skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a meme because 99% of the ai art creators don't go that deep, they only prompt.

Even if they did have a more complex workflow most of them are still based on copyrighted training data, so there will be many lawsuits.
I strongly suggest any sys admin to look at the relatively new Proxmox Backup Server https://www.proxmox.com/en/proxmox-backup-server which makes full incremental backups so light thanks to a well enginered deduplication
Burps in Rick and Morty (Seasons 1 and 2)
Yes! Those are all reasonable and plausible. It would have been great to have a discussion rather than banning the content because it dared to question SpaceX. At the very least, it was only because I happened to see the post before it was removed that I even knew that the February test produced between 10x and 100x as much sound as estimates suggested.

As it stands, I don't know if your explanations are spot-on and the actual sound pressure will be as SpaceX estimates, and most people don't even know if there's a question about it. That doesn't seem... ideal, for the principles HN purports to support.
Thanks for your explanation, I love to learn more about the businesses I use through their employees.

About room availability, I thought that if Booking or any other third-party says "this hotel has 5 rooms left", it didn't necessarily mean the hotel had actually only 5 rooms available for the dates, but maybe there were only 5 rooms left from the "batch" the hotel put in Booking (my assumption was that, to make the orchestration of reservations between different platforms easier, hotels divided the number of rooms between them, or something like that...)
Understanding this is of especial importance for remote first organizations.
Probably, and the fish would leak oils. The dishwasher would smell like fish for some time also and your meat would smell like detergent. This is some "Q-mamon grade" advice, only to be taken seriously by the very dumb or very naive.
Yes. I know my comment is snarky, that was intentional.

Google's results have gotten so bad these days that at least a couple times a day when I'm coding I try the same queries about an error message or something on both sites out of desperation. Even then I usually find Bing to be even worse. Then I'll try the old "site:reddit.com" trick on google and finally get something useful half the time.

I've also recently used GPT to help with an issue I was dealing with. I was trying to change the default location of where postgresql keeps its data directly. GPT gave a very convincing solution, except that after another few hours of tinkering and searching turns out to be completely wrong.
You didn't need to fix it - I meant what I said. Given the money, the achievements are not that hard.

According to people I know who worked at SpaceX, there is a whole layer of management that exists to handle Musk the way you would handle a boy king. They basically insulate him from making any decisions that can really hurt the company. I have heard of one instance where they spent 3 weeks quietly convincing him out of a wrong decision before announcing that he made the other choice (once he changed his mind and agreed to it).

It doesn't sound like a company that needs such a management layer is getting their ability to accomplish things from the boy king, just the name and the money.

AFAICT this management scheme is shotwell's doing, and you should probably credit her for the accomplishments.

Also, we're seeing this dynamic play out in electric cars. Once they became economical to make (and no, Tesla wasn't really responsible for that), other carmakers are now out-competing them.
Yeah-- I think blaming dark patterns on A/B testing is like blaming thermostats for chilly houses. A/B tests just show if one thing does more of something you're testing for than something else. If you're just testing for "conversions" then you're going to make websites like booking.com. If you're testing to see if users are more stressed out by one situation or another, or testing to see if expert users are stymied by some interface abstraction designed to make things easier for less sophisticated users, then that's totally different.
If you're travelling, I find it hard to beat Fi.

You literally land in a new country, turn your phone back on and you get a "Welcome to [country] - your data rate is the same" message almost anywhere.

Personally - I've flown from Taiwan to Brazil to Amsterdam and then back to the US and I don't have to think about my phone. It just works.

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Outside of the travel use-case, I would also probably pick something else, but if I know I'm going to be travelling, I'll switch back to Fi.
Why risk it
Sorry but I totally disagree, not only with you but all the other commenters and down-voters. We got rid of flash, gifs, auto play videos with hideous sound, and blinking shit. We got reader mode, focusing on good UI/UX (given you're using ad blockers). In the times of myspace every website tried to pull fancy shit on us and I'm glad it's over. Just because there's still enough shit around doesn't mean that the internet got more readable in the mean time. Maybe I'm not using these shitty sites like you do, by MY experience is better than it was in these days.

/edit: and browsers and plugins are our saviours, hail reader mode and not auto-playing videos! I consider that part of the UI/UX development as well.
There's also the more widespread phenomenon of profitable-enough local businesses blaming Walmart for putting them out of business. How do we evaluate which analogy is appropriate?
I hope so. But I'm not sure it would necessarily be driven by LLM's or AI explicitly so much as part of what may be natural cycling between opposing views on how to best mix society and technology. Thin = centralised power & thick = decentralised.
Booking.com lost me as a customer for life after I fell victim to their sleazy tactics a few times. I have refused to book anything on booking for the last few years because I didn't want to be mislead into booking a crappy hotel by their algorithms again.

I guess my decision doesn't matter much in the grand scheme of things, because they are still around and judging by the screenshots it's as bad as ever, and people still use the site...
An apple tree, once infected, can colonize junipers and cedars as far as 6 miles away(!). Yes, a highly infectious and amazing organism.

https://portal.ct.gov/CAES/Fact-Sheets/Plant-Pathology/Cedar...
"As many as 7.5 million spores may be produced in a single gall and these spores have been known to be carried as far as 6 miles."
It was based on Google's submission, the majority of the authors are Google employees, and the majority of the commits to the reference implementation were written by Google employees. You mean other than that?

That's not to say they're the only contributors or should have all the credit. But it does make the "Google is trying to kill an open standard to push their own format" narrative here completely moronic.
We (hotel owners/employees) hate booking dot com and their guests.

Remember that if you book with booking dot com, you are their guest. Not ours.

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At the end of the month, hotel has 6 days to reconicle all the reservations. If we miss it they will charge us commission for the guest who did no shows, cancelled or CC declined. You can only dispute that twice.

They made UI so bad. If the guest card fails, marking CC invalid is not enough. They will still charge us commission. We also have to mark that we are charging 0 for no shows.

75% of the our no-shows are booking dot com guest.

Booking dot com guest are the worst too. They pay 2 star rate, and expect 5 star hotel service.
Giving the N1 as the source of these so-called soviet designs is such a cop-out. The N1 was overtly complicated, poorly planned, didn't even use the same fuel as Starship and had an extra stage.

It's comparing two rockets that are kind-of similar in height when you squint and arguing we have to somehow give the soviet the credit.

Elon was probably talking about the engines, which the soviets toyed with as a concept, but SpaceX delivered as an existing product.
Copyright and ChatGPT: Who owns AI-generated content?
I wouldn’t be sure of that.

As I understand it, nuclear power plants are limited by corrosion so the end date for decommissioning is likely based on the power plants construction date not its final date of operation. There’s regulations that lost decommissioning must finish within 60 years of shutdown, but that stuff is often flexible in practice where physics isn’t.
Wow, I hate Comcast like everyone else, but even they are not that bad. That is just ridiculous. If I couldn’t have my own modem and own router… I dunno, they have a local monopoly, but I’d start looking at 5G connections or something.
There's a far simpler and also very generic method that I'm surprised no one has really mentioned much, although it's well-known in some corners of the RE/Asm community and I believe some debuggers (but not gdb?) use it: scan the stack for values that look like valid code addresses, then disassemble backwards from there to see if they were actually return addresses written there by a call instruction. You will find a chain that leads back to the entry point.

Of course it won't work in edge cases like handwritten Asm that uses the stack in more clever ways, but when you're dealing with compiler output, it'll be fine. No need for all this complexity, and works in almost all cases.
with this year's google search, your results are not the same as your distant neighbor's results
There are also many variations on the contractor relationship that are important. Some contractors are hired through staff augmentation companies while others work through their own company.

Working through your own company is a much better arrangement, but harder to get setup. You'll have more control over rates and have the opportunity to get more work.

This all depends on having a relationship with someone with some kind of budgetary control and relationship with procurement. If procurement can get a better deal working directly with your company then it's normally possible to work something out. This is a good reason to build relationships with the "highly political" people that technical-types normally eschew.
Yes, as linked in the article, the article describes changes *mandated* by CA AB 205[1] which was signed by the CA Gov on June 30, 2022. Search the bill text for "income".

"The bill would require the fixed charge to be established on an income-graduated basis, as provided, with no fewer than 3 income thresholds so that low-income ratepayers in each baseline territory would realize a lower average monthly bill without making any changes in usage."

[1] https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml...
Fortunately I'm in it for the language and not the name - the fork likely just stands to prove a point and it'll probably end there. But if the governance turns out to be ridiculous the dominant fork will eventually change and most would follow that without hesitation I'd think.

Contributors won't want to work on the whatever the "inferior" version is.
> We’re so obsessed with efficiency and “productivity” these days.

I consider the internet something like a library. I want to find relevant stuff, not sift through shit to get to something interesting.

I didn't even know what it had because I was overwhelmed with colors and unusual styles that I clicked around and left. Sure, it's a nice reminder of the old days and some people find it pretty, but it's bad at conveying information imho.
The trained on stolen artwork critique is reasonable - I helped with one of the first big investigations into how that training data worked when Stable Diffusion first came out: https://simonwillison.net/2022/Sep/5/laion-aesthetics-weekno...

It's interesting to ask people who are concerned about the training data what they think of Adobe Firefly, which is strictly trained on correctly licensed data.

I'm under the impression that DALL-E itself used licensed data as well.

I find some people are comfortable with that, but others will switch to different concerns - which indicates to me that they're actually more offended by the idea of AI-generated art than the specific implementation details of how it was trained.
> they replied they do not have access to booking.com, a third party manages that for them which was unavailable at night.

I guess that's primarily the hotel's fault. They should not give rooms to weird third parties. But with the market shares of the big booking sites that would cause them significant loss of bookings.
Non-sequitur. I'm talking about what it would take for these machines to be truly useful.
> The court found that he and other drivers involved in the case, based in the UK and Portugal, had the right to more information about the way automated decisions were made about them.

> Just before the case came to court, Uber apologised and acknowledged it had made a mistake.

So Uber tried to stop the court from making a ruling which would bind it by apologizing to the driver. Then when the court still goes on to make a ruling, Uber complains, and seeks to limit application of the ruling:

> An Uber spokesperson said: “We are disappointed that the court did not recognise the robust processes we have in place, including meaningful human review, when making a decision to deactivate a driver’s account due to suspected fraud.

> “These rulings only relate to a few specific drivers from the UK that were deactivated in the period between 2018 and 2020 in relation to very specific circumstances.”

This is why settlements are not always the societally best outcome of lawsuits.

And I don't get how Uber is trying to limit it to UK drivers when the court decision also applied to Portugal drivers.
SpaceX is well underway building their second orbital launch platform and tower at Cape Canaveral in Florida.

My understanding is that Boca Chica will be a factory and development/testing site and Florida the primary launch location. They are also building a rocket factory at Cape Canaveral.
Why? The tactics burn themselves out.
Most of them were not engineers
AIs can write for us but will we want them to?
Attractiveness is the ultimate superpower. It’s not just a matter of looks, although that’s certainly a major dimension.

We’re just hard-wired to favor those we find attractive.
I did, and it says (in section 3.1): "The law [...] prohibits creating a 'likelihood of confusion' but allows for 'nominative use.' For example, you cannot say you are distributing the Rust compiler when what you are distributing differs from the version distributed by the Rust Project, because people would be confused [...] However, you can say you use and like the Rust software, that you participate in the Rust community, that you are providing an unmodified version of the Rust software, or that you wrote a manual describing how to develop software using Rust."

And in section 4.1.3: "You may use the Word Marks, but not the Logos, to truthfully describe the relationship between your software and ours. Our Marks should be used after a verb or preposition that describes the relationship between your software and ours. So you may say, for example, 'the Dungeness tool for the Rust compiler' but may not say 'the Dungeness Rust compiler,' which suggests that Dungeness is the source of the Rust compiler."
Do yourself a favor though. Go get the original. It holds up well with the exception that animation has come a long way.
That is weird and kind of what I'm talking about. I did that search yesterday from chrome on my windows machine. Just followed your link on Safari on iOS and got the expected results.

This is why "personalized" search is a terrible garbage idea.
A certain number of venture capitalists achieved that status after having been well-funded founders, exactly by faking it from the beginning until their companies were actually (with good fortune) viable enough to sell for more than their investors had put up.

So many have come out so far ahead financially that way, there has got to be some consensus that it is a proven success model. For some I would say that is all they know about success.
Is it ok to include the copyright message from Rust including references to Rust? https://github.com/crablang/crab/blob/master/COPYRIGHT

What about attribution?
Google really messed up by prioritizing "authority" and "speed + mobile experience". Just a complete misreading of the content landscape.

People who are actually passionate about a topic and write about it for the sake of sharing often don't have the resources or even the desire to invest in SEO and great mobile experience. Crappy commercial sites, meanwhile, can just throw money at SEO and developers to ace all of Google's technical metrics.

Google forgot that at the end of the day, it's the content that matters, not how the site looks or its domain authority.
phind gpt4 enabled search fixes the new content bias
Agree. I think there's a distinction between infrastructure that must be reliable, and first-order commercial enterprises that must be agile and risky.

Banks are squarely on the infrastructure side. They're a foundation that people rely on to do the really interesting stuff, and as such should be 1) low risk, and therefore 2) not profit-maximizing.
One thing I love about Cowboy Bebop is how each episode's name matches the genre of the episode's music. It only occurred to me the second time I watched the anime, and it was a whole new experience. A great work of art in more ways than one.
More than any other company, Google has influenced the modern web we have today. They created the search -> ads -> SEO flywheel that all websites and their revenue feeds off of.

The reason the search results suck is because the web sucks. #1 search results for recipes crash iOS safari while scrolling past hundreds of ads to get to the ingredients. This is the result of Google's design. Google got us all into this mess, and they realistically have no way out with search as we know it.

While not perfectly accurate today, LLMs are able to troll through Google's mess and pull out the information people are actually looking for. Over time, Google will be forced to conform and will do the only thing they know how - use your personal information to tune an LLM just for you.

It's sad, but the data Google has on people will likely give them a massive edge over Bing and other competitors in the long term
Detection and mitigation of artificial insects and other microdrones:

- unnatural flight patterns
- interest in non-food targets, e.g. screens
- camping near windows/lights for solar power
- not vulnerable to aerosolized insecticide
- vulnerable to fly swatter and liquids
- ingress air filters
- window/door air seals
Is there is a general obsession in every culture with fetishizing things perceived to be foreign or inscrutable, or is it just Western culture?
Ask HN: Good Technical Debates/Discussions
I recently stumbled on The Tanenbaum-Torvalds Debate of 1992 (https://www.oreilly.com/openbook/opensources/book/appa.html) and it was a pretty interesting read.

Was wondering if HNers had their personal favorites of such discussions (any time period works; Usenet, Google Groups, HN, Reddit, anything).
memory is identity mapped in templeos. so page faults are meaningless.

that statement is false though, because paging is mandatory in long mode. all memory accesses are virtual memory accesses.
Are the profit margins unusually high, though?
Isn't 난 just 나 (I) +‎ ㄴ (topic marker)? So it seems like 난 라면 should be translated more or less as "As for me, ramen" and 난 프랑스 as "As for me, France".
Nuclear is for base load. If Germany kept their reactors or increased them, then coal and gas would not be necessary for the times when renewable energy is not available, which is constantly. So yes, nuclear did get replaced by gas and coal, even though renewables are a much bigger source today.
How does launching rockets into space prevent climate change?
I may be naive or a simpleton but we have heard this before when "robots" where going to take over the world.

AI is hot right now and EVERYONE is getting into it. Great. I just don't think this euphoria will last. There will be some great things done but by the time dust settles, software engineers will always have a job.
> Given the money, the achievements are not that hard.

I have no idea what you would think would be hard.

What SpaceX has done with their investors money hasn't been matched by anyone in the rocket industry. Many attempts have ended in complete failure.

The closest competitors in recent years, in terms of a consistent string of steady solid advancements, have been the Chinese. And they are still far behind.

Whether Musk is a challenging person to work for, doesn't add or subtract from that.
They can do whatever they want, obviously.

But since it's open source they're likely aiming for more developer mindshare. To have that they should make their message crystal clear.
He mentions the Colab for Dreambooth, that only takes ten minutes or so to train using an A100 (the premium GPU) and you can have it turn off after it finishes, and saves to Google Drive. Super easy.
There is nothing to prevent a robust hierarchy of rules and training that impacts levels of permissions per operator intent.

OpenAi has made a lot of progress on this in a very short amount of time. Casual jailbreaking or negative role playing is already 100x more difficult then early versions via the ChatGPT chat interface.

We will see more sophisticated
robust adversarial filters to untrusted content going forward.
Can you elaborate slightly on how you're planning on using _Generic to turn runtime dispatches into compile time ones? I'm not quite putting together how you can do that.
Nah. That’s all unfounded FUD. Go have a walk outside. It’s good for de-stressing
Again, purely anecdotally, I've done similar things in both Typescript and Python, and I usually catch at least one silly type error in Typescript, but I rarely do in Python. That could be because the Python developers I was following were just so good, but I suspect it's more about the quality of the typecheckers. Typescript feels much better at finding errors in normal, idiomatic Javascript, whereas I feel that with Mypy, if I want the best results, I need to write code in a way that plays to its strengths.

I've been told that Pyright is better but I've not tried it out properly. But yeah, your experience largely matches with mine, for Python at least.
But Coq is strongly normalizing… it always halts. What gives?
Thank you for identifying that. I felt a bunch of things were off in that screenshot. For one, I don't remember those colors. But I didn't trust my memory.

But more importantly, since the article went on to describe the "octopus" and other aliens in some detail, I was looking at that picture trying to see those details. None of those aliens were quite as I remembered them. That Atari 2600 picture really doesn't do justice to what the article goes into detail about.
Also consider product management!
How many people to you estimate will die because of coal reactors until we hit this 2028 timeline?
> To draw, you need a pen and a paper, and you can basically start. To start with Stable Diffusion et al, you need either A) paid access to a service, B) money to purchase moderately powerful hardware or C) money to rent moderately powerful hardware

A 4GB NVidia GPU (sufficient to run Stable Diffusion with the A1111 UI) is hardly “moderately powerful hardware”, and, beyond that, Stable Horde (AI Horde) exists.

OTOH, a computer and internet connection are more expensive than a pencil, even if nearly ubiquitous.
Nice. Do you accept PRs for other libraries. I wrote one myself a bit ago and wouldn’t mind seeing it there
It is easier to give such feedback, as long as the reasons for firing are lawful, the company can request summary judgement. I honestly would think that a firing for no reason would be more likely to spark a lawsuit that actually goes all the way to a jury (or at least through the discovery process), than a firing where lawful reasons are given.