skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I work at Google and they've told me to work 125 hours weeks". In that statement I provided just as much evidence for my claim as the article does their claim. In fact, there's more proof for my claim since it has a username tied to it, whereas the article just cites anonymous "according to internal sources".

And yet, this is an article that how many thousands of people will read, and internalize into their model of reality? How much more hate will such an article foster?

Shouldn't we at least require some SHRED of proof for articles such as these?
What you want is a bit contradictory with wanting e2ee.
It will be both. Pay to verify, get paid for creating content.

"This will also give Twitter a revenue stream to reward content creators"

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1587505731611262976
>according to its learned concept of "better".

I'm gonna assume that all the input images fed to the process form it's "learned concept of better" (LCoB) so that in effect there is nothing random about the outputs. Indeed, each successive output becomes an optimization of the model fit to the "LCoB". Following that, it may start with an initial output that strongly resembles random noise but inside that first output will be a non-random component that initially fits some part of the LCoB model that it is trying to
achieve.

Also following that, the lower limit of the process is the output of the first step in the process since each successive iteration is an optimization towards a model. You already have the model noise floor when you run the first step. Struggling to take that lower is not smart and could be accomplished simply by excluding some part of the collection of images used to form it's LCoB.

Does that make sense?

There is nothing random about any of the outputs of this if it is model-driven. Stable Diffusion output is model driven therefore it is not random at any stage.

In geophysical processing we have to carefully monitor outputs from each process to make sure that processing artifacts from mathematical operations can not create remnant waveforms that can be mistaken for geological data that could be used as a basis for drilling an expensive well. Data-creata is a real thing. Models are used.

Thanks for the discussion.
Using something like Halide[1] gives you more control - once you pick a lens, it stays picked.

[1] Other camera apps are available, etc.
awfully sorry, I wanted to 1. underline that it's a shared opinion and 2. notice others that the "Current Events" portal was commented here.

I posted the exact same comment in all 4 positions talking about Wikipedia - if anyone feels offended or spammed just ler me know and I'll delete this superflous cross-reference
I've been exploring Noosphere as a protocol-level solution to the dilemma posed here about centralization. Some really interesting tech! Definitely worth checking out if this stuff interests you.
Until that same fancy processing is available on a DSLR, I think the comparison OP is making is valid. At the end of the day, what I as a consumer care about is "is photo look 1. pleasing, 2. accurate to my perception, and 3. easy to create?" and in those regards, the iPhone absolutely outperforms every DSLR I've ever used.
Elon Musk will let you pay $8 to be a verified ‘lord’ on Twitter
That's definitely true... I mainly service financial institutions and their asset size is part of the calculation.
Why do you think artists draw inspiration from other artists?
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This is really cool! The app has all important features one needs!

Since the UI/display has a major impact on battery, it would be nice to have a dark stylesheet and map style.

Regarding location tracking in the background, this is not working inside web browsers. Even for Android native apps a lot of user actions are required in order to make background location tracking possible. Moreover google play might not approve an app, which has background location tracking [1].

[1] https://developer.android.com/training/location/background
Does America not have the concept of constructive dismissal?
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Not in the stock Camera app, no, but other apps let you specifically control which lens is being used.
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This also happens when some people buy big SUVs instead of cars.
Lets assume hypothetically someone disagree with your comment. That someone is an admin on HN. Do you want that someone to challenge your comment with arguments/reasoning (with the possibility that it is very bad reasoning might even contain factually wrong "facts" ) or do you want that someone to just remove your comment?

And which of these 2 options is more likely to make your and that hypothetical admin's opinion come closer?

What about 2 other people reading your post. One agrees 100% the other partially disagrees. Which option from above would be best for them? Which option is more likely to move their opinion more towards something all agree on?

If for any of the above situations you think deleting would be the best then ignore this reply and pretend the whole thread was deleted ;)
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My friend was in a doctoral program and everyone in it spent ALL DAY on Twitter. It almost became a coordination platform for them, and I get the distinct impression that the field largely homologized from it.

So I guess it's kind of neat in one regard, but I think people might underrate how powerfully it rounds away distinct viewpoints or novel findings.
In the repository https://github.com/a-sumo/hyperstep#organic-drums-through-ag..., I explain how one can generate drums by framing them as agent locomotion.

Moreover, music and dancing are two sides of the same coin and in styles such as hip hop and popping you have 'beat-killers'[0] who basically represent music through their motion.

If you build an appropriate spatial language, you can compose music from dancing or you can build a form of generalized dancing.
I've explored this concept artistically[1],[2] and I'm currently working on formalizing it and making it computational.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeNn4XG0QHo
[1]https://imgur.com/gallery/pfrvIot
[2]https://imgur.com/gallery/MoDVr6v
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Yes there is social pressure not to try anything so unorthodox. If you fail the social / reputational fallout will be greater than it you failed the old fashioned way.
Ever written a website that checks whether `window` is defined?

Technically, we should be checking everything.

Practically, nobody does.
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There's some interesting data in the debt proceedings for the event startup Pollen:

https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/the-scoop-pollen/

Some snippets on their debts, which you cold normalize for their ~150 employees:

- Monday.com: ￡515k

- AWS: ￡105k

- Airtable: ￡7k
Depends on the product. If it's off-the-shelf and every customer just does DIY deployment, 100% agree.

But many of these products have lots of different modules, and customers don't always know which ones they need. And some nearly require assistance/consulting with deployment, the complexity of which varies depending on environment.

So from the company's point of view, they don't want to put "$200k" on the website if the actual price is between $100k and $1m depending on customer specifics. It will scare off smaller customers and upset bigger customers.

But yeah if it's just one-size-fits-all, download-and-install SW, pricing should be listed.
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Not a native speaker, but that's how it is commonly pronounced in TV shows. I also found it odd, but got used to it
Since when does ThePirateBay demand a fee and the MPAA says it's too high?
I don’t know if this is in your blog anywhere because I have not checked yet, but what are you using for your journal app or software needs now? Do you feel the CBT helpers found in many popular apps are necessary?
> In the current existing system, famous people also have to go a verification process when they are invited or approved to be verified. Paying for a checkmark would presumably include the same verification that takes place in the current system.

It will presumably include some verification process, but the current process is relatively small volume (compared to what Musk wants for the new premium accounts with verification, which he seems to want to be the norm for active, non-trivial-reach users) and I would imagine doesn’t scale well, so he probably wants a more streamlined, scalable identity verification system like what EdX does for verified certificates.
Speaking of impulsive, I didn't realize he fired the top exists for-cause blowing up their golden parachutes:

https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/elon-musk-fired-twi...
> out of stock of course

I picked probably the worst time imaginable to get into FPGAs. All of my "higher" end stuff is repurposed mining hardware...
It really isn't unbelievable. A mentally ill man was radicalized by right wing propaganda and went to a lawmaker's home to harm her. Her security wasn't there because she wasn't there. End of story.

You're looking for conspiracy where there is none. There is nothing "suspicious" unless you're trying to deflect blame.
That's like expecting a chef to take inspiration from a fast food menu. It might happen but it's more likely that the chef already knows what makes fast food taste good and can develop a new menu based on their fundamental knowledge.
Isn't this a logical fallacy? Rocket scientists and engineers are going to best suited to getting stuff into orbit, they aren't simply going to be able to go a solve a "more important problem". Other people are already working on those things and are likely specialists.
I'm not sure "bolt on some new thing and this will work just fine we swear" is the way to go with the MAX 10 after what happened to the MAX 8.
The HN game:

- Was it editorialized by the submitter?

- Was it changed by dang to de-clickbait it? (probably not in this case)

- Did one of HN's title filters remove some words?
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Hi, I'm a Redux maintainer. A few thoughts:

First note is that while both of Redux's original creators (Dan Abramov and Andrew Clark) later got hired to work on the React team, Redux has always been an independent project, and is not "a React team" project.

Second, per "why Redux": the primary goals of Redux are 1) helping developers be able to understand where/why/when/how state has changed over time in the app, 2) predictable data flow, 3) writing more app code as predictable pure functions [0] [1]. It's true that earlier Redux usage often did involve a lot of unnecessary boilerplate. The good news is that "modern Redux" with our official Redux Toolkit package is much easier to learn and use [2] [3] [4].

Next, while I agree that modern front-end development _is_ overly complex and the tools and configuration _are_ often hard to understand, the post is unnecessarily dismissive. I'm a big believer in the idea that it helps to understand historical context, why tools were invented, and what problems they were designed to solve. The JS ecosystem has evolved dramatically in the last 15 years, including the types of apps we build and the scale of those codebases, the APIs available in browsers and Node, module formats and ES syntax versions, and many other constraints.

I'd specifically suggest reading some posts on why tools like bundlers exist and how module formats have changed over time as background that explains why modern front-end dev normally involves these tools [5] [6].

(It's also somewhat ironic that the author complains "why isn't developer experience a priority?", given that these tools and patterns were _created_ to help with DX.)

To be clear, I'm _not_ saying that everything about front-end dev is wonderful, or that there aren't any pain points. There's _lots_ of pain points! :) But it's important to understand what problems the ecosystem has been trying to solve and why these tools exist.

[0] https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2017/05/idiomatic-redux-ta...

[1] https://redux.js.org/tutorials/essentials/part-1-overview-co...

[2] https://redux.js.org/introduction/why-rtk-is-redux-today

[3] https://redux.js.org/tutorials/essentials/part-2-app-structu...

[4] https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2022/06/presentations-mode...

[5] https://www.swyx.io/jobs-of-js-build-tools

[6] https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2020/11/how-web-apps-work-...
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Why does that happen? Is it because there's a physical antialiasing filter in the lens?
I think you can start to hit connection limit walls with RDS at several hundred connections, depending on your instance size. Running an even moderately busy app you could hit those pretty quickly. I would hate to have to change my entire infrastructure at such an early stage because the DB was hitting connection limits!

Would you ever need a million open connections? Probably not! But you'll likely want more than 500 at some point. And if your entire stack is serverless already, it'd be nice if the DB could handle that relatively low number of connections too.
I think the hope is that the replacement is not Chinese.
And have supercomputers in our pockets because you need 554 different apps that serve the same purpose? No thanks.
Some of what you say is either worse case interpretations, or only applies to very large platforms (>45 million monthly active users).

The DSA also has good parts like preventing sites from doing the following:

Site: We have suspended you account and hidden all content you posted because our buggy AI thinks some content you posted violates a law or term of service. This is a final decision and cannot be appealed.

You: What content? What law or term of service?

Site: we don't have to tell you, and we don't have to tell you. We said this was final with no appeal so you are lucky we are even replying in the first place.

You: now you must attempt to make a big enough shitstorm on twitter that the company might actually get a human to look at things and notice their shitty AI made a mistake.

Instead the law requires identifying the content with specificity, identity which law or term of service they think was violated with specificity, they must have a human powered appeals process. It provides a non-binding out of court dispute settlement process, as an alternative to suing the company to force them to comply with the law.

For reference, the act as enacted: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A...
I don't think we do. I've had jobs in the USA since 1984, and I've never heard that term.
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In the SAR world, it's very rare we search for people who are intentionally going off trail (e.g. scrambling/mountaineering/bush-whacking). It's almost exclusively folks who were hiking on trail, lost the trail, and then became disoriented. It's hard to know for certain, but my gut says some large % of those folks would not have been aided by having a map/compass.
>> I'd say that the human desire for reproduction might work in the same way, only instead of prey, maybe real-estate prices and quality of life is the cyclical variable to note.

>This is likely true on the extremes to some degree, but I haven’t seen much evidence that this is a driving force of population dynamics.

In South Korea, young people are struggling to find affordable places to live, to the extent that many people live with their parents well into their 30ies. Coincidently, they also have one of the lowest birth rates in the world.

In my city, I see a lot of people who first build a house or buy an appartement, and then have kids, in their 30ies, because they can't afford a big enough place before that.

As housing prices rise everywhere, it takes longer and longer for people to be able to afford a place big enough for a family. Of course people then delay having kids, and many end up not having kids at all.
Oh, I didn't complain. I know better than to come to HN and complain about systemd.
Elon Musk floats $8 Twitter subscription that includes verification
Those aren't new; what's new is opening up of a whole dimension, on which celebrities are clustered on one edge. "Traditional" celebrities are widely-known, but low on "parasocial value"[0]. Influencers are less well-known, but higher on parasocial value. There's been talk of nanoinfluencing, which are very low on being well-known, very high on parasocial; I guess this just got implemented by TikTok.

And it's worth highlighting what parasocial marketing means: it means exploiting natural desire of people to form bonds, in order to peddle wares. It's another kind of abusing people for profit.

And yes, technically marketing on the other edge of known/parasocial spectrum isn't new either - it's occupied by people joining MLMs, who are duped into burning friendships and family ties in order to make money in a totally-not-pyramid scheme. The new thing is all the points between celebrities and MLM zombies being occupied by different kinds of influencers.

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[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasocial_interaction
i've been to boca chica, starhopper and the older starships are quite literally parked on the side of the road. I bet if you showed up with the gear to move them they'd probably just give them to you ;)
No quote from the principal stating his rationale? Did I miss it?
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I'm not sure I follow. Or agree, all told. org-mode is a great markup language that lets me put in actual program snippets. I technically can make it self modifying such that it reflects on itself. May be useful for some things, but I don't know why I would go out of my way to do that. Just as I don't know why i would go out of my way to make it not possible.

Similarly, I confess that plain TeX is a lot more approachable than I had always assumed it was. Even better, older TeX files still work, today.

Granted, early HTML mostly still works, I think. Though, I think xhtml failed miserably. And as nice as it is that HTML still mostly works, I don't know of anyone that actually uses HTML as their authoring language, which is more than a bit of a shame.
There are DNS blocklists for mail servers. It's a slightly different thing, but basically there's if there's an entry it means there's a reputation for the mail sender. Some of them are present/not present and some have a score. Some are against the IP of the sender only, while others are against the domain name or full hostname of the sender. You just set your mail server to do the right lookup against the right DNS server, and incoming mail can be filtered based on the results of the DB someone else is maintaining.
It’s a scam ran by an ex airline pilot with no engineering experience whatsoever. https://youtu.be/lue35X4DFeQ
> You act like that’s a really bad thing but tbh requiring payment for verification seems to me one of the easiest ways to combat misinformation.

Sure, telling big accounts that are the major source of content bringing people to the platform that you view their presence as a headache that you need compensated extra for rather than a welcome thing that you are willing to do costly work to make secure is a great way to shrink the platform for all uses, including misinformation.