skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you see that it's not legitimate for a government to do, then by the same logic it's not legitimate for an individual

I see the rights of government as secondary by default with exceptions meted out strictly as necessary. There exists a very limited number of jurisdictions where property taxes don't exist and land ownership is therefore real, so there's no philosophical/legal impediment to foregoing property taxes.
Insects aren't pandas, there's no world where killing one will have an ecological effect.

Ten years ago, people thought the same thing about bees.

Today, we're starting to worry about the food supply.
No, that's a separate issue unrelated to this one.

If biden wants to show you pictures of seahorses on instagram, there really is no practical way to do it. If Xi wants to show you seahorses on tiktok, you'll be seeing them tomorrow.

Its a completely different situation, it bothers me that people try so hard to muddy the waters with whataboutism.
>Whats really amazing is that Python, with its rather large userbase, hasnt already picked some of this low hanging fruit.

Is it that amazing?

Adding a JIT to such a widely used language and maintaining compatibility (including for C extensions and such) is hardly a "low hanging fruit".

And it was tried time and again, by all kinds of different CPython forks (and also ports like PyPy).

Plus, "large userbase" doesn't translate to paid developers to devote time to this. Javascript needed full teams in Apple, Google, and Microsoft to make 3 JIT-ed engines after 10 years or so of not having any (and another 15 years to optimize them, which is still ongoing).
Related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDYRorgSt-8&ab_channel=SamO%...
Actual source paper:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1906.05856.pdf

It's done using an ML model.

The thing is, I don't understand what signal it's using to determine whether the Liquify tool in Photoshop has been used. And from skimming the paper, I'm not sure the authors know either. But it's not detecting seams or compression artifacts or other common signals, because Liquify doesn't generate those.

Only thing I can guess is that it's picking up on anatomically impossible or extremely unlikely facial structure, which our own brains don't pick up on?

My only other guess would be some kind of subtle mismatch between lighting and skin texture/angle but I don't think the resolution is high enough, plus makeup and smoothing in Photoshop makes that even harder.
> However I do have great difficulty accessing rt.com I usually get ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED in MS Edge, like right now!

> Why are they so scared of Russia?

This is a mystery for the ages! What reason could there possibly be, in 2023, for blocking a major Russian propaganda/state news outlet?

I mean, I could understand it if there was a war going on, with Russia desperately spreading propaganda specifically to try to get NATO states to see Russia's aggression as being totally understandable and actually our fault, so that we stop sending money and materiel to the people they are frantically trying to murder in order to get them to stop resisting their takeover of their entire country...

/s
That's pretty much what I expected.

"Delusions of exceptionalism". When a company becomes large and successful (I've heard similar stories about Microsoft), delusions of exceptionalism inevitably occur. There's a feeling of "manifest destiny". The employees are "the best and the brightest" working at one of the most successful companies. Egos are sure to become inflated.

Google has a cash cow which hides a lot of inefficiency. For sure, Google has a lot of talented people doing a lot of clever things. The majority of which is wasted. You could probably get rid of half of the employees and even achieve a better result.

What you want is something like another Bell Labs/Xerox Parc/Skunkworks. How many people? Less than 1000, I'd say, max. The rest can carry on moving dialog boxes from the top left of the screen to the top right, or whatever it is they do.
Maybe they're trying to penetrate more the Enterprise market where usually people are very nervous about not having on-prem e-mail and full control of the data.

This is supposed to give them some guarantees that the data is locked&safe outside of their premises.
Related: Coq - https://coq.inria.fr/

And CompCert, a formally verified C compiler written in Coq: https://compcert.org/

(even then, there are parts which are not formally verified, mostly at the interfaces with the outside world)
Microsoft Announces iMessage Support on Windows with Several Limitations
On linux, you can just install one of the DEs that are keyboard driven. Rat poison is one. I used that with Conkeror (a fully keyboard driven browser with emacs keys) for a long time.
Autonomous Restructuring of Asteroids into Rotating Space Stations
the kingdom is small now though
What product innovation has Google produced in the last 5 years? Microsoft?
Exactly. We have none, and this is a fruitless conversation. We lack the power to stop wet markets in China. What power do we have to make any universal declaration regarding this technology?

You're 100% correct. Group dynamics, convention, mistakes, and time will solve this problem because we are powerless. It is the worst hubris to think otherwise.
Have you even tried recent Plasma versions? Granted, the early KDE4 releases were a train wreck. But there is no reason to have the KDE image tainted by that anymore. Today, it is about as good as KDE3 was.
What is a bug in the spec? Or in a part that was not formally verified?
There’s vanishingly few businesses that need <25ms. What business did you have in mind? Outside of trading , which yea of course that’s the wrong choice.
I suppose if its implemented in a language that is formally proven to not allow buffer overflows.
On the paper it says MPI
Nodl – a visual framework for computational node graphs
I’ve got the same problem with socks. It’s quite literally impossible. Even brands that sell “100% cotton” socks have a small amount of polyester or spandex, etc.
We can use editors locally. I’ve used RubyMine for my entire tenure.

I find devboxes hold a few advantages over running Docker locally:

1. We can have multiple devboxes to aid switching between branches.

2. Services are more easily spun up and down as needed. If I’m only working on the API, I don’t have to waste local resources on the frontend.

3. Devboxes replicate more of the service networking (Consul) to aid debugging (versus using container networking).
Looks like a very small finishing touch was given to my amateur eyes.

But maybe someone versed in phitography may chime in and educate us?

It is a bit sad that just make up wont do the job anymore, I mean the people on the covers all get a proper make up job and a hairdo.

Who and why are these ideals pushed down peoples throats?
iPhone still only has 55% of the market in the US. There are very, very many Android users out there.
I just had an idea: how about a car that makes you stop by the side of the road to watch 2 minutes of ads before being able to continue. And for a certain amount you can unlock adless travel.
The larger the effort/accomplishment, the larger the pizza party should be
> That has nothing to do with communication but either with an inability to read and understand the specification

I must have a different definition for the word "communication" than you. If person A writes a spec, and then person B reads the spec, isn't person A communicating with person B about the specifications?

If persons C D and E also read the spec and only person B doesn't get it, wouldn't you say person B has a communication problem?
Hugo uses go-org [1] which is pretty decent. I use that on its own in a pi for a lightweight webserver for my notes.

[1] https://github.com/niklasfasching/go-org
ChatGPT is almost always bullshitting if you ask it to create a complete list of something with more than 10 entries or so.
> hipsters

Is it 2008 again already?
Guarantee nobody's going to say that.
Yes, their virtual machine was amazing. It brought all of the JIT technology and really sped up their PHP stack.
It compiles your program piecemeal as it runs.

The compiled parts don't need to run line by line through the interpreter loop anymore: they're already in memory in cpu-executable form.

And (don't know if it does) could even create dedicated faster code for parts of your code, if it can guess the types it works with.
only if the cost-per-bit of storage made up the bulk of the variable costs of backup.

My point is that I don't think that holds. That cost is likely not trivial, but I think the other variable costs make up a large percentage of total costs of a backup (again - because data by itself on a drive in storage somewhere is useless - it's the ability to access and use that data that organizations are paying for)
And the worst part is that we're self-aware about it.
Thank you, you're right! 278 metric tons it is.
The OP of the thread specifically asked what options are available to organizations in the UK.

If you're operating in the UK, your operations there must, naturally, be subject to UK law.
As a (Black) leftie, I really wish the political-internet-left understood this better.

"They want to destroy us!"

No, fam, that's not quite what's happening here. None of them (with power) wake up thinking "trans people are a menace that must be stopped." Now, it may be just as bad - but to them you're just a useful pawn, which requires different tactics from "this is exactly like Nazi Germany."
Best to keep your hoard of guns/ammo/gold hidden and secret.
Did someone say AI on the blockchain... inside Metaverse?
One of reasons WeChat and WhatsApp became popular in low income countries first, was that in those countries SMS were/are charged PER MESSAGE
Plus-plus-bot does not impact reviews. It’s just a nice way to show gratitude publicly. Folks can use a feedback form to leave review-impacting feedback that is actually delivered to the manager.
I also use WhatsApp and WeChat. The problem is getting everyone to agree on a personal or friend group preference.
You might get a good few years from the drug. You have to still do the work to make the changes permanent.
Small user flow issues: on mobile, after registering for an account I'm hitting the homepage and the only link I see is "sign up". When I clicked on sign up the site correctly detected me as a logged in user but the lack of a "login" button in the hamburger menu was confusing.

Also, if you click a second time on the "verify your email" link in the new user email, you get a scary/unhelpful warning "This email could not be verified" but right below the scary warning there is a button that says "continue to dashboard" that takes me right into my account. It seems like presenting either the scary message (when it's needed) or the friendly button (when it's available) but not both would be ideal.
Agricultural land area is 38 percent of the global land surface, about one-third of this is used as cropland [1].
Land is 29% of Earth [2].

So we use 1/3 * 0.38 * 0.29 = 3.6% of Earth's surface for farming crops and 7% for cattle. Most of that is fertilized every year, and then the surplus fertilizer is flushed to rivers and seas and ends up in the oceans fertilizing algae there. [3]

Basically we're all in the food chain, it doesn't matter where you add the new nitrogen - it goes everywhere.

[1] https://www.fao.org/sustainability/news/detail/en/c/1274219/
[2] https://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/earth.htm
[3] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/27/climate/nitrogen-fertiliz...

EDIT: there are also negative effects, so it's not so simple. I'd still estimate that the global biomass should increase over time.
Tried it, not all that impressed to be honest. This is just a glorified background remover. Even trying out the add background feature, it's just some pre-generated gradients (no custom) or a solid color (custom). Downloading the result, it doesn't look that great. Bad aliasing, low-res[0].

You also say this in your OP:

> Contribute the example repository with issues and pull requests.

You make it sound like this is open-source, but I see nothing about this.

Echoing the other comments: allow me to delete my account, I don't want to have to email anyone.

Really don't know why this has been upvoted so much...

[0]: https://i.imgur.com/eiacVKd.png
My state did the same recently, my university blocks tiktok traffic on any divice connected to the school wifi now.

Kind of came out of nowhere for me, I heard about the security concerns but didnt think they were being taken that seriously.
Most people have essentially zero influence on the societies they live in.
Ensuring Data Consistency Across Replicas
Fred Brooks had a term for this: Conceptual Integrity. When there's one mind working on the codebase, it's natural that it will have a higher degree of Conceptual Integrity.

A team can achieve this, but they need to have been working together a long time or have a very, very strong technical lead.

For the single developer case, I think maintainability and scalability then comes down to whether the developer follows good practices or not. Commenting, refactoring, reorganizing code, unit testing, etc. But a product or codebase with high Conceptual Integrity is generally easier to expand on because there are common patterns throughout the code, even if it's lacking in comments.
I'd be more curious in how people are actually using AI At the moment, i guess maybe it's good for coding etc, but in general I have found ChatGPT just gives answers that are very generic, people have mentioned brainstorming but i've not found it good at that, because everything it lists are just the most generic things you can think of anyway.

I think part of the problem is that it's just a language model, so it's input data is a lot of crap from the internet and a thousand listicles were people are spewing the same generic nonsense.

But personally I would not, but then I just want to get my job done as quickly and easily as possible so i can move onto something else.
cd to the directory with all the dylibs and run this:

xattr -d com.apple.quarantine *
Is there equivalent for metal ?
I love that humans rule Earth. It's awesome.
The rationale I'm using for Ford owning it is there is a compelling argument that ownership as the effect of two factors, custody and control, as it applies to data today could apply to the car, where if Ford can disable the vehicle, it has control of it, and the custody the driver has is secondary. Leasing companies are different because they license the vehicle to you for a term, whereas loan financing means it's yours.

I'm not a lawyer at all, however much of my work on privacy and security has been about reconciling technology architecture and implementations with privacy and other laws and regulations, and security architecture is about allocating risk between counterparties in a technology solution, so from that view, this could be reasonably interpreted as a predatory technology.
What's the cliche way to complete:

"Here is a list of 10 things that have nothing in common:" ?

Ask GPT this and it comes up with a pretty good list (a pineapple, the color blue, the taste of coffee...). Ask yourself this same question and you can come up with a pretty good list... but it's also surprisingly hard.

There are ways we can increase our creativity and tangential thinking. Brainstorming lists, exploring opposites, free association, etc. A lot of these also work with GPT. Which is itself a strange thought... is GPT mimicking us or is there an attribute of cognition which we share?

Anyway, while it takes work and exploration to figure this out, I've yet to hit a wall, so I am pretty optimistic about GPT generally. But it does involve a mixture of prompt and algorithm and human intervention.
Every pixel of every cover model's face has been photoshopped to bits, after a world-class photographer has lit them to further beautify someone who has already won the genetic lottery.
> inability to read and understand
> or they have an attitude problem
These just sound communication problems. Every failure to understand is also a failure of the explainer.
I'm sorry if I didn't communicate clearly.

I think extremism is obviously very clearly unhealthy by definition.

I have yet to encounter a single scenario in my entire existence wherein the fully-to-one-side-of-any-spectrum-you-might-imagine "extreme" point of view on how to solve any particular problem has been the best, most useful one (to my problem-solving brain, at least).

We humans tend to do this thing where, when we're presented with evidence that a previously-held position might be wrong or harmful, our opinions massively pendulum-swing the other way and we have a hard time finding clear, nuanced middle ground.

"Turns out sunlight gives you cancer, so stay indoors all the time! Avoid all sun exposure at all costs!," we say for a time. But no, it turns out that even though it is technically always doing harm to your DNA, sunlight is inescapably necessary for life and healthy immunological function.

Life is complicated, and extremes are simply shit for problem-solving.
The fact that humans, our pets, and our livestock vastly outweigh wild animals was pointed out in Sapiens, and that struck a nerve for me.

The best survival strategy for any species is to be useful to humans
haha show me a thousand-row spreadsheet attaching dollar amount returns to developers and other white collar positions and I'll show you a thousand confident lies.
Which "hardware standards"? Isn't the M1 an Armv8.5-A? What are we asking for here?

I would like to know of a single software vendor, that is not Microsoft, who may have influenced the design choices of a hardware vendor.

Because it's not like Linus himself randomly walks into Intel offices to tell them how to get things done.
For the young'uns in the audience, is there a good primer on defense against cyberstalkingbots?
Exactly. These are all R&D tools and papers. I think the criticism is quite valid if you look at actual products.

It’s also a fair criticism of most of big tech wrt AI, and a lot of AI/ML: there’s a lot of cool-sounding R&D, but so far there are few (arguably no) resulting products.

Maybe we’re starting to see that change, maybe not. Bing/ChatGPT is promising, but ... nascent. A lot of this has echoes of the self-driving revolution.

Whenever I read techno-optimists on this site, I cannot help but think back to 2014-ish when they all predicted that there would be no truckers in 5 years and dramatic changes to infrastructure to support a wave of self-driving vehicles.
Absolutely agree, however the alternatives are lacking. What you get with org (and other plain text formats) is that conversion is easy. I typically do 80% of the my authoring in org, and then finalize the last 20% elsewhere.

Is it perfect? No. But pragmatic.
Official article is more useful: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2023/02/28/rtx-video-super-res...
So you'd rather pay extra to send completely unencrypted messages?
People get recognized where you work?

My company does all sorts of BS related to this. None of its really worth anything. It's movie tickets and gift cards mostly. Promotions, raises, and bonuses are the way to go. But that's rare.
No, molecules are not sentient.
Ethics, Politics, and Society in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (2020)
> who has already won the genetic lottery.

90 % is hard work and consistent effort!
Pearson Airport in Toronto is voted one of the worst airports in North America. They routinely lose your baggage, delay the flights indefinitely, people have to sleep on the floor, etc. - totally dysfunctional airport. This problem is not new - it has persisted for years. Finally, they found a solution: throw AI at it! Here's the announcement: https://www.narcity.com/how-pearson-airport-air-canada-new-a...

And now, this meta thing... :-)
Maybe I'm naive, but I don't see this as particularly evil. It's just a more efficient of what already happens in terms of care repossession.

What needs to happen is better consumer protection to prevent americans buying cars on finance that they are never going to be able to afford.
This is a great perspective. Another thread here is that we often assign special importance to nonsentient human creation. Recall the outpouring of grief when Notre Dame burned. I believe it’s because it is a part of our collective humanity.

All the more so these LLMs which are almost literally our collective humanity. Maybe in the future we will recognize them not as persons but as the towering cathedrals of our time.
Ask HN: B2B firm needs our tech to raise their $5M Series A
Got a cool opportunity, and I need some guidance:

1. Just spent 2 meetings w/ a company that needs proprietary technology from my ($20k MRR) startup to raise their own Series A.

2. Their CEO and I have a similar background: we both geeked out on the same scientific breakthrough a few years ago and each figured out a real-world application of it.

3. I just launched an AI-augmented software implementation that I sell to SMBs as a SaaS subscription. This guy went with a hardware implementation (a steampunk machine that he travels around with) that he sells as a service to Fortune-500-level companies.

4. These guys launched ~5 years ago, are badasses and make a killing, w/ $4MM+ a year in revenue and great profits.

5. They want to raise a $5MM Series A to turn their service offering into a digital, subscription-based, pay-$$-per-user-per-month offer to their existing Enterprise clients.

6. All their Enterprise clients say "we want to put 10,000 users in at $6/month/user, BUT we would need features [X] and [Y] before we sign on".
Their projection is an opportunity of ~20MM in ARR in 5 years. However this company can't deliver either X or Y with their current hardware stack.

7. They're trying to raise the Series A to build a software stack that delivers X and Y (they're budgeting 2 years and $1.5MM+ out of their raise to get there). VCs are saying that the technical risk is way too big, so they've turned to private investors.

8. Their CEO/co-founder just found out that we have already built "X", and that with our tech base we can build "Y" super easily. He's thrilled because partnering with us would completely de-risk their big strategic move.

9. On our side, "Y" is a feature that our SMB customers don't need, so we have to be very careful and strategic about going that direction since it might divert us from building feature Z that our core market desires, and which is on our direct path to product-market fit.

Where do I go from here?