skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the most crazy thing to enter Dakar was the DAF Turbo Twin. https://www.carhutt.com/daf-95-turbotwin-x1/

2400bhp in a truck… See this video of it overtaking one of the rally cars to get an idea how truly crazy that machine was: https://youtu.be/DDGbtUsTv24
Even if not having any debt is extremely important to you then you are still out of 2500 on your camera transaction, which is pure loss here. However some people consider not just an amount of debt but its other qualities too and for them having debt of $5000 with 0% APR might be preferable to having $1500 debt with, say, 20%+ APR. At the end you need to count a monetary balance and compare a ($2500) loss on camera together with the interest paid on your $1500 loan against paying $5000 for the camera.

If math is hard consider your end state:

1. Without the camera, without $5000 + interest on the $1500 you borrowed.

2. With a $5000 camera, without $5000 you paid for the camera.

The state of the $4000 bill is the same in both cases, which state you prefer?
...and my favourite term, "characterization test": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Characterization_test

"Regression test" means something else, at least at the companies I've worked at: It means a test that was written after a defect was found in production, to ensure that the same defect doesn't happen again (that the fix doesn't "regress"). It can be a manual test or an automated test.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regression_testing
Woah Oink. I had forgotten what it was called, but I learned so much about digital quality and was exposed to so much new music that I still listen to today.
We don't know the "procedures". They could be braindead, overly complex, and/or impossible to follow.
Nice. I wonder how many phones that run Symbian have hardware floating-point support though.
Containerisation is a clever technology, but I can't help feeling it's a capitulation; an admission that the compatibility problem was just too hard for us to solve.

It's undeniably useful and pragmatic, but its existence should be a source of shame, a constant reminder that we failed.
Forest Mammals Use Time Consistently Throughout the Tropics
Ah yes - gray's law [1] applies here:

"Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice."

Fact remains that a system wherein this is possible is a system that has been exploited. Marshaling the forces to fix the system is the preferred outcome, unless you want the system to remain exploited (ie, you benefit from the situation).

[1] http://wikidumper.blogspot.com/2007/07/greys-law.html
> having spent all my money at a bar forced me to take the subway instead of a cab

an NYC resident "forced" to take the subway... smh
Dungeons and Dragons finally addresses its new Open Gaming License
Was it? On my CX when I press "home" on the remote it only opens a little bar at the bottom of my screen with all the apps. Or do you mean something else?
The VA is almost nothing but old sick people, the demographic most susceptible to serious COVID. Fortunately, most of the population isn't old sick people. The study you reference isn't relevant to conversations about the general population.

The view that risk from subsequent infections is negligible is informed by the fact that vast numbers of people have had subsequent infections, including most of the people they know. Personal experience around this is widely discussed socially, so there is a broad consensus that their personal experience was normal and not an outlier. I live in progressive urban enclaves, so if these people are all misinformed then your cause is lost.

Constantly misrepresenting the science around COVID and fear-mongering over things that are manifestly not the case discredits the people that promote that, which runs the very real risk of causing people to dismiss the real risks of COVID. We already went down this road with climate change, where chronic gross misrepresentation of the science in popular media caused people to dismiss the actual and serious risks associated with climate change.

Disasturbation may be fun but it is a terrible way to convince the broader population that a category of risk needs to be taken seriously.
There's no mention of deliberate circumvention. It doesn't even say there was circumvention, only that the files were damaged with the rules in place. If the rule is "don't damage these files when writing them" and it's your job to write them, it's adds no safety.

> Like other computer systems that are critical to operating flights, the FAA has imposed procedures to ensure data aren’t damaged by technicians working on them, said the person. The file or files were altered in spite of rules that prohibit those kind of changes on a live system.

> Agency officials are attempting to determine whether the two people made the changes accidentally or intentionally, and if there was any malicious intent, the person said.
I’m very ill equipped to get addicted to anything that shows ads.
The incredibly strong selective pressures on city raccoons keep making them more intelligent.
It was 19 years ago that speed overuse contributed to my first lost tooth.

Four months ago I FINALLY was able to want/afford/get dental implant_S (plural, b/c I lost myself MORE teefs) — WOW — itself a psychological experience (sedation or not)!

In two months, I will be getting my fake teeth installed onto aforementioned implanted posts — I have cried uncontrollably about this, for years and presently, but just cannot begin to stress how much of a mental (and physical) accomplishment this will be.

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I'm not here to harp and tell "nobody don't do nothin," but live your life in moderation AND BRUSH YOU TEETH!
Grew up around the FAA. I will say this of the organization: they are extremely thorough about root cause analysis and red tape, so I doubt this ever happens again.
> At a private company a failure like this would see the CTO immediately fired and even the CEO having to beg the board for forgiveness and keeping their job.

I don't think this is a thing that actually happens.
Oh I see. I’ve only ever seen printed copies of it on regular sized paper.
It's why contracted-for software is so awful - contractors do absolutely anything to meet the conditions and then they're gone and not responsible anymore.
Copilot didn't just spit out the fast inverse square root, it spat out someone's entire "about" page in HTML, name and all. This was just some guy's blog, not a commonly replicated algorithm from a book.

Furthermore, copyright infringement doesn't stop being copyright infringement if you do it based on someone else's copyright infringement. Just become someone else decided to rip the contents of a CD and upload it to a website doesn't mean I'm now allowed to download it from that website again.

Copyright law does include an originality floor, you can't copyright a letter or a shape unless you're a billion dollar startup and in the same way that you can't copyright fizzbuzz or hello world. I don't think that's relevant for many algorithms Copilot will generate for you, though.

If simple work doesn't deserve protection, the pop music industry with their generic lyrics and simple tunes may be in big trouble. Disney as well, with their simplistic cartoon characters like Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse.

Personally, I think copyright laws are extremely damaging in their duration and restrictions. IP law in a small amount of countries actually allows for patenting algorithms, which is equally silly. International IP law currently gets in the way of society in my opinion.

However, without short term copyright neither programmers nor artists will be happy and I don't think anyone but knock-off companies will be happy with such an arrangement. Five or ten years is long enough for copyright in my book, but within those five or ten years copyright must remain protected.
>If we want to call ourselves software engineers, we need to start holding ourselves and each other to higher standards. We can do better.

There's a limit to individual accountability. You need professional accreditation which brings training, standards, and legal resources.
Not entirely wrong, though.

Survival requires constant work- either by you, or by the community that supports you through things like providing regular fresh water, waste removal, heat, safe food to eat, and so forth.
Don't think stable Diffusion can reproduce any single image its trained on, not matter what prompts you use.

It does have Mona lisa because of over fitting. But that's because there is too much Mona lisa on internet.

These artist taking part in suit won't be able to recreat any of their work.
Yeah.. but luckily the add-on is simple enough that a source-code inspection is feasible (which I did). There's nothing weird going on in the add-on, but please do your own due diligence :)
Never been to an interview with a big tech company, except Volvo and TeliaSonera, that was pretty smooth at the time (2008ish). But I hear a lot of stories from the bigger giants and I did read through a book that is supposed to help you prepare for those interviews, just in case I get snapped up at some point.
There's a key difference. A compression algorithm is made to be reversible. The point of compressing an MP3 is to be able to decompress as much of the original audio signal as possible.

Stable Diffusion is not made to decompress the original and actually has no direct mechanism for decompressing any originals. The originals are not present. The only thing present is an embedding of key components of the original in a multi-dimensional latent space that also includes text.

This doesn't mean that the outputs of Stable Diffusion cannot be in violation of a copyright, it just means that the operator is going to have to direct the model towards a part of that text/image latent space that violates copyright in some manner... and that the operator of the model, when given an output that is in violation of copyright, is liable for publishing the image. Remember, it is not a violation of copyright to photocopy an image in your house... it's a violation when you publish that image!
Good for personal use, but in the scene you must use a recent enough version of EAC or XLD.
Popularized here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-34825-1
That's probably a very relevant point. (I'm guessing.) If I ask for an image of a red dragon in the style of $ARTIST, and the algorithm goes off and says "Oh, I've got the perfect one already in my data"--or even "I've got a few like that, I'll just paste them together"--that's a problem.
Clouds form that quickly?
Some light previous discussion, although a lot of it was because that specific article was hot garbage: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34276986
You could also "just" ship a VM disk image and cut down those variables even more...

As a user/self-administrator, I really do not appreciate a developer throwing a ton of incidental complexity over the wall. Docker is basically a scaling up of the "works on my system" cop out.

I get that there are a lot of oddball distros, but it would seem that a policy of only digging into bug reports on specific well known distros would be more appropriate than basically forgoing the entire concept of a distribution in favor of what are essentially huge static binaries.

It's especially a problem when projects go nuts with this Dockerization anti-pattern, and become actively hostile to distributions shipping plainly administerable versions of their software (looking at you Home Assistant).
this only works until the smart TVs get even smarter and use DoT|DoH to a hardcoded server, which I assume is a day not so far away.
You can't just dump control to the person sleeping or playing marvel snap in the driver seat as your out. With aircraft there are attentive people on standby and more than one. With remote aircraft people are way less likely to die if something goes wrong. You also start really lowering the training level of humans.

I'll alter one of my favorite jokes to explain.

I want to go out like my Tesla ai did, in a bit of confusion and reanimated from rom, not screaming no no no no like the people in the car.

Tho truly with a lot of these the people will go out in their sleep.
How do you know they weren't gifted it, or bought it used, or that it's some older hardware revision?

Wanting to work on software for macOS doesn't automatically mean you own a $3000 MacBook Pro...
Do you have any examples of recreating an image with these models? Something other than Mona lisa or other famous artworks because they have caused over fitting.
Internal document explains why Google has become slow and bureaucratic
I'm assuming that spending that much time on it, they may be shelling out premium or using revance
It's unfortunate that you haven't understood any of the problems of writing software or buying on contract despite having it laid out for you.

In reality people change their minds - especially when they see the software - so there's a lot to be said for building it incrementally and showing it to them.

The fact that contracts don't suit this behavior might explain why contracts are such an awful way to get software and why they so often go wrong.
“Power is not a material possession that can be given, it is the ability to act.
Power must be taken, it is never given.”

“‘This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing Government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.’
Abraham Lincoln”
It's not just the big companies anymore. Even the small tech companies offering 80k for a senior engineer position insist on at least 4 rounds of interviews.
Yes, they have broken it with some kind of machine learning bullshit.
If i read the article right, they expect another 40 meters of uplift. Not a rounding error, I think.
Job title inflation is a hell of a drug.
Not tested it, but apparently https://languagetools-153419.appspot.com/ik/downloads/ has support. There’s also an open PR to get them into Google’s Noto: https://github.com/notofonts/symbols/pull/67
The LAION-5B dataset is public, so you can check directly whether a picture is in there or not. StabilityAI only takes a very limited amount of information from each individual picture, so for Stable Diffusion to closely reproduce a picture it would need to appear quite frequently in the dataset. There are examples of this, such as old famous paintings, "bloodborne box art" and probably many others, though I haven't looked deeply into it.
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This is just a side hustle but I ended developing 300+ tools. Any feedback or suggestion is welcome.
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$100 is cheap to an American working as a software developer. That’s not most people, most Americans, or most software developers.
I think the comment you're replying to is trying to say something about the management being compromised, deliberately hiring incompetent people and being lax about controls, and wanting the failures to happen for some unspecified conspiratorial reason. That merely bumps the question up another level, it's a question of malice or incompetence. Conspiracy theories tend to end up invoking some shadowy malicious cabal at the highest levels, above even leaders of nation-states, to explain just plain old human nature.
So why would ripping CDs result in less than perfect copies - I thought digital information would almost always be read correctly?
You make a valid point, except I really did mean to and did type 'accurate' and not sound quality. I do concur with your example of how they can sound the same compared with lossy.
Feels like candidates should be able to invoice for their time once it goes beyond a few hours. Maybe in some cases the company will respect that approach. Hey you want me to do 8 hours more hoop jumping? No problem that’s $60 per hoop. Oh sorry I can’t come back yet your last invoice was never paid…
Ask HN: Good yearly view calendar app?
Hello HN - I am in need of a calendar app that will allow me to see my travel plans for the entire year at a glance. (Or at least most of the year, some amount of swiping is tolerable.) The built in iPhone app is useless for this and it looks like Google can only do a single month at a time. Any suggestions for me?
But Emacs has browsers and spreadsheet programs and a lot of other software. Out of the box it even comes with a great editor.
Another presentation by the author (who no longer works at Google, apparently): "Coordination Headwind: How Organizations Are Like Slime Molds" [1].

[1] https://komoroske.com/slime-mold/
Apple is no longer part of Glassdoor’s 100 Best Places to Work ranking
>>without a stable social structure.

And you believe that is Government? and not just any government a draconian top down government that function as a substituted for parents from cradle to grave sapping all free will and freedom from citizens?

>>You know the poor kid who got fed and support from school etc despite it's upbringing which then studies and finds a cancer treatment.

that is a good fairy tale... where is the reality

>>actually own in your flat

European... Now I am getting a clearer picture with your relationship with government, you place government over the people. Where by I place people over the government. I see government as a necessary evil and not something that should be admired

History has more examples of my worldview being closer to reality then your utopia view of government being a net good

>>non of it comes from your family and you

Some of it does, I come from a line of tradesman that do actually build things, including homes. I also work in manufacturing sector that actually does build things.. physical things...

That said, it does not really matter, these things exist due to VOLUNTARY EXCHANGE due to markets not because of coordination of government.

"None of the thousands of persons involved in producing the pencil performed his task because he wanted a pencil. Some among them never saw a pencil and would not know what it is for. Each saw his work as a way to get the goods and services he wanted—goods and services we produced in order to get the pencil we wanted. Every time we go to the store and buy a pencil, we are exchanging a little bit of our services for the infinitesimal amount of services that each of the thousands contributed toward producing the pencil. It is even more astounding that the pencil was ever produced. No one sitting in a central office gave orders to these thousands of people. No military police enforced the orders that were not given. These people live in many lands, speak different languages, practice different religions, may even hate one another— yet none of these differences prevented them from cooperating to produce a pencil. How did it happen? Adam Smith gave us the answer two hundred years ago." -- [1] Afterword of I, Pencil

[1] https://fee.org/resources/i-pencil/
If the policy was violated then the policy was violated. If it was properly communicated and taken seriously by management (and it may not have been) then the person who violated it is at fault along with management for choosing the wrong person for the job. Given that this is a PR release, I suspect management’s diligence in the selection and training of the contractors is not being critically examined.
Yeah, right : D

In any case: there are quite obvious limitations, and, to me, they weren't very apparent when I started out in Emacs.
I only discovered Cyanrip somehow quite recently and rate it as highly as Whipper, which I've used since its Morituri days. Appreciate Cyanrip's desire to be suckless but still enjoy Whipper being able to produce TOC/CUE sheets. MKTOC can always prove handy too if one cares about Right Offsets..
This reminds me of a tweet last year of a driver claiming a cyclist with a camera caught his dad using his phone while driving, leading to him being barred from driving and losing his job.

When someone highlighted that the 6 point penalty meant this was at least his 2nd road traffic offence, he replied “yes but that’s not the point.”

I honestly believe some people are incapable of learning and banning them for their offences is really the only answer to make the roads safe.
Right. a phone/tablet is still better then nothing.
Surprised the government hasn’t stepped in to make companies pay at least minimum wage for time spent at the interview
> But this has not happened.

This has in fact happened: https://blog.charliemonroe.net/a-day-without-business/
I tend to think that tests should be carefully crafted for readability just like normal code. The “content of a REPL” is unlikely to be well-thought out enough to preserve meaningful invariants while remaining supple in the direction of likely changes. Perhaps in the hands of very good engineers this tool is net positive, but I shudder at giving junior engineers a tool that encourages less structure in tests.

A good set of fixture/helper functions should let you write really short and expressive tests (or tabular parametrized tests, if you prefer) which seems to me to resolve most of the pain points the author is complaining about.

One big advantage I do see with this approach is it seems to be a very compact rendering of a table of outputs; in Python+pytest+PyCharm if I run a 10-example parametrized test, I have to click through to see each failure individually. Perhaps there is a UX learning here that just rendering the raw errors into the code beside the test matrix could help visualize results faster.

As an aside, I have recently been enjoying the “write an ascii representation as your test assert” mode of testing, it can give a different way of intuiting what is going on.
I am thinking that it lowers their cost for recycling drives. If everything is encrypted at rest, you don’t need to go to crazy lengths to wipe the drives.
It reads like the clouds moved that quickly which would indicate some kind of crazy updraft.
don't know, but these Kaktovik numerals were added for Unicode 15 (released September 2022) so it would be a font updated in the last 3 months...
I read the linked rationale and still don’t understand why this is even a problem.
I like that this author called out YouTube as a specific type of addiction. It seems their main way of combatting the consuming side of their addiction is by creating.

I spent the last year writing a book about technology addiction. Through that process, it has helped me find better ways to fill my days and moderate how much time I spend on devices. There's also a good book called "Stolen Focus" that outlines a number of these challenges of quitting.

The main way I found to combat addiction was to change the consumer mindset to one of creation. Create something everyday no matter how shitty it is. Share it with the world when you're ready. While in that process of creating, find ways to block the outside world from invading your creativity so you can stay focused.
Adding ads to a product is one of the easiest ways to get a huge bonus. All of the revenue is attributed to you and most of the reputation is diffused throughout the company and only occurs much later.

This almost guarantees that at lesson one person is working on it, without a strong customer focused leadership it’s hard to say no to that amount of money.
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