skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an extremely naive take.

Standards by definition can't innovate at the pace technology is evolving.

Successful companies have no choice but to continuously iterate.

Natural Monopolies occur even if it isn't your strategy because of the nature of things.

Wikipedia, Craigslist didn't set out to become a monopoly, but it naturally became one.

If you don't understand the underlying natural forces that are at force, then you succumb to conspiracy theories like OP.

Do company take advantage of the natural forces?. Of Course. Blitzscaling is a business strategy that takes advantage of this. But it is more of, someone will have a monopoly due to natural forces, might as we be us and might as well accelerate that process
> Sqlite is the most popular database in the world by a large margin.

That is by installed instances. Whether that translates to the amount of developers is not so clear.
It's worth keeping in mind that Al Jazeera (as the state-funded news outlet of an extremely wealthy state that is built entirely and existentially on the sales of oil) may not be unbiased on this particular analysis.
SD2's dataset was deduplicated prior to training. That's why the paper is about SD1, which was a prototype model completed before Stability even had VC raises.
I have no expertise on this topic but it seems some people are smarter than others.

It's a sign of the times that a person with two decades of experience as
an educator needs to heavily qualify an obvious fact.
Seriously, this is payment processing 101.

It is still weird and one-sided. Merchants are still being abused and in some cases that still causes them serious harm through no fault of their own. Unregulated chargebacks should still be legislated out of existence - preferably along with the whole anachronistic card payments system. It is still insane that so much everyday commerce relies on such an antiquated, dangerous, inefficient system in the 21st century.

So it's entirely reasonable for someone who isn't intimately familiar with how all of this actually works to be surprised by the situation and think it's broken. Because it is. It's not really Stripe's fault here though.
This is such a weird comment.
The Internet Archive has hundreds of free to read cookbooks full of recipes with minimal or no additional story.
They won't, the industries criticized heavily advertise with them.
At this point I'm unconvinced that humans are much more than a language model. Worse, I'm only saying that half jokingly.
If I'm reading about the correct James Watson, this is not a fair or accurate comparison.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Watson#Comments_on_race

Edit: the psychology of creating an account to make that particular comment is fascinating to me.
Tesla does include HD-Radio on their FM tuner, in Phoenix the most popular AM stations are available on one of the HD radio sub-channels.
Wel I mean, there are definitely jobs like that. Why not just take those? Let the people who want to be 100% remote just work at the jobs that are 100% remote, instead of working at a 100% remote job and wanting the workplace to change. I’m sympathetic that you mentioned having a disability (if social blindness is what you meant by this) but I’m unsure if making everyone you talk to commute into the office a reasonable accommodation.
HVAC. There's nothing like jumping into a damp crawl space in the winter or playing in fiberglass insulation in the summer.
Pig-butchering scam apps sneak into Apple’s App Store and Google Play
It's funny, when I set Google translate to English, the flag changes :) I didn't know pages can respond to it
So true. And they left out the macaroni!
The problem with float32: you only get 16M values
Green light for HOK’s City block refurb
I was told OpenSSL 3 was bad for the longest time, I used 1.1x for everything, but switched to Libressl.

Now that I need to switch to AWS Linux they are using OpenSSL 3, my question is should I still be hating on OpenSSL?
16.8M lines of code handling sensitive data are written every year
The CEO for the first company I ever worked for got really bad advice in this regard. In his head shot he tilted his head to the side, which is directly contrary to contemporary advice for male head shots. It made him look distinctly feminine, and playful instead of serious.
That doesn't sound right at all. In 2D space a line bisects the plane. There's no way of moving from one side to the other without touching it. The possibility space of images is much, much larger than 2D.
It is a bit of a stretch to conflate the conservation and labor movements like that.
From the article:

"The supposed energy transition that has been undertaken has seen renewable energy production expanded, but there has been no indication that oil and gas are being substituted and ultimately phased out."

That's not going to happen for another 27 years at least. I've said it before: Most people (including those who post here) are staggeringly illiterate when it comes to energy. Hydrocarbons store an immense amount of energy in a small, portable, cheap form. You can't just replace it in a year.

And even if you COULD, oil and gas are used for more than fuel and power. Natgas is a major feedstock for nitrogen fertilizer. You cannot replace it with solar panels. Then there's the laundry list of byproducts like plastics and other materials made from oil and gas feedstocks which are essential for the modern world to function -also not able to be substituted by wind and sunlight.

Funny how they never mention this at Vox, Mother Jones, or other progressive-leaning publications.
I know of at least 2 companies who will explicitly not hire ex-facebook engineers, with the rationale that anyone who would work for facebook is morally bankrupt, especially the more recent years.
What about the Apple II and Commodore PET, both older than the Atari 800?
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Edited: xD
Httpiness, a developer-oriented HTTP client for slalom API testing
> What would have happened had Twitter not complied with said suggestions?

Twitter did exactly that in some cases, with no apparent repercussions.

In the most recent transparency report (https://transparency.twitter.com/en/reports/countries/us.htm...) Twitter declined ~30% of data requests from US government agencies.

They are also suing the government over NSLs; https://blog.twitter.com/official/en_us/a/2014/taking-the-fi...
Wikipedia doesn't comply with government censorship and interestingly it is apparently so important that the national governments very often cave in.

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

Some countries used to block specific articles, but that's not possible anymore thanks to HTTPS. Local editors in such places are at risk of prosecution though.
> he was nearly always saying things that I felt were a bit "off"

One of such things is "screaming architecture". It is a good idea in theory, but only if you already know what the architecture should be. Most new projects don't know what they need up front, and discovery happens over time. Screaming architecture is bad for this process. It inhibits it, requiring a ton of refactoring because of early assumptions. One thing that is known up front is entry points. (CLI, requests, tests, bg jobs). They're a lot more likely to stay around forever. Custom architecture should emerge underneath them. I guess we can call it whispering architecture.
Since all CIs seem to be allowing executing shell scripts one way or another, in theory it is possible to avoid vendor lock in by coding your CI as a shell script which is called from the CI configuration file. This way only the very minimal bootstrapping stuff remains in CI config and the rest remains in your shell scripts that you can port to any CI.
Ask HN: Is it OK to release GPL3 code of a project which is now private?
So, I've just discovered that a VST Synth that I've used (and reviewed) in the past that was previously free (with optional donation) is now paid-only if you want VST3, AAX and commercial use. [1]

This synth is GPL3 (or rather, was until the .01 update which has accompanied the change of licence), and the GPL3 code is still up on github[2].

Is it OK for me to do a release of this from the GPL3 code that I have now forked on github[3]? As I understand it, it should be, but I've not done anything like this before. The code was actually a fork of someone else's abandoned code that they got permission for, and they apparently have permission of the original writer to make it private now.

[1] - https://www.discodsp.com/obxd/
[2] - https://github.com/reales/OB-Xd
[3] - https://github.com/djaychela/OB-Xd
In my experience, you have to pay, but you get it back if you show up.
This website seems to be much more reliable! Thanks for sharing.
Most of these can largely be mitigated if teams/organizations intentionally support socializing and interaction. For example - the team I'm currently on hold all meetings with cameras turned on (it's the social norm, not an official policy); twice a week we hold a "social programming" session which is more for idle chitchat than being productive; and we encourage pairing and group work - not because we think it's more productive (it may or may not be) but because it's sometimes more enjoyable or less frustrating.

On the flip side, a former shop basically treated remote workers as if we were robots. Everything was about 'productivity'. One of the most inhumane places I've been.
Its not nationalism, but fairness.
If nationally you can't just work people all week, then an american company with unlimited VC money, selling its user data to everybody and working its workers to death will absolutely crush any local or neighboring competitor.

There must be limits, because as we have seen, globalism as its currently is basically american everything.
Random bit flips = squeaky raised floor tile in data center
> “well, it’s such a tiny minuscule piece from so many different people that it’s not really stealing“

RMS wrote 'the right to read' because issues like this, and if you've not read it, I recommend you do. "A bunch of little bits of different things" isn't stealing, it's society and culture. If you got your wish of everything I create if fully copyrighted, you'd find two things. One, that you're last in line and don't come up with original ideas often, even in original artwork. And two, that monied corporations would quickly buy up rights to everything and make life as an artist completely impossible.
There likely isn't enough genetic diversity to get more than a first generation of dodo's. You'd end up doing a lot of inbreeding and the rate of successful births would be very low.
That is not correct, you cannot add AM. The radio fee is for people who upgraded their computer hardware and want a new radio that is compatible with the new computer. The new radio does not have AM.
Now I can screenshot this and make a post "Why Are Answers That Aren't On HN So Long-Winded?", because you recapped the whole thing in 3 sentences.
> On a complete tangent, I wish someone had a service where I could buy physical media, and have it streamed for free until the day after it is delivered.

In the late '90s/early 2000s, there were a few services that did exactly this. I remember buying CDs that included details on how to also stream/download the music. (I believe I also bought at least one DVD that worked similarly.)

Physical + streaming was tried in the market by several competitors, and the market ultimately didn't want it.
US Healthcare Sector Under Attack, Killnet Adds 50 Hospitals to Target List
It works as well as talking to my own cat.
I'm an avid cyclist. Just from personal observation, outside of high density urban areas I see very little people on bicycles.

Now I moved out of NYC to the suburbs - I know every cyclist in the area, and that's me plus 2 other people. I barely ever see bikes...
I'd describe Twitter as closer to a news site in the modern era. There are a lot of journalists and other important public figures sharing information there, and that's especially true for important live news events like earthquakes. (Twitter is the first place I check if I feel the house shake, for example.)
Get the Paprika 3 app, it’s amazing. You can put in a irl and it scrapes the ingredients and directions and stores them locally.
Now imagine you're an expert witness on the stand in the case that eventually settles this. I don't think this will be persuasive even if it's technically sound. How you end up with a copyrighted work doesn't seem relevant: the model still produced something eerily similar to a copyrighted work.

"Copyright laundering" will be the phrase of the era. Throw Picasso in with a thousand reproductions, wash it with DeviantArt, get Picasso back out. Does it matter than it's algorithmically derived rather than a stroke-by-stroke reproduction? There's probably already ample case law around reproductions to deal with this.
If you founded a company that actually, really, visibly de-extincted the very famous,, deeply recognizable, colloquially-adopted dodo ("dead as a dodo, "dumb as a dodo", etc), and then had a literal dodo-looking dodo bird walking around in some game preserve for all the world to see, finding funding via dodo leasing would be the least of your monetary inflows.

VC money would rain down upon you like mana from heaven and the publicity would garner your company so many indirect financial rewards that you could later move on to all sorts of things. Not to mention the IP and patent rights you'd presumably create along the way with your cloning process and related procedures for future profitable use.
What Are the Different Approaches for Detecting AI-Generated Content?
Slightly related: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46856779
ChatGPT is a wordcel. A Sophist! You can get away with a lot being a sophist in the post-literary world we live in, but still. Thinking it is not!
As @presentation already mentioned, Japanese pronunciation has more layers to it than you think.

Additionally, I think a foreigner who actually puts time into practicing Chinese pronunciation can sound very close to native. Most people learning most languages seem to only aim for good enough pronunciation and then focus on acquiring vocabulary instead.

I don't know what languages you speak, but I speak a good amount of Japanese and will occasionally have a hard time being understood in Japan, probably when the person I'm talking to is not used to talking to foreigners. On the other hand, I've had Chinese people compliment me on my Chinese, and I would not even pass HSK 1. From what I've heard from the Chinese people I've talked to you can get away with a lot of tonal mistakes and still be understood, although you will of course sound like a foreigner.
Unrealistic valuations and other disincentives in the crypto space
A simple script and a cron job will fix that problem.
The people who actually care are the Pakistani people. Let them fight it. Wikipedia can and should just keep doing what its doing.
Same, here...hoping if nothing else, the placebo effect might help my mother's mood/esteem. But here's hoping it actually works for us both!
Nearly everything online today is long-winded. Hell, most media is long-winded. You can't just know what happened, where, and why; you've got to read a creative-writing thesis to "put you in the shoes" of the subject du jour. You can't simply watch a lecture; you need fancy graphics and fast cuts with memes woven in. Want a compelling story? You better watch all 6 seasons, including the remaining 4 without the original writers, and be prepared to be disappointed. How about learning to fix your car? In that case, be prepared for 3 minutes worth of info in 20 minutes of some schmo complaining about why Hyundais suck while he constantly jiggles the camera and gloats about much more clever he is than other mechanics.

News, blogs, recipes, shows, instructional videos... all pretty much blow chunks. Any time I simply want straight forward information it becomes a matter of frequent fast-forwarding and combining of info from disparate sources when it shouldn't be necessary. Get. To. The. Point.
I strongly suspect you're right about that.

My bet is the court will determine that whether the output of a model is or isn't subject to copyright isn't a black-and-white answer, but rather depends on the work.

Fundamentally, the test as to whether a work represents a copyright violation is about "substantial similarity" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substantial_similarity):

> To win a claim of copyright infringement in civil or criminal court, a plaintiff must show he or she owns a valid copyright, the defendant actually copied the work, and the level of copying amounts to misappropriation. Under the doctrine of substantial similarity, a work can be found to infringe copyright even if the wording of text has been changed or visual or audible elements are altered

Okay, so let's say I take a thousand copyright images, averaged their pixels, and produced a single uniform grey output. No jury is going to conclude that work has "substantial similarity" with any of the original works, and I'm clear.

But now suppose I do the same, but weight it so 99% of the pixel colour comes from one image, and the remaining 1% comes from the rest.

Well, in that case, odds are very good a jury would find me guilty of violating the copyright of that original work that represents 99% of the image.

So my bet is the courts will conclude that the model, itself, doesn't in any way violate copyright, nor did the training itself run afoul of the law, but that any given output might, depending on the substantial similarity test.

And that means every single work is suspect and a potential target for litigation.
No, it didn't — neither Crick or Watson had any consequences for their speech anywhere near the level of being exiled or facing prosecution. An institution cutting ties after you spend years making racist claims is a disappointing tarnish to your career, but it's nothing like going to jail or potentially facing the execution (Pakistan has the death penalty for blasphemy).
Driving to work, when you can/prefer to work from home, is pointless.
i think an open source zapier alternative would be a desktop app that had a nice UI, and synthesized terraform/FaaS code/API gateway-equivalent stuff behind the scenes and then ran it against my preferred cloud provider account.

not this, as convenient for some as it may be.
That is true. Hence my comments above about the extreme is razing all the SFH and replacing them with society style apartment blocks to ensure everyone has the minimum required to house the maximum number of people at the lowest cost possible. The other side is they’re incumbent, have established a life, and their entire community wants the life they have lived. Respecting that is important too, otherwise you get what you see in China with the razing of old cities replaced with efficiency unit high rises and forced relocation. There’s something to be said for respecting the lives built of a community vs destroying the community built for utilitarian gain.
Show HN: Sudoku with 0 Bells or Whistles
Hello HN,

I've created a new Sudoku app for iOS and Android that prioritizes simplicity and privacy. It's free to download and use, and I'd be grateful for any feedback or suggestions.

Features:

> 4 difficulty levels, accessible at any time

> No personal data collection of any kind

> Clean, minimalistic design that focuses on the game

> Takes up significantly less space than other popular apps (by a factor of about 10x)

> Minimal use of advertisements

I was frustrated by how many of the popular Sudoku apps feel excessively over-engineered, consume a lot of storage space and some that even collect unnecessary personal information, like location and contacts. So I put this app together without any of those things (using flutter).

Links:

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/app/sudoku-puzzle-palace/id1668683822

android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kingfisher...

Here's a screenshot of the main app page: https://imgur.com/a/FbCf2IJ

Thanks for taking a look and happy solving!
gracias - i noticed my typing lately has become no bueno. maybe just trying to do too many things at once and getting careless on the keyboard.
You may be right about the suburban areas, I just don't know. I haven't lived there since I was a kid.

The area around Pioneer square is all boarded up now, even the court house! During the summer/fall it was much worse with indigent drug use and florid psychotics but now that it's cold and wet there's less. The station is still used as a toilet though.

Funny enough the stairs at exit A in Pioneer Square have inscribed on them as you walk up "Why are you not afraid?". And I always say to myself, "I fuckin am!"

Seattle needs some chemotherapy but that would require its citizens to recognize they have a disease and actually seek treatment. Instead they put on their airpods and stare at their phones and completely live in a parallel reality.
Choropleth maps with ggplot and R
Don't know why it's downvoted but this is still along the best advice you will get. Recruiters are doing the job professionally you're failing at the moment.
Something similar is happening to Spotify. They’ve shoehorned a lot of “features” into the app recently that will surely make money but at the expense of UX. Attrition is a lagging indicator; there’s always a point where mounting annoyance finally justifies switching services. I always wonder if that’s accounted for or if there’s just no incentive to care.
I don't think it's a joke. He's either desensitised himself while making the compound, or knowing what it is has enough of a psychological effect to prevent much reaction. (I got the latter impression watching his video on making "metal-smell")

I think it smells worse with dilution too, as they noted in the video.
This is also such a common real estate agent pose that south park mocked it
Media painted these platforms to be "evil" because they chose to be "evil." It wasn't for no reason.
This is true for a lot of corporate training as well, in particular for compliance stuff. It's all bullshit to check a box. Whoever's paying for it wants to spend as little as possible, nobody cares what the content is or whether its actually learned, it's just about transferring liability. It's these silly regulatory constructs that are too detached from reality (like offsets) that give rise to this brand of bullshit
To me this is kind of like being shocked that people who've seen the Starry Night can remember what it looks like.
If I have 10 points in 2d space, I can always hit them all exactly so long as I have a polynomial of degree 10 or higher. This is overfitting, which is indistinguishable from memorization.
Optimizing Redis’ Default Compiler Flags
I eagerly await "predict the phase of the Moon, with AI"
Discord can definitely do some strange things to your machine. I can't play DayZ when it's open, the game will not connect to any servers and errors out with this "player auth login state" message. I thought it was my internet connection but running a server locally also resulted in the same error.

It took me a few months of on-and-off searching, but I eventually found a comment on a message board where someone had experimented with things by closing different sets of applications and then trying to connect to a DayZ server. They finally figured out it was Discord that was causing the issue.
Corporate policy at a big, well known corp I worked at for a few years was to delete email after 30 days unless it was particularly important, as otherwise it could potentially be used against the company later.

It is shady, and very lawyer-driven.
Well, [1] has a Bad Server Request
A lot of bureaucracy at the beginning might not be bad if it's indeed front-loading it for an otherwise successful collaboration.