skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Getty-Images* will barefacedly "license" you public domain images at significant cost (i.e. thousands per image.)

Worse, they've attempted to extract licensing fees from people who use such public domain images, in one unfortunate case: Carol M. Highsmith, a photographer who had donated her works to the public domain received a letter of demand from Getty Images for using her own public domain images.

https://petapixel.com/2016/11/22/1-billion-getty-images-laws...

* While Getty Images and Getty Museum are born of the same "Getty" family, they aren't connected entities, and one does not reflect upon the other.
IBM CEO pay jumps 23% in 2023, average employee gets 7%
It'd be interesting to see more data that could help narrow down potential factors in the difference of gut microbes.

Highly processed foods and use of prescription drugs (especially antibiotics) come to mind. I could see both of those being different for rural vs urban populations and would likely have some impact on microbiomes.
I set up something like this [1] a few years ago at a previous job, mostly just because the security team wanted an interactive dashboard.

[1] https://github.com/debricked/dmarc-visualizer
It looks like this is motivated by competitors wanting to shut this industry down before it starts. I wonder how much of the "culture war" stuff (first time i'm hearing about it in regards to lab meat) the article is just astroturfed opposition
Cobbling Together a Competent Clapper
Pioneering sociologist Erving Goffman saw magic in the mundane Essays
People often say that LLMs aren't really thinking because they are just producing a stream of words (tokens really) reflexively based on some windows of previous text either read or from its own response. That is true.

But I have the experience when talking of not knowing what I'm going to say until I hear what I've said. Sometimes I do have deliberative thought and planning, trialing phrases in my head before uttering them, but apparently I'm mostly an LLM that is just generating a stream of tokens.
> I'm pretty sure you can tell the difference between the two.

Paying money so you don’t get roughed up looks pretty much the same whether it’s a bandit or a king doing it.
FCC approves direct-to-smartphone regulatory framework – SpaceNews
Won't that help preserve it?
Any other system has a cursor hide feature that games/applications opt into. Everything else should have the compositor overlay the cursor

This is particularly important because most applications aren't designed to render at monitor framerate, whereas games make an exception because they tend to be full screen applications & tend to render at a high framerate already
ChatGPT Plugin Flaw – attackers could access private GitHub repos of others
Did you pay cash?
> He would have to have been a total idiot not to see that coming

The confusing bit for me is why did it go on for so long? It’s one thing to kill him, but seemingly letting him back into Putin’s circle before killing him is surprising. I hope to hear the story one day.
Agreed - also prompt engineering encourages LLM's to do this too (i.e. asking the LLM to explain the steps it will take to solve an answer, prior to answering - e.g. Zero-Shot CoT 'Let's think step by step')
How does evolutionary instinct factor into the system model? Flight or fight responses, reflexes, etc. 'Thinking' does have consequences in terms of evolutionary survival in some circumstances, as in spending too much time deliberating\simulating.
I think if you have access to produce that is not contaminated with pesticides, and grown on quality soil so that it's not devoid of nutrients, it's fine. But it's is intriguing how some people experience remission from chronic ailments by removing plants altogether.
Oh that's a good one! Thanks for pointing that out, I want to read the newer translation now.

> Cecil Parrott deliberately anglicized the novel.. What is stunning is the poverty and one-dimensional lexical register of the translator’s mother tongue.

> Sir Cecil ultimately failed in rendering the “lazy argot”.. For example, he used the word “bastard” to render into English such varied words as “chlap” (sonofagun, guy, man), “kluk” (boy), “podlci” (moral degenerates), “lotry” (crooks), “sběř” (pack of rabble) and “pahejl” (stumpfoot).

> ..which translation you read will give you a different experience with the titular character, and the story in general. In short, the Sadlon translation gives the reader a novel with extraordinarily more depth and layers than the Parrot translation. ..Parrot’s vernacular obscures the subtleties and nuances that make a huge difference in what Hašek was communicating to the reader.
Right now the term platform engineering seems to be a reflection of a collective intuition that software engineering teams need to have common patterns to simplify operating software.

I think it stems in large part from the complexity associated with running software in a deployed environment. Often, every system, from development to deployment is mired in process.

Tools and concepts have emerged to deal with _pieces_ of the complexity, but it seems demand is growing for a holistic approach.

Full disclosure I work for a company [1] solving this very problem. We are currently putting together a website that outlines our observations and conclusions about what a developer platform/platform engineering is.

1. https://noop.dev
The recourse is taking down the business with a bot hive?
I don't think it was intended to be a children's game; they're not the target market for Google I/O.

But also, in this be situation there isn't much positive to be said about the game. Everything about it is badly done. I'm fairly sure the criticisms (vague and badly communicated rules, clunky UI, graphics style that doesn't fit the puzzle, announcing music without a separate music control, way too many slow animations in the wrong places, browser compatibility issues) would be the same if this was a Show HN.

It's just that none of it is being given as constructive feedback. But even that makes sense: unlike for a Show HN nobody will be applying the feedback to fix the game.

(What I don't get is how this is so high on the frontpage, unless it's just for the schadenfreude.)
>(we have dogs, leather is the only option)

Interesting, with cats it's exactly the opposite.
The freedom to not be exposed to lab-grown meat. To live a life free of experimental, potentially harmful, not widely tested lab-grown meat is important for a happy and healthy life. Etc.
Sure, but the point is you will get different results depending on which metric you pick. It's not that one is inherently more correct than the other.

Often there are cultural aspects at play too. I live in London. I also live in Croydon - it'd be one of the largest cities in the UK in its own right if it was separate to London (and on more than one occasion the council has tried to make that happen). Most of the borough is part of the same urban area, but some are fairly well separated. Several parts of the borough are really separate towns, separated not just from London but from Croydon by "relatively rural" land (by our standards), with their own town centers, train stations, and culturally distinct.

All of this is within the administrative city limits of Greater London ("London" doesn't really exist as an entity of its own - and before anyone else says City of London, that's one tiny constituent part of Greater London - nobody means City when they say London)

So when you say Berlin, everything might be within city limits, when you say London, odds are you wouldn't think of every part within the actual city limits as part of it, nor even a city, but the Greater London urban area includes tendrils extending beyond Greater London too that nobody other than perhaps extra audacious real estate agents would call London. When you say Paris, odds are you might include some parts beyond the formal city limits but very unlikely the entire urban area.

Even then, you won't even get people living each place to agree where the line goes.
It's something that's even more severe if you're traveling in more rural areas, where the non-chain food places are a lot more hit-or-miss (and can have awkward hours like just not being open at 14:00). Chains like McDonald's have a general predictable consistency, which is especially valuable if you've got kids in the prime picky eater phase who are unwilling to try anything they don't know.

OTOH, I'm actually somewhat interested in visiting McDonald's once in foreign countries because their menus aren't consistent across the world but rather somewhat adapted to the local tastes.
FuzzTypes: Pydantic Library for Auto-Correcting Annotation Types
You don't have to, but you may: ordering via app, collecting loyalty points as well as PII of the staff.
> Where there is affordable housing, there be musicians doing brave new things instead of worrying about rent and rapping rants about gentrification.

So I am not a techno aficionado, and I'm curious what the state of Detroit techno is now. It seems like it should be more notable (maybe it is and I'm not in the scene to know) given the history and cost of living.

I regret the US turning away from house and techno, compared to Europe.
Tesla claims not to sell or transfer the data they collect, and offer opt-outs from most of it. You can, if you are willing to void your warranty, remove the GSM/LTE module from a Tesla fairly straightforwardly.
Boeing Whistleblower: "If Anything Happens to Me, It's Not Suicide"
> In my head EDM & techno occupy the same space.

That's the case for a lot of "normies", but it really feels insulting to the electronic music fans in general. Unlike say rock nobody's gonna ask you to know every band in existence and every album they put out decades ago, but you should be able to distinguish between major electronic music genres like house, techno, drum and bass, trance, hardstyle and what not. Sometimes the line gets really blurry, sure, but 90% of the time it's pretty easy to know what you're listening to.

The vibe is different, the tempo is different, the people that go to those places are different, pretty much everyone develops some sort of a very specific preference, and European countries kinda "specialize" based off of that. If you want techno, you go to Berlin. If you want grime, you go to London. If you're into house, you go to a beach in Croatia. I'd say the Netherlands are a bit all over the place, but what really sets them apart is hardstyle, which is pretty much not a thing anywhere else. And so on, and so on.

That's not to say you can't find other things in those places, but they're always gonna be a bit more niche and you kinda have to know what you're looking for to find them.
> Jeff Mills was a Skinny Puppy fan, and you can hear it

Totally. I have somewhere in my pile of neglected vinyl one of the "Final Cut" releases, which was a straight-up wax-trax style EBM/industrial thing which Jeff Mills was involved in. Late 80s/early-90s.

> The UK was the first to wake up to US techno, long before the US did

Arguably, the US never really did. Most people here in North America remain clueless to what techno is and can't distinguish from EDM or other dance music forms. In Detroit itself, there was obviously an active scene, but much smaller than anything you'd find in most European cities (Detroit itself is a fairly small city, population wise), and much smaller than its own hip-hop scene. Back in the 90s when I was much more into this scene, it was very much a niche underground thing. Active scene participants here in southern Ontario/Toronto (3rd/4th largest city in North America) were a few hundred people at most and we pretty much all knew each other. Detroit techno producers and DJs spent most of their time touring in Europe (where they could get paid), not here in North America.

The Detroit Electronic Music Festival events were kind of a rare acknowledgement by a larger audience (I went to the first two only, though).

All said though, the "Detroit" "authenticity" pole in techno served as a counteracting force against the unbearable soul-less, drug-rush-focused, "whiteness" of trance, progressive house, etc.
> Scaling is trivial

You are obviously not a golfer....
> You do realise Go has log/slog in stdlib now ? So structured logging is now in stdlib.

I do, it's just twice as slow as the old stdlib logger, which was already twice as slow as 3rd party loggers, and it makes like 8x as many allocs as zap. If I were going to change my logger, it would be to zerolog, not slog.

> Python is just a mess of a language, dependency hell etc.

We're talking about stdlib though, which are the only packages dependency hell doesn't apply to.

> I would argue that Go is a fair comparison, Python is not.

Go is the youngest of the major languages, making it one of the worst place to check if you want to see how packages age in the stdlib. Look at a language that's actually old if you want to see the kind of problems old apps face.

It also has a weird place, language-wise, because its developed by Google who has an unusual amount of influence over developer patterns. Other languages have to follow devs to where they are, Go can kind of lead the way via Google.
My personal field is irrelevant, since my work let me see across fields (for reference, most of my direct work as relevant to this discussion was in the social sciences, though -- that's the project which let me interact with large numbers of academics across institutions and fields).

The short answer is that what I saw was the level and means of cheating roughly correlates with the degree to which it is possible.

In a lot of engineering papers, if I publish a new material, mechanical structure, or electronic circuit, most people will be able to:

(1) tell how it works just by inspection

(2) if it's useful, try to use it in an engineered system

Cheating would be caught very quickly, at least for any interesting result, so it's much less common than in fields like social sciences.

Computer science is in between. There is a growing pile of b-llshit, since a lot of the work is squishy. Something like a user study can certainly be doctored, a data analysis can be p-hunted, and results can be overstated. On the other hand, something like the big-O of a new algorithm isn't something you can really cheat on.

There are also fields like [insert minority group] Studies or [insert domain of art / music / literature] Analysis, where it's not so much direct fabrication (since there is no data) as writing papers for an inner circle of mutual adoration. "Research" is mostly around stroking egos of people who make decision around hiring, promotions, publication, and funding. I'm not quite sure how to describe that, since it's not really cheating, but very little new knowledge is generated.

Footnote: What's interesting is MIT used to be super-honest in the nineties with computer science research at both AI Lab and LCS (which have since merged into CSAIL). The Media Lab really pioneered (by the standards of the time) b-llshit computer science research. It was a running joke at the Institute. In the decades which passed, the Media Lab stayed roughly where it was, while CSAIL's integrity fell, and now the Media Lab feels much more honest than CSAIL.

Footnote 2: This post should be viewed as much more anecdotal than the one before. I have a very high level of confidence making cross-cutting statements as in my original post. Doing field-by-field dives is just personal observations, so this post, I'm responding to your question, but please just take it for what it's worth. It's small n by field-cross-school.
The finite supply is space, not DJs.
And that’s a mostly political problem as it’s not like there is a lack of space in general, but what you are allowed to do with that space.
> Well, for one, their popularity eclipses the examples given:

That's like the least interesting comparison, especially if we want to talk about "unique examples".

I'd say out of those, ComfyUI is probably the most interesting one, as it's naturally extensible and has a node-UI so you can basically reorganize the image generation pipeline and your workflow to however you want.
I don't think it is feasible, at least for conversation, but as an aspirational goal for children, along the lines of "put your toys away when you've finished playing with them", it is not a bad one.

It's not unusual for me to think I know how I am going to end a sentence, but then find that I can't get there.
Two of my friends who had their bearings and double-mass wheel replaced in their cars around only as little as 100 - 150 kkm (one TSI another TDI) disagree with them.

The lower the RPM, the higher the momentum needed to keep the car accelerating nicely. High momentum = more vibration and faster wear. Low RPM means also worse lubrication. That's why turbo-charged and downsized "eco friendly" engines are way less durable than traditional NA engines. Not sure if they could be called "eco" at all because of this.
Just put the sofa in the dryer. But seriously, I wonder if there's some heat treatment possible. surely it should be possible and put the sofa in a giant plastic bag and heat the air inside or something.
I had the same thought, that’s quite painful pricing for any B2C product. It makes more sense if it’s B2B-focused, I guess.
https://xkcd.com/250/
(Snopes)

There really is an XKCD for everything
Coming at this from a different angle: I always found many security issues are actually data retention issues. The root cause is a system that is bleeding logs, context, and valuable traces; so, all of these safe guards like specialized access, elevated access, bespoke roles, etc. act not as remedies to the bleeding, but as tourniquets.

When data isn't being lost to the void, undo-ability grows. And, having perfect undo-ability is genuine "bulletproof" security. Security, in the traditional practice, then becomes needless undo prevention. That's a lot simpler to tackle than disaster averting prevention.
What's after Nvidia in the AI rally?
The sheer amount of glue used in OSB and other manufactured sheet wood is pretty gross unfortunately. They are functionally useful for certain use cases, I just can't get myself to reach for it over real lumber and joinery.
https://archive.ph/nh8WT
I believe these instructions give you a CA root that can sign certificates for the entire web (a man-in-the-middle CA). I'd be hard pressed to trust such a CA if it was created by anyone other than myself (or my employer, for work owned devices).

Best practice is to use name constraints to prevent the trust root from impersonating, for example, google.com if your LAN only uses .corp or similar.
Hey 50$ for 3TB is 0.016 per GB. Still cheaper than the 0.02 AWS EC2 egress fees! Oh there is also the 120$ base price. 170$ for 3 TB is 0.055 per GB. Still cheaper than the 0.085 Cloudfront egress fee.
Whether you agree with the article's recommendations or not, I do not understand how there are so many commenters saying "IAM is not that complicated". Even engineers internally at AWS frequently get tripped up with IAM permission settings. It's rare that someone gets them right on the first try.

Just some of the things that make it challenging:

1. There are permissions at various layers. If anything along the chain doesn't line up, permission denied.

2. You need deep understanding of each service's specific IAM setup. It's not enough to write a policy that will grant you read access to a DynamoDB table. Your application probably also needs to grant access to the GSI/LSI indices created.

3. Ancillary permission requirements are not obvious if you're not familiar with the details of how a service works. Want a Lambda function to have logs and traces? Make sure you have the relevant CW and X-Ray permissions set on it.

4. Permission related failures do not make the root cause immediately clear. Your S3 get operation may fail because you're missing permissions to the related KMS key. The usage of the ancillary KMS API calls here is not obvious unless you inspect the configuration details of the resource.

5. Secrets related permissions are especially tricky. To be able to read a cross-account secret, you need to grant the IAM identity permissions to get the secret value, grant the identity permissions to decrypt the associated KMS key used for the secret, grant the related account identities permissions to decrypt the key in the KMS resource policy, and grant the related account identities permissions to get the secret value in the secret resource policy. This is assuming there's no other things like SCPs and permissions boundaries mucking it up.

6. The out-of-the-box managed policies are too broad and will often have you granting much more permissions than you need if you use them.

Low level IaC tools like CloudFormation and Terraform suck for this. They leave too much complexity to the end user to get right. CDK does mitigate the issue somewhat with it's grantX methods, but even those are fairly limited and require you to write manual policy statements for many use-cases.
> Also: this DMARC action is used for tracking whether or not an email was received, without the client of the receiving address needing to do any action.
>
> So yep, it's also a privacy invasion.

Isn't it just the receiving mail SERVER acknowledging receiving the message? That says nothing about mailbox access or reading. I would not consider it a privacy invasion.

Most modern communication apps have a similar process of separating "sent", "received" and "displayed to user" which is super useful. Apart from the last part I would not consider them a privacy violation and you can usually turn that off. Similarly, if I download my mail to a local client, the server never knows if or when I read it and definitely not the sender.

But maybe I am missing your point, could you elaborate if that is the case?
Yet the CISO's are the very folks driving Shadow IT.

I've been at a company where getting a Slack plugin approved took 8 months alone. Vendor review took a year.

These departments aren't equipped for the modern day and most want to live 10 years ago without change. Just keep with the old and vest.
On the other hand, if you tried it with floating point, you'd lose significant digits. Since the approach is to sum (a[i] + b[i+1])(a[i+1] + b[i]) and subtract the sums of a[i]a[i+1] and b[i]b[i+1] in the end to get a[i]b[i] + a[i+1]b[i+1], you may be taking the difference of two large values to get a small value, losing precision.
God no, it's awful. At least 50% too small in all dimensions. It's a chair that deliberately ignores that someone larger than 160cm 50kg girl might sit on it.
A convenient death for Boeing/USA versus a century of documented political assassinations. Russia’s state killings are vast, millions?

The two are not equal.
It might still be a useful concept in developing LLMs.
To me, it is one of those things like defining what 'art' is, as in creating a model in our heads around a concept. We take our definitions and then use those to construct models like AI that simulate our model well enough.

In other words, I personally do not believe any system we develop will be truly 'intelligent', since intelligence is a concept we created to help explain ourselves. We can't even truly define it, but yet we try to test technologies we develop to see if they possess it. It is a bit non sensical to me.
It's only incredible when you look at the percentage alone because it sounds like for every 1 unit of control they must have 4 units of wild west alternative. In reality it was for every 1 unit of control they have someone else has 4 units of control and together there was 100% gatekeeping.
> your voter base will revolt

I'm not sure that Minneapolis is the best place to put this in place. Folks in Minneapolis are wholly liberal and support living wages. If anything, this is just going to look bad for Uber/Lyft.

I don't live in Mpls proper, although I do reside in Hennepin County, and I primarily don't use Uber or Lyft so I don't really have skin in the game either way, but I just don't see this as being a great location for these two fairly shitty companies to attempt this.