skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was communicated from the start what the Steam version would look like. But also they significantly sped up world generation and built a graphical UI, among other things. That alone is a good reason for me to prefer "that jank".

> It looks more like an amateur overlay someone could have cranked out in a month than a years-long project

We both know that's not remotely true. They're not even done drawing all the graphics yet and that's not exactly because of laziness. And on the technical side this is a game built over 20 years without animated graphics in mind.
This is amazing, though I think the voice is one of the hardest problems for deepfakes. I find there is a lot of inflection and tonality missing from synthesized voices. Even with a 'old TV broadcast' sound filter to mask some of that stuff, I think people are quite good at recognizing when a voice isn't totally human :) But the visuals in this production are incredibly convincing to me.
Amber on black makes me feel really comfortable, so that's how i set up mine

When I was 6 to 8 years old, the library at my school had monochrome terminals with amber text, and the library back then was so comfortable and quiet, so I have always associated amber on black with that nostalgic comfy feeling
> ...with an attitude like yours.

What attitude? I'm giving a slight jab at your complaints. You're a volunteer and you have power over others, of course you should be scrutinised! That's the _correct_ attitude to have. I'm not a fan of pockets of humanity where autocratic-leaning individuals want to exercise their power over others, but if we do, then you should be held absolutely accountable.

I don't need that level of power over other people to feel fulfilled in life, so I don't do it.
> Opposite of entry level coder being an engineer

Are entry level mechanical engineers called mechanics? This assumes that software engineering is (only) about code, which is false.

> Someday tech will have it's 80s, vc will stop chasing the next apple or MS, engineers will become coders, sysadmins will become IT techs, wages will stagnate, and if you're all working till 8 it will go from extra to expected.

Wages may stagnate at some point because supply may match demand. However, why would job titles deflate? The skills you refer to are not comparable to unskilled factory work.
Notice that the single bit of medical advice in this thread - among the tens of medical decisions you'll have to make and literally thousands of decisions you hope to not need to make - relates to religious aspects. And I'm sure that the guy who posted it was well-meaning, without a hint of religious hate in his blood.

This is a terrific example of the "useful idiot" phenomenon. Those who hate any group - be it Jews or Catholics or Muslims or anybody else - will find something dear to those people and spread seemingly-unrelated advice that negates that group's core values. Then the useful idiots with no hate in mind spread these advice with fervour.

As a Jew, I am aware of the minuscule risks of circumcision. And of course I had my son circumcised because that has been a hallmark of my race (not religion) for literally millennia. And I do other far riskier activities with my son, such as fishing and riding a bicycle and letting him use a knife. But nobody is advising us not to fish or ride a bicycle with our children, despite literally orders of magnitude higher risk.
Yep. That's exactly what happened to me.
People who say "project" are usually projecting themselves
Pretty much. I lived in the same place when tap water stopped tasting good to me. And it was over the course of one summer when I started enjoying bottled sparkling water. It was sold in glass bottles back then.

Different places really do have different tastes. Sometimes it's even still distinct when you make tea.
Renewable energy installation has broken records for newly-installed capacity every year, even during the pandemic-induced supply chain chaos and material price instability, and is projected to do so this year as well. However, we're still quite early into the curve, and even with the accelerating rate of growth it will be many years before most people are using mostly-renewable power.
Why an "incel"?!
People with rooftop solar are generally richer than those who don't have rooftop solar so they should weather the rise in prices better regardless.
There's a coming supply glut? In the markets I'm familiar with there isn't any significant construction of houses. The few houses I see being built are high end and out of the price range of most people. Quality houses around me are still finding buyers in a couple of days.
Yes, it'll federate with Mastodon, with no extra effort or code.
> The developer worked in that company for ten months. The company fired him and asked for ten months' salary back from the developer. Otherwise, they threatened to sue him.

This sails pretty close to the wind. In some parts of the world this would be unlawful, regardless of the employee's actions.
Could it simply be the prints? When my dad briefly played with 35mm photography while working in 1950s Switzerland, what you got by default when you had your film developed was contact strips. I guess enlargements were made by hand, and thus expensive, so the contact strips were it, for those photos (and of course my mom threw out the negatives about 40 years later, right before my siblings and I got into b&w photography with darkroom equipment and all).

I can totally see the local photofinisher just making contact prints of those medium format pictures, and those going into the album, and... well, we've always done it this way, why change?
I feel that it's important for this discussion to point out that the actual GitHub source code is AFAIK (mostly?) closed source, unlike for the open core GitLab. (No idea whether it's crawled by Copilot ?)
Things I Didn't Build Yet
Wage theft is the most common form of theft.
> Don't circumcise (genital mutilate) your kid if he's a boy.

Of the two forms of genital mutilation, why do you explicitly forbid the low-risk procedure while ignoring the high-risk procedure? Are you sure that whoever convinced you of the importance of this issue had no other motive?
100% this. A couple times I've considered moving my personal website to AWS, but each time I got lost in the documentation trying to keep all the different moving parts in my head. At the end of the day managing a single VPS running debian+nginx+certbot[1] with a Gandi domain is orders of magnitude simpler.

[1]: I'm probably going to move that to FreeBSD/OpenBSD with OpenBSD's relayd+httpd+acme-client at some point, but the general idea stays the same.
Depending on your phone settings the message content will be displayed on your lock screen without the need to go through face id.

Apple and Google should agree on a standard code sms format and prevent such sensitive information getting displayed on the lock screen.
We don’t know typescript. So we’d have to learn that first.
AFAIK: ActivityPub is the protocol used by Mastodon and other platforms (like PeerTube) and so you'd be able to interact with other users using the protocol.

If I'm wrong I believe someone will correct me pretty fast but that's my current understanding.
The only thing the FAA owns is killing that poor woman for being too comfy with SWA and not doing your job. People should have gone to jail for that.

You are my employee to make sure shit doesn’t fall out of the sky. You are a steward of the sky. I asked my commercial airline pilot friend and he agrees that you in a public international forum claiming your employer owns the sky MUST BE CORRECTED ON THE RECORD.

You are clowns which is why the NTSB writes the real reports. I worked closely with the FRA too. Both FAA and the FRA are political entities and revolving doors that barely do their job.

Great work on the ATC upgrades these past 10 years.

Part 91 says you don’t own shit. Telling everybody “my dad owns the skies” is a shithead move.

I wonder if you’re in the Midwest region because I’m about to report a direct conflict of interest from your little revolving door.

I’m right and you’re wrong, start being honest or be willing to be treated like a child.
Oooh, a chance to promote my passion work! I’m in the process of producing my second album. It’s a full-length concept album in the spirit of the 70s music I grew up listening to.

I have 2 singles out now that 2 or 3 actual people listen to occasionally, I think.

I’ve been spamming social media trying to find 2 or 3 more people on the planet that might enjoy it.

Social media is an insane place. All the major sites are overflowing with scammers and scumbags. I could only stay on TikTok for 5 minutes before I had to delete it and question the future of humanity.

Anyhoo, I love the process of creating music and am working with amazing professional musicians this time around. All online, which is wild.

Besides the daily trauma of visiting social media dystopia, I’ve found a few really valuable sites that have been immensely helpful, for relatively low cost.

I’m going to get back into blogging and am going to try to document as much of this insane journey to nowhere as I can remember.

I also have a day job in tech.

Thank you for posting! HN feels like the last bastion of humanity left in a burning hellscape of a once glorious world that had such potential.

Eventually our position will be overrun, but don’t fret, the Phoenix will rise again and again. The web is dead, long live the web!
Clock design.

I don't know why, as it seems to be an area already hugely dense in expertise. There are numerous famous designers, and designs, and then there's clock history, old clocks, restoration, etc, with many hugely knowledgeable 'greybeards', and then there are the mechanisms either mechanical or electronic, again with incredibly experienced and talented people involved. And then the market is, not exactly some newly opened frontier where anyone can make a fortune. It seems there are a zillion designs, each with a production run of maybe 1000, except for a few 'classics'.

Into all this, for some reason I, an enthusiast, but a complete novice, and not even a designer, believe I might have something to offer, and have come up with a bunch of clock designs both analog and electonic, actually multiple ranges of clocks each based on a concept, an amazing logo which is more a discovery than a creation, and am slowly making progress toward getting things made, etc.
First off python now has types (you can place type annotations on the interpreter and run an external type checker) and javascript people use typescript. In terms of type safety i would argue python and javascript are now EQUAL to C# and Java.

Developer productivity in these scripting languages is also even higher. Simply because of how much faster they are to program in with the code then run/test loop. Java and C# can have loong compile times. Python and typescript are typically much much more quicker. With the additional type safety python and typescript are actually categorically higher in developer productivity then C# or Java.

But that's besides my point. Let's assume we aren't using modern conventions and javascript and python are typeless. My point is that whether or not C# or java crushes python and javascript over maintenance it doesn't win because of type checking.
Burying Edward Abbey: The last act of defiance
Even the lightweight server options are very heavy (resources, install process, and/or UI clutter) or are a pain to deploy.

Does a single user server exist? I don't want to host for others, but would like to interact with a few people that have migrated from Twitter.

Are there any resource light servers that can be deployed as a container with a single config or env file that doesn't require many manual commands against a container instance?
I suppose the intent is to make us not trust Trump, but for those of us who already didn't, it confirms that we should not trust Homeland Security. So now when they say "Top law enforcement officials say the biggest domestic terror threat comes from white supremacists"[1] we should expect it's yet again being used as a political tool to target the preferred enemies of the current administration.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/12/us/politics/domestic-terr...
With the method discussed here you can add a list of labels to categorize generated topics. This isn't quite what you're looking for but it does create a two level hierarchy.

Reference: https://neuml.github.io/txtai/embeddings/configuration/#topi...
That was also my experience staying with a Swiss friend in both her city home and mountain home. Drinking tap water at home and then ordering bottled water at the restaurant literally next door to the house. I'll have to ask her about it next time.
PayPal has a similar problem: https://medium.com/@jewbixcube/paypal-allows-bypassing-two-f...
Entered the thread for a different reason. No, I don't really find building the API request complicated. I mean, it is but they provide a python example that I was easily able to get working in lua without major issues. And you spend half a day wondering why it's returning forbidden until you get it right and then it's done.

What is complicated is receiving the response, that different services sometimes operate in regions and sometimes operate globally (but have a us-east-1 endpoint) and that some return XML, some return JSON, some return a gzipped response and some not, and much of it I haven't found documentation for and have had to figure out how to wrap calls to different services to be able to interact with them in a sensible manner.
I have a hard time believing this story, who can afford to give back 10 months of salary? According to the story the employee accepted to "pay the fine" so that "it wouldn’t hurt his career badly", in my experience virtually no company has the power to hurt a developers' career, it would require a significant amount of fraud from the employee's to do that.
Are we sure that there aren't some users involved in a voting ring?
I’m passionate about DPUs and serverless GPU functions, but seeing the top responses feels like most people are kind of burnt out on tech at the moment
Well, it had an interesting start...
That line actually made me think the whole thing was satire for a bit. I actually came back to the HN comments to see if people here were taking the article seriously.
not easily drinkable... is it frozen? ;)
50% is a pretty good success rate!

Have a look at the grain pattern in one of the enlarged prints.

Cheers
If you refuse to work 80h/week, what's the worst that could happen? Be fired again?

That's the thing, if you don't trust leadership anymore and they are asking you to come back after firing and going to pay you, that's the ultimate fuck-you: keep working as little as possible while searching for another job. You are getting paid to look for another job by the same leadership that tried to fire you.
I am passionate about learning AI and Machine Learning.
I have just discovered Kaggle and started competing.
Have a good day
This just takes the floor plan data and assumes every building is the same height and shape?
Nixon's voice sounds too gravelly.
Linguistic recursion, rather than algorithmic recursion (?)
Before this starts a huge debate about what is possible and what is not for humans, I would like to link this:

https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/03/17/what-universal-human-e...
Take all parenting advice with a large measure of salt. Nobody really knows how to "do it right", and every child has their own unique needs.
I'm a passionate master mason living a rich Renaissance fantasy life filled with art.
Well that’s the time I need to pick them up. The alternative would be to quit or work 80% but most employers prefer people to stay on 100% which means doing some emailing in the evenings to catch up with the hours.

4.30 is my normal leave time now without kids though (8-4.30 with a half hour unpaid lunch break is my schedule for 40h/week).

Kids sports practice etc regularly starts at 5PM or even 4PM. Being a parent is just fundamentally incompatible with working past 6PM, at least where I live.
I believe the Context trait is from Anyhow, not part of the base Error trait in Rust.

anyhow::Error really does a good job of smoothing out the finicky bits of Rust error handling, it feels and reads a lot better than Go code to me.
To be fair its both about eyes and both are fancy.
I've tried many different text color combinations but I always go back to pure yellow on black. Something about it is just easy on the eyes.

It's just a shame that WBGR OLEDs don't allow this to be a useable option.

https://reddit.com/r/OLED_Gaming/comments/ynf2b8/lg_c2_42_ho...
same, i pack my stuff at 5:55 pm and then stand in front of the machine at 5:59. as soon as the clock turns to 6, i clock out. after some days of unpaid overtime, i made a ruckus about the pay in front of business partners, principals, and other employees. my manager later told me that he was so embarrassed and don't plan to make any other employees do any unpaid overtime. it was in my first month of wfo.
Good for you! Chest voice? Face voice?

I took lessons for a bit and I found there was more to the techniques than I had anticipated.

Singing through the nose, well resonating in the nasal cavity, as a technique to enrich the voice was the one thing that stuck with me.

Now I hear it all the time. So many singers are nasally because it helps them sing clearly, in tune and with richer overtones.

It’s subtle sometimes, but once you listen for it, you hear the nasal resonance in almost all singers, unless they’re chest singers or screamers.
you can use that in home without selling to the grid, can't you?
Also, I wonder about the source of these stated facts. Did they come from management? Or from the employee?
A PhD in maths is _incredibly_ valuable. Anything abstract algebra related, and the likes of the NSA are all over you. Anything numerical analysis related will find plenty of opportunities in finance, and the industry just calls statistics specialists "Data Scientists".
I have hosted public shell accounts and email servers for the public for 20 years and this is just as real of a problem for small community classic internet service providers as it is mastodon servers.

If anyone user of your email users gets on a spam list for illegal content, then it gets cached on your servers. Or a shell user simply uploads pirated movies.

This is a harsh reality well known to anyone who provides any public internet services. There is illegal content embedded in every blockchain, ipfs, and freenet node, and you cannot easily detect or censor it.

Some people will inevitably do disgusting or illegal things with all public internet resources at some point, but we absolutely cannot let such individuals discourage small community hosting which is vital for the survival of the free internet.

Decentralized services will always be abused to share CSAM but paradoxically are our only practical defense against giant surveillance capitalism corporations that we -know- are manipulating and selling the behavior of live children at massive scale today.
Looks like a swinging breast with moving nipple. No-one has eyes like tits.
I’m talking about my personal experience. I don’t think anyone is in a position to disagree with it, much less “hard disagree”.

While your point is valid, your opener could use some work.
Apple should default not displaying anything on lock screen. There’s a setting that most don’t know about.
> Commentary aside, the video does not lie.

Ok, but what video? You didn't give any links.

> Also the entire unedited interview is available.

Where? People keep claiming unedited video is available but no one can produce a link to such video.
Do you know JavaScript?
sure, someone who can afford a car should be able to afford 1-3-5 kwh panels, right?
btw, do you know how much it costs for a 1kwh or a 5kwh panel + inverter?
It still does not make any sense from a management perspective. They’re selecting slaves, not high performers.
I find basically all of AWS to be a nightmare of complexity. Probably great if you're in devops or infrastructure or something, but the story of "write code and deploy it" is horrific.
> It's not enough to argue about how machine learning works. ML can do tons of things, and GitHub's current methodology leads to something close to copy-paste. Maybe it can learn a semi-original way to write common things like searching in a list, but for more exotic uses like complex algorithms, being unable to actually understand how to code, it basically has to act as a search engine for existing implementations.

I don't disagree that it is over-trained on certain sequences of words, but, overall, I think the generalization fine. It's often pre-prompted with content it has not seen before, resulting in unique new content. There's nothing copy-pasted about this, just a statistical understanding of what usually happens next.

If the pre-prompt is something very specific, ex. "a dog runs in the park while during the middle of the day, while the sky is the color _____" it will obviously output blue. The same can be true when there are only very specific known algorithms that have been used more frequently than others. And, in the cases where it does commit something arguably comparable to copyright infringement, it would probably on the programmer and not on the model for deciding to use it.

> The potentially illegal part is offering a service that creates "new" Disney-like movies by assembling parts of Disney's IP.

In very specific cases only does it output copyrighted content. Most of the time it is just outputting a generalization of what is expected. It isn't Disney's content, but human content. Also, just creating content that has some similarity isn't copyright infringement. Satire has been well accepted as fair use.
> It's another form of gaslighting people into not believing their own eyes & ears...

How are we supposed to believe our eyes and ears when you haven't provided any links to video for us to watch?
You claim that, and yet ALL of the most celebrated CRT authors and "experts" all espouse the need to institute racially discriminatory policies in the interests of racial equity.

So if every single proponent of CRT espouses support for racial discrimination, it's fair to draw the conclusion that they are inseparable.
Dont worry, we love physical books... They will be fine
I think it's described as a tactics game, to emphasize decisions at the micro level, as opposed to a strategy game which usually is larger in scope and encompasses things like base building and resource gathering.
In what parallel universe auditors make anything meaningful? It's like buying an indulgence and have someone to delegate risks to.
Look after yourself, too.
Very nicely directed and edited video!

Though I must say that if the intention of the video was to make me doubt abilities to spot deep fakes, it didn't manage to achieve its goal. Both Nixon's face movements and voice felt highly unnatural and robotic to me. Although I'm sure it won't be many years until the results of such experiments will be come indistinguishable, we are not quite there yet.
no. activitypub is the protocol which all apps in the fediverse use and can talk to each other.
you can create a pixelfed instance account and follow someone on mastodon.social and vice versa. same for interaction between them
For puzzle one, in Microsoft Word, control+space clears direct font formatting from the cursor (or if text is selected, the selected text). So exactly a consistent way to go back to unformatted text.

For puzzle two it uses some opaque heuristic to decide where to insert the text, I wouldn't really on it, I'd right click and edit the link.
> No practical difference.

For a simple example like this, no. But consider this:

def add_one(x: int) -> int:
return x + 1

data = load_huge_database()
expensive_computation(data)
add_one(None)

MyPy will show you the error instantly. Python, on the other hand…