skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the process is

1. Go to console.cloud.google.com

2. Go to model garden

3. Search imagegeneration

4. End up at https://console.cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/publishers/google...

And for whatever reason that is where the documentation is.

Sample request

curl -X POST \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $(gcloud auth print-access-token)" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8" \
-d @request.json \
"https://us-central1-aiplatform.googleapis.com/v1/projects/PROJECT_ID/locations/us-central1/publishers/google/models/imagegeneration@002:predict"

Sample request.json

{
"instances": [
{
"prompt": "TEXT_PROMPT"
}
],
"parameters": {
"sampleCount": IMAGE_COUNT
}
}

Sample response

{
"predictions": [
{
"bytesBase64Encoded": "BASE64_IMG_BYTES",
"mimeType": "image/png"
},
{
"mimeType": "image/png",
"bytesBase64Encoded": "BASE64_IMG_BYTES"
}
],
"deployedModelId": "DEPLOYED_MODEL_ID",
"model": "projects/PROJECT_ID/locations/us-central1/models/MODEL_ID",
"modelDisplayName": "MODEL_DISPLAYNAME",
"modelVersionId": "1"
}

Disclaimer: Haven't actually tried sending a request...
^W is ctrl-W.
> It's amazing how the "macro environment" is responsible for all the layoffs, but never responsible for any of the growth.

Does anyone really question that growth over the past 10 years, particularly in the 2020-2021 COVID money printing era, wasn't due to the macro environment?

Given how cheap/free money was for so long, it made total sense to hire and focus on growth and cornering markets without being concerned about margins or long-term profitability. Now that money isn't cheap, companies are concerned about those things and are making changes to their businesses. This is all intentional.
If it's not available for download, it's not something I would be interested in :-) I understand that people are different.
> humanity could progress faster if we focused instead in eliminating poverty, creating more possibilities for everyone...

Those with the wealth and the power to change this, don't have an interest in spreading out welfare and therefore making themselves less wealthy and powerful in the process, but enriching themselves or at least maintaining the status quo, and that usually comes at the expense of keeping those less fortunate where they are.

A lot of goods and services that we take for granted in the west, like commodities in our daily lives: cheap cocoa, cheap coffee, cheap exotic fruits, cheap sneakers and clothing, cheap electronic gadgets, all rely on an underclass of less fortunate people who have no choice in life but be prisoners in a neo-slavery system where they have to work in their given conditions for the give pay, with no way up or out.

Please google and check out the human exploitations going on in cocoa and coffee farming at your own discretion.

Do you think the kids and adults working on those farms for pennies in the beating sun and bitten by mosquitos, wouldn't rather do something else with their lives than picking coffee beans, like go to school/university and work in an office? But if we would spread welfare for them to have that choice, who would then choose work in those bad conditions for nothing to provide western consumers with cheap commodities? Robots aren't even remotely there yet. Same with mining minerals to make iPhones, PlayStations and EVs.

If we were to make their lives and jobs fair while also watching over the environment, then the price of commodities would explode, so the mega conglomerates who own these markets, like Nestle or Apple for example, would have to take a missive hit on their profits, or the western consumers would have to stomach the explosion in prices, or both simultaneously, neither of which are acceptable trade-offs in the west, so we keep the status quo of having to rely on perpetual underclasses of people slaving away in poverty for us, while pretending we're great humanitarians and benefactors.

I said "we" here, because it's not just the great evil billionaires like Bezos, Jobs, Saudis, and so many others who profit from and enable this exploitation, but also the western governments like US, Switzerland, Netherlands, etc. where they're HQ but have the audacity to lecture them on human rights and environment concerns, plus the individual shareholders, employees, taxpayers and consumers who enable them as well.

Sure, a lot of people in poor nations got out of poverty "thanks" to globalization and mega conglomerates outsourcing of less desirable manufacturing and services there, but let's not forget they didn't do this out of the goodness of their hearts, but to extract even more profits. People getting out of poverty was just a happy side effect.
I built a Chess app called SpicyChess(https://spicychess.com) that has a training component which leverages spaced repetition and strict time constraint to increase your pattern recognition ability for tactical motifs. SpicyChess also allows you to "bookmark" a puzzle for review later on. The philosophy behind the training regiment is inspired by the following two books which have been very helpful in improving my game: reading Rapid Chess Improvement, The Woodpecker Method.
Oh I don’t know, call me crazy but perhaps, just perhaps it could be the massive failure of the west’s several decade bet from like 1990 through 2015ish that open trade with Russia and China would influence their behaviors for the better. In reality all it did was give fairly hostile countries substantial leverage over the west. Good outcome yeah!

But im not a libertarian on the internet so what do I know.
Made me paws and chuckle!
> Companies need to be shamed for potentially destroying people's lives while simultaneously reaping great rewards for their efforts.

Better yet, stop using these services.

But the long term solution is a legal change that ensures that the board of directors contains representation from employees along with share holders.
Virtually nobody was using BBS's during the PS2 era. That was just a forum.
Updates, not recalls. A software update shouldn't be called a recall.
That’s a really good point about video compression degrading transitions, and it follows that the blocky compression effects will (and have[1]) been used intentionally to move between shots.

The recently ‘memeified’ Godfather dissolve[2] between mustache and tree feels a lot like the no-key frame video codec transition in how the portions that move grab my attention first.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compression_artifact#Artistic_...

[2]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6pg9JbmGqM
Everydays: The First 5000 Days
(Minimum rsync.net) is still (237.22TB x 1024 x $0.006/GB =) $1457/month.

Most “independent journalists” I know aren’t operating on the kind of household budget where they can handwave that kind of bill away.
My reference point for this kind of thing is the video cassette recorder (VCR). Trusting to memory I think that they entered the consumer market at around $700 and were down to around $100 by the time they were obsolete. But before they reached the consumer market, they were a super-expensive professional item. Getting helical scan VCRs (a high precision, complicated electro-mechanical technology) to the consumer market involved impossible price reductions, just to reach the consume price point of $700. I never expected further big price reductions to follow and was wrong.

A weed killing laser robot seems obviously stupid - an expensive electro-mechanical system generating trivial value with each weed zapped. There is no way to get the price down low enough for this to make sense. But CD players have servo control of the tracking and focus of the laser. Much lower power than needed for weed wacking, but much faster and more accurate than needed and very cheap. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wplLkxBsqQo
Adequate cameras are cheap enough. AI vision processing is on a roll and we can look forward to huge price falls. The technology looks promising from the outside.
Flexport's Ryan Petersen on Exceptions to Supply Chain Automation
Fucking hell, please pay attention to the discussion you're in. pjmlp's claim is: marketing around WASM suggests that running C programs in WASM instead of natively magically makes those C programs safe.
I think casting this as "a feelgood story" and her behavior after reaching success as sullying that is completely missing the point. She's writing about herself, but the goal is to convey some of the horror of living in poverty and the absurdity of people who've never experienced anything like it acting as if poor people would be perfectly fine if they just followed rich people's advice. It's absolutely not to tout herself as a heartwarming rags-to-riches story.
Does HIPPA apply if its a large study and each is anonymonized? I'm assuming insurance companies already use the data so the 20 page EULA already has consent.
So if all this is true, the embarrassing part is that SpaceX couldn't make a compelling presentation of the facts that support them. I'm sorry but "OK, yes, we are missing the target performance goals and trending further away from them but awesomeness" is ... not compelling.

This isn't like cable or fiber where the technology is already mature and it's simply the business case.
This is what we experienced with our Jeep. The only times it’s gone off is when pulling in or out, and it’s very rare.

It is hard to believe the OPs story is entirely true, or wasn’t exaggerated.

More like the guy spilled some dip on himself while pulling out of the garage (because of the sudden halt) and it eventually turned into a “honey, i’m serious, I almost died” story because they were so embarrassed.
> Or Musk could cut off Ukraine's capacity, which the US military admits is consuming hundreds of millions in Starlink capacity that could be allocated to US consumers to speed up their internet

Satellites in LEO over Ukraine can't provide service to the US. (and because of the way orbits work a LEO satellite that spends time over the US will also spend time over Ukraine)
20k stars! Now my bullshit meter is sounding. Surely, developers of all people are not this passionate about project management tools.
The first portion of this had me thinking constantly “this person must have ADHD”. It was almost a relief when it was mentioned.

I feel like this is the dark side of the condition that isn’t talked about as much. If you have adhd, you are far more likely to wind up suicidal, in poverty, abusing drugs, etc. But these things occur on a spectrum. That is to say, far more of us still might not be in abject poverty, but the same tendencies and deficiencies hold us down and cause disproportionate suffering. It’s a constant struggle not to let it pull you even further down. You might not be in the suicide/poverty/drug abuse part of the statistic, but you might be working pretty hard not to be. It’s not a great way to exist, sometimes.

Although I own a nice home and have a good job now, I don’t think I’ll ever have a sense of security or safety, or even stop having the internal sense that I’m still living in poverty. It’s hard to shake that.
I realize now this is more for artists, and not to create a fun website for someone like myself who just happens to use spotify a lot.

Thanks for taking the time to explain, makes sense!
No; the opposite happened.

Google initially told him that there was no hard deadline for getting the data off—just that his drive would be read-only as long as it was over the limit.

Then, 6 months later, they told him he had 7 days to get it off or it would be wiped.
> In one task, for example, participants were asked how they could draw a circle without using a typical tool such as a compass.

This is a completely useless question. LLMs are trained only on language. Humans are trained both on language and on physical activities. The LLM has no conception of 'drawing'. It cannot draw. Its inputs and outputs are tokens. Humans can draw. A better question would be to ask it to compose stories... something it's trained on.

In particular, it would seem to me that a multimodal model trained on both action, sensory information, and language, would be better able to innovate in this regard. How could ChatGPT have any true understanding of spatial responses... it's never moved anything in its existence.
My understanding is that the full test suite is actually proprietary and it's part of how sqlite is funded — the maintainers can provide better claims. There is a public test suite but it's a subset of what they do.

https://www.sqlite.org/testing.html
If it's because of their achievements ? Misplaced jealousy !
Ugh Google Flights.

Hey maybe try using, I dunno, the currency of my logged in account / country? Or the currency I used last time? Or the currency of my VPN country?

Just because I’m traveling in Uzbekistan for a few days doesn’t mean I want to buy tickets denominated in Uzbek Som.
Yes[1], and is a regular occurrence.[2] It was also the method by which Iran stole a US drone.[3]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoofing_attack#GNSS_spoofing

[2]: https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/air-transport/2023-0...

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93U.S._RQ-170_incid...
"your car has a defective part, *is unreliable*, and needs to be brought in to have that part replaced.".

Precisely! NHTSA determined that these vehicles are unreliable in this specific case, and thus need fixing. Glad we're on the same page. :-)

(I know, you want to pretend that it only ever means "physical repair" in everyone's mind, but that's a pretty big projection on your part.)
What is bad about the situation exactly? You get a service for below cost for some amount of time at which point you have to start paying what it actually costs. I can understand if the company manages to corner the market by selling below cost and then jacks up the price way above cost, but cloud storage is still an extremely competitive market and generally quite a bit cheaper than the cost of storing an equivalent amount of data on your own hardware (with the same availability)
> The advertisers don't pay for google storing my data. The advertisers pay for ads displayed and ads clicked.

That's like saying you don't pay the restaurant for the chef, you pay the restaurant for the food. It's a level of semantics that rises to being simply disingenuous. It's a restaurant, not a grocery.
This is cool!

They should force restaurants at public places to provide places to sit, even if you don't buy anything.

Instead, they do crap like anti-homeless spikes...
It's worth listening to this episode of Blocked and Reported on Jack Monroe: https://www.blockedandreported.org/p/premium-the-literally-u...

tl;dr: She's not exactly honest about being poor.
I'm not talking about remote driving all the time - I'm talking about recovering from weird edge-cases, like the car gets confused by a traffic cone on a flat bed truck and stops and needs to be reversed 3 feet and pointed in a slightly different direction to get it running again.
I have personally gotten very aggressive at removing as many ads from my life as I can. I pay for the "premium" version of everything I can to remove ads (Spotify, YouTube, podcast subscriptions) and use adblocker aggressively. It's so much nicer than the alternative.

There are two places where ads remain:
1) Social media where the ads are integrated and not blocked (Facebook, YouTube in-video promos)
2) Billboards in cities and airports

#1 has gotten more aggressive lately. I'm not a fan, but I understand why it has happened. However, at least I can choose to avoid these sites if I wish.

#2, which is what the article is about, is unavoidable for me. I find billboards ugly, distracting, and annoying clutter. It's just visual "noise." What's worse is that the products targeted in #1 above are frequently relevant to me, and I have purchased them. But I cannot think of a single time I have ever made any purchase based on any billboard. I would love if more municipalities clamped down on these.
The next sentence is:

> Choosing to use the powers vested in you by the constituencies you serve, to deprive those same constituents of light, heating, food and home security is a wilful and deliberate act. And it has to stop.

It’s abundantly clear that the whole passage was speaking to Rees-Mogg, calling her out for her Marie Antoinette ‘let them eat potatoes’.

This passage isn’t a generalism, is a specific response to the words of a former politician, a former Conservative MP and MEP for East Midlands.

To reduce the articles substance to a specially selected out of context quote such as OP highlighted seems disingenuous.
Ask HN: Can you market yourself as a generalist or do you need to specialize?
I have a varied work history doing things like analytics, data engineering, full stack, Salesforce development, etc. Not a long history though (several years).

My goal is to go freelance someday, and I care much more about the independence than I do the specific type of technical work I'm doing or what stack I'm working in.

Have any of you who are self-employed had success marketing yourself as a generalist, or in your experience do you have to specialize in "one thing"?
Here's the response chatGPT 4 gave for me:

> The orange remains in the living room. Moving the plate to the kitchen does not affect the location of the orange, since it was placed below the plate but not attached to it. Therefore, the orange stays where it was originally placed, which is in the living room.

You don't need to visualize it in your mind to understand the relationship between being _below_ and being _moved with_. Keep in mind that many people cannot visualize anything in their mind!
Hmm. Based on the Wikipedia article, I can kind of comprehend this. They're making $921,146.95 / employee, yet somehow losing $236,200.71 / employee every year. Don't know where all their money's going, yet something does not look viable.

Apparently, Goodwill impairment, Cost of revenue, then marketing.

From: https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/1370637/0001...

Revenue: $2,566,111,000

Costs: $3,224,671,000

- Cost of revenue: $744,592,000

- Operating expenses:

- Marketing: $710,399,000

- Product: development $412,398,000

- General and administrative: $312,260,000

- Goodwill impairment: $1,045,022,000
I hope they get a good deal.
Did every employee receive statistics about how much they were watched in the first half of this year?
I guess you live in Lyon, France, same as I do.
Even if I despite the ads, the bike sharing deal is quite good for users and the city.
Because I was curious what drives cost today --

20 TB drives on newegg seems to be available for $310 to $360. If you use erasure coding w/ 30% overhead that's 18 +3 drives or $7.5k in drives alone, pre chassis.

Having a DR replica living somewhere outside your house probably gets this well over $12k, even if that replica is glacier or similar.
Just deeper and stronger divisions and conflicts. Physical war? Maybe not on this front. Culture war? Already happening. Expect it worse.
> He was against moral legislation, such as laws against homosexuality and laws promoting marriage, but, again, speeding laws are not moral legislation. They are there for public safety, not public morality.

He was, more or less, a classical liberal. He may well have supported some common sense speed limits (as do I), but he would have been appalled at the idea of the government having the ability to remotely enforce speed limits in individual cars.

> Over 10,000 people in the US die in speeding-related accidents every year.

Millions of people exceed the speed limit every day without harming anyone. They are not responsible for deaths caused by other people, hence their speeding is a victimless crime. Attempting to blame all of society for the crimes of a feckless few is nonsensical.
The average person can learn what the term means when they get the notification in the mail from Tesla (which will state that there is a recall and it will be handled by an OTA update). Or they could read the article and not rely on the headline to get their full understanding of the issue. If the average user panics from the headline... good. This is a safety issue and they should be made aware of it.
The annual Airing of Grievances
I'd say "ignorance is a choice" misrepresents this as a problem of individuals rather than structures. Miss Mogg isn't the problem. The world would not be much better if she took the time and energy to try to learn about the author's life experience and attempt to empathize with it - which is no easy feat given they are worlds apart and each other's life experiences are likely mutually incomprehensible because they lack any frame of reference.

The ignorance is inevitable. The system that produces and enables this ignorance and that allows this ignorance to result in harm (by creating ignorant laws that create ignorant legal structures that ignorantly harm people the people who created the laws didn't understand) is the problem. You can guillotine the entire House of Lords but that wouldn't change anything other than the names and the number of dead aristocrats.
Fair enough. I probably went a bit too hard into flamewar argument style with my reply. I hope you have a good day!
Yeah my bad, it originally had a comment on the multiple jokes seeming to mock a valid claim, though I now get that those were mostly in response to the broadness of “food”.
You can spoof GPS. It just needs be in the sky, and JAM at the same time. In theory it is possible?
> with zero family support

The article didn't say that - are you relying on another source of information?

She mentions her family, but implies she wants to remain independent:

Sometimes I just want to run back home and live with my parents, at the age of 32, and beg them to take care of me. I’ll be very quiet. I can cook, and I promise not to say f*ck in front of the children, Mum. I won’t fold the corners down on your books, Dad.

Without more info, hard to say how her family did or didn't help.
Sundar is quickly turning Google into the equivalent of Accenture or Tata —- complete with a direct stream of obedient IIT workers.
I don't know how you got into debt but a lot of people do it to survive. lol

Student loan debt is massive simply people trying to better their skills to participate in the economy.

Housing is massive debt people trying to get shelter.

Just some types of debt.

And big banks are at the top just profiting off of every single person trying to function in society. lol

We used to be able to pay for university with a summer job.

Used to be able to pay a house off in under a decade.

Modern society has kind of turned humans into cattle to pay bank interest rates.
If I used dropbox, I'd be livid about this. But this does make me wonder about other services. I already closed my websites because I didn't want my data to be used to train AI and there was no other way to ensure that. Now I think I need to make sure that I've removed my data from every service provider.
It's painful sometimes to think of the sheer number of man-hours wasted because browsers have never added a combobox or any way to style select dropdowns.
It all depends on how much the customers depend on uniformity between use cases. One thing that a strong design system does is force uniformity between products which can be a boon to confused customers.