skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To experiment and make mistakes that don’t cost me a lot of money or cause too big a problem, I must have a side project.

I wanted to learn rust deeply, and it would be impossible to do so if I had not started NunDB. On Nundb, I can work 10 hours a week or no hours at all without any problem. If I have one hour to code, that is enough for me to do something on NunDB, it requires much more coding than my other two activities, and I still only have a hand full of people using it and only one single critical application, so there I can experiment, learn, have fun.
In coding, this is an example of boot camp (project based) vs CS degree (or long term self-study). In the last 5-10 year in my job, I saw significant amount of boot camp grads who can make CRUD/ML apps fast and relatively clean. As soon as anything goes wrong, boot camp grads would look for another technology to solve symptom of the problem without understand the cause, while the second group consistently perform better by working through the problems and develop solutions.
>That somehow international legislation will converge on the strictest possible interpretation of intellectual property, and those models will become illegal by the mere fact they were trained on copyrighted material.

Just feels absurd to me because how is this different from any Human artist who you could equally say was "trained" on copyrighted material.

>Get it now when there are trustworthy sources. Once these kinds of things go underground, it gets much harder to get a trustworthy version.

People have already reverse engineered most text2image models and given enough hardware can train their own. There is no need for this hysterical take. As long as the internet exists you will be able to train these models.
Apple Sues Medical Device Company Masimo, Says It Copied Apple Watch
Thank you. The UI is not currently built with mobile in mind. I have been thinking of implementing a responsive layout but haven't had the time to do it.

I did not know about the GitHub star login thing. Will try to rectify it when I can. Thanks for all your UX notes.
It's worth highlighting that it doesn't seem as though this caused any issue whatsoever for the author.
You make a great point about the (de)evolution of marketplaces.

Does anyone have any thoughts about how marketplace operations could prevent this sort of race to the bottom rot? It does kind of feel like an inevitability these days and I wonder if there’s a real solution.

I suppose part of the problem is that the growth-at-all-costs mentality exists in conflict of quality-at-all-costs. Maybe the answer is just to stay small and niche, which enables quality control without scaling issues.
>The US used to be a high trust society

I don't believe this to be true, or I suppose I would require evidence for this claim that I haven't yet encountered in my life. I find when someone claims that "America used to be so much better" they're completely discounting the experience of all the people who weren't born into or existing in privilege or within the US "in-group."

The US has always been distrustful of the indigenous people already inhabiting the North American continent, of newly arrived immigrants, of black people, of single men. Single women were sometimes witches and murdered for it and only recently trusted enough with their own personal freedom, which is being curtailed again. Atheists were never trusted.

I really don't think the US was ever a "high-trust" society and there doesn't seem to be any evidence or foundation to claim that it was.
Furthermore for an ancestor that far back, many of their descendants may not even have inherited any of their actual genes.
Wasn't this a conspiracy theory at the start if this?

I'm sure this kind of talk might have been squashed, suppressed, and some people might even people got banned for saying such things?
Definitely something I'll be implementing soon. Importing and exporting curl commands is a good feature to have. Thanks for the feature suggestion.
Netflix's Dark is a good 3 seasons of a single nearly stable time loop.
Postman can do this as well. I've been using this a bunch recently due to some project limitations and it has made life so much easier.

ETA: I just tried the functionality on Insomnia and I have to admit the UX is nicer. Just paste into the URL bar. Whereas with Postman it's CMD+O, Click on "Raw Text", click in textarea, paste, press import. Insomnia looks to have added OpenAPI support too (it was missing it last time I played with it) so maybe it's time to re-evaluate Insomnia
Never heard of Unlocked Labs before reading this comment, but that sounds like an outstanding project. Keep up the good work. You didn't promote yourself but I have no affiliation and this is what I found after searching: https://unlockedlabs.org/

I was once a guest in a maximum security prison for a few hours. It gave me the eerie realization that my own freedom is entirely up to the guards and staff. When that door closes you are no longer free - you're at the mercy of a huge system. It's a terrible feeling. Talking with some of the inmates made me realize how much I had subconsciously dehumanized them as a group. It was eye opening.

Listening to stories of people who have been in prison, even if you never meet them, can help build empathy. Here's a good interview with a guy who taught himself to program while in prison: https://corecursive.com/prison-programming-with-rick-wolter/

If you're ever interviewing a formerly incarcerated person for a job, I'd encourage you to try very hard to keep your biases in check. Building a life after prison seems like a supremely difficult task.

[edit] That's what I get for reading the comments before the article! Unlocked Labs is linked in the 2nd sentence. :)
> As for the theory of consciousness, of course we are not special, it's information-processing, and it looks like thermodynamics is responsible for the emergence of information-processing structures.

That's a really interesting paper, thanks for that. It's also a bit depressing to consider that there's a good chance that everything we think that makes us special is really just an emergent property of a thermodynamics memory and prediction system.
I write software. My clients use a variety of different Linux versions --- which makes me the tweaker in chief.
Not all, some have this option locked out.
So, the author was desperate to find something tacky and lambaste it.

The author found that it was simply groups of people who like doing stuff together, for various reasons.

The Gone Girl element was just a decoration on the cruise, to get people talking about it, or perhaps to make it more interesting to talk about it.
Only some apples are red.

And, most apples don't even look like apples. Every apple you've ever eaten has its origins from a single tree, found by chance in the past by people who are now wealthy from selling delicious apples plucked from a forest of clones.

Most people (I've asked) will visualize a red apple if you ask them to visualize an apple.

Additionally, some people don't visualize apples. They may, for example, only visualize people.

Finally, some people don't visualize anything. Some of those people still know what an apple looks like, even if it's the size of a grape, purple when ripe, and has never been seen before.
Just what I needed to start producing my own war rugs.
That's very odd. Will look into this.
Oh, no, Adobe does it even worse than just a tooltip.

Rich tooltips! Big fancy full-color tooltips! That still don’t really show you how the feature works, and also doesn’t explain there are more features under that icon menu. That obscure huge chunks of the icons next to them, and are patronizing and annoying to seasoned users.

https://www.photoshopessentials.com/basics/rich-tool-tips-ph...
I’ve written this sort of thing in both. Personally, I find the “make your view a function of your state” approach to be much easier to reason about and more maintainable. Obviously, not if the only thing your site does is this one feature. But as soon as your site becomes non-trivial, I prefer the functional / React approach.
I dont think you can or should get rid of anonymous free speech, but I that because of the nature of their platforms - the platforms publishing it have a right, if not obligation to exert editorial control.

I'm also fairly heterodox in my views (and queer on top of that) but when you have a random dude on a couch who can reach an audience of millions at the press of a button, the math changes - algorithmic amplification of hate, wingnuttery, etc - is a serious problem for the stability of democracy.

The issue isnt anonymous speech persay, that always has existed and should - it just used to cost something before, you had to have money for a printer, convince the printer to print your screed, distribute it widely enough to have an impact. Those costs lessened the impact, and reduced the societal risks.

Elsewhere on here, I proposed a federated karma system that extends the idea of community reputation (a norm in closed communities, like HN, Furry, etc) as a transparent replacement for direct editorial control, while still persisting anonymity.
Emerging Risks and Smart Regulation
There are local WebUIs. Someone named AUTOMATIC1111 has a popular one. They added in a "leaked" model. Stability.ai, banned AUTO from their discord and accused him of "stealing/promoting piracy". Community enflamed. They then apologized and let him back in.

Stability.ai took over the /r/stablediffusion subreddit. Community enflamed. They then turned the subreddit back over to the community

Stability.ai delayed 1.5 model. And now sent this justification. Community enflamed.
Fireside Chat with Mike Linksvayer
For those who want to skip to the good part, https://norvig.com/pal3btxt.html

(...I'm personally not at all sure that we should allow " a kCi," as part of the text, that's not a real word, it's a unit of measure!)
If I look at you and recognize you I don't feel that I have violated your rights, whether I use cybernetic augmentation or not.
The way GPS was designed to work originally is two sets of codes. Course Acquisition (CA) code which repeats at 300ms intervals with a deliberate bias was designed to bootstrap the receiver into locating its position in a 1-week Precise (P) long code. This bias was selectively worse in different regions and I think still can be changed in war zones. Happy to be educated further here!

What the US government did was remove the bias from the CA code so it could be used for precise positioning. The military still uses P codes as well. I believe there is a small gain to be had but it’s due to frequencies.

Since then there have been several more advances, mostly to broadcast local augmentation signals. Wide Area (WAAS) and Ground Bases (GBAS) are common in receivers.

L5 is a new band to help solve multipath error in urban areas.

Most receivers also have remote autonomous integrity monitoring, where it can predict its own area of probability (by using groupings of 4 in 5 satellites), and if it’s too large for the intended use case, alert the user. Also with 6 satellites it can calculate combinations of 5 satellite groupings to work out (and exclude) faulty satellites. This is Fault Detection & Exclusion (FDE).

Mobile devices will also download their own separate high resolution almanac and ionospheric data over the internet which is superior to the low data rate GPS almanac. It can also use known cell locations to approximate its position. Combined, this enables rapid (hot) signal lock immediately onto the correct satellite code & Doppler shift frequency, which is why your mobile gets a fix in 3 seconds, versus your car which takes minutes.
Good for you. Now did you check what postman does?
What surprises me is not that many people think consciousness is a settled matter; but rather, people who, when faced with the claim that "consciousness" isn't settled, are so often tempted to assert that it is that they rapidly provide another example of how it isn't.
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As someone very new to UNIX in the intimate sense, stuff like this excites me. Thanks.
> Russia will be emboldened to continue into Moldova (because who cares about Moldova), and then on to the Baltics, the Balkans, Poland and possibly Finland.

BS. All Baltics and Poland are already NATO members. And even USSR didn't manage to annex any of Poland, Finland, or any of the Balkans. No way today's Russia can do that. They have neither the political or military clout of the USSR.

And Moldova, while a feasible target, you said it yourself: who cares (strategically)? It's a poor, landlocked country.
The things I do to make up for a lack of artistic talent...
I guess faster start up time because layers won't be re-extracted from the image and the "rootfs" would be in place hence faster startup times.

Other use case would be with stateful containers such as running a database, stopping it and starting it again without losing data (which already should be on a mounted volume)

Interested to know if there are other use cases.
I like multiple monitors too! I loved the two 32” 4K LG 32UD99-W monitors I used to have.

Those were perfect too. Only switched to the 55” OLED TV because I lost those monitors—One had to to back to the company that provided it for working at home… aaaaand I broke the other.

With big top-heavy monitors I have learned the lesson that all surfaces must be grippy towards each other under all circumstances. Also when and if the drawer-stand put under the monitor scooches 1mm out of the desktop area and off its grip-pads.

Actually the lesson is: Always just get adjustable gas-pump monitor arms for everything. Less clutter, more desk space, more flexibility, better ergonomics. It’s even more worth it than I suspected it would be. They cost less than I thought and make a bigger difference.

I have a nice little Ryzen 3900X machine. Reasonably lucky silicon - it runs at 4.2GHz at a slightly reduced voltage. 2 × 16GB DDR4-3200 CL14 sticks which are happy at 3400MHz CL14. I don’t recall the rank – it’s Crucial BallistiX. The sticks were too expensive for what they do! – I bought them as an experiment to see what the difference was if I got the fastest memory I could find without going to the scary steep part of the price-performance curve. There is a difference!, but not strictly worth it.

GPUs: I have Radeons – 5700 XT and 6800 XT. Those are overkill for development-only but very nice. The 6800 XT is smoother and snappier at driving a 4K desktop! I’m curious how the 6600 XT is. (I use AMD because I work on macOS; no Nvidia drivers.)

And I have a “throwaway” SSD RAID experiment right now: A 500GB Samsung 970 Evo Plus in the 4x M.2 slot, a 500GB Samsung 980 in the 2x M.2, and 500GB Samsung 860 Evo SATA drives in all six SATA ports.

Linux MD software RAID.

I made a sub-array that stripes across all the six SATA drives, on partitions that are one-sixth of 500GB. That sub-RAID is allllmost as fast as the NVME SSDs.

Then my nixOS root partition is on a big three-“drive” striped RAID made out of an NVME drive, the other NVME drive, plus the “poor mans sata nvme”. It goes pretty hard. Mostly did it to see what it’s like. It’s quite fast. There’s a sense of a lot of subperceptible bottlenecks all vanishing at once.

This is probably an UNRELIABLE setup! I have at least an eightfold failure rate compared to using a single drive! It’s an experiment! Haha! This-is-not-medical-advice, you know? The speed is noticeably good however.

BUT:

All in all I would just get an M2 mac these days! In the general case!

I did learn a ton building this and it’s very flexible, more flexible than a Mac. (However, flexible in ways that aren’t really that important.)

But yeah, if macs aren’t a preferred option, I want to state that my machine is not the machine I’d build now to match my suggestions on a working setup. I’d try for something maybe half the price with 98% of the performance.
Yeah elcritch was I thought but I also think he was super busy sadly :(

https://www.venturi.io/

That’s us! I’m hoping that now we have some devices out in the field in customers hands I can take some time to write some things up on it all — that’s if adding CANBUS support doesn’t kill me first anyway
Loud horns don't overcome even louder sound systems and then there's the issue with deaf people (yeah, that's something that's happened to me before - why didn't they hear my horn? Oh, they were literally deaf!)

Most motorcycle crashes involving other vehicles are a result of drivers crossing the rider's path, e.g. making a left-hand turn in front of a rider who's going straight. Honking your horn in such a scenario can actually be a bad thing because most driver's response to hearing a horn is to stop. Now the driver is completely blocking the path and not moving. It's typically better to let the driver proceed and swerve to the left to avoid collision.

That's why most riders consider horns to be useless.
> We have largely moved away from viewing humans or “consciousness” as something special.

Who is “we” in this comment? Christianity and Islam emphasize consciousness and the uniqueness of human experience, and their adherents still account more than 50% of the population.

As much popularity as the many worlds theory is gaining, the generic “we” almost certainly still doesn’t believe it, and many (most?) probably don’t even know about it.
Can't believe I didn't think of that.
Breaking Down the System Layer
Airbnb removed the visible star ratings on comments sometime ago, clearly they are optimizing for hosts and maximizing bookings, to me as a long term user of the platform it’s made it worst and disincentives hosts from providing good customer service. Overall I’ve had good experiences, and there are great places and hosts but it requires more research time to find them and to me that’s a bad sign of where it is heading.
Yeah, that's exactly what I meant - if those two couldn't connect their systems, who can?
> will be back in the hands of the people who actually live in the cities.

There apparently is a real demand to rent such places for short terms like holidays or trips. Banning AirBnB, or AirBnB going down, won't remove that demand.
The police forces were created to protect property and 'the system', not people, and that's what they continue to do.

https://worxintheory.wordpress.com/2014/12/07/origins-of-the...
>but a comparable place is actually not that comparable

I can agree with this. I mean like you say though, its a location premium. All things being equal, a beach house will cost more than a normal house. All things being equal, 1000sqft in the city will be more than 1000sqft out of the city. To some, being able to walk to a restaurant is priceless. Other's could care less. At the end of the day, there's a premium for proximity.
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> MWI may not be right, but collapse is wrong.

Such confidence ... I envy that.
Is there anything the spec that actually requires that? AFAIK it's just that major implementators (browsers) have chosen to enforce TLS.
Assuming it's 3%, then after 80 generations there would only an 8% chance of the genealogy being accurate.
Oh, I don't live in SF. This was back when I lived near Washington DC!
Seeds of Science
Create website mockup images – Marketron
I created a simple application, which generates a mockup image from the inputed website URL.
First of all, "biometric data" is a scary-sounding term that sounds like iris or fingerprint scans, when it's just... what people's faces and voices look and sound like. By this measure, my own brain is "collecting biometric data" on thousands of people a day while I walk down the street.

Second, in cases like the Nest camera or Google photos, presumably most of the people it's scanning don't match anything. It sure doesn't feel like a violation of privacy or consent for a computer to say, "I tried, but nope, face/voice not recognized".

Third, everyone being recognized has previously been identified by the user, whether someone tagging their friends in Photos, family members on Nest, or household members for Assistant. If I'm OK with a friend uploading an image of me to their own Google Photos, I don't see why I shouldn't allow them to run a facial detection algorithm to organize all the photos that contain me.

Now if Google were using all of this to build up a database of all the faces in the world matched to identities (as other sketchy companies have already done), then this would all be a problem. But there's zero evidence of anything like that, and that's not what this case is about. This isn't about misusing Street View or anything.

So it's hard to see this as anything but a political stunt? What's Texas's goal here -- to remove the helpful features that alert us when a stranger (as opposed to family member) is at our door, to distinguish voices in Assistant, and find photos of a particular friend in our photo library...? These are all genuinely useful features.
What if I pay someone who knows you to find and list every picture you've ever been in together with the location it was taken in, and I started tracking who and where you hang out with the most? Maybe every once in a while send you lists of things your friends have bought (I'm also doing this to them) just in case you might want to buy it as well. Genuinely curious if that feels violating to you
Yep. This is a huge issue often overlooked by the AirBnB apologists. Long term lets in Dublin, experiencing a huge housing crisis, doubled during the pandemic as a lot of AirBnB hosts fled back to the long-term market. Sadly I believe they're likely all back to AirBnB now.
Well that's a given in a discussion around common law jurisprudence. I still think it is highly unlikely that this changes. This issue doesn't seem to be making or breaking the political careers of the members of legislative branch anytime soon.

https://www.copyright.gov/title17/title17.pdf

Let me expand on this a bit... if you read through the above text (feel free to search for the below terms) of the current laws around copyright you will notice that there is no discussion of:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure,_sequence_and_organi...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstraction-Filtration-Compari...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idea–expression_distinction

These legal doctrines are the result of the details as hashed out in case law.

This is distinct from countries that use civil law jurisprudence. Common law jurisprudence relies heavily on case law.
The UK and the EU have already made to law that text and data mining is excluded from copyright for non-commercial uses, and the UK has even done so for commercial use cases.

Personally, I think commercial use cases should get license agreements from the authors for their training data, but I think non-commercial exemptions to advance the field of AI makes sense.

Irregardless of what I think though, the UK has set an international precedent, and the EU is apparently discussing about possibly extending it to commercial use cases as well. So there's that.
> Especially the parts where I chastise, "look, we've gotten so wrapped up in all these computers we have forgotten about the real people around us". Like one of those cafe signs that says "we don't have wifi, talk to each other, pretend it's 1995". I think this cynical, dismissive attitude towards networked technology was popular in the late 2000s and early 2010s. Now I can see I was just parroting it.

You aren't "parroting" a thing if you're feeling it. Sometimes a thing is part of our collective Zeitgeist because we all feel it, feel it's wrong.
>the two parties still need to negotiate which version they want

Not necessarily. If the client contacts the server using version X, the server will reply with version X.
You may not have, but the company that provided you cybernetic augmentation probably did, if they collected info without consent and rented it to you.