skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would you not support him even if the other option was a criminal?

Yes, he is right about the problems of a nonexistent paper trail of votes.
You dont really think elon himself is solving those problems do you? He is a showrunner not the person doing the engineering.
> But we still do it, because in the end you learn it once and have a powerful tool that makes you more productive for the rest of your life and allow you do to things that you otherwise would never have been able to.

Your own words are apt: I disagree here. And I also don't like your framing.

> Go has more inexperierenced developers using it compared to other languages. But over time, they will turn into experienced developers. They learn more concept and want to become more productive. So they will gradually ask for more and more features until Go is nothing like it was before.

Ignoring the rest of your comment, as well as the possibly snide remark regarding the experience of engineers who use Go, I believe this neither reflects reality nor the reality I wish to participate in.

Go eschews complexity, and is particularly paranoid of complexity sneaking in under the guise of convenience. Productivity is rarely hindered by having to hand-write a for-loop or some boilerplate to handle errors.

Go is designed to be easy to read and easy to write, to be comprehensible by both green and sage developers, and most importantly maintainable. This means preferring explicit behavior over implicit magic. The toolchain prioritizes fast compilation times over aggressive optimization.

I don't write Go to be productive (but I am very productive). I write Go so everyone can be productive. I don't want anyone spending time unraveling your life's work masterpiece. I don't want anyone to ever have to understand Scala or Haskell.

It's cool that you feel it necessary to reach for more powerful, expressive language constructs to be productive. I do not.
Humans don't use radar or ultrasound sense to drive. If we want cars that drive like humans drive they should use the same senses. For example, in the northern parts of the USA there is snow cover for much of the year and lanes are emergent from flocking without any absolute reference to the actual location of the lanes. The reasons everyone choses the same places to drive are that they see the same environment with the same senses. Even if autonomous driving with radar and ultrasound was made to work if it picks the correct lane position and all the humans pick the wrong new lane position then the car is wrong, not the humans.
That works great unless your lines are stapled for some reason.
He RT'd a link to this article, saying “There is a tiny possibility there might be more to this story than meets the eye.”

https://www.smobserved.com/story/2022/10/31/opinion/the-awfu...
Oh, I see, the ones you call actual nazis, that would be the far-right hooligans with some tattoos or whatever that every single country in the world has? And the ones you wouldn't go as far as calling them nazis, that would be the completely innocent and harmless Russian dudes, invariably sent into Ukraine unawares, thinking it was just some military drills, or liberating people from evil banderites, or both at the same times apparently, the same completely harmless Russian dudes whose only teeny tiny little fault is that they for some reason can't help but commit genocide and other war crimes on a scale unseen in almost 80 years? Did I get that right?
>I, or anyone I know

Pretty much sums up the usefulness of your comment.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33077876
Beyond celebrity it addressed the issue of impersonation - which will return as a problem
> When I was in my late teens / early 20s I was much less able to swallow my pride and back-track.

This is, in my opinion, one of the issues with adults attempting to pick up new skills, in addition to that mythical "free time". Many of us have been conditioned that if we aren't masters in something immediately, its a lost cause. If someone suggests that we do "what kids do", then we think we're too "grown up for that". A good example would be tracing drawings. Many kids learn this way, but to suggest an adult do it and provide positive reinforcement in doing it is almost non-existent at the adult level.

Honestly, an adult version of Sesame Street (not "adult" in sex, drugs, violence, but the simplistic dialogue with repetition) may help adults learn a new language, but its competing with other factors like time, general attention, thinking this is "worthy" of our time, etc.
I credit pokemon for teaching me the value of diversified skill sets in team building also that 6 level 10 charmanders is not the same as 1 level 60 charizard
I don't think it was your intent, but your statement makes it seems like all Tesla engineers are looking at Twitter code. I bet this number is closer to 4.

Tesla has ca. 1000 software engineers working in various capacities. The ca. 300 that work on car firmware and autonomous driving are probably not participating in the Twitter drama.
It's interesting reading these comments. Many commenters (who I assume are mostly from North America and Europe) are relieved that Lula won and seem to view Bolsonaro as a repulsive authoritarian. This view is the view that is implicitly espoused by all mainstream Western media outlets, such as the New York Times and the Guardian. However, some commenters seem to view Lula as a corrupt politician, essentially nothing more than a crook. This view, while prevalent in Brazil, has not been given nearly as much attention outside Brazil. As a non-Brazillian who has not followed these events closely, it is hard to speak definitely to the character of Lula, but it is certainly striking to see how diametrically opposed these two sets of comments are.
Why would he do that. What about anything he's ever done makes you think that is even a remote possibility
It’s a cross-poster. It quite literally needs +rw to post to both accounts.
For the specific task of (for example) cooking a steak it’s not hard to envision a computer vision algorithm coupled with a model with a some basic knowledge of the system (ambient temperature, oven/stove temperature, time cooking, etc.) doing an excellent job.
Militaries tend to be fairly conservative, so this is generally true of any given gun - civilian variants tend to acquire features faster. There's also the economic aspect of it - even small savings add up to a lot when you're ordering the product by the million, so there's a tendency to skimp on such small stuff.

And then, of course, there's the military bureaucracy. Here are some entertaining stories from David A. Lutz, who was the project manager for M16A2 at USMC:

https://web.archive.org/web/20200708173852/https://www.ar15....

"Ever wonder why Safe, Semi, and Burst are marked on the starboard side of the receiver? Well as the list of improvements increased to a point some 2 1/2 years into the program spilled over onto a second viewgraph, the last thing on the first page was the starboard side marking, the first thing on the second slide was a "mirror image" selector that pulged-in from the right side for us left-handed Marines. One Colonel who shall remain un-named insisted that I "lose everything on the second slide.""

Or here's the story of the M16A2 barrel profile change:

https://web.archive.org/web/20200708174036/https://www.ar15....
> EU requires the submission of sensitive data in order to verify your identity

The EU created eIDAS to enable people to authenticate without submission of sensitive data by using digital signatures, based on public key cryptography, using an id card with an embedded hardware security module and a pin. Those are strong factors: "what you have" is not easily copied and "what you know" may have low entropy, but the embedded hsm has anti-hammering. When interacting with companies in a kyc flow, or to claim rights under gdpr, the people sign a statement of purpose and time, creating data that can not be reused to authenticate as them at a later time for a different purpose.

But no one implements that. Instead companies implement the worst possible authentication method from the set of allowed methods, the bottom of the barrel solution that is only still legal in the EU due to the industry lobbying for backwards compatibility with existing manual workflows from the age of snail mail: uploading photos of identity documents and smiling into a webcam. Those are weak factors: "what you have" and "who you are" using a webcam to scan documents and biometry are vulnerable to deepfakes. But most importantly this method lacks an inherent protection against reuse. This leaves the customers vulnerable to identity theft should their data ever be stolen.

In the worst case the collected data is stored raw, without any mitigation like timestamp and purpose watermarks, or those marks are easily removed. In the worst-worst case the data is also accessible by anyone with even the most far fetched claim to need to know, without rate limiting or misuse detection, so that phishing any internal account is enough to put all this sensitive data on sale at a darknet market.

I do not agree that the EU requires that. It allows it and failed to require that companies offer at least one better method as well.
SQLite – Partial Indexes
I'm completely aware that there are apps that do these. The problem is the network effect. This app is all fine and dandy when you think ahead of time, but humans aren't really good at that (I have a laundry list of examples of us not doing this). So what I'm asking for is companies with a large network effect to leverage that, and their huge capital, to improve their existing products to be resistant to things like power outages and government shutdowns. It should be default, not require people to be proactive.
The main benefit I’ve seen with more experience is being able to find better solutions to complex problems more quickly. Essentially, knowing the right way to do things up front rather than figuring it out as you go.

Often there are many design goals (eg low cost, low complexity, time to build, seamless integration with X, performance, memory and/or code footprint (particularly in embedded), compatibility with standard X, extensibility, futureproofing, etc). Tetrising all the pieces is probably NP hard — experience is akin to knowing the solution already, or something similar.
Banks would hate him! They might even sue him.
how is he supposed to pay off a huge LBO by making it harder to monetize?
Dude I love it. I love PowerShell, super awesome stuff.
I once took a course called "poisonous books", a survey of literature throughout history considered "dangerous" due to the ideas presented. This is far more literal!!
Here's some of the features I am looking forward to in JXL.

Better lossy compression than JPG, similar compression to AVIF. AVIF ekes out a little more quality at the very low end, and JXL excels at the very high end.

Better lossless compression than PNG.

Supports alpha channels.

Supports parallel decoding.

Significantly faster encoding than other formats like AVIF.

Supports multiple colour spaces and formats, allowing for HDR images.

The colour in JXL is stored in the XYB colour space. A dev states that this colour space gives more bits to darker colours, leading to better encoded dark skin at similar filesizes to other codecs [1].

Supports up to 4096 channels. A practical use of this is in 3D workflows with Physically Based Rendering textures, where a texture has channels for albedo, normal map, reflection, roughness, metalness, and others. They could be compressed into one JXL, much smaller than an EXR with the same channels.

Supports losslessly recompressing existing JPGs into JXL to save space. Those files can also be losslessly (ie byte exact) converted back to JPGs.

Supports progressive decoding. AVIF crucially does _not_ have this.

Progressive decoding also allows for Responsive Images. No longer would you have to encode two images, like 1x or 2x. Encode the 2x image once – you can serve the 1x image _from the 2x image_. Huge feature if browsers were on board.

Supports rudimentary animation (similar to MJPEG, ie only i-frames). Use AVIF for animations.

Has frames/layers. This is a pretty cool feature for an image format. I can see two main uses of this:

1. Non-destructive editing. If you want to add an overlay to a JPG, you have to re-encode the image. JXL allows you to add another frame on-top of the other image, without touching the original.

2. Hybrid lossless/lossy images. For example, a screenshot of a UI that contains a photograph. The UI could be losslessly compressed, and the photo could be lossy-ly compressed. There is already an experimental program within the JXL source that does this.

[1] https://mobile.twitter.com/jonsneyers/status/155021585930558...
I'm surprised at how jarring the math and background on page 2 feels.

It really feels reflective of a different era, coming from a modern perspective Id never dare include something like that, with a big "scary looking formula" that needed explanation text, in the first half dozen pages. I wouldn't trust the reader to care enough to keep reading one word past the formula if I didn't already have them reasonably invested in the concept. These days there is an endless firehose of pitches in-front of people with the money for all fields artistic, scientific, and financial ... Statistically your odds of making it past their initial selection process gets worse and worse and you’ve even seen some push back against this with more "shotgun" approaches to funding strategies, but this isn't as common outside the startup world. With risk appetites falling we get ever more obsessed with having the initial pitch be hyper-polished to the point I've seen people reference eye tracking studies while designing a slide deck layout, the last hope of "thoughtful consideration" having been extinguished as they try to ensure that the first few glances at their pitch deck slides might entice the viewer to look beyond the thumbnail.

So yeah living in the hyper-optimised pitch environment we have today, page two was a real whiplash moment for me... really just adds to how interesting it is to read this.
It's federated. Much like email. You can follow people on other servers and it pulls their feed. If you want to switch servers, you just make a new account (and just like email you'll need to tell your followers where you are going)
Since matrix is an open standard and everything would it be possible to build a matrix client into mastodon? That would be really interesting, if it became a plug and play messaging client for open source projects that include some sort of DMs.
Give some credit for the female Executive Officer.
Chauvinistic? Misogynistic traditionally meant hatred, and the way it has been redefined is genuinely bad for communication.
Oh, duh. "bridge" makes sense now.
And it depends on existing verified pages (you get verified by.. having two other verified social network accounts). If you can pay to get one of those, that's half of the job done for 20$.
You have to be less accepting of mail in ballot delays.
> comprehend code solutions to Leetcode-like problems

What were you supposed to comprehend? The name of the function was “containsSubstring” and it… checked to see if a string contained a substring. Was there supposed to be a bug in there? If there was, I didn’t see it (although I didn’t spend too terribly long looking for one). The “containsSubstring” variable was unnecessary (it could have just returned true on line 13), but that seems awfully nitpicky.
Define “proper”. For me, “proper” is readable code without too much magic and over-reliance to compiler to do optimizations.

C-- and Orthodox C++ are there for a reason. People in the committee and Bjarne himself don’t write any production code, so anything they say, do, and standardize is taken with a ton of salt, often with sarcastic comments. It’s been years since anyone I know actually welcomed a new feature in the language.

I don’t even understand where outlandish features like ranges are coming from. These don’t solve ANY of the real-world problems, so why even invent this when you can fix outstanding issues instead?
Just came to the same conclusion. (Sorry for the dupe.)
In the hypothetical example they did get a job. As a moderator.
Does it have electrolytes as well?

Nice tech and single photons and whatnot but it still runs into things that a radar with some really simple code wouldn't. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
> both xanax (as needed) and adderall (daily) concurrently.

I'm not a doc but something about that combo activates my fear response... how would that even work?
This program should implement the runway inpainting model, it's so much better in in/outpainting than the usual "hack" as it supports them natively.
I remember using some MS-DOS program for circuit simulation that used a clone of OpenWindows as the GUI/window manager. Pretty strange.
Sounds like they were Lost.

("Lost" was an extremely promising SF show that claimed to have a plan, but was revealed not to. Which is unforgivable when the attraction of the show was figuring out the mystery. My own theory is that the wildly successful first season led to the writers purchasing too much celebratory cocaine, and subsequently just phoning it in, while the business people were happy to milk it like a soap opera.)
Didn't they used to talk about how the Tesla radar could actually see the reflections of the car ahead of the one just in front of you? i.e. the radar reflection bouncing underneath the car just in front of you?

This is what doesn't add up to me. Either a lot of that previous wonder-talk was actually a lie, or there's something else going on here.
One can say that aforementioned classes of problems are semantically, conceptually different from scalability, but they will inevitably come up when building something the scale of Twitter and will require mountains of technical work to deal with.
IMO this is truer than you may realize. The future of human work is customer service and empathy, understanding people and what they want in detail. Everything else can be automated.
The Wire files complaint against its researcher Devesh Kumar
WebP was only developed by Google or a company Google ended up buying. Yes, the standard is freely available, but there was no collaboration, no open process of asking people's input, etc.
Nope, what your neighbors do in the privacy of their own home is none of your business even if the landlord asks. I don’t know why that isn’t obvious to you.
This is indeed one of "good reasons" that can prefer AVIF over JPEG XL (but not a good reason to not ship JPEG XL). Safari is the most difficult vendor to work with, so if Safari can be convinced there is no bigger obstacle waiting. But it should be noted that Safari still does not support AV1 on which AVIF is based and that fact didn't prevent other browsers from adding support for that video format anyway.
I'm very confused at the lash back you're getting. Have you all never seen the pipes freeze? Or worse: burst? They wouldn't do that if they didn't swing in temperature. I'm not convinced of SEC's 2-3x estimated increase but the claim that water temperature delivered to your taps vary in temperature is an objective fact. Of course different areas have different infrastructure and can be more resistant to freezing and rupture, but turn on the cold water in the dead of winter and you'll find it is a lot colder than in summer.
Headline of tomorrow, perhaps? Engineer Forced to Endure Twelve-Hour Scrum to Earn One Glass of Drinking Water in Gov't Pilot Scheme?
Awk. Looks like you're more right than wrong.
https://www.reuters.com/world/lulas-ukraine-comments-are-rus...
Yes, it was. For half of his first term.

That said, this is hardly an argument against Lula's effectiveness at cutting down deforestation, and even less an argument for Bolsonaro.

It took Lula the first half of his first term to effectively cut the trend that had started between 1997 and 1998.

For the rest of his time in office, there was a sharp and sustained drop. Numbers put it at roughly a 70% drop. That trend continued if slowed down a little during Dilma's first term.

After that we had Dilma's second term in very tough circumstances, the unlawful imprisonment of Lula, an impeachment that was deemed a coup by many, followed by 2 years with what was an interim President at best and a tyrant at worst, and Bolsonaro's ascension afterwards.

During Bolsonaro's term there was a sustained increase in deforestation. [0]

In 2018, it was just short of 8000km2. During Bolsonaros's first 3 years, it went up to ~10500km2, ~11000km2 and finally ~13000km2. By early June this year, it had already surpassed last year's numbers [1].

For reference, Lula was in office from 2003 to 2010.

[0] https://www.bbc.com/ws/includes/idt2/5630ed76-05f4-457f-b6a1...

[1] https://amazonia.org.br/desmatamento-acumulado-em-2022-na-am...

Edit: originally I had written that by early July this year's figures had already surpassed last year's. That's not technically wrong, but it actually happened a month earlier than that, in early June.
It'd be sensible to the ISP to just disconnect these from the network, particularly if they can't get their shit together after a warning.
iirc, IE5 for Mac's Tasman engine (1999/2000) was the first to showed what could be done w/ CSS when it's properly supported.

Edit: And yeah, it was Håkon Wium Lie who wrote the first draft, I think?
A model where Ad agencies work with content creators seems like it would work better, like how podcast ads can target users by picking shows - no tracking required.

Side note, it blows my mind that Reddit shits the bed so hard at this. So many niche sub's would be the perfect venue for niche advertisers.
I am glad it doesn't.

Ads are unethical
I don't understand your opinion, could you explain? From my point of view they're working just fine, I can type a prompt in SD and I get an image back. What alternate do you think is not a dead end?
Am I the only disturbed by the amount of times the article used the word torrent for huge amount of traffic?
I’ve been using it for probably over 5 years now. I love it. Thanks Ethan!
That article is completely wrong. Misconfigured servers that amplify traffic are not a problem at all. Blacklisting all of them would take no morethan several hours.

The problem is that there is no protocol for rejecting traffic. That's why DDOS is so easy and successful. If you are a website you cannot send a message to uplink saying "I don't want traffic from this network". So small and large ISPs do nothing to help protect victims and make it easy for criminals to extort money.
What's "fetish" about the M16 series? It merely makes different compromises than AK. And some of them ended up working better long-term - e.g. the split receiver makes optics easier to mount, and the gas system and the charging handle placement make the receiver much better sealed against dirt and such.

The difference in ruggedness and reliability between the two is also very overstated - much of it dates back to the original introduction of M16, and the various associated early problems (none of which were due to the design as such). But today? Watch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DX73uXs3xGU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAneTFiz5WU
Guess what, I'm actually using the runway inpainting model as the backend of the `Erase & Replace` feature XD!
I find it bizarre that you can list all of those incidents and then cap it off with a soliloquy depicting the banishment of the website as some deep moral dilemma. I don’t mean to be rude when I use the word bizarre, but I am seriously perplexed. Based on what you’ve described, expulsion from the internet pales in comparison to the criminal prosecution that normally follows these kind of allegations.