skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Super Resolution is used in many fields like surveillance, medical industry, forensic and satellite imaging applications.

Computer, generate a list of applications where technology like this should absolutely not be used.

This seems terrifying — wouldn't this, for example, synthesize identifying details about motor vehicles not present in the sample, drawn from training data? About people? Etc etc

This sounds awesome for making a consumer mapping product feel higher quality. Hell, it could even serve an anonymizing function that is pro-privacy ("a roof" not "your roof"). But it feels incredibly reckless to direct this toward those listed industries.

People in surveillance and forensics etc. should be confronted with the limits of the quality of the data they are using, we should not try to synthesize extra confidence in their analysis by making the images seem higher quality than they are.
Berkshire Hathaway buys more AAPL stock, ditches most of TSMC
It's 99% visual appeal.
Prisoners with Hats
Inevitable pedantry: his name is Leonardo, not "da Vinci".

"da" means "from", or in this sense "of". So just as you might say "Jesus of Nazareth" you say "Leonardo of Vinci".

You would never say something like "...and Of Nazareth said...", so likewise it's weird to say "da Vinci invented..."
I could not disagree more.

> Honesty is simply a weakness.

This is not only untrue, but interacting with anyone who really believes it is incredibly dangerous.

If this is the prevailing attitude amongst "reputation management" firms, then I feel pretty safe in assuming anyone engaging these firms or similar tactics are doing so because they're bad actors.
You do know that they just found that the FBI official investigating him for Russian collusion was taking bribes from Russia?
Unless it is opt-in it is spyware.

You can't trust devs that have such bad judgement that they would even think about doing it opt-out with the opt-in data either.
I find it surprising that so many people are arguing about the benefits and drawbacks of `?`, when in my experience the handling of Result and Option haven't been an issue in practice on the consuming side (`?`, `.unwrap()`, `.map()`, `.ok()`, if let, match, let chains, let else, etc. help a lot), but where all the pain comes from is having to declare the appropriate error type itself. Libraries like `anyhow` takes some of the pain away, but declaring an appropriate struct or particularly an enum in the right places, and the boilerplate for all the type conversions (From/Into impls) are where, during development, I have frustration. What I do then is either use Result<T, ()> or a single `struct Error(String);`, and go back once I have all the scaffolding in place and pry the implicit error tree back into the type system. Anonymous enums like typescript (`A | B | C`) could presumably help here.
The problem I had with GitLab was that the mechanisms for controlling dependencies between stages were fairly basic. They only added them in ~2020 I think, and they weren't well documented.

Additionally, there's no cache guarantees between jobs within one execution. This means that you can't reliably cache an artifact in one job, and then share it with multiple downstream jobs. It mostly works, but it's hard to debug when it doesn't, especially if the cache artifact isn't versioned.

GitLab is "fine", and has some nice usability features for basic pipelines, but it's definitely not doing anything better than the other major providers with respect to these problems.
Thailand has many as well.

I’m often disappointed that here in Australia the Cavendish is so dominant. We do sometimes get Red Daccas, and lady-finger bananas but not a lot else. And can I find a fe’i? Nope…

Going to be trying to grow ice-cream bananas soon I think!
Casinos use similar tactics.

Why do we let kids use this again?
reinforcment learning
I like this quote from 'The art of Unix Programming' published in 2003

"While it still makes sense to write system programs and time-critical kernels of applications in C or C++, the world has changed a great deal since these languages came to prominence in the 1980s. In 2003, processors are a thousand times faster, memories are a thousand times larger, and disks are a factor of ten thousand larger, for roughly constant dollars.

These plunging costs change the economics of programming in a fundamental way. Under most circumstances it no longer makes sense to try to be as sparing of machine resources as C permits. Instead, the economically optimal choice is to minimize debugging time and maximize the long-term maintainability of the code by human beings. Most sorts of implementation (including application prototyping) are therefore better served by the newer generation of interpreted and scripting languages. This transition exactly parallels the conditions that, last time around the wheel, led to the rise of C/C++ and the eclipse of assembler programming."
> Loss in Judo is more personal than in other sports. Defeat in a sport like tennis feels bad, but defeat in a fighting sport is crushing in ways that most people do not comprehend.

Just this stuck out, this was one of the worst parts of high school wrestling, just two people, one on one more or less fighting. At least in football you can blame it on the team all together.
"Employee posted his credentials into public repository", wondering what reason would have provoked him to do that in first place?
Nothing about what I wrote had anything to do with what congress is authorized to do. It was about the internal rules of the house and senate, and the process by which they are made.

None of that is prescribed by the constitution.
If you click through to the (much better) article on The Markup, you can see that the lobbying group strongly advocating killing the bill entirely and apparently thought they had succeeded until was voted through and signed. Their request for revisions to be based on some genuine concerns that being obligated to sell every component off-the-shelf means they are telling competitors (and counterfeiters) exactly how to build their devices. It seems like it was just laziness on Hochul's part to just accept their terms verbatim instead of meeting in the middle. But the bill is still a first of it's kind and huge win for Right to Repair.
Thank you for founding the MADE! I visited a few months ago and met someone there who has become a close friend of mine. And, it’s a great benefit to the east bay and gaming history more broadly.
Saw this. Really looking forward to checking it out for the very topics being discussed here. I love looking at how different teams implement these details. Is it just faked enough to be visually pleasing or do they really have each visual actor in the world doing the real work. :D Used to love playing with these details in the old version of Pharoah and Caesar.
Docker images in CI are typically just that: a tmpfs with a chroot and some network isolation. If you have it working once, youre pretty much guaranteed it will work again.

Doing this on bare metal with a script to clean the FS, ensure correct dependencies and maybe isolate the network (for safe unit tests), means you're just reimplementing much a non-trivial portion of docker or other container tools. Maybe that's worth it, but without justification, it just smells like risky NIH to me.
I don't know that I agree that "the primary cause of homelessness is the tendency to spew bullshit", I but I definitely don't agree with the implication of the assertion "homeless people are just people like you and me". It's true that they're homo sapiens, but this cuts both ways--Donald Trump is just a person like you or me, so is Vladimir Putin, and yet I don't necessarily feel sympathy for either. At some point it behooves us to order ourselves around a set of behaviors or beliefs, and actually begin to make value judgements on what people do, or how they choose to behave.

(This includes mental illness and addiction--even if we mentally those people as being in the grip of something beyond themselves, if a peaceful, non-grifting society is desired someone needs to make choices about how to restrict their freedom.)
So what was the year when Facebook peaked, in your opinion?
Outrage is absolutely constructive.

The first Gilded Age only gave way to the Progressive Era's reforms after an expose that got the general public completely pissed off.

>The Treason of the Senate was a series of articles in Cosmopolitan magazine by David Graham Phillips, published in 1906. The articles were each published a month apart, beginning with the forward in February and the last article, in July. The series is a caustic exposé of the corruption of the United States Senate

Phillips published this series of articles at the close of what is to be considered the Gilded Age, which is the period when money and politics became very interconnected. The expansion of the railroad industry combined with increased production of steel, iron, and oil contributed to a group of immensely wealthy businessmen that came to be known by the term tycoon. These wealthy tycoons used their wealth to influence the already contentious politics of the time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Treason_of_the_Senate
I think the giveaway is the generic domain name. If Facebook bought socialmedia.com it would be a good bet they peaked.
As a Tailscale user, nice work! I applaud the effort and appreciate the result.
How many companies ever has paid out a total of 1 trillion dollars? I don't think any current companies has.
> outrageous amount

Squatters have a pretty strong HODL game, often lasting several years because it only costs $10/year for them.
Which big company?
4 things (for other people's benefit):

1. This person didn't claim THEY were harassed. They claimed others were harassed. This was not THEIR lived experience. They were talking about harassment secondhand.

2. The secondhand claims of inappropriate language were made on the internet. The internet is different than the physical world. Much text typed on the internet is/can be recorded. It is a very common practice for someone who is being harassed on the internet to share with others the record of their harassment. The internet is perfect for this. It's certainly much messier out in the physical world to prove which is the analogy you seem to be trying to apply to internet communication.

3. I just asked WHERE it happened, not to provide a precise record of the claims. It wasn't a tall ask to respond with an internet location (i.e. channel).

4. Questioning claims is NOT harassment, especially when the cost to produce evidence supporting the claim approaches zero (as on the internet). This is a toxic mentality to employ, though I'm sure you think you are being noble with your #believeallclaims approach. If anything, people who employ a "DON'T QUESTION IT!" approach do themselves a huge disservice, as that is probably the least persuasive tactic to do and immediately signals a huge red flag to any neutral onlookers.

The topic here is asking for where secondhand claims of harassment on a part of the internet happened, with the context of it being contrary to MY lived experience in similar parts of the internet. I'm trying to square how this secondhand claim could be contradictory to MY lived experience, and to update my understanding if given new information.

As a last rhetorical example/hypothetical: Let's say I made a claim that someone replied to a tweet of mine this week calling me the n-word. Do you automatically believe me? If you sought to prove my claim by looking at my tweets, are you a racist that is harassing me? What if there is absolutely no record of the alleged tweet reply happening/existing (even accounting for a potential delete)? Would you ever waver in your belief of my claim?
As others have noted, this is an expensive undertaking, and unlikely to be self-funding, but also not that expensive in the context of the profits our industry generates and the numerous billionaires created therein.

I'm also interested in old cars. Many old cars are worth millions and people like Jerry Seinfeld and Jay Leno use their wealth to preserve them.

Unfortunately that scenario doesn't seem to exist for historic computers yet, although there is a collector scene at the low end (try to buy a KIM-1 now for less than $1000, for example).

I'd be willing to pay something in support of reopening the museum -- I already spend some money on picking up what I see as historic artifacts from auction sites and the LCM would actually be a more efficient way for my money to be used to achieve preservation of larger working systems. For example I have a complete board set for a pdp-11/70 (key milestone in the evolution of the systems we use today), but I can't afford to buy a rack, disk drives, and provide electricity to make a running system. The LCM already has a pdp-11/70 running V7. If I could fractionally own that, I think it'd be a good deal. I could also pledge my board set as spares should they be required.

But it would take 10000 people with my limited resources to properly fund the museum, I suspect.
There's a lot of study of allergy differences between rural and urban kids. The explanation given is often that rural kids have a much wider exposure to allergens and pathogens. This is an interesting alternative explanation.
> They dropped from > 70 to 63 last year, and missed sales estimates for Q4.

Yes they missed sales estimates, but it was still a substantial growth in sales Year over Year and Quarter over Quarter.

> Also, their competition is ridiculously strong. Want a luxury EV with a nice interior? There are many options, and most have physical controls and a touch screen. Want a truck? Cybertruck will likely be fifth to market. Van or off road vehicle? You aren’t getting a tesla.

That's your opinion and any vehicle with near insignificant sales can basically be ignored. There's very few other than Tesla.

> Want hands free self driving on the freeway? Wait 18 months for a GMC. (Cruise is getting 10,000x more miles per disengagement than Tesla).

Note: Not actually hands free given the extreme limitation in areas where it's allowed and it's disengagement without warning.

> Inexpensive long range vehicle? Chevy Bolt.

Chevy Bolt owners on EV subreddits constantly complain about slow charging speeds and it's incompatibility with real fast charging. This makes it not a long range vehicle.

> Ecobox? Leaf, used volt, or similar.

Leaf isn't an "ecobox". Volt isn't an EV unless you get the comparatively popular EV version. Not to mention the low production numbers of Volt.
I think there are a few things:

1) Its only been a few years since the trend of testing on sqlite locally and running postgres in production went away in favor of postgres everywhere (probably thanks to docker). That prevented using any feature that wasn't equally supported by both.

2) There's definitely a knowledge gap, and not just among developers. The features are most useful for building rich applications, so even DBAs didn't have much incentive to use them prior to tools like supabase using the database as the data model source-of-truth.

3) Companies are increasingly deciding that data is their competitive advantage and interest in data integrity is growing. Database constraints are unparalleled at that because they can't be sidestepped
They had an eight year head start on building bluetooth trackers over Apple.
Ploopy: 3D printed open-source headphones with RP2040 MCU, TI PCM3060 24-bit DAC
'IT' as an abbreviation is far too generic. In a world of generalists, specialists are highly sought after and paid the most, so you may need to make a career move into something more specialized.
This is an excellent use case for generative AI, IMO.

Trying to get factual information from a language model or replace a graphics artist with no oversight is insane and legally questionable, but "dreaming" stuff into a building game has none of those issues... as long as their content filter is reasonably good.
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> When I left the company they let me buy my books for $5, so I took them with me, and took them to my next two jobs. I stopped carrying them when everything the contained could be found online.

Not just online but also more up to date.

This is a drawback of books, they don't auto-update and upgrades are quite expensive. In IT I don't see a point to keeping them archived anymore.

I still use them for learning new topics though.
CircleCI sort of do! They have something called Docker Layer Caching, which basically puts all the Docker layers from your previous build on the execution machine.

The problem is that it's a) very slow to download those layers from their cache storage, and b) very expensive. It works out to costing ~20 minutes of build time.
Interesting article. For folks who need to put together their own distro, especially for embedded applications, Yocto and Buildroot both lower the barrier to rolling your own and getting exactly what you need to something quite reasonable.
So in this case, you've let a new dev commit to a code base without review.

Then, instead of informing them of best practices and giving them time to re-work the code, you'd just fire them?

Interesting strategy.
Compatible with the language seems like a dead obvious concept to me: something you can do with the current TC39 EcmaScript language.

Anything you do with JSX isnt compatible with the language. So that makes it worse & significantly different.

Diving way into technics, tagged template strings, if called from a function, will have reference equality for the literals array. The optimizations might not be ahead of time, but the net is, even if the tagged template string is inline and single-phase (as opposed to moving your tagged template strings to the top level & having them "compile" & return a function to accept variables/children), there's still a lot of room for reusing the same "compiled"/parsed work.
> Zilly said that when the case goes to trial

this article is about a month old; the case recently settled [0] (at least, a preliminary notice of settlement was filed, it's not finalized yet, and none of the details are public)

it seems very likely that these sanctions convinced the city to settle instead of going to trial, or at a minimum forced them to settle for less favorable terms than they were hoping for.

0: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/law-justice/seattl...
As a customer, if I find a competitor that does not do this, then I will switch to it.

For example, I cancelled my netflix subscription because they are unable to reliably operate microservices, and the UI was always in some semi-broken state. As a software engineer, this stressed me out during my relaxing TV time.

Even if continuous delivery is somehow reliably delivered, if the changes are customer visible, then they break my muscle memory, and increase my cognitive load -- I have to re-learn the damned UI every fucking time I log in. If the changes are not customer visible, then what business value to they deliver?
I don't really see how any of those things are peculiar compared to normal jobs. Teachers usually get paid for extracurriculars and summer school, maybe a small lump sum but still.

The PTO argument is ridiculous, teachers get off for school breaks and the whole summer, way more than average workers. Yes their vacation schedule during year is a little rigid, but that is pretty obvious tradeoff. Not to mention their benefits persist over the summer anyway so they are compensated year round.
That was sort of my point.

The idea is that Europe is much more varied than the US. Yet the UK is a country seemingly made up of countries. So difference isn't enough?

And the US already has a system to allow quite different laws to be enacted.
I just checked: crypto.com was also registered back in 1993. Who TF thought or knew about it when even the internet was in infancy?
I might actually see the value in opting into this, especially if they provide a service where they can notarize SMS message logs. Someone says you texted them something inappropriate, or harassing, and you can grab the logs and expose them to be either mistaken or dishonest.
All of those are significant losses, too. I don’t care as much about the military museum and there’s an ongoing argument about the ethics of flying some of those old planes (wear and tear is bad), as Allen did, but the collection still mattered.

I think the only Allen project besides sports that’s going to survive is MOPOP and that’s very tourist-friendly in an excellent location.

Unfortunately it appears to be the case that this is what Allen wanted. A connected sports journalist in Portland wrote about this last year (see below link).

> “Paul directed that the trust be liquidated upon his death and the assets used to fund his passion projects,” a source said. “None of this is up in the air. The instructions are clear: The sports franchises and everything in the trust must be sold.”

https://www.johncanzano.com/p/canzano-no-wiggle-room-nfls-se...
Which is a bit surprising, given that RL is the most likely path to the scary AI future everyone loves to blog about.
It’s interesting to think about what “atomic drills” would look like for programming. I do “dojos” with my team but it’s usually more “group code review” or “present interesting concept”.

I’ve heard folks do mob programming on simple problems (eg “implement fizzbuzz in a few different paradigms”). Perhaps also a little time spent on advent of code would be good too? Everybody on the team does Day X and then we discuss and compare solutions?

Edit to add: thinking about drills - what if we merged interviews and team drills, spent some time setting up a realistic work scenario as a drill, and added an interviewee? That way, during an interview the team gets to drill, say, reviewing and debugging a feature rollout. The interviewee gets to actually spend 2-4h in a realistic work simulation instead of solving LeetCode problems.
Unfortunately that is one of the best outcomes you can expect. At least he got his bicycle back.

During COVID there were plenty of officers available to fine normal people who were sitting too close on a bench. But to deal with real criminals who talk back is too much of a hassle.
The three pillars supporting the chatbot craze
I attended Carmel HS some 30ish years ago. It was a great school back then. Though a bit smaller :). One of the privileges of my life was that my family moved from Indianapolis to the outer edge of Carmel specifically so I could attend that HS and junior HS. I haven’t seen it in person for some 20 years.

How does it work so well per dollar spent? I’m no expert. But, a couple theories from the Twitter peanut gallery:

With 5500 student spread over 22 miles, some argue it should have been 3 separate schools to cut down travel time. I recall the bus ride taking over an hour for some of us.

It was built 50 years ago in a wealthy county of a poor state. They have been building up to this level aggressively for decades now. I recall controversy over construction projects back when I was there.

The parents and local businesses are highly engaged with the local government, community and schools. Expectations are very high both academically and athletically.
I think it's a drawing from the '20s. The hyperloop is just a rehashing of that stuff. Interestingly, that's one of the reasons we know the hyperloop isn't actually feasible -- a lot of work has been put into the idea from over a hundred years ago.