skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Granted, writing things in Rust doesn't exclude the possibility of a buffer overflow entirely. It does help make it much less likely.
There's a line you have to draw somewhere on what kind of interests you can pursue as a career. A person who is full-time writing bad poetry that nobody wants to read provides about as much value as someone who majors in Drinking and Recreational Drugs.

So I guess if we're talking about a utopia where all our food and clean drinking water and maintenance and every other essential service is perfectly automated with no need for human intervention, then sure. Pursue whatever you want. As it is, it makes more sense for people to pay for stuff that they find is generating some value. If your passion is producing something really good and people want it, they'll pay you. But that's not the case for most people.
Yes, the model used in this study only detects a single type of edit (Adobe's FAL tool). There are likely other edits applied outside the scope of this study.

And, yeah, it's sad that two unarguably beautiful women aren't suitable for magazine covers without extensive make-up AND THEN extensive editing.
Positive Social Media
Hi All,

As a solo entrepreneur, I've found the journey isolating at times. There are days when I needed support so the idea to create Sangha a Social was created. It allow you to send and receive affirmations or encouraging quotes to random people all over the world. The idea is to put positivity into the world where we can all support each other. Please take a look if you want to make the world a better place even if it's a small step.
It is possible to plug your shield into your PC and sideload a new launcher which doesn't have ads, it's not too difficult (tho installing adb is a hassle).

I heard on reddit that if Nvidia even hints that this is possible, they violate the license agreements with Google, and then Google is allowed to yank the play store...
There was a law passed (Digital Economy Act 2017, pt.3[0]) but it's basically been shelved anyway as impractical.

In the UK many laws don't take effect immediately, but only on 'commencement' (normally by government order). If you look at the Archives copy of the act in the link, you'll see that there are several sections marked 'prospective' (not yet commenced). Although it looks like section 14 (the operative one which puts a duty to prevent access to under 18s) has been commenced, if you look at the footnote it only has been 'for specified purposes' and if you click through to look at the commencement order it's only actually in force for the purposes of subsection (b) (the Secretary of State may make regulations to define 'commercial basis' for pornography).

Although this is terribly confusing for people trying to work out what the laws are, it isn't unusual. It'll probably sit in this limbo state on the statute book for a good length of time and then be cleaned up by repeal next time the government passes a law in a similar area.

Or it might just sit there. The Easter Act 1928[1] setting a semi-fixed date for Easter is still extant but not in force. There may be older laws yet.

[0]: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2017/30/part/3

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_Act_1928
I could see this getting hacked with everyone waking up to all the cars driving to the beach!
Yet another audio reboot.
Yes because all other messaging protocols allow any random third party to attach to their service. Microsoft is using an 8 year old documented iOS API.
All I want for a coding job done well is for people to stfu the next
time I make a big change.
So we can assume all passwords have been broken into?
Its awful that your uncle had to experience that.

It's a dangerous job and I don't think they give the repo folks enough information. I recently had to run one of them off as the former property owners had renters that stopped making payments on their vehicle. The repo guy was highly aggressive and was yelling at my family members. I assumed he was just some nutjob and had no idea he was a repo guy aside from the fact he was driving a tow truck without any company logo. I assumed he was trying to steal my tractor since it's is an antique.
This. I anecdotally seen this happen to my wife's friends. Long story short, their credit is shot so they are forced to either purchase car by cash ( they seemingly can't ) or go to one of those places that will give them a car loan at ridiculous rate and installed with gizmos to allow easy repossession once payment is missed.

<< 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.

I think you would have everyone and their mother fighting against this saying you need freedom to make stupid decisions. Even I am personally on the fence. You do need better protections, but you need to have an ability to make your choices ( and in US - not having a car is not really a valid solution ).
> It was an exercise in accomplishing a task by thinking outside the box and getting it done by whatever means necessary

This seems like a very problematic mentality to cultivate, and seems like an explanatory factor when looking at the abysmal state of ethical thinking in tech. It seems like a repackaging of “the ends justify the means”.

It also highlights how twisted the notion of academic progress has become, and is a behavior that misses the forest for the trees: thinking that a superior score is in itself worth more than the cultivation of intellectual honesty and a miscalculation about how much these scores actually matter the moment one transitions to the job market.

When one employs these tactics in the workplace, they become a strong signal regarding one’s integrity and ethical center.
The only reason is because it's the de facto default for python, not because of whatever cost-benefit analysis. You see the same thing with matplotlib and numpy.
Twitter scaled reads on their user database
Certainly. What I don't believe is certain is that only one such vulnerability has ever existed and none exist in Rust today.

It's not pedantic to differentiate between mitigating a thing and preventing a thing.
That seems at odds with TFA itself, which claims "Ford itself recently announced that it was giving up on its goal of developing full self-driving technology, at a cost of $2.7 billion."

Perhaps the standard for "reduction to practice [0]" is a little looser than I'm imagining. I can't even see how this would be covered by sufficiency of disclosure[1] since the apparent non-existence of level 4 or 5 autonomy suggests that no person skilled in the art[2] yet exists.

If it isn't obvious at this juncture: IANAL.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reduction_to_practice

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sufficiency_of_disclosure

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person_having_ordinary_skill_i...
Old games like Quake always look pretty janky when upscaled (extreme example of course). The low-poly models seem to become worse the closer you can look at them.

I wonder if there’s a level of detail that just fundamentally can be upscaled indefinitely and end up vaguely “looking right”, or if it is just the case that something like Apex Legend was release recently enough that the lift is not so huge.
It depends. If you are on a team with full support, designers, product management, project management, etc., then sure.

But as soon as you lose one of those engineers (e.g., internal tools teams often pick up those tasks and so to build the right thing requires better than average communication skills.
Oh. That's funny I find this kind of beautiful. I think the contrast between the man made structures and the wild roses is poetic and highlights the cruelty of capital punishment.

EDIT: I wonder if maybe the long florid sentences are the entertainment of that time, kind of like how folks 100% video games today, spending a lot more time than necessary for fun. Definitely it is... Verbose though.
Nix and Containers: why not both?
Nix, flox, and containers are best when used together.
> optimal information transmission rate

Written like a programmer. Information transmission is only one narrow purpose of language. We are not computers; language isn't a data structure. It's an Orwellian concept.

> No ambiguity

> Both languages are precise, yet I would say as a German native speaker, that French is more precise than English (also German is more precise but in this argument I am not impartial).

Measuring precision of a word requires a defined, precise or accurate (complete, correct, consistent) concept. I.e., to say Wörterbuch is precise, you need to have a precise concept of what it describes. But reality isn't precise; you never have complete, correct, or consistent knowledge of it. There is always another variation, invention, exception, etc.

The only exception is circular definition - if you define the object according to the bounds of the word. 'This object is a Wörterbuch, and an object that doesn't meet the definition is not one.'
Where are they getting the "original" photos from? I can't imagine the magazines are making unmodified copies of their cover photos freely available.
That's part of the narrative for the financial crisis. Even without waging that particular fight, it's important to remember that, for a long time, there were plenty of barriers to full participation that had nothing to do with the individual's ability to afford something. Redlining is probably the best documented of these practices.
Not by default. You can build it with the SQLITE_ENABLE_ICU flag to get Unicode support.
Bad on youtube for down scaling old videos
Yes, I mentioned it :)
OECD data includes payroll taxes (and all relevant taxes in each country). You can dig around on their site to find their tax data and methodology.

If you don't like the date, also dig around on their site to find anything up to date you like. The point I made is correct - and it's well backed by the OECD databases.
Just look at google earth photos anywhere. Its all just large patches of farmland. Only exceptions I've found are Africa, deserts and far north/south. Pretty soon Africa will probably be all farmland as well.
Ethereum moved to proof of stake. Why can’t Bitcoin?
> The neighborhood next to it fought the proposed zoning changes. Too many houses near by, increasing traffic, too close to the creek, etc. Probably more likely they were worried about property valuations changing.

I see people assuming this a lot but I really think it's in bad faith.

There are plenty of reasons to oppose unbridled development that have nothing to do with property values. Some people like where they live and moved there because of what it was. The idea of an area becoming something totally different might understandably be problematic to them.

The traffic concerns especially resonate with me, as I currently live in a place that has few sidewalks and no effective public transit - previously "walkable" neighborhoods are no more as their density increased and they are flooded with cars.

Maybe as a society we can reasonably decide that such real concerns do not outweigh the benefits that may come if we increase density, but not everybody chooses where to live or what to advocate for based purely on financial concerns, and to dismiss those other concerns does a disservice to their points of view.
Thanks for that. Now can we please break down the arthropods into spiders and non-spiders so you can alleviate my fear that spiders rule over us on this planet.

My fear of spiders is valid- all I'm saying. There must have been some bad shit in our history to instill such a fear into us..
I have watched 3kliksphilip and LinusTechTips demo video upscaling AI stuff, and it always looks really really weird and gross. It seems really unnatural, and has the same kind of "nope that's wrong" as if you maxed the saturation on the photo. It feels more like a highschooler touching everything up in photoshop than correctly understanding what the objects in the video should look like.

Also, in their recent demo of a video upscaling technology, Nvidia clearly kneecapped the pre-upscale footage to make it seem like the upscaler was doing more than it actually was. If you take the source video they were using and convert it using settings they claimed they were using for a low bitrate version, you get a much clearer and cleaner video than they showed.
But what does that mean exactly? What is the mechanism of conscious experience and how do you know if it’s there in the weights or not?
People arguing for censorship can never show anything that needs to be censored but there are countless examples of things that shouldn't be censored being squashed under policy. There's literally not a single example through history of a truth that had to be squashed for justice and safety. There are no great stories of historical censorship not because they're secret, but because they don't do anything except protect the people in power.

A censorship policy is, by nature, impossible to check. If anything is being censored you have to assume that other things, including proper discussion of the censorship, are being censored. It's not some complex "not black and white" thing where you're partly right, it's a failed idea with absolutely zero support from historical precedent.

You can't censor away bad ideas because we can't even agree on the bad ideas - such as for instance your censorship push. Why shouldn't your push to censor people be censored itself? Why do you assume that your choices for societal control are the correct impulses, which need to be bolstered with thought control, rather than the harmful impulses which will destroy society though totalitarian means?

No, censorship is always wrong because it removes the ability of the people to make decisions on the facts. Any politician who pushes censorship has to be assumed to be trying to undermine democracy because censorship can't do anything other than weaken the electorate.

> The world is not black and white and claiming that it is is extremely naive and simplistic, and I am afraid that what I read here in response to my comment is exactly that.

That's fallacious because it assumes that censorship deserves a better rhetorical chance which it was denied when in fact it's simply a bad idea. If you suggested to punish people for their family's crimes you'd get similar pushback because it's a similarly corrosive policy.

You haven't properly argued for censorship at all, by showing thoughts which need to be censored and why, you've just argued that it's a super important tool without any examples or reasoning.
The insane hiring can also be explained by copycat behavior, as well as a lot more actions that companies take. This is always somehow an unpopular take on HN, but companies copy each other's behavior all the time. "They're hiring like crazy, do they know something? We must hire like crazy too!" "They just told the world they are working on AI. We must tell the world we're working on AI, too!" "They're returning everyone to the office. We must also return everyone to the office!" "They released feature X on their device. We must also work on feature X!" Everyone copies everyone because the sad truth is that most company leadership didn't become company leadership because they were particularly creative or original.
Sorry can you explain that again a bit more briefly?
This would be great.

The lack of JIT love on the reference implementation is what makes me only use Python for UNIX scripting.
Major donors?
"The automotive press uncritically reports that American consumers are crazy about huge vehicles but what I've observed is that dealers are crazy about selling huge vehicles."

Very true. Same for houses. A lot of people probably would prefer a small house over not being able to afford a big house and renting eternally. But big houses are more profitable, so that's what's being built. That's why in a lot of markets supply and demand don't really work if the supply can be restricted.
Felt.com Switches to MapLibre
It is in the workings, since the grammar was separated out. All other tools are free to implement a parser. It takes time and interest of people developing other tools. I think there is at least some development going on to have good org-mode support in VIM.
You can also just look at the patent to see how it works...

https://patents.google.com/patent/US10262281B1/en
> Seems unlikely that each step is actually updated by the workers themselves. I’d put money on an algorithm. The button or tablet they’d have to use would to signify completion would just get loaded with schmutz. Plus they’d be likely to forget to update during peak hours. A foot pedal might work.

Obviously Twitter is not the best for long form, but did you scroll through the replies from the first tweet that she added? She literally explains how it works, the options workers have, etc. No need to speculate haha
I feel woefully disconnected from the natural order in this day and age. There is so much variety and beauty out there that we remove for the sake of maximizing material utility. Even in bovines, I recently learned that there is a lot diversity, but we hardly ever see it: the diversity is contrary to the maximizing.
I feel that humanity has the power, to both solve our problems and preserve something of nature, to even make use of it, if only it were valued enough.
It is exciting that you could train a CLIP-style model from scratch with only 4M datapoints. But if you’ve got that data, why not fine tune a pretrained model with your 4M points? It seems likely to outperform the from-scratch method.
NYC reportedly sells nearly $225M worth of Covid supplies for just $500K
Explorer's HTML was also open to customization
> They say everyone should switch to Whatsapp

Anyone who advises me to switch one of my most important phone functions over to Facebook instantly loses a great deal of credibility. I can appreciate that the network effect makes it look very appealing when you're stuck inside, but if you are not already stuck in that garden, why do it? Just go back to SMS. It is the only standard that is universal.
Based on my experience in a liberal arts program in a state school, yes.

Professors can't assume the students learned anything in high school, so it takes a few semesters just to get the students to a college level. A lot of students graduated with nothing more than a passing knowledge of their subject because they took so long just to catch up.

Many students in the US are working full-time while seeking their degree, so they don't have a ton of time to study or write papers. Most professors understand this and assign a less-demanding load.

Another factor that I strongly suspect but can't prove: You have to have a college degree for most jobs, so professors feel like they're hurting a student's future prospects when they give a bad grade.

Keep in mind I'm talking about state schools - I would expect Harvard to be better!
This sounds very neat, time to look into DuckDB.
How is this new, novel and non-obvious? Do we just give a sticky gold star to the Ford lawyer who pushed through an obviously defective application, and move on?
Scarleteel hackers use advanced cloud skills to steal source code, data
Although it would be a great exercise in hybrid SPARK+Coq proof. If (that's a big if) you can specify your algorithm in SPARK then (I think) you can use either the SPARK automated/guided prover, or when it can't discharge the proof, use some predefined lemmas, and barring that go down to the interactive Coq environment (or Isabelle, I've seen it done once) and discharge the verification conditions.

Not sure anyone has published such a multi-layer spec and proof effort /with crypto code in the mix/.
Shared for the way the author lays bare their own feelings and reflections about themselves, and for the willingness to be wrong. Snippet:

> I don't intend to be a jerk, but I can be… jerky. While I think it's usually for a good cause, I acknowledge that the ends don't justify the means. I tend to be rather opinionated, outspoken, unyielding, and sarcastic. I'm not proud of that fact. I don't celebrate it. Yet I can't deny it, nor can I deny my inner demons.
Oh, I hadn't heard that. All I know is math guys really like it for some reason.
Which means, not at all, look at the recent Hertz case about rental cars reported as stolen and then doubling down, because admitting to problems with the process would mean admitting to criminal intent.
Fair, another comment mentioned Red Bull and Vodka which would probably have been a better example, but I suspect that’s more a case of “we’d ban it if we could.”
Ah this was the biggest learning for me too as I moved here. Didn't know it had a name. Passive aggressive behavior! I don't know if this is a big co thing. I felt in startups (I mean real ones - not the let us wait 15+ years without going Public with hundreds of employees) there is little time to be passive aggressive and you just speak your mind. Ofcourse the challenge here was how to be candid without being an ahole!
English majors (and other liberal arts majors) do not build "critical thinking" any better than science majors. That skillset comes down to your natural intelligence and curiosity.
> social isolation and environmental monotony

So not just loneliness, but boredom in general.
This was written 7 years ago and I think works pretty well as a response to this new one from The New Yorker.

The End of the English Major? Not So Fast (April 13, 2015)

https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/just-visiting/end-engli...
How to guarantee I never buy a Ford again in one easy step
They're not going to walk out of a jail cell either.

When the government bans something, that's not a polite request. It's backed up by men with guns. How they could possibly think they could get away with just not obeying the government is beyond me.
They seem to be only testing for the image retrieval task, but I don’t think CLIP is actually used for image retrieval. Most cases, I see CLIP being used for semantic segmentation, detection etc. Do these guys have similar results on these tasks?
I think it would be beneficial to have even just ChatGPT level AI bots in virtual worlds. Getting a lot of players online in the same location is hard both network wise and socially. Bots could fill that gap especially for games. Empty VR worlds feel weird so this could bring them to life and free you from designing only smaller spaces or natural landscapes to compensate for the lack of people.
They're great cars, but (unfortunately) compact SUVs are far outselling them. Compare the Fit and HRV sales figures and it's clear why Honda did it.
I feel event sourcing is a real world pragmatic approach to declarative programming that this paper advocates.

For state changes you add events to the database to describe something that happened. Any question you may need an answer for / business decision you want to make can be answered by querying the events.

The problem at the moment is that while event sourcing is excellent at reducing accidental complexity surrounding implementing business rules, there is little standard / commonly used tooling around it and you end up with lots of accidental complexity in that end.

An example would be a database not designed to be a CRUD store but to store events and manage read models, and manage computation of projections etc -- while being suitable for OLTP workloads. At a minimum, very strong support for using any kind of construct in materialized views (since in a sense the entire business logic is written as a "materialized view" when doing event sourcing)