skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm an American who leans politically center-right. Here's my opinionated perspective on this issue.

In recent years, public libraries across the US and UK have hosted a number of Drag Queen Story Hours. These are events where men dressed as sexual parodies of women read books to young children. Sometimes the men dance provocatively for the kids, or wear revealing outfits, or have kids climb all over them:

https://alphanews.org/drag-queen-flashes-crotch-to-children-...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VA72t7o24I

https://www.lifesitenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Drag...

Several performers and sponsors of these events have turned out to be sex offenders:

https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/houston-public-libra...

https://reduxx.info/drag-queen-charged-with-25-counts-of-fel...

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/second-drag-queen-story-ho...

Across the pond, the founder of Drag Queen Story Hour UK has tweeted "love has no age" and openly associates with pedophiles:

https://thepostmillennial.com/founder-of-uk-drag-queen-story...

At the same time, "child-friendly" and "all-ages" drag shows have popped up at gay bars and clubs across the US. These are often much more sexually provocative than shows hosted in libraries:

https://reduxx.info/children-tipped-drag-queens-during-perfo...

https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1543662744616013825

https://twitter.com/TaylerUSA/status/1538733481492094977

Far-left militia armed with AR-15s have shown up at some all-ages shows to "protect" them from protestors. The armed militants in these photos are self-identified anti-fascists:

https://www.axios.com/local/dallas/2022/08/30/drag-brunch-ro...

These events have become the focus intense polarization. Republicans say they're sexual performances designed to desensitize kids to advances from adults. Democrats say they're expressions of LGBT pride.

There is a growing conservative backlash to "all-ages" or "family-friendly" drag events generally and Drag Queen Story Hour in particular. Many parents are uncomfortable with the sexual displays aimed at children. Some women see drag as sexual blackface. This backlash is framed by Democrats as opposition to drag shows in general, which generally speaking is untrue. It is the targeting of young children that aggravates conservatives.

Librarians host these events in taxpayer-funded venues. The elected government of the state of Missouri seeks to limit this practice.
One of my first jobs was a consulting gig in the mid-80s with a Very Large Airline that had a strong, effective "train and promote from within" ethic. That meant a lot of people who 1) didn't start out it IT (or often in technology) and 2) lots of folks who had some amount of a career before getting into IT, so trended older. It was extremely formative.

My 2 supervisors were in their 50s, and started out slinging bags on the tarmac. Knew their stuff cold...not just about the tech, but how to actually deal with and manage people. Lots of life experience shared with this very green kid who on paper was the technical 'expert'. And because they'd been there and seen waaay more than just the inside of an office, they understood the business we supported intimately. "Knew were all the bodies are buried" was the key phrase. I went on to consult with a Very Large Telco, which had a similar culture of valuing experience and worked with some of the most knowledgeable techs I ever met, most several decades older than me. Shoot...there was a lot of grey hair at IBM when I was there, before someone decided ageism as official corporate policy was a swell idea.

And that has made all the difference.
Mozilla is neutral on JPEG XL:

https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/522#is...
Not existing? They built an entire factory for it in Texas, is in going through crash testing, qualification, and the truck is regularly seen on test runs around their offices. This just seems like a lazy hit piece with little actual information even though there is a lot out there if you actually follow the development.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvy19pEVs1M
Wall Street would be strongly incentivised to install an AI CEO.
I think it would be better for everyone to get four days a month to choose as days off. Then it would be better distributed. I would prefer this to a four work week. After a few days in a row the freedom really sinks in, so I'd love to be able to take a week off every month, guilt free.
> it will compliment us and even enable millions of new "non-programmers" to start programming

You say that as if understanding and stating requirements in a non conflicting way isn't the primary skill of a programmer anyway.
It's not "42 other users". If someone else is looking at it, it's "2 users" (they and you).
It completely missed what makes this painting distinctive and funny/scary, and what's actually going on.

It also missed the right half of the painting.

Try asking it why the painting is called "Timmy's Last Surprise".
So there is still hope to see their weird tandem Ford Focus someday!
Then banning bomb making is censorship but there’s no opposition to that.
And how much do you know about the Indian government?
Thank you for providing links!

The first one contains a lot of the same doubts I have and points out that this is an exploratory project explicitly because the ROI is unclear.

The second one is a bit strange. Here’s the actual paper [1]. And what they actually studied was “ To address this critical knowledge gap, we quantified the evaporation savings and financial performance of over-canal solar in comparison to over-ground solar on land adjacent to canals”. So they’re assuming leaving the canals uncovered and siting solar power plants on expensive ag land instead of covering the canals cheaply with traditional shade materials and using the savings to build power generation on cheap land elsewhere. Not very convincing to me.

Personally, I think the net benefit will be negative, but I’d love to be proven wrong on this.

[1] https://escholarship.org/content/qt8cj5j07p/qt8cj5j07p_noSpl...
There's F-Droid on Android, which is exactly what you're describing. App Store for Open Source projects. I'm hoping this brings something similar to Apple Devices!
CBC/RadioCanada pausing activity on Twitter
The role of a CEO is more to benefit the company than the public. Only time will tell.

I am curious though how something like Moore's Law relates to this. Yes, model architectures will deal with complexity better and the amount of data helps as well. There must be a relation between technology innovation and cost which alludes to effectiveness. Innovation in computation, model architecture, quality of data, etc.
Long Covid smell loss linked to changes in the brain
"Truth" is not something that can be discerned even in the absence of misinformation. It is a constantly evolving and negotiated equilibrium between the individual and their environment through the imperfect filter of perception. To put the reins of "fact-checking" in government control is simply a shortcut to tyranny, and not something that can stifle the death of democracy.
Tesla needs to fire Musk, abandon the childish and already dated Cybertruck and just build a normal truck/SUV. One that can compete with popular offerings from Rivian, Ford etc. and soon to be Porsche, RangeRover etc.

And that can be easily sold globally unlike Cybertruck which has concerns from Australian regulators (and likely others) about whether it would be street legal given its unique sharp metal corners at children height design.
Yes, “easily” based on what people who do it say. But getting citizenship requires [0] renouncing other citizenships.

There’s a permanent resident status which is I think is closest to a green card. You can’t vote but you don’t have to work or otherwise justify your existence. You can temporarily leave the country for several years if you intend to return (apparently this is pretty loose so “several” = 10)

There was a window during COVID where permanent residents were stuck outside the country. It was a couple of months, and I’m hopeful future incidents would be more humane… but citizens were not stranded.

[0] there is some pedantry on “requires”.
Mozilla should step into this space. Launch an alternative app store, cost-neutral or minor profit only, all apps privacy checked.

Better than the writing of preachy blogs that do nothing. The problem with current Mozilla is that they have no platform. They have no reach.
A PS5 is more than $300 but less than $500 as an example.
Strip private banks of their power to create money
Traditionally speaking though, this "in case of populism, enshrine an emperor/king/caesar/dictator" has always been true. The Romans experienced this with Julius. The French relapsed several times after their 1789 Revolution and dawdled between democracy and Napoleonic imperialism and dynastic monarchy. The British, too, have a colorful history of monarchs vs Parliament. And to this day refuse to sweep away the institution altogether for some indescribable reason, perhaps as a fallback in case this whole democracy thing doesn't work out.

The U.S. isn't an old nation, but it's the oldest continuous democracy. It was meticulously designed to avoid such issues, but I wouldn't say it's immune either.
GPT4 is much better at it. So far, I haven't seen it hallucinate. GPT3 hallucinates terribly, but not that often, and it's fairly predictable in what kinds of questions it's more inclined to hallucinate.
Is there a glut of capacity to orbit? These are the factors:

1. Is there an existing glut, at existing prices?

2. Half of what's in orbit is Starlink satellites.

3. So, is falcon 9 already providing more capacity than anyone has money to buy?

4. Falcon 9 costs are lower due to reusability of the booster.

6. The Falcon 9 2nd stage is not reusable, so costs could be still lower.

7. But, can Starship and its booster make reusability work, and at price targets?

8. Is Starship trying to be too many things at once? Cheap orbital capacity and interplanetary flight, landings, take-offs, etc.
I think also, notably, “advertiser-funded media”.
This kind of thinking of yours is far a bigger threat, among other things because it means goverment have the very strong incentive for social media to NOT get the propaganda farms under control because that way it has a public excuse to step in and abuse that position with totalitarian censorchip; a big red flag that points this to be the case is how this censorship is planed, is not in the slightest a democratical censorship that includes the input of local and international journalists or opposition leaders.
Not any use to me (not a developer), but it's cool there are niche search engines for stuff like this.
LLVM provides llvm-addr2line and llvm-symbolizer. Of course I understand not wanting to link with LLVM code, even when the licence is ok. :)
You seem surprise that porn brings innovation, but you shouldn't if there has to be someone obsessed with creating the best possible illustration, it is indeed a Pixiv user or more generally a user who wants to create porn of their favorite character; moreover, I know these comics not because I have a weird obsession with going to read comics that were created by an AI, I know them because they are good enough to have gone on trend as NSFW comics, whereas the comics made by MJ are known not because they are good comics but because they are made by MJ (so it's cool I guess), so I don't see how it can solidify your point of view ahah, if you can't control the generation every panel will look different, a collage of images, that's why the comics made by MJ seem to be known just because they are made by MJ and not because they are in the interest of others communities like NSFW comics on Pixiv. Also for this reason, I have not saved links to these posts, I found them randomly while browsing Pixiv, another reason why you should look for them yourself.
It's true that the US has a lot of reasons to play nice with India, but even if they didn't, there's not much I'd expect the US to do in this situation. Maybe Blinken would make a statement. But this isn't the kind of thing that historically results in sanctions or officially curtailing the bilateral relationship.
I feel like you just saved me 22m
I would totally pay for apps on a Mozilla store. This is a great idea.
Yesterday I learned that Canada is the fourth oldest ongoing democracy, measured as beginning in 1867.

I think given our short lifespans, anything that our parents, grandparents, and great grandparents enjoyed is really easy to perceive as a steady state. Something to take for granted as being invariant. But it’s really not.

While it’s possible to debate the specifics and semantics, this really brought into focus, for me, just how young modern democracy is with a rather unproven durability.
Yeah I was thinking of something like that. But I still feel a bit uneasy with configuring OpenSSH securely, I’ve escaped such setups before, gaining full shell access through exploits. Maybe I’m overly paranoid.
I mean, have you seen the common folk?
> The libraries wanted to make porn available to kids

I see you skipped the “nuance” part of the request.
Porsche is going to ship an EV roadster before that thing ever sees a showroom..
> In particular, anything that needs regular updates is not "firm" in any sense.

It's really not about the updates that makes something "firm". Hardware is hard because it's a real physical thing. Software is soft because it's a non-physical thing, a set of instructions. Firmware is firm because it's less physical than hardware, and is more physical than a set of instructions. Firmware is software, in that it's a set of instructions, but additionally it needs to be loaded or flashed or programmed into the hardware, and stored either on-chip or in some ROM or NVRAM nearby, differentiating firmware storage from software storage on disk, tape, or some other peripheral storage. At the time, this made pretty clear sense, but over time, things were made murky by multifacted uses of NVRAM and peripheral storage.

So, "software built into hardware" is a pretty good definition. When you say something isn't firmware, it's software, that seems mistaken. All firmware is software, not all software is firmware. The size doesn't matter. Whether it's an application or a device driver doesn't matter. What defines the "firm" part of firmware is whether it's "built into the hardware". That's it.

So, yeah, you're having a definition problem. If you keep whatever definition that you currently have, then you're gonna have a bad time. If you try to "draw a firm line somewhere between the code in a tiny microcontroller running a battery charger and the operating system running on a general-purpose application processor", with this new definition, the question becomes "where is this code stored?". It doesn't matter how large it is, whether it's 100 lines of code in your battery charger or 1,000,000 LOC for your OS. If it's in on-board storage, it's firmware. If it's in peripheral storage, it's software.
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67, been paid for throwing code since 1975. Still employed full-time, still enjoying what I do. Wish my job wasn't 20% coding and 80% "DEVOPS", but I guess times have changed ...
I've known about Basecamp since the 37signals days. Those billboards are a disservice to the product. It doesn't hook or command anyone to find out what Basecamp is.

Also why billboards all over Boston? If your a project management solution why not spend the money advertising at airports? I see a lot of AWS, IBM, Dell EMC, etc. at airports.
The answer, for the curious, is to use Snowball Edge.
"No US state has trade with Canada as more than 15%" doesn't disprove that "every US state trades more with China than it does with any other state". GDP and interstate or international trade are pretty different concepts.

And while Canada is a bigger trade partner in total than China, I'm willing to bet that China is more evenly distributed between the states as a trade partner.
I'm not sure that video is evidence for anything more than a single cybertruck existing.
Many GNU programs will helpfully terminate periodically with SIGSEGV to help prevent memory leaks from becoming a problem
The main thing is there's relatively little incentive to standardise: the kind of hardware you write device trees for almost always isn't the kind of hardware you sell to customers to just load whatever OS they fancy on it, it's generally a special-purpose device which is intended to run one software stack. The fact that there's even a standard like devicetree is basically just the linux maintainers trying to avoid hardware companies writing a million custom initialisation routines. (AFAIK there is also some standardisation around providing a devicetree to the OS from the bootloader for ARM servers, where there is such an expectation from customers, though ACPI is also often used)
All the same design? Not every ad works. I've never heard someone say "calendar Tetris", so I wonder if it just confused people.

The video ad also seem odd. Time travel discussion of calendar problems, that doesn't explain the product at all: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPmhvY0GCMQ
It doesn’t matter. You can’t buy it.

This is like reading developers say, “We’re almost done!” and you’ve only now pushed to the test environment. No QA, no UAT, nothing.

If it’s not in production, it doesn’t exist.
> national leader this weak and incompetent

The question is, does having a democratically elected national leader so weak and incompetent a stable democracy make?

An obvious answer is "no", in this sense, Ukraine have always been a failure politically. Some outside parties may benefit from Ukraine's sorry state, but that's it. I wonder if you are able to draw a different picture.

And before you ask, it seems that American democracy is in a bad condition too, but not nearly as bad yet.
If you reside in the European Union, you can easily have bank accounts in any other EU country. Apart from that, plenty of banks in many countries allow you to open an account even without residency or citizenship.
The gasoline would realistically need to be sitting unused in that tank for months to have a chance of "being stale". I've started vehicles that have sat unused for 6 months+ before with no trouble from the gas (the battery is more likely to die if unused for a long time).
We don't have a huge account for our AWS. I'm not even sure of the tiers of support. The account manager we had assigned to us was great.
A factoid is something which seems true but isn't. Perhaps you mean fact. If you must stress the insignificant nature of the fact, there is also factlet, trivia etc.
How do you know they aren’t making decisions based on falsehood right now? You have to get information out there and only then can you evaluate whether it is true or false (or practical or inconvenient which is arguably more important in politics.). All democracy means is that we trust the citizens to evaluate truth for themselves. Not everyone believes this. India, for instance, has from its founding has taken the paternalistic position that the wise philosopher princes of New Delhi know better than you or me. I don’t agree but most people over there don’t seem to mind. (And I bet 90% of the ones who claim to be upset about it are only upset because it is the wrong set of philosopher princes.) This unfortunately is also democracy. So what are you going to do?
A couple of years ago I went to a birthday party for a fellow who was one of my attorneys back it the wild, wild dot-bomb days. He's still a respected partner, go-to contract law guy and absolutely as sharp as the day I met him. He was turning 80.
>Yeah these intelligence tests are not very good.

Lol Okay

>And to a degree they can be. I think you underestimate that by a large margin.

Do i? Because i'm not the one making unverifiable claims here.

>You can lock people in a room and give them a problem to solve and they will invent a lot if they have the time to do it.

If you say so
You traded it for chocolate coins??
If you're not from the US and you meet people in the course of business, then obviously the people you meet are going to be more ambitious. It's selection bias. That's what it takes to reach across the ocean to seek out new business opportunities.
> not a fan of StableDiffusion, but at least their models work at general parity with private offerings

I think you're being a bit generous there. Either I'm using it seriously wrong or SD can only generate vague blobs while Midjourney can make some proper stuff. It's a larger difference than GPT 3.5 vs GPT 4.
If your house is sealed tight you can build a bat house, hat will control mosquitoes too.
I don't understand. This looks to me like a Medium page that embeds a Mastodon post, hence preview fetching lands on the Mastodon's instance?

That's what the post describes. However, confusingly, the very first screenshot indeed shows the opposite scenario: a Mastodon post with a preview of a Medium article.
It's going to be wild when Bing Maps is superior to Google Maps.
My career in IT didn't exist at my place of business that far back. That said one of my coworkers is 53 and started in IT about 15 years ago.
Electricians, plumbers, nurses, construction workers, manufacturing, there's an absolute ton of blue collar jobs out there short of people.

Where do you think all the renewable energy is coming from, its coming from large teams of crews installing those wind turbines and solar panels in the wilderness.

Every electrical transformer in the US is going to have to be upgraded, to accomodate for surges in demand from EVs.

The housing price crisis, once regulation is fixed, people will still have to build them. Robot construction workers ain't coming any time soon.

All of these are massive sources of employment. If AI really does automate a large chunk of white collar jobs, corporate profits will skyrocket, and so will government tax and private investment (Profits generally end up in investment funds somewhere), and the above sectors will absorb that investment.

Now, will the transition look pretty? Will your office workers make an easy transition to physical labour? No. But neither did the coal miners find 'learning to code' easy.

Time to buckle up, the tsunami comes. Also, if you can use AI, you are already safer than most of the white collar jobs, so we shouldn't be the ones crying the hardest.
I feel most CEOs are not top of their field but rather people who can take a vision and run with it.
I think it's the tiled diffusion second/third pass that does it, because you're essentially doing many gens on individual tiles of the image there's a natural visual density that SD tends toward and since this is composed of many gens the density is increased in the overall picture, that being said it's not something I've tested super extensively and mostly only with this sort of style.
> Azure = will ultimately own the enterprise. Microsoft is the new IBM and their mature GTM and Professional Services organizations will carry increasing value as cloud services become mostly commoditized. Microsoft has multiple large revenue streams to fund disruptive acquisitions and these will bear fruit through good management. Satya is proving to be an exceptional CEO.

Given AWS is still growing at 40%+ a year on their huge base, vs Azure who have struggled to hit 30% on a much smaller base... I'd expect the opposite to happen here. Microsoft will end up as the home for companies who 'buy' tech, and Amazon for the companies who 'build' tech.
Turbo3.5 or 4? 4 is substantially better at code generation. To the point where I would never try to use T3.5 to generate code.

I feel like we should all start specifying in our comments which model we are talking about when we are talking about ChatGPT.
Now we need another letter
Their current leader, Modi, is extremely divisive and has been accused of very actively fanning the long-running ethnic/religious conflict in the country. The BBC documentary on him is not unbiased but still very revealing.

So you should view this action using the same lens you would as any other divisive leader, eg Trump.