skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When is startup mode you can get away with anything. Trying to stabilize the business to sustain it requires spending money on non-engineering parts of the business. Spending on those areas are what often dooms the company to bloat. A lot of these companies also try to spin up projects to spend capital on the "next best thing". But they don't realize that the only reason they exist is purely down to luck and not any type of smarts from the founders. But the founders generally don't realize they had dumb luck.

You see this with Google and Facebook where their main product was being the one which got momentum at that time and everything else they try to invent is pure trash. The only growth FB has had is through acquisitions and then it's a scattergun approach. These companies are filled with waste.
Terraform is a godsend in my opinion. It makes architecture as a service as simply as a python script.
those bottles represent multiple negative externalities that affect us: fossil fuels and co2 emissions to make the plastic, more to make it into a bottle, more to transport it, and finally pollution, when the bottles don't actually get recycled (either by the user or the recycling center)
I gave you references that prove it. Activists targeting investors and advertisers is not a boogieman, it's literally their publicly stated objective.
So much here resonates with me.
I'm passionate about writing small, close to OS utilities for myself and writing high performance C++ programs. Particularly, extracting almost demoscene level of performance from computers seemingly lacking said performance.

My Ph.D. thesis puts this passion to practical use, by developing a scientific application which uses every ooze of performance it can get from a system.

The end result is "You shouldn't be able to compute with this accuracy at this speed. What have you done?", which is extremely satisfying for me.

Also, I'm learning Go in these days.
I agree. I’m all for China achieving things but this seems really inconsiderate and irresponsible. Dropping debris on populations is unacceptable as nearly happened over the last few years according to this story. Clashes with their environmental stance and desire to be responsible global power. Why?
"Is it really too much to ask for people to host their own content on a cheap VPS"

That is the most out of touch question I have ever read on the internet. It is hilariously ridiculous :)

I'm a professional developer with active AWS and DigitalOcean accounts and there's no way in hell I would spend time setting up my own mastodon instance. Can you imagine my tech illiterate cousin who likes to tweet about celebrity gossip doing this?

People hosting their own social media servers is pure delusion.
"The rain it raineth on the just

And also on the unjust fella;

But chiefly on the just, because

The unjust hath the just’s umbrella."

Always think of this one whenever "the law applies equally to all" argument comes up.
Hard to judge with just knowing hearsay and not the first hand facts but the story makes it seem bad, like he was spending extensive time on side project During work hours and missing deadlines

> He missed two deadlines on a project within one month. His supervisor got really frustrated about the whole scenario because the assignment was not that complex to miss twice a row. But when a team can’t complete their projects within time, the entire team gets negative points on evaluation.
> So, the whole team was irritated by him. Then one day, one of the team members ( anonymous) reported to the project manager that he often worked on several side projects during office hours. This might be one of the reasons he missed his deadlines.
> If you “generalize” their work at such scale, it is a very different situation, like when you are using a sidewalk for robots running at 100mph and demotivate anyone from using it.

I don't understand what you're trying to state.

If you make fun of someone on national TV, someone doesn't like it either. It doesn't mean that it should be illegal.
Before you go to the trouble of writing your own software, consider using one that's already been written. There are many[0] out there already besides Mastodon.

[0]- https://delightful.club/delightful-fediverse-apps/
> it was mandatory to take once in year min 2 week vacation minimum

That’s actually the law in some countries. It’s not really enforced much, but the idea is that you have a weapon to sue your company if they prevent you from taking 2 weeks off once a year.
Had that experience at the Bucharest airport: no fountains at all, but it turns out they’re not on the municipal system and have contaminated wells.

But of course, it’s a convenient excuse to sell bottled water. Not impossible to have water delivered for a drinking fountain.
If the model is found to be fair use (which it most likely will) then the license doesn’t matter.

If the outputs of the model are found to be not covered by copyright in the first place due to established legal doctrine [0] then developers will not be liable for copyright infringement.

So the only reason for providing attribution will be as a product feature that some developers might want to use.

I personally don’t list every artist that has used a I-IV-V progression in one of their songs and generally lump it into the recognition that my artistic foundation relies on preexisting culture. But hey, you do you.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstraction-Filtration-Compari...
I started playing around with GPT-3 and it led me down the rabbit hole of NLP and Transformers. I'm kind of blown away by these tools and what they're capable of, particularly when woven in with the other languages and tools I work with. It brings back the feeling of curiosity and exploration from my very early days of programming.

A couple weeks ago, I started exploring Pu Erh. I ordered a few different teas from white2tea and got a little gong fu set. So far my favorites have been 2018 "Flapjacks" and and the 2022 "Pretty Girls". I just ordered a few others from Yunnan Sourcing which should be arriving any day. This is after years of only drinking matcha. I still start my day with a good sized matcha ~3-4g which seems to smooth out the effects of the Pu Erh nicely.

Somehow a late-night Amazon shopping session led to me buying an Ocarina. It's been a lot of fun leaning a new instrument, particularly one that's melodic and super-portable. The first one I picked up is a "Night by Noble", which is great for the money (~$35) but only hits its higher notes when played pretty loudly. So, I just ordered a Polygon from STL Ocarina which from what I've read has a mellower high-end that can be played more softly. I make up different melodies when I'm out and about, and then record loops and hooks on my Akai Force in my studio at home.
‘I want to protect my family’: Polish civilians flock to army training
With email, I can use something like gpg to sign it. Can you sign Mastodon posts?
I've never seen solidarity in my 20 years in tech. I try at every job to instill some sense of class struggle and solidarity but a lot of the techies really believe they'll, eventually, become capitalists themselves.

Even outside of the US I still see a disproportionate amount of workers in tech being anti-union, anti-labour regulations, compared to most other industries. Probably due to the gold rush that tech has become the past 30-40 years, so many fortunes and wealth was created that still gives hope to many workers that they can make it at some point.

At the same time, we get so many privileges as tech workers that workers from other industries look at us more as part of the rich capitalists class than what we actually are: salaried workers. The class divide also happens from the other side, I had numerous conversations with blue-collar workers (friends, acquaintances) where I had to clearly spell out that I'm on the same team, that I defend the same values about work protection and dignity as they do. Divide-and-conquer between blue-collars and white-collars is very visible and I feel we need to shorten this gap to actually empower workers.
It's not perfect. But it's crawling up the other side of the uncanny valley.

Imagine where this tech will be in five years.
An animator used the voice cloning tech to make a "leaked episode" of a cartoon that ended years ago: https://youtu.be/shp9jzJ4MOw

It's funny how both that and this used "low sound quality" to mask the imperfections in the cloned voice. But I suppose it's only a matter of time before that's no longer necessary.
Only if there is no additional information. Most buildings have polygon on ground level and height/number of levels.
It's possible to make more complex shapes
Nice list!

Ideas I liked:

* RichMeet: PMs at zoom and gmeet take notes, shouldn't be too hard to add some ML features

* TechMap: Linkedin PMs take notes

* SocialGravity: there are some tools like map of subreddits

* CompetitorWatch: surely it's built already?
The problem is, they are below the fold, and many mobile devices hide the scrollbar. The way it's presented, it's very easy to mistakenly think that image is everything you're getting.
As the manager of a vulnerability research team, I almost always organise my team's meetings to start at 13:37. It's become customary for us to refer to it as "leet o'clock".
>In my early days of using the internet it was much easier to make meaningful connections.

That's what I recall as well. I wonder what happened.

One story is something like: high-profile hostile interactions drive engagement, and are actually good for the bottom line of e.g. social media websites. But they also have the effect of modeling bad behavior, reducing "internet social trust" and "internet social capital". I wonder if any of the literature on social trust / social capital could be usefully applied to the entire internet considered as a community.

Another project related to this which I think could be super interesting: The big social media websites get a ton of traffic and scrutiny, but there are loads of niche online communities on other domains which have popped over the years. HN being just one example -- Mastodon is another which has been in the news a lot recently. It'd be cool if someone was to study these communities informally: create a taxonomy, make use of anthropological tools, or simply write a "travelogue" of becoming a user of a broad variety of niche online communities for just a few weeks each. I think this could be the first step to helping us find our way out of the current mess.

Right now it is too hard to compete with the big sites. Someone could shine a spotlight on small players who have something cool going on and want to grow. If nothing else, the next time there is a "crisis" like Elon buying Twitter, you can give people a list of the top 3 alternative sites they should be checking out. Never let a crisis go to waste!
PayPal probably has data that it will get more users if it's convenient to log in and some people get hacked.

I don't know if every user of PayPal would agree with this strategy, even though it makes PayPal the most money.
No I do not come from a farming background. I don’t intend to live at the farm. I intend to recruit people to run it day to day (labor is still cheap in Africa). Learn and adjust along the way, and if it’s successful, scale it.
While everyone is talking about Mastodon because of Twitter, I want people to know that there is https://pixelfed.social which is alternative to Instagram.

Theoretically you should be able to follow anyone from pixelfed on Mastodon and vice versa because both support ActivityPub. I haven't tried doing that myself.
From the article:

>Many programmers do part-time jobs, right? And many are involved in some freelancing projects besides their full-time job.

No, we don't. Nobody in my circles of coders, spanning 3 different EU countries, do part-time programming jobs after their main programing job (full or part time). They go out, have fun, study, go shopping, do sports, go drinking, read books, play with their kids, go on dates, play video games, jerk off, etc.

In what sort bubble is the author living where this is normalized?

Also, all salaried employment contracts I saw in EU had a clause preventing you from doing extra work for another employer. Some even had clauses that work or side projects you do in your free time must not be related to the IP you work on at work, otherwise they could claim ownership or damages. I checked with government labor authorities and they said these clauses are legal, but proving this in court and enforcing would be difficult so probably nobody in the company will notice or care, unless you expose yourself and it blows up.
I believe (dang feel free to correct me) some of what you are seeing are bots. They might be OK with only those with showdead seeing the links or to your point might not have bothered to check what sites have blocked them unless they get a status 403.

For example, on my silly hobby sites I provide all bots a status 200 for all GET and POST requests and just send them to a dummy virtual host to let them play in the sandbox for years on end. If they even once looked at the output they would see my silly ASCII art.

Some may be curious about search engines, but since I only allow HTTP/2.0, only bing can even connect with my site and robots.txt tells them to go away.

In NGinx:

error_page 404 500 501 502 503 504 =200 /ram/e.txt;

e.txt is just ASCII art in a tmpfs ram disk.
And so failure is a user mistake, not a programmer mistake, and should be handled as such. The programmer and the user being the same person is irrelevant.
The full court media press against all things Elon is...instructive.
Own website and feed as a Twitter replacement?
Goldberg Steam Emulator emulates Steam Online Features
Just a correction, those weren't solar panels on the White House, they were solar water heaters.
You're pretty transparently manufacturing upvotes
It's an easy tool to quickly check that X11 works (eg. when messing with X settings, such as redirection over ssh, etc.).
CDK also works with Java or Python.
Given the abundance of fake reviews, search results being infiltrated w advertising, and many shipping/vending options (new/used/Prime etc) - simply buying a book from Amazon has become very complicated.
I’m not sure that’s worth remembering specifically. You should really already roughly know the Earth’s circumference, 40k km, and the speed of light, 300k km/s. 40/300 = 4/30 = (4/3)/10 = (1.33)/10 = 0.133.
> and its log message is the content itself

That’s a curious design choice. Care to share more details, like why not commit the content?

How do you deal with fixing typos?
Games that cracked that formula include World of Warcraft, the Elder Scrolls series, Tropico, Minecraft, Roblox, and many others. Modding games happens more than most players are probably aware of -- and is possible in far more games than it might seem.
ActivityPub : Mastodon :: SMTP : postfix
First, most users are using the SDK that Amazon provides.

But second, most of this complexity is in the name of security. I have plenty of criticism of my former employer (Amazon), but I have never once felt that AWS didn't take security seriously.

Use the SDK. Be happy that it will keep your calls very secure.
You’ll need > 20 GB of GPU memory run the model.

This is the same reason people can’t easily “play with” GPT like models.

> would it be possible to run it on a lenovo type laptop?

No.

You might, with a hybrid Mac book pro M1 or M2 with 64GB of combined memory; pretty much any other lapto, categorically no.

You’d have to rent / own a separate server with epic GPU power.

> Final question is will a home brewed version be just as good?

No.

The open source language models are not as good as GPT3.
Interesting caveat, I didn’t know that.
Was it tail recursion?
I wrote a comment the other day about how global warming might not be that bad: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33483424

I know some people will be upset because they think saying that might mean we don't get emissions under control. I don't think people here on HN have much control over emissions, but in any case I encourage you to get emissions under control to the extent you can!
Which chemistry kit do you wish you’d received?
Email became popular and commonplace for "the public" when Hotmail and Gmail came along. Before that, you had ISPs offering some POP3 services which people used to send and receive a few emails per week. Maybe your workplace provided email services.

But the main thing is; people only used email if someone was willing to manage it for them. And they almost always went with the default choice (ISP or work email), later replaced by the most convenient option (Hotmail and Gmail).

There's still lots of people using their 20 year old ISP email addresses because they can't be bothered or don't know how to switch.

There is no default or obvious mastodon option. That's the problem.
Leet o’clock is my favourite time of the day. It also just so happens that right now as I am typing this the current time in my time zone is 13:37 :D

Edit: the time changed to 13:38 just before I hit submit :(
Hi from the eastern half of the US!

I too am working my way deeper into visual arts. I’m excited to go see the Edward Hopper exhibit at the Whitney in NYC soon. His ability to light imaginary scenes is very impressive, I hope to learn a lot by seeing his paintings in person.

Do you have any favorite artists or works? And I see you paint as well from your bio, what sorts of things do you make?
Is Open Graph Protocol Dead?
> After all, Twitter is primarily text. You can always recruit outsiders from time to time, who will stress test and audit. That's a good way to keep on top of accessibility, by getting actual users who need accessibility features, to evaluate your service. But full time in-house?

This is like saying you don’t need ML specialists because it’s just math, or that we don’t need those expensive security people because Accenture told the CIO they could us experts any time we need them.

Accessibility is far more than just “can a screen reader produce text for this element” — starting from the fact that there are many accessibility concerns to which the issue of media forms is irrelevant but going much deeper into how you organize that information. Even if we ignore the prevalence of non-text content, Twitter isn’t a single chunk of prose but the much harder problem of a lot of complex elements which update frequently. You can’t treat this as some quarterly exercise where a consultant runs a scanner - there’s a lot of behavior which must be designed in and tested continuously.

When you talk about meeting outside users, yes, that’s good. Guess which team organizes that? Guess which team makes sure you get representative users? Guess who helps make sure developers and designers get the training and time they need?
I've been passionate about learning classical guitar for a few years, but that's really ramped up since COVID lockdowns. I'm working through a standardized exam system, and completed my grades 5, 6, 7 and recently, 8.

During part of the process I realized that I wanted to get feedback on my raw practice sessions - think 30 minutes warming up with C major scales, followed by an hour working on one line of a piece - so I started streaming on Twitch and posting incremental progress videos to YouTube and TikTok (@jcpractices everywhere). That's been an incredible experiment - the "hobbyist classical music practice streamer" space is a niche^5, but my small growing community is so encouraging to keep going.

According to my new teacher (who also streams!), I'm playing at the senior recital level at an average university, or at the 1st year level of a student at conservatory. It feels like such a huge accomplishment as someone who started in the evenings after work at 25. I'll never be a "great player" or make meaningful money from it, but it's one of those hobbies that I plan to pursue for the rest of my life for the sheer enjoyment. I'm looking forward to seeing how far I can get.
You are technically correct, which is...
This is a pretty techy group. Out of curiosity what do you do and what was your major?
What’s the right problem?
> the only time I buy bottled water is in the airport

Why? Liquids are restricted at security, but bottles aren’t.

Brought an empty sodastream concentrate bottle before out of desperation.

Whenever an airport doesn’t have fountains, I always ferry a complaint.
From one of the comments in the article -

mayhem says:
November 1, 2022 at 10:01 am

When I went to my general license class at FRRL.org they showed a video by Frank Rutter k3aw that was awesome in every respect. At the time I asked if the video was available anywhere else and was told that the club had the only copy :( However, Ifound my notes and it’s on the video site :) heres a link to the best 1:08 hours of your life. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEigIMS6bo4 Enjoy!!
Ippitsuryu: Single Stroke Paintings of Dragons (2017)
And why wouldn't they? I know more than one person who insists their smartphone must be listening. Simply because as soon as you even mention a given subject in conversation, it seems to show up in ad targeting. Of course what really happened is subconscious - you googled the subject earlier, or mentioned it offhand in a Facebook Messenger conversation or maybe even just lingered on some clickbait too long, or whatever.

The speakers are listening. Only for the wake-word of course. But explain that to nontechies.
> Incrediblest full of all the harmfulsts! Not only Machine learning:

I do not agree that it's a good idea to make using copyrighted data for training illegal. The people who are upset that GPL code was used for training should be happy that a large corporation believes that training on copyrighted works is fair use. It's a more democratized position.

> It is illegal as the attribution is missing. Also copyright applies etc. see the lawsuit. Its less a technical thing, more a legal one.

I think in reality, this is just a lawyer or group of lawyers who realized they had a case and a reactionary audience to possibly make them millions of dollars.
I agree with you.
You already named some explanations with the same likelihood of the data, but a far higher prior probability.
Bumblebees having feelings is a good way down the explanatory chain, and would warrant a lot more additional pieces of evidence.
This way of building is also the root of urban sprawl, and all the infrastructure problems associated with it.
Meanwhile………. Twitter is just a text field (basically).
It is pungent, and the natural flavor is unappetizing. Through a filter, either a Brita or a Glacier/Primo machine, it's fine.

It is remarkable to me, an actual person who lives an actual life in America, that anyone might question the desire to have 1) fresh water or 2) decent-tasting water. Internet trolls are questioning the base essence of humanity, and it's honestly troubling.