skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FTFA: "This issue affects enterprise wireless networks but does not affect home wireless/internet usage."

https://status.it.ubc.ca/incidents/jbgq7qslbj21?u=x8npr4065f...
"Don't practice until you get it right, practice until you don't get it wrong"
Remember, kids! Unhappy husbands are unhappier than single men. IMHO
Yeah, AU resident here and my phone (the cheapest possible thing I could buy at the time) is "too old" (less than 5 years!) to run the mygovid app (it barely ran the Covid login one), and I do really feel the squeeze from many directions to upgrade my phone.

I'm also rural, and I feel like this push is being largely driven by people who can regularly afford new phones and upgrade to the latest thing, and who live in cities with excellent reception.
If it's solar powered, more like 60% extra capacity to compensate for that annoying daily power down.
Volcano Erupts in Iceland Near a Power Plant: 'Worst-Case Scenario'
> So, a huge collection of books available for free won't help library patrons, and the main reason why because I can't also use it to view Chekhov's handwritten notebooks or the Leningrad codex? Ok.

You're moving the goalposts. I'm sure the UK already as quite a few everyday lending libraries that would fill that need while the British Library is offline. Library Genesis could perhaps fill in for one of those if it was shut down because of hacking, but few people would care.
In general, if your backups are made somewhere that your IT administrators can delete or overwrite, then ransomware operators will destroy or damage your backups before doing anything that would make it obvious that you're being attacked. And if your backups are moved offline, then they can still try to invisibly corrupt these backups and wait a week or two before triggering the ransom encryption.

Many organizations make backups that would protect them from accidental destruction of hardware, but not from malicious acts from someone in your network with a privileged account, and a reasonable chance of a multimillion payout means that the ransom organizations have no qualms spending quite many hours of skilled people in ensuring the victim is more likely to pay.
That is fair.
I mostly wanted to express that it’s not going to accomplish their goal. Image generators are here to stay no matter how hard and long you fight against them.

Of course technological progress is never a painless process, it’s in fact extremely violent and brutal. On the other hand, industrialisation made it possible to feed 10 billion humans and eradicated much of the everyday pain humans had to deal with since the Stone Age. This would not have been possible otherwise.
But are they more or less than reverse osmosis?
FWIW, the business I'm talking about was a fortune 500 with many well educated people. They still had no idea what they were doing.

I've worked for four businesses now and in that time I've seen a lot of people with no understanding of the software industry. Very well paid people.
It's a chicken-and-egg/gordian knot problem isn't it? Buses are still the cheapest mode of inter-city transportation, well below airplanes and below trains (not to mention the bad state of passenger train travel in the US where buses have been left as the only non-airplane options between some major cities). As the cheapest option that should mean they have the widest audience in theory, but also as the cheapest option they have also become the only option for certain portions of the populace. In the race to the bottom of capitalism they focused too much on the cheapest passengers and lost a lot of reasons to enforce cleanliness and standards in the name of cost efficiencies.

In theory, they could try to expand back to more "premium experiences and amenities" raise some prices and try to expand from just the poorest passengers, but they risk losing the most regular passengers they have. In practice, they also always have a hard time competing with the "premium experiences" of air travel because even accounting for the time overhead of TSA and "be two hours early to be on time for your flight", buses still lose when it comes to overall travel time.

I don't think there's currently an easy market-based solution to solve the chicken-and-egg/gordian knot problem of the very ugly local maxima of poor service for the cheapest passengers only that inter-city buses currently have maximized for rather than trying again for cleaner, better inter-city buses. (Maybe it needs more public infrastructure and support; maybe it needs an entirely new competitor to shake things up, like now might just be the ripe time for the disruption of something like inter-city electric dirigibles to be a best of both worlds lower priced [especially as diesel gets more expensive], no TSA but some of the time savings of more direct air travel. That probably isn't going to happen, because this timeline isn't that cool, but we can collectively dream and there are startups on HN that think they can do some version of that disruption.)
Yeah I had a few screens mid 90s but most folks had just a TV set in my European country. Some even a video games console as well
If the article was summarized with a TL;DR or phrase along the lines you mentioned "it's basically an adaptor from the Kubernetes world of YAML to the fly.io world of Machines" that would have made it way easier to understand.

In my opinion, the concept is not trivial to grasp by oneself (meaning: is not trivial to drive into that conclusion even after reading the article). So, being explicit first, and guide the reader through that concept along the article would have made a big difference.
> there is going to be a "pre-GPT" internet training set from 2022

Well, yeah, there are several here, and I think all the major image generators are using some combination of them as their starting points: https://laion.ai/

> As AI increases as an overall % of all online posts and activity it will death spiral on model quality.

Nope, it will just mean that it will be more expensive to source additional training data on top of the massive trove of existing "clean" (from intentional poisoning) data (much of which isn't perfectly captioned and human work on improving captioning can improve its utility in model training, as can more advanced models with more advanced text encoders, etc.)

If poisoning was widespread, it wouldn't impact "big model" quality much -- they aren't grabbing new random data on the internet for continuous training. It might drive up the expense of community fine tuning, which often does depend on sourcing representative imagery for target styles or concepts from, among other places, the internet.
Seems very cool and also supports importing devices from GDTF!
It still needs JS to work though
I'd like projects like this to include some kind of rationale for their existence. This reader sounds fine, but what's wrong with Calibre and LibreraFD?
An ORM in the style of Django leads to patterns where you have a lot of code on the models - and the business logic becomes very tightly intertwined with the DB schema such that it's very hard to ever refactor it. Also, God objects, circular dependencies, etc.

ORMs in general I think are not a great abstraction - you get lazy-loading patterns, performance problems due to this which leads to manually doing eager-loading which leads to even more twisted up queries being sent to the db and hard to debug problems. And most of them rely on running in auto-commit, so you can't have idempotent transactions. YMMV

Generally, I've been writing very thin CRUD db-access modules that use SQL and I run every request in a single transaction that either commits or does a rollback on error. I don't do eagerloading or anything fancy, but if I need to get a list of related items, I just do a bulk query. So there are some small N number of queries per request, but still generally things are fast. I find this type of system easier to debug and optimize - if I see a slow query in the db log, I can just grep my codebase for it which is pretty much impossible with an ORM.

Re migrations, I've used Flyway before, I like the model, but lately I've been using a single python script which more or less does what Flyway does [1]. This supports migrations in SQL or Python, but I almost exclusively just use SQL now as Python migrations can have extra code dependencies not captured in the actual script. Salt to taste.

I think if you do decide to use an ORM, revisit this thread in a few years time and think about if it's saving you time in the long-run. I find the time it saves you in the prototype you end up paying back in spades in maintenance and building new features - again, YMMV.

1. https://gist.github.com/mattbillenstein/270a4d44cbdcb181ac2e...
This seems within reach of Livebooks. I typically write livebooks attached to my running elixir dev node which just a plain elixir project. So it’s a side-by-side notebook and library development all in the same runtime. Elixir’s VM is highly observable so a lot of what you mention should be possible out of the box, but I’m not sure if anyone has glued all those pieces together in a neat prebuilt package.
Yup. I feel that I left plenty of space for this use of case in my comment.

But as for team knowledge of C++, that's temporary. In the long run, because of the avoidance of many bugs, it may save time.

But there are also no silver bullets.
The Typescript team has been pushing the use of `unknown` instead of `any` for typing data at the boundaries of your app; how much of that has shown up in the ecosystem?

EDIT: I definitely agree with your general point, for the record.
> AI retraining on its own output is not a great thing.

For most forms of GenAI, including image generators, using existing models to generate synthetic data (and then doing human labelling, etc., as appropriate) for fine tuning is quite common and important. Why do you think its not a great thing?
It's common knowledge that documentation bugs most people i guess. Congrats on building stuff!
Which is fine, because the Amish are choosing that life for themselves. If some New Yorker columnist wants to choose what technology I can or cannot have, they can go to hell.
(free) archive.org

(free) archiveofourown.org

(free) tthfanfic.org

(paid) https://www.humblebundle.com/books

(paid) https://www.fanatical.com/en/bundle/books

Tons more...
Having gone through one major acquisition, my experience was that legal put a huge block on any technical integrations and even meetings that might reveal ip until the ink was dried. I'm skeptical they started any kind of collaborative work other than pie-in-the-sky, "wouldn't it be cool if" type meetings with lawyers present.
I am all against monopolies, I loved pidgin (and just saw that actually it still exists!), but the beeper-mini case was quite weird.

> The user will create an account so IMO if I have an Apple account (I own an old Apple laptop) then WTF would Apple care I send the bytes from a differrent application.

Actually, the initial version of beeper mini did not require an apple ID. And actually this was one feature they seemed to advertised a lot. Only the phone number was used: "No Apple ID is required" [1].

I guess the idea was that they could provide an upgrade to the current, unencrypted communication between iMessage and android (that does not require an apple id either). But I guess the issue here, was that people who used it did not necessarily have an apple ID, and thus not consented to apple's ToS, which as I understand makes it different than pidgin etc. And they actually say that this is a problem they are trying to fix:
"Phone number registration is not working yet. All users must now sign in with an AppleID. Messages will be sent and received via your email address rather than phone number. We’re currently working on a fix for this." [2]

Unless I misunderstand something, beeper mini stopped working because apple somehow disabled this "feature".

I mean I do not have any invested interest in this, I do not own an iphone and even if I did all people I know use other chatting apps, I do not own apple stocks or anything, I am all for piracy and whatnot, but I would not consider blocking access to their service when there is no ToS agreement "anti-competitive behaviour".

[1] https://blog.beeper.com/p/how-beeper-mini-works (initial announcement)
[2] https://blog.beeper.com/p/beeper-mini-is-back
> I want to be able to follow interesting content from the kind of people who are put off by language like "first, select your federated instance".

But not put off by language like, first select Threads, Flipboard or Automattic?

Can these people fog a mirror?
> Maybe Varoufakis should try creating an Amazon instead of writing some book and running Greece’s economy into the ground.

This is not only factually wrong, but also an ad hominem fallacy.

> We are serfs for even commenting here, by the way. This site is owned (and created) by the technofeudalists who founded YC, not by Mr Varoufakis.

We are. I don't like it any more than medieval serfs did, but I don't think you should get to blame me for it.

> So what brings you here, serf on their property, if you don’t see any value in it? They are certainly not putting a gun to your head just like Amazon is not making you shop there.

All of you fine fellow serfs have made this a fertile land for discussion, by plowing the fields of comment threads. Direct threat of violence is the most unimaginative way of exerting power and modern day feudalists avoid it in fear of awakening class consciousness after all.
I for one am looking forward to our fully automated gay space communist overlords.
https://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/book.pdf

"WebPKI" Is Going Just Great.
Yeah, even if we accept "creepy robotic recitation" as an unavoidable overarching style, there are errors like:

> Automatic vacuum-type with quantative [quantitative] soybean deliver [delivery].

> Water level control - It can control the soaking time and auto-washing remove [removes] impurities.

> Quantative [Quantitative] soybean and water feeding can stable [stabilize] soymilk concentration control.
Agreed, the work that Ash and team are doing with Unum is excellent!
With problems like this, the path from identifying the problem to identifying concrete steps to address it is not necessarily trivial. It also ideally involves society as a whole.

As such, discussion of the nature of the problem and broad-strokes ideas about how it might be addressed - e.g. "techno-selectionism" - can be an important part of the process of improving the situation.

As for your proposed solution, breakups of companies like Meta, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and probably quite a few more, is certainly one potentially promising possibility.
> some parts of them seem to definitely be a prior art

The standard is to consider ALL of the elements together in the specific configuration. If this were not the case, then any invention that incorporated any conventional element (e.g., a lever) would be invalid.
Moreover, anything created with StabilityAI's code in its default settings also includes an invisible watermark in the image data, not just the generation information in the metadata.
Filled up even a 256GB drive now will all the ISOs i can put on it.
https://archive.ph/nFO2d
Relatedly, the majority of CEOs probably make similar wages to software developers (e.g. < 200k) . But the top end is skewed with 8-9 figure salaries, and there are orders of magnitudes fewer of them.
> Finance: change comes slowly to consumer finance indeed compared to Wall Street, but we can note since the ’90s the (half-assed) shift to chip cards and faster payments, cheaper remittances & free checking.

And outside of North America, the change isn't even half-assed.
Ironic, device that keeps your home safe can burn your home down.
Where did you see anything remotely like that in the article?
As the Hy maintainer, I'd say that assessment is pretty accurate, at least on the Hy side.
> The majority of those affected negatively by this are not the founders, but the employees.

Well yes there are typically many more employees than there are founders. Despite this, founders probably missed out on orders of magnitude more money than all of the employees combined.
If you believe you can’t use Stable Diffusion for example with intent, I don’t believe you ever seriously used it.
There is a ton of work going into it, from training your own loras, building workflows that achieve what you are looking for, using img2img and literally dozens of other related tools and methods.

With the same argument you can say photography doesn’t have intent - you just point the camera somewhere and press the button.

Edit: for what it’s worth, Duchamp just stole the toilet from another artist and passed it off as his own work - I would argue that is much worse than using something like SD.
HN is not immune to forgetting things we used to have consensus on.

There's always someone who is prepared to downvote, literally or figuratively, something that will eventually be the solution to some problem they created in production.

When I get downvoted for ideas and not demeanor, 2/3rds of the time it's just job security.
Damn need to go get one. Still have the series 3.
> If they could afford a plane ticket they would just get on a plane

For destinations with major airports it appears to be cheaper to fly than to bus, and that's before you consider the fact that a 24 hour drive with multiple transfers is only a few hour flight.

The reason people are taking Greyhounds is because they're going somewhere that other transportation doesn't serve.
Marco Arment has the most interesting take on this, and it's made me change my mind on the topic. The whole post is short and worth reading -- https://marco.org/2021/09/13/future-of-the-app-store -- but the tl;dr is: lots of app stores run by different companies would be worse both for users and developers; Apple is not nearly as bad as Facebook in terms of surveillance, invasions of privacy, dark patterns; and basically 'better the devil you know.' I'm convinced -- surprisingly. Essentially a free-for-all might lead to anarchic piracy rather than an extractive one-party state. Marco prefers the latter and his argument seems kinda compelling.
Does anyone know of a similar list like this but for medicine? This is awesome.
Back Street's back, all right!
Luddites would be an even better example of technology selectionism. Contrary to popular belief, the Luddite movement did not reject new technology or technology in full[0]. In fact, they were quite adept at using technology and were in favor of it. Rather, Luddites were fighting for better worker rights as it relates to introduction of new technology and automation. The real story of the Luddite is one of worker rights, the ending of child labor, safer working conditions and closing wealth inequality for all. Not the rejection of technology[1]

[0]: https://thenib.com/im-a-luddite/

[1]: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what-the-luddites-rea...
Dang. I loved that it was still there as a relic of when it wasn’t quite as mainstream.
Ask HN: How to run a startup and party on weekends without dying?
Hi Hacker News,

I have an interesting problem today. I'm coding during the week and I keep track of how productive I am (objectively and subjectively), after several weeks going out on weekends I have noticed a very sharp decline on my productivity on mondays. Going out and going to bed at 6am on fridays and saturdays is my best estimate of the cause, as usually as the week goes by I recover my productivity.

My question then is what can I do to get the best of both worlds (I'm very into e/acc and don't like the zero sum solutions of the style just stop going to parties).

Clearly other founders in their early twenties must have had this problem before and I'm pretty sure there are some best practices I'm not following.

Best,
Santy
I use Mercury as I expense most subscriptions for business.
expanding on previous - I think it's mistake to believe that tournament style careers are necessarily meritocracies, also. In some areas the incentives line up to make it pretty pure, but not always. I suspect you can argue that the knock on effects in all of them make it a bit of an amplifier anyway.

Politics provides lots of examples.
So all wear-able devices that use light to measure attributes from your blood stream require a license from the holders of this patent? It's really no surprise that businesses don't try to compete with each other in the "free market" and quasi-monopolies reign supreme. Chances are you're going to be seen as eating somebody's lunch somehow if you try to sell anything.

I suppose you could argue that it's Apple violating the patent here, hardly a party to feel empathy for. But they just had the gumption to put skin in this game. We could have tons of competing devices that do this in their own wear-able products with distinct user experiences for each, but somebody beat them all to the patent house so why bother.
from @rauchg's tweet right? way to go bro!
It has huge mindshare, a huge amount of libraries and existing solutions, a huge amount of tools, a huge amount of investment in state of the art VMs, and a huge amount of usage in just about every application of computing (save maybe embedded, a particularly weak application for the language, and even then it probably gets used more than it should). There is no metric by which it isn't one of the most prolific and successful programming languages ever made. I don't even like the language or its environment. There's just no point in denying that it is massively successful and very, very likely to fulfill any need you could possibly have, even if the ergonomics aren't great.
1. Most of the problem with row 'bloat' is complexity of indexes, row deletion increases the number of required indexes, and lack of those indexes is a footgun

2. Got a citation for that? Pretty sure #3 makes that not true, but I'm open to be educated.

3. Yes, and? You're going to have those indexes anyway. That's the point.

4. You don't have to have all rows in a single table just because you took delete out of any user-facing query logic.

5. I think you need some more examples.
The point is not that a climate knob is safety-critical: The point is that the UX in this space is well informed. Why digitise things, which only serve as a distraction from the core function? It's pointless innovation.
He has taken a decade to take 4 provinces of Ukraine that no one in Germany cares about. At that pace he will be long dead before he gets to the German border. Mental bankruptcy sacrificing the nord stream pipeline, and industry taking a giant hit to spend time planning to defend Moldova. Germans have squandered away their position of strength just reacting and counter reacting for no sane reason.
I wish calibre could look like this. Calibre is a lovely project that I've used happily for years but that UI is really something else.
There should be legislation to give control over zoning and development regulation to HUD. Building just a quarter of the 2.4 million needed homes will take a minimum of $120 billion. We need some way of forging bipartisan support for fixing zoning regulations. I believe interest rates are coming down as well. If we can act fast, I think this will be a solved problem in a decade
The scene I find most memorable from Harold and Maude [0] is the priest's response!

I consider myself to have seen a lot of films, but it took watching There's Something about Mary for me to discover the film!

[0] https://youtube.com/watch?v=n7qd7UrR5ic
He doesn't talk about monopoly much. Mostly about social media in general.

The network effects for social media are so strong as to push most people to the winning platform. Even without being a pre-installed default, Facebook and Twitter win. Google has to pay $47 billion a year to be the pre-installed default, indicating that their network effect is weaker.
(2017) -- or were they updated recently?