skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Government owned roads are not necessary. I live in a town with roads that appear typical yet each property lot line meets, so the 'roads' are reciprocal easements to all other property owners. The town maintains the 'roads' so they look consistent, but the people have control and ownership. It's great, and there are zero parking issues on the 'roads' - just call towing company because it's private property.

> shouldn't have been possible

And Silicon Valley Bank shouldn't have been allowed to chase yield by going into long term Treasury debt creating a redemption glitch. But the regulator Federal Reserve allowed it and allowed mark-to-maturity accounting. Many industry regulators are captured by the industry.
I live in a building that was constructed 92 years ago. There are plenty of trees around it and the building is doing just fine.
Watching anything on Paramount+ gives me 30 seconds of incredibly awful blocky graphics, then it finally gives me full-resolution high quality. Usually it's just the Paramount+ ads that are this awful, but I really wish there was a way to say "spend 20s buffering so I can watch the whole thing in HQ".
Guidance failure is my perspective.

There's a practical argument to be made that acceleration + range control = rocket detonated before it leaves bounds.

But from a physics worst-case perspective, if something can move itself to orbit it can move itself plenty far terrestrially.
You might be interested in learning about Erlang – it supports hot code reloads natively: https://oozou.com/blog/understanding-elixir-otp-applications...
Hi Scott! I think I applied a couple of months ago but haven't received a response yet. Can you look into it?
No, the right lesson here is that quadratic algorithms are a particularly nasty middle ground of seeming to work for the small n of development and initial rollout but falling over for the medium to large n of living in production.

Luckily they’re typically easy to notice, and better approaches are often as easy as sorting your input first or caching items in a hash table.

An engineer should therefore catch these things when writing them or in code review and make sure a slightly better option is used in any situation where the size of input has a reasonable chance of growing.

The cost is nearly nothing and the benefit is not shipping code that will virtually guarantee slow response times and bloated scaling costs at best and humans being woken up at night for outages at worst.
Compared to attacking a nuclear plant and blowing up a dam I think it's a footnote. War is ultimately destructive and any kind of infrastructure connected to the belligerents is at risk.
Possibly it did: the Russians might have thought that they were sufficiently ahead of the USA to start a war and survive it. Perhaps, in a flare-up of nationalistic sentiment combined with a bit of political instability at home, the risk of mutually assured destruction wouldn't have seemed too high. In this hypothetical scenario, seeing pictures of American spacecraft landing on the moon, astronauts doing spacewalks before making safe re-entry at supersonic speeds might have made the notion of surviving a war seem untenable, and would have put the Russians off the idea of a first-strike.

I've read a similar argument for spying - that countries begrudgingly want a certain amount of espionage to take place in peacetime. This is because it's better for everyone to know the extent of each other's military capabilities than to accidentally start an arms race out of a misplaced belief that their rivals are suddenly increasing development of weapons.

I was born in the post-USSR world, and am also British rather than American, so perhaps take my perception of the Cold War with a pinch of salt. :)
Why not sue in their home country? Google has a business presence. This is more for show and headlines.
Running the AD9361 at 122.88 Msps
> where a "bug" has potentially life threatening consequences.

What are you referring to? That is not relevant to this story, and would require a deep understanding of the system to make such a claim of negligence.

“The issue impacts the infotainment system. In most cases, the rest of the vehicle systems are still operational ...”

Also, you can't do an update while driving.
Or we could call it pseudoscience? The rigour is what makes it science. Maybe it's false, maybe it's not, but right now we can only speculate.

I'm not discouraging anyone; in fact, I'm encouraging repeating the experiment with more rigour, that is calling for more science.
And if you are not, there is Rider which is just as good if not better than Visual Studio.
See also "π plays Pokemon Sapphire", currently at 372 24-hour segments, and still stuck in the starter town (with a level 76 Sceptile):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pegjULYJae4
NumPy for Numpties (if you know, you know)
Depending where you are in the world, you may be familiar with the word "numpty" or not. And I have no idea how no one had used this title before…
Anyway, here's a start to dealing with NumPy on The Python Coding Stack (plus some etymology for numpty that may surprise you)
That's assuming it doesn't fly to you and then explode. As unlikely as can be engineered, but energetically possible!
The REAL big non-event that no one cares about is this one:

https://www.epochconverter.com/countdown?q=2000000000
I remember it from Silicon Valley when the carver asks for Adderall so that he could stay up for two days straight.
I guess that's the crux of the green initiatives: people don't care about going green because they don't care about their environment footprint, thus generally don't care about the planet or other humans. Now if I phrased this too negative I'm sorry, but I guess I'm still right.
> You can tell because their SOS has the same limitation of no responses.

No, Apple's solution is two-way. The SOS chat is bidirectional.

Globalstar's second generation of satellites don't have the problem with failing S-band amplifiers that has made the first generation an effectively unidirectional constellation.

> It is impossible to do NTN without new satellites.

You can definitely do NTN on existing bent-pipe satellites.

For example, Skylo (used e.g. by "Motorola Rugged" satellite messengers and Android phones) is doing NTN on satellites launched more than a decade ago.
Greenpeace is a new one.

But the others all have motive means and opportunity to varying degrees. The one thing that is still most underdeveloped is how hard it really is to perform a feat like this.
Amazing. Can't wait for some car software stack to be so poorly designed that an FM transmitter can remote takeover.
It looks like they correctly isolated the safety critical components on the instrument cluster and they are still functional without infotainment: https://twitter.com/RivianSoftware/status/172443804967573962...
Ask HN: Linux from Scratch style project with modern twist?
Last year-ish, I followed a series of instructions for a project to install linux somewhat "from scratch" on a computer, but I quickly reimaged it after. It was a fun experience though.

The project I followed wasn't the official "Linux from Scratch". I remember the project had its own version of package-info / some kind of distribution for make/install scripts to compile all the dependencies/userland. The project website was in a monospace font and had some ASCII art.

I know this is pretty vague, but I'm hoping to find this project again, or another Linux from Scratch derivative that's worth doing. Any ideas?
The problem here is assuming that civitai would be the ones who are accountable. I don't think that's the case since they're just hosting a collection of perfectly legal Stable Diffusion checkpoints (aka "models").

The people who download a checkpoint and a LoRA (a special kind of sub-checkpoint or "model modifier" if you will) of some celebrity are the ones who would be generating something like porn using that celebrity's likeness. Not civitai.

In this instance civitai is providing tools that can be used to generate unauthorized porn just like Home Depot provides tools that can be used to make illegal weapons.

Is it illegal to make a LoRA of someone's likeness without their permission? No. Because until it is used to generate images which are then published it's like a gun in a safe, doing nothing... Just sitting there.

There's no federal laws protecting likeness anyway (only certain states). So civitai has no real obligation there.

Is it ethical to make a model of someone's likeness without their permission though? I don't know. To me, it's akin to taking a picture of someone in public... If they're in a public space they're "broadcasting" their likeness.

You can make a really great LoRA of anyone's likeness with just a handful of images. If you're skilled you can probably do it with just one image (using some controlnet stuff).
Blazor actually looks compelling now that it has server side streaming and rendering, as well as component level interactivity.

Once .NET is integrated with the new WasmGC features, it will get even better! (I don't think they mentioned WasmGC on the roadmap but I can bet anything they're going to do it).
Frankly, I can’t deal with the likes of Bari Weiss, Glenn Greenwald, Matt Taibbi, Jordan Peterson, etc, who’ve basically cashed in on their “I’m a progressive, bro!” creds to grift conservatives by telling them things they want to hear. They’ve made very successful careers out of both sidesing everything under the sun.

There’s a reason Weiss was invited to talk at a Federalist Society event here. And it’s not because the Federalist Society is open minded to progressive ideas.
Could we define a common specification for how those brokers should interact with other objects, and call it CORBA?
Building exteriors are regularly cleaned all over the world. It's over a billion dollar industry in the US alone.

It would probably be even larger if more US roofs were pristine white instead of dark asphalt.
He also emphatically denied any wrongdoing after being named in the Panama Papers. What's the point you're making?
If you're posting it publicly then yes it's very likely that it's being redistributed in a pornographic context.
Here's an example. In SQL the "select" clause comes at the start. In C# LINQ queries, "select" comes at the end. A major resulting difference is autocomplete works in the latter case but not the former.

A more pervasive example is how OOP languages do x.f(...) instead of f(x, ...). This also helps with autocomplete. Also it results in calls chaining like x.y(...).z(...) instead of nesting like z(y(x(...), ...), ...).

These kinds of things have noticeable effects on how easy it is to discover relevant methods and how fast they are to type.
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This is diffuse reflection (rough), not specular like a mirror.
I'm not sure what you're trying to tell me. Are you agreeing or disagreeing?
What particles? Why?
Review: 'JFK: What the Doctors Saw' eyewitnesses contradict Warren Commission
>As a commercial product, it failed. We shouldn't say that being commercial is a model for success, [...] But to say Blender owes its success to being commercial feels backwards.

You're misunderstanding what my attempted explanation is about. You're arguing about reasons for Blender's success. That's not my angle.

My explanation is about something else: why Blender's level of polish (not "success") seems to be so advanced in relative comparison with other open source projects out there such as Gimp, etc.

In other words, people's expectations of open-source software usability/polish is so low that Blender's level of execution is surprising. This is the gp's particular wording I'm commenting on, >" I'm amazed at how professional and finished Blender is for being an open source project." (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38262825)

The negative (usability) connotations with the phrase "for being an open source project" is something I've analyzed before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29605885

...all those open-source projects (Gimp, SageMath, etc) that are GUI instead of command-line that people complain of not having the polish of their peers -- don't have Blender's unique accidental history of having the (failed) commercial product kickstart the momentum and evangelism of a community to make subsequent Blender versions eventually exceed the expectations of typical open source projects. The multi-millions gave it a unusual headstart that Gimp, Octave, etc do not have.

I do agree with the following parts of your comment which don't contradict my argument:

>Blender owes its success to the fact that it stopped being commercial, which was (and is) a contributing factor to why people and organizations feel so good donating to it. [...] I very much believe that Blender wouldn't have a community today if it had stuck with its commercial origins.
My 2019 car is not connected to the internet. Instead, I use Apple CarPlay for everything.

Is there any reason not to do it this way?
It quite possibly could have with a well formed digital fm payload.
Having any degree and some social skills can get you a white collar job. While not glamorous it beats shoveling holes (unless you're smart/practical/brave enough to make good money with some sort of physical labour).

That's useful to you since you can make a somewhat easy living. Useful to society? I mean sort of, in most jobs you achieve _something_. The fact that we're inefficient and often build the wrong thing that's useless is more of a failure of the human race in general..
The tweet quoted in the article referenced using “ iPhone 12 Pro + @Scenario3d” but that account doesn’t exist and I don’t see any results online for it. I’m curious, too, because the scan looks maybe better than polycam to me.
> and people only pivoted to that when it became undeniable that Bitcoin was not fit for its original intended purpose.

These days it is likely(1) that the majority of Bitcoin transactions by number(2) are being done via the layer 2 system Lightning, which does have nearly instant payments and low fees. Transactions via Lightning are not recorded on the blockchain, even though you can easily hold funds in a non-custodial way.

I happen to be in El Salvador at the moment, and with the exception of the Chivo Bitcoin ATMs run by the government, every single vendor selling things for Bitcoin has accepted Lightning.

1) It's hard to know for sure, as Lightning transactions have quite good privacy, so it's difficult to get estimates of how many there are in total. But decent lower-bound estimates exist: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/markets/lightning-network-sees-r...

2) Of course, by value it's very likely that on-chain transactions dominate, as there are lots of very high value, multi-million+, transactions out there.
What are you talking about?! Listen to yourself dude, you've completely fallen down a conspiracy rabbit hole. If the US exerted that level of control over private media you would call it a dystopia and a violation of 1A. China also has a policy that limits teenagers to 1hr of online video games a day, surely you wouldn't look at that and jump straight to Activation being a government psyop to stunt education.

TikTok would have to be doing something anything unique in this situation and they aren't. YouTube is the OG radicalization pipeline, Tumblr is more pro-communism than TikTok will ever dream to be, Facebook and IG pioneered doomscrolling before it was cool, and Twitter/Reddit ruined an entire generation of men with the enlightened technoconservatarian nonsense.

I promise you if there is one thing that is absolutely completely certain in America is that we need no help whatsoever in destroying the fabric of our own society and to say otherwise is an affront to American exceptionalism.
This doc and the Elixir doc don't really capture much imo. They are short and hardly get the origin stories told before ending. There isn't much to get excited about before they are over, and they feel kinda like they exist to stroke the egos of those appearing in the film, and not so much to show the community or more importantly the people outside of the community, how awesome these things are. Give me a 1.5 hour long doc on elixir and rails and get past the patting each other on the backs part and into the struggles over the years, switch back and forth between different uses at different shops, etc. Essentially, steal the format of Indie Game The Movie and I'll be more into these because I want there to be great docs about software
For workers who are producing copyrightable output if there is any overlap between the types of things they are doing for simultaneous employers there could be questions about who owns the copyrights.

E.g., if you wrote very similar web code for both Meta and Tinder and one of them noticed and sued the other for copyright infringement things could get awkward.
I find it much more annoying with a machine than with a person. With a person, I can shortcut the process. With a machine, I can't.
Hmm. I don't think I've ever seen screen tearing or something similar on my LG G3, or any of the previous generations that came before.
The bright exhaust is from the solid rocket boosters not the hydrolox engines it's somewhat misleading for the target audience
One feature of Whisper I think people underuse is the ability to prompt the model to influence the output tokens. This can be used to correct spelling/context-dependent words. Some examples from my terminal history:

./main -m models/ggml-small.bin -f alice.wav --prompt "Audiobook reading by a British woman:"

./main -m models/ggml-small.bin -f output.wav --prompt "Research talk by Junyao, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, research engineer at MaiMemo"

Also works multi-lingual. You can use this to influence transcription to produce traditional/simplified Chinese characters for instance.

Although I seem to have trouble to get the context to persist across hundreds of tokens. Tokens that are corrected may revert back to the model's underlying tokens if they weren't repeated enough.
Right, I meant in terms of reflectivity.
> I don't think many people would get such a pass.

You'd be surprised. Especially if the last review of the rules is a while ago or if they have been recently updated. People are sloppy, especially if they think nobody is looking and that it doesn't matter.

> The whole point of paying them from money taken from people's incomes is so they can be impartial.

That's the theory, but as the US supreme court proves that doesn't mean much.

> There's no point having them if they don't add value.

It's never that black and white except for the most extreme cases and those are the ones that in the end usually do make it to prosecution. Also note that in the EU different member states have entirely different views on what constitutes corruption and normality.
Let's see how many releases before they give up and go with the Fedora/EL solution.
On the server side, this is one of the reasons my company is quickly moving all Ubuntu servers to Debian. It is so much easier to just edit /etc/network/interfaces.
> We are stuck with ancient (in AI terms) technology.

What are you talking about? ChatGPT came out only a year ago, GPT-4 less than a year ago. That's the opposite of ancient technology, it's extremely recent.
Not version 1 but I've been on it since Photoshop 3 and have had the exact opposite experience. It was rough early on, crashed frequently and often. Got better around Photoshop 4/5 then had another rough period.

I've found the latest Creative Cloud versions to be the most stable. I cannot recall a single Photoshop crash.
Based on the photo included in the article, what they're calling an infotainment system is actually two separate components, one of which appears to be taking the place of a traditional dashboard. If that's the case and there's no other way to monitor speed, fuel levels, engine temperature, warning lights, etc., I'd say that's quite a bit more worrisome than just not being able to play your favorite music while driving.
If you spend 20 hours fixing something that wouldn't occur with the paid toolchain, at what price does it become worth it to skip those 20 hours when they're not directly applicable to what you're trying to accomplish?
This looks really interesting! Generating large amounts of plausible fake data by modeling the reality is still a big issue both for generating custom demos and for maximum load testing of streaming applications. Will definitely give ShadowTraffic a try.
Windows is good at it. .NET is not bad, but also not particularly good — compared to the Java side, at least.
I think you had a massive number of exclusively JS developers out there who couldn't build a UI outside of a website but wanted to. Then Electron came along and gave them that power. That's how it got so popular, imo.
Squidward singing gangnam style AI song covers on the web
drake singing gangnam style: https://replicate.com/p/czmmyuzbky3fcexrpa4wtj5xtm

trump number 15 burger king foot lettuce: https://replicate.com/p/2pz4qhjbss3u2wghs4ply4ddxq
Galileo's Middle Finger
The database aspect of this problem is particularly interesting to me. I’ve previously built Reshape [0], a zero-downtime migration tool for Postgres, and am now working on ReshapeDB [1], a full database designed from the ground up to tackle this problem.

[0] https://github.com/fabianlindfors/reshape
[1] https://reshapedb.com
The great-grandparent comment was talking about an "information density limit" and black holes in our universe, so I assumed the referenced sci-fi collection had something to do with holography. I don't know of any particular emphasis on AdS in that context before 1997. Elaborate?

Obviously you can stick GR in AdS, but AFAIK nothing about that would've seemed interesting with regards to holography before Maldacena, let alone plausibly providing inspiration to a fiction author.

To be less roundabout than my previous comment: I think Baxter may have been inspired by the holographic principle in general, but I doubt AdS crossed his mind at all when he was writing these stories in the 80s and early 90s.

(EDIT: or maybe Baxter was thinking about AdS but not about holography. I haven't read his work.)
I said “regularly or intentionally”, because I wanted to differentiate that that is what I have a particular problem with.

And yes, a really one-off business report is fine. As long as it runs and produces an anccurate answer, that is fine. Which is why I distinguished that if you find yourself regularly writing these kinds of algorithms and not having alarm bells going off in your head, that is almost certainly a problem.

I have never in 25 years encountered someone who spent noticeably too long optimizing running time for software that wasn’t performance critical. I have had to respond to at least two to four cases per year where somebody assumed a small case would remain small forever (or just didn’t think about it at all) and caused an outage, a severely bloated AWS bill (unbounded autoscaling + quadratic), or some other completely avoidable hell.
The disaggregated write-ahead log (2023)
Exercising - LONG walks
(perhaps downvoted by those who never had to face with realities of running OSS projects or otherwise)
My Lennox system is break even COP at -10 iirc. By then it's also running the heat strip, but we only hit those temps once or twice a year.