skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was actually an off grid child. My parents were hippies back in the 60's and part of the "back to the land" movement. They bought a bit of land in the middle of nowhere in Maine, miles from the nearest neighbors, built a log cabin, dug a well, and lived there subsistence farming until the mid 80's. My sister was born in the cabin and we both spent our early childhoods there (my parents did eventually get tired of the lifestyle and we moved to a house with plumbing and electricity). We didn't even have things like solar panels or cellphones or laptops. There were definitely challenges and downsides, but I wouldn't call it "child endangerment".
Related:

A corrupt file led to the FAA ground stoppage – also found in backup system - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34348388 - Jan 2023 (388 comments)

US Halts Flights Nationwide After Key FAA System Goes Down - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34337807 - Jan 2023 (36 comments)

FAA NOTAM System Outage - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34337158 - Jan 2023 (214 comments)
Mockito 5: prepare for future JDK versions
Auditing who's accessed/used the admin?
> a harm reduced alternative to actually playing games.

There's probably some merit to this statement, but I sorta laugh at the difference in harm between 'watching' and 'playing'. Maybe the most candid thing for us to do is acknowledge that the "harm" we're talking about is a lack of gratification.
Because they’re enforced by cameras ;-)

I do find it amusing watching people slam their brakes on for school safety zones… at 8pm.
It looks like your submission didn't get traction, but there's another one a few hours ago with comments.[1] Unfortunately, it doesn't look like any of them are employees yet.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34379581
They have none of the financial muscles of big tech yet have adopted all their overhead and poor practices.
If you’re autogenerating your tests from a specification and not an implementation then it can potentially be useful.
Discussed at the time:

A Dynamic Forth Compiler for WebAssembly - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17651554 - July 2018 (17 comments)
I'll usually leave one of those 8- or 10-hour "soft waves on an island beach" clips playing in the BG. Nice alternative if the view out the window is snow, lol.

If I want a little emo-boost for ADHD I'll just watch a few clips on Jessica's channel: https://www.youtube.com/@HowtoADHD

Otherwise (for me) YT is a resource for guides on taking apart old laptops and other how-tos, along with the occasional movie on the kitchen tablet, while prepping a meal or washing up.
Companies pay wages to employees - people who interview for jobs are by definition not employees. It's your personal time and choice to remain there and engage with that process, you aren't owed anything for that.
I think this would suffer from the same problem as partial self-driving cars: it's human nature for vigilance to falter if it doesn't feel like you're the sole/primary one in control.

Of course, you can say "I won't let myself do that", but working against human nature is not a formula for success. If my back hurts, I can tell myself I'm just going to go lie down on the bed for 10 minutes but not take a nap, but then 30 minutes later I wake up feeling groggy.
> no investigation happened.

Every claim made by the Trump campaign has been looked at. Every claim they made turned out to be untrue. And as Trump's advisors testified under oath, Trump admitted in private to them that he knew he lost, and there was no fraud.

All we have to know to realize that the Trump campaign was not actually interested in investigating "voting irregularities" is the phone call between Trump and Georgia election officials. They spend the entire call going through his claims point by point, and telling him how their investigations did not support his claims. If Trump were merely interested in investigating voting irregularities, that would have been the end of a call, with a "Thanks for looking into this for me".

Instead, Trump threatened the Georgia Secretary of State with prosecution if he didn't find Trump the exact number of votes needed to overturn the election in his favor. That's not a concerned citizen looking to secure the vote for all, that's a wannabe dictator trying to stay in power.

> Investigating fraud isn't unconstitutional.

Agreed. But there's a time and a place for those investigations, and they must come to a close when all legal avenues have been exhausted. Trump had the right to pursue lawful recourse through the courts, and he exercised that right. The cases the Trump campaign brought to court lacked evidence and failed to make any concrete claims, because they were not actually filed to find fraud; they were filed to give legitimacy to the idea there fraud was the reason for the loss.

The claims were heard and Trump lost. At that point, the thing to do in the spirit of democracy is to concede, not to work to burn the whole system down.

> If anything, certifying fraud against is against the spirit of democracy.

Which is exactly what Trump wanted Pence to do by throwing out genuine Certificates of the Vote in favor of the forgeries. That would have been certifying a fraud.
Any negative effects of cloud seeding for the water produced or the environment?
But in fairness, even a human could know how to violate copyright but cannot be sued until they do violate it.

SD might know how to violate copyright but is that enough to sue it? Or can you only sue violations it helps create?
I've never seen one form out of clear air that quickly, as the pilot said local conditions were. I have flown a high performance jet alongside a rising cumulus and "raced" a column forming on the side that was rising quickly - it won, as in I ran out of climb capability before it did.
Let me preface this by saying I also dislike Musk and do not think he is managing twitter well.

Yes, they were not necessary.

Please, before you call me ignorant and downvote, just let me elaborate.
I have seen the issue first-hand, it is subtle and specific to large companies.

First, companies want their stock price to go up. This is more important to them than profit margins, because the people making decisions (as are most employees) are renumerated largely in stock. Simply keeping a business profitable and stable will not increase stock prices, you need to convince investors that you have great plans which will make the company stronger. Hiring more employees makes this look more convincing.

Secondly, the best way for managers on all levels to increase their standing and compensation is to manage more people. As a result, it doesn't matter if your team is running optimally with 20 people and there's no point in starting new big projects, you must come up with reasons to hire more people to progress your career. Therefore, every manager is adamant about having perpetually understaffed teams.

The result is that more projects will be started - regardless of whether they make sense - and more people will be hired to work on those projects. At all levels, perpetually.

It is debatable how bad this inflation is, but the case of twitter shows that even a horribly abrupt and mismanaged exodus of 75% of employees will have no discernible mid-term effects on the product.

At risk of sounding extreme, I'd say that if the layoffs happened in an organised fashion and none of Musks's ill-conceived ideas were implemented, such loss of workforce would not have affected income. I also believe that if most large, established tech companies were built with efficiency in mind rather than perpetual stock growth, they could be effectively ran with 10% of the workforce.
I came to that same realization and that’s basically how I shaped my eng orgs hiring:

* 15+ minute chat with a recruiter

* 15 minute technical screen with fizz-buzzy like questions to just validate you can convert simple requirements into working code

* 1 hour technical screen with a senior/staff engineer that’ll probably be on team you’re working on. Explicitly non-adversarial and friendly: just pros talking shop, working thru problem(s)

* 1 hour follow-up with the engineering manager whose team you’re joining (more process-oriented, also understanding you as a person)

it’s like 2.5 hours all-in spread across 3 meetings (it’s remote over zoom so it’s all flexible).

If you need more time you probably aren’t asking the right questions, or just trying to push someone until they are way out of their depth and decide whether or not that’s a dealbreaker. Hate that crap, so I refuse to do it.
TIL! That is so fucked up. I can not believe this.
Related:

“Anarchist Cookbook” author William Powell has died - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14001238 - March 2017 (85 comments)

Burn After Reading: William Powell and the Anarchist Cookbook - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9132852 - March 2015 (10 comments)

I wrote the Anarchist Cookbook in 1969. Now I see its premise as flawed - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6936672 - Dec 2013 (190 comments)

Anarchist Cookbook authors hopes for discontinuation (read the author review) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1694601 - Sept 2010 (41 comments)
This was one of the main reasons we built the Orion browser [1].

Lightweight and faster than Safari in benchmarks, same WebKit engine and able to run Chrome and Firefox extensions out of the box, including uBlock Origin. Still in beta and you can try it for free. It is zero telemetry and completely user supported through Orion+ subscription. Has a very active feedback forum at OrionFeedback.org.

[1] https://browser.kagi.com
Seems interesting but the ads and full screen modals ruined it.
I read so much misinformation that it's incredible, somehow they seem to believe that diffusion model store compressed images from the training dataset and that they interpolate between two samples.
No, the "original" is in the (likely detailed) prompt you give it.
If you use it and want to develop for it, you can't really whine about how they do things and want to do things differently as an "act of protest" -- you either pay the money to do it their way -- which massively reduces the amount of trash apps on the App Store, and helps increase user trust compared to random apps being able to open and do what they want without warning -- or you accept your potential users won't have that simplicity.

If you love the hardware and the integration, and have the money, what exactly is your issue? -- if you were about FLOSS more than anything you wouldn't be pushing the proprietary platform stuff to begin with, and if you don't like the "walled garden" approach you shouldn't be using Apple ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The same things apply to the Microsoft Store for apps, and similar (but to a much lesser degree) for the likes of the Ubuntu Software Center. It's about trust, ease of use, and having apps and updates all handleable from one location.

If you're distributing the app yourself, outwith the App Store, you don't have any of those "dependencies" -- and if your complaint is paying to have your code signed properly as a dev, that's the same across macOS and Windows, in a similar vein to SSL certs for websites. Sure, you can work without it, but you're going to alienate and scare some users by doing so.
VisiData : tables : Python :: Emacs : text : Lisp
Twitter made money by moving fences. They benefited from assuming the role of a news source and displacing traditional ways of consuming news like newspapers, magazines, radio and tv. They partook in advertising revenue that once went to traditional media. They benefited from assuming the role of a public forum and a force for democracy. These fences were moved in a hurry.

Later on it became apparent that Twitter was censoring some of its users without explanation. It’s platform was a source of misinformation, propaganda, threatening messages etc.

It would have been wise to slow down and first ask why the old fences were there to begin with don’t you think so? If someone with decision making power at Twitter sincerely asked “Why all the middlemen, the editorial boards, the opaque advertising costs, the FCC regulation…”.
Couldn’t agree more. Its totally insane that backwards middle eastern billionaires are allowed to just buy up American tech and media companies. At least this one has a sense of humor.

https://twitter.com/Alwaleed_Talal/status/158597522656711065...

@Alwaleed_Talal
Dear friend "Chief Twit"
@elonmusk

Together all the way
@Twitter
If I make software that randomly draws pixels on the screen then we can say for a fact that no copyrighted images were used.

If that software happens to output an image that is in violation of copyright then it is not the fault of the model. Also, if you ran this software in your home and did nothing with the image, then there's no violation of copyright either. It only becomes an issue when you choose to publish the image.

The key part of copyright is when someone publishes an image as their own. That they copy an image doesn't matter at all. It's what they DO with the image that matters!

The courts will most likely make a similar distinction between the model, the outputs of the model, and when an individual publishes the outputs of the model. This would be that the copyright violation occurs when an individual publishes an image.

Now, if tools like Stable Diffusion are constantly putting users at risk of unknowingly violating copyrights then this tool becomes less appealing. In this case it would make commercial sense to help users know when they are in violation of copyright. It would also make sense to update our copyright catalogues to facilitate these kinds of fingerprints.
What ChatGPT reveals about the collapse of support for higher education
Lol, I was thinking that. I’m pretty sure in maximizing profit it’s important to figure out the limit of abuse customers will take, telling them that you’ve reached your limit is almost like saying job well done.
Yes, may I recommend: https://www.libertytabletop.com
This might be a blessing in disguise. It absolutely sucks for the maintainers of the projects affected but hopefully it's another step towards Twitters irrelevance.
It’s become more powerful, which means it can correct things in ways it previously couldn’t, but it can also screw things up in new ways.

For example, autocorrect used to be limited to words with the same number of chars, and with letters in the same order. Now it can autocorrect to a word with more or fewer chars, and with some transpositions. It’s good this is now possible, since people do make mistakes like this. But it opens the door for new types of errors.

One issue I find to be annoying is that it gives too much weight to the first char in a word when making its guess. I’ve learned that if it gets the first char wrong I should probably go back and correct it, unless it’s a very long word that will become apparent over time.
Perhaps an update is in order, but to make it more releveant, use a modern title like "Walter White's Guide to Improvised Chemistry" (hmmm... would that be an IP violation of some kind?)

In reality all the information needed to make a wide variety of explosives, chemical and biological weapons, illegal drugs and so on is available in any university library and quite a few public libraries as well as the Internet - a Google Books search for "History of Explosives" is illustrative. The training necessary to successfully carry out the required protocols is available in any university chemistry program. Requisite raw materials are more carefully tracked and monitored than in the past, however (with good reason), but even so, such materials can themselves be synthesized by the skilled industrial chemist from non-trackable sources.

The real risk is not that some isolated nutcase will go on a rampage, however - such people are more likely to blow themselves up or poison themselves than anything else - it's that nation-state governments and the private contractors they hire will decide to do something psychotic like produce drone warfare systems for the wide-area distribution of biological and chemical weapons in some place like eastern Ukraine (indeed, there may be some evidence that this is already going on or being planned).

The real sociopaths all go to work for governments, as history as shown. The largest bioweapon and chemical warfare programs in history were run by the Japanese, British, American and Soviet governments, and they employed hundreds of trained scientists who justified their lunatic behavior with vague appeals to patriotism, duty, and national defense.
Without Consciousness, AIs Will Be Sociopaths
There’s several comments in this thread pointing out that given a certain level of access, intentionally bypassing policy is possible in any organization. What I don’t think is being given due consideration is how often the people with this access are contractors, and worse often foreign nationals, which even in civilian orgs like the FAA has serious national security implications.

The West has an addiction to foreign IT contractors. It’s a many hundreds of billions yearly industry globally, and is only possible because the largest and most critical institutions in our society refuse to invest in people to keep this knowledge in house and grow their own trained workforce.
This is it. I help maintain the object storage for a private cloud. Because we have LUKS, preparing servers for decommissioning is done in a matter of minutes (once the servers have been removed from the cluster configuration, of course). We only have to stop all server processes, unmount the disks, overwrite the LUKS headers with /dev/random. Then server management kicks the nodes out of the Kubernetes cluster, then data center management takes care of the hardware.
Dream Sports Employees Face $1.2K Fine If They Contact OOO Staff
I don't think anyone of any significance said the virus doesn't exist - just that it doesn't pose anything like the level of danger that the hysteria would suggest, which is correct.

It wasn't to enslave mankind as such, but there were certainly governmental factions looking to parley the situation to introduce climate change lock downs (see the Oxford 15 minute city project), universal id cards (vax pass mandates), and to address exploding government debt through inflation, impoverishing the citizenry.

Right wing people also correctly recognised that progressives despise them, and were more than happy to dominate them through spiteful imposition of malicious rules upon them and their children.
This is the most frustrating kind of article: "I think this thing is bad and will spend several paragraphs explaining why, but will explicitly refuse to tell you what it is."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lump_of_labour_fallacy

> In economics, the lump of labour fallacy is the misconception that there is a fixed amount of work—a lump of labour—to be done within an economy which can be distributed to create more or fewer jobs.
Since this is just python code, it should run on Windows and MacOS also. Just compile to a static executable and be done with it.
Well... seems like when it comes to these ridiculous interviews, the only winning move is not to play.
This is a big reason why I'm self-employed now. (Another is that bosses suck in general, not just at hiring.) I hope to never do a job interview again. My customers don't want to put me through the wringer.
https://archive.ph/54sRw
I don't get it. If you bought the mixer and paid for it a year later but a year later when you have to fork over the money and it's suddenly not 800 bucks anymore but, say 750, you need another 50 bucks. So you spent 850 instead of 800, no?
Depends on how much you read it

> JSX is a DSL that looks almost like normal HTML, but differs in small uncanny-valley ways.

My point was not that its a common misconception that JSX has something to do with HTML - therefore comparing it to HTML and then being surprised that it isn't, shouldn't come as a surprise.

Also it does not differ in small uncanny-valley ways. Just one example on the syntax level: HTML has real self-closing elements (e.g., `<img>`) while JSX requires you to explicitly self-close (e.g., `<img />`). In HTML you also cannot explicitly self-close any element (e.g., `<div />` will just be parsed like `<div>`), while in JSX you can. I don't even want to start about whitespace etc. - those things are actually found / listed in any decent JSX tutorial.
I just use a PC plugged into my TV, and a wireless keyboard/trackpad. I don’t see a reason to get an Apple TV or similar —- typing anything is such a pain, and the trend is that no matter what, you’re eventually gonna see some ads. Ublock Origin in a browser is still working great, though.
Seems logical to move smaller sums more frequently.
Permissions aren't affected by zip vs dmg, they are assigned to bundle id+signing identity pairs I think, but if the user doesn't move the app out of the dmg or Downloads folder then it'll be run from a randomly generated read only mount. That is the main difference.
Process People:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRZAJY23xio&t=1550s

=)
Optimizing security and access control in object storage
You’re acting like the “computer” has a will of it’s own. Generating a perfect copy of an image would be a completely separate task from training a model for image generation.

There are no models I know of with the ability to generate an exact copy of an image from its training set unless it was solely trained on that image to the point it could. In that case I could argue the model’s purpose was to copy that image rather than learn concepts from a broad variety of images to the point it would be almost impossible to generate an exact copy.

I think a lot of the arguments revolving around AI image generators could benefit from the constituent parties reading up on how transformers work. It would at least make the criticisms more pointed and relevant, unlike the criticisms drawn in the linked article.
It's always easier to blame contractors than to determine why and how. And Snowden talked about in his book that roughly 95% of the fed gov is contractors. Reason is that getting money is easy, but getting OMB approval for more hires is ridiculous.

These people had a public trust or a clearance. They've worked their way in the fed gov. I wouldn't immediately question malice or otherwise. You don't just throw away a career with sabotage.

Also having worked in a similar environment, I can guarantee you that although there may be a test env, it is nowhere near similar to prod. I've seen it myself with different firewall rules, different GPOs, different software hardening packages. And I also complained that there should be no distinctions between stage and prod - insomuch that DNS and SSL should be the only real differences.

I'm also acutely aware if my project has a similar incident, that I too would be scapegoated and fired. It's part of the course of this job.
This is an excellent observation. I am working a bit in the marine/rail terminal space (on the software side), it is amazing how much functionality is built specifically to fulfill union contract terms at various terminals.
When a society is run by people who care only for their own small wealthy in-group and nothing for the common good all kinds of incompetence is bound to ensue. It doesn't take a tin foil hat to see how that has happened to America.
Somehow I made the connection between Bogbook and the bog article, not sure why!
Can't remember if I read it here recently, or on reddit, but this conference session with David Crane on Pitfall/Atari is pretty good. He doesn't as technical as some folks may want, but there's some coolness in just hearing him explain this in person. Couple of interesting Q&A bits towards the end too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBT1OK6VAIU
It doesn't matter. I don't want to work a minimum wage job at all. Getting a job shouldn't be a job in itself.
Same nonsense on Facebook. It’s all payday loans, crypto scams, and magic mushrooms.

People say it’s based on your history, but I don’t buy that as none of what it shows me is even slightly relevant. It just seems like they don’t have enough relevant ads to show, so they throw shit at the wall.