skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why did they drop the feature?
I guess that is just the pro and con of subscription based software.

/s
Midjourney can create very polished output, but imo generative AI art really shines in combination with ControlNet, where you can exert a lot of influence over the generative output.
Ads can have both persuasive (propaganda) and informative functions.

Informative ads make the market more efficient. Persuasive ads actively make the market less efficient.

Most ads in the US in 2023 seem to be persuasive.

Perhaps the ad industry would become more useful (and smaller) if we managed to effectively regulate it to significantly reduce the persuasive bits.

I think that most people would support this if you explained it right - from the free-market perspective, this would give you a better market.
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I've yet to see Google not return a piratebay link at any point in history. Is it a loophole where they take it down, but their indexer then immediately puts it back in the next pass, lol?
I love devdocs.io when it works, but almost every other time I open it, it has forgotten my documentation configuration and I have to start from scratch. I don't have problems losing cookies, etc., elsewhere. And I have a peeve with it asking me to reload the page over and over and over, and each time I do it loses my place. It's a great source otherwise.
Have you tried devdocs?
It’s common enough to have a cottage industry of lawyers who specialize in it.
At the only place I’ve worked where they used Jira, only the product managers and business people used it. Devs worked from stories printed on cards. The cards would get passed around until completed, the manager would then update Jira. The advantage I guess is that Jira had a smaller audience so could be better configured for what the business wanted from it, and fewer people had to learn how to use it.
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This is starting to sound very paperclippy. Ads fund the AIs to make us click on ads to fund AIs that are even better at getting us to click on even more ads.
Maybe time to boycott Philips for their woke enforcing of 3-month toothbrush replacement, and closed-source toothbrushes!

(just kidding)
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Midjourney has incredible default output, but the amount of control you can exert on the generation is extremely limited. Can't influence composition, pose, colour scheme (only to a degree), not inpainting, no outpainting, no API, no local operation, the list goes on.
> compare the topics of her papers with the topics of her videos

I did that but did not say so explicitly:

>> opinions on matters in which they have little or no expertise

especially when the opinions are delivered with excessive confidence and/or without nuance.

I take your point that some apparent

> stir the controversy

videos particularly in the last year <https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwgQsqtH9H5c4IXKj82g-...> at least support the notion that some of the point of her YouTube enterprise is to focus on in-the-news topics far from her own academic publication record. For those videos, I think "explain" is a poor choice of verb.

To me, polemic arguments against people in the field (and importantly doing physics sufficiently close to her own research area) who are not of her opinion on directly relevant matters is less annoying than commentary critical of physicists (let alone scientists in other fields) who I think are less adjacent to her expertise than she appears to believe they are, considering differences in choice of journals or even where in the arxiv category taxonomy authors' preprints are placed (underlining this, c.f. §§4.1 & 5.2 of her own 2018 preprint in physics.soc-ph <https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.04647>; her own research in qg phenomenology is interdisciplinary (as are many of her forays away from that area) but not so broad as to include putting or even obviously considering preprints on bioRxiv, which was almost 5 years old at the time of that paper).

> I singled her out only in the sense she was the topic of the thread

Ok, I think that's fair.

However I don't think the implication that she no longer "write[s] papers (even pre-prints), [or] cite[s her] sources" is justified.
You're right - in fact, the History section of the Wikipedia page on Estonia seems to end with the restoration of independence. Nothing about the three decades since.

I noted a few other things that seem to be portrayed in a sanitized fashion. For example, the section on natural resources notes the presence of forest and nothing at all about the huge controversy about how much is being logged, including in national parks.
Why another month or two? To add that one more feature that you think it needs, more polish? If it's stable and solves the core problem you set out to solve then ship today. Try to have a life is short mentality :)
... by using a "plasma speaker" in active noise cancellation.

Ever noted how quiet the world is when its snowing? Fluffy polyfill can do some of the same trick; but it takes up so much volume that its hardly ever worth using.

Also remember flammability concerns in soundproofing materials: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Station_nightclub_fire
Systems engineering is like Esperanto; it would be very useful if more than a few people would "speak" it. It already starts with the fact that the term "systems engineering", which has been clearly defined in various standards since the sixties (MIL-STD 499, IEEE 1220, ISO 26702, ISO 24748-4, etc.) and backed by a comprehensive body of knowledge, is now used almost arbitrarily by anyone. Also in the article, the term is used with a different meaning than the original one.

Of course it can be argued that language evolves like people, but after all, also in physics or mathematics we don't just replace or redefine terms ad libitum (you won't pass exams if you use your own terminology), and on systems engineering there are university courses and a well established scholarship (at least there were when I was a student many years ago).
>What is it with you and your extremely aggressive and yet unproductive comments?

Entertaining hypothetical edge cases to examine an argument's soundness has become extremely aggressive behaviour?

Anyway, my apologies.
Glad you picked on pydantic. There is no reference doc whatsoever. The expectation is that you are supposed to learn by reading examples!

Back in the days of yore, software engineering teams led by greybeards used to be conservative in what dependencies they import into the projects. Those days are gone! Everyone imports everything today without any discerning eye.
There are no "OTA firmware updates" for Sonicare toothbrushes. There are no other firmware updates either.
It's a small chip connected to the motherboard via either the LPC bus or the SPI bus. There is no constraint on size except the bus dimension and common sense.

If you want to draw a PCB, you can! Just like you can make your own USB-to-SATA board with an ASM1153 though, all you do is draw a board to connect a chip to the outside and give it some supporting crystals. An example TPM chip is SLB 9665, and you can get its datasheet here: https://www.infineon.com/dgdl/Infineon-data-sheet-SLB9665_2.... (if link goes stale, use Google)

As for source code: hardware being closed off is not exactly news (otherwise people would be a lot less angry at firmware issues). There are open-source TPM emulators in use by qemu, so you probably could convince a Raspberry Pi Zero or whatever to pretend to be one by using an emulator and speaking over SPI. There's also a report of TPM on a ARM+FPGA board (https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=...) if that's what you want.
> we've re-evaluated the Bible without any pre-conceptions, which is why a lot of other religious that believe in things like the Trinity or the immortal soul look at us as heretical or crazy

Kinda reminds me of what the Christadelphians say about themselves as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christadelphians

Might be interesting to look at a point-by-point comparison between JW and Christadelphians.
Not only they had clean, easy-to-navigate UI, they also produced tons of their own releases. As big fan of saving space, x265 1080p releases from them were taking minimal space with good quality, practically always bundled with subtitles.

That's how quality service looks like. Glad I pulled (here legally) all the movies I wanted in my private collection. RIP.
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Show HN: Listen to short stories to learn German
A few weeks ago I launched [1] this webapp to learn German with short stories [2] and since then I have received a lot of feedback and help from the HN community to make it better. Today, I wanted to share one of those improvements: audio. Many have asked for the ability to listen to the stories on top of just reading them. I am using text-to-speech APIs to transform the text into audio.

For now there's only one voice, but perhaps that could be customizable later on. Would love to get your feedback on this and any other interesting ideas you have on the topic! Thanks and let me know if you have any questions.

Here's an example story with audio:
https://webbu.app/l/german/story/annas-first-bakery-in-germa...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35713852

[2] https://webbu.app/german
He left New York over their Kafka-esque treatment of him and his business, amongst other things.

I'd encourage you to watch his videos where he calls the New York government and tries to figure out why there's been a lein and warrant for his business since 2012 (that he was never notified about because it was sent to a random PO box in Maine). Even worse, the warrant, which affected his business for years without him realizing, turns out to have been a mistake. He never would have figured it out without spending a month being bounced between departments, hung up on, etc.
I think this is just the second reason rephrased a bit differently. And it isn't at all new — pretty much all Japanese game and animation studios have refused to acknowledge our region's existence for about as long as these industries have themselves been around.

For example, Nintendo consoles have been unavailable since the 90s — which is why we've been using these clones:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dendy_(console)

and are still unavailable now unless you're willing to buy consoles and games on ebay, overpriced and without warranty (which is what some of my friends have been doing, but I refuse to support publishers that consider my American dollars second class to those coming from actual Americans).

So torrents it is, then. 'Fuck you' can go both ways.
I agree. Most of the workflow jank could be forgiven if I didn't need to wait double-digit second loads frequently.
Pray for https://nyaa.si/ that's the goat tracker for anything Japan
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Thanks for pointing - ha - that out! It totally makes sense to use visual communication because of course no fingers! Made me chuckle because it seems obvious yet, no, gear shifting for cats makes sense.
this sounds very interesting. imagine a new resident get advice from this website. ¯ \ _ ( ツ ) _ / ¯
image editing software is a commodity for decades now, is it free?
For the uninitiated, it's a tree planting quote.
There have definitely been cases with letters in sweden

https://www.domstol.se/patent--och-marknadsdomstolen/om-pate...
> there have been rumors seen here that Arm is pushing towards a model where SoC vendors must do all-Arm components

Smells like FUD spread by Qualcomm, who are currently in a legal battle with ARM.
Yes, I also know a lot of people (switzerland) who use it for sport results. It works well on the cellphone app and it's just do it's thing. No bs, just info.
Just a warning to users: light-on-dark QR codes can not be parsed by all QR code readers, even though they look nice.
Thanks for the clarification.

I certainly have way too much in my head to remember every nuance of several languages. As such, I lean heavily on multiple sources of external documentation to help me recall the specifics. That being said, this would in no way replace actual software development expertise, so I agree with your clarified stance.

I find using a good IDE with code completion and navigation is essential to efficient use of my time. I _also_ use vi constantly and perform most every other operation from the command line. I know I can get the same from properly setting up vi with the right plugins, but I find the ergonomics less appealing for my habits.
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Ask HN: How do you take care of your back?
I’m in my mid 30s and have been working as a software engineer for a decade. I’m starting to feel like my back isn’t as flexible as it used to be. How do you keep your back your healthy?
HN should neither be dunk-istan nor snark-istan. Don't be an idiot.
At least all the Slack HQ seating includes _some_ form of back support. Most of the GitHub seating looks uncomfortable after 1 hour of working in a spot.
NMJ
Ah! Fair point. ;)
It's very possible to run such without being exposed, but it involves patience and enough cash.

Most of the time, these services aren't done in direct exchange for money or from people who have a lot of money in the first place.

So what ends up happening is even if they can avoid the shallow legal issues by remaining private, they then run into the problem that nobody can pay for the service (not many options for providing that transaction privately). You might think "just run ads" but the problem there is multifaceted, most are likely going to be using adblockers, on top of that to remain private they'll be locked out of most paying ads and only get the most spammy garbage incentivizing more to use adblocker to visit the site.
Under the mice? Turtles all the way down.
No, because of Typescript.
Bit of both. Hershey owns the license to the Cadbury name in the US, and they use a chocolate formulation that has a slight sour/spoiled/tangy taste. (The idea that they directly add butyric acid is a myth, but something in the process seems to generate it or something similar.)
Because they are ashamed to show the open plan rooms with 300 desks back to back.
By "used to write", I'm guessing maybe they worked in the .NET Framework/IIS era, which did have a cognitive cliff to climb. You could get used to the ceremony though and then your brain started to ignore it and focus on the stuff that mattered. These days it's much easier though.
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So you're using an article from 2014 and grasping at straws to make a point against WFH or what? Just what are you trying to say here?
https://sonarr.tv/ https://radarr.video/ + https://github.com/theotherp/nzbhydra2/ + 1 or more https://www.reddit.com/r/usenet/wiki/indexers

Usenet is a lot of effort.
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Some great observations by Graydon here. And also in some ways unsatisfying, because he seems on a roll on some idea, but then he doesn't know the solution, and the proposal of hiring experts prompts nervous questions.

Who is going to find those experts? How do you prevent empire-building and fiefdoms affecting which experts are hired? How will the new people be aligned?

> a lot of people over the years have left the project, and a lot of the leaving has been on fairly sour terms. A lot of people feel regret and resentment about ever participating.

This happens a lot with projects. Though some of the odd vibes from Rust leadership lately are more concerning than some of the idiosyncrasies that have caused me to write off some other projects in the past. Hopefully they straighten that out a lot, before more damage is done.
Which is just a way of saying he not part of any of the demographics where going to 4chan to see people froth at the mouth dehumanizing and belittling people like you is self-harm.

Wow an edgy white man not offended at seeing racism and transphobia, so brave.
A pity because Google also has the same issue. They silently just throw a ton of mails away.
arr.sort() or sort(arr) seem reasonable to me
It’s been mostly fine for me, but overall I am tired of every answer having a paragraph long disclaimer about how the world is complex. Yes, I know. Stop treating me like a child.
Could they not evaporate it all? It's already been years and will take years more. If they evaporate it they can bury the residue
* long time to load
* awkward scrolling
* lag while images lod
* unable to maintain high fps
* no two finger swipe on touchpad to navigate back

Let me guess this website was made using Flutter?
Gimp has been free for decades, same with Inkscape (edit: Inkscape is actually only 19).

Probably not what most pros are using, but perfectly acceptable tools.
LOL in late 80s I was in mid 20s and living and working in 3rd country. Started at NCR doing COBOL and NEAT/3 assembler for OS support and a manufacturing system.

So I’m then terribly old. And I have lived a life driven by curiosity for everything. I’m no system engineer for sure but have self discovered a lot that sometimes proves useful and engineers and fellow product managers are like “ WTF how did you know that?!”

The good old school system engineers knew how and why the software worked from the metal to the terminal and how to use the whole system productively. I’m in awe of such people and they are a privilege to work with.

Oh and FTR started programming with punch cards when at high school. Used a local bank to compile Fortran.
How expensive can a link sharing site be to run, genuinely? They're not serving any of the content (unless they are, in which case, yeah...) But if they're just serving up .torrent files or magnet links, these sites should be pretty cheap to run I would assume?
Note to self: Try to remember that 'dropped' has morphed into it's own antonym.
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This is covered in #2.
I find that the software industry is one of those industries where all role names are made up and change meaning all the time. As you said, just a few years ago (ok maybe a decade) a "Software Engineer" was a person who built Software, now it's a frontend developer that has a basic understanding of the backend.

Despite the terminological thefts and oversimplifications, I'm still proud to be a part of this industry. We're like the James Bonds of the digital world; we go by different names, but the substance of our work and our contributions are what truly define us. So, let them call us whatever they want... They may not always understand what we do, but they sure as hell need us to do it!
Is it they do illegal thing and then try to extort money from you for doing the same thing? Or have they received a royal blessing nowadays and can do so legally?
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blood clots, anyone ?
Thank you - I thought that was a rather stunning (thus questionable) performance figure!
That doesn't mean classes are deprecated, it means people prefer hooks, and I understand why, as someone that codes in both.

It's like saying "All Javascript things I search are only in ES2020." It doesn't mean javascript is deprecating features.
Right, in my experience you’ll run into ‘systems engineers’ in all fields, some are working on interfaces of the systems in that field, and others are thinking of the totality of the system and it’s maintainability, efficiency, and design. You always have to ask a follow up when someone says they’re a systems engineer.
Despite the current culture war meme thing, the kids today in general surely have much thicker skin than other adults did at their age.
I feel like the singularity will be achieved by ultra-rich pursuing longevity science and essentially making themselves human-machine organisms comprised of nano-bots and a brain until all is replaced with always upgradeable materials to ensure longest longevity.
We're encouraged to keep other JW's as our closest associates. But being a JW isn't rule based, it's principal based. We look to the Bible as our guide in all regards. https://www.jw.org/en/bible-teachings/questions/friends-in-t...
No, Functor, Monad is OOP concept.
If you outsource chip creation, then you are chip designer, arent you?

>Fabless manufacturing is the design and sale of hardware devices and semiconductor chips while outsourcing their fabrication (or fab) to a specialized manufacturer called a semiconductor foundry. These foundries are typically, but not exclusively, located in the United States, China, and Taiwan

What about other categories

Gaming, Data Center?
A lot of bathroom scales are too "smart" and display recent cached weights rather than real measurements each time, in order to appear more consistent. Accuracy on some is also very bad if you store scales vertically (e.g. propped against wall) as that requires step-on, step-off re-calibration which people forget to do.

I'm not sure you can even buy "just works" dumb mechanical scales any more.
Tangent: For the first 10 seconds of this video I thought it was computer generated (and that was the reason this was posted on HN). The inflection in the voice just didn't match the expression on the face or the body movements (lack thereof).
It depends on the place. The leaders of Saudi Arabia have tried to keep the country in a state of suspended animation since they seem pretty terrified that they’ll lose power if people get educated and civil society develops alternative power structures.

For that matter I am right now reading a very good book about the Communist Party under Mao, and the fact is that Mao was rightfully afraid of being deposed and that’s why he had the Cultural Revolution. The aristocrats of the Ancien Regime in France didn’t seem that afraid of being deposed but with hindsight they should have been. People can be very powerful and still be afraid of losing power, and they frequently are.

A major reason why antisemitism was such a problem circa 1940 was that “elites” in Europe long thought you were a somebody if you owned a lot of agricultural land but if you were a doctor or a lawyer or a businessman you were a nobody. Well, jews didn’t think that way and became powerful and a whole lot of nobles found they weren’t so noble anymore and were mad about it.
> The equivalent of an existing handwriting recognizer for e.g. RSA wouldn't be a model that tells you how to crack RSA, it'd be a model that _does_ crack it (maybe by returning a probability distribution over the plaintext that's better than uniform). That feels pretty unlikely to me personally, but maybe that's doable, who knows.

Well, my point was based on the assumption that there is a flaw/backdoor in RSA, but nobody has discovered it yet. So you'd just need a model that can take a textual description of the algorithm as input, and spit out a list of logical errors/flaws.

I'm not saying there is a flaw or backdoor, but if there were, then a LLM would potentially be able to find it, while a team of human experts could miss it.

A model that receives an RSA encrypted payload and outputs the decrypted version would of course be impossible unless the above assumption is true... or you give it access to some compute power so it can either try to brute-force it, or try to track down and hack the servers with the keys :P
Modules: one of the great programming innovations of the 1960s, first available in JS just fifty years later.