skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A monopoly is basically a Marxist-Leninist command economy writ small which means it inevitably has all of the same dysfunctions.

In other words, Marx was right about how laissez-faire capitalism leads to communism (though of course he was wrong about this being inevitable or good). If monopolies are completely allowed to run amok, eventually you will have a single monopoly of everything that will be powerful enough to control the government and weaponize said government against its critics and anybody who tries to compete with it.

This is appealing to the people at the top of monopolies and those who think they can climb to the top for the same reason why many people prefer being the dictator of an impoverished country over being a commoner in a wealthy country. A significant portion of humanity cares more about relative status than absolute status and, to them, equal treatment feels like oppression.
Doesn't it always boil down to feeling good about yourself?
What if we had an ecologically ~free source of power?
do you have a link you can share. interested
That's true for online media in general, it's not specific to YouTube
EVs are expensive. These city commuters ditched cars altogether – for e-bikes
Some people don't seem to understand, due to they low empathy and IQ, that we have endangered elephants because they are a source of "ivory".

We should stop talking about ivory and leave the fucking elephants alone.

Among all possible names for theie software they had to pick that one.
Inertia.js v1.0
People have tried, unless the thing you want to recreat has been seen by it a lot (over trained) you won't get the same image. You don't have that much fine grained control via text only.

Best you can do is to mask and keep inpainting the area that looks different until it doesn't.
Lützerath: Protesters, police clash near German coal mine
Pulses on a GPIO pin are not print statements.

A huge proportion of computing devices have no method of producing any out put, other than to some form of actuator, at all.

"print statements" are useless in this class of device.

Stretching the definition of "print statement" to recording pulses from a pin is, well, a stretch!

Poor young programmers. If the only tool you have is a hemmer, every problem is a thumb.
From where do you get the 58k?

Misunderstood regional differences in usage of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator ?

More like 2.8k ;>
Establishing a consistent level of competence and training for entrants is important for consistent quality in the field. It will also help companies to stop inventing their own unique interview process and just look for verified accreditation when determining whether to hire someone.

It's absolutely bonkers that some companies don't trust the general population of devs with 5+ years of verified experience and still gives them technical interviews. But you can't really point them to a good standard to hire with either.
Do you have any links talking about what wifi-6 capabilities are missing?

I was under the impression capabilities like OFDMA were mandatory on uplink & downlink for "WiFi 6". Ditto for Target Wake Time.

In general, while wifi might not always be the best pick, I also see it working very well in many challenging environments, and I think the expectation that low end devices are necessarily bad for the network isnt going to hold forever. The legacy 802.11b devices have left a lot of emotional scars & pain, and wifi 4 & 5 had many limitations that made low-end devices a network tax, but it seems like we really finally are on the way to better.

I was aware of 802.11ah somewhat, but admit I had forgotten just how many tweaks/optizations went into it. Time division/grouping I'd forgotten about. TWT seems like a good help here. It also seems to lack the key thing that should hopefully be decreasing congrestion, which is ppwer control, which should hopefully greatly reduce congestion in most scenarios, by making devices not always be shoutintg at each other.

Admittedly it seems like a large number of esp32 users do struggle woth throughput, which sucks. A quick scan around the net & Im seeing very few users get above 12Mbps. Many see huge gains from improving bad board design, which seems to compound the issue. WiFi 6 has great potential, but as usual, there's many paths abound to screw up a good thing.
This is something that bugged me for a long time. There are many other challenging algorithmic questions that I will share in a separate blog post later (e.g. writing a efficient solver). If you have any idea how to do that I would love to hear about that.
A bank isn't going to do anything with your business that you just set up that wants to accept credit cards over the Internet for things. I'm not sure what we're even talking about at this point.

There's a good comment upthread about alternatives to Stripe, of which there are many. The good ones distinguish themselves by being the kinds of places where businesses like StoreCycle can't get an account in the first place.

In summary: the words "possibly legitimate" in your comment are doing most of the work of this entire thread.
A luxury cruise went somewhere unexpected: face to face with the migrant crisis
Didn't that not quite do what it says on the tin on some filesystems?
Seveneves? Great scenario and ideas, but I couldn't care less about any of the characters, and I probably don't remember any.
Still enjoyed the read a lot though.
This is why the theory that companies will inevitably grow until they own the world is false. Companies grow to the point where they are throttled by their own bureaucracy, then they fall to smaller, nimbler competitors.

It happened to Standard Oil, IBM, GE, RCA, Kodak, Sears, all of them.

The same failure happens to government agencies attempting central planned economies. Except that government agencies are never allowed to fail, and we all suffer.
Didn’t RTFA, but imo a ton of what makes these companies slow and inefficient is the hardcore performance review culture. People focus on the wrong things, or gaming measured metrics, so they can focus on getting more money. If people weren’t absorbed in how their work matches some dumb matrix, they might actually focus on working on the right problems.
'Yes, but not like this ' Why urban densification often lacks public acceptance
They do take a huge amount of space, unfortunately.
>but the universe is an unforgiving place

yes

>and we’re here only to be productive

how did you make this jump? the universe doesn't care in the slightest how you spend your time or what you do. we're not here to anything. we're utterly insignificant and our life is devoid of meaning. you can choose to fill it with fulfillment by some definition of producing something. I really don't care. I just think it's sad to define your life in relation to some arbitrary definition of your externally bounded output. but by all means, if that's what you want...

just don't say it's The Way of The Universe. That's just wrong.
Since DART crashed into Dimorphos, changing its orbit around Didymos rather than its orbit around the sun, isn’t there almost no cause for concern because Didymos is still on the same non-intersecting orbit around the sun? Is the concern that Dimorphos’s slightly different orbit could pull Didymos slightly off course in its orbit around the sun, thereby causing it to potentially intersect with Earth at some point in the future, where it wouldn’t have prior to DART.

Can we quantify how much Dimorphos’s new orbit has affected Didymos’s orbit? Is that calculable?
Hey, this is a bit tangential, but is Barnes-Hut still used in modern n-body simulations? Some of the math has huge crossover with machine learning and dimension reduction, but it’s rarely traced back to the source in literature. Thanks!

(I’ll also check out the GitHub repo you linked but I haven’t read it fully yet)
In 1989 I read about how IBM was an unstoppable juggernaut that would rule the world.

IB-who?
This is in the realm of ignorant questions. It could well be that the majority of computer devices have none. E.g. the micro controller in my washing machine
There isn’t that much CO2 in the atmosphere. This is obviously a WAG, but I’d suppose that the planet-scale geoengineering required to maintain plant-friendly CO2 levels in that changed solar environment would be at least as feasible as developing a sustainable, coherent interstellar civilization.
Could there be some metadata that it's using?

Otoh, I know there was come controversy because Samsung was taking screenshots from people's TVs and using them to target advertising, so it's not unprecedented
> I very much doubt that.

You can see his actual workflow on his YouTube channel. He shows his painting process there but doesn't show his sketching process, but I hope that you believe that people are able to draw from imagination at least.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_ZLBKj_UlY

> Note sure what you are implying here, could you elaborate?

I just meant I was probably putting to much effort into an online discussion.

> I have no doubt that he started painting these over the reference photos, and then used the 'warp tool' in his painting program of choice to alter the proportions, a very common technique.

It's simply not a common technique at all. I'm not sure why you're making these statements because it feels like your knowledge of how illustrators work is extremely limited. I've heard of people photobashing -- which is when artists combine photo manipulation and digital painting to more easily produce realistic artworks. It's got mixed opinions about it and many consider it cheating but within the field of concept art it's common because it's quick and easy. However, there's huge amounts of people who can just draw and paint from sight or imagination. There's the hyperrealists who often act as a human photocopier, but artists who do stylized art of any kind are just people who can draw from imagination. I'm not sure why that's something you "very much doubt" to be quite honest. Just looking on YouTube for things like art timelapses, you can find huge amounts of people who draw entirely from imagination. Take Kim Jung Gi as a somewhat well known example. That guy was famous amongst illustrators for drawing complicated scenes directly in pen without any sketches. But there's really plenty of people that can do these things.

You seem to be under the impression that the average artist uses every shortcut available to get a good result, but that is simply not true. Most artists I know refuse to do anything like photobashing because they consider it cheating and because it isn't how they want to work, nevermind directly drawing on top of things. Drawing from sight isn't uncommon as a way to study art, so in case you're wondering why Sam Yang would be able to reproduce the frame so closely, it's because that's how artists study painting.

> Have you ever used programs like Photoshop, Krita et al

Yes, very often. The thing is: Just because it's possible does not mean it actually happens.
The number of parameters correlates with the believability of the result being from an intelligent human being.

Easy to inference/small model = poor results
I watch a lot of YouTube, mostly Let's Plays, but it's just in the background while I do other stuff. Sometimes I work, sometimes I game (either the same game or another one).

It's kind of listening to music I guess. I dont retain a lot of the content. No clue if it's harmful or not, but I wouldn't call it an addiction because I dont miss it.
ChatCSV – Data analytics in plain English
So, never, basically. There will always be lots of people willing to jump through lots of hoops for a chance at such a relatively high level of comp
Used economy model cars are not that expensive to the Western middle class, so they’re a common coming-of-age gift from parents to a child.
> And many trucks drive at night because traffic is lighter.

It doesnt have to be moving to charge. Provided its parked outside ofcourse.

But whether it pays to have to move around the extra weight for the energy produced is an important point.
Isn't RLHF trivially easy to defeat (as it stands now)?
What? It’s a paid for service.
I can imagine a world where there are an infinity of “local maximums” that stop a system from reaching a singular feedback loop… imagine if our current tools help write the next generation, so on, so on, until it gets stuck in some local optimization somewhere. Getting stuck seems more likely than not getting stuck, right?
I don't think I plugged anything. I shared the best thing I've found to partially solve this problem in my own life (open source software I have no relationship to), shared that my full time job is working on this problem (because it's the largest obstacle in my life, not because I am trying to grift) and what I've built so far, with the explicit note that I would not recommend as a single magic bullet for addiction, because it happens to be a really hard problem. And then shared what I am trying next - to address this problem in my own life and ideally as many others as I can.
At least here in the states, it's pretty common for parents to purchase their children a first car. It's usually not a new sports car.

Mine was a 1989 GTI with a quarter million miles. I loved it.
unfortunately the regulatory environment has also become bureaucratic. Too hard to start a competitor and kick them when they re down
Downward Spiral
Wine 8.0-Rc4 Released
But to our narcissistic displeasure, the biosphere acts on a very different time scale.

But points to us for a world record pace speedrun on the downturn side of it. It’ll eventually bloom again once we’re done here.
I've been experimenting with this kind of thing lately, but what I've found more useful is the "edit" mode in the openapi playground. You paste your existing code in there, give some instruction, then submit, and it seems to do pretty well. I'm hoping that the next generation of Copilot will be able to make use of this, as sort of "dynamic brushes"
I glorified nothing.

Yeah, all you've provided is your opinion, no facts. And apparently you can psych-analyse me telepathically to diagnose my drug use as "not beneficial".

Drug dangers presented in descending order of harm, by actual drug researchers: https://amp.theguardian.com/science/2009/nov/02/david-nutt-d...

Stop wasting my time.
Outside of pitched battles, non samurai weren’t allowed to hold weapons much less swords. Peasant levies could be called on for the defense of a land, but they were just temporary troops.

Retainers and bodyguards defend the title of their lord, and were essentially always of the samurai class. If you were recruited as a peasant for the job, then you became the class.

It’s not like medieval Europe where you have to be officially knighted to join the class. The equivalents of man at arms and mercenaries were also of the samurai class.

So as a cross poster said: the man was officially taken as a bodyguard to the daimyo, received a household, and was presented with a katana. Thus for all intents and purposes he’s a samurai. There’s just no other class permitted to do that job.

Edit:
It would also be a grave insult for a samurai to be protected by a non samurai. To claim the lord, a noble warrior, requires a mere peasant to protect him… well that’s not permissible. So the daimyos bodyguard will be recognized as a samurai at least within his own lands.
Schumpeter's creative destruction will eventually clean up the companies if they are allowed to fail

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_destruction
Claude Shannon showed that everything is just data, that's why it wasn't done previously. It seems obvious today, but wasn't always.
The night tube is one of the best things that’s ever happened to London.
It wasn't a bad car at all, actually pretty luxurious. Except it was heavy and had a 5 cylinder "turbo" diesel engine which could do 25-60MPH in something like 30-45 seconds. This made merging onto the freeway problematic and anxiety inducing for a newer driver.

I've come around and appreciate practical vehicles, but the first car I bought in college (and still own!) was a powerful halo model of AWD sports car.
Finally a bit of sanity around this topic, from a physician at the Vaccine Education Center, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia no less, and printed in the New England Journal of Medicine:

"I believe we should stop trying to prevent all symptomatic infections in healthy, young people by boosting them with vaccines containing mRNA from strains that might disappear a few months later."

Sweden is well ahead of the curve:

Jan 28, 2022: Sweden decides against recommending COVID vaccines for kids aged 5-11 https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/sweden-decides-against-...

Sep 30, 2022: Sweden to stop offering Covid jabs to teenagers https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-09-sweden-covid-jabs-tee...
>genetic determinism are repeatedly shown to be absolute bullshit
There is a lot of data that says genes determine various phenotypes: https://www.gwascentral.org/
That only claims the output is AGPL, not the code you feed into it.
Nuclear disasters seem like a pretty solid way to create blooming nature preserves. Why don’t we do more of those?
The idea came from a massive Harry Potter fan :)

But, we have still mailing-list and signal, but a pigeon is used for BBQ invitations...the important stuff, we have one where the pigeons can life and he cares for them...we pay our share (everyone is the owner of three pigeons).
Alright : )
CMA nods to public offering of 2 Saudi funds
Your second paragraph is a rose-colored view of history. People simply watched television. No need to rent when you had hundreds of cable channels to endlessly scroll through. It wasn’t as curated as streaming but then it also helped to avoid the decision fatigue of streaming (and makes me wonder if Netflix and co. could reintroduce “channels” to funnel user selection and reduce analysis paralysis.)
“The timing for this launch is noteworthy, as the launch window opens just 10 minutes after sunset. This will be the first time that the Falcon Heavy rocket has launched in twilight, and it should be visible for hundreds of kilometers up and down the Florida coast.”

Wish I was in Florida to see it.

The DoD will use this massively as the Russians have taught the world that high bandwidth for soldiers is now one of the most important factors in effectiveness.

According to Ukraine leadership, they would have not lasted this long without Starlink.
AWS Transciption Disadvantages?
Hi people, that are building awesome apps. If you are using AWS speech-to-text, please share what are the major disadvantages of using their model?
The science is in the reproduction of the methodology, not in the abstract… in fact, a lot of garbage publications with catchy abstracts built on a shaky foundation sounds like one of the issues that plagues contemporary science. That people would stop finding abstracts useful seems a good thing!
Ehh… once you have a process it isn’t that expensive. The driver is similar to retail - you can charge more.

Parking and tolls are great examples. EZPass and the various parking solutions are expensive, but they make it easier to boil the frog. That makes it easier to do one shot deals like sell revenue bonds.

The failure of the government to implement digital cash and establish a system where Visa/Mastercard/etc effectively tax all commerce is ridiculous.
Ask HN: Do you test in production?
There are a lot of blog posts talking about the fact that testing in prod should not be a taboo like it may have been in the 90s. I've read some of these [1] [2], I get the arguments in favour of it, and I want to try some experiments.

My question is -- how does one go about doing it _safely_? In particular, I'm thinking about data. Is it common practice to inject fabricated data into a prod system to run such tests? What's the best practice or prior art on doing this well?

Ultimately, I think this will end up looking like implementing SLIs and SLOs in PROD, but for some of my SLOs, I think I need to actually _fake_ the data in order to get the SLIs I need, so how to do this?

Suggestions appreciated -- thanks.

[1] https://increment.com/testing/i-test-in-production/

[2] https://segment.com/blog/we-test-in-production-you-should-too/
Not just any weapon. The samurai were synonymous with the daishou, the paired small and large swords which it was their unique privilege and obligation to wear in public. This is the element that appears to be missing for Yasuke; at least there isn't any record that he wore them.
You have a misunderstanding about Marxism. Marx already knew about the monopolistic nature of capitalism. This nature leads to concentration of power in the hands of a few owners of capital, while everybody else is stripped of ownership. This is not very different from the serfdom of middle ages. Marxism proposes to solve this by abolishing ownership, so no-one can control the capital, which becomes a shared resource. So the difference is not on the process (it will happen as he described) only about who controls it.
How many people have they helped lose weight? Reddit alone works way better than Big Science does in any practical, skin-in-the-game domain like diet/fat loss/exercise.

I also know that many of the things they say or used to say that are still standard doctrine are just flat-out wrong, which I've confirmed in my own experiments.
those people would just buckle the seat-belt and sit on it like they do in cars.
Stripe doesn't know you or what kind of customers you will bring. So you're still on the hook to monitor fraud among your customer base, and they give you a few options to do that, like the zip code check. If your fraud/dispute/chargeback rates are low, you remove those checks to have less friction at the checkout.
Yep, VirtualDJ has a free version. It doesn't let you use a hardware controller though.

https://virtualdj.com/products/virtualdj/price.html#comparis...
Your cost of living tends to go up with your income. Wants and needs rise to meet the income available to them; that is a financial law as rigorously enforced as the Law of Diminishing Returns or the Law of Supply and Demand. That’s why it’s so hard to be rich and get rich at the same time.

The way to beat this phenomenon is either to exercise remarkable self-control…or to outrun your wants and needs with “escape velocity” wealth.

https://dailyreckoning.com/the-concept-of-financial-escape-v...
Glerup merlino wool house slipper with rubber bottom. I found a like new pair for $30 at consignment shop in SF, but I will pay full price to replace.

https://www.glerups.com/collections/boots/products/the-boot-...
The Creative Switch is explores similar ideas to John Cleese's theory of creativity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb5oIIPO62g
Please quote me the sentences where the parent says they are not morally exempt.

>"Clearly?" Why? How is it clear at all? If there are no consequences or benefits for doing so (and indeed, a highly beneficial outcome by not doing so), why should they?

Quite obviously implies that corporations are justified in optimizing for their own benefit without factoring morality.

The anecdote provided about Larry Ellison has the same implication.

The parent saying an approximation of "I'm just explaining how the world works" is not only incorrect, patronizing and overly general but also implies that corporations are just a force of nature rather than a group of people who should be held responsible for the immorality of their decisions.
It does not look like binutils (including ld.gold) has that exception[0], so I don't think the FSF would agree.

[0] https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=blob;f=READ...