skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I definitely don’t agree with your political belief that automated location stalking broadcast on social media should be protected speech

As is absolutely you right! And, were this more private data (like the location of his car being published), I’d be much closer to agreeing with you position.

I think the SCOTUS position on “reasonable expectation of privacy” is not great for taking into account the way our panopticon is able to process so much data that used to be public, but hard to gather at scale.

I’d be pretty willing to be convinced that we should have a serious discussion on the merits and drawbacks of significantly expanding privacy rights, to make some of that illegal.

That being said, the movements of airplanes are inherently public information right now, and already public “at scale”, so I just don’t see a world where I’d agree that aircraft movements should be a part of that framework.

> the belief that the US 1st amendment actually does protect it.

This is a less subjective claim, and is just not accurate. The first amendment absolutely allows someone to publish that information. It’s published publicly by the government! The first amendment absolutely unambiguously protects that information currently.
The way these image generating neural nets are trained is illegal. They copy and use other artists' work without asking them or paying them. There's a lot of legal exposure here - why hasn't anyone taken advantage of that yet?
Hey HN! I launched Reflio earlier this year as an open-source alternative to some other, bigger affiliate program management tools. I'm really pleased to say that after a while of development, our Reflio:Paddle integration is now live.

This enables everybody who is using Paddle for payments to now integrate with Reflio :)
I don't understand, I'm trying to get a genuine answer as to why people are still doing this.
> Isn't he suing the person behind the tracking thing? Musk thinks this is against the law, so he isn't being inconsistent with that tweet.

You can sue anyone for anything. If you're going to say that only illegal things don't belong, you should wait for the legal system to produce a judgment.

> But even if he was, one tweet isn't really much of a commitment. People throw out tweets they don't mean all the time.

He's said it multiple times. If you don't mean it, how about you just don't say it?

> Running a company like twitter is a bit more serious - they can't moderate just based on interpretations of what Elon tweets. And they were never going to.

Except so far that's exactly what is happening. Musk promised "free speech", so far everything indicates that in reality what we get is "Elon rules". In the end it's simply about what he wants, nothing more.

Mind, I fully agree he's got the right to do anything he wants. It's his site now. I'm just pointing out the inconsistency.
I dont get your point. Quote 1 line of my comment that is "fabricated". Everything I said is true and objectively so. So why are you hell bent on acting like this shit doesnt exist. Maybe you think its nit a serious organization that could effectively implement its goals? You could make that argument. But no, youre saying that what I'm saying is fabricated: and that is undeniably, objectively, complete bullshit. More of the same bizarre gaslighting
DBT Cloud increase Team plan price by 100% and limit features at the same time
Price will go up from $50 to $100 per seat. Now can only have 8 seats instead of 40 seats and only 1 project instead of unlimited projects.
Waze's use case: navigation without using all the battery

Maps's use case:

> I used Maps just for finding new restaurants and other places.
It's about as crowded as it was in the aluminum PowerBook G4 days when you had the 12" iBook, 14" iBook, 12" PB G4, 15" PB G4 and 17" PB G4. Now they have the 13" MBA, the 13" MBP, 14" MBP, and 16" MBP. The only model that really needs to go is the 13" MBP as it brings very little to the table over the MBA. A 15" MBA would make a lot more sense than the 13" MBP IMO.
The difference in speed is still huge, for example
sbcl

(time (loop for i from 1 below (expt 10 8) by 2 when
(zerop (rem i 3) count t))

this takes 0.131 seconds

versus python

import time
def gato():
start = time.time()
s = sum(1 if i % 3 == 0 else 0 for i in range(1,10\**8,2))
end = time.time()
print(s)
print(end-start)

gato()

takes 2.26 seconds, that is 20 times the sbcl version (I am using python 3.10.6)
You'll need a constant power supply for the entirety of the trip. After doing the math, it turns out, fission seems quite viable - all usual fuels, in storage, have half-lives of more than 10,000 years.

So, if you have enough fissiles for keeping the closed ecosystem happy for the duration of the flight, you can go quite far.

The ship/colony will need to enter orbit around a star and drop by a rocky planet at some point, to gather more fissiles and reaction mass (and other materials needed for fixes and upgrades), so it wouldn't be able to stay indefinitely in deep space. If it's fusion-driven, a gas giant may be a good option for both fuel and reaction mass, and icy moons may work well for replacing water.
Cramer's hedge fund did very well, and his picks for his sales clients at Goldman were very good and his reputation based on making a lot of money for sales clients gave him the ability to raise his fund.

Running a huge fund is very stressful and Cramer I don't think was cut out for it. It's a lot easier to perform on TV and he has made a lot of money that way. In the 90's I respected him but I think he has fallen a long way from there.
I wrote a similar prompt but for a discord bot that would take a youtube url and some timestamps and return a gif.

Afterwards I asked it to add an option to "deep fry" the gif. Not only did it produce the correct code it also understood what I meant when referring to deep fried gifs. I was definitely impressed.
Yup, you can write standalone Elixir scripts. Running "elixir myscript.exs" gives you that.
Not exactly the same thing but JITs can turn dynamic objects into structs if the structure is consistent. JS runtimes and Julia do this as far as I know.
There's a very long way between being the model of morality and being someone like Musk.
Thanks for the additional tools to tackle this problem. We usually don’t have problems with this at work, but I just so happened to discover one today and was dreading the work it will take to sort out how to fix it.
"Crackpots often use modern communications mediums to publish their insane ramblings"

You would prefer a centralized and curated old-school publishing mechanism.
I once used it (on a personal project) to add a sad-face emoji to the page’s <title> if the page wasn’t visible. It would change to a heart when they returned.

(Edit: since the emoji was prefixed, you could see it on the background tab)
When we lived in an HOA, owners were responsible for their own paint, and I guess for their own tree work. (The builders planted a lot of Bradford pears, which are showy in the spring, but are structurally weak once they reach a certain height. It was not unusual to see about 30' of pear tree across somebody's lawn.)
GE computers still have a legacy today, in the form of the GECOS field in Unix(like) /etc/passwd files.
Proxy has been abused a lot but always in very interesting ways. ObjectBuffer[0] is a great example, which I also tried to (poorly) reimplement myself.

It creates a new data structure that behaves as an object but is backed by SharedArrayBuffer, in order to support parallel computation over it.

- [0]: https://github.com/Bnaya/objectbuffer
And the vast majority of professionally produced artwork is for business use. It’s packaging design or illustration or corporate graphics or logos or whatever.

I don’t get the objection.
Can someone explain to me what this is, like I’m five years old?
Yes. Everything you need while driving is on the wheel or at a well defined corner of the screen (which big touch targets). And that too can be avoided if you’re willing to use voice control.
And if charities/universities are unwilling or unable to give all of the emergency medicine needed?
> IANA Employment Lawyer, so take everything here with a huge grain of salt, but is the separate product going to be a separate company? If it is would some mix of equity + cash work? If not, it seems like some custom contract based on the product and its dedicated revenues/profits might be necessary with lawyers involved.

It will be, yes! I do think it should work. I think I'm slightly worried about how much is appropriate given an unspecified time commitment.

> But no one, especially early on when they're small or solo, wants to go hire a lawyer to write these contracts. I wonder if we can create good templates for rev/profit shares for solo/indie/bootstrapped businesses. Think the SAFE that YC created, but more around profit or revenue shares.

Think this is a fantastic idea actually! I think there's a lot of projects out there that would benefit from this type of risk sharing in a way that would make sense for both parties.

> If this is interesting to you shoot me a msg would love to talk to others who are seeing this type of problem.

I'll definitely do that. Let me try to do a bit more research on my part too!

> Also, if you know Gumroad, they're building out a new product called Flexile.com that enables companies to hire contractors but also give them equity/dividends. It's not released yet, but may be worth looking into and getting on the waiting list. May or may not solve this exact problem but it's in a similar realm.

Super interesting. Will go and check it out!
that's new to me, did not track this field for a few years. zigbee protocol was too complex in the past for me on resource restricted devices, while zwave is so much light-weight, then that's just the technical side.
maybe that's why z-wave now opens up, it's forced to do so or it dies.
Yup same. For me this is the only alternative browser project worth talking about as it is creating a web engine from scratch.
We can enjoy it if there's more of us. Each class can have 5 teachers instead of one teacher on 30 kids. Government can create those jobs, take the hundred of trillions created and redistribute it. Marx was right I think capitalism eventually kills itself ...we won't need it anymore. Arguably we already don't need the aggressive version we have now but soon enough it will be clear we don't need any version of it.
The means of production (AI, robots and land) will be transferred to the people who will all receive basic income, free services and (if they want) jobs created by the government for the greater good. I don't think its a dystopia.
The SGI Users Group is actively working on porting (relatively) current Linux software to IRIX.

SGUG-RSE includes over 2700 packages ported from Fedora Core 31 SRPMs.

https://github.com/sgidevnet/sgug-rse for all 3 of you with SGI machines here.
And one can come up with plenty of alternative ways of discovering relevant research without blocking or delaying publication or having researchers spend many hours bending over backwards for all kinds of minutiae that don't meaningfully help with that goal.

(Disclosure: I volunteer for one attempt at such an alternative, https://plaudit.pub.)
What motivates people to "do science"?
They become religion the moment that anyone else uses the “wrong” tool.
Software shouldn't be a large part of our lives
Ever observed a filter pre and post smoke? Its defintely doing something.

Furthermore ever smoked weed through a cig filter? You barely get any effects if any at all. Because it filters thc out. So no, its not just for show.
I'm literally speechless. What an arrogant and egotistical comment. This is why us tech workers have a such a bad rep as culturally ignorant/bubbled community. Do a bit of research into jazz theory and counterpoint theory before you make this kind of blatant over generalization.
Data-diff v0.3: DuckDB, efficient in-database diffing and more
Hi HN:

We at Datafold are excited to announce a new release of data-diff (https://github.com/datafold/data-diff), an open-source tool that efficiently compares tables within or across a wide range of SQL databases. This release includes a lot of new features, improvements and bugfixes.

We released the first version 6 months ago because we believe that diffing data is as fundamental of a capability as diffing code in data engineering workflows. Over the past few months, we have seen data-diff being adopted for a variety of use-cases, such as validating migration and replication of data between databases (diffing source and target) and tracking the effects of code changes on data (diffing staging/dev and production environments).

With this new release data-diff is significantly faster at comparing tables within the same database, especially when there are a lot of differences between the tables. We've also added the ability to materialize the diff results into a database table, in addition to (or instead of) outputting them to stdout. We've added support for DuckDB, and for diffing schemas. Improved support for alphanumerics, and threading, and generally improved the API, the command-line interface, and stability of the tool.

We believe that data-diff is a valuable addition to the open source community, and we are committed to continue growing it and the community around it. We encourage you to try it out and let us know what you think!

You can read more about data-diff on our GitHub page at the following link: https://github.com/datafold/data-diff/

To see the list of changes for the 0.3.0 release, go here: https://github.com/datafold/data-diff/releases/tag/v0.3.0
Technically I'd imagine AI threatens developers (https://singularityhub.com/2022/12/13/deepminds-alphacode-co...) a lot more than artists because there's a tangible (or 'objectively correct') problem being solved by the AI. Whereas art is an entirely subjective endeavor, and ultimately the success of what is being made is left up to how someone is feeling. I also imagine humans will begin to look at AI generated art very cynically. Maybe we all collectively agree we hate AI art, and it becomes as cliché as terrible stock photography. Or, we just choose not to appreciate anything that doesn't come with a 'Made By Humans' authentication... Pretty simple solution for the artists.

Obviously a lot of money will be lost for artists in a variety of commercial fields, but the ultimate "success of art" will be unapproachable by AI given its subjective nature.

Developers though will be struggling to compete from both a speed and technical point of view, and those hurdles can't be simply overcome with a shift in how someone feels. And you're right about the arms race, it just won't be happening with humans. It'll be computing power, AIs and the people capable of programming those AIs.
Nope, I always knew it was a thing. Just like there are some people who go full-on FreeBSD or categorically refuse to use non-free software. Richard Stallman exists, after all, and is a celebrity.

And I also knew, for quite a while, that positions analogous to that of Stallman should never be taken at face value as something that the general public would care to even know about, let alone support or follow through. And it isn't because I am jaded or don't have faith in people, quite the opposite. It is because average people as a group tend to be pretty good at (perhaps blindly) filtering things into the "practically matters" and "doesn't ultimately matter" buckets.

In relation to this specific scenario, despite the negative reaction to my initial comment on HN and Elon's public perception trending increasingly negative, recent Tesla car sales numbers (which keep increasing) seem to only support my point. People online might loudly say XYZ, but once you look at the numbers that matter, the reality looks a bit differently.
I don't know how to describe it succinctly, but I find there to be a stark category difference between what the article talks about and what you mention. In particular, the former is what I appreciate as a user, the latter is what I hate.

> Furthermore, at least in my experience, longer product pages don’t actually have a significantly negative impact for on-site conversion rates.

That's probably because e-commerce stores aren't commodity. The user is going to convert anyway, even if they hate every minute of the experience.
I hope we will get some AI for static analysis. It would be nice to hover on a symbol and get high level description of what it does, what pattern it follows, etc. AI can access not only current state of the code, but it's entire history, which no human would have time for.
So embrace, extend, extinguish?

Maybe if the extinguish google or esri that would be a good thing. Way too many money changers in the spatial domain. It makes me want to found a startup to democratize the democratization of democratized foo.
This will be a losing battle for artists. Anyone can train any data they want. It's the equivalent of a human learning to draw someone else's art style or take photos the same as a famous photographer. There is no stopping it now and it's only going to get better and easier. Video is getting close to being just as accessible as image or text generation. Regardless of how you feel about all this, there's no stopping it. It's the future.
Peer review in academia may very well be like the suppression of prostitution in Aquinas' thought: yeah, prostitution is really bad, but if you try to suppress it, things will become far worse. The prudent statesman, while rightly repulsed by prostitution as such, humbly recognizes the limits of his power to constrain human vice through legal means. Of course, that doesn't mean that there aren't ways to encourage a populace toward self-reflection and self-discipline that don't involve legal suppression.
And you can get commercial support for both GECOS and GCOS from Atos these days.
Sure. But if the only way Elon can learn why something is bad is through first-hand experience, will he act against speech that threatens minority groups he's not part of? What about those that are economically disadvantaged?

You can already see this lack of empathy at work in how he's trying to claw back severance he owes Twitter's ex-employees.
The original comment wanted to try a demo like this. A RTX 3080 only runs it at 50 fps. A 1060 isn't good enough.
Fleeting idea that could be combined with that: a web-of-trust social network where you can only "friend" people in real life, by tapping phones.

When you do so, the app might say, "The person you just met claims to be Joe Schmoe, do you want to vouch for them?" If you approve them, they can message you and vice versa. A friend of Joe's can see you in his friend list, and try to message you, and you can accept it if you trust Joe, but they won't be a first-tier friend until you meet them. Your tweet-like posts can be seen by anyone, or your friends only, or people within N connections of you, as you prefer.

I think it could be implemented in a distributed way, with no central server, if some proportion of the users are willing to serve their traffic from a VPS rather than just their phone. If someone cheats (uses a fork of the app that lets them "friend" people they haven't met, create fake identities, lie about their friends graph, etc), it wouldn't affect you unless you trust them. Over enough time and with enough use, this might be good enough to figure out whether someone distant from you (e.g. someone you're about to make an Ebay purchase from) is using their real identity or not, as the "main" part of the overall friend graph that a real user with a lot of friends is connected to would be structurally distinguishable from the subnets created by cheaters.

(This is not a cherished idea I've been working on for years and am prepared to defend, just a random idea I thought I'd post in case it sparks an idea for someone, so be polite in ripping it to shreds pls)
Considering Stable Diffusion generates 3-channel (RGB) images, maybe it would be possible to train it on amplitude and phase data as two different channels?
The Hardest Part Is Showing Up
I have the axe but not the skills :)
Still love the original theme from Tron.

As much as the Tron (2010) movie's score had a "cool" factor it lacked the heart and soul of the original.

If they ever do another one I'd like to see the original Carlos' Tron's leitmotif woven back into it.
Cranelift Progress in 2022
ChatGPT!
Well of course you can divide up the mass and build several smaller installations.

I was merely hinting at the fact that pumped hydro storage can be made more compact and flexible by compressing the liquid with a piston.
> link aggregation

One thing I've noticed over the years is that most social media companies have slowly started to discourage outbound links.

On reddit a surprising number of subs no longer allow you to just submit links, and a growing number require review before posting external content.

Even Twitter (before Musk) was clearly deprioritizing external links.

This is a bit troubling because it further leads to the "dead internet" where it gets harder and harder for people making interesting content independent of major sites to get visibility.

I think of the main reasons HN remains relatively high quality is its primary function is still aggregating pointers to elsewhere.
I had extensive comments yesterday praising this (especially the low latency), & calling out the future horizons (simulcast, multi-streaming) it might lead towards.

It's still questionable to me to call this WebRTC though. My understanding is it's only output is WHIP, WebRTC-HTTP Ingestion Protocol, which is used by CDNs to actually do the WebRTC protocol browsers do. It's near WebRTC but a couple steps short, seemingly. https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-wish-whip-05.txt
So how do you combine social network + forum? What does that look like?
Yes, monomorphization isn't needed in theory, as long as the user-visible behavior remains the same, and in practice the team is exploring options[1] to identify cases where the currently manual practice of writing

pub fn foo<T: AsRef<X>>(x: T) {
inner_foo(x.as_ref());
}
fn inner_foo(_: &X) { todo!() }

can be instead done by the compiler automatically (turning monomorphized code back into polymorphic code, hence the polimorphization hame).

[1]: https://rustc-dev-guide.rust-lang.org/backend/monomorph.html...
>If someone has legally protected their artwork, you can't just apply a photoshop layer to it and claim it is yours as fair use though, right?

That depends on what the layer was, and there is current cases heading to supreme court that have something similar to that so we may see

however commentary is just one type of fair use and would not be a factor here, nor is anyone claiming the AI is reselling the original work. The claim is that copyright law prevents unauthorized use of a work in the training of AI, AI training could (and likely would) be treated as research, and the result of the research is a derivative work wholly separate from the original and created under fair use
They've expanded their areas of product focus - I agree that as they've done that, some of their refinement has slipped. They're not bad by any stretch, but some of that "it just works" magic is looking a little threadbare these days.
A perpetual flow of benefits: wilderness economic values
I got to use it in a Wal-Mart or Toys-r-Us or something, once. I distinctly remember that the demo was tucked away on some toy aisle, not even with the other video games & consoles. They must already have realized it was a flop by the time I even saw one in the wild.

I never really regarded that as a proper console, though, since it was very solo-play focused like a handheld, but it's also obviously not a portable gaming device, either. It was its own thing.