skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Adobe has lost any good sentiment I had for them with their forced subscriptions and dark patterns. I use their products begrudgingly, it’s a sunk cost fallacy from decades of muscle memory.

My reaction to seeing any announcement from them is, yeah whatever Adobe.
In Praise of Mediocrity (2018)
Well yeah, but we need your window manager and we need device support in the repository. But in all seriousness how do you bootstrap a system, can you just attach it to a normal display?
That seems like a rather academic distinction. The cost of the app is minuscule compared to the cost of any of the camera hardware that you’re referring to.

The built in app does give you focus lock and manual exposure control (with auto ISO). Only a very small number of people would want the additional control that Halide offers, so it wouldn’t really make sense for Apple to add those features to the built in app.
>You're probably not good at interviewing.

It does seem to be the common factor. Then again the industrialized interview processes some companies (some of which have since had bulk layoffs) suggests another possibility.

I hate having to develop interviewing as a skill. I'd rather develop my development skills.
As I remember it the job market was doing well up until investments banks began failing in mid 2008. That is not the case today. Many large companies have already announced major job cuts. Because governments have announced that interest rates will remain high to increase unemployment. The idea is that more unemployment means more poverty and with people too poor to pay high prices producers will have to lower their prices thus curing inflation. Or so the theory goes.
You sure?

ADA ramp max slope should be 1:12, i.e. 8.33% which is (IMHO) reasonable.

https://www.ada-compliance.com/ada-compliance/ada-ramp
It depends on how strongly you filter.

The default rules probably won't cause issues, but you'll still see a lot of ads. As you optimize these away, things start breaking
https://archive.is/2I3T4
Faking the image quality through software is becoming more powerful than actually taking a good image, and people don't seem to care if the pixels on the screen are really what the optics saw.

They just want to take a pretty photo, and look at a pretty photo.
However there should be a balance. Look at parking lots — the ratio of disabled spaces to standard spaces is not the same ratio as disabled people to non-disabled people.

And sometimes it’s ridiculous: drive through ATMs with braille for instance. Private motel swimming pools requiring wheelchair lifts. That extreme additional cost means that many motels just won’t have a swimming pool at all — so everyone is worse off. But you can’t charge disabled people a swimming pool surcharge since that discriminatory. So it raises costs for everyone. By the way, I am referring to private building codes, not taxpayer-funded projects like sidewalks.
That seems to be added in the 1977 amendment to the bill. Was the same goal in the 1913 bill?

Edit: I stumbled upon [1] will trying to find an answer but my lack of US-legalese skill makes it too hard to comprehend.

[1] https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/prelim@title12/cha...

[2] original text: https://www.llsdc.org/assets/FRAdocs/fra-lh-pl63-43.pdf

No “stab” as in stable of stability in there, nor prices in the quoted context.

Now that we’ve got that overboard, the article makes pretty good sense to me. Central banks having the function of keeping banks functioning at all times might not always be compatible with central banks have a primary duty to use monetary policy for governments sake. See the conundrum the ECB was and is in. Raise rates (at all or too fast) and states fail. That’s more important to them than banks failing. I have no opinion on what’s right - as an economist I always found monetary economics too hand-wavey (or hard, for a not very mathematical branche of economics). The Hills point might be right.
You can: Help for bash 'history -s args':
The args are added to the end of the history list as a single entry
Adobe's AI image generator, only trained on licensed or out of copyright content
> History: actively developed until 2008

So the language has been dead since 2008?
Further context: https://www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/blog/exploiting-acropalypse...

You should notice that the file size didn't actually get any smaller after you cropped it. The full-size image file is not truncated before the cropped version is written. The left-behind data can be recovered.
It's impossible to give you any useful advice without knowing more about your situation. What type of business do you have? Does the "impact" of the economy on your business mean a 5% hit to profit or a 50% hit? How much of a hit could your annual profit take and for how many years before you wouldn't be able to keep paying for your lifestyle? What are your skills / what kind of job role would you potentially qualify for? The answer to each of those questions will have a significant impact on what your best course of future action is.
Not sure if this person is being deliberately vague/obtuse, but it's unclear if this affects you if you save each screenshot as a new file, or only if you do the strange "overwrite existing file" thing the OP did.
And it’s in a segment with high cost, high margin products. Site is worth millions in terms of ad revenue and/or affiliate income alone.
One can see it as peeking behind the veil to view the underlying structure of the universe we live in. It permits certain things and does not permit others.
> Ok, but what's the use of this data set?

Same use as the rest of mathematics: Entertainment for those interested in the topic.
The world saw a record 9.6% growth in renewables in 2022
Just move a cart around and have a little bit of imagination.
Ken Rockwell is a blowhard that copy/pastes info into every "review". His sharpness comparisons are laughable, as is his blatant fanboyism (which went from Nikon to Canon. It's funny to read the things he said about one brand 10 years ago and compare it to what he says about the same brand today). I would not put him into the same category as DPReview with a straight face. DPReview gave us the exposure latitude and high ISO comparison tools, which are wonderful for teasing apart differences in cameras. For example, I know the Z9 is 1 stop worse in high ISO noise performance than the Z7 due to its electronic shutter because I can see it in the comparison. That makes it easy for me to set my max ISO appropriately. Their reviews weren't perfect (I prefer Photography Life's, especially for the lens reviews--but they do principally Nikon reviews), but they were damn good.

Nobody does what DPReview did.

This is a sad passing, but reflects the general decline in ILC photography unfortunately.
Why do you believe Bard accurately summarized the article?
I think your options are:

* get a CS degree from a top tier program, preferably a PHD

* Pivot in from a normal software job. This is probably only possible if you have a bunch of C++ experience, and some top (FAANG) names on your resume.
And I am sure that you use your computer for work, to make money, and yet you based on the reading of the contributor agreement it sounds like [The computer buyer/you] doesn’t have to pay a cent to the [computer creator] for all the money you make using that computer.

Does that sound fair to you?

See how stupid that sounds?
> Funny how the BBC keeps complaining about Musk's Twitter take over but refuses to cover the Twitter Files he's been releasing. Guess those government millions are put to good use.

How would that work? How did Twitter spend millions on the UK Government and how would that result in the BBC not reporting on a Twitter related issue?
I don't see a link to the study (an unforgivable oversight in every case) but it's a good call out to consider the pandemic when we're talking about those years. There was a solid decade of people brutally abusing data from around the Great Recession without calling out that everything was absolutely bonkers due to the Great Recession. It'll be even worse with data around the pandemic years because people would rather score their points than just be fucking honest.
How do you know about its past performance?
I mean, nobody thinks of Postgres and MySQL as 800gb of files of tuples and btree data sitting around. Traditional DBMS software handles the replication and coordination of all those files. SQLite doesn't do that, and there's some bespoke external software that handles that. If you're a DBA/SA working with one of those systems, you're going to need to be an expert not just at SQLite, but at the software that does the work that SQLite isn't doing on its own. That'll be special skills.
File paths are just strings from the shell, though, and each tool can handle relative paths differently. So `./` can mean relative to your shell's cwd or the program could interpret it as relative to something else. Moreover something like `go test -v ./...` is...ambiguous.

I think what would be more useful is to record `env` or some similar context along with the time and command. That would probably get weird pretty fast, though. Maybe just a thing that could insert some useful bookmarking/state into the history record on-demand? `history-set-checkpoint` or something would save your pwd and local vars or something.
Bard is *much* worse at puzzle-solving than ChatGPT
Then I hope you'll never get hit or worse, you hitting somebody else while intoxicated on a bicycle, even if you think is of no consequence.
I mean, I kind of get it. Back when I was looking to buy a camera, I was on the site quite a bit.

For me, the equivalent place to hang out, read reviews or discuss techniques were the forums of home-barista.com in the late 2010s. Lots of coffee innovations now commonplace came from there. I wasn't necessarily looking to buy an espresso machine or a grinder, but it felt like a place where people more knowledgeable than me in an interest of mine were pushing the boundaries, out in the open.
Agreed. Cockroach does a better job with multiple raft clusters, even Spanner which I believe does 3 Regional clusters and are battle tested.
I think South Asians who made it big in the US are putting their money behind it.

The comparable is soccer where the yuuth game was big but never drew a line to the pro game. (Often a youth soccer coach doesn’t know the name of the nearest MLS team). I think Americans got into watching the World Cup, liked what they saw, then some got into the Premier League and friends. We are still indifferent to MLS but people are learning to love the women’s game where the US team is a winner internationally.
Learn low latency network programming in either C++ or something safe like Rust. If you make something people notice HFT companies will beat a path to your door.
Yep.

I agree with "banning" TikTok, but only by methodology which will hit all of the US social media companies as well.

No one is owed a business model, and I think we've seen all the evidence we need to to see that Facebook et al. are extremely dangerous but would be less so if they were _forced_ to follow GDPR style rules in the US.
FYI to anyone curious, do not read the affidavit if you do not want to have pretty horrific images of infants etc in your mind.
>the same thing is happening all over tech - go down to a reduced staff of essential contributors and re-hire later for much lower comp

If supply and demand stay the same, then why do you think the price will change?
And Google Circle.. (r.i.p)
In this case why not keep the old content online at least? And continue paying affiliate commissions to themselves?
Does this delegate to plain TeX or render text by itself? Knuth spent years on stuff like kerning of formulas and hyphenation.
Conservatives bitch and moan about people on food stamps buying junk food all the damn time, but don't actually want to do anything about it because a sizeable portion of their base is on food stamps and likes junk food and would be upset if they actually put restrictions on it. Also foodstamps are meant to be a handout to farmers and food producers anyway so limiting purchases might go against that goal.
In my city the tram lines are being maintained and repaired at night. It's not uncommon to see people welding stuff at 3AM.

Trams run fast and very rarely break.
I’m sympathetic to this argument. But I wonder: Is there any evidence that Tiktok is being used by CCP to hurt USA?

I would argue we should ban them simply cause they ban Facebook etc. Ie tit for tat, be nice to those who are nice to you, etc etc
It seems to me that LaTeX is primarily used as academic gatekeeping. This is one step better, but why a new DSL versus a library to build your layout representation from a common language?
> Interesting that the large company AI products (this, Microsoft copilot, etc) are so much more compelling than any of the startups I’ve seen.

This is an indicative signal. It's amazing how easily it is ignored.

> Makes me think that we haven’t seen what true innovation looks like in this space.

It's interesting that a bunch of product add-ons could be considered "innovation" in the first place.
Do you suppose that perhaps disabled people take longer to shop?

Certainly you’ve heard of Little’s Law if you hang out in HN?
> Everything should be a drop-in replacement

This is not true for many applications. Due to the removal of many APIs from the JDK with Java 9, I needed the following dependency artifactIds to be able to move a JEE application with SOAP web services to Java 11: jaxb-api, jaxb-core, jaxb-runtime, istack-commons-runtime, jboss-jaxws-api_2.2_spec, glassfish-corba-omgapi, jboss-annotations-api_1.2_spec, activation, jboss-saaj-api_1.3_spec, saaj-impl, stax-ex, jsr181-api, txw2.

Many of these spec API/implementations are provided by different artifacts that are incompatible with each other. Some I only discovered when something failed at runtime as they perform implementation lookups and you don't get compile errors.

Additionally, many of the Maven plugins we used no longer worked and our application server failed to start.
interesting history, thanks! I was mainly noting the "recursion"/series similarities, yes. but didn't know the complications from epicycles were more varied in nature.
On some docks / external displays Metal rendering is really slow. Jetbrains IDEs have an option to disable Metal for this reason.
The GP paints individual meetings as an infeasible, far-fetched idea. However, Google has held individual meetings in some non-US jurisdictions, where the ratio of management to front-line workers is comparable to that in the US. This shows that it's not infeasible, it's a choice.
Rust ?
You can sideload any app with this if you can get ahold of the .ipa file.
It's a good point you have .. I've looked up Io over the years and funnily it did use to show the code on the homepage: https://web.archive.org/web/20100923042106/http://www.iolang...
Yesterday I read about this embedding model that can be run locally.

I read about it here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35236275

But it's been mentioned on HN a few times in the past 3 months:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35055808

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34691307

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34034940

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34007942

It can be used as am embedding model in llama_index (fka gpt_index). Here's a code snippet from one of their users:

from langchain.embeddings.huggingface import HuggingFaceEmbeddings
from llama_index import LangchainEmbedding

def get_embed_model():
model_name = "sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2"
embed_model = LangchainEmbedding(HuggingFaceEmbeddings(model_name=model_name))
return embed_model

get_embed_model()

index = GPTSimpleVectorIndex(documents, embed_model=embed_model)
This runs into the core problem with technology--we answer "What can we do" before "Should we do it" and "What are the impacts"

Let's say you take your hello kitty dot art, and make a poster promoting a commercial event. You then take it to FedEx Kinkos and use a self-service copy machine to make 1000 copies. You could reasonable argue that you are violation of copyright infringement, and the photocopier / FedEx kinkos isn't.

Now instead, you have AI generate a poster, and it generates a very similar image to hello-kitty. It's arguably so similar than a reasonable person would say it's a copy. You take that poster and again make 1000 copies. Is there copyright infringement? If so, who if anyone, is liable for damages?
Was Rolling Stone sued for defamation for accurately reporting what an FBI affidavit said?
> Amazon used to NEVER cancel projects that customers were using. They just straight up Did. Not. Do. It.

FWIW, Amazon killed Amazon Flexible Payments in 2015. They ostensibly replaced it with Amazon Pay, but they didn't offer any kind of migration path for existing users/accounts (which felt very much like a Google thing to do) and, frankly, the services were fundamentally different: the former was more like a better version of PayPal, while the latter is more like a worse version of Stripe.

I had a lot of contact with the team as this happened as I was their biggest user on mobile devices for years, and they begged me to move to their new product, but they were really screwing me by shutting down the old service in the way they did--deleting the account history and customer connections rather than just figuring out a new way to use them--and the new service not only comparatively sucked but was way more expensive (trying to command the Stripe premium, forcing me to rely solely on PayPal, which is much cheaper for small payments if you ask for their micropayments pricing).

But like, Amazon Flexible Payments was amazing. They seriously had a pricing model that automatically scaled into separate buckets all the way down to tiny tiny tiny fractions of a single cent (on which they changed like 25% with no fixed component) when using your balance, while supporting all of the standard use cases for large ($12+) payments that Stripe is good at, having the API prowess of AWS attached to the flexibility of PayPal but using your Amazon.com account's payment information. But like, it had seemed as if they internally lost all the engineers working on that project and could no longer fix even basic things like their email template. It definitely soured the otherwise excellent long-term support experience I've had with Amazon services.
Ok. Most STEM students find themselves at one point diving deeper into LaTeX than the actual report subject they are writing.

But developing your own replacement to LaTeX is whole new level.

Nice one :-)
"Since someone screwed me, they should screw you"? Crab bucket mentality?
Likely because humans have evolved to be able to know, remember and relate with ~150 people. Anything larger than that, requires organization and representation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number
This.

I wonder why the US doesn't seem to have such a system. The process is quite easy: The company pays the tuition fees and selects a person that satisfies their requirements (not necessarily good grades). The person works for the company and studies while being paid consistently a low but fair salary. About three years later the company can decide if they want to keep the employee who just earned a bachelors degree.

There a few down-sides (studying is harder and it is not available for all study paths), but in general there are many up-sides:

- no debt

- selection based on more than grades

- nobody cares how much you parents can pay

- deeper experience than internships

- combination of practical experience and academic degree

To add some anecdotal evidence: AFAIK, the current CEO of SAP started his career with a similar program.
> This is false. Fahrenheit is commonly used in Canada to this day.

At least where I am, Celsius is the unit of choice, even among the older generation.
Thank you. I see this all the time where theoretical performance/w or performance/$ purchases are made as if you own a data center. Performance unused is very expensive indeed.
So Dropbox found uploads, allegedly from Meek, containing CP. Then devices were found at Meek's residence containing CP. To there, you could fake it: pwn the box, open a Dropbox, upload pictures. Basic parallel construction.

In items 30-53 we have an allegation that Meek exposed himself to children on Omegle. This is more damning. Included in the evidence are pictures apparently showing Meek naked. Harder to fake. His face does not seem to be visible in any of the images. Some legitimate communications of Meek are also on the phone, corresponding with his known whereabouts (and might be checked against the other end if possible).

Conclusion: if this is a frame, it's a very well-made one.

Why would he be framed, though? He made a documentary about a military embarrassment (the Tongo Tongo ambush), and many years ago he documented a case of apparent manslaughter (of an American) by a captain in Iraq. In short, he was not exactly a Seymour Hersh or a Glenn Greenwald. I just don't see the 3LAs going to this much trouble to bag a guy who wrote a story about Niger.

So I conclude the case is probably real.

Thought I'd put this down and save someone else the trouble.
Picking the release notes apart:

- ScopedValue (Incubator). Seems like a replacement for ThreadLocal that is intended to be a bit less dangerous (it is notorious for leaking memory and file handles). The Kotlin equivalent would be CoroutineScope. I'd say the latter is the cleaner solution. And probably ScopedValues came into existence for the same reason (co-routines & structured concurrency kind of breaking ThreadLocal a bit).

- Record Patterns (Second Preview). This looks a bit like Kotlin's smart casts. Useful. I think the Kotlin implementation with contracts is a bit more powerful and broadly applicable in more use cases. But nice of course.

- Pattern Matching for switch (Fourth Preview). That looks to me like an attempt to beef up the Java switch, which is a welcome change. The Kotlin equivalent would be when. Not a whole lot of difference at first glance. But combined with smart casts, Kotlin is quite nice already IMHO. Scala developers might disagree about a thing or two here..

- Foreign Function & Memory API (Second Preview). Looks like a nice JVM level feature for integrating native code that is potentially also of use to the Kotlin language developers.

- Virtual Threads (Second Preview). The second iteration of Loom. The JVM level implementation for this is going to make Kotlin's co-routines potentially even nicer. I don't think it should be that disruptive for Kotlin developers already using co-routines but performance increases are nice.

- Structured Concurrency. Also Loom related. From what I've seen of Loom so far, it should just work with your existing code without too much changes. And co-routines are definitely a nice API to do structured concurrency so not particularly relevant for Kotlin users. But it's going to be a big enabler for Java developers that have lacked this.

- Vector API (Fifth Incubator). Another JVM level optimization that the Kotlin developers should be able to make use of. I imagine projects like the kotlindl framework (a deep learning framework) can make use of this. A bit niche but nice if you use things like that.

So, nice incremental change and a few nice things that Kotlin will benefit from probably. Whether you use Java or Kotlin, it's going to be nicer for everyone once this ships in an LTS jdk.
Thank you! This allowed me to use Bard without going into Incognito mode!
Crap, I forgot to include the whole *<TAB> thing! Man, good catch.
One possible such simple primitive is predictive coding, where the brain is hypothesized to predict experience rather than text: https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/09/05/book-review-surfing-un...