skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just want to know if MinIO contact Weka before this fall out or not. If not, then MinIO comes off as a bunch of psychos. If so, then grab your popcorn.
You don't have anything in your HN profile, so I can't be certain, but I'm guessing you haven't been in the Research/Education space? It's scary how much Google Drive is used for storage of stuff.
If you like this check out https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/443162/apollo-remastered-by-...

> In a frozen vault in Houston sits the original NASA photographic film of the Apollo missions. For half a century, almost every image of the Moon landings publicly available was produced from a lower-quality copy of these originals.

> Now we can view them as never before. Expert image restorer Andy Saunders has taken newly available digital scans and, applying pain-staking care and cutting-edge enhancement techniques, he has created the highest quality Apollo photographs ever produced. Never-before-seen spacewalks and crystal-clear portraits of astronauts in their spacecraft, along with startling new visions of the Earth and the Moon, offer astounding new insight into one of our greatest endeavours.

I saw the exhibition in Glasgow, was good!
Sorry, I really meant refactor here. I did ask it to optimize code, and it came with a suggestion of trimming down my function into a smaller chunk and creating a new function. So it actually refactored it TBH, but I am going to try how I can check if it can optimize code too.
Online daters are less open-minded than their filters suggest
Stop being lazy

It is faster to read than to listen to something
> Anti-EU referendums in European countries are frequently ignored, even when in theory they are constitutionally binding

Yeah, that's why the UK didn't leave in the end right? lol. Does "Non-biding referendum" rings a bell?

> long track record of classifying true reports about their activities in the British press as "myths".

Ah yes the trustworthy British press saying German kids can't write to Santa because of GDPR. Yes

Yes, keep talking, I like to make a collection of anti-EU talking points (from Peter Thiel's think tank most likely).

For all the criticism the EU deserves, it's very telling when the narrative turns into manipulation
They don't say they have deleted messages. They say that CZ has disappearing messages turned on, and they have his phone and some messages - it might just be that they only have messages that are within the disappearing window, or some conversations that were in seperate chats without disappearing messages enabled, or messages from backups or some of the counterparties that were saved, etc.
I thought maybe I was just getting old and crusty, but this really does capture my primary complaint with K8s - everything that isn't standard, is so special and unrelated to the underlying technology that you need to relearn how K8's interacts with every layer of abstraction just to have half a chance of it working.
The word sabotage was first used to describe this kind of destruction.
Getting dangerously close to the ITYSL insider trading sketch
I'm getting the sense of a category error here:

Windows is the standard bearer of paid OS's - yes, true.

Ubuntu is the standard bearer of free Linux OS's - not really, and (this is important) less true over time.

What's happening is that, as Windows is improving, Linux appears to be getting worse. But that's really just an Ubuntu problem.

I don't know how Ubuntu got the crown exactly, but it seems to be performing less well over time, and is, increasingly, not the default choice. I would understand if other distros are harder to learn or simply unsupported, but that's not the case.

It feels like 90% of these issues could be resolved by saying "Start with Fedora. In 2023, that's the actual default Linux distro that fixes these problems."
If you're using Google Earth Engine or a similar tool, it's generally highly recommended to use Google Drive as the storage backend for it - especially since Google sells Enterprise plans with "as much storage as you need."

Geospatial artifacts can be very large, and also can be spread across thousands and thousands of files (20+ zoom levels on Earth, with enough 256x256 tiles to cover the planet at each zoom level, for example).
Yep. And the end result is a hodge podge of labels that make up an API that is much worse than the original interface, and requires significant amount of bounds/error checking in order to provide useful error messages until the codebase for it is no longer simple.
>What if you have a low powered device that only has a H264 hardware decoder? What if you have two desktops that prefer AV1.

You recode on the server.
This is ridiculous and sensationalist. It’s a language model it only maps words when given an input it isn’t an independent agent that is at all times acting on its surroundings with knowledge and experience.
> Natural rights are a kind of theology. There's no scientific evidence for their existence, they're just asserted to exist.

You can say that for most moral statements.
Interesting how ChatGPT had a vastly higher tendency to "overcorrect" sentences (relative to Grammarly and GECToR), completely changing sentence structures to produce proper sentences rather than fixing specific grammar mistakes.

I wonder how the results of this study would have differed if the team looked at GPT-4?
Its purpose is to prevent people disabling third party cookies.
My linux ThinkPad has a roughly 25% chance of failing to sleep when I close the lid, causing it to go from 100% battery to completely dead the next day when I take it out of my bag. I've caught it not even turning off the screen sometimes (you can see the glow through the crack).
I wonder how much of that is riding the wave vs. being the wave though.

Contemporary with NPR and NYT talking about racism and sexism more is Twitter and other social media getting a lot more vocal about such topics (while #metoo really hit its stride in 2017, it started in 2006, for instance. Likewise, Black Lives Matter got its start in 2013), where individuals are sharing their stories a lot more.

That's not to say that I don't think it was a deliberate move on their part, but rather I think the move was part of a feedback loop that already existed.
PGP doesn't help you with phone and video calls.
I switched to debian-slim a while ago and never looked back. The base may be bigger than Alpine, but not significantly after packages and frameworks are loaded.

node:lts-slim is 75MB
node:lts-alpine is 50MB

Yes, 50% larger, but also has glibc for greater compatibility and can even be faster at runtime. I know Python containers tend to be faster on Debian than Alpine. So is 25MB really worth it? Especially when that 25MB is shared between multiple containers?
I don't doubt people do it. Humans are industrious and users will push things to their limits.

I just wonder .... is that what Google built Drive for? / how much of that they were thinking of.
While I enjoy pointing out the many, many problems[1] with the current state of Israel, I don't think CZ and Binance were banking for 'terrorist' groups out of a political principle.

And since they aren't doing out any particular political principle, it seems that they were just as happy to support 'bad' terrorist groups as they were 'good' terrorist groups.

It's one thing if you're supporting violence because you legitimately believe that its cause is just. We do that all the time. It's another when you're supporting any violent group that will pay you.

One makes you an idealist that may, or may not be on the right side of morality and history. The other simply makes you a criminal.

[1] Understatement of the century, but what those problems are isn't at all relevant to this thread.
No, it has to enter the blood stream and it's metabolized or denatured by the time they eat the meat.

They do have to be careful when making the toxin, however, since enough can enter through a cut in the skin to kill an adult.
That's specifically for the Poetry package manager, not Python in general.
Dollars held outside the US are absolutely subject to US regulation. The banks themselves are not subject to US banking capital requirements because they have no access to the federal reserve. If you commit a US crime with a dollar held overseas, you still fall under US jurisdiction.
Well the idea they might look down at John Glenn or think a fancy camera might be too challenging is absurd too.

The article misses that John Glenn was himself an engineer who had an exceedingly good grasp of operating exceptionally complex machinery. Of course he could figure out how to use any camera on the market.

There are lots of people in photography who are not technically inclined but pretend they are cause they can use a camera, after all being technically inclined is not what makes you good at photography.

It's totally possible John Glenn & the other engineers bought a whole bunch of cameras and did exposure tests and ergonomic tests in terms how easy their modifications would be and then selected this camera as superior to what the Petapixel guys might have thought was the superior prosumer camera of the late 50s.
This is common behavior for languages. D adds another wrinkle to it - a reference can be mutable, const, or immutable.

mutable: can modify it

const: cannot modify it through the reference, but other mutable references can still modify it

immutable: nobody can modify it

The 'immutable' is great for writing threaded code, as no synchronization is necessary.
Thanks for the feedback. We certainly want to support gaming studios of all sizes and are working with few of them to understand the workflows. What we've seen is not everyone wants a high-fidelity clone (which cost more), most of their voiceovers can be done with zeroshot cloning (quick clones that don't cost much).
According to the article, they did not:

> At the end of the business day on Friday, March 24th – without warning, provocation, or even providing WEKA with an opportunity to review and respond to their claims – MinIO issued a public statement that made several false and baseless accusations against WEKA. It was the first time MinIO had made us aware of their concerns.
It's "free" cloud hosting. You'd be surprised how often people mix their personal google account with work stuff. It annoys me greatly, but that's how it is.

There is general ignorance of what google does/is/isn't and how online storage works. I agree with the sentiment, but, I've seen many a thing from recipes, shopping lists to FPA/Proposals all hosted on google drive. Even people sell content that is hosted on google drive.
iOS 16.4 Expands iPhone 14's Emergency SOS via Satellite to Six More Countries
That scam was popular here in Argentina a few years ago. We call it "virtual kidnaping" https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/virtual-kidnapping , nobody is kidnaped, it's just a scam using a phone call.

It's not very important that the voice is similar to the supposed victim. Usually the person in the call is weeping and it's very difficult to recognize the voice. Moreover a confusing voice at 2am may be interpreted as any of your relatives or friends, but an exact voice can be interpreted only as one and it's easier to know that that person is safe.
Or in short: using 3 languages (Make, shell interspersed between the Make, Python) is more complicated than using one language.
It should be noted that an account being flagged by OFAC is one of the many reasons a company might flag an account. And it is probably at the bottom of the list of most common reasons an account gets frozen.

So let's not give these companies too much credit since most of the time they are freezing accounts for much more benign reasons. Like: we didn't do any due diligence on your business beforehand and now a little bit of data indicates you might fall outside of our basic risk bars and we don't want to do any due diligence on you now (so we can save a couple bucks) to confirm whether that is true or not, so we are going to freeze you out and collect interest on your money for the 3-6 month maximum after which you can take your money back and go kick rocks without ever knowing why because we want to limit our legal liability.
Its absurd that these products whose companies get bought for Billion+ can't have a team of 3-5 engineers focused on performance.

I understand that you have lots of people building features but I'm sure the performance engineering efforts can be focused on the fundamental platform layers which are seen in most flame-graphs.

Its also exactly these companies that grill you on performance and leet-code type problems but ship nothing like what they interview for.
The solution is reforming the American healthcare system… because at least from what I can anecdotally tell… usually it takes years of even decades (global average worldwide)to turn a upbeat medical resident into a cynical misanthrope.

That’s astonishingly quick to have someone go negative on humanity that fast… and it really reflects on how fucked healthcare is in America… even in a state that’s trying it’s best
I think that the sanctions policy is terribly misguided, because they are basically trade protection in reverse. They may have some results in the short term, but in the long term they always backfire, unless when applied to terribly poor countries who are caught in a trap where they can't bootstrap their industry by themselves.
this. I tried playing a variety of retro console games as an adult; most gave me unbearable anxiety within a couple minutes, especially platformers, side-scrollers and racing games.
With turn-based rpgs it came more slowly from the endless boring grinding.

Only non-timed puzzles were chill enough to play as a clinically anxious person.
>long dead relatives talking to you in some memorabilia etc.

It seems a bit weird to me though. I mean, looking back at old records can still pass as mere nostalgic behavior. Wanting new sentences pronounced in disguise of lost relative voices is not great in term of respect for these people to share my own feelings.

Also I guess that now there is not much preventing completely new songs with whatever lyrics staring voices of Elvis, Hendrix and Pavarotti. Actually a continuous flow of on the fly generated lyrics seems perfectly plausible at this level, isn't it?
I like the idea of giving developers a template format they could follow, and then those templates would be transpiled into Kubernetes manifests by the platform.

I would not use docker-compose.yaml for that, though.
Almost everything can be written as a state machine and arguably it’s very useful to do so, for example let’s take a note taking app, you can probably list a set of transitions that can happen to change the state of the app. Keeping the state changes separate from the UI is a good thing. In a way redux is a state machine too. Try it out on a project and see if it works for you!
In 2023: What is ignored by the media – but will be studied by historians?
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Holy shit, it just keeps going

> according to Lim, Binance purposely engaged a compliance auditor that would "just do a half assed individual sub audit on geo[fencing]" to "buy us more time." As part of this audit, the Binance employee who held the title of Money Laundering Reporting Officer ("MLRO") lamented that she "need[ed] to write a fake annual MLRO report to Binance board of directors wtf." [1]

By the time you write "fake annual MLRO report" in text, you're about to be a one-person retirement plan for some attorneys.

[1] https://twitter.com/web3isgreat/status/1640378422483472386
I have a "large" (~40K 10s lines) corpus of captioned dialogue from a video game that I briefly investigated training a model similar to this to "clone voices" with, but pretty quickly came to the realisation that doing so would be pretty unethetical to all involved.

It became more apparent to me how icky this is as the voice actor of one of the most iconic characters in the game died suddenly 10 days ago...
To add a positive spin on this ancient software, over COVID several elderly relatives passed away either due to age or I'll health.

Due to COVID you couldn't attend but there were live streams of the services, I used ffmpeg, or YouTube-dl or plain old screen recording with an audio patch to record their funeral services.

I then used the dvdstyler to turn those recordings into DVD's which I posted to relatives who were not tech savvy.

It took time but provided closure and in a weird way a therapeutic.

+1 for dvdstyler.
"(Zig's) collections are not parametrized by an allocator, like in C++ or (future) Rust. Rather, an allocator is passed in explicitly to every method which actually needs to allocate. This is Call Site Dependency Injection, and it is more flexible.'

I'd once considered the idea of having "space" as a type. Space is an array of bytes, and it cannot be read or written. Constructors take in "space" and turn it into an object. Constructors have the privilege of casting "space" to something else.
Destructors take an object and turn it back into "space". Destructors can cast their object to "space", and this destroys the data.
This separates construction, which is a typed thing, from allocation.
It can be used with malloc/free type allocation, garbage collection, or fixed allocation. You'd probably encapsulate this with a generic depending on what type of allocation you are using.

C++ probably would have been cleaner if it took that route, but C++ added both generics and allocators as afterthoughts.
There's a book I've been waiting years for the audiobook to come out. Plenty of legitimate uses for
this tech. Plenty of horrible ones too. It's the same with many technologies, no? I don't think outright banning it makes any sense.
Yes!

What your doctor (and dentist, etc.) are really doing with you is exactly the same as what you do when you're debugging a program. Except that health care providers don't have the luxury of having a debugger or the ability to examine the "machine" state in accurate detail.
https://zevv.nl/nim-memory/

Local variables (also called automatic variables) are the default method by which Nim stores your variables and data.

Nim will reserve space for your variable on the stack, and it will stay there as long as it is in scope. In practice, this means that the variable will exist as long as the function in which it is declared does not return. As soon as the function returns the stack unwinds and the variables are gone.

In Nim, all your data is stored on the stack, unless you explicitly request it to go on the heap.

Strings and seqs are allocated on the heap and accessed via a stack pointer, but the stack pointer controls their lifetimes, and semantically behaves like any other local variable.
I can't imagine anyone starting their first day at Microsoft and saying with a straight face: "Yeah, I want a Mac."

(Okay, I can imagine it; it's actually pretty funny.)
> We want the LLM to "understand" or appear to understand that kicking a ball results in the ball moving. That causal relationship is encoded in language, it doesn't have to be inferred from i.i.d. observational data.
Google Drive is part Google Workspace which is a paid enterprise offering.
A library for creating SQLite indexes at breakneck speeds
In what way is "Mom and dad can't afford rent" Not actually the economy? What is this absurd statement you are making?
Those two examples are the exact use-case that defining scripts in pyproject.toml are meant for. Users of my installed package would never need to run `twine publish` or build the project's docker image. That's only really needed by developers who would be working from the full project source including pyproject.toml.
The real benefit for our project was being able to statically define, and therefore export the business process the app would follow. Once it's exportable, it's validatable and configurable.

IMO the JSON was hard to read, but we had a plan to build a GUI config builder that exported the state flows.
It’s not a big deal because the ecosystem has coalesced around tokio, but it’s coalesced around tokio partially because it’s a big deal.
This is why NixOS has been so great for me: it factors out an entire class of "me" problems.

If I decide to go down a rabbit hole that involves totally messing up my system, I can undo all of that by simply rebooting into an older generation. NixOS never diverges from "fresh install".

Now if we can just get the UX together, it will be incredible.
I'd rather not share specific details due to privacy concerns, but I've personally needed to rescue a loved one who was groomed by a stranger on the internet, convinced their loved ones were manipulating them and oppressing them, then kidnapped (across state lines), then encouraged to start hormone replacement therapy.

To be clear: I support trans kids and I find opportunities to support them however I can. The loved one in the case I describe is not trans. They were a minor at the time, and according to them, didn't really have a sense for how they might identify. A stranger took advantage of that, inflicted severe emotional trauma and irreversible changes, and, thankfully, will remain in prison for at least another 3 years (for this one case).

Whether it's "the latest bullshit moral panic du jour" I can't speak to. According to the FBI and state police involved in my particular experience, they've seen a sharp uptick in cases like the one my loved one experienced. I've seen my young teen age nieces nearly fall into similar traps. I only know about those close calls because my nieces have the experiences of their older family member to lean on, and know to share sketchy communications with their parents and me.

I suspect the "gay or trans" angle is indeed "bullshit moral panic" motivated by politics/fear more than anything, but the idea that young people are being manipulated and sucked into dark places is very much real.
My takeaway is that many people would rather decide themselves than set a blanket policy, even if results are similar. I feel this way about most consumer searching- say a real estate search: you may have a good idea of the location and specs of the house you're looking for, but much better to set wider filters just in case something interesting comes along that's out of spec in some way. Even if effectively you only consider the ones that would have made it through a tighter filter. I'm not at all surprised this is true for online dating as well.
Nuclear weapons are only ilegal if you don't have them.
I really like Apple's implementation of passwords, passkeys, etc. But...I had a hard time explaining this to my mom.

She uses it to generate her passwords and fill-in within Safari which is great!

But there's no "Passwords" app, and she didn't know to go into Settings to reference a password when Safari doesn't recognize a password field (probably the website's fault).

2FA is also a confusing experience, but 2FA is also just confusing enough for her where Apple isn't really the problem here.
I recommend you immediately add identity verification (state-issued identification verification), set up appropriate secrets store for PII, and audit trail EVERYTHING your users are doing, storing the contents in a secure location. Yesterday. This service will be used to harm others, shortly. I do think that there are exciting, honest things that can be done with this service but you need to set up some friction for use. Know-your-customer rules are going to apply to this category in short time.

People here are talking about taking this service offline but I think everyone needs to be thinking about countermeasures, working on those services next. The genie is already out of the bottle. The degree of effort to put this together is low enough that it will be replicated around the world.
That's true, I forgot because I've never played a lot of DoG myself, since I was raised in the Eastern Dialectic school of thought and never cared much for artichokes anyway.