skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Attention cannot follow quality because you have to pay attention to determine quality. So what attention follows is a heuristic of quality: has this person exhibited quality in the past. That's not a tragedy or sad or anything. In fact, that's normal in a marketplace where you have to pay before you benefit. Rarely, something novel will arise and another heuristic of quality will be present: virality.

I think this is actually perfect and there is no tragedy.
Europe to tighten 'standby' rules for electrical appliances
Was the post deleted because it tells people that paying more for internet bandwidth doesn't improve latency?

Totally agree that some websites need to chill out with their javascript frameworks and start learning how to actually deliver websites rendered in the backend that reduce the amount of data people have to download.
The cost for truly bespoke pieces and the types of people not paying a designer to redecorate their space will nearly cancel each other out.
Which makes it even more impressive.

But I can tell you as a French, not having any natural resource and an economy mostly based on services in today's world is not making me bet on a bright future for us.
> Would it fair to say that racism has really largely been about classism?

Please do some reading on the subject. Cursory reading on the history of labor unions, immigration in America, or literally any book on the US south that isn't Lost Cause mythology will tell you resoundingly yes.

I am not even talking about Marxist authors or Howard Zinn. You can easily find primary sources, the people who historically weaponized racism, telling you exactly how and to what end they are weaponizing their racism.

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/exclusive-lee-atwa...

Secondly, capitalism is great at co-opting all sorts of messaging. Since you are on HN I assume you are familiar with the concept of a Paperclip Maximizer. The "machine" in this sense does not love you or hate you. You are a customer and they will adopt the aesthetics of your ideology to sell to you, inherent contradictions be damned.

Every oil company that spent the last 50 years denying climate change now pours their money into showcasing their green energy products. Companies who benefit from convict labor of African Americans adopt BLM banners on their websites. Companies who donate to the political campaigns of every republican in both houses of legislature change their logos to pride flags in June.

I dont want to assume but your phrasing makes me think (unless I am misreading it) that you think blm and "wokeness" are elite belief systems manufactured by "the machine", and that more reactionary "working class" ideology (a la Tucker Carlson) is grassroots. I really implore you to consider the Paperclip Maximizer idea and realize that the ideologies you are presented with on TV and print are the ones that have been passed through a corporate filter and sanitized to pose no threat to the machine. What you are seeing is a facsimile of what was once probably a more nuanced belief system.

When was the last time you heard Georgism or Anarcho-syndicalism or de-growth discussed by any talking heads? The answer is never because these concepts are inherently antithetical to capitalism and cannot be co-opted.
You just linked to a graph showing how much they are making off of their services that these ads are pushing. They are definitely making a lot of money off of this.
7T is already regularly used for human research, and approval for human usage has been granted for 10.5T and I believe for 11.7T (though I'm not sure how many images they've gotten out of that yet).

Yes it is incredibly expensive, but it is in fact already done.
> The data is clear, nuclear is the safest, cleanest, lowest-carbon and most reliable form of energy we have.

By your own citation, solar is safer. I realize graphs can be tricky to read, but come on. The fact that nuclear requires so much concrete also means solar and wind use less carbon. And you're missing a data point: nuclear is also the most expensive form of energy ever conceived.
This looks to be stable diffusion with controlnet. Since many of the original lines are kept it is probably Canny Edge or HED. That's why it looks so similar to the original room.
Except this outage has nothing to do with crew scheduling
What a moron. Elon Musk might be the most manifest, gigantic, destructive example of dunning kruger that we've ever had to suffer through.
https://web.archive.org/web/20230418153201/https://www.wired...
Astral
Not what I'm saying at all. I'm saying that a publicly traded company went through all of the due diligence that it takes to become a publicly traded company (if you've ever been through that, it is pretty intense) and then asked for further clarification on their existing practices, couldn't get that, then got served a wells notice and is now having to go to court to get further clarification. All because the SEC can't or won't give clear guidance on things that they are supposed to be in charge of.
The browser on the Zune wasn't good but I otherwise liked. What didn't you like about it?
So depressing because Explorer from the 2k/XP era was best in class and about as complete and discoverable as a shell ever got.
Microsoft would be wise to focus on quality of service, especially now with their Open AI partnership.

Make me more productive & I'll gladly go find how I can upgrade my Microsoft services when I need to, no ads needed that add negativity to my opinion of Microsoft.

Same with their Bing division, which was mentioned yesterday somewhat on the terrible decision of forcing people to view awful clickbait, low quality news articles. How about find out what someone is interested in first, then show information that is top quality only. Why a company like Microsoft is wanting to hang out in the gutters with low quality journalism stories is beyond me... Is the ad revenue worth tarnishing your brand & pushing people away?

Create value for me & I'll give you way more of my data than I should.
> Crypto industry execs would just prefer to be unregulated, and are pretending to be confused about what the SEC wants to trick you into taking their side.

It's also why they are loudly calling for Congress to weigh in. They know that their business will be nuked from orbit the second the laws on the books will be applied to them, so they are hoping that Congress carves out an exemption for them.
Yeah, it's frustrating that I can't easily just access the root directory.

I feel that MacOS tries very hard to hide the fact that it's Unix under the hood and tries to hide all the Unix directories.
I feel this is the same way with US Presidents, although it's not really their choice when it comes to leaving.
At least in the US, over 80% of the population lives in an urban area - practically speaking, we’ve passed the mark.
99% of my problems with Windows 10 and 11 ended up the moment I install simplewall. Nowadays they even have option to block future updates. Kudos to Henry for a great piece of software, as I do donate $100 once a year for all the time he saved me on dealing with BS operating system. (totally unrelated and don't know him)

https://www.henrypp.org/product/simplewall

one more tip re W11: when you installing fresh copy, go for offline option (no MS account) - you can find online manual on how to enable it. Your Windows will look totally different and work faster if you go with offline version (MS assumes its a computer without network access)
Of course there will be no source, but just FUD, so I had to look it up myself.

https://energiforskmedia.blob.core.windows.net/media/18663/h...

--- start quote ---

Additional Costs for Load-following Nuclear Power Plants. Experiences from Swedish, Finnish, German, and French nuclear power plants

The conclusion from this report is that with a well-prepared load-following,
there are very few additional costs...

It is concluded that if the load-following is planned and the regulation is done
within determined levels specific for the plant there is no hindrance or addi-
tional costs for load-following.

<Summarising: the actual cost is minimal, but may affect the resulting MWh price because nuclear power plants have high fixed costs and low variable costs.>

--- end quote ---
Indeed it tends to be meditative, especially because you have nothing else to do then holding still and relax.
Saved me a lot of typing.
My wife works on MRI sequencing and has pretty long (> 1 hour) MRI scans quite often (2/3 times a week) as they all test each others research on themselves. She mentioned there are some scans where you actually do feel them and it's quite uncomfortable.
Yes, certainly. The image generation process utilizes a variation of the text-to-image model called StableDiffusion. The frontend collects requests and sends them to a two-layered backend. The first layer determines the appropriate prompt to send to the worker, while the second layer calls the image generation API. Once the image is generated, it is sent back to the first layer and then returned to the client.
$999 macbook air is perfectly usable?
This is how you do it.
Tailscale is amazing and just got more so.

Everyone will end up using it personally and it’ll be natural to deploy it for business as well.
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:s7pKN1...
> Apple has to pick a city to allocate sales tax to.

No, they have to report the location of the transaction, for which there are legal rules, which specify that the location of the transaction for sales tax is “where the merchandise is physically located at the time the sale takes place.” [0]

Apple chose, instead of following the law, to report the transactions as taking place in Cupertino irrespective of where the actual merchandise sold in the particular transaction was located. And received a kickback from Cupertino for doing it.

The reason this is in the news is because California’s sales tax authority conducted an audit of Apple’s sales taxes, and notified Cupertino that they are about to lose a whole lot of ongoing revenue and must pay a bunch back because of the illegal allocation.

[0] https://www.cdtfa.ca.gov/formspubs/pub109/
Seems implausible that Riker would know more about the Enterprise's computer than Data.
Clinical scanners often use 2mm isotropic voxels, or even 3. Clinical usage is almost a bad reference point!. Research MRI at ultra high field (7T) goes to 0.8mm isotropic and below (0.5 or 0.6 is possible).
> There's a middle ground between the two.

I fully agree with that, SpaceX definitely earned the place it occupies right now.

I only objected to the view that "fast moving" is a goal in and by itself, and warrants dropping regulation left and right, just for the hell of it. In some way, the EU is a place I like to live in, _because_ it moves slow. I enjoy having all the rights and safety nets as a citizen, and I voluntarily give up opportunity as long as I can keep the former. If a company respects that, it can iterate all day (and many companies do, not only European), but if it doesn't, I don't care for their nice and shiny. IMHO, they're just a prototype. Either a) their business model is based on ignoring regulation, b) they'll adapt eventually, or c) another will come and eat their lunch a few years later.
The legality of doing this depends on either the AI related lawsuits that have already been filed or legislative bodies answering the legal questions through new laws.

Copying a voice isn't banned, per se. You can do a perfect impersonation of someone without fear of violating any copyright.

Distributing recorded samples, however, is a clear copyright violation.

So, does AI merely make an impersonation or is it combining files that you have no right to distribute to form the voice? Are images in the Stable Diffusion dataset partially embedded in the outputs or not? Are the stories ChatGPT writes just weapons grade copyright infringement?

It all depends on how many rights we all attribute to the things we stuff into AI datasets. If AI models are ruled to be some kind of special case where the output doesn't violate the copyright if the training dataset, I think AI voice cloning should be completely legal.

I believe the music and movie industries will do what they can to get the law on their side, perhaps demanding royalties for every work of theirs in AI datasets. Maybe they'll demand payment per generated work. I believe Universal is already demanding their partners to stop blocking scrapers for use in AI.

I have no idea how a judge will rule on this. Based on the little work from professionals I've seen, it could go either way with current copyright laws.
Open Source Semantic Search in iMessage
Sadly something in the last few years knackered the kerning on stuff like Tahoma :(
In japan, there exist a bunch of businesses that buy your pachinko prizes and give you cash. It's a standard thing that happens pretty much anywhere with pachinko machines.

Yet it would be absurd to call those toys "A currency". A currency requires more usage than occasional barter.
Firstly, it was one. All you've said is "You should listen to MBA dude". That is not trying to explain jack.

Fun fact. I said at the start of all this I said there was a valid point but explained wrong. And at no point has anyone given any reason to dispute this. The best shot was "product development teams are cross functional"... Instead I got "I've got 20 years experience" or "I've got a MBA" like that was a valid rebuttal for someone disagreeing with how something was explained.
> not when there are billions of people in China, India, and Africa who dream of living like people in Texas.

You've got that right, but the solution isn't to dump money into DAC. It's to convince people in Texas that they need to be living more like people in China, India, and Africa. But it's not politically feasible to tell people they have to make sacrifices.
50th Anniversary Of '|'
Apparently today is the 50th anniversary of using '|' for connecting shell pipelines. It was introduced in v4 of the Thompson shell, whose manpage is dated 1973-04-18 [1]. Previously the syntax for 'a | b' was `a >b>` [2].

[1]: https://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/bourne/v4/

[2]: https://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/bourne/v3/
There's nothing wrong with recruiters. They are there to help you find a job. Companies have in-house recruiters, and recruiting agencies get paid by the company that hires you (at least in the US). They're basically a free service for you -- you should take advantage! Most of my best jobs I've gotten have come because I have a great relationship with a few recruiting firms that specialize in the area that I work in.

I don't want to put words in your mouth, but what I think you might be experiencing internally is the recognition that recruiters aren't necessarily your BEST advocates. They advocate for you, but there are plenty of fish in the sea, after all, so if you won't get the job, they'll move on to someone else.

As a hiring manager, the best signal is a referral from someone else in the company. Depending on the strength of the referral, it could be practically a guaranteed outcome. My best hires have come through referrals.

So how do you get referrals? Build relationships with your peers! Talk to friends that work at other companies, go to tech conferences, join a local meetup in your area of interest. Build genuine relationships -- not just superficial "help me find a job" relationships -- and you'll be rewarded on a personal level, if not a professional one. I got my start in the industry because a friend of mine vouched for me.

The advice to "avoid recruiters" is misguided at best, but I understand why folks don't like them. But I'd find a recruiting firm that specializes in your area, whether that's backend or frontend or contracting or leadership or AI or database systems, and be really open to having them help you find the best positions. They are far, far more connected than you are -- and a recruiting agency wants to get you the most money possible!

How do you find these recruiting agencies? Well, ask around to people you know. Ask hiring managers in the field that you're interested in. Check LinkedIn often. Search for recruiting agencies on Google or Bing.

Good luck!
I think from all angles this is going to be a money pit.
I find this one hilarious:
https://imgur.com/a/sc11rAB
Depends on when you tried it and what you mean by them being ugly. I personally prefer fonts and font rendering in GNOME over Windows nowadays, specially in high-ish dpi displays. I haven't opened a single config file since installing Fedora on my machine last year (except for vimrc, emacs.d, etc.), although if you are a power user you might have to play with some CLI once in a while. Selection of distribution and desktop environment is everything, it makes or breaks your Linux experience so take a look around and maybe live boot one through a USB drive to see if ticks your fancies.
Once again, for every artist that rejects the $1000 sign-away-for-lifetime offer there are a 1000 who will accept.

Also at the end of the day, every human needs to offer what is value to the society. So even though I'm an extremely good pen-twirler, if the society doesn't value that, I need to change bedsheets (which is more valuable) to make money.

So, I'm not sure why you need to protect "great voice" over "great pen-twirling" skills
I didn't click but thought "why would you want to log your mouse movements? Analyze them to what end? I suppose you could automate or infer something from the trails? Number of clicks? Keyboard to mouse frequency, time spent.

Then started working though the logging, insights while reading the comments.

Pressure sensitive mouse buttons may be helpful. Same with haptic feedback when dragging over heavier buttons.
Inception: I couldn't really see the image about too many ads in Windows 11 because TechRadar had it all covered up with an Axe Body Spray ad.
I know Cupertino is upscale but residents still get in their cars and use the roads to get to work right? Not every resident is independently wealthy.

Apple employees and contractors may contribute to the traffic by commuting from inside and outside of Cupertino to the office but does the company contribute "massively"?

People also clog up the roads going to all manner of jobs and also coming to Cupertino for one of its many big box stores.
as someone born in Canada, grew up there, no longer living there

this is cultural!

Canadian culture is defined purely and only as contrasting itself to the US

it isn't just business competitiveness, its anything...healthcare, public safety, the environment...ask any Canadian about their thoughts on these (or any) topics and the answer provided will be a contrast to the same issue in the US

this has resulted in a unwarranted pride and willingness to turn Canadian society inwards on itself, supposedly to protect itself from ugly Americans

the Globe And Mail nailed it with an article titled something like "Canada: Smug For No Good Reason"

Canadians are discovering the pitfalls of basing a national culture on nothing more than being appalled by the US...all that is left over is a maniacal obsession with total mediocrity

tl;dr: Canada is in decline, but at least we aren't them Trump loving Americans, eh!?!?!
The thinking is that MS' needs come first, and yours are way, way down the list, unless you're a volume license holder. Whereby, you get an off switch.

So the magnitude or logic of the gain doesn't factor much unless a policy hits the news with a stickiness of several months.
Honestly it sounds like this is as much about steep competition as it is about the decline of crypto, there are already strong embedded players in the industry and Intel came pretty late
You don't think that the use of that word in this context simply refers to humankind?
> Properly processed, it's in the form of a tough ceramic that can't leak and is stable for millions of years.

Is proper processing free or profitable? Nuclear is already unprofitable, in fact, in the history of nuclear energy, it has never been profitable. This is why it requires nations to build nuclear power plants, and investors are only interested in taking the money from selling electricity and not in building the plants, storing the waste, security for storing the waste, being responsible for decommissioning old power plants, and thus it is highly unlikely they'd be interested in paying for properly processing nuclear waste into tough ceramics.

Pro-nukes love to waste their time arguing about this and that. But they only need to do one thing to have all the nuclear power they can use: make it profitable. Nothing else matters, not NIMBYS, not the safety, not the waste, only economic viability.
Yeah I think this is mostly fair. I had to read it multiple times to form a reasonable opinion because it's written in this disjointed style.

I think we agree broadly. The US slept on phonics for some regrettable reasons, we're probably gonna swing super hard the other way and over correct, and we'll deal with the fallout from that in a few years haha.
I'm curious where you got that idea. The Lisa project started in '78 as an attempt to build an affordable Alto. What they released was similar to the Star in terms of capability, interface and target market (but at about one seventh of the price.)

The Mac project started in '80 when Jef Raskin had the idea to build a more "appliance like" and keyboard focused machine based on the 6809. Jobs horned in on the Mac project in early '81 and turned it into a much more expensive device that used features demonstrated by the Star.

The two teams were definitely separate and had little day to day communication with each other.

If the Mac was a "cost reduced Lisa" there would have been significantly more communication between the teams. And they probably would have said something like "The Mac is a Cost Reduced Lisa" in the Mac Business Plan from '81. Instead the business plan says they're distinct machines with distinct teams, objectives and target markets. [ See https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/2009/1027... ]
Wow, I didn't realize they produce a Synology package!
Yeah, from all I can see it has come back into fashion, because I see it used quite often nowadays.
I don't think a person's likeness it protected by copyright. Rather, your likeness it protected by something called the "right of publicity."
As of about a month ago, you can also sign up to Tailscale with any OIDC-compatible identity provider, so if you don't want to use Gmail or Microsoft you can self-host your own!

https://tailscale.com/blog/custom-oidc/
China has over advantages, like have a sixth of the population in the world, having massive mineral and coal resources and being the factory of Europe and the US.

Baring a miracle, my continent has nowhere to go but down.

We have no metals, not fossil fuels, massive debts, an expensive lifestyle and few industries that cannot be copied elsewhere.

Post covid and the ukraine war, we are in deep, deep trouble.

Politically the extremes are rattling more and more, and they may very well win at some point because things are looking bleak.
Well, the law would have them allocate their sales tax for each transaction to the location “where the merchandise is physically located at the time the sale takes place.” [0]

That’s why Cupertino is losing the revenue: CDTFA audit Apple, and found they were misallocating transactions. The news is juicier, because they were getting kickbacks from the city of Cupertino for doing so, but if it were legal it wouldn’t even be in the news right now, the news came out of the arrangement being identified as illegal, not out of it existing.

[0] https://www.cdtfa.ca.gov/formspubs/pub109/
this is like the QWOP version... haha
Reminds me re-volt ^^