skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a comedy act, I love it.

From an engineering perspective, if someone is this clever and creative, I'd love to see him put this much effort into something genuinely useful!
It's not clear that the model weights can be copyrighted. But of course, I wouldn't want to be the test case.
You'll know you've got great blog post material when you get a ton of attention on HN!
I have never shared your experience with F-Droid. Buggy at times, sure, but overall a good deployment mechanism.
thank you, I try
Seems a valid use of resources if you have a way to vaguely associate it to some academic side-project, just don't start monetizing the output and beware the wrath of stressed out PhDs if you use too much capacity.
Used it to download linux distro images back when the size of an install CD was huge.

Good times.
I remember using razer nostromo n52, this seems like some weird evolution of that

https://www.engadget.com/2010-11-19-razer-nostromo-gaming-ke...
Butterflies?
He clearly means on our doorstep. There are almost no Americans left alive who have ever lived through war coming to America. The worst we've had was 9/11 where 3000 people were killed. It lead to us flipping out, starting multiple wars over, and cheering on the government broadly restricting civil rights in a bout of mass fear, anxiety, and paranoia.

By contrast about 3% of all humans alive were killed in WW2, over 6 years. 3% doesn't sound too bad, so let's contextualize that. In the United States alone that would be more than 10 million people. That's about 4,620 people killed every single day for 6 years. The amount of suffering that actual war brings is something almost none of us living today in the West can even begin to imagine. I mean can you imagine multiple 9/11 scale events, every single day, for almost 2200 days?

Being honest, I actually had to double check my math because my god that's just an unimaginably vast amount of suffering and death. And WW3 will almost certainly be vastly worse because the first bloc to start losing is going to go nuclear - which will result in a comparable response from the other bloc. This whole hegemony thing has really got to end, or we as a species are going to end.
cost to build physical prototypes has effectively fallen to 0

ignoring the initial outlay of 3d printing and materials

Previously you'd need to find a factory and contract with them to manufacture a minimum number of items

That's never how initial product prototypes have been made.
His first versions may be less janky than historic prototyping, but I think we're risking rewriting history to make 3d printing more grandiose than it actually is.
> Which can be inlined/speculated away easily.

How so? Python is dynamically typed after all and even type annotations are merely bolted on – they don't tell you anything about the "actual" type of an object, they merely restrict your view on that object (i.e. what operations you can do on the variable without causing a type error). For instance, if you add additional properties to an object of type A via monkey-patching, you can still pass it around as object of type A.
Amazon pauses construction of second headquarters in Virginia
Get in touch if you need help with the setup. Can join Chartbrew’s Discord if you wish https://discord.gg/KwGEbFk
> Do not publicly disclose information about the vulnerability and vulnerable systems without the CCB’s consent

This one would be a sticking point for me, personally. When disclosing vulns, I am extremely reluctant to relinquish control over who I tell and when. I wonder if participation in this mechanism could increase one's overall liability.
The tensions don't exist because of its oil. They exist because of their natural resources which may or may not include oil. Look all over africa for examples.

Being rich in natural resources is a bit like being a really hot girl around a bunch of abusive predatory men. They'll shower her with gifts and tell her how amazing she is until she says: "no, I don't want to sleep with you" and all hell breaks loose.
If you're 'tired of chasing pointers', Rust's a lot closer to (and I'd argue better than) Python than say Go - it'll tell you where the issue is and usually how to fix it; Go will just blow up at run time. (Python (where applicable) will do something unexpected and wrong but potentially not error (..great!))

(Fwiw I use all three, Python professionally.)
My opinion is the motivation behind “BIPOC” is to exclude Asians, who are rarely considered as minorities due to their economic and academic success.
Even if you do this, you're still paying a penalty whenever you move data Python->C and C->Python.

Plus that you now need to write performant (and safe) C code, which (to me) defeats part of the reason to use Python in the first place.
The role of large cities has typically been to act as an economic and cultural hub to their surrounding area. Cities that restrict access for outsiders to their economic and cultural areas will probably thrive in the short-term, but over the long term I suspect they will be replaced in their role as a regional hub by cities that don't.
Laravel 10
At one point, my employer forced me to use Intellij products... I have no idea why anyone using Emacs would want that. It's awful all around. I also cannot imagine why would anyone come to conclusion that Emacs is like paper books. The UX is definitely better than in Intellij. And, feature discoverability is... well, it's for people with < 1 year experience. Who cares about their opinion? They know nothing, and are expected to not know anything.

> I rarely hear people talking with excitement about WebStorm or VS code.

You seem to be living in a very remote area where no programmers can reach you, beside those using Emacs. Yeah, people using VSCode talk about it a lot, given an opportunity.

In an average programming company, programmers might talk more about Emacs because for the overwhelming majority it's a mystery. It's the same how others might be driven to discuss UFOs or weird cultural kinks found in distant lands. But, really, it's not an indication of anything.
I think it's funny that out of all the scifis I know, Chobits of all things is looking to be the most accurate.
That's a fine bit of onomatopoeia! I have not seen the word "kssht" written before but I have 'said' it many times.
What part of it do you want to see rebutted? I thought it was a great article too, but it seems like for the WBR process to work you need rapidly moving input and output metrics, which is more true of sales and marketing than engineering. Maybe you can apply the same approach to simple A/B tests, but then structurally you're incentivizing thinking small which puts you right back in the passengers seat of Goodhart's law.
While 3D printers have been very useful for certain types of prototyping, I'd have to say that overall the excitement/hype around 3D printing you saw 10 or so years ago has significantly diminished.
On the flip side of subhuman treatment of humans, we have useful legal fictions like corporate personhood. It's going to be pretty rough for a while, particularly for nontechnical judges, to sort all of this out.

We're almost definitely going to see multiple rulings far more bizarre than Citizens United ruling that limiting corporate donations limits the free-speech rights of the corporation as a person.

I'm not a lawyer, and I don't particularly follow court rulings, but it seems pretty obvious we need to buckle up for a wild ride.
She supports the movement (started by other people) to retire the image from tech, but she wasn’t particularly bothered by the use of the photo, she has said so in multiple interviews. “In 1988, she was interviewed by some Swedish computer related publication, and she was pleasantly amused by what had happened to her picture.” http://www.lenna.org/
Mullvad becomes highest level of Tor Member (Shallot)
Driving through a park is already prohibited. The initiative is describing paved roadways.

In Oxford, the ability to drive on particular existing streets (streets, not parkland) is to be turned into a privilege, allegedly at certain times on certain days, and those who use those existing roadways without having new, specific permits will be automatically fined.

From the article:

Officials in Oxford approved a plan last year to install “traffic filters,”
which would limit access on six roads in the city during certain times of day.
The filters are cameras, not physical barriers, that take photos of vehicles’
license plates. Fines are then issued to those without a permit.
hold up...you can't just say 'FAA grounded me for life' without sharing something about that story! I've never heard of anything like it...

Going straight to helicopters without flying airplanes first is not a typical path.
She's been a model for much of her life, presumably making a good living from being the face of Kodak ads. It's doubtful that she doesn't believe in IP ownership law, given that she's actively used it to make money.

Additionally, she seems to have changed her mind in 2019. At the beginning of the year, she was "really proud of that picture", at the end of the year she asked for it to be retired. I guess some activists talked her into being a victim all those years.
That has more to do with Ana de Armas looking how she does than anything else. I'd have dated her as a Harlan Thrombey's nurse too.
"now"? These have been a thing since before you joined HN.
I haven't read about the background story and the new website but I hadn't thought that she thinks so especially I have read [1] some years ago.
But as said I don't know the new developments regarding the famous photo.

[1] https://www.wired.com/story/finding-lena-the-patron-saint-of...
>judging by the team's background -- André Staltz with Secure Scuttlebutt, Paul Frazee with dat/Beaker/Hypercore Protocol -- I think it's pretty clear the driving motivation for much of the team behind Bluesky is not profit.

Not to be overly cynical, but I just don't care. Things change. When mega-corps and investors come knocking with 10-figure checks... 99.9% of humans will cash out. It's human nature. I've invested my time and energy in many things that have been taken over and destroyed by bad/incompetent actors, virtually all of which had promising starts, or I wouldn't have gotten involved.
I did for a moment considered jacking the car up, putting monitor on the bonnet, connecting to OBD and using pedals and steering wheel for simracing controls.

Then discovered steering wheel angle and break/clutch is not available on OBD bus in my car.
>More seriously, the original copyright owner (the photographer? playboy?) probably didn't license it for use as a visual benchmarking asset for graphics algorithms.

The rights owner (Playboy, in this case) is on record saying they made a conscious choice not to enforce their rights to this image.
It's treason then.
So if the "troubled origin" of the Lena picture is the fact that she was nude (yet the picture used for computer science was cropped and did not use any of the nude parts) then why should the replacement be another photo that suggests it is a cropped nude?

Is it the fact that the original Lena picture was pretty and alluring and this one is gross, that makes it "ethically sourced"? Or is that a bad joke? I hope the author realizes that using men in drag as a punchline is also not considered to be socially acceptable nowadays.

The criticism of using the Lena picture for computer science is fair. Pictures for image compression science should be based on more ordinary non-sexual images. Multiple images of people of different color skins, and clothing styles should be used because nowadays it is very easy to over-tune your compression algorithm to a specific type of image or skin tone.

But let us be clear about what exactly is wrong with the Lena picture. It is the fact that a sexual image is being pushed to people that do not want to see a sexual image but merely want to study computer science. This is not going to get fixed by pushing another sexual image to people that do not want to see it.

Feminists say that it is problematic to flood society with sexualized images of women to the point where it is suggested that women are good for sex only. I agree. But there is nothing inherently wrong with taking pictures of women or taking sexy pictures of nude women. Some women like having their pictures taken. Lena Forsen was perfectly willing to get her nude picture taken by playboy.

In perfectly consensual setting taking sexy photos is perfectly fine. Many people enjoy taking them, many people enjoy being in them, many people enjoy looking at them. And it is not some kind of sign of male chauvinism either. I know that because many men like to have sexualized nude pictures taken of them, and they also like to trick me into looking at them even though I do not want to.

And that is the problem, with sexual pictures. When they are forced on to people that they do not want to look at them. So sorry for whoever took this picture, I do not want to look at it. It grosses me out. And I do not appreciate you trying to trick me into looking at it. Your reasoning about providing an ethical alternative to the Lena picture is paper thin and false. If you wanted to provide an ethical alternative, you would be fully clothed.

You are just another exhibitionist that gets a thrill of having many strangers look at sexually suggestive pictures of themselves. Good for you. But try to push your pictures at people that may enjoy looking at them. I don't.
Yes it's weirdly broken, but it seems to be hard problem to solve. Servers aren't connected to each other unless someone follows someone on other server, thus it's a bit hard to build a full graph in one server to browse profiles.

Mastodon team should have made own browser extensions a long time ago, now the community is working to make this easier. I use one called StreetPass [1], but it still is a bit barebones, and doesn't yet help with following accounts accross servers. It does make discovering accounts nice.

[1]: https://streetpass.social/
Why would you want out of state insurance? You want to drive 500 miles to get to an in network doctor?
50k in their entire life??? That's insanely low/inaccurate
Nah, just boss nephew's cousin needed a job.
I feel like I'm the only person who thinks Git is terrible. I hate using it.
I found that the federation aspect of the fediverse breaks the things I most like about Twitter. Sure, there are advantages to it but they're outweighed in my mind by the disadvantages.

What you bring up is a big one. Another big one for me is search. I used Twitter search all the time. For local things like "what're those sirens I hear in my neighborhood", to cultural zeitgeist like "who is this artist performing on SNL", to using it as a quasi-Google.
Correlation is not causality.

If you base your incentives on something that's only correlated with what you want (for example, paying programmers per line of code) you get screwy results (say, lots of manually unrolled loops).
You are also 17× more likely to pay the ultimate price if you travel the exact same amount on a bicycle (according to UK stats).

Edit: Source: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
I don't think Morten is trying to promote himself any more than any post on a personal blog is, humorous or otherwise. It's not like he is trying to springboard into a modelling career or anything.

To me it seems that he doesn't seriously believe his photo will become the new "Lena", but he is still making a very clear statement: "you can use any other image, in fact here is one that is a drop-in replacement, it has a similar aspect ratio, style and colour balance to the original. You have no excuses now, move on like Lena asked."
Indeed, until reading your comment, I thought it was official. At least a short disclaimer would be welcome.
> Mastodon’s UX with regards to following people on other servers seems to be really broken.

'Broken' is an understatement. It is defective 'by design' and eternally a problem that they can never solve. It is not early days either.

Hence why Twitter is still unmatched with the 220M+ daily active users.
Clench to revert changes
Using Azure Active Directory to Authenticate to Amazon EKS
There’s only one ATP server for now.

The official Mastodon client accepts a web URL in the search box, to a profile on another server.
Thanks, I wanted to post it after it was finished and revised. I also wanted to add more sections, but somebody was faster than I expected (thanks for posting it tod!). I suppose Getting to hn will add some valuable feedback in the first place.

I will probably add some more content in the coming weeks.
People that have not been exposed to legacy industries (banking, insurance, etc) would simply not believe how many of these large/huge companies run the majority of their business on an IBM mainframe running COBOL code. I've seen it firsthand and I didn't believe it. For them, it just works.
You don’t see protests in Dubai and Saudi Arabia because these countries are (compared to Iran) really rich and liberal
Remember the conspiracy theory that the present administration wanted to ban gas stoves?

It was a lie. They only want to ban half of them, and it wasn't even the President, it's an agency -https://www.eenews.net/articles/doe-rule-may-block-50-of-new...
And what if governments are always spouting nonsense and implementing it because they have nothing better to do?

I don't know these as 15 minute cities, I know these as anti-urban sprawl, pro-environment, anti-car neighborhoods. And the push has been on for over a decade to make this happen.

Now that it's here, it's worse than thought. It's not just planning these things and letting people live and work close to home or not. It's more of a forcing function where the entire system is built as a turn-key totalitarian physical prison.

Only a fool would buy into this. And yet the places where these decisions are made (city council), nobody cares about and big money will pour in.

It only takes 6 figures in a 5 figure race to buy a couple seats and implement radical environmental anti-human policy.
We likely have lost something. It's like global warming. Everybody talks about it as if they care, but if you still drive a car, do you actually care? No. Not enough to stop contributing to global warming.

It's the same thing with free software. I care, but not enough to stop me from using the easiest thing out there to use regardless of whether or not it's free.
The hotsauce syringe is arguably a useful idea.
I'm pretty sure I'm thinking about it right. How much COBOL code can run on a regular Ubuntu machine? What's the package manager for OSS packages? What test frameworks are in common use?

You know you're in trouble when "There's a syntax file for VSCode." is the height of your modernity.
Add real-time analytics to your application with Tinybird integration
I doubt Neovim would bundle them.

I asked for two things which are conceptually much simpler:

1. a project manager/file explorer solution (file browser plugins have always been super popular for Vim; plus Sublime, VS Code, etc, all offer file explorers, they're extremely useful for... exploring projects for folks.

2. moving the command bar at the top

And they were both closed as WONTFIX mentioning that the Neovim core is meant to be compact and everything else should be built on top.

So that would require someone making and maintaining a super popular Neovim "distribution". I'm not saying it won't happen, but both in the Vim world and the Emacs one it doesn't seem like any distribution "won out" and you're always worried your distribution will just go away at some point.
Important news but bad article. First couple of paragraphs is about alleged misinformation for some reason?

Does anyone have a timestamp to where it's said in the video?
Or maybe they sell that data to another company that operates kind of like a collections agency, which takes on the 'risk' of storing the data, then repeatedly calls and offers to give them their AI friend back at an extortionate rate.

The data privacy side of this is an interesting conversation as well. Think of the information an employee or hacker could leak about a person after they spent some time with such an instance.
Insightful, thanks. Yes - native operating system APIs are often not designed with sandboxing in mind, unlike on mobile. A big part of why people rely on the web so heavily can be summed up as the Chrome guys methodically working through native APIs and writing lots of code to make them sandbox-safe. I guess in this case it'd be the same thing. Someone would need to write a validation layer. Chrome's Mojo IPC is really nice, I've been playing with it lately. It's not available outside their source tree but isn't too hard to extract. Their sandbox API is ... less nice, barely an API at all actually, but nonetheless the two integrate with each other well.

I think accessibility becomes a lot more exciting to developers once they re-envision it as a general purpose API to expose application interfaces without being drowned in markup or other incidental complexity. The 90s concept was that apps should expose a GUI widget tree to end users and an OOP RPC API to other applications, with MS Office being the cheerleader for this approach. But it never caught on because exposing an API feels too much like a tax for most apps - it's hard to know what other devs might want, making it hard to design an API for them, API design is itself quite taxing and then finally what is the stability level like? You also have the question of what RPC system to use, what type system ... it's complex. Exporting a generic RPC API in the form of a11y trees is an interesting middle ground. It's clear that it's not a stability commitment, but at the same time it's more stable and easier to work with than raw screen scraping.
90% of Americans live in suburbs now? No, many either live close to work or take public transpo.
It doesn't mean anything. It's not a word. I think it was supposed to say ambitious or amorphous.
> Engine components seems like a perfect application for recycled plastic,

I would expect the opposite, at least for any component which might get hot when the engine itself is hot, because thermoplastics soften when heated. Thermoset plastics don't soften, but as a general rule thermoset plastics aren't recyclable.
Aesthetically problematic has an ethical component (and you all know it) but it’s a distortion of a familiar work (meant to cause a response) and ethical questions of Rick Rolling or whatever you call it are less important ethically but not immaterial.

Edit: the image also steals from Mona Lisa’s mustache and DaVinci is under copyright for seven additional years.
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> Just because you regret doing a deal doesn't mean others are unethical for benefiting from it.

Everything else aside, this is simply inaccurate. Contractual deals can totally be unethical for all sorts of reasons. When there’s an extreme power imbalance, for example. As one might see between a very young woman and a large and powerful company.
Mind you this isn’t appropriate for most cases. But I love the idea of “you start with text file. You end with text file. All the database stuff, indexes, etc. are just a detail.”

Often I find that the database wants to be the authority and that makes working with different formats a bit uncomfortable.
I assume, for the same reason you don't want them in your house. It expands differently from copper as it warms, and the connections can loosen.

If Tesla has switched to aluminum I imagine they've found a way to fix that. Possibly by making the entire electrical system out of aluminum, so that it all expands the same way, or possibly a connector designed to avoid that.