because of our geographical and demographical limitations. Europe isn't as easy to scale into for various geographic and cultural reasons and the UK as a domestic market is far smaller than the US.

While nothing I've said makes it impossible for the UK to create a tech giant, it does stack the odds against us. And just based on relative population size we're already 5 times less likely to create a tech giant when compared to the US.
press release: https://investors.biogen.com/news-releases/news-release-deta...

In The Pipeline post: https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/positive-amyloid-t...
It’s fairly well implied the original statement was related to tech jobs, not just any job, in SF.

From HN guidelines “Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.”
Supply chain shortages means you used to see an item, but it is not available at this time. Vendor arrangements means you've never seen Del Monte can corn at Costco, but you've seen Kirkland can corn that tastes just like Del Monte's.
Personally speaking, I stopped sharing opinions around these topics once I saw people losing their livelihoods for carrying the "wrong" opinions. I'll still discuss with close friends and family. My sister and I have some very spirited conversations around politics, but I wouldn't do the same with my boss. I don't even know what my boss's opinions are and I'm fine with that. As for the "American" comment, there are countries where physical altercations happen in Parliament over political disagreements. Holding passionate opinions is definitely not unique to Americans.
If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him. --Cardinal Richelieu

It does not matter what your beliefs are. If they want to hang you, they will find a reason.
> S-Matrix theory

I don't get it. You have something against S-Matrix theory? Why do you call it an "industry"?

> funding agencies are largely to blame for the current situation in HEP and how/where research efforts are focused

Current situation in HEP is fine. The whole theoretical physics community decides where research efforts should be focused. No one else can do that even if he wanted to.
> It was less of a physical burden than lugging around a 13-incher,

I guess this is a very personal thing, but I've always found the weight difference between a 7" tablet and a slim 13" laptop to be pretty minimal, and I walk-commute on average 3 miles a day carrying a laptop.

> and was inconspicuous when outdoors or places I may have felt unsafe carrying a laptop

It's probably a lifestyle choice, but if I were to feel unsafe using a laptop in a space, I probably wouldn't be able to focus enough to work, and instead of using a less conspicuous device, I would relocate somewhere that I felt safe. Also if I were on-call I would doubly want to be in a place where I felt I could focus completely on my work. I don't doubt that the market niche for inconspicuous general purpose computing devices exists, but I don't think it's huge.
Google's ad delivery platform is become a less and less reliable search engine as it's sideline.

Support alternate search engines, we used to have a bunch of viable options. Let's get back to that.
5G gaming handheld made by Razer
What makes you think they would?
"And adultery was a capital crime"

Are you confusing Islam with Christianity? Adultery is a capital crime in traditional Islamic jurisprudence.
Counterpoint: even if they only give you 4 colors (red, dark green, dark blue, black), it'd be already immensely useful for note-taking.

This is one of the reasons I'm still not using my Remarkable 2 much.
remarkable has very capable software, as such the "microfaiche / pinch-to-zoom" style operation is pretty effective. It can compensate somewhat without too much hassle for reading and annotating double-column works without eye strain.
I remember visiting my sister when she graduated with her MBA and the stone steps in many buildings showed clearly decades of use. They were clean and the handrails were in the good repair. Nice university.
The fact of the matter is the constitution is a vague enough document to justify anything you want with enough legal hand wringing. Roe v. Wade was based on a privacy protection. For decades the Supreme Court's opinion was that the 2nd amendment only justified very limited gun rights. The constitution has been claimed to both support, and limit literal slave rights.

There are even openly different ways that people approach "interpreting" the constitution.

Anyone who works with documents that "define" a contract or API should understand just how vague and useless the constitution is as a literal reference document. That's why the same words have been used to "justify" countless contrary opinions over just 250 years
Cloud9 is also down. Joy.

Edit to add: I can't seem to access my NHL Season Tickets via Ticketmaster either...
> I suspect even at the time, the developers of Doom weren't used to strafing either,

I don’t know if that’s fair. Doom had a timer in it and was built to have speed running in mind (even if that term hasn’t yet been coined).
> Having more people in jail solves nothing.

Really? What about the "people are shitting on the street" issue? You don't think arresting people who do that will stop it? It'll create other problems, and obviously we shouldn't just go around and permanently lock up everyone who is living on the street, but doing that would obviously solve some things.
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As my comment said, it doesn't have to be explicitly spent on the poor. https://budgetmodel.wharton.upenn.edu/issues/2021/6/15/econo...

I still have no idea what you're trying to argue, and I feel your generalization about "there's no commitment" is a lazy argument, let me join you in your laziness because I won't bother trying to refute it.
>Median house is around 440. You can afford a 440k house on 130k income, even if you have a small amount of other debt.

That's a $3500 monthly housing payment with taxes, PMI, insurance, and 5% down.

I bring home $7k net/month. So that would be a 50% monthly housing payment for a 90th percentile income to purchase a median priced home. And that's even if I had the $30-40k cash in the first place to close on the loan, which is impossible to save due to rent, healthcare, transportation, and food costs going through the roof.

I seriously have no idea how people are even surviving on 50/60/70k salaries at this point.
this is something that people only on HN would write/believe. Missed the boat on what? Giving away free images from a prompt?

This is all early days and these demos are neat but the real value is yet to be seen. Maybe when this technology is licensed and integrated into Photoshop or Instagram or something like that.
> labyrinthine bureaucracy

This is a reference to the country Brazil [0], which centers on...

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/business-18020623
Not sure you’re correct, its still possible for a malicious home-server to add a malicious client to a user and spy on the conversation. This is because the protocol doesn’t require room management messages to be authenticated?
I'm finding myself using archive.org (and also archive.is, but for different reasons) almost as much as Google for finding stuff these days.
This post isn't about browsers. It is about developed GoLang HTTP clients and servers.

However, in the broader context of browsers working with alternative networks: whether they work or not over HTTPS depends on the networking solution. With OpenZiti a tunneler working with the OS host's routing tables and DNS provider, the browser has no idea that OpenZiti exists. As long as DNS resolves and the x509 certificates pass SNI IP/DNS checking, the browser will not care.

OpenZiti also has "browzer" coming - which allows browsers to access HTTP APIs/web pages over OpenZiti networks seamlessly.
Yes – they have not announced anything to the contrary and the same company also creates taiga, a project management too, which is open source since many years.
why are my social interactions susceptible to advertisements?
How would you disprove Big Bang cosmology by an experiment?
Cash buyers are not necessarily interest rate insensitive. When I bought a house earlier this year, my lender advertised a cash offer program. They would by the house with cash on my behalf. Then, they would confirm they could give me the mortgage, and sell the house to me at the same time they give me the mortgage. This program wasn't available in my state, but might be common enough in others to skew the numbers.

Institutional (or rich) buyers have the option of buying the house in cash, then taking out a loan against the house. This gives them the benefit of being able to make an all cash offer, and the long term benefit of leveraged, low interest debt.
Oh wow thank you
See also https://employees.theworknumber.com/employee-data-freeze/
> Midjourney and Stable Diffusion emerged and got to the point where they produce images of equal or better quality than DALL-E

I cannot speak to DALL-E's results, as the signup process is currently broken (after providing email, name, and phone number, was met with "We’re experiencing a temporary issue with signups due to a vendor outage. We apologize for the inconvenience!"), but the Stable Diffusion results I've been getting are not just unusable, but downright bizarre... here are the four images it produced for "morihei ueshiba doing a double backflip": https://imgur.com/a/EvkQpBT
DocuSign Is Doing Layoffs
> Agreed; SD barely follows prompts at all.

I would heartily disagree - I've generated ~6.5k images using SD locally and most of them could be linked to the prompt they came from.
Three things female founders can do to break down VC funding barriers
They thought too many of the B2B customers would just use the B2C app is what I would guess, but there are ways to limit that.
On the other hand, it is generally considered pretty hard to predict arbitrary changes in the future.
Is it really doomed because competition showed up? I'd be surprised if they didn't get quite a bit of paying users right away.

I get that competing with an open self-hosted alternative is a tough sell, but is this really different from other pay vs self-host scenarios?
> Although 71 percent of our respondents work with migrants experiencing homelessness, there are no targeted organizations that provide specialist support for this group

The specialist support provided should be a one-way flight back to their home country, and for the UK Military to patrol the channel to prevent people smuggling, copying the strategy of Australia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Solution
Our biggest strength is building images, internal or not, in generic CI providers like GitHub Actions, CircleCI, etc. Depot excels at building images in these environments because it provides solutions to limitations like persistent SSD caching, multi-architecture support, and faster compute resources.

Things where Depot may not be a good fit are when you only ever need Docker images for local development. In those situations, the network becomes the bottleneck because you have to pull down the built image each time. That said, if you need to build multi-architecture images locally, Depot becomes useful again as it can build native images for each architecture, no emulation needed.

If you're entirely on-prem, we don't currently support that so Depot isn't a fit there.
Batteries going out have never locked me out of my home.

Seems like you're putting way too much thought into something that probably won't happen, being 2022 with notifications and all. I don't justify my choices with 0.1% chances.
Biogen shares soar on landmark Alzheimer's data, lift rivals
> you are served by competent legislators.

Until campaign finance law is reformed, there can be no expectation of competent legislation.

In American government, politicians must spend significant amounts of time fundraising. Most of the time, the candidate that is most successful fundraising wins their primary. The general election only involves candidates who won their primary.

So before any person gets to vote in a general election, people must vote in a primary election, and before people vote in a primary election, companies get to vote with money in the "fundraising election".

If you've ever thought our government is more responsive to money than public opinion, it's because money gets to "vote" on political candidates before anyone else does.

Here is Harvard Law Professor Lawrence Lessig's presentation on this very idea:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJy8vTu66tE

Here is a related political campaign:

https://act.represent.us/sign/problempoll-fba/
Nitpick: Charles Babbage was the first to conceive digital computing in hardware - just mechanical instead of electrical.
> To be honest I'm not sure any country apart from China stands any chance of becoming technologically sovereign.

IMHO, the US probably could manage it too: it has a big population and lots of natural resources. The reason it isn't is more of issue of ideology and will: it was far more technologically sovereign in the past than it is now, but chose to give that up so some investors could get more profits in the short-term. It's unlikely to change, since the ideologies that drove those choices are still strong.
Even if they are legal nothing promises that they will remain legal with the future governments.

And it doesn't even need to be governmental threats, we can already witness people being cancelled/getting their life ruined publicly for things they have said years if not decades ago on social media, things that were socially acceptable back then too.
One doesn't need to dive. Knowledge of the pipeline's path and depth is enough. If you have a sonar it's even easier. Make a depth charge out of a barrel, set a timer and detonate it near the pipeline. Can be accomplished with a 27 ft fishing boat.
And AWK, and C. And Unix.
Many of these sites are laughably wrong about the high-VHF signals. I lived on a hilltop with direct line of sight to a station on another hilltop 5 miles away. An omnidirectional antenna was worthless at pulling it in; I bought a Yagi specifically for high-VHF, aligned it to the station and that mostly worked.
I wonder if Russia is blocked as well. And Belarus.

If they want to prevent fake war pictures, it should be done with their NSFW filter. Not with blocking the whole (suffering!) country.
Bad title: Self-care in the case of Quiet Quitting is deciding to spend more time on yourself, and less time on unpaid, unthanked work.

Also, this is yet another article about the quiet quitting phenomenon.
Thanks for the reply and that link. That article is replete with pretty bogus assertions, even for its time. Print is not all that informative for interactive presentations, aside from general principles of good layout with whitespace and appropriate visual emphasis. The article does indeed mention those, but goes on and on about print without saying what it has to do with buttons you need to press or values you need to adjust.

The article also treats all physical-control analogies as bad because of their (now-recognized-as) ridiculous descent into skeuomorphism. But before we had cheesy "leather" textures in "notebook" UIs, or "painted felt" that you could click on in a Blackjack game UI, we had simple two-pixel-wide highlights or shadows on the edges of buttons that instantly told you

A. This is a button.
B. The button is "pressed."

At some point you can't do better than cues afforded by the real world. In the real world (even one full of touchscreens instead of mechanical switches), when you press on something malleable it will deform, and the light and shadow on it will change, showing you it's now concave where you pressed it. If it retains its shape, someone can come along an hour later and say, yep, this thing has been pressed.

This doesn't need to be (and never will need to be) learned. Therefore it makes much more sense to stick with minimalist real-world analogs than trying to invent some new design "language" that we're all supposed to memorize and that makes sense across all cultures. No no, blue means ON! Brown means OFF!

There's room for new clues, of course. "Greying out" unavailable functions is the best example I can think of. But I'd argue that reducing the contrast on something and making it less visible tells the user intuitively that it's ineffective (or less effective).

Conclusion: Windows 95 nailed it.
Because it’s a war of one-sided aggression. The rest of this comment tree indicates a tendency on your part to minimize that, so I’m providing the counterbalance.
I'm working on an app that tracks downtimes. I put some of my latest data up here: https://app.awareops.com/whatisdown/orgs/a7f95108-ead0-4718-...
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&generat... search term here>&format=json

(see https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=help&modules=query for reference)

edit: formatting
It's a comprehensive marketing strategy they have to appear on aggregators like this one, and it seems effective. Product announcements are bundled together into a jam-packed "innovation week" with accompanying blog posts. The weeks are typically announced with a blog post, capped off at the end with another listing the new announcements, and there are multiple blog posts a day about products, blog posts about the blog posts, and so on.

Just this year they've done a GA Week (this week), Cloudflare One Week (June), Platform Week (May), Security Week (March). And at the beginning of the year, they wrote a post detailing all of the week themes of 2021: https://blog.cloudflare.com/2021-innovations-weeks/
When people use a service like this do they bake test runs into the build? Typically in CI I might build and then run tests, but with this service my resulting docker image is in the depot environment.

Do I build and then download the image to run it? Or do I have this a bit backwards and this is for build-only use-cases?
To me what makes them like big tech is way overcharging for something that has a nominal cost to them, on the basis of "value produced".
Channel crossing is usually critically aided by timing tides that help suck you out when leaving England, and suck you in as you approach France.

https://www.channelswimmingassociation.com/swim-advice/chann...
This argument has already been made. You’d know it and the potential responses to it if you’d studied the history of philosophy.

Just kidding. I haven’t seen it made before. I’m just saying so to present the reason I appreciate studding the history of philosophy. I hate thinking I’ve had a novel idea only to find someone has already had it and furthermore three others have replied.
I suspect it was driven by moral panic and not necessarily business considerations.
From the latest update:

> While we have seen improvements in error rates since 10:40 AM PDT, recovery has stalled and we do not have a clear ETA on full recovery. For customers that have dependencies on API Gateway and are experiencing error rates, we do not have any mitigations to recommend to address the issue on the customer side.
A nearby installation of a 5G transmitter (added to a cluster of 4G transmitters) was just this last month seen off by a group who were opposed on the basis that it would cause another covid pandemic.
The issue here is that the contract terms might change iteratively by some percentage, while development costs are exponential -- adding requirements to the project increases cost exponentially.
because you socialize on someone else's property? It's not really any different than going to a bar with 10 different channels playing on TVs showing various sports events that have ads running.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33011791
...and what do we know about housing costs of cities on the west coast?

You're getting REALLY close to getting this.
I garantee without even knowing you ahead of time, that I could find 10 things about your life that you value, that I could make an argument that society would benefit if you weren't allowed those things.

I don't have to know anything about you ahead of time because this applies equally to every human on the planet.

Thus your argument is invalid.

Worse than that that, it's not merely in error which anyone can be wrong about anything, it's an ugly offensive personality trait to even want to try to make that sort of argument and rationalization in the first place.
How well does political advertising work? During the 2016 presidential election campaign, Clinton spent about twice as much on advertising as Trump did. How many Electoral College votes did that change in the end? Advertising may work to an extent, and large campaigns need to do at least some, but it seems to quickly get into an area of diminishing returns.