skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Usually journalists don't actually understand what they are reporting on.

Usually that's fine because most readers don't actually understand what they're reading.
And also be serving alcohol to others...
> At face value, this looks like a conflicted party asking a third party to take over a tainted investigation.

KBI is not a third party, they were active participants in the investigation leading to the raid, and released a supportive statement during the outrage over it.

(The third party that needs to get involved is the US DOJ.)

https://kansasreflector.com/2023/08/13/kbi-director-on-mario...
A few years ago, they moved the OS to a “sealed system volume” — basically, the entire OS is stored on an immutable disk image, signed and verified with a Merkle-tree sort of structure. This has a few advantages: malware cannot modify the OS, you can’t brick your system by accidentally deleting OS files, updates are far more robust (they don’t have to change files on your root filesystem), and the OS can be stored unencrypted meaning you can boot the system without requiring the user’s password first. (And of course, there’s an opt-out if you really want to modify OS files.)

The big downside is that installing an update means you have to rebuild and re-sign the entire OS image, which takes forever. When they first introduced this model, I was surprised at this: I expected they could generate the
new OS image in the background, while you’re still using the computer, then just swap over to the new image with a single reboot, instead of requiring a ton of downtime. I think they might finally be doing this with macOS 14/iOS 16 — I’ve been running the betas for both and noticed restarting to install updates has become far, far faster — like maybe a minute or two.
It's really weird that this works. I can see how LoRA on a specific fine-grained concept like Ugly Sonic can work with so few samples, but naively I'd think such a diffuse concept as "!wrong" should require more bits to specify! Like, isn't the loss function already penalizing the model for being "wrong" on all generated images?

(I wonder if there is a follow-up experiment to test if this LoRA'd model actually has better loss on the original training dataset? There's a very interesting interpretability question here I think. Maybe it's just doing much better on a small subset of possible images, but is slightly worse on the remainder of the training data distribution.)
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I'm not fluent at it, but I think that might be because I overthink it. Often my first gut instinct is pretty close though. I can do it at what you might call a halting speed.

I blame Amadeus of course. Gniklat sdrawkcab si nuf!
> all smelled of old nicotine and damp

Nicotine is odourless.
even more data, code, and materials related to the study: https://zenodo.org/record/8032086 (linked at the bottom at the science article)

also at github: https://github.com/OlenaShcherbakova/Sociodemographic_factor...
Agreed! Which is why I think it's especially disrespectful to criticize people making honest efforts to help as being "know-it-alls trying to show off" in cases where their idea of the ideal kind of help is different than what the original poster had in mind.
Do you have a link? It appears impossible to Google something this common.
Flatpak doesn't have that problem. Each app specifies the exact versions of runtime libraries it wants and files are de-duplicated.
Keep it away from musical instruments if you’re outside jamming around the campfire: strips the lacquer finish right off.

And apparently strips the finish off a lot of things, say sibling commenters.
Thanks! Is https://github.com/w-okada/voice-changer correct?
They also just know whatever you have ever purchased, including what size jeans you bought.
mmhmm, and what happens to their email at the old address?
I think also one of the issues was that it wasn't opt-in, it wasn't deterministic from day one (I truly believe it should have), and it broke building when using git references as the detection was just triple based.
> I'm completely and utterly tired of fixing the next 14916498th bug that's caused by package X and Y having shared dependency Z, then X updating Z to Z+1 and breaking Y

This is not "Linux", it's users who mess around with (and ultimately break) dependencies in order to get the latest version of programs at any cost.

If one uses, say, an Ubuntu version and 3rd party repositories for that version only, they're not going to get any dependency issue, since all the programs will share the same library versions (dependency bugs do happen once in a long while, but they're rare, and they're exceptions).
Taxing people out of their homes would help resolve the problem because homes in prime areas for development are often held for an extremely long time, especially in California, due to distortionary tax incentives.

This is politically impossible to say because it usually amounts to pricing out old people from places that could use an apartment building.

The main thing requires zoning reform, agreed - but higher land taxes would absolutely help.
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Is there any video or screenshot?
It seems klutzy and yet fully in the spirit of XML.
You can say the same things about child labor. It's a classic race to the bottom. We need regulation.
> What are the motivations for people to be daily activate users these days? Honestly just curious.

It's useful so you stay connected with friends who don't necessarily live next to you. That's the motivation for at least monthly active, maybe daily if you've got a lot going on.

Also, when I was in college (2014-2018), Facebook was extra useful because it was the default way of inviting many people to an event, and there were also really active pages like "free and for sale." It was also a directory for classmates/housemates to contact you if they didn't already have your number, which was an occasional bacon-saver. Nowadays FB Messenger is still ubiquitous enough that at least you can invite ~20 people via a group chat without having to deal with SMS (cause one guy will always have Android).

Of course, you could easily use it to kill time scrolling through random stuff from strangers and possibly go overboard to the point of it being mentally impactful, same how daily video game addiction is different from playing an hour per week. I'm also not going to ignore how social media is more addictive than a lot of other things.
at least in the uk, nurses don't prescribe
My man…if only you knew

6 years ago an intern in chromeOS using Gem5 found an optimization in how Android’s ART emits code that would help all in-order arm cores(a-5x) to the tune of 10%. A simple fix. He prototyped it. It worked. Fix was a dozen lines. It never shipped…
Rush is an alternative to gnu parallel that is MIT licensed:

https://GitHub.com/shenwei356/rush

As you mention xargs has parallel capabilities and gargs is Apache licensed software that fixes some of xargs shortcomings:

https://GitHub.com/brentp/gargs

No reason to use gnu parallel.
"You need to send us a handwritten page that we'll send to a graphologer in Switzerland. Nobody is hired without a graphological report."

I did that, got hired, and wouldn't comply again. First job after university.

Nothing bad happened. Years later I could read the report, and it was nothing remarkable.
You are diagnosing a symptom as the cause.
This is Big 4 consulting at it's finest. I saw Accenture and McKinsey fleece a lot of big companies and government agencies with these tactics. Some were downright underhanded and deceitful.

There is also a world of actual expert consulting. I worked in this space for a long time and while we definitely sniffed for opportunities to increase our scope we mostly did it by building reputation and delivering exceptional work. It's really, really hard to tell the difference from a pitch though.
It basically means that clause doesn't do anything. If it is phrased as a request, rather than a requirement then it doesn't violate anything for sure.

The author of Notepad++ for example is famous for adding all kinds of statements associated with the software and in no way is that part of the license.

On the other hand, if your license.txt states to i.e. not use the software for evil aka JSON famously did then yes, it is part of the license.
I'm not in illustration, but isn't it already common to hire someone to create a "style book" of what it should look like, and then have other illustrators follow that? eg, I recall animated shows working that way.

Doesn't seem so incredibly different from that.
The problem with that idea is that if Tesla ever gets out of fantasyland, their valuation is absurd, and the stock would go down regardless.
In what way is Flatpak being forced on you?
Another "think a bit differently" trick, which sometimes helps me, is to ask myself what I would advise someone else to do, in a similar situation.

This can help get past some individual biases.
You may be interested in the open source framework we're developing at https://github.com/agentic-ai/enact

It's still early, but the core insight is that a lot of these generative AI flows (whether text, image, single models, model chains, etc) will need to be fit via some form of feedback signal, so it makes sense to build some fundamental infrastructure to support that. One of the early demos (not currently live, but I plan on bringing it back soon) was precisely the type of flow you're talking about, although we used 'prompt refinement' as a cheap proxy for tuning the actual model weights.

Roughly, we aim to build out core python-level infra that makes it easy to write flows in mostly native python and then allows you track executions of your generative flows, including executions of 'human components' such as raters. We also support time travel / rewind / replay, automatic gradio UIs, fastAPI (the latter two very experimental atm).

Medium term we want to make it easy to take any generative flow, wrap it in a 'human rating' flow, auto-deploy as an API or gradio UI and then fit using a number of techniques, e.g., RLHF, finetuning, A/B testing of generative subcomponents, etc, so stay tuned.

At the moment, we're focused on getting the 'bones' right, but between the quickstart (https://github.com/agentic-ai/enact/blob/main/examples/quick...) and our readme (https://github.com/agentic-ai/enact/tree/main#why-enact) you get a decent idea of where we're headed.

We're looking for people to kick the tires / contribute, so if this sounds interesting, please check it out.
It seems you're describing exactly why the price increase is warranted.
This comment breaks it down. Namecheap is using the opportunity to sneakily increase their markup, which is a bit underhanded IMO.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37213773
UI feedback:

- "Tap → to continue"

I'm on desktop, but whatever. I click the arrow in the sentence. Nothing happens. Maybe it means hit the right arrow keyboard key? Nope. Oh, you mean click the /other/ arrow elsewhere on the screen...

It's also unclear when the tutorial ends and the normal app begins. I kept clicking the "next" icon for a while think they were just examples until I eventually realized I was supposed to be drawing already.
Inherently won’t you always need the same level of complexity to express the same meaning with equivalent preciseness? You either have complex grammar, vocabulary or both.

Though I suppose in the far future sending thoughts to each others brains directly will probably require less energy and will be completely unambiguous.
> Generally making rent payments and investing the money you would have spent on the house in the stock market will get you further ahead in terms of ownership stake than just making payments on a mortgage.

This cannot be accurate.

1: rentals are often as much or more expensive than a mortgage (the problem is the down payment)

2: rental prices *constantly* go up, despite nothing changing in the house or apartment you're living in. Mortgages stay flat (in the US), so raises, etc, aren't eaten up by a cost of housing that exceeds the local inflation rate.
This dovetails with another Jobs story -

> After the iPad launch, Jobs supposedly walked into a meeting with the Mac team, carrying an iPad. He woke up the iPad, which happened instantaneously. Then he woke up a Mac, which took a while to come out of sleep. Then he asked something like, “Why doesn't this do that?

Without the iPad there to show it was possible there would have been arguments about memory speed and disk speed etc. And faster Mac sleep/wake put pressure on Windows to up their game.
Circa 2000, I was invited for a lunch interview.

I walk into a completely dark and empty cubicle space, one lit office in the back.

Lunch meant the interviewer ate a Hot Pocket off a paper plate as we talked.

Didn’t even offer me any.

First interview I walked out of.
There are two problems with this: a) natural language is inherently poor at giving artistic directions compared to higher-order ways like sketching and references, even if you got a human on the other end of the wire, and b) to create something conceptually appealing/novel, the model has to have much better conceptualizing ability than is currently possible with the best LLMs, and those already need some mighty hardware to run. Besides, tweaking the prompt will probably never be stable, partly due to the reasons outlined in the OP; although you could optimize for that, I guess.

That said, better understanding is always welcome. DeepFloyd IF tried to pair a full-fledged transformer with a diffusion part (albeit with only 11B parameters). It improved the understanding of complex prompts like "koi fish doing a handstand on a skateboard", but also pushed the hardware requirements way up, and haven't solved the fundamental issues above.
I don't know for sure if an LLM could do it. But theoretically one could build a system that sends chat messages asking for clarification and also eventually with more context or something is able to translate vague or stupid "requirements" into ones that make sense.

In five years or so the capabilities may be pretty amazing.
7. Don’t force me to log in and create an account just to read some text.
After number 15:
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I agree this is an incorrect usage of the term. Had they simply been unable to match with anybody but still saw everything as the same, that would be a shadowban.

I'm not sure what the correct term is for gently nudging people to get off the platform by making their experience worse.
Very pragmatic view from Sam, he is missing that the “gacha” nature will go away

People will prime their image generation with a specific series of image and combine them with new prompts, packages will be made to prime their AI and then they’ll go from there
This was even weirder when it was common to have no capability to interact with the parasocial target at all--in the pre-Internet world--through TV, music, or movies. Before then tabloids like Enquirer Magazine gave people the sordid details of celebrities personal lives, which I always found very strange to care about.
Why did the Fellowship even take Merry and Pippen along?
Android app authors ought to read this too. I recently had an android app where the button on one screen was past the bottom of my screen and it wasn't scrollable. I went to report the bug and someone else had already reported it.

Given that the workaround was to set the system font-size small enough that the button would appear back on the screen, this would also be an accessibility problem for those who have their font-size set larger, even if their screen would be normally large enough to display it.
Oh, there are lots of explanations for inflation, usually one party or another raised prices (those bastards!).

Consider you have $100. You buy 10 items at $10 each. Now the running dog capitalist swine raises the price to $11. You now can buy only 9 items. Money doesn't appear in your pocket to cover the price increase, so simply fewer items get bought.

That's what's wrong with all those other inflation theories.

But with the increase in money supply theory, the extra money dilutes the value of the existing money, and money does appear in your pocket as you get an inflation raise.

This would not be possible without the creation of more money.
Yeah, this is quite nice once you are used to it.
As they shouldn't. Anyone characterizing this as anything other than systemic corruption is downright insane. It may not be the jurisdiction you live in, but it absolutely deserves attention being brought to it.
HN is probably more tasting room crowd than local watering hole (which I'll also cop to), but bars are a public space which can rapidly go from safe to unsafe (and their patrons, harmless to violent), and you need people with some amount of maturity to handle that.

My father repped a few bars early in his career as a lawyer (70s/80s). One condition: no pool cues.
She left too soon. Lots of work for others to carry forward. Peace to her friends and family.
This was essentially my post

Its like you take your AI to school, or do a Matrix-style data upload into your AI so its up to speed on a new concept

Professionals will learn how to do that, the market will cater to people that want to do that
> So you say it's 1/2 even though you know that as soon as you read the message you will update it to 2/3. Is that right?

Nope, its 1/2 afterwards, too.

Because you knew you were going to get one, and that is additional information; for much the same reason as the scenario outlined after that in GGP, it is twice as likely that the one you would get whichever one you do get if it was not a mixed pair.
> What should be an attribute on a tag, and what should go between tags?

I think a good rule of thumb is that attributes are for key/value pairs that are probably not user-visible and definitely not directly user-editable.

Carried to a logical conclusion, this would simplify the auto-creation of form GUIs.
I would say .com, .net, and .ca if you happen to live in Canada.

> I’d also like to use a TLD that is unlikely to be bought by private equity (I vaguely recall this being attempted with a popular TLD).

That was Ethos Capital and .org IIRC. They’ve managed to acquire two major registry operators [1]. A huge number of the new gTLDs are under that umbrella. The new gTLDs are a great idea, but (IMO) the poor management and greed that comes along with private equity makes them too risky to use.

1. https://ethoscapital.com/portfolio/
Rent control only makes housing less affordable in the long run, this is the consensus of economists [0], and ignoring this is the left-wing equivalent to pushing oil & gas and continuing to ignore the consensus opinion of climate scientists - beneficial to ones short-term interests but absolutely screwing the future.

[0]: https://www.kentclarkcenter.org/surveys/rent-control/
You should also worry about how other peoples' time is wasted when you miss important details then comment about easily assuaged worries.

Quoting the article "I use GCC 11 on an Ice Lake server. My source code is available.", linking to https://github.com/lemire/Code-used-on-Daniel-Lemire-s-blog/... .

From the README at the top-level:

> Unless otherwise stated, I make no copyright claim on this code: you may consider it to be in the public domain.

> Don't bother forking this code: just steal it.
I suppose the implication is to enjoy what you can before those things take hold, or during them as best you can if that's the hand you're dealt with. To me this implies the importance of a work/life balance. Working with the hope that it will pay off later has to be traded off with the knowledge that your later life may be inherently less joyful or may not even happen.
The story is really about the media not the explorers and the media loves to cover themselves.
It’s not Steve. It’s the engineers who care about saving lives. I have tried to pitch the idea of saving lives to different people. Many of them think it’s nonsense to care about other people business.
No, he is describing a situation where a single company has monopolized the stewardship of a common resource, and the government has not sought out alternative bids despite that being best practice.
NVidia was truly a spectacular opportunity. So was Microsoft, Databricks, etc. I picked a dud, and didn't realize it until it was too late (just now). Question is .. what are the obvious winners today, and for the next 10 years?

Some opportunities I missed but they didn't go anywhere: Docker, Qualcomm.

Consumer Devices is a general dud I think. Software and data is where it is at. I dunno?
She cited herself as a reference and her last three employers were all clearly made up. Another coworker hired her anyways, because of her appearance. It didn't end well.
I've always believed that the pushback against private consumption of mind-altering substances is due to the puritanism underlying American culture.

“Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.” - H.L. Mencken
IMO complex grammar just creates a high barrier to being understood at all, while hiding the complexity in vocabulary allows a more gradual learning curve.
Maps drive me fucking nuts, taking over zoom. As do nearly every other app that does it. They think they know what's good for me, and they don't, and it leads to me using them less. Yes, paper maps just work better for me a lot of the time.

The only thing maps.app or Google maps are good for are finding places to spend money or driving to places to spend money. If you have any other spatial interests, they're almost pointless.

I would happily run a build that removes this capability.
I had the opposite problem with a web page the other day. When I zoomed in, the text resized itself to still fit the same amount of text in the viewport, but since other elements would zoom correctly, the more I zoomed in, the smaller the text got.
I don't deny it. People want more housing, just not right next to them.

Move the decisionmaking authority for zoning to the metro or state level where this sort of local regulatory capture is harder. Get more new housing spread everywhere, rather than concentrated in the few spots that are okay with it (or are too politically weak to stop it).

The current setup is kind of a prisoner's dilemma. Ideally everyone would approve housing next to them and that would be the impact almost everywhere would be small, since new construction would be spread out, and housing prices would go down a lot. But if you choose to opt out of new housing, well, then you get to deal with zero new construction, which for many people is an improvement. But then if everyone does that, hardly any new housing.
> "Fear is the mind killer".

I wonder if anyone has ever done a cross-check of the "fearlessness" lit authors for signs of toxoplasmosis.
A quick decision is likely better than procrastination unless some germane info is likely to be forthcoming soon. But using a coin flip for everything is clearly pathological.
Not if the ads targeting wrong person.
This has not been my experience at all. The more I publish, the more interaction I get. The more interaction, the more people keep reading (i.e., subscribe).

But this is clearly the author's experience, and if I were him I'd be deathly curious to determine the optimum number of blog posts per period for maximum interaction. One per year?
Wow this tool is fantastic, thank you! The UI is very nice and simple. How has this not existed in Unix for 30+ years?

https://github.com/justanhduc/task-spooler
> But remember that capitalism doesn’t optimize for minimal physical waste - it optimizes for minimal waste overall.

No, at best it optimizes for minimal waste of capital. If you can't find a way to use it for marketing or to receive subsidies, giving food to people who can't afford to pay for it is the same as throwing away food within capitalism: both are waste in a capitalist sense.

Material waste is only relevant within capitalism inasmuch as the material in question is valuable.