skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Much of the value in "tech" is basically treating people like shit at scale. In this example, when a lot attendant was needed, they could only be so unhelpful. Now we don't need to pay them, can push their work onto customers, and simply magically drop any "problem" customers. Same with all this shit. Huge companies exist solely to prevent a human from getting human support, and many more extend the concept to "scale" without properly supporting customers.
This is a well-known problem at more than just parking lots. Any proprietor using QR codes in their place of business should generally be policing the property for rogue stickers. Obviously, quality of the business matters here a lot for that.
Agree. It is a serious problem when actual stuff in the world is based on shitty hell software- when the only way to do the stuff in the world is to enter into the shitty hell software world. Then it is exactly living in hell.
I have, on multiple occasions (in Austin, >10 years ago), paid for parking to an "attendant" at a lot I know is free. Those guys will just have your car towed — the whole scam just hangs together: the towing company charges you for the storage & processing, but not the nominal fee; the attendant gets cash. Win-win-lose.
> Off-brands are hyper-unreliable. There is a stack of chips for reliability, ranked from 100% working, to ones which e.g. have half disabled, or ECC+scrambler.

Nah, that's not at all accurate. There are tons of small brands that have both dirt-cheap drives built using whatever components are cheap that week, and more expensive products using high-grade current-generation flash and controllers. Kingston and Lexar brands operate that way, too, with a mix of cheap crap and more expensive products with quality components (often overpriced). And some of the small brands don't really do bottom-of-the-barrel drives at all (eg. Corsair, Sabrent). And certainly Crucial/Micron have had their fair share of serious SSD issues. Brand just isn't the reliable indicator of quality that you and many other consumers wish it was.
My personal pet peeve is lots that show you the apps you can pay for parking with, but then make it extremely difficult to find the lot ID.

Pay-for parking feels like the kind of thing that should become a utility with one, easy, well-known way to pay for parking anywhere.
Here's an interesting question:

Corridor Digital are getting closer to perfecting AI anime. After the first video, Rock Paper Scissors, they said they got some flak for training the AI on stills from an existing anime movie, so for the second one they hired an artist and trained it from their drawings. Well, what happens if you hire an artist that essentially draws some art work heavily inspired by an existing IP and then you train your AI model on that? Is that infringement, even though the art work you've trained the AI on is now one step removed from official source material, even if it is practically identical? What if you commission another artist to make artwork based on that artwork? And another after that? When does the signal get distorted enough to pass as not being based on pre-existing IP?

The whole thing feels like the "grain of sand" philosophy problem. What constitutes enough change to warrant something as not belonging to an IP anymore? Are we going to have to come up with some sort of image comparison algorithm that spits out a comparison percentage and set some arbitrary number as the cut off point? Or are we going to continue with time consuming and costly case by case, human judged comparisons?

The whole thing feels ridiculous.
The Nazi government was overthrown and its ideology outlawed. Not so with the United States.
I think your order is backwards. Advertising comes last and branding second to last.

Starting with advertising is like choosing what kind of car to shop for by color.
Everything you said about porn on the other side of the camera applies to all other media consumption.
It's what the guidelines call a "shallow dismissal".
"The Story of Mel" https://users.cs.utah.edu/~elb/folklore/mel.html
Since OpenAI created APIs that allow developers to utilize GPT-3 and GPT-4 language models, certain tools like langChain have also flourished. What is their added value? They provide simple and common abstractions to enable developers to experiment with large language models (LLMs), not just those from OpenAI, but also from Cohere, Anthropic, and so on.
These tools or modules also allow developers to incorporate specialized vector stores, which are particularly useful for storing word embeddings. The vectorization of words is crucial as it facilitates the training of language models like GPT by mitigating the curse of dimensionality.
Well, now that we all know there is a word for it, we can evaluate whether our senses were calibrated and amplified for that specific thing.

We won't know it while this thread is active, but if you go to the beach in a week, and exclaim "wow, this feyli thing is pretty nice", then you'll know that your senses for feeling the "sand between your toes as waves recede on a beach" is heightened.
I read the original with interest because it describes very well the absurdly crap systems the world has become infested with and which many of us on this site have become complicit in making.

People are spending vast amounts of time fiddling with shit that doesn't work.
The described landscape is hellish for the tech savvy, too. Just slightly less so. Regardless, why disparage non-tech-savvy people? That's most people.
That's assuming the correct path is taken every time. If I didn't know where the white noise tool was, I wouldn't even think to check the settings for a noise generator. But if I did, it would go

Settings then Sounds & Haptics. 16 options, none seem to match. Maybe "personalized spatial audio?" Oh no,that's saying I need special headphones.

OK it's not under Sounds. Maybe it's in the Focus section? That's what I would use white noise for, focus. 6 options. Maybe it's under "Work Focus" or "Sleep Focus"? No.

General? 15 options, all with sub-menus but none seem relevant.

Control Center? Probably not... That seems safe to ignore. Except if I selected the "Hearing" option in Control Center settings, that actually gives me access to the background noise generator in control-center. But that doesn't seem obvious to me at all.

OK next is Display & Brightness and Home Screen. Probably safe to skip. Which then brings us to Accessibility. Again, it doesn't feel likely to me that it's in here, but no other choice in the settings feels correct, except maybe the Music app? Nope nothing there.

I check accessibility. I look past 18 options and see "Hearing" again, might as well tap that option. Even "Background Sounds" doesn't match what I'm looking for mentally, "White Noise". So it's likely my eyes miss it when I scan the list of options.

IMO it's an app. So make it an app, not an accessibility setting.

It's still hidden, just in a breadth of options instead of depth. A needle hidden in a 1 acre lot covered 1cm high in hay is more hidden than a needle in a 10 ft cube haystack.
I'm surprised you were able to type all of this out with only one hand.
seattle, of all places, should legislate that software built on public money must be publicly available and open for public contributions (with appropriate vetting ofc).

literal thousands of engineers could do better, but may not, and are instead subjected to the profiteers.
> everyone feels equal to the other which is terrible

Assuming I have not misunderstood your thought; I must say i disagree.

One of, if not the greatest thing about the text only internet was that no one knew if you were a dog, and had no excuse to care.
In the US, the Truman and Eisenhower administrations are long out of power. Most Americans alive at the time this happened are dead now. Certainly the ones who were in power at the time.
As soon as you start talking thread pools, you're talking about async task dispatching at some level, even if it's abstracted away at the API level. What I'm talking about is using a virtual thread, not event-driven shuttling of stateful objects between threads via task queues, to complete a request from start to finish.
> Sad to see what Iran has become - no in small part thanks to the US/UK's meddling and installing a crazed theocratic government.

This is some tinfoil-hatted nonsense. I'll be charitable and assume you're unfamiliar with the history, as opposed to a conspiracy theorist who thinks the CIA is behind everything you think is wrong with the world.

Rightly or wrongly, the US and UK went after Mossadegh precisely because the Shah was pro-Western, anti-Soviet, and a staunch ally of the US. Similar in some respects to why the Saudis have been a US ally for so long, although that is starting to fray. Both were authoritarian governments which nevertheless closely aligned themselves with US foreign policy in the region, and got some of our best gear and support in return . . . this is why Iran to this day flies so many 1960s-late 1970s Western platforms in its Air Force such as F-4s, F-5s, and F-14s. They are the only nation we ever sold the Tomcat to, and the Shah personally picked it over the F-15 Eagle, which was also on the table.

The Ayatollahs hated the Shah and have hated the US since the beginning. They call us the Great Satan. If you aren't familiar with the storming of the US Embassy in Tehran and the consequences that had on US history, then you're talking out the wrong end of your alimentary canal about anything Iran- or Middle East-related. The Carter administration attempted Operation Eagle Claw, a do-or-die hostage rescue attempt using special operations forces which went horribly wrong. The storming of the embassy and the failure of Eagle Claw were a national embarrassment. They fed into an overall narrative that Jimmy Carter was a weak, ineffectual, and bumbling President, and were a key driver in Ronald Reagan winning the Presidency in 1980. As a final stick in the eye, the Ayatollahs waited until Reagan had been sworn in to release the Embassy hostages.

So no, the US and UK didn't "install" a bunch of theocrats. They opposed this, and the results of that opposition had historic consequences throughout the 70s and 80s and beyond to the present day.
It could also potentially cause fires as cells spin off and lightning strikes hit areas that are at risk. IIRC this is how the fires at Big Basin SP started a couple years ago.
Dennard Scaling
How can they have it towed if it’s free. That’s just theft.
After WW II, the UK didn't have the power to overthrow anyone. They were ruined by two world wars. You seem to have confused "intent" with "ability."

That's why in 1956, the UK and France had to humiliatingly climb down from the Suez operation. Eisenhower just said, nope, nope and that was it.
I'm not saying that virtual threads aren't a good thing (other runtimes than the JVM have had green threads for a very long time now), but that it doesn't seem like such a paradigm shift. It's still threads (with all the benefits and drawbacks), it's just now that they have less overhead.

Presumably I could just keep an existing server written in Spring MVC or a similar technology and just wait for the underlying container to support virtual threads to get the same benefits. I believe Jetty already does support them. So why would I need a new framework?
No thanks I’m not a christian.
You've put a lot more effort into breaking down a lot of the issues than I would have, but my initial thoughts while reading the post were very similar to what you laid out. But it's almost a disservice to say anything more to this man than, get a job in sales.

He should literally forget everything else written and just focus on getting a job in sales.
There's a 10 hour white noise video on Youtube, you can use that.
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I agree with the author, I just write it in a shorter way.
Amazon Basics, then?
The literacy rate for all males and females that are at least 15 years old is 86.3%. Males aged 15 and over have a literacy rate of 90%, while females lag only slightly behind at 82.7%.
Already a thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDLw1XDMJkk

https://ktla.com/morning-news/technology/scammers-use-fake-p...
No it’s not because it’s not a dismissal.
Or maybe put up partitions in the middle of the plane with digital "windows" embedded inside
Normally I would absolutely agree, but this article is the equivalent of one called "Flying a Boeing 737" in which the author advises you to invert the plane, fly at sea level and turn off all instruments. That is how little the proposed approach in this article makes sense.

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.
The problem of the modern automation is that if I can save my company 1c by wasting an hour of your time then I am incentivised to do so.
> Porn is also depicting lots of things that are conventionally deemed as sins.

Times have changed, those "conventional" attitudes are now considered unethical, as are theistically-based ethics ("sins").
Saw this repo today, fetched it, built a .dylib (Mac) and used Dart’s ffi-gen tooling to generate the bindings from the provided header file.

I’m just experimenting with it together with Flutter. Ffi because I’m trying to avoid spawning a subprocess

Fast forward: Ended up with severe headache and a broken app. Will continue my attempt tmr with a fresh mind haha

This repo is great though, had it up and running within 10 min on my M1 (using f16). Thanks for sharing!
The "crazed theocrats" were the ones that (in 1979 or so) overthrew the government installed by the US and the UK.
Can you pay for parking via a web page, rather than installing some intrusive "app"?
It is worth considering the cost benefit of this criticality. What is gained by not trying to lessen human impact on our environment?
You're forgetting eliminating a potential threat.

Which tends to have effects similar to what you've described. Land that isn't near a potential threat can be invested in much more heavily. Borders are easier to defend, etc.

But improvement to existing resources tends to be more attractive to those with the most resources already.
Here's the bit, buried towards the end:

The 19/12z NAEFS is indicating IVT values 19.1 sigmas
above the mean; it should be noted that it is using a dataset that
does not include the rash of tropical cyclones that impacted the
Southwest in the 1970's, so this value is likely a bit too high.
Even assuming a non-standard distribution and standard deviations
half as large, this is extreme. There is a very real potential
for 3" amounts in an hour in this environment should sufficient
instability be present. Even if instability was completely
eroded, 0.5" an hour totals would be possible; heavy rain appears
inevitable. The 00z Canadian Regional shows local amounts of
towards 10", which would be exceeding rare for the region from a
tropical cyclone, potentially unique for Nevada. The 100 year ARI
is forecast to be exceeded. Some locations within this arid
region are slated to get 1-2 years worth of rain in one day. If a
7"+ maximum materialized over Mount Charleston Sunday into early
Monday, it would challenge Nevada's 24 hour rainfall record, set
in 2004.
In my city, in the rougher parts it used to be somewhat normal to pay someone to "look after your car", of course you were paying them not to vandalise it while you were away! Especially popular on football days when parking near the stadium.

It was only a couple of pounds or so. I haven't been to these parts of town for years so I have no idea if this practice still goes on.
Heh, neutron stars have magnetic fields too https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/526281/why-do-ne...
For Android users, the Google Assistant can produce white noise, shore sounds, etc.

You should probably use an app though. Noise doesn't compress well, which means that you can get strange artifacts when it is compressed from the server to you, and then from your phone to a BT device. An app playing from hardwired or internal speakers is best.

There is a good app called Chroma Doze. It lets you tune the noise to the exact spectrum needed for your situation. It also blends the noise very well so that there is no loop heard. Plenty of apps/devices think that 3-4 seconds of noise looped is enough, but one you hear it, you can't unhear the loop.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.pmarks.chr...
> This is one of those things that tech really didn't "fix"

It solved a very real problem of surveillance/advertising and skimming a little cream off the top in the process
A 6 minute video weighting at about 150MiB for "explaining" what can be summarized in a couple sentences of text is another particular version of hell.
The Revolutionary War was over a disagreement between England and the US over the validity of the declared independence on July 4th and the US won that argument when the Treaty of Paris acknowledged the validity of the Declaration of Independence.
Technically they are all called tropical cyclones with the word hurricane being specific to the North Atlantic.
I grudgingly took a flight last year. I intend for it to be my last, to travel less (I've already traveled so much in my life, like a child of wealthy parents in the 1800s might spend a year or two exploring the world before they settle down), and when I do go more than a few hundred miles I'll go by train or car with my family (I know I know, driving is less safe, but we also don't really like to drive long distance, so that's a damper). Ideally Amtrak gets more federal funding, rails are maintained better, and the cost of family cabins is reasonable for an annual trip (we have a young child). We'd travel by bicycle if the roads accommodated that (I know I know, bicycling isn't for everyone, but it was a great way for me to cover thousands of miles as a tourist and about the same as a commuter. My spouse, too, until she needed a vehicle for work). For us to have a smaller ecological footprint we have to be okay with converting less energy for selfish reasons. Easy for me to say, having benefited so much already.
What about too loud and too annoying drug dealers?
> What you are trying to do is hijack the term open source to enable companies like Meta to market their proprietary software using the goodwill generated by the FOSS movement

Meta has already called it's software open source. And it may be fair enough.

> There is no way FOSS developers and FOSS users will switch to a phrase that you just made up ("hackable software")

Phrases are usually made up by someone, but not one has to switch if they really don't want to.
Down with house rules! Up with monopoly rules as intended!
It was sarcasm. One clue that a non-American might not get is that Benjamin Franklin was never president.
Do you think it might be psychosomatic? The quality of many textbooks' content would be sufficient to evoke the odour of vomit, I tender...
Yep.

The other day I just wanted to update a dependency in my Python project and now it’s crashing in CI (doesnt locally) due to a missing C header file. No amount of git clean allowed me to reproduce it locally (using venvs). It used to work fine before. I just gave up for now. The article summarises my feelings perfectly.
Or for actual computer users who want to avoid Android like the plague it is (also iOS).

Between this (I've basically given up parking on the streets ever again, I'm now forced to always go for actual parkings) and banks, it is indeed hell.
Any hints on unseeing spermatozoa in their wind visualizations?
Previously: "[Pike is] hardly the first hard-core hacker to be ignorant of the degree to which type theory has seen dramatic advances since the 1980s."
It's a comment on this quote from Pike:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6821389

I think Pike definitely had not, at that point, explored the way types work in ML-style languages.
The IntelliJ Early Access Program will be out sometime before then, if you’re willing to go for a potentially unstable IDE experience.
Then why would they believe that it doesn’t know anything about your software?
You're making leaps just for the opportunity to be snide. Attendants aren't the only solution by a long shot, and they are not a bullshit job absent other systems. You are criticizing the image of a person, not a specific person.
Spotify doesn't keep the screen on for ten hours.
Thanks so much for sharing. I wrapped up instrument earlier this year entirely in a TAA. Went out with my CFII a few times in steam gauge because I felt like I was missing out
I support this statement! I'm a reasonably tech-savvy iOS user, and these parking apps are among the worst digital experiences I have ever encountered. And I say that as a frequent SAP Concur user
US foreign policy has not deviated from this same kind of practice one iota as Freedom of Information Act releases continue to confirm. We only find out long after the guilty administrations have moved on, except if leaked by Snowdens, Mannings, or Winners sooner.
> So, the correct question to ask is "what can we do as a reasonable trade-off to reduce the number of fires in the future without compromising the quality of life?". And the correct answer is "educate people on how to spot hazardous terrain and contain the fires they accidentally started". Requiring fire extinguishers at campsites/ATVs could help. Doing some training would help. Doing controlled burns would help. Renaming Environment Canada to "Environment and Climate Change Canada| and closing down local production in favor of Chinese imports won't.

This is such a wild false dichotomy.

Unless you're saying climate change has nothing to do with it, or is making fires better, it's a strange thing to play devil's advocate about -- especially pre-emptively.

I accept the scientific consensus that climate change is making a lot of these natural disasters worse/different and more frequent, so addressing climate change and teaching people how to survive novel natural disasters are both important on different time scales.
So does something like computer-rendered Overwatch characters performing sexual acts qualify as "ethical porn"? Often they even feature the otherwise female characters with male sexual organs, thus "challenging hetero-normative porn narratives", which this article alleges is a key component of being "ethical".

Or would it fail the authors ethics test due to starring idealized, "traditionally beautiful" characters, in extreme contrast to the article's illustration that features exclusively harshly unappealing characters?
My child-level attempt got 63.1%, so there are definitely diminishing returns.

Side note, I did not notice the button to show the reference until I was almost finished. I would most likely have done better if I had known :)
American teens hate Android phones. Non-American teens don't particularly care about iPhones, or even prefer Android phones.

The greater majority (eighty-something percent) of smartphones in the World run Android.
> 1. Add a way to block users.

Along with ability to block whole domains. And perhaps a tag feature that could help to filter out stuff like general news or politics (assuming that tags would be required during submitting)

There are paid spammers around who upload almost on hourly basis; there was also a time during pandemic when nothing but links from one domain was constantly posted.

I don't expect admins to do anything regarding that but they could at least provide some tools for users to filter out stuff that's being dumped here
Ah, not the pointer problems I thought they were talking about...
Same as if you want to sign up for OpenAI. You can't, so go somewhere else.