skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> people will start relying on answers from black boxes they have no idea how to verify

Every rightful critic of radio and TV propoganda, and now AI.
Um, no? If the asset price increases monotonically, everyone gains money. Obviously no asset price increases truly monotonically, and especially BTC doesn't, but this isn't a zero-sum game.
Wow, and Ruiz et al published the work only around 4 months ago. Who did the first open source, was it https://github.com/XavierXiao/Dreambooth-Stable-Diffusion?
this is awesome!

But where is the FireFly reference? There must be a FireFly reference, right? RIGHT?? :-D
What's so great about mainstream appeal? These services are designed for folks who do care about those issues, and the folks who are mainstream already have outlets catering to them. I don't see them flocking over if Lemmy is dumbed-down.

As usual when chasing "mass adoption" I think that the target demographic would simply be chased off and the project with wither on the vine.
https://www.infoq.com/news/2021/11/rudra-rust-safety/

Over 200 memory safety issues were found in public crates in rust.

If code reviews were all it took to ensure memory safety, then we wouldn’t need the borrow checker in the first place.
Well I for one call on Google to cut any stock buy backs and dividen payment.
Question: Is it possible to microwave a burrito so hot that it is inedible? (It apparently did not appreciate my Simpsons reference and the content filter blocked it)

Answer: To explain, the burrito is not cooked, it is heated. The burrito is not cooked, it is heated.
Marvel Snap is doing pretty well lately.
Best of luck, you've got a great look!
I always chuckle when things like “sensible”, “user-friendly” or “sane” get thrown around as if they are anything more than that person’s opinion.

When are developers going to learn that they actually have to learn and familiarize themselves with preexisting systems, instead of endlessly reinventing them, and that there is no such thing as the perfect system?
Cool stuff about Guix there on your blog. Will continue reading it if you post more. I have Guix System installed too.

Bye!

(Offtopic:Also liked how you express your thoughts in your blog/journal, those that are not about software but more focused on your personal life. "Owning my truth" deeply resonated in me, because I recognised same patterns in my own behaviour.)
This is a mixed reality app I made for the Meta Quest. You can download it on SideQuest: https://sidequestvr.com/app/10522/passthrough-windows
Eh people lived and died for generations doing awful subsistence farming and watching half their children die (if they didn't die in childbirth themselves). Not getting acute radiation poisoning and dying painfully over days in one of the worst ways possible for the low low cost of having a basement and keeping some water in it seems within the cards. I guess you could just kill yourself and your family immediately, which would also prevent a slow agonizing death from radiation poisoning, but I don't hate my basement enough to go out and buy a gun.
My go-to for the same reason.
Does it have the same mastodon problem of separate namespaces? I'm having a tough time getting enthusiastic about federated social media that has disjoint namespaces. Is there no way to have a federated-but-shared namespace so I don't have to lose my username when an instance shuts down?
I agree with you! But in this case it's for a hobby project and I don't have much personal time for it. The feature I wanted to add wouldn't work with the old codebase, and I was curious to try the current libraries/tooling. But the fun factor is zero if the whole time budget goes into just setup problems.
> Counterintuitively, extremely unlikely events like this happen very often.

As the saying goes, "people win the lottery every day", and there are a lot of lotteries active on this planet.
I think the main change happening now is tech salaries are going to be coming down. There is intense pressure from investors on big tech to lower expenses - and a lot of that is what investors think are overpaid engineers. Rate of operating expenses has increased far faster than revenues.

So, hiring is frozen, layoffs will be happening and PIP quotas are increasing (e.g. GRAD at Google). Top end demand is shrinking and that will push compensation down industry wide.

I think you are fine as long as your expectations are tempered. There are still plenty of places hiring without big tech salaries.
You got your Axiom of Choice and Goëdel's Theorems to contend with in math.

In sociology, you got the replicability crisis (aka, it's mostly bulkshit).

The Sociologists want to bring that to mathematics so that the marginalized of the world don't feel inferior.
Bottle caps?
GW was very much a result of the founders attempting to recreate all the good things (at least in their opinion) about Blizzard's work environment without carrying over the bad things. They put a lot of thought into things like code ownership policies, schedules and even office floor plans.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzh7zvXZ_VA
> In that case NATO must respond strongly or Russia will escalate quickly.

I'm all for NATO responding strongly, but what is Russia going to do at this point against NATO?

If it's intentional, highly likely they will use NATO's response as an excuse to pull out of Ukraine.
Well maybe but Elon's opinions I believe were based on discussions with multiple senior tech people at Twitter.

Either way, it sounds like both parties are better off if he leaves so all good.
89% of Twitter employees believe Twitter Won't succeed under Elon (Blind survey)
> Planned obsolescence through advertising is still planned obsolescence.

No, it's not. It's also a pretty elitist/condescending view of the American people, as if they are passive victims incapable of discerning what's good for them. Might as well do away with democracy while we're at it.
Lots of assets have either no floor on their value or an incredibly low floor. Is it actually a comfort if you invest in gold that it can only lose 98% of its value instead of 100%? Are those two outcomes meaningfully different to you?

Companies can go bankrupt and zero the value of their stock. Bonds can be defaulted on. Are you out there evangelizing how stocks and bonds are bad investments?
It has a changelog in the top menu under "Changes" which lists all the additions by date. You can even get notified on updates (although only via Telegram, an RSS feed would be nicer).
Uh, care to elaborate? I thought Garmin specialized in GPS and similar "passive" satellite-based tech, not actual comms?

Edit: nvm, just googled and found out about the Inreach thing.
Bought several high-value companies with some innovations with money he inherited.
Ah yes, apologies. Still, big job to construct the database of what things correspond to what answers to the questions - and to choose the questions.
Yes, but all the non-communist servers, combined, have an active user base of like 100.
I always billed 40 hours. Even when staring out of a window for half that time. Because often, that staring brings the exact nugget of brilliance needed to solve the puzzle.

You are not a widget puncher. You are an engineer solving complex problems. Act like it. Bill like it.

Watch "Fuck you, pay me."
And I think that can be legit as well. If you are engaged on their problems then you are billing. They are not paying you by the keystroke.
All companies are pathological is the way I think of it.

But I would add that in my experience it seems to correlate to size of the organization. I.E. smaller orgs are not immune but the larger you get the more organizational pathology that creeps in.

For me its based on 30+ years consulting, with many different companies of different industries, sizes, and maturity as an organization.

The value for me in this notion is that it has stopped me from fantasizing about idealistic work scenarios / environments.
it predates TVTropes (Shakespeare did it), and it's called "a play-within-a-play"

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ShowWithinAShow
What's wrong with just working on and when the changes finally look like they should just do a `git commit --amend`?

Or if the commit should for some strange reasons really never exist just move HEAD one commit back. You could even get the changes back by merging the "bad" commit back without committing the merge (using the `--no-commit` switch).
Isn't that the point of federation? That there is not a centralized (naming/identity) authority?
In Zendesk, you get an Halloween pumpkin emoji instead of a thumb up. I always wondered if it was an annoying easter egg or a bug.
A large slab of standardised content/dimensions ?
Meant in a merely descriptive way to describe the new breed of lefty extremists. In other words a bit of both of your meanings. This is a prime example of folks who think pushing their identity politics is a higher priority than ethics, and have gone a bit too far. This seems to happen with every movement, even well-intentioned ones.

Not meant pejoratively outside of how poorly this current example speaks of the movement.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33610704
There's already a big barrier to entry: low wages and even entry-level roles demanding lots of experience

When I started in the industry I couldn't afford a bed on my salary for about a year, and I only got my "in" by having a lot of experience doing indie development during high school and college - many people don't have the free time and resources to build up that portfolio.
Thanks! Now my nose is bleeding...
> isn't this just exacerbating the filter-bubble effect that cranks up polarization?

I don't think that the goals of these software products are to reduce political polarization. What does the telephone do to reduce political polarization?
The issue with this is that advertisements don't exist to answer a question, or provide useful information. They exist to sell a product - whose efficacy, usefulness or appropriateness to the buyer is orthogonal to the effectiveness of the advertisement. Anything can be advertised, from a crooked demagogue to a placebo herbal remedy. The only difference is the budget and the regulation. Advertising is not about the spread of knowledge, it's about the promotion of a good or service that's being sold, period.
> but I honestly can't remember it being like this on forums back in the day.

It wasn't like this but then the Internet wasn't still that much widespread as today. Social media boom really opened it to the masses but also bring political polarization which really bloomed in last ~10 years.

Twenty years ago I wouldn't imagine that in the nearest future we'll have communities on the Internet ruled and divided by political views. That we'll need to self-censor what and in what form we want to say to others under the risk of the instant ban. I didn't expect either that we'll need to agree to "codes of conduct" - netiquette and forums rules were enough for most of the time.

Back then I hoped we'll have virtual assistants connected to vast databases, that we'll met in the virtual worlds with photo-realistic avatars, that technology would blend indistinguishably with our environment, and that would connect us into one global village. And instead we got bubbled social networks with yelling influencers and ads, tracking on every corner of the web. Bleh.
for readyset: Is there a deb package available or something lighter weight than docker, kubernets, etc? I'd just like to run it as a regular unix process and start/stop it with systemd.
Seems about as willing to lie as GPT-3, but a bit more structured.

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Big chungus (Russian: Большой чунгус, tr. Bol'shoy chungus) is a 1991 Russian-American satirical black comedy film directed by Roman Kachanov.
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The film is set in the Soviet Union during the Great Patriotic War, and focuses on the exploits of a group of Soviet prisoners of war. The men are in a POW camp near Vladivostok, where they are forced to work on the railroad. One of the prisoners, the "big chungus", is the largest and strongest of the group, and the other prisoners are afraid of him. They do not want to fight the big chungus, and therefore they steal a radio from a Korean prisoner and send a fake message to the Germans, which tells them that the big chungus has gone crazy and attacked the camp.
I certainly recognized several Mercurial features and concepts in Sapling.

For example, I use Mercurial’s absorb command [1] and was pleased to see it in Sapling.

Overall this looks promising.

[1]: https://gregoryszorc.com/blog/2018/11/05/absorbing-commit-ch...
Sam Bankman-Fried was using exotic stimulants known for inducing gambling
Unfortunately the only way to achieve that in the fediverse is by hosting your own instance, or at the minimum using your own domain and having someone manage the instance for you.
Or from a more cynical perspective he was extremely effective and altruistic. He robbed millions of people with spare capital and redistributed hundreds of millions to EA causes.
It's an internal post. Can confirm.
An interesting analogy.

It's hard to follow though, because the Second Amendment has been held as an individual right (with some dissenting perspectives, of course), while unionization is inherently collective.
Compression is intelligence[1] - which goes to point out exactly how misguided the OP's attempted distinction between ML and AI is.

[1] http://prize.hutter1.net/#motiv
The weight of one extra car will increase the operating cost of a 100-car train by 1%, give or take a bit. Using cheap hydrogen instead of expensive kerosene may save much more than that. Moving light hydrogen instead of heavy kerosene may save more than that.

If the electricity could be delivered directly to the train, the energy used would be cheaper, but installing (and replacing "shrinkage" of) many thousands of miles of "third rail" would cost a lot.

The hydrogen is not yet cheaper than the kerosene, but costs on that side are falling fast.
It's still a problem if it impacts the development model - and if I remember rightly from last time Lemmy came up, it does.
Thanks!
I can't know for sure but I think you need to 'score' on:
- the team
- proof of hustle
- a space that is VC fundable
This is correct. It wouldn't be read as "no go" any more than you wouldn't buy a "notable" furniture set because it had no table.
There’s loads of homebrew Gameboy games released each year. One of my friends reviews games and receives lots of new GB and GBA titles.

You can also get GB carts that support SD card. I appreciate you’re describing a more complete, end to end, UX but we can already do everything right up to inserting the SD card into the Gameboy cart. With Gameboy emulation as good as it is, you could do away with original hardware for 99% of players too (though for me, the joy of retro gaming is using the original hardware. But I’d never look down on anyone who preferred emulation).
The Monica /Chandler thing is a reference to the 90s television show “Friends”.
Yes. The stock portfolio is only a fraction of BRK. They own an entire railroad (BNSF), a very large electricity utility, GEICO and other insurance firms, and dozens of other entities - many would be Fortune 500 firms on their own.
They also unabashedly call to increase the buybacks in the face of imminent recession.
If those were Russian missile they are getting sloppy. An accident like this warrants a strong response, but it will be measured and in direct contrast to the picture Russia painted of an oopsie causing a war with NATO should Ukraine have joined.
> where do you store and backup your personal data

A RAID array of physical drives in a local PC.

> How do you run your backups?

rsnapshot (https://rsnapshot.org/) driven from cron.

> How do you manage encryption keys, etc?

Stored in files on plural disks plus a printed to paper backup.

> What considerations drove your solution?

Must be 100% under my control -- "someone else's disks" must not ever be the primary backup medium.
He is amazing, we worked together in our previous company. He was outstanding from day 1.
Why did the prophet not like dogs?
that's a feature, not a bug!

one shared namespace is problematic for reasons. You can figure email though, right?

DNS is a solved problem and we're never going to see anything better come along because DNS has survived the test of time (see the Lindy Effect - DNS is old, crusty, and like the Art of War or Shakespeare, it's worth learning).
I interpreted it more as them explaining the societal value of unions via equating it with the 2nd amendment, i.e. 'they do these valuable things for us'. Not 'this is why we have that right'
Galactica: the Language Model that Wrote Its Own Scientific Paper
https://medium.com/@aronbrand/galactica-the-language-model-t...
Sure. I'm bediger4000 there too
Is it illegal to record it, or is it simply inadmissible in court?
I think FAANG companies are laying off employees because frankly they are idiots for growing to the unnecessary size of folks they had hired to start.

The bank I work up here as a dev in Canada is looking to grow it’s team and I get half a dozen emails from recruiters a day.

Don’t be afraid of the layoffs. These companies need to be taken down a notch.
I tried a few paper searches, was not impressed.

"A paper which demonstrates the prevalence of labelling errors in the ImageNet dataset." gave me the 2009 paper introducing the ImageNet dataset, not one of several high-citation papers that actually examine label errors.

"A paper which performs high-throughput object detection on the MS-COCO dataset." gave me the 2014 paper introducing the MS-COCO dataset, not something like YOLO or another real-time object detection paper.

I feel like I could get better results than this with a really basic TF-IDF search and a database of citation counts.
Russia also blown up ammo storage in Czechia killing two years ago, guess what happened... And mind that was intentional act far away from Russian or Ukrainian border, not some misguided missile right across border fence.
Galactica: the Language Model that Wrote Its Own Scientific Paper

https://medium.com/@aronbrand/galactica-the-language-model-t...
I think the "total recall" search can be a killer feature
Links Are Not Buttons
I don’t think the main interest is energy storage today, I think it is to replace other sources of hydrogen in industrial processes. Hydrogen as a fuel to say cook food or run a power producing turbine competes with many other energy sources and carriers but for industrial purposes there is often no alternative or the alternative is carbon heavy. (E.g. carbon monoxide is used to reduce iron in a blast furnace, hydrogen is substitutable for CO for many metallurgical functions.)
From the Lemmy docs:

> On Lemmy you're able to subscribe to communities on any other server, and can have discussions with users registered elsewhere.
> If you only want bigger text in iOS Safari, the popup menu allows you to resize the text on the fly.

Which also zooms in on the content, thus only letting me see part of the total width of the page. Which results in me having to both scroll horizontally and vertically.
I definitely not erring on Zelensky's side, that's for sure. I'm trying to stay neutral, but Russian propaganda so far was much more convincing to me compared to Ukrainian one, so I might err on Putin's side despite not liking him at all.
The Art of Code 2022 at CHM
>Can't we just have a place where we discuss things without bringing in the latest political talking point?

Not since Arab Spring or rather shortly thereafter. I'm not sure if there was a ramp-up of "active measures" style agitation, "cointelpro" style group antagonism or what the exact mechanism was. But any way you slice it, it has become increasingly impossible for competing groups within the same sphere to communicate much less for their to be a dialog between the left and right.

No one can dialog with anybody else because the people upstairs want it that way!
If you're comparing it to reddit, it'd just be like subscribing to two subreddits with similar topics. It's moderated by different people so the rules change but the links might be about the same thing.
Not quite the same as an entirely ex-Blizzard staffed group of people, but Riot Games and League of Legends as well. Tom Cadwell[0] was there from the very beginning of League's life and has had considerable influence over the development and growth of the game. Before that, he was on Warcraft 3's development team and supposedly (supposedly because I can't remember despite being on the War3 forums, and can't find evidence of it) had a hand in developing its fairly successful esports scene. And before that, he was actually one of the first Starcraft pro gamers in the late 90's, just before the explosion of esports in South Korea.

He's kind of a one-man army, but his influence definitely has shaped the more popular games and industry landscape today.

[0]: https://www.riotgames.com/en/who-we-are/riot-games-leadershi...
Ha! I didn't see your comment when I just posted mine. Strange that we'd go there
but I want everyone to perform the same landgrab for handles every time a new service comes along. Don't worry about where ambiguities exist, it'll be handled via first comes first serve, trademark law, or just by reselling names on the black market /s
Amazing! The only way I can imagine to improve this would be to add music/sound effects that become louder or fainter depending on your location: Boney M, Pink Floyd, the Muppets "Mahna Mahna" song etc. etc.
"Back then" the Internet was disproportionately populated by educated people—college students, academics, engineers, and the professional class. Disenfranchised people were not using the Internet on their phones during their breaks.
You quoted the section I was answering, and then went on that tangent yes.

Which I figured was because you couldn’t see the connection, otherwise you would have quoted another section?
"Game developers are paid well above the average income for the country and you work in an office where nobody would possibly get hurt" is a claim that falls apart if you do much research. The industry is full of horror stories of people ending up hospitalized as a result of aggressive schedules (salaried roles with no OT pay or constraints on time! people sleeping in the office, working 6-7 day weeks for months at a time, etc!) and the pay really is NOT that competitive at most studios. There are outliers that pay really well, mostly ones backed by silicon valley investment money, but the median is not that good.
Not picking a fight isn't the same as pretending something doesn't exist.
As far as existing terminals are concerned, I don’t know. FWIW, there are similar problems (though only to the point of looking wrong, not of misunderstanding) in other scripts: Cyrillic as used in Bulgarian and a number of other languages[1] and even Latin as used in Polish[2].

Even the Han version, though, does not seem to me to be the sort of “what does it even mean?” problem like those I listed above; more like what you want the input to be. You can make your terminal keep language state, e.g. using the deprecated language tags. Pro: some form of this likely already needs to happen for bidi support; similar to what HTML does. Con: no text file or program ever did this; your nice UTF-8-only terminal is now stateful and goes mad after `head /dev/urandom`. Alternatively, you can require the driving program to emit variation selectors for each Han character. Pro: the state and the ensuing madness is now limited; you can still pretend you’re looking at a stream of characters. Con: no text file or program ever did this; neither does HTML although it theorerically could.

[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cyrillic_alternates....

[2] https://www.twardoch.com/download/polishhowto/kreska.html
Um, recruit some more users? This is a good opportunity to take personal responsibility and individual accountability for a problem as you see it.

The first thing people need to learn about stoicism is that you can't change other people as much as you want to. Make peace with this and do things that are in your control.