skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is the author really claiming that it's generative AI's fault that we're inured to awe-inspiring images?

The internet killed our sense of awe with aggregators and algorithms. "Sort by popularity" killed it. It became easy a long time ago to binge on awesome images and content.
Startup claims to have storage technology so groundbreaking that it can reach TBs/cm^2, GBps speed (read/write?), seconds (?) of read latency, low cost of <$1/TB, and durability of thousands of years. Even attaches a 2030 mass market timeline to it, which is not far into the future. I'm skeptical, and the 2030 number makes me even more skeptical.

I didn't watch the hour-long presentations though.

https://storagedeveloper.org/events/agenda/session/527

https://storagedeveloper.org/events/agenda/session/603
Email’s on profile.
100% of those tips go to the driver, and not in some sort of scammy door dash way that means uber pays the driver less. so it's important to note that "tricking" people into tipping more doesn't help uber's bottom line.
resolution beyond human perception is useful, for watermarking, data tracking, EXIF, DRM schemes, in/ex filtration in general.
ChatGPT is an Internet simulator. As such, it gives better responses when humans would give better responses.
There's no such thing as "freedom of thought/association". There is freedom of association, though, which dictates that people are free to choose who they do business with.
Maybe this:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38401242

- https://ln.hixie.ch/?start=1700627532&count=1 (this is one of the main Flutter contributors which has left google, which might be indicative that the project might lose funding)
Greenclip is exactly what I've been looking for! Thanks!

Also how do you use zimwiki? I've been trying it for a month and I don't find it that great compared to something like Obsidian or QOwnNotes or even TiddlyWiki. Do you have a specific workflow?
Kratos does have a reference UI implementation: https://github.com/ory/kratos-selfservice-ui-node
> My understanding from the video is that it's a write-once solution,

If you have enough capacity, write-once is enough. Indeed, MLC SSDs can often be rewritten a couple hundred times. Consumer HDDs are specified for 180TB written per year.

Would you rather have:

* A HDD that can store 22TB and can be written 180TB per year for 5 years until the helium leaks out (900TB total writes).

* A 10,000 TB storage cartridge that can initially store 10,000TB, but as you "erase" stuff the capacity falls.

The latter can tolerate 1,000 TB "erased" per year for 5 years and still store 5,000TB at the end.
This is mostly about AI generated images, not ChatGPT and alike that still put us to the ground on our expectations.

And I agree that a lot that can be generated in images with simple prompts is awesome. The problem is that is comparable or even better than the “old” awesome made by expensive artists. So, it was so awesome that old art if I can generate something even better with a short prompt?

I have 3 readings on that: AIs are standing on the shoulders of giants, most of “art” was not so much the work of genius but something more or less mechanical on remixing memes and cultural trends, and that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, the watcher is as responsible for the “art” as the artist as much of the magic happens in his head, and that is independent from how the image was generated.

In any case, I think we didn’t lost our sense of awe. I can generate a thousand pictures with simple prompts and think they are amazing, even to have a healthy effect on my by watching them. But the artificial scarcity and market that used to be around images may end.
Information/implementation hiding isn't for some kind of security or access protection; it's to reduce the cognitive load of understanding a system. By having the main functions before the private, and then having any number of simple or complex private implementation functions, we make it clear to the reader what the contract is. If the functions are well-named, the reader can just read up to the private and stop. They will understand what is going on without having to know any of the "how" details. That's a very good thing. In fact, we well written system using this approach can be read and understood by less technical people (also a good thing, for many reasons).

Whether the contents of do_this_specific_thing() are just one line or 100 lines, that point is that we don't have to know or care. We just know that do_this_specific_thing presumably does what its name says, and we accept that and don't worry about HOW.

When you inline those tiny functions, as the author argues for, now the reader has to recognize what each implementation line means. Of course we might say it's obvious, but it's less consistent and clear than a series of calls to functions which are well-named and take arguments which are well-named.

And as software engineers of any experience, we know that eventually one of those "simple" actions will become more complex due to some new requirements. Then that one line becomes more lines, and then of course it will end up as its own function. Over time, many of those simple steps will become more complex out of necessity, and eventually we'll end up with all those individual private methods (with bigger bodies).

As for maintaining state, I personally argue against any OOP style. All of those action functions can just be functions in an appropriately-named module. They should all take input arguments (the data), and ideally not even mutate the input but rather return a value. That value could be a new version of the input data (can be memory/time expensive, so not always the best choice), or they can be just a data structure of changes.

I'm not a fan of lambdas, however, as they require more human memory to keep track of what's going on in a system.
> It’s perfectly grammatical and hard to stump, but it’s very bland and even after a lot of prompting to do better it still writes in a stilted ChatGPTish kind of way.

That matches the experience of others who have experimented with it. From this thread, https://mastodon.world/@jfballenger/110686620108242354 students noted the "relatively superficial and simplistic arguments that ChatGPT made"
The NSA as it exists is essentially the government telling you the 4th Amendment is just for show. The NSA takes broad measures under the blanket of "national security" and through its 5 Eyes partners, can pretty much do as it pleases, either with US Citizens, or foreign citizens.

EDIT: Former NSA directors have deliberately lied under oath to Congress about their activities and actions...with no penalty or rebuke. The NSA are above the law and constitution.
There are still tons of domains were GOFAI is very useful, like planning and scheduling, and also in cases where you don't have access to lots of training data or pretrained models.
I'm not sure about redwoods, but tropical rainforests take something like 5,000-10,000 years to return to pristine old-growth state.
Those are absolutely not 3M's best face masks, if you want half face and low profile the 650X (6502 is medium) elastometic respirator is good, when combined with P100 filters, if you want full face you could look to see if they still sell the CBRN hardened respirator and filter sets.
Bankrate[0] is a website dedicated to exactly that. Maybe it would be of help?

[0] https://www.bankrate.com/finance/credit-cards/todays-best-cr...
Language is defined by it's usage.

If enough people make one particular "mistake", eventually that mistake becomes the "correct" usage. See "literally" as an example:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/misuse-of-literally
Wyden is on the Senate Intelligence Committee. As such, he is guaranteed by law to have access to all intelligence activities. https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/about
Good to know, thanks.

A member of my crew likes to seek out off-the-beaten-path climbs. The rest of us are just happy that somebody has a plan. Maybe this has set me up with a bit of a bias.
No, never had a content warning. It's always been something about the page structure. Annoying, because the structure hasn't changed in years - so why always new warnings...
Presumably it also can fill the role of conda/mamba i.e. also managing C/C++ libraries in the same way in the nix environment, isolated from the system libraries?
Why use Dropbox when you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem, back in 2007 even?
I just would like to say you are all awesome for helping a brother or sister in distress especially this coming holidays. I have a lot of problems but I see a lot of people need more help than me. I can't help but I will pray for all of you guys you get on your feet again.
Not much anymore, React Native isn't really a better way to develop apps. It is as complex as developing native apps and as you mentioned, the libraries aren't good enough/well maintained.
Another Torment Nexus. Humanity is becoming a parody of itself.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/torment-nexus
> Don’t listen to people who try to tell you how to program.

This worked for me:

* DO listen to people who tell you how to program

* Listen to many types of them (Microsoft programmers, functional programmers, Unix systems wizards, digital logic designers, UX designers, etc.)

* Do what they tell you for at least long enough to understand why they're telling you what they're telling you to do. This requires a very open mind. A Unix programmer stepping into a Microsoft shop or vice-versa will find many things which go against their most core values.

* Understand the underlying, fundamental, first principles their best practices derive from (keeping in mind some of those first principles are incorrect -- especially within the Microsoft community), and different ways people have figured out how to structure code, the upsides and downsides of each, and how they mix-and-match.

* From then on, program from first principles when you have time, from best practices when you don't, and quick-and-dirty hacks when you really don't, or are just having fun.
I do wonder how future advances in VR will impact this. On occasions VR has given me a true sense of awe, even in it's current, technologically-limited form.

If you can conjour up any vista and see it around you at true scale, running your hands through alien grass and smelling the alien breeze - will that make the claims in this article harder to refute?

However I can't help but feel it's a bit like arguing one should never see too much beauty in life because one doesn't want to become bored of beauty. I'm not sure where this argument leads other than "ration your dopamine"
The talent pool is non-existent. You’d be crazy to use tech in your stack that you can’t find people for.

At least with RN, there are thousands of React devs out there.
They have shorter retention times not because they are rewritable, but because:

* HDDs fail, or these days helium leaks out at end of lifespan.

* SSDs slowly have the data leak out of floating cells.
> Senior / Principle Infrastructure Engineer

Just a heads up, the spelling should be Principal. It's a common mistake (somehow), so no worries, but there's a difference between the two.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/principal-vs-princip...
Of course I do
Not allowing remote code execution seems like a reasonable step. There’s no simple, generalizable way to ensure remote data being loaded isn’t code, that isn’t easily circumvented.

That being said, the other changes are clearly anti-adblock.
This is certainly true for the American West. Unfortunately in places like Patagonia the lenga trees never had to adapt to natural fire, so man-made fires are catastrophic.
Mature in a sense that Uber has invested billions in operations to get deals with cities & airports, developer legal expertise globally, and has technology that allows them to operate globally.

Saying Uber is "just an app" isn't a strong argument. It overlooks the marketplace dynamics that in themselves are a huge moat. You can also say "Instagram" is just an app.. But good luck trying to recreate that level of success.
Location: Vienna, Austria

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Technologies: Penetration Testing, Reverse Engineering, Python, C, Assembly, low-level development, Emulation, Embedded/Electronics, Linux/Unix/BSD/Windows

GitHub: https://github.com/chris-pcguy

Résumé/CV: https://github.com/chris-pcguy/CV/blob/main/projects_english...

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Hello,

Preferred positions: Redteam Pentration Tester > Reverse Engineer > Software Developer

I would be glad to hear from you.
Honestly I think this content is a bit educational for us techies, but yes, it’s mostly just “business as usual” these days.

However, if this type of content was aimed towards grandmas, boomers, etc it could have a huge positive effect. The people most susceptible to dark patterns are those who don’t know better.

As I’ve written in another comment, my mom has needed help to make “her computer work again” after Microsoft has changed her default browser to edge. It happens (seemingly) on every meaningless update.

It should be illegal.
I'd like it so that there's one thing that handles everything.

I don't like it where there's react for complex stuff and then another pattern for simple stuff. It's hell either way. Just one thing that is simple and can compose to complex things. Not different patterns to handle different levels of complexity.

Any api should be simple and compose-able into complex things. Here we have (react) which is not simple and not de-composable into simple primitives. ANd we have html without JS which isn't composeable into something more complex.
It's a bit rude, sure.

If I'm trying to be gentler and more useful: I think some people are too excited to find Turing completeness, and don't really think through the necessary components and what you can and can't fudge before it doesn't count anymore. Many Turing machines are so barely functional to begin with that even slight reductions in capability will ruin their computational ability.

As to your hypothesis, you'd need a way to have an animation conditionally turn other animations on and off each time it loops. I don't think anything like that exists in CSS.
The carbon won’t be captured as in buried, it’ll be burned for energy of some form and the CO2 released into the atmosphere. And at the same time, it will keep the mines open and busy pulling new carbon up out of the ground, when otherwise the economics would probably dictate reducing overall production. Meanwhile a battery electric vehicle can charge from zero-CO2 power without wasting a ton of it on electrolysis (which isn’t available at scale yet anyway.)
And it does only change the image, because it's a CSS animation. For page rendering purposes, browsers only use the size and position of the un-rotated image. It's even visible in the Grumpy Cat example, the rotated image overlaps the edges of the table because CSS transformations don't affect the rest of the page.
A couple ideas for improvement. If you have extra identical motors and disassemble two, you can fashion a rotating power transmission system from the brushes in two assemblies. You sacrifice two motors for each unit, but it's a perfect fit and very reliable (with a cap and rectifier), and you don't have to worry about batteries anymore.

The rectifier also provides a signal that the assembly has completed a rotation, so you can maintain image stability based on actual position, rather than guessing how long a cycle is.

Transmitting power via induction might work, but I was never able to deliver it efficiently enough, so to make it work I had to turn up the source voltage so high that I worried about fires.

This advice comes from my 2001 Burning Man art project. A very sad early prototype is pictured here: https://github.com/sowbug/tqw/blob/master/photos/side.jpg. The final installation worked great.
Funny that this website has the ever-annoying scroll indicator. Why don't web designers understand we already have a scroll indicator? It's called the scroll bar. There is literally no function for these things.
Because I can't store my gmail and Google Docs documents on S3, and because Google Photos is easier to use than cramming my stuff to S3.
> I think React Native is fantastic for getting out basic applications that may need camera, map, browser, and storage, etc capabilities

The thing is, though, browser-based APIs let you do all of that now, in a way that is usually a lot simpler to access. In these cases it's often a lot easier to just build a Progressive Web App for Android (Google let's you put PWAs directly in the Play Store), and wrap that with a thin native wrapper for iOS.

One of the big "aha" moments I had was a couple years ago when I was trying out Stripe's Identity product, which lets you take a selfie and a picture of your ID for identity verification purposes. It's pretty amazing how Stripe was able to do the full image analysis (i.e. edge detection when you take a picture of your ID) solely with browser APIs.

With the big exception of games, there are a vanishingly small number of apps that really require native functionality these days, given what you can do in the browser.
Michael Seibel Twitter account hacked?
There is a big difference between managed archives and the media itself. Services like Iron Mountain predate the modern Cloud.
Plenty of work goes into photography. But plenty of work goes into actually using AI image generators also (as opposed to just feeding them one prompt and letting them spit out some result, which is the "doodle a stick figure" level of mastery in the tool space).
Probably to get better error messages, same as assert_eq, otherwise you need a procedural macro to take appart the entire expression which is way more complicated and more expensive.
I moved my old dialogflow based personal chatbot to Cloudflare worker AI
I build a personal chatbot long back powered by dialogflow where I've configured certain intents. Recently since the launch of cloudflare for workers I wanted to try how it would be to mix it up with my old tg bot, and the results were fun.
Bill Gates feels Generative AI has plateaued, says GPT-5 will not be any better
This makes me want to see designated areas for old-growth forests to re-establish, and yet there’s almost no chance that the people living in those areas 2000 years from now will have continuously held the same values and kept the project going.
You named all of them - jank, a new language, and crucially, long-term support from Google, who are so untrustworthy in that regard that it's turned into a meme.
20 years from the first idea to working example, not 50, and was in scaled production only 10 years later. Perhaps would have been faster if vacuum tubes hadn't been so successful.

I think it's time to conclude that quantum computer is just significantly harder than transistors for computing.
Ask HN: How are OMNY/Oyster implemented?
When you use a tap-to-pay card to enter the subway, what happens?

There’s some kind of communication over NFC, but after that, how does the OMNY system talk to e.g. the Visa network? Different methods have different speeds; tap-to-pay on my Chase credit card is much slower than apple pay on my phone using the apple card.

The wikipedia articles on both don’t describe how they’re implemented and a cursory search didn’t turn up a blog post.
I wish I would've learned to shop for cards with rewards earlier in life. You can easily get 2% cash back on groceries, higher on things like restaurants. If you already have Amazon Prime, their card is a no brainer.
I am claiming that.

If a particular group displayed anomalous behavior compared to the species as a whole, then that isolated behavior could have been influenced by humans, sure. But a species wide behavior, no way. There is no known mechanism for that to propagate and persist in a non human species.

Also I think you were implying that the behavior would have been copied from humans, not e.g. indirectly influenced by human-caused environmental selection pressure. That does happen, of course, but it does not seem like what you were saying and it does not seem applicable here either.
Brews coffee... Oh yes, Emacs is my forever editor. It was created before I was born and will (hopefully) join my digitally converted consciousness on humanity's travels to the stars!

I got tired of switching editors for different languages (PyCharm was too slow for JSX code) and decided to invest in getting Emacs to behave like a decent editor. That took a while :)

I've programmed in Python, Clojure, Nim, Cython, JS, JSX, and a host of other languages. LSP support is getting REALLY good with three strong contenders: the minimal eglot that is in Emacs core, lsp-mode which is the most complete solution, and lsp-bridge that is super fast.

The single thing I love about Emacs is that everything is text. I can do a project-wide search (find-file-in-project), turn off read-only mode, use delete-non-matching-lines to remove stuff I don't want, turn on read-only mode and peruse the remaining matches. Then I can turn on wgrep-ag mode in the search results buffer, search and replace changes, and commit them to all the files. It's a powerful concept.

We are not a single-editor shop, we have Vim, PyCharm, Sublime, etc.

Extra compatibility is just a package-install away, and the ecosystem is thriving. My must-have utilities are expand-region, iedit, multiple-cursors, whole-line-or-region, pdf-tools, try, find-file-in-project, helm-ag, rg, undo-fu, and the list goes on :)

It has great workflows for compilation, buffer (file) switching, window management, tiling, and SO much more. For me, at least, every new feature requires a lot of tinkering, but the setup has been extremely stable across Emacs versions. Emacs development is very active and in recent years has been going in a great direction.

A great book to get excited about Emacs is https://www.masteringemacs.org/. Oh, let's share configs too, here's mine: https://github.com/runekaagaard/dotfiles/blob/main/.emacs.d/... :)
> 2TB NVMe SSD are around the $100-$150 price point these days. Unless they are actively trying, the average desktop user is never going to fill that up. There are only so many holiday pictures you can take, after all.

4k family videos would like to have a word with you.
Quick Q:

Do people really watch and/or believe team members are giving honest testimonies about the company they work for to the company itself for long-term website content?

Or, does posting such content seem a little disingenuous to potential hires?
Some people choose both
Poster here - I am an atheist. I can still be sympathetic to and to an extent even understand others' belief without sharing them.
More or less project controlling/management with regular progress reviews.
I was implementing a search suggestion box, and thought that datalist could help. It works fine until you want to display options that don't strictly start with what's been typed in, e.g. if the input is misspelled, no options will show. There's no way to force it to display everything, so I opted for an ordered list instead.
If you only care about visual annoyances I believe that should generally be possible (although I also don't know the details!), but many people also use content filters to stop third-party tracking.
Just you wait https://qntm.org/mmacevedo
Also discussed two days ago here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38476206 (2 comments)