skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The technology inherently tunes into commonalities that associate its training data with incoming prompts and contexts.

An operator can push this pretty far with elaborate and carefully designed inputs, but the system is always going to be gravitating towards the patterns it represents most well.

When you or I look at our first bunch of outputs, we don’t immediately pick up on the nodes it likes to gravitate towards because there are many many of them, and we meed more of our own training data to become better discriminators.

But as these tools become ubiquitous, people will start to get to get this inkling sense of when something feels a little AI-ish. You can already see people do that with ChatGPT and SD/Midjourney output that wasn’t carefully produced. You probably do it yourself.

So far, there’s no real way to conceive of these technologies as not being subject to that kind of signature.

Like you and me, they’re still capable of incredible variety, but also like you and me, each model will have its own signature that can be more or less discerned.

For the arts, that kind of signature means that there will be a continued attention to human artists alongside these systems, because they all bring their own recognizable qualities and aesthetics.
There have been a lot of "how do I become a contractor/consultant" threads on HN in the past. Most of the advice isn't specific to infra, so searching for those will be a good starting point.

To summarize: the best way to get started is always within your network. Reach out to people you know who might need your services, and ask them if they do. If those work out, they'll refer you to other people they know. If things go well, you'll be able to keep yourself busy through word of mouth and never have to advertise.

There's a lot of debate over whether to charge by the hour, the day, the week, or by project. If you're just dipping your toes in the water, it doesn't hurt to start with hourly, because it's low risk for both parties involved. Here's a heuristic: start with the hourly rate you're making at your current full-time gig, and double it. That accounts for the fact there's overhead in contracting that isn't as visible to you as an employee in a full-time job (insurance, employment taxes, etc.), and also for the fact that you may not be able to keep yourself employed full time initially, so it gives you some wiggle room.

If your first client doesn't balk at the rate, increase it by 10-25% for the next client, and repeat. Stop when people freak out at your price or you're retired, whichever comes first.
Property tax is a finite fraction of a landlords costs, it could go up by 3% and the headroom exists on the rest of their expenses.

Further if all expenses increase by 3%, then profit also increases by 3%. With decades of inflation well below 3% landlords weren’t having issues affording repairs, they simply weren’t getting the maximum benefit from the area’s prosperity increasing.
Art Vandelay?
Sounds good. One problem that you will likely encounter in FF is that you can't open the native extension popup (the one that is attached to the action button) programmatically. That severely limits how you can present your UI, with the most obvious choice being injecting an iframe with the extension UI directly into the body of the page. The other choice is opening a new popup window, which is less convenient than seeing things side by side.
I feel mugged having attempted to read that nonsense ;-)
This is so funny because I read the parent post, looked up "a11y", and then read your response. Had a pretty good laugh.
The UK has never had such a law (except on motorways), yet pedestrians know to stay off the roads because it is dangerous.

In those developing countries the reason that there is chaos is because traffic rules are not enforced. When traffic rules are enforced vehicle speeds increase such that pedestrians avoid roads by their own volition.
Silly argument when the Uber cycle has yet to achieve durable profits via monopoly
intelligent-charter.onrender.com

A charting / note-taking text editor.

Tab to get autocomplete suggestions. Highlight and click the summarize button to summarize text.
That's like saying you shouldn't use slang because people have to look it up.
Just realized that the new Chrome webstore doesn't load on mobile, so there's also this link https://smudge.ai
brave did what mozillouldnt
What is unbiased news?

By asking this question you are showing that you are biased yourself and seeking a source that will validate your own bias. If the source doesn't match your worldview, you will categorize it as biased.
So you are telling me the local NIMBY who protests new homes is actually the auto industry in disguise?
With the old returns policy, people were buying boots, wearing them out on the Appalachian Trail, and then returning them. Or buying a whole touring bike (REI sold their own fairly respectable model called the Novara), riding coast-to-coast, and then returning it. Once the internet era arrived and customers learned just what behavior they could get away with, the community was saying it was only a matter of time before REI would tighten their returns policy.
Oh yeah they all just happen to cheer for Palestine right after the Hamas carnage!
What a coincidence life is strange sometimes! ¯ \ _ ( ツ ) _ / ¯
Related HN submission on the front page:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37864525
>When you use Paint Cocreator, we apply content filtering and have other safeguards in place to prevent the generation of images that may be harmful, offensive, or inappropriate, and we are continuing to optimize how Paint Cocreator works based on real-world usage and feedback.

If it's anything like their current Dall-E 3 filtering, the only things you will be able to generate without triggering any warnings or filters are inert landscapes
Your first two examples are the only ones that are consequential and you don’t need AI for either. You could do all that a century ago and you can be 100% sure that intelligence agencies have.
https://scrollprize.org/ explains the original challenge/issue: other research showed "virtual unwrapping" based on CT scans was possible, but these scrolls had ink not clearly visible on CT/X-ray, so they had to go back to less visible structure (I'm not sure if it's the structure of the paper that changes or actually the ink being visible but less).
I guess the parent post want to know if there are any _specific_ and _effective_ change for this kind of attacks.

In this case, simplifying the protocol won't help -- the vulnerability is:

1. Backend servers can't cancel immediately (this is no protocol problem)

2. The client can make concurrent request in a connection (This is the goal of Http/2)

3. The concurrency is pre determined, there is no way for the server to throttle without user-visible error.

4. The client can cancel any request mid-flight (removing this is equally bad, security-wise)

Unless you are removing the concurrency, making the protocol simpler won't fix it.

The protocol designer need adversary mindset, not a simpler mind
Wait'll you see what they charge for hints.
Neither of those two reasons are why Windows became the de facto gaming platform.

Microsofts market share was nearly 100% in the 90s and that's how they became the de facto gaming platform. Because it was the de facto PC platform. Apple was a much smaller company and nearly went bankrupt in the 90s. Microsoft dominated for reasons unrelated to gaming and the legacy continued. Bill Gates was in court for antitrust violations. Apple focused on other niches besides gaming just to survive and avoid bankruptcy.

Mac only has 8% market share, hence Bethesda not caring about Mac. The market is just too small. Even if Apple had the worst possible graphics API, everyone would release games for Mac if it had the biggest market share.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/11/apples-mac-market-share-jump...
Point 1 was written when it was standard practice to stick all of your organisations code in a single repository. The concept of splitting things (history, diffs, etc.) up per app was foreign to a lot of people.
"Return Every Item"
Ops person here. .env files at best should be injected into Developer environment by IDE/Editor. Many IDE/editors have this feature along with Docker. If that's not an option (Thanks JetBrains/Visual Studio), second thing is something like Python-dotenv where library loads .env file at startup, injects them into environment variables and rest of the code is configured to use environment variables. This behavior could even be environment variable controlled and should not error if no .env file is present.
It certainly doesn't say "use a logging library"

it says:
A twelve-factor app never concerns itself with routing or storage of its output stream. It should not attempt to write to or manage logfiles. Instead, each running process writes its event stream, unbuffered, to stdout. During local development, the developer will view this stream in the foreground of their terminal to observe the app’s behavior.

In staging or production deploys, each process’ stream will be captured by the execution environment, collated together with all other streams from the app, and routed to one or more final destinations for viewing and long-term archival. These archival destinations are not visible to or configurable by the app, and instead are completely managed by the execution environment. Open-source log routers (such as Logplex and Fluentd) are available for this purpose.

The event stream for an app can be routed to a file, or watched via realtime tail in a terminal. Most significantly, the stream can be sent to a log indexing and analysis system such as Splunk, or a general-purpose data warehousing system such as Hadoop/Hive. These systems allow for great power and flexibility for introspecting an app’s behavior over time, including:

This is, at scale, utter horseshit. If it said "do what's expedient, but use a library and be flexible in how you generate logs, but for goodness sake use any of the publicly available libraries to be expedient now and reliable and flexible later" I'd shrug and move on, but it's just absolute garbage. "Do a shitty job and someone else will fix it for you" is not good advice, even if it lets you get to market quickly.
Once again I have to give firefox credit for giving users the tools in about:config to disable this. It's cute fluff at best and annoying/abusive at worst.

The browser's UI should more or less be fully off the table when it comes to what a website can change, and that includes scrollbars.
Education is mostly about your parents.
While there is always a chance a backdoor like that exists, and thieves start memorizing default and backdoor codes and also learn how to recognize the corresponding models by sight from a non-suspicious distance... there's an orders-of-magnitde greater chance they use a low skill rock-through-window style attack.
Hydrocarbons and it's derivatives not specifically carbon containing compound.
Ah cool. Yes, that makes sense!

Would you allow people browse the list of existing communities and join them, or are individual communities invite only?
That is interesting anecdote and hearsay, but I was looking for an example. I'm not saying you're wrong, but is there somewhere else I should shop?

Do remember Amazon is getting in deep water for all sorts of things that basically boil down to price fixing, so there are many factors at play for MSRP being solid across the board.
> In other words, baloney. If you don't do that kind of programming, that stuff is very opaque.

That part.
https://www.midi-speaker.com

My first synthesizer. Web components using Web audio and Web midi apis, but no library dependencies. It's built to be extensible, and able to create new synth instruments by providing a bunch of source elements (like audio or video tags use, with custom properties), but those features aren't deployed yet. So just a regular old synthesizer that works in any browser (no midi in Firefox, though), for the time being!
Unfortunate, yet unsurprising. I always looked to Flexport to drive the logistics industry forward, but they are still limited by the extreme inefficiencies between ocean carriers, customs brokers, warehouses and truckers.

There’s no standardized data format that can be handed off at each step without human involvement. It would be optimal to have an algorithm handle the ocean freight, import clearance, and booking the warehouse and trucker to handle it from there.

Maersk took a shot at a standardized data system and called it quits due to limited support. But Maersk does have a platform offering realtime rates on container bookings on their own vessels, import clearance, and trucking through their platform. I believe other carriers like MSC and ONE-Line are following this approach to get their customers on board.

What’s promising is that if one major carrier does succeed with a standardized data process, they can more easily integrate it within the ocean carrier alliance that they are part of. The 3 major ocean carrier alliances control 83% of global capacity. This seems like a more straightforward way to take a stab at setting a standard for millions of containers moving worldwide. Large companies would plug in and to manage their supply chains using their logistics suite, and smaller companies would simply use the ocean carriers dashboards.

For now it appears that it’s still cheaper to hire from the worldwide supply of low paid logistics workers than it is to get everyone on a unified system.
>You should be carrying more than 5 lbs of emergency water on anything more than day camping

Sure, if you really are in the wilderness. But if, like so many of the weight weenies interested in UL gear, you are hiking a well-trodden trail where water stops are frequent and well-mapped, no one is going to lug that weight until the end of the day when they might fill up for cooking with.
My grand kids will get to see the 9.59942^23 Rambo movie.
WebTransport with Datagrams is the UDP way nowadays.
But not anymore?
That bill let's teachers remove students from the classroom still. They just cant be suspended from school. It would be up to the schools to figure out an in-school punishment or improvement program.
Then transdermals as popularized by Steve Haworth. They go through skin and are mounted to flesh and bone.
As I'd commented on the Fediverse thread discussing this post, the distraction of having a horizontal animation responding to a vertical movement is absolutely maddening.

On desktops, I'll remove that horizontal bar via uBlock Origin's element remover or a Stylus CSS rule.
However, this area moves the screen a page per click, instead of a line per click. It actually replaces another, now long forgotten scrollbar button found on the Xerox Star and in some Lisa applications.
I mean, take an average person, show them the UI of a current mac, then the UI of windows 95, and ask them which they prefer?

It’s not the only factor, but it is a factor.
From what i can tell, MEC is generally doing better after being acquired (and IIRC shutting down some stores). before bankruptcy, their own-brand products were seriously dipping in quality and the stores seemed to be shifting more towards premium athlesiure rather than proper outdoor gear.

post bankruptcy they're rebuilding their own-label stuff, and at least in calgary there seems to be more staff in the store and the product mix is shifting back towards stuff i can't find in other local stores.
Yeah, Looking at LinkedIn Insights they put hiring on pause for a while https://www.linkedin.com/company/arangodb/insights/

I think at this point of their development they need to find a way to drive more adoption and ditching Open Source is unlikely to help
They steal your data, though, and get to create behavioral profiles without paying users a cent.
It involves Gabe Newell running the UN. Not saying it's a good option, but it should delay WW3 indefinitely.
Then they should allow native comments
I want this so bad. Take my playlist and jumble up the artists and songs.
Unity. Atlassian. Jetbrains. Elastic.
I thought you were wrong about cash back being not an option, but that changed this year:

https://www.rei.com/help?a=Can-I-receive-my-Total-REI-Reward...

That's pretty lame.
I'm not saying this is the cause of the layoffs, but recently REI instigated a no bags policy (or at least mine did). This isn't the standard buy bags for 10 cents at the register, there quite literally are no bags for sale, unless you decide to buy a backpack.

However, their website gives free shipping for $50 and is the same price as in store. One of the most insane and obviously virtue signaling policies I've ever seen.

I haven't bothered going in person since, and often these stores live off getting you to buy things you don't need when you go in person.
People like celebrities and personalities. Perfect and artificial is the opposite of what they want. People like Taylor Swift because she's Taylor Swift, not just because she's a great singer. (Not to mention that, for music in particular, live shows are a thing.)

There will definitely be a role for fully AI characters when the technology gets there (people love vtubers and vocaloids already!) but I doubt they would ever really replace human performers.
The International Longshore and Warehouse Union has filed for bankruptcy
Apparently Mozilla is working on that for over a year now (announced in Feb '22).
> Anesthesiologists kill a lot of patients.

People who are about to die often get emergency surgery, and guess which doctor the family usually meets only after their loved one is dead?

Is it easy to bump people off with anesthesia? Sure. But a whole lot of surgical complications, both expected and unexpected, get blamed on "the anesthesia".

When someone dies during or immediately after surgery, it's easy to blame the surgery. But if that patient didn't have a life-threatening illness going on, they probably wouldn't have had the surgery. We don't do purely elective surgery (e.g., joint replacements - they're not "elective" as in purely optional, but as in "not getting one for a month won't kill you") on people who aren't optimized, but sometimes, you don't have time to get them into the best possible condition.

A truly unexpected death is a rarity in the OR. It happens, but we've had pretty much the same suite of monitors for the past 30-35 years or so, so safety hasn't seen anything like the vast jumps it made in the 30-35 years before that. The Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation, founded 1985, was the first organization that involved multiple groups of stakeholders (clinicians, drug makers, device makers) in identifying safety risks, and they continue to review closed claims (settled or judged at trial) for possible new risks (e.g., they were able to have the drug rapacuronium withdrawn from the market because the closed-claims database functioned as a post-introduction surveillance system).

Since this is about the UK, "first year of practice" means even less than it does in the US - their post-med-school path is longer and slower than here in the US and Canada.
Image released by the Israeli government is accused of being AI generated
What does organizing a union have to do with this?

People are going to be building this stuff at their kitchen table.

YouTube just surpassed Netflix with teens...no one needs McCorp to make content now and even less so in the future
Pretty close numbers
Reminds me faintly of this story https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Fnd_in_a_Lbry#:~:text=MS%20....
When speaking to diverse stakeholders I will not use acronyms, slang, colloquialism, or jargon because I want to be accessible.
https://eventcount.io

Served its initial purpose, but the domain will expire in 60 days.
Not sure if worth the renewal.
Yeah I still can't believe that on Android you can't interact with them (and they're nearly impossible to see to begin with)
Problem with config files is you are forced to process it properly in pipeline so it can be delivered during deploy AND depending on your runtime environment, you might have to redeploy to change things.

Environment variables exist on just about EVERY runtime, changed without requiring a pipeline run.

However, subprocess is interesting but I've never run into subprocess that is not sharing a config. Where I worked, if you have subprocess that can't see those configs, you create a new service.
The group administrator can decide whether the group is public, i.e. visible in listings or not. I have done a small pilot, and that was invite only, with the link in the Facebook group.

If anybody is interested in working with this, help would be very welcome. The platform is based on python/django with a little bit of Javascript sprinkled on top.

While there are some small coding things needed to do to scale it up, the biggest help would be to work with somebody who would be interested in promoting the site to potential beta users (i.e. groups), for example the communities they are personally involved in.
I actually expect open source models will be small _but larger than they are today_ because phones and laptops will get dedicated chips and software for running eg the best open source (weights?) model

So eventually you could be running decent sized models locally (iOS could even provide an API with fine tuning etc)
We exist.

We’re just hard to find.

There are lots of American companies that have designed their own products and sell online but we are outnumbered by Chinese sellers who use a lot of similar tactics to sell their goods to get better placement.

It is a war zone for most popular product categories.

I’m happy people are starting to cover how Amazon (and Apple to a lesser degree) has decimated the small mom and pop online businesses.

Most of us leveraged social media to find small US communities that were underserved.

And now they are out of business completely or they have had layoffs in the last two years.
No current neoliberal, neocon, or narcissistic populist American leader would precipitate a nuclear exchange because they enjoy self-preservation too much.

The risks are primarily of 3 scenarios spiraling out of control:

A. India attacks Pakistan. Like Likud, India's government is full of crazy BJP war hawks.

B. Putin's power were threatened. His view is that Ukrainian aid is waning and the Hamas attack takes attention away, so he feels pretty safe for now.

C. China attacks Taiwan. Xi is an arrogant autocrat, expanding neocolonial with Belt and Road Initiative, and believe they own the South China Sea. I don't see how this could end without either China obliterating Taiwan manufacturing base or a wider exchange.

Furthermore, it's far more relatively "tolerable" by the international order to diffusely level areas by continual conventional munitions accomplishing similar end results of nuclear detonations: widespread destruction. So why broach an unthinkable red line when there's an equivalent substitute?

I have belief in MAD and self-preservation are the ultimate deterrents when leaders aren't suicidal.

I also believe MAD serves a purpose to prevent future conventional World Wars. Denuclearization, while aspirationally wonderful, would counterintuitively make the world less safe because the average person doesn't understand what actually keeps them safe: a strong military.

The US could get by on 1/3 the amount of defense spending. It's spending way, way too much on boondoggles, pork projects, and the MIC's revolving door of generals and defense contractors.
I don’t understand a lot of the comments there in that thread. People with 4 years there acting like they are old time employees that are immune to layoffs? I feel bad for anyone laid off, but is this how we think about long tenure at a company now?