skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You highlight one of the most interesting (and perhaps less understood things) about the key Innovator's Dilemma insight. Even if the senior management have read the Innovator's Dilemma books, know they are being catastrophically disrupted and desperately trying to respond - it's still incredibly difficult to actually do.

Not only are virtually all organizational processes and incentives fundamentally aligned against effectively responding, the best practices, patterns and skill sets of most managers at virtually every level are also counter to what they must do to effectively respond. Having been a serial tech startup founder for a couple decades, I then sold one of my startups to a valley tech giant and ended up on the senior leadership team there for a decade. I'd read Innovator's Dilemma in the 90s and now I've now seen it play out from both sides, so I've thought about it a lot. My key takeaway is that an incumbent's lack of effective response to disruption isn't necessarily due to a lack of awareness, conviction or errors in execution. Sure, there are many examples where that's the case but the perverse thing about I.D. is that it can be nearly impossible for the incumbent to effectively respond - even if they recognize the challenge early, commit fully to responding and then do everything within their power perfectly.

I've even spent time sort of "theory crafting" how a big incumbent could try to "harden" themselves in advance against potential disruption. The fundamental challenge is that you end up having to devote resources and create structures which actually make the big incumbent less good at being a big incumbent far in advance of the disruptive threat appearing. It's hard enough to start hardcore, destructive chemo treatment when you actually have cancer. Starting chemo while you're still perfectly healthy and there's literally no evidence of the threat seems crazy. It looks like management incompetence and could arguably be illegal in a publicly traded company ("best efforts to maximize/preserve shareholder value" etc).
I wonder if/when real versions of Chrome and Firefox will become available through these stores. Or would that still not be allowed without using Safari WebKit as the base?
7.0 is now available: https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs/pull/147886
Postgres Locks Explorer
This feels a little misleading of a title. It couldn't do the reverse, either, as shown by one of the prompts. Nor could it show just friends of those races.

More apt to say it's unable to generate images of white people and asian people together.
The people paying $100k are not doing so via government-backed student loans.
And another author who doesn't understand how generative models work
"A good's price elasticity of demand"

Yeah, so the tuition is more inelastic, not the people.
Wasn’t prism bad enough? You think the US would stop at making backdoor?
AI and the Problem of Knowledge Collapse
My employer does not, they do cover my phone bill though.
Show HN: PriceNice – Sale Watchlist App
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Users click a button to update prices and check for coupons or promos on their items.
Other features include price tracking with charting and desktop notifications for price changes.
The app was built with the Electron framework, and works through a small local database to store item info and preferences.

This idea began when I realized how much time I was spending checking for sales on bookmarked items. I wanted a way to automatically check prices while I got ready for work (or did anything else), and also something I could review and operate my way with real time data. PriceNice has been in development for over a year now and I think it's finally worthy of sharing with a broader group.

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Rabbit mq is great. I found it particularly useful when some parts of a program are inherently slower than other parts.

It offers a very robust and tested queuing system, and is pretty tiny to run. It lets you keep things very simple.
Every time I'm asked to do "sales engineering" (a term I hate). What I mean is the sales people are going to demo the product to a prospect and they know there is a feature gap that this particular prospect will depend on. So exec asks us to design a build a bullshit feature that will never actually be launched, as quickly as possible. Nine times out of ten the prospect never eventuates and the effort is wasted.

I understand the need to put your best foot forward for a sales opportunity, but there's nothing I hate more than being asked to build something in the lowest-quality way possible in order to throw it away later. I hate hate hate it.
I can think of a much better use of 400k. I went to community college and a cheap state school and I make good money.

Colleges don't refund you if you can't finish or get a decent job afterwards.

The system as is doesn't make alot of sense. Just running though Harvard's cost calculator, if you have a family income of 300k you're out 86,666$. Drop that down to 175k and it's only 26k.

Given how bad the tax rates are at that level you might as well have one parent play golf all day.

300k is a very reasonable amount for two typical people. After income taxes takes 100k off top( assume a high tax state like Hawaii), you're talking about spending more than 1/3rd of your take home on one child's education.
I used to work for a Bay Area startup whose claim to fame was that it was all 8200 alumni productizing 8200-derived technology.
Its not remarkable, but it is great click bait :)
It can be less intrusive, but it depends how the person in charge of mobility set things up and the MDM tool capabilities.

On Android you can define a device as corporate owned, which mean the employer have full control over the device, or it can be user owned and instead of taking control of the entire device, it makes a sandbox in which the corporate data resides, and the mobility admin can only touch what is inside that sandbox. If the phone is lost or the employee leave the business, you can remotely wipe the sandbox while leaving the user data untouched.

IMO this is a better approach, but it depends on how the system is set up.
You said it's not using ffmpeg.

It's using ffmpeg.

That's the problem.
The Mediocre Programmer (2019)
I lived in New York for a couple of years. American food products in stores are, on the whole, a tremendous disappointment. Everything from bread to chocolate just tastes worse than in Europe.

My highly scientific verdict is that there are only two truly good industrial alimentary products made in the United States: bourbon and clam chowder. It could be an interesting experiment to live on only these two.
I think it’s an exaggeration to say ”Building experiences with real-time components was previously only accessible to multi-billion dollar companies”. For instance my hobby project ourboard.io provides realtime collaboration and it costs like 20$ to host with current moderate load of users. It utilizes Y.js for collab text editing. Y.js is dedinitely a great tech and has a low entry barrier.
Is Japan's Pachinko Industry in Decline?
> Back in 1968 people were concerned about losing jobs to computers, just like they are today.

If you consider the notorious productivity vs wage graph, it makes sense.

People didn't lose their jobs, but the productivity gains from computers and automation didn't go to them either.
Training an image recognition AI involves several steps and requires a combination of data collection, preprocessing, model selection, training, evaluation, and fine-tuning. Here's a high-level overview of the process:

1. *Data Collection*: Gather a large dataset of images relevant to the task you want the AI to perform [recognize pieces of equipment from various manufacturers]. The dataset should cover a wide range of variations and scenarios that the AI might encounter in real-world situations.

2. *Data Preprocessing*: Clean and preprocess the images to ensure uniformity and remove noise. This might involve resizing, cropping, normalizing pixel values, and augmenting the dataset with techniques like rotation, flipping, and adding noise to increase variability.

3. *Model Selection*: Choose a suitable deep learning architecture for image recognition, such as Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), which are highly effective for this task. Popular pre-trained models like VGG, ResNet, Inception, and MobileNet are often used as starting points.

4. *Training*: Split your dataset into training, validation, and test sets. Train the selected model on the training data using techniques like stochastic gradient descent (SGD) or Adam optimization. During training, the model learns to map input images to their corresponding labels or classes.

5. *Evaluation*: Assess the performance of the trained model using the validation set. Common evaluation metrics for image recognition tasks include accuracy, precision, recall, and F1-score. Adjust hyperparameters and model architecture based on the validation results to improve performance.

6. *Fine-Tuning*: Fine-tune the model by adjusting its parameters or using techniques like transfer learning. Transfer learning involves leveraging pre-trained models trained on large-scale datasets (e.g., ImageNet) and fine-tuning them on your specific dataset to achieve better performance with less training data.

7. *Testing*: Once satisfied with the model's performance on the validation set, evaluate it on the test set to assess its generalization ability to unseen data. This step helps ensure that the model performs well in real-world scenarios.

8. *Deployment*: Deploy the trained model in production environments, whether it's on edge devices, servers, or cloud platforms, depending on your application requirements. Implement mechanisms for model monitoring and updates to maintain performance over time.

Throughout the process, it's essential to iterate and refine each step based on insights gained from experimentation and evaluation. Additionally, staying updated with the latest research and techniques in the field of computer vision can help you improve the performance of your image recognition AI.
I'm locked out of meta, could someone try with specific locations and see if that changes things? I am curious whether this is a race-word prompt override or whether it's some kind of model fine-tuning

e.g. "Norwegian woman with her husband from Hong Kong"
Several aftershocks apparently:

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/?extent=40.4809,...
I throw on a dry suit and go surfing. It's awesome.
I think you're talking about this as a hypothetical, but it's been a reality for some time.

My understanding is that US states began rolling this out a few years ago.
Thanks to web browsers and web apps it's not QUITE as bad of a lock-in nowdays. At least from a general consumer point of view.
Yes. If a thing is being paid by the collection of user data (which is what advertising involves in these sorts of use cases), then it's not free in any meaningful sense. You're still paying, just using a different medium of exchange.
The silver lining is that now you don't have to maintain it. Maintenance is hell.
Look harder
Lasse Collin pulled everything back to a standalone git repo, with all of the compromised code removed: https://git.tukaani.org/, which is now, I presume, the official distribution source for XZ.
> I still don't want any extra drama from the company

Yeah, they are really good at that. I had a friend discover a vulnerability once, and behind the scenes they took it very seriously. But publicly, they disparaged him mercilessly and even got DaringFireball in on it.

(Yes, he takes Apple money; of course he does)
And how many features are unavailable for the web? It’s not apples to apples.

The point is that you don’t need to pay if you’re hosting a github pages pwa. The backend costs are shared.

There’s a reason Apple got into the credit card business, the extra a fee for every transaction model has been their core for a very long time, it was natural.
I believe this is for smart TVs where Roku is the TV's OS. So it's not dependent on the cable.
We should be able to answer this pretty accurately today, with all the language model work happening.
PostScret's actual site:

* https://postsecret.com

New posts generally happen every Sunday. RSS feed available.
I was really impressed when I clicked the reload button -- inspiring attention to detail!
How did you create those?
Keep in mind that Chilean building regulations account for much more seismic activity than the ones on the US East Coast.
I understand the conext to be that for a smart TV with Roku built in as the operating system, the idea is that if the TV is set to take input from a HDMI device which is idle the Roku OS might take over and display its own content. Like previews for other shows as a "screensaver" kind of thing.
Something that would cost virtually nothing compared with the cost of tuition is for the IRS to connect with the department of education and help students as consumers to make an informed decision about schools and financial outcomes.

An opaque system will never lead to price reductions. I want to know average salary 1, 10, and 20 years after graduating for each school and each major at the school.

Some might think it’s a bit too on the nose to think in purely financial terms about education. Fine. They can ignore the price tags. But let’s not pretend there’s no relationship between software engineering salaries, companies’ almost uniform requirement of a CS degree, and the thousands of students lining up for said degrees willing to pay whatever it takes.

Here’s another idea. How about the billionaires who say America doesn’t know how to build anymore, how about they create a new computer science university? Undercut the competition, give students an education at scale. Hire leading researchers to teach classes. Students who want to pay full sticker price at a legacy school can continue to do so.
A little? This is purposefully designed to generate rage.
Is it only with free/open-source self-hosted software?

Many times I am looking for premium self-hosted alternatives that are of good quality. I would rather pay for a self-hosted license knowing that I get support and that the software is maintained than spending the time to self-host something that might not work as expected.
My company wants me it install Microsoft Authenticator but I find that unacceptable. That is my personal device and installation of any app is my choice and my choice only.

That being said, TOTP is practically standard and every phone have a method of generating their own TOTP so I don't mind adding employer's company to my BitWarden or Apple passwords. Same way I would not have problem to have SMS as a MFA.
As the Russian saying goes, "severity of the law is mitigated by not having to follow it".
Back in the old days there was a glut of crappy bloated slow software written in BASIC. JS is the BASIC of the 21st century: you can write good software in it, but the low bar to entry means sifting through a lot of dross too.

My take: that’s just fine. Tightly crafted code is not a lost art, and is in fact getting easier to write these days. You’re just not forced into scrabbling for every last byte and cpu cycle anymore just to get acceptable results.
I mean there's more to it. NVidia literally just took SGI's IP. Only more blatant start was Cisco, where they straight stole a University computer.
These were people on a team of 2000 devoted to the Car project which was recently cancelled. The ones laid off were likely those with very car-specific skills like automotive engineers and mechanics that could not easily transfer to Apple's other products.

600 out of 2000 is not too bad when ending a big project like that. the headline could easily read: Apple retains 70% of workforce from cancelled project.

Those contract positions are certainly not car related.
Open to all in the US, but $12.5k is earmarked for undergrad forecasters
My description of my own mind is not meant to be a complete description — if I had that, I would win a prize in Philosophy for finally solving the hard problem of consciousness.

Even merely close would probably win a prize of some kind.

My description claims no such depth — it is merely the first-level of the interior of my mind.

Nevertheless, it remains a counter-example to your prior claim:

> So far nobody's been able to produce a complete sentence in one go!

But so too would be another statement of your own:

> Entire sentences can be tokens
I think this ignores the most essential feedback very young humans get: planet Earth itself obeys laws of physics, mathematics, logic, etc. And by age 2 human children already have far faster and deeper reasoning abilities than any contemporary AI, even if their lack of linguistic knowledge means they wouldn't perform very well on LLM benchmarks.

In general AI researchers have done a very bad job exploring how a system might be "near-human" according to some fancy linguistic benchmark, yet dramatically dumber than a pigeon in terms of general reasoning abilities.
That sounds a lot like socket.io?
I tried to help you out but I got,

> Not available in your location
If you find yourself in a Scrum project the best move is usually to quit and/or burn the place down
> I tried dozens of times to create an image using prompts like “Asian man and Caucasian friend,” “Asian man and white wife,” and “Asian woman and Caucasian husband.”

For the last one maybe: “Chan and Zuckerberg”
Did you say first manned landing ?
I get two derpy looking Asian people: https://i.imgur.com/957rCN7.jpeg

Regardless, that isn't a great prompt for testing this out, because "Norwegian woman" could be interpreted as "a woman with Norwegian citizenship", which could be a racially Asian woman. And "her husband from hong kong" could be a white guy born and raised in hong kong.
Well, the bigger question is, why is your employer using a 2FA mechanism that requires a phone?
Asked this on a different link to this project:

Is it only with free/open-source self-hosted software?

Many times I am looking for premium self-hosted alternatives that are of good quality. I would rather pay for a self-hosted license knowing that I get support and that the software is maintained than spending the time to self-host something that might not work as expected.
The real guide to bourbon is that if you're an average person, you've been priced out of the good stuff.
What were the complaints that HP-UX used to get?

I used it for a while earlier at work, and don't remember many problems with it. One did have to apply OS patches fairly regularly to it, but IIRC, that process was somewhat smooth.
> Asians who don’t fit into the monolith are essentially erased from the cultural consciousness, and even those who do are underrepresented in mainstream media.

This is giving way too much relevance to Meta’s ability to put together AI models. LOL.
And you still get to put it on your resume (just don't mention that it was useless)
> Which also apply to dark {energy, matter}, the flying spaghetti monster of cosmology...

they are both very real, as they are both known to us because of direct and indirect observation. i don't understand the "dark matter isn't real" crowd, because it is very much real, and we observe it. we can measure it. we don't know what it is comprised of, but we know it's real.
Topics of discussion change, in this thread I believe we're talking about AIs "hallucinating" "content". Not books specifically.

You make a valid point though, which is actually more scary now that I think about it... it is becoming less and less possible for non-google (/other huge) companies to train models on verifiably human-generated content, as only Google (/other huge companies) have enough accurately timestamped data to train on. Hmm.
IIRC, "Pecked to Death by Ducks" is the title of either a short (nonfiction) story or a book by Gerald Durrell, one of my favorite childhood authors.
So if people use a word incorrectly or colloquially, AI should too?

As an example, would you be OK if you searched for a list of Asian countries on Google or ChatGPT or Facebook's AI, and got only a list of East Asian countries?

BTW, from what I know, in the UK Asian is commonly referred to people from the Indian Sub-Continent.
The inability to reliably separate features for specific subjects in multisubject generations is present in most AI image generators; there’s tools outside of the main model to help with this in many Stable Diffusion toolchains, and DALL-E 3 via ChatGPT uses an LLM-involved versions of similar tooling under the hold, AIUI, but its otherwise a pervasive problem that has nothing to do with racial bias.
Sure but there's like 5000 total tanks, and 80,000,000 houses (not including multi unit buildings).

It doesn't scale.

The military as a whole doesn't work well as a police trying to enforce laws, but even if it did, it wouldn't be the tanks. It would be door to door with infantry.
t;dr: it's Japanese
Well, Docker is usually not needed.

I make self-hosted software and haven't yet created a Docker image for it, but some people do want it. I also think it's useful, especially if you want to run multiple apps on the same server while having each app mostly isolated for security/privacy/performance reasons.

I think a good self-hosted app should provide numerous ways of installing it (Docker, bash install script, tutorial for manual installation, etc.).
How insane would it be to expose a jellyfin compatible api?
Using this architecture with htmx is the future

https://cirw.in/blog/time-to-move-on
Why would a generative model have a hard time producing an image of an asian man and a white woman?
Deep-sea expedition captures images of creatures in Pacific mining zone
> 300k is a very reasonable amount for two typical people.

It's literally four times the median household income of the US. (And even after inflation, bananas still don't cost anywhere near $10 two decades on after that joke was made). This sort of statement is a bit out of touch if you ask me.

Here's where I'm certainly willing to accept that I'm a bit out of touch - I don't have children. So my question is, how much would you be willing to pay if you thought something would give them a significantly better future?
I built XKCD #936 (Horse Battery Staple) — in German…

https://pferd-batterie-tacker.com
It's not pedantic. A comment like "You seem very protective of banks. Have they been particularly nice to you?" crosses the line into both snark and personal attack, which are against the site guidelines. The comment was therefore correctly flagged.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
And it's so much easier to pay by phone! I can be through the payment process in 20 seconds at a supermarket if I pay with my phone, and need nothing on me than my phone. Meanwhile cash takes fumbling, counting either by a machine or by a person, calculation in my head what I need to provide, making sure I always have not too little and not too much on me, making sure the total amount of coins doesn't get out of hand, etc.
Underappreciated Benefits of Selling to Startups
Doesn’t her ending her life so young also just actually rob her of an opportunity to get better though?

I don’t think I’m an asshole for having a different perspective. I didn’t say I thought it was wrong. I said I thought it was terrible. You assume that means I think it’s wrong, or that I’ve made some sort of moral judgement on the matter.
But I just think it’s terrible someone so young is going to die because of psychiatric illnesses.
Harvard could triple its tuition and the same people are going to apply to Harvard.
I've heard somewhere online (can't find the source) something along the lines:

> I wish AI would do my laundry and dishes so I could do my art and writing.

> Instead, AI is doing my art and writing so I can do my laundry and dishes