skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Much as people will hate hearing this, ultimately Gates won the argument. Formerly pro-FOSS software developers are turning away from FOSS to "open core" and other fake FOSS licenses that are actually proprietary to try to monetize their software using arguments largely identical to Gates' that it's unfair for software to be used by businesses and corporations without its creators getting some compensation for it. FOSS project owners are burning out from pressure where FAANG + MSFT simply hire new developers to replace any that want to move on to doing something new because they have the income to do so.
Why wouldn't you be able to decline them? I have relatives like that too whose insistence is seen as politeness but even they will back off after some time, especially if (but it's not needed for you to) explain why you decline.
Well, we have a bunch of issues, here.

First, there's a bunch of (non-creative) people that just want free creative assets. They don't like it, when creatives insist on being paid for the [considerable] time, effort, education and experience that goes into the creative asset.

Those people are jumping for joy.

Then, we have the creatives, themselves, who may have attended the correct schools, and have the appropriate education, to produce quality assets. They don't want people to just take their work. This looks like a side-jacking. If someone sees a nice picture that was done by a creative, then they can prompt MidJourney to produce one that looks a lot like it, for the cost of the MJ subscription. They don't particularly care (yet)[0] about copyright.

Then, we have the portfolio holders, who are often not creatives, but still hold the copyrights on a lot of creative work. Think Disney, or Universal. Their portfolios are an investment. They don't want to lose that investment.

Then, we have the crooks, who want to make cheap, crappy copies of creative assets, regardless of who owns the copyright. At the moment, there is an element of risk, as they could get caught and punished.

They are also jumping for joy.

[0] I said "yet," because one of the problems with a "wild west" copyright and trademark atmosphere, is that it is extremely easy to make "almost-like" copies, and if you don't protect your IP (or can't), then it is "up for grabs."

This is done now, but it's illegal, and can be stopped; especially if trademark is involved. I was at a Chinese restaurant, once, and was listening to the music. I noticed that there were many strains of hugely popular (and copyrighted) songs, like Scarborough Fair, and Moondance, all mashed together into a continuous stream. The owner confirmed what I suspected. He subscribed to a service that sends legal "muzak" to his restaurant. He had been mugged by ASCAP, once, and never wanted to go through that again.

I've noticed that "free everything" people often insist that everything except their own work should be "freed."
I don't think pointing out left wing hypocrisy is whataboutism.
Maybe in urban areas. I see huge flocks of crows and other birds all the time.
I agree there would still be problems, but it would be obvious what is going on and would allow services to compete on those terms. Right now there is no competition on those terms and no real reason to try since the general consumer assume that TOS and similar are pointless hard to read and probably powerless anyway so why bother.
Paul Klimek invented the notation (or an equivalent) first and called it "Quantum Juggling". Bengt and Boppo invented it at the same as us, and they called it SiteSwap, and while we never named it, others referred to it as "The Cambridge Notation."

But the name SiteSwap has stuck.

As you juggle you throw the balls (or other objects to yourself, but in the future. In the standard pattern you're always throwing things the same height, and hence the same distance into the future.

But you can throw things different distances into the future. The trick is then to make sure you don't get more than one thing landing at the same time[0].

So you take a collection of throws and permute their landing times. Thus you have swapped the (temporal) landing sites.

Hence SiteSwap.

[0] In the simplest and original version of the notation. Enhancements now allow for all the variations you can think of.
Some black metal bands are very calming and help me to relax and/or concentrate on whatever activity I am doing - Mgla comes to mind first.
Looks like my job. The best way to change stupid procedures is following them to the letter and watch the world burn.
You literally (unless they've changed it?) cannot edit a file extension on an iPad
An Ukraine that relies on the West for most of its equipment, is under Russian threat, and wants to join the EU/NATO will go around selling the West's equipment? Makes little sense to me.

The West, and more specifically the US, is doing what they said they would do if Russia invaded Ukraine. This was done publicly and apparently privately too. So if this is a proxy war, then it's different from most proxy wars.

I don't like war, but when you have someone that wants to expand their borders, sometimes you save a lot of money and lives by ending the problem at the start. If Ukraine goes well, why not do the Baltics next? What about all those ethnic Russians in need of "saving" in Kazakhstan? It might even give China some ideas. So be careful: by not doing anything and saving your precious tax dollars, you might end up spending more in the future.

Wars of expansion should be costly and expensive, otherwise everyone would just start wars.

And that cold war era... isn't that what's we're already walking to with China? The sanctions, China's claims in the South China sea, etc? Russia in Ukraine are just a side show.
Fortunately they didn't do that and instead got this in front of regulators.
The rest of it seems to have missed that the original comment was sarcasm.
Might be due to the "strike" taking some other popular subs out of the pool - moved to private or NSFW or lost some traffic for various related reasons.
West coast folks should give the NHC's interactive map a try. The static map gets copied around a lot but the interactive map will let you see the past/current track (remember the track doesn't matter, it's just a best guess center, anywhere near the track is bad), wind speeds, earliest arrival time of winds, storm surge watches & warnings, wind radius, etc.

It's an underused treasure, however simplistic the UI may be.

See: https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_ep4+shtml/204534.s...

You can find individual static maps (sadly very low resolution) here as well for Hurricane Hilary: https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/graphics_ep4.shtml?start#contents
You cannot completely reject it, this is the first step, the next is human clinical trials.
Aren't free markets incredible?
If I were Spotify I would include some noise generators and clever sample based waterfall noises in the subscription. People pay money for this already, it's free* market share.

In fact it's actually built into the iPad.

*Obviously it takes time to develop but it would take one smart guy a day so if your team struggles it's on you.
Indeed, in many cultures like Turkey and in my experience of India, people will insist that you take something, not expecting you to decline at all. It is seen as almost disrespectful or insulting to the host to decline, unless you explain a reason or decline after multiple times of asking.
Nokia also released 9210 about the same time as 3310. From that perspective iPhone was even less of an improvement and a step back in some aspects.
Live near a 'late shop' where teens 'hang out', and most of the time the wankers revving their bikes here are doing it to impress teenage girls, sadly being able to overhear them occasionally, it seems to work.

One particular bike owner literally just rides around in a rectangular pattern most evenings, over and over, revving only when he gets the junction in front of where the teens hang out - yes, I can hear his bike on all 4 sides of the pattern.

However, the most annoying motorist we get, is a middle aged woman who owns a white audi and sits arming/disarming and triggering her alarm whenever she sends her husband/partner into the shop, she performs this ritual 2-3 times a day usually. Very annoying hearing 'bip.... bip bip bip... bip. wuuuuwuuuuwuuu bip, bip bip bip...' and so on.
This is something I’ve wanted to get into. Any advice? I’d actually like to start a small game development agency.
the recent years often remind me of alan kay talking of objects made up of object talking to objects, i wonder if IaC amongst other trends is not an incarnation of that on a wide scale
I'll see flocks of hundreds of grackles and smaller numbers of other birds on a regular basis.
Thunderf00t is not a reliable source. Some of his videos are really good, especially those dealing with alkali metals. But the BUSTED videos often contain newbie mistakes, even when the busting is justified.

Sabine and Pr. Moriarty, a little more reliable, but both are pretty opinionated in a way that may affect their work. I enjoy their content a lot, in fact Sabine YouTube channel is one of my favorite science channels, but not enough for me to turn off my critical thinking.
Half as Interesting could alternatively be titled Double as Long. Most of the extra length is taken up with in-jokes and the obligatory streaming service advertisement, but you could try the browser plugin 'SponsorBlock' to cut the length back down.
> You and I both know what it means.

> The result was not prosperity

Apparently we don't since we don't agree on the example I cited?

Look, I am sure you strongly believe you are correct, but by stating things as true and then refusing to actually discuss them on more than a superficial level you are not going to convince anyone of anything but your confidence in your belief. Using simplistic examples and then claiming that everyone else is wrong foundationally when they try and figure out how your claims apply to other examples is frustrating and unproductive.

> That's not how markets work.

Well, since you are saying in another thread that inflation is as simple as %inflation = $GDPpresent / $GDPlast * 100, then you might forgive me if I take your understanding of markets as a tad naive.
As someone who grew up in Florida, there kinda is.

Tropical storm winds aren't enough to cause a problem most of the time. (Falling branches, or particularly weak trees)

Rain can be a problem, if the storm moves slowly.
I love wearing my CPAP. Not because it's comfortable; it's certainly not. My mask pillows are slowly stretching my nasal orifices, so it's ruining my face aesthetically

I love it because if I even nap 20 minutes without my CPAP, I wake up as if a freightliner had hit me. My apnea is that bad. I have never skipped a single night since being diagnosed 4 years ago.

One night I went to a friend's house and couldn't drive back because I had a couple of beers. I didn't have my CPAP, so I preferred to stay awake the whole night instead of sleeping.

I would probably be dead if CPAP didn't exist.
I don’t know. At least for men, you can tell just by walking into a coffee shop. It’s the difference between the barista greeting you with a smile or a frown.
it really depends on what you're trying to achieve, if you want to build a semantic image search then a small/base model would be fine, I think that bigger models usually leak to much information that makes the embeddings space to difficult to interpreter for simple algorithm like cosine similarity, if you want to condition a generative model then a bigger model should provide more information about the prompt or the image.
Just filling in the canvas with black gets you to 75%, then you can add some green and yellow to get to 76% but after that it seems you need to be more precise to get higher.
the term is coined by Cory Doctorow, pointing out that big ecommerce middlemen, usually platforms have outsized pricing power (because they are in their quasi-oligopoly due to network effects). and as a consequence of the relative business
success of these platfors nowadays "almost everyone" tries to become one, transform their business into something that might become one, try to replicate the shitty business methods
Big reason why the writer's guild is currently on strike. Super naive view that people who make stuff shouldn't continue to be compensated if someone is getting value from that work. That's part of why programming can be so lucrative.
The smell of new plastic of new components used to be exciting, now it smells different, typically like nothing.
This is the "tech startup" playbook of not really caring about building good useful tech that solves real problems. It's all about rent-seeking.
Prepare to have your mind blown, especially the part about country of origin - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datura_metel#Entheogen
It was more than the rate of progress, though the rate of progress certainly helped. For a lot of people the computers of the 70's, 80's, and 90's captured their imagination because of how it could change the world. The same could be said of prior technological revolutions.

Even though we see a lot of technological progress these days, we are mostly out of the revolution phase. The computer is a part of our lives, much like electricity, the automobile, and the airplane. Those who love gadgets will be excited about each new step, yet it is nowhere near as exciting to everyone else. That is not to say that we are out of the revolution phase. People were genuinely excited about developments in mobile phones until a few years ago. This current hubbub over AI may stimulate people imaginations if it doesn't end up stalling again.

I chuckled at your comment about a 1997 developer being satisfied with 1984 technology. It seems like some 2023 developers are excited about 1984 technology. In many cases, it is because the tooling for things like build your own computers at the component level has become more accessible (rather than being an exercise in pure nostalgia).
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chargebacks have consequences.

they could easily ban you nationwide, at all the parking facilities that payment processor serves. or if their ToS doesn't allow banning, your payments will just start failing their fraud checks, and you'll be effectively banned. if that's an acceptable consequence then go ahead and do a chargeback, but don't recommend it to others who don't know the consequences.
Indeed, the incomes in such experiments are not universal.
We usually do that, specifically to avoid any chance that the rental company might get billed.

(For those unfamiliar, the EZPass is associated with a set of plates. You can register a rental car against your account during the term of your rental, which helps ensure the charges go to the right place, if the EZPass itself fails to register during the drive.)
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References to anything public would be nice

So far I’ve struggled to get any real modularity.

The biggest issue I’ve had is that every assumption I’ve made has been violated.

So either modules must be fully generic — saving no work at all — or make assumptions and then not be reusable.
They had a dual kingship system not unlike many Turkic polities
> sizes smaller than 512x512 (which i tried as 512x512 is quite slow on my PC) sometimes generate garbage (anything smaller than 384x384 seems to always do that).

Not sure about the speed, but the garbage output might be due to the model instead of the library. I’ve always got garbage (using other tools) when I tried 256x256.
Daniel Swain, a climate scientist who covers the western end of the US.

https://twitter.com/Weather_West/

Does a thing called 'Virtual Weather Office Hours', often daily if there's a lot going on (or about to be going on)

https://www.youtube.com/@WeatherWest/streams
>Given that, how is one supposed to reply critically to such a post? I'm genuinely curious and open to suggestions, as it's something I'm clearly not good at.

Link to or describe a better approach and explain specifically why it's better.

Your only specific part was that it's slow to deploy a new service which for most organizations is somewhere on the bottom of their priority list. In fact many organizations probably prefer slow deployments as that implicitly discourages unnecessary services and infrastructure bloat. That in turn lowers the long term maintenance burden and technical debt. Five hundred services that are in reality owned by no team or whom no one knows about are not what you want in an organization.
The CCP has straight up stolen many billions worth of IP for US military equipment, most notably the C-17 transport plane. The ability of the US military to rapidly deploy people and resources lazily around the globe is one of its biggest strengths and why so many smaller bases is critical - think CDNs.

Now that their main adversary has cloned that advantage, a new generation approach is imperative. Who knows if this is indeed the future of US air logistics or a diversionary press release to mislead the development roadmaps of foes.
> For instance:

Those weren't in any of my Caltech textbooks.
the links are tiny targets for fat fingers on mobile screens.

there can be better spacing between links both on topnav bar and also the links next to each post on a thread.

same with links in user profile page.

spacing.
Similarly, a Bumblebee in Danish is known as the “Brumbasse” ( "buzzing bear" or "humming bear")
Google created it for novice programmers, mostly fresh out of college, that they wanted to be able to fire easily. This is a stated reason from the early discussion about design rationale, and is alluded to in the OP. There's also a number of features (especially in older versions) that seem to only make sense when using it in a monorepo like Google does (which also stores built binaries in version control), such as the way imports work and the way `go generate` works.

It blows my mind when people ignore these and make post hoc justifications about why its design is "good, actually" for projects outside of Google. They released the language to the public in order to condition the labor force and make onboarding easier.
> 1 W = 1 J/s = 1 V*A/s

That last "/s" should not be there.
How are you measuring O2 levels?

I’ve also been experimenting with a slightly elevated mattress recently, it seems to help quite a lot for my OSA.
which can be turned off!
The curious outgrowths of consumerism never fail to surprise me.
This is where the sovereignty of the people is so important. A country (or in this case, a city) should not be able to enter into a deal which it is unable to back out from. To actually prematurely terminate a public-private contract would be of course very damaging to the reputation of the city/state/country's reputation, and thus would increase the remuneration private companies expect from running public services due to the additional risk, but would be beneficial to each citizen in the long-term if done with caution.
Have the city require it?
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At this point, I believe you're just a troll.
There's a subtle distinction which is probably important to seperate the two situations: The case referenced in that article (https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp2/...) is to do with the output of a program which has a specific intended input (the text of the Torah) and a completely deterministic output from that input (a bunch of matrixes of a 'bible code'), and the argument is that therefore the output is essentially already represented by the input and the program, and because the output is an inevitable result of the program (which is copyrighted), and the input (which is public domain), the writer of the program has copyright over the output as well. Compare with generative art (even pre-AI) where the output is based on a random seed and any given output is not an completely inevitable result of running the program. In this case the US copyright office at least claims that there is no human authorship, by the writer of the program or by the prompter (at least if the prompter takes no further action with the generated output):

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/03/16/2023-05...

This is of course up for interpretation by a judge (though I think the US copyright office refusing registration may make it de-facto impossible to get it in front of a judge, as I think it's a requirement to actually bring a suit against someone for infringement), but I suspect this is the kind of distinction that they will consider regarding this particular precedent.
+1

I also find it hard to click links accurately on a mobile screen
> And statistically, the chance that you would be someone who is remembered 100 years from now is kind of slim.

You won't be remembered. The image of you is remembered. Not even that. It would be a photograph of a photograph of photograph of an image. We don't remember julius caesar or george washington. We remember the image of them. They themselves ( who they are or were ) doesn't matter. Just like we remember the image of Jesus Christ, even though the guy might not have even existed. Besides, eventually, there won't be anyone left to remember the image of you. So what's it all about?
It’s funny you think there’s a difference
Do you always respond this way when someone calls out your whataboutism and exaggerations?
> 10,000s of cars a day going by in the background of a modern city

This is covered in the article, however for the sake of added color. Modern cities have a lot going on but are sprawled by comparison. Medieval cities were very compact for foot travel limitations and defense. Families were big and practically everyone went to church so there were many Churches in a small area. The bells would go off every few hours or more for the Angelus, the start of Mass, the consecration, and the end of Mass multiple times a day. You can still experience this in Malta and maybe parts of South America. The article goes into more detail about industry etc. It was noisy!
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Every company wishes they could become a vending machine. Actually, these apps are even better than vending machines since their cost of sales is zero.

And the first rule of vending machines is that user experience doesn’t matter. Who cares if customers’ sodas are getting stuck? Neglect is the business model. What money you lose to bad UX you make up for in volume due to physical presence.

All of that is what it is. But with the erosion of public goods like a public parking lot for critical infrastructure (hospitals) that is what we are left with.

On a personal level, I hate the way all of this busted and unfixable technology is allowed to proliferate. If a refrigerator is broken you send out a repair man to fix it. But if your printer stops connecting to wifi there’s basically nothing you can do.
I'd have to explain that AI is wrong to most people who take it as gospel.
77% with just two.

https://i.imgur.com/qlmmGL9.png
Probably the only redeeming feature architecturally about Boelter Hall.

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