skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was an extremely long read. If I had the energy and time to discuss it then it would make for great conversation.

I suppose there is one thing I want to say the most. It's not often that I read something that makes me reflect back on the lens of Christianity that I view the world through. There are two points that this article raises about widely practiced Christianity that tap on that glass rather well.

The first is "the monkey dance" and what my response should be. There is no computer logic for this-- something I only say for the computer-minded. I am expected to make the best judgement call as I see it, then to reflect on if what I did was right, then make another judgement call. Here is a short list of Christian teachings that crossed my mind: Turn the other cheek, offer your shirt if they take your jacket; Jesus had his deciples buy swords, but later tells them not to live by the sword lest they die by the sword; do not act out in anger; the tongue can be a whip, can kill, and spew evil, but can also heal and lift up; the strongman wins until a greater strongman comes along and binds him; give to Ceasar what is Ceasar's, and to god what is god's; god does not need to be in power to do his will.

The other is this idea of being superior and more self-righteous by not taking revenge. That's not in the Bible. That's looking down on others in contempt and allowing fellow citizens to experience harm out of a desire to let the unjust be unjust. The law is for the lawless! There are many ways to strike a balance when it comes to how a place is policed. Countries all over the world do it differently and there are pros and cons. California has the money to do a better job is my opinion. It's a hard question to solve and I won't discuss it further without keeping the conversation to specifics. God looks at the heart. If the "right thing" is done for the wrong reasons then that is something the Christian is directly asked to confront within themselves. I'm reminded of two Christian pieces specifically: God loves a cheerful giver; & The people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.

I hope this adds to the discussion. I won't take offense to an athiest retort.
It's one of the few things left in too-bright places that can introduce someone to the wonders of space in a way images and video can't. Some neighbors finally stopped and asked why I stood at the road looking at the mostly starless sky most nights.

"Waiting for the space station." (and other satellites, but those are harder to see)

"I didn't know it was still a thing."

It started as a little dot on the horizon, barely visible in the hazy light from the city, then built to a blinding light above. I heard a "holy fuck" so I guess they were suitably wowed.
Just because a compiler cannot prove whether or not a given set of C/C++ is safe, doesn’t mean that an expert in the language can’t write safe C++ and prove that it is actually safe.
One addition IMO: If anyone in your life tries to push you to seek their validation and do what they think you should (which is mostly just validating themselves), ignore and avoid them, or at least try to knock them down a peg.
I still don't really understand why Red Hat invests into creating a Docker alternative, but I really like it. Podman does pretty much everything Docker does, but it has more features (e.g. pods) or the way Podman does it tends to be better (e.g. daemonless container spawning process).

The main issue to a common developer would be Docker compose I suppose, which if you use simple compose files, there's actually a podman-compose script that attempts to be compatible with the Docker compose spec.

There's also using Podman as a backend for docker-compose [1]. Overall, in 2024, I see no reason using Docker at least on Linux boxes. Not sure how Podman fares on macOS or Windows.

[1] https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/podman-docker-compose
I've probably sold a few copies of this from people asking why I was pointing my phone at the sky.
How about humans on the moon? NASA's still crushing SpaceX.
(Glory days.)
>Why should they bother?

So they get better libraries (from more dev usage) and more native software on macos.

The knock against .NET is strange. Does Google need to make a cross platform GUI framework in Go for Go to not be half-hearted?
I'm currently working on nothing outside of work due to an illness.

I hate it. I was halfway through dissembling my project car's engine for some upgrades and was hoping to get started on a bathroom demo for a remodel, and that's all been delayed.

I'm also not really working on any tech right now, because for the most part, I've gotten my personal technology working how I like it. I have a spare PC I've been meaning to turn into a home theater device but I'm more motivated to work on the car.
Another tip, really get a feel for how an entire car can be in your blind spot, roughly just behind you on the left and right. That is part of the reason for watching your mirrors ~15-20% of the time.
No.

If you went up to them on the street and asked, "Hey, how important is it that a guy be tall?" you would get a response that would sound a lot better than what they fill out with nobody looking. You have to take it out of a public context and also bury it along with a bunch of other things to de-emphasize it. Meanwhile, at one point Tumblr, Twitter had a run of women pulling faces of disappointment and/or disgust with the caption "When his height starts with a 5." And that's an in-group thing, neither private nor public.

People have a lot of different facets of themselves -- something that Zuckerberg really didn't get -- each shown to a different audience. If you've ever watched a bunch of women do this "performative disdain" routine, wherein they make displays to other women that they, too, have high standards, that's definitely a facet that is neither entirely public nor completely private. I recall a recent car commercial to that effect, where women were inferring something about a man due to his choice of vehicle, and were doing performative disdain based on that.
Guinness yeasts are genetically unique among Irish beers
Perhaps fair point, though couldn't the same be said about the opposing point of view?
80% of the work a military does is to keep people from starving to death. It’s called “logistics”.
Yes, this is more or less how the non-profit journal https://elifesciences.org (funded by HHMI, Wellcome, Max Planck, and Wallenberg Foundation) works.

A problematic aspect of non-public peer reviews is waste and political battles. I have witnessed first-hand how big names in a particular field reject articles from incumbents that are perfectly sound just to delay their publication and/or to copy them.

A public review introduces some skin in the game and avoids this kind of behavior, as well as rejections or requests to make changes because of reviewer incompetence. It also avoids the opposite thing, blind acceptance of flawed studies.
I think that was a view on peer review that was lost. Used to, the citations and continued exploration of a topic was a vital part of the peer review.
I'm pretty skeptical of this scenario. Motors are quite high power and require big dedicated amplifiers. I would expect a negligible difference from the amplifier input being two bits, or one trit, or a separate wire per state.
It's easier to vote out or force out a corrupt an immoral government overseer.

A private corporate overseer cannot be voted out or forced out. Only a CEO or board can decide that. It's undemocratic.

The public has an actual voice in government while having absolutely no voice in a private corporation.
JFK really moved the goalpost on that one.
It seems like you're agreeing with the parent, but then the sentence

> Every time some one comes up with grants for reproducing published stuff the silly idea finds enthusiastic support.

suggests that you think replication isn't useful. Or, am I misunderstanding what "the silly idea" refers to?
Always strange to see this type on HN.
That's mildly surprising, given how large and well tagged e621 in particular is. Though I assume most of the major furry art hosts are blocking scraping by this point, given how divisive GenAI is?
The evidence is fairly weak.

> Although nicotine itself does not cause cancer in humans,[40] it is unclear whether it functions as a tumor promoter as of 2012.[104] A 2018 report by the US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine concludes, "[w]hile it is biologically plausible that nicotine can act as a tumor promoter, the existing body of evidence indicates this is unlikely to translate into increased risk of human cancer."[105]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicotine#Cancer

In any case, it's crucial to distinguish between a weak tumor promoter which may have statistically minor impact on cancer rates (nicotine), and an unambiguous carcinogen that kills people by the bucketload (tobacco).
Domestic humanoid backed by OpenAI closer to market after $100M raise
Accountability to citizens at the ballot box is a step above 0 accountability. Even if it's not as efficient as accountability to informed customers in a competitive market.

It's the same reason that the telco duopoly is worse than municipal telcos.
I am reminded of Blahaj Quest

https://blahaj.quest/
In a single nation world yes, but in a multi country world, if the US limits size of it's companies the world will be simply dominated by Chinese/European companies and the QoL of life for ordinary citizens would nosedive.
You should be able to use podman with docker compose though (https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/podman-docker-compose)
Re: Walgreens, never forget they lost like a cool billion into theranos!

I feel like the anti theft is performance art to scare voters into voting for tax dollars to replace Walgreens store security.
It would be interesting to see if expressed preferences could be set against actual choices made in dating. People lie, very often to themselves, about what they actually want.
I feel less hopelessness, but I’m also just working on myself. Getting into a routine, cooking, working out, making tomorrow better. Work can come next.
I had several teams abused remote work. From not doing much of anything to working multiple jobs. We still have remote work at Stream, but it's reserved for teams where recruiting is very hard and performance is excellent. I think almost all companies are cutting back heavily on remote work.
I used to have one or more side projects going on all the time.

With work and family, I currently don't really have the energy to make consistent progress, so instead I do very small things, mostly not software.

Like, baking a sourdough bread usually spans two days, with not too much work on each of these days. Will it be The Next Big Thing? Well, only at our next meal :-)

That's the scope of projects I can manage these days.

And that's totally fine, the world cannot sustain the same number of Big Things as there are people, so I'm fine with most of us never having one, including me.
Amazon Drive cloud storage for Prime users ends
You’ve been out of the office too long if you think bringing back employees fixes the problem of freeloaders
Look into training a Dreambooth model. Huggingface has a guide for this.
V*: Guided Visual Search as a Core Mechanism in Multimodal LLMs
They have to write the crazy paragraphs because the code is ugly to look at, so they have to spend 18 hours convincing someone to use it. They could choose symbols that don't look so ugly next to each other, then they would not have to spend as much time convincing people the language does not suck.
I think I commented this the last time it was posted, but I'm vain enough to post it again:

> Rather than answering this question, the JWST observation adds to the mystery: The telescope’s infrared eye found that dozens of the worlds appear to be in pairs orbiting each other — a puzzling arrangement that, if confirmed, would defy expectations.

> “We’re missing something,” said Nienke van der Marel, a researcher who studies planet formation at Leiden Observatory in the Netherlands, “and we don’t know what it is.”

> These improbable duos cannot be easily explained by any known formation theories of either stars or free-floating planets. But within a week of the JWST announcement, researchers published a daring new idea describing how giant planets might be ejected from their home system in pairs — an event most researchers had thought all but impossible. Whether or not the proposal can fully account for the entire zoo of dim, starless worlds remains to be seen.

Here's my scifi take on things: these pairworlds are engineered.

The whole "the galaxy should be settled by now" question has an answer: the galaxy is settled, but the people living there don't care to live close to suns - they prefer to live in planetary binaries sailing through the interstellar void, using the gravitational energy of the orbit to keep the cores of the planets in flux, generating internal heat for energy.

My understanding from the article is that these are mostly gas-giant, Jupiter-like pairs - so maybe these creatures live in those types of planets' atmospheres, and have developed the technology to pair up gas giant worlds and go traveling.

Maybe that's how most sentient life does it! Maybe we're half a million years away from our local Gas Giant Natives packing up their shit (Jupiter & Saturn, Neptune & Uranus) and fucking off to join the greater galactic community, leaving us in the dust to be clobbered by asteroids and other orbital disasters.
Long time fan, yet - agreed.

I keep forgetting this transition happened until I try to 'podman generate systemd [...]'

This is rare because I wrote an Ansible role to do this in a way that feels nice.

Anyway, it really feels like podman lost the mark. I've already subscribed to the unit file maintenance/relationship planning thing. Just let me use the generator. I don't care about Quadlets or how they might be better.
>On Monday, January 8, the Starlink team successfully sent and received our first text messages using T-Mobile network spectrum through one of our new Direct to Cell satellites launched six days prior. Connecting cell phones to satellites has several major challenges to overcome.

FOR decades I have wanted a modern Pager - an SMS ONLY device,.

Before Android, there were a few devices that were headed there, but the hiptop made it for a while and Danger begat Android (and a $200 million dollar exit for Rubin)...

But you know what device is PERFECT for this:

HOT BUNNY 1 [0]

but modified to have a thin connection via starlink - if mods are required.

[0] https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/hot-bunny-aler...
I use Podman on Mac OS. I've found the experience better than Docker for the most part, especially when it comes to supporting older versions of Mac OS. The only major downside of Podman on Mac OS is that you cant use the host network in a container, but people will rarely want to use the host network in a container anyway. This is something to keep in mind if you want to experiment with network things in a container and want to retain the same hostname and IP address of your host, however. I manage to work around this limitation anyway.
Sure, but in the context of ecommerce then and now, it's a much better world.

Before, if you wanted to have a web store, you basically had to have a kid build you a website, updating was slow, every transaction processing system was different, (or they just took it in a web form and processed your card by hand on the visa machine in the office), the website didn't process inventory so someone had to keep that up-to-date. Then, they'd take your address and box to the post office and get a label. Hopefully, you didn't fat finger it, there was no data sanitation on the form and the post office isn't checking. And, if you didn't get the right product, they were out of stock, it was damaged . . . w/e, the return process was an email, goofy web form, or phone call to get a person on the phone to manually handle whatever went wrong, and that's if they weren't just a scammer and were actually going to ship you your stuff.

Now, any business that wants to have an online store front can grab a template, upload some pictures of their inventory, and the site handles payment processing, buys and prints a label, schedules a shipping pickup, handles the return process including generating return shipping labels. Often, the processor has a quick payment resolution system.

Amazon was really good at some point because they had enough people to build those things and make the experience pretty good, like, you just knew that you wouldn't get ripped off, you could send it back, hell, order two and pick the one you like and send one back. Youu didn't even have to enter your card number into some dodgy site or stop to type your shipping address and risk sending it next door with no recourse because amazon already has that seup.

But now, a lot of that barrier to entry is gone as companies have made the various parts of the stack available for a small percentage of each transaction. You can go to a website that works, order something, pay with paypal or stripe which have some customer protections, just select the shipping address on file with the processor and get an email with a tracking number a minute later. If you don't like it, you can send it back and the site will probably even integrate with usps/ups/shipper of choice help you to create a label and arrange a next day pickup.

And when you buy directly from the company, you can assume they are validating their product and it's not a fake, you know there's been no inventory mixing. You know what you are going to get.

And, to top it off, with a password safe, you can track accounts at 500 places so it's not really that much of a hassle to have multiple accounts, and that's only if you have to make an account because the payment processor of choice (of which they probably have several), even requires you to make an account on their site.

My point being, that other than amazon being a single point of shopping, they really don't offer anything that a small business can't for a relatively small effort.
M2UGen: Multi-Modal Music Understanding and Generation
Gordon Bell's "High Tech Ventures" (1991) [pdf]
Fascinating look into what it was like in 1991 to start a start-up.
using Qualcomm for wifi6 is mainly the reason why, their SDK is very picky, and kept out of tree on purpose
I’ve always liked Viktor Frankl’s take on this:

There is no meaning. But humans need meaning. Create your own! Absolutely anything will do as long as you find it meaningful. Just pick a goal/meaning and go for it. It’s okay to change what you find meaningful as you go through life.
You can spend unlimited time working on yourself. I see no unhealthy unbalance in that as long as you have no inner need or outer pressure to produce (or you are able to control both).

Personally I find it tricky, though. Am I doing nothing for this long because I am just getting lazy (-> need resolve) or depressed (-> need real help)? It does not seem to be your case, so just take your time. Take your time.
Dourif’s daughter is in the sadly-truncated Dirk Gently show, and is an absolute delight.
Especially frustrating, since, as the article points out, Norway is party to the Aarhus convention which specifically requires that environmental cases should not be "prohibitively expensive" ("uoverkommelig dyre"), but the government excluded "side costs" such as lawyers' fees and expert witnesses from their estimated cost of a trial [1]

[1] https://issuu.com/deninternasjonalejuristkommisjon-norge/doc...
It's a neat possibility for a science fiction author. I've seen the idea used a couple of times.

One of the key questions for life is where all the external energy to overcome entropy comes from. Being close to a star without being fried by it is a good way to accomplish this, but there are fewer easy energy sources on a rogue planet.
This is also the curse of expertise. To most people in tech, uploading a weather dataset for one zip code and making a site that spits out predictions for the weather the next day is trivial.

It would not be an impressive project to people in industry and it would not impress most hiring managers. To quote you, it would be “nothing much”. For most people who aren’t in tech, this project sounds pretty cool and is very much something.

Easy to get lost in the sauce when you spend all day soaking in it.
Their point is that cracked windshields are neither uncommon nor (typically) dangerous. They happen regularly across all manufacturers and have redundancy in place to make sure they don't hurt anyone.

Boeing has a lot of problems, more so than other manufacturers, but this isn't a good example.
I agree, I spent far too long figuring out where the actual prompts are and assumed they were just gatekeeping like you see in the art generation scenes until I saw the nb link. Safe/sane LLM usage 101 means knowing what you are sending to the model, I personally would never summon some unknown 3rd party prompt.

For example, the gangster one has a specific instruction not to condone violence, while this is good for safety, it would be confusing if you didn't know the actual prompt when the gangster starts lecturing you and one may assume it is an OpenAI phenomenon and not built into the summoned prompt.
I think gravity assists only really make sense when you're talking about orbits - a solitary object floating through the void won't help you accelerate, though it can help you make a cheaper "turn" in space.
The ISS will be the really bright one. I think the last Iridium satellite that flares was decommissioned a while back, but you might see those too.
The Downfall of Boeing – An Insider's Perspective (2003)
+1, sign me up, like a Star Trek communicator with global coverage

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communicator_(Star_Trek)
> "3 months including onboarding is enough to judge people performance"

Just adding to the broken record at this point: That’s fine in theory…but then why did this employee not receive any feedback ever letting her know her performance was lagging?
Sadly escape analysis in Java is weak.
In this case, it only works if all the template values do not escape.
Some of us choose HN to receive our preciously minuscule free time on because we expect it to be of a higher signal to noise ratio than average.
As an array language fan I also feel like a lot of the reasons people give for why array languages are powerful are outdated, and sometimes (not all the time) that's because someone tried both APL and C in the 1970s and their opinions haven't changed since.

However I still find them useful (and fun!) because of the terseness, not in spite of it. Terseness means array languages are very mathematical in nature + can be really ergonomic to write, especially with the repl. If someone said "learn an array language, they're easy to write on paper" everyone would think they were insane... but there is something to it, in certain cases. The idea of "fearless refactoring" is popular in the FP world, but it can also be true in the array language world too.
I think the view may technically be true, though of course the term "many" is very squishy. The best evidence for this is probably that (in countries with multiparty systems) you can often see surprisingly strong voter movement between the extreme parties.

That said, to think that this matters is pretty nuts. In the entire western world today, the structural environment on the extreme left is strongly opposed to the idea of campus, while on the extreme right the idea is welcomed by a critical mass.

In other words, the left polices itself. The right doesn't.
There are a couple sites that will let you put in your address and generate a report of how vulnerable your property and your community is to climate change.

https://riskfactor.com/

https://climatecheck.com/