skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Microwave relay links predate spaceflight and even when comms satellites became a thing, it made (and still makes) little sense to beam regional TV/radio/phone up to geosynchronous and back, due to cost and latency. There was no good replacement to terrestrial microwave until fiber optic became a thing.

In a very real sense microwave relays are the direct descendant of the optical telegraph (aka "clacks" in Discworld lingo).
According to Wikipedia there are at least 7 types of American aircraft in the Indian Air Force and at least one British aircraft in the Japanese fleet, so I’m not sure what answer you’re angling for with “why does…?”

Agreed, all products, especially industrial and military products, are purchased based on their complete offering. The US is able to make very strong complete offers for a variety of reasons (e.g. the supply chain for replacement parts). I don’t think it’s fair to ascribe this to “flexing geopolitical muscle,” which IMO reads like “the US is strong-arming its customers into inferior products.”
Honestly, I couldn't say Johnny. I'm not a graphics engineer, just a hobbyist game programmer who works in construction, but I did so some internet searching and came across some blogs that I found interesting.

1. Finding Your Home in Graphics Programming, https://alextardif.com/LearningGraphics.html

2. Applying for Entry Level Graphic Jobs in Games, https://alextardif.com/GraphicsJobGuide.html

3. Junior Graphics Programmer Interview Questions, https://erkaman.github.io/posts/junior_graphics_programmer_i...

4. Interviewing Graphics Programmers, https://www.jeremyong.com/graphics/interviewing/2023/08/05/g...

5. Interview Questions, https://aras-p.info/blog/2016/11/05/Interview-questions/

6. Game Programmer Resume Tips, https://github.com/unpacklo/game-programmer-resume-tips
And yet the humans doing the construction still have to measure angles in non-obvious manners regardless of the kind of staircase they are installing.
I would also recommend the site "Science Fiction Ruminations": https://sciencefictionruminations.com/

Lots of thoughtful sf book reviews with a heavy (but not exclusive) focus on the New Wave.
I always assumed that image generation services had prompt and output filtering. The reason I believe this is that I've crafted prompts that seemed to pass the prompt filter, generated, and then were unable to be displayed[1]. Presumably there is an output filter that determines if the generation violates ToS against things like nudity. Though in my case, I wasn't able to generate images that too closely resembled Ansel Adams photographs. Shame on me, I guess.

1. This reads a little like being able to deduce what's going on by studying the timing, now that I reflect on it.
> Dick's genius was recognized only after his death.

Which we should give credit for: I only found PKD due to Jonathan Lethem's advocacy. PKD fans are likely to enjoy Lethem's sci-fi, especially Gun, With Occasional Music.

The crew of writers responsible for elevating PKD from pulp to cult deserve some attention, especially from PKD fans (aka "Dick-heads", which is just the most perfect name for a fandom).

> I'd like to see something from Heinlein before he had the stroke like The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

Plus one for The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. That's probably the best of Heinlein's work.
Because you can't gamble if your money isn't in the casino.
Beats Studio Pros with all of the Apple sound features are half off for Amazon's cyber Monday deal. Considering for one of my kids.
I registered rylang.net, but I have not put anything there yet. I'll put something there when I get further along. Only just added destructors for now.
That doesn't solve the same set of problems as TFA. Randomized output order for sequential input, skips IDs that include profanity.
And if the cover animal is in colour there’s colour inside, if it’s got a black and white animal then there’s only black and white print inside
Can't read it as it's behind a paywall, but unless this is compared against the toll that commuting/working in an uncomfortable environment/extra expenditure/worse diet it's not very helpful. On top of that video conferencing is highly dependent on roll. There's a few people in meetings all day, every day, some on a few meetings a day, and other on a few a week.
What makes Zoom unique or different from simply using a computer doing other work for an equivalent amount of time? Or from being in meetings for an equivalent amount of time?

Here's the actual study cited, minus the "news" regurgitation, suggestive language, and interpretation:

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-45374-y
The root cause is that the text encoders (e.g. CLIPText) used to power image generation models are too good and can handle semantic synonyms, even oblique synonyms such as "Mickey Mouse" and "a famous anthropomorphic mouse mascot".

The repo mentioned focuses on NSFW content, but I've had an idea that can theoretically identify arbitrary cases that could be undesirable by image generation services: get a large dataset of CLIPText encoded texts, and train a LLM to take in said embeddings and output synonyms, or maybe something with contrastive loss like CLIP itself.
Discussed at length the other day

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38386646
This squares pretty nicely with more conventional libertarianism that I usually encounter. Lots of blather about non-aggression, intellectual honesty, and personal freedom, but practically they tend to align in favor of things that result in keeping more money, and against things that result in keeping less money.
Who in power did Rembrandt afflict?
Presumably a catch-all to avoid having to do research and/or missing an entry.
The early, cheap phase of streaming was funded on the back of overpriced, bundle cable subscriptions. I think it's underappreciated how much streaming gutted this business model. Not that it was justified per se, but streaming went from a nice bonus on top to an "oh shit, we killed the golden goose" for the content industry.

Therefore, I think what we're seeing is inevitable. Higher prices, more silos, and a possible return to bundling or similar. And probably with less content to go around. That will push some into piracy, but we all know that never made up a substantial fraction of users in the first place.
Yeah, it’s a sad world.

I’d be happy to use Capture One, but it’s only for Win/Mac, and my PC has been strictly Linux for the last 15 years (and I don’t want to deal with another OS just for one application, at least the tablet I use for other purposes).

But even with the tablet there are limitation. I’d gladly use Android, but Affinity is only available for iPad OS, and Lightroom mobile doesn’t yet offer all the needed features (bracketing/stacking for example).
Technoblade never dies!
Use BroadcastChannel; you don't need no sockets

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Broadcast_C...
Without even reading the article, I will cast my vote here as a resounding "Hell no!".
> Both could be equally wrong and hallucinated.

As can I. I recently broke my years long streak of not deleting something by accident with an errant bash command.

Just because a tool has the potential for a negative outcome doesn't mean it shouldn't be used. It just means appropriate caution should be used as well.
True, but those are all pretty different from AI, though.

It’s not immediately obvious that human cloning has great benefits. Ditto human hybrids (supposing that’s even possible). And nuclear weapons proliferation is pretty difficult to hide because of how they’re made.

But prove your data center isn’t running AI models.
More than 200 years of Supreme Court decisions show there's no one "the spirit" of the constitution we can consult via Ouija Board on Capitol Hill. There are many, and they often disagree.

Fortunately, we have institutions where they can duke it out. And where we can fight about what the decisions mean.
Yes, they are considered not safe for work.
>without a dual income, a family can't survive.

Many families in America can't survive even with a dual income.
I don’t see the issue; either you severely limit your model or you allow all forms of expression and give responsibility to the generator
Every person I've known who's family owned a car dealership was mega rich, and I've known a few.
I would love to see this approach combined with equivalent mechanisms.
Right, wow that was a stupid decision for a big company!
That's why my friends and I built the Align API (https://alignapi.com) to detect NSFW, Sensitive Prompts etc. It's such a widespread issue and can get you kicked out from the App Store/Play Store/Open AI API etc
When moving from subversion to a DVCS around 2006, we evaluated git, bazaar (now breezy), and mercurial. This was before github, and git was really tied to the development style of the linux kernel. I can't remember exactly what issues we had with mercurial, but everyone in the group loved bazaar.

It has a very simple and easy to understand model. It was comfortable to those used to a more centralized style (like csv/svn), but gave you offline commits/history, branching, excellent merging, and good tools to look at history.

All developers needed to know where: checkout, pull, commit, push, diff, log, and merge. It worked on _all_ platforms, new people to version control never struggled with it, and tools like Tortoise and Trac supported it. There was no confusion about remotes, detached heads, or anything like that.

Unfortunately, by 2010-2012, it was clear that git was going to be the winner, and our younger developers wanted to use it and github. We did eventually migrate all projects to git.

I still have some personal projects that I use breezy with, although, all new projects I use git now.

One of my favorite aspects is how it shows history and merging. `bzr log` only shows commits directly on that branch. So if you are looking at the master branch that has commits A, B, and C, if someone goes off and works on D and makes commits D1, D2, D3, when D is merged into master, you now just see A -> B -> C -> D, where D is everything from D1+D2+D3. You can off course break down D into its sub-commits (and sub-merges, like when you merge master back into a branch), but as a default, this leads to a really clean history. No arguments over squashing / rebasing / FF-only / merge-commits, etc.
Fei-Fei Li (Wikipedia):

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fei-Fei_Li
Good list, but Orson Scott Card is a bit over-represnted. I recently re-read scheismatrix (plus) after 35 years. My spouse found a copy of Burning Chrome in the local tiny library, so I'm likely to review a few more cyberpunk works. I have fond memories of the 64-83 era, but it took me a while to warm to Sterling and Gibson. It almost seems like every new sci-fi story has a bit of cyberpunk embedded in it. All the cyberpunk authors were (I believe) influenced by Ballard and PKD.

Anyway. Thx for the pointer.
It might be too late for this idea. It might need to be great grandparents by now.

The grandmother I knew was diabetic after a lifetime of soda and Mars bars. The grandfather I knew was almost overweight (before cancer) and had several heart attacks in his lifetime.

It only gets harder and harder to avoid processed junk, and those "deals" where I'm not sure the meat is even meat anymore.
I live in San Francisco and the first part of the article hits very close to home.

In San Francisco many, if not most, housing units are at least 50 years old. Construction quality is low. They're poorly insulated. Most windows are single-pane d and the city makes upgrading them notoriously difficult and costly. For example, the city requires that outward facing windows are made out of wood. I've seen information that this increases the cost 2-3x to upgrade the windows to insulate better vs vinyl ones.

It's incredibly ironic for a progressive city that during its cold spells so many of its residents resort to turning on electric heaters and running them 24/7.
He couldn't get it up :)
In just 25 years, we went from the early Internet’s “information wants to be free” to the crypto mindset of “we must insert expensive scarcity into digital realms”.

And often it’s even the same people. I’m baffled by the Marc Andreessens of this world.
I'll count a double run as "three and three make six plus two make eight" and then shorten it to "sixty-two makes eight".
You know NSFW means "not safe for work", right? Safety has different meanings in different contexts. There's also a space of advertiser-safe content.
> Second, CAS means Close Air Support. If the airplane is not close to the ground, then it is not doing CAS.

Your understanding is incorrect. Close air support means engaging targets in close proximity to friendly forces. It does not refer to the altitude at which aircraft are deploying munitions: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close_air_support

From my link, you're supposed to read the fact that the f-16 can carry a dozen air to ground munitions. The f-16 does not have a payload that much smaller than the a-10.
It is impressive how much effort the human race is spending trying to prevent algorithms from generating pictures of naked people.
You are thinking of darcs, that is the one that was written in Haskell. Although Darcs is more related to pijul than to git
[shard_number, primary_id_number, timestamp]
The F-22 exists for gaining air superiority.
One of the points is also to use custom alphabet.
My understanding (not an expert) is a lot of problem domains have very sparse / infrequent rewards - imagine if the only reward you gave a minecraft agent was when it mined a diamond, it would take a lot of gameplay for it to randomly do that and get a reward. So researchers spend time tuning the reward space (oh you mined some dirt, here's a tiny reward. Oh you mined rock, a greater reward, etc) but it's kind of akin to hand crafted feature detection from the pre-neural network days. The Q* mystery is did OpenAI 'solve' reward modelling the same way neural networks solved feature detection.
One of my favorite childhood games!

Me and my friend would wake up a couple of hours early before going to school in order to play a few sessions!

Tips when playing against the computer: Try to make the enemy planes crash into each other or into the ground.

More info: http://sopwith.org/

There seems to be a lot of video game content on HN lately, and I like this very much :)
> “Large language models see things differently from human beings,” Cao says.

It took a while to understand the real world but I am happy that ai workers are gradually coming down to earth.
At the very least it can be removed by physically disabling the speakers. So any software measure (eg. locked bootloaders) isn't really worth enforcing too hard.
Such ridiculous redefinitions of terms only happens in the US for propaganda purposes, and it works. Anywhere else, "unemployment rate" means what you'd think it means.
Back in 2007 when I did my first board, the only option I could afford was a US fab that had a "33 each" special. You got a 2layer board with HASL finish and had to order 3 of them. So it cost $100.

If you were academic they'd let you order just 1. That's what I did.

I remember being at school eating lunch when my brand new flip phone rings, and it's a sales rep from Advanced Circuits asking me about my estimated annual volume, while my friends where throwing pizza slices at the lunch table.
CAS = Close Air Support, which means being close to the ground.

They did try to replace the A-10 with the F-16, but failed:

https://theaviationgeekclub.com/heres-f-16s-cas-variants-fai...

Apparently, when they get close to the ground, they can be shot down, while the A-10 keeps flying.
We're saying the same thing, it just depends on where you put the groupings. The top 50% of the bell curve would have outsized voting power compared to the bottom 50% (which is what I meant by "high" vs "low").
What is DVTK? I search on that doesn't pull up any obvious hits.
100% - though that's now advantageous for him - disrupt the competitor, let the world know he thinks he's making a better product, cause some drama
Money isn't automatically capital. Money that makes more money is.

Capital controls mean in practice that selling and buying of companies or shares across borders is limited.

Cross-border capital ownership was quite rare pre WW1 (in current form, colonialism is quite different), so there was little need for control. Bretton Woods collapsed largely due to US plundering the gold to fund the Vietnam war and switching to the petrodollar system.

Balancing payments worked fine with capital controls. Some trade (e.g. between Finland and USSR) was even done without currency, but most of course with just money.

Few probably support removing limited liability overnight, like few support overnight ban on fossil fuels.

There are plenty of companies with no limited liability in LLC sense. Many small businesses are not LLCs or the owner has personal collateral as liability.

I'm not really a big government type. I just prefer democracy to plutocracy. I don't find nation-state representational democracies that great, but it's best we have for now on large scale.
What's better: spending a day figuring out a single line of a complex Bash script, or spending that same day learning literally 100x more because you didn't have to waste that much effort on each individual thing?

For me, the alternative to using ChatGPT to figure some weird piece of Bash trivial out isn't doing the work myself, meticulously and at great length. It's losing interest and not figuring that thing out at all.
The continuation of this style of "improvement" of livestock brought us the meat chicken that quickly grows to a point where its legs won't support it. It's inhumane to keep them around for too long past slaughtering age (8-10 weeks) as they just suffer. You see people trying to "rescue" them in the backyard chicken groups and there just isn't a way to give them an acceptable quality of life.
Good points. Those pages also contain links to old implementations (Hashids), because a lot of projects still use those and want to be able to find them.
I think Canadians use JustWatch way more than Americans simply because the English Internet only talks about availability of shows in the US.
I don't know enough to know if your ascription of those "ills" to those authors is accurate, but I certainly find it refreshing to see someone asserting that no, it's not "just fiction" and the art we create and consume changes us, and changes society, not always in a good way.
Judge Finds Reasonable Evidence That Tesla, Musk Knew Autopilot Was Defective
The solution is simple enough that even the people researching such topics should understand - let people focus on getting things done instead of holding them in meetings all.day.long.
ditto. I'll try Ansel, but don't have high hopes. I've realized moving 30k+ photos from Lightroom is not likely a thing. I wish I'd not gotten a cloud version.
Again, please do not misrepresent others' comments and try not to nitpick. I tried to engage but you do not reply on the substance or in a substantial way.
>1. My mind is blown that this oddly specific behaviour was apparently so common that the government mandated all cellphone cameras must play shutter sounds that cannot be muted. What the hell?

You're missing the other possibility: incompetent politicians writing bad polices to respond to the latest moral panic. Plane hijackings are pretty rare, yet we have TSA screening and no liquids over 100ml on flights.
Seems like an oversight that the extra stuff the 68302 added wouldn't have been a DMA block copy or something.
I'd rather get to AI-assisted mastery of many more different crafts than limit myself to achieving mastery of just one single thing.
No because you still have to modulate the signal to get it to/from a house, and modulation schemes are where you squeeze maximum bits per second into available analog bandwidth within the limits imposed by Claude Shannon.

The article didn't talk about modulation schemes and I wish it had.
My Firefox reader mode busted through the popup. It’s about college kids being “notably” increasingly fatigued while watching an hour lecture.

The study hasn’t been replicated at all, let alone in the workplace setting, or even with subjects in possession of fully developed brains.

The title might need some tweaking…
If you were selective on Twitter, one of the best guys was saying it's all over about 24 hours after the hype started and way before the general press got there. The trick is to try to filter the experts from the fools.
> That turns out to be the solution that nature has come up with

Explain?
> there isn't a Linux version

thankfully there are unofficial Qobuz downloaders for linux, have a browse on github.
"Safety" as in "trust and safety" or "brand safety."
Sure, with other changes. You would still have to:

* Select (or repair) “good” pairs that didn’t have poor echo, impedance, noise, etc. characteristics.

* Not compand the resulting PCM sample with mu/alaw companding.

* Provide an atomic bearer channel from the telephone switch to the ISP that was at least 112kbps.

* Develop a modem encoding scheme that could take advantage of the extra bandwidth.

At this point, you’ve reinvented a really crappy version of DSL that could be user-signaled to call different networks (i.e., phone numbers.)

The other option, the one that people selected, was to use the copper facilities but bypass the phone switch and its associated audio and in-band signaling shenanigans. That was/is xDSL.
Also can help track which languages people click on, probably a good proxy of where there would be the need to develop a lib
google safe image search apis work as a solution too
I never use the desktop, hell for a period of time I used only tiling window managers. I wish windows would have tiling mode.

for windows, keyboard shotcuts, hotkeys, and win + search are far far more effective than a bunch of shortcuts on the desktop,

I can not remember the last time I even looked at the wallpaper of my system.
Serious question: why?

Why should we have the inalienable right to exchange goods and services, no matter what the goods and services are?

Why is that an important tenet of a prosperous and free society? It hasn’t ever been one, and we’ve done well so far.
(Of course we will assume that Rembrandt's works are art.)
As usual, GrapheneOS disables this kind of anti-user restriction:

https://github.com/GrapheneOS/platform_frameworks_base/commi...
Yes bing image creator uses two different levels of filters, one for the prompt and one for the output. gpt image creator does the same thing, as does the dalle-3 API
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But then why not just arbitrary text?
The latter would be preferred by most, and is most aligned with individualism, but sadly that is not where we are as a society. There are an entire class of people who believe they know what is best for you, about nearly every subject matter, and wish to limit all aspects of technology, life, politics, etc, to suit their superior beliefs.
Together with fancy silicon chips, AI models and everything else that's being exported from the US , the world has to endure this puritanistic views export too.
True, but we cannot possible learn all the things. I wrote a nice little batch script last week with the help of ChatGPT. This is something I have to do maybe once or twice a year and I am sure someone who does this every day was a lot faster, but what took me maybe 30 mins would've taken me a day.
Hmm. Just thinking about west meeting east... Hiroshima Mon Amour is, in many ways, a cyberpunk work in the way the concept of memory as a first-class character with its own life is in clear display.
Yeah, population-wise US is ~4.9x FR (vous voyez), ~61x SG (lah), and ~31x CH (gället).

Then again, scaling by population makes UK outflows look much worse than RU. (it probably puts UK top of the outflows, as scaled CN and IN will be negligible?)