skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The FAQ on that site is useful too: https://gpsjam.org/faq/
SD3.0 looks really good and will probably displace a lot of closed image generation models once it's out.

I don't understand why Stability gets so little support from the community. They released the first usable open-source models and their models are the foundation of the most interesting AI-bashing workflows out there - VC funded or otherwise.
That’s interesting. Aging hasn’t been limiting my thinking about time remaining. Maybe it should. It’s been pouring on the gas about enjoying the ride as much as possible instead. Worry less, lean in more, focus on defining a success that is yours in a way that’s deeply meaningful.
That is the point I was making.

I think there is some confusion with my first sentence:

> I don’t believe I have seen anyone use “world” (when referring to Earth) to also include the Moon (as part of the same 'world').
I have no idea what other folks are doing to stabilize it. For me, I needed a ton (hundreds of thousands) of JS/TS(X) files parsed and ingested into other data pipelines and the segfaults were constant^. If you had a system where single files were only parsed on-demand via separate worker thread and the consequence of a segfault was the text appearing monotone, I'm sure you'd be alright.

^One example: https://github.com/wasp-lang/wasp/blob/main/waspc/data/Gener...
They are the commercial ADSB provider
Singapore? 80% of public housing? true?
> There are a number of APIs, such as geolocation, that only work over https

And localhost

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Secure...
yep I did an analysis on this and that’s definitely where the software jobs are right now: https://bloomberry.com/how-ai-is-disrupting-the-tech-job-mar...
Parent comment is classic HN: strongly held opinions with 100% confidence, 75% of the information.
Corporations game the system all the time.
I'm not a big connoisseur of college degrees, but there's really two things you can shop for brand recognition and good enough.

Personally, I don't think any of those schools have brand recognition in CS. So if you're considering them, you're just looking for good enough ... will they provide a good enough education for you to rise to your potential.

The overall UC/CSU has a reasonable reputation, so I suspect any school in either system will be good enough if you put in the work.

I don't know if there's much differentiation between the schools in terms of class size and student body size, but that can be a big deal.

As others said, look into housing availability and affordability. I would also add, condider the climate: IMHO Santa Cruz is going to be more pleasant than Riverside, but other people have different ideas than me.
This is a constant architectural struggle, I tell you.

Like, inside the infrastructure, I'm constantly updating, poking teams and such to make sure we have clean disaster recovery layers and we have clean documentation about the dependencies between our infrastructural services. And to make sure we don't have cycles - or at least we should have good documentation about these cycles and how to handle them. And to make sure your services don't intermingle too crazily. We should have our postgres bubble, and this should depend on the consul bubble through a clean interface.

And similarly, I'm constantly telling our dev-teams that even though we have micro services and everyone is entirely free to do whatever they want within their team (within reason), we should have clean boundaries between these services. Clear interfaces at an HTTP, AMQP and gRPC layer - and dependencies between services maintained by different groups of developers should go through these dependencies.

If you want to share something that's currently an internal service of some application or system, don't just depend on it because you can - that will get annoying for /both/ teams. Rather separate it out cleanly into a new service with a defined interface, and share that. Our infrastructure should be a DAG of small-ish, independently fixable, deployable and functional bubbles, not a huge ball of mud with everything going everywhere.

It's a constant struggle, but I think it improves both our architecture at a development level, overall dev experience because of better separations of responsiblities and our stability because we can structure incident responses better. Thank you for reading my ted-talk.
Because I'm not going to put in the work just to see it deleted by zealous editors.
Yep very common tactic for small business owning families.
1. It’s not just this community

2. It’s not just “critical views” it’s any view that deviates from the velocity or acceleration of the norm

3. Don’t take it personally, votes aren’t about what you said they’re about how the voter feels after having read it
Yea, oddly, if you go back to like august, there's still a bunch of red over the Mediterranean, parts of Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, etc. so it's not totally clear what that is. I've heard anecdotally that gps has gotten unusable in Israel in recent weeks but it's not clear why that's changed based on the mapping information we're seeing here.
Hashquery, a Python framework for defining and querying BI models
Hashquery is a new toolkit for defining, importing, and executing your data models and business metrics.

Hashquery is capable of expressing complex, multi-layered data queries, way beyond the capabilities of standard SQL. It natively integrates with Hashboard, with more semantic layer integrations to come. And unlike a DSL, Hashquery is fully composable and extensible — it's just Python.
You start a business and have partners who have bankrolled you. They own a percentage of the company. At some point, you want to buy out their share. But the government just banned it. You can only dilute your share, never increase your ownership stake.

Does that make sense? Because that's what banning stock buybacks will achieve.

> Companies use stock buybacks to give away massive amounts of capital.

It's one use of stock buybacks, amongst many. Companies also do buybacks to get a greater ownership stake. They also do it if they think their stock is undervalued.

Banning buybacks is throwing all good options out to prevent a few bad options. It's a kneejerk reaction.

My company has done buybacks multiple times. It barely made any impact on the stock price. The much believed notion that it manipulates stock prices ... needs hard data. Look at all the companies who've done it in the last 30+ years - how many of them saw a significant gain in stock price in the short term?

I can agree that these transactions need to be regulated. But banned? Nope. For me, though, reform is useless unless they solve the problem I mentioned above: That it is currently legal for me to get an ownership stake in a company and not be entitled to anything in return. Shareholders should have a contractual right to returns that is independent of the stock price.
Apple Delays Work on Next Year’s iPhone, Mac Software to Fix Bugs

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-07/apple-del...
I think there are two problems with the message Plasma gives in that dialogue:

1. No warning about the arbitrary code - a "theme" intuitively looks like something that should contain art, not code.

2. Users develop banner blindness and ignore that message.

Well-tested themes need a lot of work many theme creators aren't ready for. They're rare. Maybe rename/redesign that dialogue to give an impression of a collaborative workshop where users are expected to be participants (developers and testers), rather than an application store with finished products in which they are consumers?
Document publishing sites leveraged in phishing attacks
Cars get into wrecks all the time :)
Seriously though we just normalise it.
If there is a car accident on your street everyone is awake.
How about cop cars and ambulances racing by sirens blaring at all hours.
People blast horns way louder than anyone will shout.
Android OS layer has zero Kotlin, and Google had to backtrack on their decision to let Java languish, as the Android ecosystem started to lose out on Java ecosystem, thus ART is now updatable via Play Store since Android 12, and Java 17 LTS is the latest supported version.

Kotlin is only used on Jetpack Compose and a couple of AndroidX libraries, that you have to ship alongside the application. And as alternative to Groovy on Gradle build scripts.

I expect this year's GDC to announce Java 21 LTS support.
Interesting. It's not mentioned in the article, but the team behind the recently released "Stable Cascade" models has left stability as well.

Personally, I assume stability has hit a scaling/money issue on image generation models, which is why they might be pivoting to other domains where you can still make headlines spending <$50M on training runs, like their 3D models.
And Japan and NHK.

I detest all media equally, but I particularly detest those funded by tax monies because they don't even have to ask for their requisite funds.
More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39764821
I assumed it fell into the bog and so it was basically impossible to get to?
Show HN: A TypeScript KV interface for writing to Git
Is that actually a thing? What algorithms do you mean? I thought everything that depends on a change gets rebuilt.
No shock that profits are failing when they are investing heavily
And when shuttle was developed, printers barely existed. Both inkjet and laser desktop printers were introduced commercially 1-3 years before the shuttles first flight in 1981, and weren’t very reliable yet. Desktop printers still aren’t as reliable as a teletype or dot matrix printer. There’s a reason airlines use dot matrix for printing flight manifests at the gate.

Ink plotters, teleprinters, and fax machines ruled the world. But plotters are dreadfully slow at writing text. Radio fax machines may have been viable if they were rugged enough. But they probably weighed as much as the teletype and were much slower - only real advantage is printing diagrams and photos.
This 'conversation' with Geoffrey Hinton and Fei-Fei Li goes over a lot of the history of things (1h50m):

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWWgr2rN45o

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E14IsFbAbpI ('mirror')

Goes over Hinton's history and why he went the direction he did with his research, as well as Li's efforts with ImageNet.
*Every legacy media article
> the chips aren't cutting edge.

We learned from the pandemic that a huge amount of the world's manufacturing economy depends on the availability of old and outdated chips. Being competitive in cutting edge CPUs and GPUs is only one facet of the problem. Incrementally addressing chip production needs seems better than doing nothing for longer in an attempt to solve everything at once, or a riskier leapfrog attempt that's likely to fail.
Bitcoin tumbles from record high as Grayscale ETF outflows hit $12B
It's a joke, also the xkcd talks about cancer cells, not bacteria
POV: You return to office [outtakes] – KRAZAM [video]
The alternative is to be dependent on the rest of the world for chips.

The market decided that the most efficient transaction is to offshore all of this infrastructure to geopolitically-compromised areas and pray that China never does what every other emerging power in the history of geopolitics has done.

The market chose wrong.
Such a weird thing to personally identify with so strongly.

Where do you think that comes from?
Glassdoor is now adding real names to user profiles without consent
I'm perfectly fine with getting rid of AI... if all fan artists paid the statutory and actual damages for their infringing activities.
Maybe too much money is exactly the problem? I rarely see people tackling hard problem for money, because it is not an efficient way of making money.
> A single observer can't really say for certain that jamming is happening; you need a distributed sample from multiple different sensors over a period of time to have reasonably high confidence.

Could you use RTLSDR triangulation to hone in on granular lat long of jamming sources?

https://www.rtl-sdr.com/detecting-gps-jammers-in-augmented-r...

https://www.rtl-sdr.com/kiwisdr-tdoa-direction-finding-now-f...
> The problem is that people like this author are trying to literally treat it like a person instead of an LLM.

This is exactly how consumer-facing LLM-powered interfaces are marketed and promoted, though.
I don't know how to test this in an experimental way because I don't know how to make it repeatable.

I can say anecdotally that I've used non-software patents to figure out how to level a door via its hinges, find out how Pop Rocks are made, and understand how they keep air sickness bags from leaking. Nothing earth shattering, but interesting. It is worth noting that I could easily follow all of these even though I'm a complete non-expert on any of the subjects.

I've never gotten anything out of a software patent. I have a hard time even reading mine. This leads me to the hypothesis (which seems testable) that software patents are particularly broken.
I wonder if this is an Evil PLC Attack.

Previous CISA advisory on the matter can be found here: https://cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2023/11/28/exploitation-...
It's a huge pile of dead sand with load of petrol... They're fighting the clock to stay relevant by buying all kind of foreign assets and attracting investors but no amount of tech will change the fundamentals
Poll: Ray.io vs. Alternatives?
Are you using ray? Does it continue to get enough traction? It seems like not until recently python 3.11 wasn't supported. What are people using to distribute large workloads instead?
I think we've found repeatedly in self-driving that it's not enough to solve the problem in the normal case. You need an AI model that has good behaviors in the edge cases. For the most part it won't matter how good the vision models get, you're going to need similar models that can make the same predictions from LIDAR signals because the technology needs to work when the vision model goes crazy because of the reflectivity of a surface or other such edge cases where it completely misunderstands where the object is.
Everyone should read into the real history of so-called "intellectual
property"- a made up phrase that tries to conflate trademarks, copyright
and patents as if they had anything to do with each other.

Lawrence Lessig's accounts are a good introduction [0].

Research the censorship laws in the century prior to the Statute of
Anne, and the burnings in St James' Square where 'unauthorised'
publishers were immolated on pyres of their own books. The first official
publishers were granted a licence for violence to smash up the presses
of their competitors and burn down their shops.

Such a crock of revisionist crap has been cemented into the official,
sanitised narrative of "copyright" as wholly benevolent and for the
benefit of artists.

> such things were once the nonsensical hyperbolic nightmares of
opponents of IP laws.

Maybe in recent history, on the Internet etc. Historians and
philosophers have always understood that the power to control the
dissemination of ideas, to control what people read and see, is to
control the limits of their thought and behaviour. Little has changed
since the Mentelin Bible.

[0] https://lessig.org/product/free-culture/
I hope you turn out to be right.
Ah, Costco isn't the only grocery store I go to. Roughly, I grocery shop once per week, alternating between Costco and other grocery stores where I buy fresh foods or smaller items that don't make sense from Costco.

My personal feeling is being able to stock up in bulk is a net timesaving benefit of car-centric living, BUT the tradeoff comes when you only need a few things from the store. On the one hand, it's only about once or twice a month that I need to go to the store because I need just 2-3 very specific things. However it's a major annoyance, and it'd definitely be nice to be able to walk a short distance to get them.
Would be somewhat ironic if Saudi Arabia accidentally created an AI so advanced, it would prove god does not exist.
The goal of a corporation is to generate value for shareholders, and we don't give any incentives for them to do otherwise.
The "art community" did most of the damage to itself.
I'm middle class and lived in Paris. I had rich friends and poor friends. My rich friends owned flats that occupied entire floors of a building. My poor friends got whatever social housing was available. And my middle class friends rented or bought a place in the suburbs with more space. We owned, a relatively small by American standards 55sqm, 3F, flat in the city center. My middle class friends could also rent the same size flat on their salaries but none of them wanted to. They liked their space and garden.

Their is give and take to everything in life. I don't think it's hard to live in Paris if you're in the middle class, but you certainly won't feel middle class doing it.
> We're terribly inefficient with its social spending because have politics is so adversarial and nobody is interested in doing any due diligence.

And I'm sure it has nothing to do with the United States having a very unhealthy population and pays doctors the highest salaries in the world.
cat, grep, sort and awk come pretty close :)
Similar to car prices, we see the same mental rounding effect in rents. People will rent a home for $2100 or $2200, sometimes even $2150 for those truly dedicated to price finding, but hardly anyone rents an apartment for $2137.

Source: my data for the city of Berkeley https://observablehq.com/@jwb/berkeley-rent-board-data#cell-...
You are not imaginative enough.
> questionably-trained models being declared uncopyrightable and forced to be released

I think uncopyrightable is a likely outcome, but where are you coming up with forced to be released?
Can you talk a bit about text rendering? How does it compare to slug? [1] Would it be suitable for rendering text heavy applications? (like, say, a PDF viewer, a code editor, web browser, etc).

--

1: https://sluglibrary.com/
I don't live in that country though
> The NCM said it does not use any harmful chemicals in its operations. “Our specialized aircrafts only use natural salts, and no harmful chemicals,” the organization told CNBC.

How many times have companies been wrong about the harm chemicals they use in products have on humans and the rest of nature? How many times have they simply withheld knowledge of harmful chemicals in consumer products or outright lied?

I think weather control is a mistake because I cannot trust those leading or manufacturing it. Even if someone posts a link documenting the exact chemical composition being used in these cloud seeding projects, it won't mean much to me because I am not a chemist and I am also jaded with a lifetime of reading about companies producing harmful products that they insisted are benign or even healthy. I don't trust what they publish anymore by default. We have to breath the air they are pumping those "salts" into, we have to drink the water.
This looks extremely cool and I'm excited to use it in my own personal hobby projects.

It looks like the somewhat standardised Cairo/Skia/canvas/NanoVG API (moveTo, lineTo, etc.) is provided so should hopefully take not much effort to learn, I'm hoping.

(I do see lineTo here at the very least. https://github.com/rive-app/rive-renderer/blob/main/renderer... )
> Archaeologists also unearthed a woman’s skull, smooth from touch, possibly a keepsake of a lost loved one.

Everything else - the kitchen tools, the animal domestication - seems relatable. And then we get to the skull smoothing…
That is a good point, and something I've actually (personally) used quite a bit when writing parsers
Project Documentation: Use Headers as an Outlining Tool
Capitalism 101, get tax payer money to fund your big projects!
The thing that makes that miserable is all the inputs need to be declared in the top-level flake. They really should make using flakes in subdirectories of the same git repo painless. (Right now they're treated as if they were remote, and you need to "upgrade" them after every change; unusable.)
A dozen of them having shock at the reality of the city and call the Japanese embassy. Don't know about you but it would take me way more than culture shock to call my embassy when I'm traveling.
Exactly these two statements are completely contradictory
That's what libertarians want until it's time to use eminent domain to build a freeway so they can exercise their freedoms. Then it's fine to cap your property value to something else because you can always prop the goal of progress as very important. But if you want to prop something else, dare I say something left leaning, something they're not interested in, then it's outrageous.
100 error-free machine hours isn’t exactly evidence of anything when it comes to FS bugs, though.
why blame the player
OpSec is hard. The Silk Road guy was anonymous, up until he wasn't.
Yeah of course, the appraiser is a person who is paid to write down the predetermined number. The US federal government should nuke this industry as part of their crackdown on "junk fees". Either the appraiser serves a legitimate arms-length purpose or their whole line of business should go away.
I remember reading about geohexes (H3).
This is following the rules and using the system the way it was designed. This doesn't even violate (probably) the intent of the law - it just violates the desired outcome of some parties involved.
From the article:

> Anyone may arrange his affairs so that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which best pays the treasury. There is not even a patriotic duty to increase one's taxes. Over and over again the Courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everyone does it, rich and poor alike and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands.
Reminds me of reading Asimov's books set in the distant future and they still use tapes and other things from the 1950's. Maybe if pressed he could argue that the technology in the future was vastly different, but wanted to use the name of a storage media his readers were familiar with and avoid having to make up a new word.
Okay. Objectively, there are several ongoing lawsuits regarding this technology and its use of unlicensed data. Fair use is not as clear cut a case as many here would have you believe, and that's the opinion of many lawyers. Nilay Patel of the verge, who has a law degree, had a conversation about this with another lawyer on his podcast recently and it seems like the legal community is much less hopeful about it than people whose paycheck might rely on this technology.
They do exist.

Off the top of my head Tenergy is one that operates in the states, but there's tons of them out there.
kinda selfish to not think of the shareholders
That's actually climate change and the desert is prone for that. I don't think they are seeding these heavy rains as usually they can turn into a disaster.
That's a silly anecdote and I have a hard time believing chip fab line workers are too much different from those in other types of high-tech (where I spent 15 years working on test automation & quality systems). Some smart folks, for sure, but almost zero roles required even actual engineering background. A lot of management had strong technical education, but the vast majority of line workers are just following simple instructions.

I could be wrong about how fabs work, of course, and would love to learn more.