skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> - Made a mod removing all non-white characters in a video game.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=15187...

“Edit 26-mar-2020: finally, the injustice has been corrected: all races are welcome! You can choose the range of skin colors you want in mod settings.”

> - Put black people and artists who draw black people in a category/folder called "n".

this doesn’t really mean anything.

> - Is allegedly also anti-semitic but I don't think the "((()))" thing is proof of that.

besides using () for weights what other proof do you have for your public accusation?

> Just a racist being banned.

love these kinds of conclusions drawn from conjectures.
> PS for any aspiring entrepreneurs: don't offer lifetime plans, and definitely not for $19, lol.

To be fair though, the chances of your service still being around and GP still getting value from it 13y later were pretty slim weren't they? After all, you listed some other SaaS products shutdown in the interim in OP, did any of those have lifetime [of the product] plans?

Of course, I do realise non-recurring sales (coupled with the non-recurring sales not continuing, growth in users slowing) hurts those chances itself.
“Parametric Buttocks Manipulator” is a post title for the ages.
I’m not sure if the simple example is faulty, but to me it seems like this can easily be done with a classical physics system. For example a white light beam passing through a randomly oriented prism and using mirrors to either send the purple or red light beam to Alice/Bob, don’t really need entanglement
Yes /s

Not everyone checks out daily HN to see all the reposts. Pulling numbers out of the air, I'd say that 5-10% of daily content on HN is a repost, should get used to it. Just hide it an carry on is what I would suggest.
Most likely her cosmetics are fully designed, manufactured and distributed by a well-established company such as Procter & Gamble.
And you still don't see how that could be considered racist, like you said in your previous comment? How "him coming from 4chan is no stranger to the n word" might be inconsistent with you "assuming the best of people."?
Most Apple and Amazon Books are DRM encumbered, but not all. AFAIK, there isn’t a way to tell before you buy the book except by choosing books from publishers that don’t use DRM on any of their titles.
> You may be able to get the equivalent of jax via numba+numpy+autograd[1], but I haven't tried it before.

I have tried it before [0]. And it works. As expected. Not much friction.

[0]: sorry no github
It maters since decentralization is not a silver bullet. There is always some main repo, and it is hard to change it, or even just inform people about change. If you want other people to participate in your project then hosting it on biggest/most popular service reduces entry barrier
The (and i mean this seriously) delightful part of your response is that it’s as old as written history.

Personally, I choose to find that reassuring.
Adding my own n=1 anecdote here - a member contributing to an open source project I'm involved in, who had a few repositories on GH with extensions to that project but no other notable 'negative' activity, had gotten a permanent suspension from GitHub a few years ago for responding to a mildly abusive issue report on the main project with the well-known 'Navy SEALs copypasta'... the abuser then reported them and their account - including their helpful and invaluable extension repositories - was nuked, while the abuser then could continue to abuse under both the original account and various other aliases.

They left the community shortly after, likely in part fueled by the way an abuser got their GitHub account destroyed while the abuser pretty much remained unscathed.
More like "yeah, I know." Baidu news soon after the Ukrainian invasion read exactly like the Russian talking points, to the point where you would see lines like the West waging "total economic war" in response to the "special military operation."
Agreed, how was I supposed to know that Circle CI would lose all the secret keys? I mean I always knew it was a possibility and our team planned for it...but what are you actually talking about?
Empirical evidence of a pause and its length is not indicative of how the typical listener will interpret it.
There are numerous matriarchal societies throughout history… so basically no.
I can't tell if you're serious? I'll take your comment at face-value: Graham Hancock is not a trustworthy source. His "inspiration" is based on thoroughly discredited, white supremacist garbage. The fundamental thesis of his work is that: (1) white people have had civilization for (tens?) of thousands of years; and, (2) nonwhites are too stupid to have discovered/developed anything.
I dabbled in 4k video editing as a hobby. It transformed into a storage related fascination (ceph on a pi cluster), just because of the sheer volume of data 4k processing needs.

I just can't imagine how the video editing industry could adopt 8k realistically without any significant technological breakthroughs.
Someone who hunts at night. My grandpa could always tell which lunar phase will we are at, despite never having periods.
Yes, saying the latter word on reddit will get your account permanently banned site-wide...
This is the best comment thread I’ve ever seen on a McLuhan clip. Guess I need to pay attention to HN.
> Why are all the nice things ruined by bigots.

They aren't. If we just go about doing our thing such as using triple parentheses to mean hugs and the OK symbol to mean OK and the country's flag to mean reasonable love of home and country, then they'll find some other symbol. By making a big deal about what those people get up to and so avoiding them, we cede these beautiful, powerful symbols to assholes. Don't do it. It's the ceding that ruins them.
>The new law applies to any websites whose content is at least 33.3% pornographic material that is "harmful to minors," according to the bill signed last June. The law doesn't specify how the 33.3% would be calculated.

>"Any commercial entity that knowingly and intentionally publishes or distributes material harmful to minors on the internet from a website that contains a substantial portion of such material shall be held liable if the entity fails to perform reasonable age verification methods to verify the age of individuals attempting to access the material," the bill states.

Since there is zero proof that porn is bad for anyone, let alone that that is known to site owners, this is a perfect example of an unenforcable law designed to make a political point not a practical one...
QAnon was a 4chan psyop and look where that ended up. These things tend to take on a life of their own once removed from their original context.
I'm also against tracking users while on the app.

If we compare it to a store, I'm OK with minimal tracking, eg security cameras, but I'm not OK with keeping the recordings forever or tracking my individual behavior (which is already happening).
...although I have to say that it is a little bit embarrassing that my "reputation" up to now is mainly from this thread. –
mikuszefski
Nov 25, 2014 at 18:19
"Once your request is submitted, it takes one to two months to process the book and conduct quality checks."

My guess is that these generated voices are far from perfect and someone has to go in and crank the algorithm to get a fair number of passages to not sound strange.

Even in the example Helena there is a word at the end of a sentence that sounds like it should be in the middle and has a bit of weirdness to it. Still, very impressive, I think better than I remember Amazon Poly sounding.
The last picture shows 14 dots - not any lunar cycle I know of.

I have to wonder, with a small sample what's the odds the dots and the reproductive cycle is just a coincidence?
I argue they're ruined by people not parsing context (whether deliberately or otherwise).

Back when the alt-right "Electric Boogaloo" thing was going on, one article I think hit the nail on the head saying something "If you want to wear a Hawaiian shirt, go for it. Just maybe think twice about accessorizing with body armor and assault rifles." The point being that just because some nut jobs make a point of wearing Hawaiian shirt under their militia get-up doesn't poison Hawaiian shirts. Context matters.

This string has legitimate uses and also offensive uses. Context decides which one it is.
If increased stress and the demand for 8 hours of uninterrupted mentally challenging work exacerbates ADHD, why wouldn't increased food availability - especially high density ones - exacerbate obesity in those with a a satiety loop defect.

If you eat until you are no longer physically capable of eating more it sure matters if you ate vegetables or pastries.
I guess I've been using Emacs for 20+ years at this point, but I've only started using org-mode in a serious way in the past two/three.

One of the things I like most about it is that it doesn't enforce any particular work-flow on you. That lack of structure means that I can arrange and organize things as I see fit.

I keep two journals/diaries using org-mode:

* One for work, where I write down "everything" I did that day, often with commands and output as I do various tasks.

* One for my personal life, dates with people, notes on when I bought things, and regular recurring tasks for the house (e.g. "change toothbrush" every two months.)

On top of that I'm a landlord, and I use a single file per property. Records of tenants, monthly income/expenses.

I wrote some simple lisp to create tables of income per-tenant, profit/loss over distinct years, etc.

Every time I enter a suitable row for a month the whole document updates:

* Income/Expenses for the current year.

* Global income/expenses since I got the property.

* The tenant-table gets updated to say "Victoria total income: €1234, tenant for 14 months".

I wouldn't have setup such a system in a google sheet, or similar, but having down this now I just copy and paste a bunch of tables and change 2022 -> 2023 and I'm all set for the current year.
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Those things were AWESOME!

Also, real steam engines, acetylene-driven.

One of my favorite toys, was a sheet-metal Buck Rogers-style spaceship, with a sparking wheel (think lighter flint).

Don't get me started on the cool chemistry sets...
Guessing she is talking about acme.sh, the 8000 line shell script.

It has lines like:

_dnsAltnames="$(${ACME_OPENSSL_BIN:-openssl} req -noout -text -in "$_csrfile" | grep "^ *DNS:.*" | tr -d ' \n')"

But in its defense, acme.sh works on all major OS
I wonder what is the ratio of "promising" players in those who get some training? If there is substantial amount of kids called promising isn't it just expected that most of them quit?
Topologically they are both Genus 1 surface
I'm not sure what is worse, the kindergarten level drama around this project that I never heard before today, or some of the low effort comments I'm seeing here scrolling the page.
I fully agree, our team just had to change one set of keys, other teams didn't follow best practices and are in a bad situation.

It's not Circle's fault people didn't do things propertly, but I think they just owe us a better explanation.
Thank you.

Personally I would not call any of the actions racist. The first one can be a legitimate use case with an incredibly poor choice of identifier (or incredibly good in at least one scenario). The mod being updated kind of argues for itself.

I think I will see on the side of caution and call it ignorance instead of malice.

The scenario is one where the n is completely harmless and the purported(on Reddit) word was nowhere in the mind when being typed.

Seems like the kind of thing GitHub should reach out to people about before acting on. At least where there is any (even farfetched) possible explanation.
I don't recommend Julia for anything critical to production.
That would be racist.

Even if I think that's the most likely situation, I give him the benefit of the doubt, that's what I meant.
No, I don't actually think there's 2 billion people that care or reflect on the differences between "Bibles". Let's say it's 0.1% of them. Let's say it's 0.01% of them. Maybe it's even less.

How many people care deeply about the works of Shakespeare or Homer, enough to think about the meaning and autorship of the texts (for example, to know that the story of the trojan horse is actually mostly told by Virgil, or that probably Homer, if he ever existed, didn't write both the Iliad and the Odyssey)? I think fewer than that.
Is that a good reason to dismiss all research on it? That was the original implication, to which I was trying to answer.

Admittedly I overly estimated the number of people to make a point, but I'd still say there's more people who care about the Bible than Lisp, yet we don't see many comments like "ugh, new article on Lisp, who cares? It's a dead language anyway"...
> saddened at a future where all this is locked up in corporate hands

I would guess this rolls out from big companies first because the first version is always the most difficult. It’s only going to get easier to do and I would totally expect end-user controlled TTS systems to get better and eventually exceed the capabilities of this version from Apple. Of course Apple isn’t going to sit still, so they will continue to improve as well.

Are there examples from ten or twenty years ago of a technology that big companies had locked up that never made it out to end users? What we have might lag, but it seems like this stuff only ever gets easier to do.
Only slightly disappointed this wasn't about how to befriend cows.
It’s the same as the answer to “how to outrun a grizzly?”. Have a friend with you that’s slower than you ;)
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Why does the read operation only break entanglement in 50% of the cases?
> ... nonwhites are too stupid to have discovered/developed anything.

Except that, e.g. the Dogon civilization is also many thousands of years old and had complex astronomical knowledge about extra-solar bodies which rivals that of modern times. There's nothing whatsoever about Graham Hancock's working hypotheses that's inherently exclusive to Europeans.
Thing is I looked at the 8K side by side with my new 4K LG G2, I genuinely couldn't see the difference in 8K Dolby Vision content running natively vs 4K on the G2. (which is why I took the LG home instead of the 8K Samsung I was comparing it to, subjectively I preferred the LGs HDR presentation).

Maybe someone with better eyes than me can but I'm never getting younger so my eyes are downhill from here so if I can't see it today I'm not going to see it in the future.

I'm not talking about something subjective like "I don't think it's worth the difference", I'm talking "my eyes literally can't see the difference".
The point as I understood it was that if en-US is indexed, it makes no sense to index en-GB too.
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Wait, what?

AUTOMATIC had nothing to do with that prompt. A user from the Furry Diffusion Discord wrote it and I was suspended from reddit for posting it here (NSFW): https://www.reddit.com/r/FurAI/comments/y2l9o5/want_a_ride_m...

The suspension was lifted on appeal. Terms like “disfigured” were in the negative prompt to make appearance less likely, and the parentheses were to add or reduce weight of certain terms. I’m amused, but baffled, to see it brought up here at all—it should have nothing at all to do with any of this.
I suggest getting annoyed at the people who are constantly trying to think of new anti-Semitic dogwhistles. They make everyone's life harder.
MSG is very common in Asia and has been for a while (you can buy it in 1 kg bags) yet Asia has low obesity.
Generally past experience is an indicator that said person worked at a certain tier level (tier 1-4 companies) and was well adjusted healthy human being that held the job for a healthy amount of time.

You verify this by simple background checks. Any shitbag background check company can call up a HR department and verify employment dates, you don’t need to call references yourself or get any references at all. It’s a clinical procedure that a third party does for you.

That is a solid indicator of a normal reasonable employee.

Skills is something you have to verify separate to that.

This sounds like you didn’t do a w2 check or a proper skill screen. It’s on you, not them.

Surely you aren’t one of those people that believes dev resumes that say ‘architected this that and this in this that and this language’, are you? Lol

Dev resumes are a running joke. Do a w2 check, followed by a take home project that is a good representation of the work you want them to do. Ditch the leetcode stuff, and gut feeling bullshit, and you won’t ever have an issue.
Yeah I think the important thing is regardless of the origin, or the order of events ... it is now sometimes used by white nationalists.

However I don't think that on its use on its own would cause a mob to mass report your account or anything. It's not so self-evidently a sign of hate as a hakenkreuz or the nazi salute would be, it's just worth remembering that in some rare situations it could be poorly received.
>Science is the business of finding the best explanations that account for all observations.

This is exactly what induction means. Even your wording is almost identical to that of the Wikipedia page on "Inductive reasoning".

> One of the consequences of this methodology is that it turns out that all known observable phenomena can be described by fairly simple mathematical laws. But science does not assume this.

I'm not sure you fully comprehend, it's much simpler. Science does presuppose that observations mean anything related to more general rules, otherwise what would be the point of observations, right? Otherwise all data would be equivalent to TV static and to build a house we would just hope it builds itself. The way you hedge your bets with phrases like "can be described by" and "appear to" makes me think you intuitively understand the limitations of science when it comes to capturing absolute truths, such as analytical a priori truths (e.g. all bachelors are unmarried), which are correct by definition.
I've worked on 2 companies where I was in a team of 4/5 devs + 1 SRE in charge of the infra. In both cases, once the SRE guy created the appropriate terraform modules and CI template, he had to move on to a new team because there was literally no work left for him to do. Once things are infra as a code and the happy path is defined and implemented as a process, we rarely lost time thinking about infrastructure. Or anything.

The system needs permission for AWS S3? Here is the component. Does it need to setup secrets? Here is the component. Does it needs to be in the same VPC as a Redshift cluster, or whatnot? There's a component for that. Do you need a SQS/RDS/Redis service? You get it.

K8s, terraform and Atlantis have been such huge enablers I cannot overstate. Everything is so nimble and cheaply setup that our current infra bill is about 500USD/month to generate over 100k MRR for the company.

And better yet, we rarely ever think of our infra unless we want to do something brand new (such as testing Sagemaker), or there's unexpected traffic above our current scaling limits (about once a year). Plus, if we need to fix anything infra related there's an internal cookbook for that.

I also feel I have acquired useful skills by learning all of this.
What a fine word "rotate" is in this case
> "That" is superfluous.

I always use the trick when I write of reading the sentence without the "that"...still makes sense then you don't need "that". Mostly.
Always use the OK sign (to mean OK), even if someone else uses it to mean something else. Use it aggressively, always, relentlessly, as protest against bigotry and against language policing.
> the price of also stopping brilliant, unconventional science, where instead we would profit more from letting the scientific public

Also currently on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34257150

In brief, London 'man off the street' solves 20k year Ice Age drawings mystery, published in Cambridge Archaeological Journal via contact with Durham professor. (And he is first author.)

I don't say that to disagree with you by the way - it's undoubtedly a rare example.
Does anyone have a trick for connecting to remote hosts as a non-root user but having it elevate to root to read the logs?
I would be surprised if Slack disclosed publicly exactly which source code provider they used, but something hosted like Github EE sounds like a very reasonable assumption given their response. Maybe someone was given a goal to migrate their main source code repo to a shared Salesforce instance for security or cross team integration reasons, and everything left on Github.com was just the stuff too unimportant to migrate. If so, seems like it payed off for them in this case.
TL/DR well that saves me a click
In the "C" locale, it is required only to support ASCII. "In the 'C' locale, isalpha returns true only for the characters for which isupper or islower is true." N2176 7.4.1.1. "In the 'C' locale, islower returns true only for the lowercase letters (as defined in 5.2.1)." 7.4.1.7. "In the 'C' locale, isupper returns true only for the uppercase letters (as defined in 5.2.1)." 7.4.1.11. Section 5.2.1 in turn only defines "the 26 [basic] uppercase letters of the Latin alphabet [and] the 26 [basic] lowercase letters of the Latin alphabet." 5.2.1(3).

Even when a specific locale is set, it can only support ANSI, since the value must be representable as an unsigned char.

To do anything like the "right answer" in a Unicode world, you need to cast to wide int (wint_t) and call iswalpha, which is likely to be almost as broken. A thing that happens is that C libraries will rely on OS locale character set definitions, which in turn won't be installed except for those languages that are installed. You don't want Armenian Linux? Well guess you can't tell what's punctuation vs what's a letter anymore.
I feel like one thing that should at least be mentioned is that when they uploaded the "White only" mod in september 2018, they also uploaded an equivalent "black only" mod on the same day, followed a few days later by a "yellow only" one after "popular request", something that arguable could be used by people who roleplay in rimworld

All contained basically the same few lines of code that skew the number distribution for the "RandomMelanin" method in the game.

All three are still available on the Steam workshop, although it seems like the functionality of all 3 mods was merged into the "White only" mod, which now provides a slider that lets you select the range instead of hardcoding it, and that is the only source code that remained on their github. This is the only mod of the three that was actively updated for new versions of the game so that has an impact on the statistics as well.
I did try that - the response above is from reddit admins itself.
Also as far as predictions go, I predict that a few years from now there’ll be research and think pieces about the impact learning from artificial voices has on young children.
Among people who are actually into drawing, photography etc, human body is much less of a taboo. For example, to just shoot a basic portrait pleasant enough to hang on the wall, one needs to consider subject's gender, age, body shape and skin tone - for his or her own enjoyment of your work. In the same way, I would imagine you have to first draw buttocks to eventually proceduraly draw a passable clothed person, which has many important applications in art, gaming and even education, medicine, ergonomic design...
For real? Where does that family live? (asking just to know whether the area is safe/not)

There are parts of the world (Compton, for instance) where crime rates are so high houses get broken into no matter what.