skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I want to switch, but it's still super glitchy on NVIDIA and waaay too slow on my laptop.
It's less that people dislike subscriptions and more that they dislike subscription models transparently designed to take their money.

Jetbrains has the subscription model down to a fine art. Would I pay $500 up front for all of jetbrains' software? No, probably not. But I've been paying $15 a month for their entire catalog for many years and I'm happy about it. The subscription cost goes down over time, you can add products to your subscription at any time and retain your continuity discount and you get perpetual fallback licenses.

If jetbrains suddenly changes their subscription price to something I'm unwilling to pay, I still get to use the software I already paid for. The value of this subscription is immense and everyone who has a jetbrains subscription tells everyone else about it. It's pretty much the best subscription model out there.

On the other hand, a subscription for heated seats is a transparent ploy to just take my money. I'd sooner install a manual switch hooked up to the heater wires than pay monthly for them.

You subscription needs to provide value greater than the cost. You user needs assurance that you won't one day up the price for no reason or remove features/value. Your users want to feel like they're getting something useful out of the arrangement rather than just handing you money.

If your users prefer a perpetual one time license cost over a subscription, then you should think about the value your product provides over time. Is your product worth $15 a month forever or is it worth a single $500 license? Your customers seem to think it's the latter option.
I struggle with wasting large swathes of time on YouTube. I think I would call it an addiction, although I’m sure not everyone would agree. The harmful effects I see are that I don’t feel I enjoy the content after a certain point, but I find myself unable to stop and do something else. I also often find YouTube content is not restful. Hard to pin down exactly why, but it feels too fast paced or too stimulating. I feel the same way about most recent shows as well.

Every year during lent my friend and I do a media fast, where we abstain from YouTube, Reddit, HN, and other escape sites. It is a supremely rewarding experience, but I always go back.
So as a code author I am pretty upset about Copilot specifically, and it seems like SD is similar (hadn't heard before about DeviantArt doing the same as what GitHub did). But I agree with this take: the tech is here, it's going to be used, and it's not going to be shut down by a lawsuit. Nor should it, frankly.

What I object to is not the AI itself, or even that my code has been used to train it. It's the copyright for me but not for thee way that it's been deployed. Does GitHub/Microsoft's assertion that training sidesteps licensing apply to GitHub/Microsoft's own code? Do they want to allow (a hypothetical) FSFPilot to be trained on their proprietary source? Have they actually trained Copilot on their own source? If not, why not?

I published my source subject to a license, and the force of that license is provided by my copyright. I'm happy to find other ways of doing things, but it has to be equitable. I'm not simply ceding my authorship to the latest commercial content grab.
It's hard to be helpful because I find this a bit like saying "I want a job where I can cook cool new food but not do the washing up."

You're more likely to get this being a contractor or at a small company. Most of it's going to be a matter of asking the right questions though - you probably want to have some well defined area of responsibility and not have to work with anyone else in it.
When I was in college, I worked a few terms as a teaching assistant. Cheating was rampant and I never saw any meaningful consequences. Many of the students that I personally caught still ended up passing the class. This was over 20 years ago.

I went back to grad school 15 years ago. Same story, only it had only gotten worse. I dropped out, in part due to the perceived total lack of institutional integrity.
At what point will society stop accepting this ridiculous behaviour? At what point will this shit become taboo?

In 2019, i was looking for a job as a software developer and experienced something quite similar to what Jessica (the protagonist of the article) experienced.

There's so much ritualistic bs that has absolutely nothing to do with the job that we have to put up with when interviewing! Why does my employer need to know my thoughts on those weird sophisticated-sounding questions? What value do these ridiculous "team games" they make us play with other candidates bring? It shows "team work" capabilities, some might say, but the games feel like games you play at Kindergarten and seem to be confusing and awkward for no reason

I have a feeling this process isn't going to help you hire the "right candidate"; rather, the candidate that bullshited their way through thr process and manipulated the HR employees the best.

Doing job interviews seems to have become a skill of its own. Maybe we should start putting "can manipulate HR effectively" on our CVs

Fortunately, my current employer was the exact opposite; they only gave me one interview with HR and then one interview with who became my boss, and there was no bs involved. I am so happy with them and our HR department.
Jocelyn Bell, Woman of Steel
So clear and concise! Love it.
for a chess arbiter she doesn't appear to be very logical. this has nothing to do with "dress code". it's the message on her cloths that's the problem, not the cloths without the message. what if another arbiter had the russian flag and Z on their cloths? would that pass? it's common sense for the arbiter to be politically neutral. the players can be from any country.
You're always locked in, so you need to make sure that you can adapt it as needed. Either because you already own it (homegrown) or because you're prepared to take ownership if needed (FOSS done right).

For commercial software (or FOSS-as-appliance) then you're stuck going along wherever your vendor wants to take you.
In C# https://theramis.github.io/Snapper/#/pages/quickstart. I actually think there are other as well. But this is what i am trying to scratch to see if I can use it somehow.
Not quite true. The cover itself has to be supported by a structure. The frame itself is insufficient. If you put a round cover on a square hole it would cave in if a truck ran over it.
> If anyone has an idea why the TIA’s designers used LFSRs for this stuff, I’d love to hear about it.

I'm guessing because a counter would have ripple carry (i.e. five extra gate delays when rolling over from 111111 to 000000) or need extra gates for carry lookahead and an LFSR is constant-delay.
Very clever name. Read it out loud if it’s not immediately obvious.
Been thinking this over.

As it seems like people are using "touch" things on macOS and - for them - it's working well... perhaps the "macOS doesn't really support touch points" thing isn't really a problem?

When people can't tell, is it really needed? I mean, it's already working. At least for Wacom tablets. ;)
The intro feels like it's also from around 2011, the time OP described first noticing having a problem. In 2023, I think few people will doubt that you can get addiction-like problems with social media. It's actually become such a common trope, especially post-lockdowns, that I've read some arguments trying to rein in the debate a bit (not everything that releases dopamine will get you hooked, it basically just means that it's pleasant). Psychiatrically, I think the only behavioral addiction recognized in DSM-5 is still gambling. But that may change of course, and I think many of us have noticed that social media use can get troublesome.

To the OP or anyone experiencing similar issues, one strategy that has some evidence behind it is pre-commitment: make a conscious decision to limit or stop your use of whatever is causing you troubles, and take concrete steps to lock yourself into that commitment. In the case of websites, that could mean using browser extensions that block access to a certain site or block them after a specified use time (if the latter exists, not sure). For smartphone apps, I think modern OS include some tools with similar intentions, but you could also just uninstall them. Of course, you could circumnavigate the block, but often that one extra step can be enough to remind you of why you made the commitment and help you stick to it.
This is true but I’m not sure you’d have had the critical mass of people primed to respond to those messages. Fox News heavily pushed lies about the election but the people who responded were part of a world which grew a lot in the later 2000s as blogs, Facebook, etc. opened up new audiences for ideas which would have been too extreme even for cable news.
Hey Dang you got this guy calling people idiots by association and ranting about left wing conspiracies. No flagging on him, but the people responding get flagged. I guess this behavior is ok because he’s ideologically aligned with you?

Thanks for keeping HN civil.
And have you seen the prices of even used ARM Macs that by definition aren’t more than two years old?
They've got a copy of a figure from the original diffusion paper, showing a diffusion process on a spiral dataset. They seem to completely misunderstand it. The figure does not show image diffusion, rather it shows a diffusion process in which each data item is a 2D point. The figure is showing diffusion on an entire dataset and demonstrating that it can approximately reconstruct the spiral-shaped distribution.

I'm surprised they couldn't find someone with even a rudimentary understanding of diffusion models to review this.
The question is whether consciousness is emergent from large enough models, or whether it’ll be something we’ll need to design/build.
Creative Surround Station: Late 90s Quadraphonic PC Gaming
And snap, Appimage...
Great, so can this be used to have stable diffusion in a container on a Mac and still be able to use M2 GPU and Metal acceleration?
It’s hard to imagine a non-fraudulent scenario where anyone internal to the company would be asked to generate a list of realistic-looking customer names that was 10X the size of your customer base. Even testing data doesn’t have a strict requirement of looking as realistic as possible.

Intent matters in these cases. If the situation had somehow been adjusted so that the engineer genuinely believed the generation was for legitimate purposes, it would be very unlikely that they would be at risk from the initial list generation.

However, I don’t really see how Director of Engineering could have not known the purpose, given that the ultimate goal was to load them into the production DB and the request was coming from outside of engineering.
There's no obligation to support every distro on the planet.
I remember 30 years ago, when I had just started using the internet, that all one had to do to feel rebellious was to send a bit of data using so called “strong encryption”. You could even get shirts with this stuff printed on them.

And talking about the internet decades ago doesn’t make us old at all, it just gives us a little more perspective.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_Wars
It does not release cyclic structures

I don't think anyone is debating that.

not suitable for lock-free algorithms and may overflow the stack.

This you will have to explain. I see people make vague assertions like this but I never see a good explanation.
It's been ages since I've seen either but thinking about it there is a certain sibling relationship between the two films.
That’s fine and I have no objective argument against it. But I don’t see much reason to need two different names for tests that do the same thing merely based on how they were introduced. Sometimes I add a regression test because I fixed a bug, and sometimes I add a regression test because I just implemented a feature that I don’t want my future self to ruin: six months from now they will co-exist in the same suite and serve the same function.

One reason to call bug fix tests for “regression tests” (and only those kinds of tests) is that someone might regress the code base through a merge conflict (maybe they effectively undo a commit?). So that’s one argument I suppose.
> It's scary to think about having a hole and not being able to fill it with that comfortable "zoning out" feeling.

That is exactly my experience. I've also rather recently came to the revelation that this behavior and dependence on "zoning out" is addiction. It doesn't matter that the object of addiction is a website with silly popular videos. The pattern of behavior _is_ addiction.
It makes me so sad to see how many people chime in, to sign on to this complete willingness to take some obvious exceptions & caveats & use them to decide there's no problem, that everything is fine. The effort gone through to wring out excuses for having no empathy, for ignoring the truth is revilesome.

I had a number of friends who sometime after highschool or college moved to NYC area & lived in ridiculously illegal cramped over-stuffed loud living spaces & struggled to eat, to be in the city. Struggling for jobs & work but feeling like they had to be in the city. These are mostly quite privileged folks who had good educations at good public schools, and still struggling to stay standing at all.

NYC is absurd to me, is shocking in extreme in it's cost of living, limited housing options, in how hard it can be to get by. There's a huge question in my mind of how many people fare & make it, transplants & many many natives raised there. The findings here completely lines up with my expectation & the unfortunately stark reality of life in such an amazing place. There may be some light grift, and some higher scale grift such as buying whole appartments, but by god, it hardly seems to change how hard it can be to find place, to gain income of sufficient scale for that grift to be of any real scale.
That’s quite a small percentage of the population of China (1 billion?). Assuming it’s not underreported, it seems on the order of “normal” deaths and less than, say, smoking.
The FAA is the least diverse federal agency.

https://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/hans-bader/faa-endangers-...
Same. Windows devices and TVs on my network handle many NXDOMAIN responses to DNS requests :)
Transferring from disc to system via a laser is analogue and error prone. What if there is a scratch? What if the cd wobbles?
Hard drive space is cheap. Do both.
Yes, the business leadership almost always put an impossible waterfall approach ontop - they don't adapt to change at all well and are not really leading.

For me the value in Agile is what we end up NOT doing - we never get to that shit because in the end it's not that important. So we never waste time doing it.
I have no opinion about weather modification but I live in CO and have a bunch of new age and wook friends.

I've had a conversation several times where the other interlocutor has used these programs have been used to justify a belief in "chem trails".

It's a really bad conversational cycle.

me: "Chemtrails aren't real"

wook: "yeah but they are doing weather modification"

me: "but a) it's not a consipracy because they publish explicitly what they are doing and b) weather modification programs aren't 'chemtrails'"

wook: "yeah but they are doing weather modification"

I love my friends, but yeesh.
What Twitter did or did not do before is irrelevant. This is about removing parts of a system (regardless of what system) without first understanding the reasoning behind those parts, akin to the actual meaning behind Chesterton's Fence. The speed and breadth of the cuts (not to mention the subsequent frenzied re-hiring of certain people) demonstrates that very little thought went into those cuts, and highlights the parable of Chesterton's Fence quite nicely.

First three Google results:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Chesterton%27s_fence

https://fs.blog/chestertons-fence/

https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Chesterton%27s_Fence
After reading your comment, I went straight to install the extension. Thank you so much!
By this definition, Apple and all the COVID tracker agencies that integrated with them installed trackers on all the iPhones.

The only difference between the Google implementation and the Apple implementation is that the Google implementation required an app install to configure which system to report positives to and to get positive tracker IDs from, while Apple did not require an app install to get that configuration.

The claim that the app was automatically activated, configuring data to be sent to and from MA, was made out of whole cloth by the blogger. Here is an accurate description of the lawsuit from when it was filed: https://archive.is/2022.11.22-132721/https://www.bostonglobe...
The ones running Series 60 all had, if I am not mistaken.

In any case the N95 surely had it, as it was the first model to support OpenGL ES in hardware.
On this topic, what do people recommend for mobile adblocking? I've been using AdAway which redirects ads to your phone's loopback in non-root mode.
Even if they win they lose, because nothing will change. Who is really going to stop using Stable Diffusion at this point?
I'm not sure this would help anything. Companies are already wasting a vast amount of time and money on the hiring process, taking their own employees off work to do interviewing. So this additional cost probably wouldn't bother them much.

Most job candidates aren't looking for a temporary contracting gig, they're looking for a permanent job.
> Especially since he repeated tried to stop the book from being published, but couldn’t because the sold the copyright with the initial publishing deal

Had it been a feemw years later when he wrote it, he could have reclaimed the copyright between 35-40 years thereafter, even having sold it. (Note as well as transfer, this applied to all licenses, expressly “notwithstanding any agreement to the contrary”.)

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/203
I love it. Instead of (a) running mathematical experiments that model human beings as utility-maximizing agents in a highly-simplified toy economy (easy and cheap, but unrealistic), or (b) running large-scale social experiments on actual human beings (more realistic, but hard and expensive), the authors propose (c) running large-scale experiments on large language models (LLMs) trained to respond, i.e., behave, like human beings. Recent LLMs seem to model human beings well enough for it!

Abstract:

> Newly-developed large language models (LLM)—because of how they are trained and designed—are implicit computational models of humans—a homo silicus. These models can be used the same way economists use homo economicus: they can be given endowments, information, preferences, and so on and then their behavior can be explored in scenarios via simulation. I demonstrate this approach using OpenAI’s GPT3 with experiments derived from Charness and Rabin (2002), Kahneman, Knetsch and Thaler (1986) and Samuelson and Zeckhauser (1988). The findings are qualitatively similar to
the original results, but it is also trivially easy to try variations that offer fresh insights. Departing from the traditional laboratory paradigm, I also create a hiring scenario where an employer faces applicants that differ in experience and wage ask and then analyze how a minimum wage affects realized wages and the extent of labor-labor substitution.
> harm reduced alternative to actually playing games.

I don't quite see your logic here. How is it "harm-reduced"? Playing a game can be quite enriching and stimulating, whereas watching a video you're just sitting completely idle. To me, it sounds like you're just irrationally worried about playing a game for some reason.
underground clubs I attended all played music very loudly, and few had "chillout" rooms where you could actually talk. even in the bathrooms you had to scream...
HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 implementations do not allow you to connect to an IP/domain unless there is CA based TLS. HTTP/1.1 allows both HTTP and HTTPS to coexist. If for some reason the CA based TLS cert is revoked I can always just visit the http site over HTTP/1.1.
Worldwide Layoff Under Way at IBM
In fairness it happened then unhappened due to a mistake. I think people are more worried about the sort of semi-arbitrary decision making associated with the App Store. But, to their credit, the macOS team have never used Gatekeeper that way. It's been >10 years that I've been reading predictions that they will, but they never did. That must count for something.
Before anyone Monday-morning quarterbacks this - no, there wouldn't have been anything the pilot flying could feasibly have done to avert this outcome in the "one to three seconds" between becoming aware of the updraft and entering it.

Even if it were possible to turn sharply enough to avoid the column of rising air, a maneuver that hard would very likely cause as much havoc in the cabin as occurred in the actual event - as a passenger returning from the lav, for example, being thrown across the cabin would likely not be preferable to being thrown into the ceiling, and maybe less so because at least there's no one else to hit on the way to the ceiling. Leaving that aside, even making the attempt might be more dangerous than not, since if they'd tried to evade and failed, it would mean entering the updraft in a relatively unstable configuration and maybe stalling a wing.
New UK Medical School Won't Train Any UK Students
That's a nice package. I use some of the components on the command line to get my CD data to the music server.

Extract data to wav:

cdparanoia -B

Compress all wavs to mp3 (in parallel, takes like 1 second, crazy!):

parallel lame --preset extreme {} -o {.}.mp3 ::: *.wav

Clean up folder

rm *.wav

Import into mopidy library and lookup/apply metadata with beets

beet import .
sudo su - mopidy -s /bin/bash -c 'mopidy --config /etc/mopidy/mopidy.conf local scan'

(I actually have a bash script for that, obviously)

Done. Next step is to go into Mopidy-Iris UI and hit play and it plays all around the house thanks to snapcast. Garsh darn glorious.

https://mopidy.com/ext/iris/

https://mjaggard.github.io/snapcast/

https://beets.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
Probably depends on context. Possession of little plastic bags can enhance drug charges.
Um, "worse is better" if your only metrics are things like time to market. How many Linux technologies have not been able to surpass their counterpart technologies after years of iterating? Two are top of mind: epoll and btrfs.

Sometimes designing a system is the best approach. Sometimes iterating on a "worse is better" technology is the right approach. There is no single answer.

I think we need to be more rational about the real reasons Linux is/was so successful. Yes, sometimes it was about "worse is better" but certainly not the majority of the time. My guess is -- the reason Linux was so successful can be summarized much more easily as: free as in beer, unpretentious (does not require adopting some high UNIX religion), appealing licensing (I don't love the GPL/licensing religion but lots of people do!), and it was very, very lucky.
I work with a language where all test are expect tests ( GAP ). The biggest problem is you can basically never change how built in types are printed, as you'll break all tests in every program. For example, someone wanted to improve how plurals are printed, but that would break every test.
No it wasn't, nor are Apple devices given for free to students.

Anyone that can afford Apple hardware as an high school student surely can afford the dev subscription.