skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So does every other technology that ever existed. Every tool can be used for illicit purposes if the user wants to.

Where exactly do you draw the line of where it's "too easy" to create a disturbing image? Knowing this will likely be the line where it's "too easy" to create any image.
It should also be mentioned that you can self-host this: https://github.com/leafac/kill-the-newsletter
I mean every AI model I've used for anything apart from AI Dungeon's early and free ones is already completely Stepford Wives-ified to a degree that's incredibly annoying. What on earth is the point of a generating machine that can't generate, I dunno, a caterpillar with boobs? Or an anime girl posing in the buff with a chainsaw?

Like what on earth is the point of a "make anything I want" machine where whatever I want has to pass review with the focus testing groups of every major corpo in the world, lest they're precious advertisements end up within 100 feet of something your average suburbanite concerned middle-aged mother would find off-putting?
>A bit of a cynical take (on Hacker News no less) but after being in the industry for a while, my view is that the best definition of “level” is self-referential: it corresponds to the ability of a person to convince others that they are at that level.

This is right here is one of my biggest concerns at the moment. I know my technical skills are just as good as (if not better than) most of my peers with more YOE on paper, yet my communication skills are below them.

I really enjoy doing the technical stuff, but now I'm not so motivated to keep picking up technical skills because I've hit diminishing returns on it and instead now have to focus on something I don't like, nor have been great at for the longest time, and those are communication skills.

I do wonder if these skills are mutually exclusive to a large degree. ie, the thing that makes my peers better at communicating is exactly the same thing that makes less technical and vice versa. I worry about never being able to level up my comms skills without also taking my technical skills down a notch.

For me, I'm resigned to just looking for a new job to get a salary increase vs doing something I enjoy less, improving comm skills.
Perhaps, but what's your idea of polish? For many developers, it's a shiny interface. Business users have much different metrics. Developers may get excited over "productivity"; business users are more focused on ROI (ie, quantifiable savings or profit)
grub is borked when ms tries to mitigate a possible exploit.

sudo mokutil --set-sbat-policy delete
Tomorrow I begin teaching a college course, in addition to my full-time day job, that I've been creating and working on for months. Work has been very busy lately and I'm worried that my experience with the class will make my life hell. I'm having to approach it in a really different way -- one where rather than doing my usual over-preparing, I'm trying to just get confident that I can do my best and see how it goes.
As a person who recently discovered that aphantasia is a thing, and that I have it, I am troubled that most of you have the ability to create disturbing imagery in your minds.

I will be requesting the addition of safeguards for everyone's protection.
The 8.19.2024 Oxide.Computer podcast talks about this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNHMYp8M40k

Of special interest is that they are maintaining a completely free pre-rugpull version of CockroachDB that was forked before Cockroach's retroactively relicensed security fixes.

I would look seriously at using that instead of starting down Cockroach's free with telemetry offering.
Sure, the approach I advocated for can have much worse consequences in general. However, in this particular case it was ~impossible for the outage to get that costly - we operated the servers and knew the blast radius. My estimate was for the total cost.

Also, 2 engineers working for 3 months cost a ton of money, not even counting for the opportunity cost of other things they could’ve been doing. If the potential outage cost was closer to $100k I’d likely stick with my decision.
I have noticed this for years... my recordings from vinyl (separated into tracks) would be replaced with someone else's needle-drop but theirs had a skip in it... then the skip would disappear. sheesh.

I have wondered, when I find an obscure recording that is clearly a needle drop... and I have no problem with that, how many miles of master tapes have been trashed, lost or destroyed ... I wonder if the original artists are collecting their tiny bits of royalty. Where do those fractions of a penny goand are those destinations legitimate?
This is great! I certainly can relate to a few of those!
I see bicycle cops riding on the sidewalk on the wrong side of the road as if they were entirely ignorant of the law around bicycles. If they were chasing suspects or some other urgency I'd let it slide but often they seem to just be out for a spin.

I've had cyclists collide with me as a pedestrian and run right into parked cars because they aren't looking where they are going. Way too many of them think that everybody is responsible for their safety except for them.
“The” is not a preposition but a definite article.
thanks for the excellent description... but the question was how it's different from profiles, which is used for isolation and settings change. what you described is still nothing more than moving windows around.
Wait, why does this kill news from centralised sources specifically? To me it seems it would have the opposite effect. If I can't take a photo at face value anymore, it's more valuable than ever that my news comes from a source I trust.
Thats per domain, not on any pattern of URL.
Great idea, nightmare solution :(

How about you find a way to make a software out of this so one can run it locally/offline (use the mic instead of a call?) (and with upgrades etc, and price it at 1y worth of "months"?

What is stopping the (e.g.) US authorities to slap you with a gag order and request all entries of person X?

Private things should remain exactly that.. private.

I simply cannot imagine that someone would blab on some machine while we know how disgusting are many authorities all over the planet. (At the same time millions of people trust Apple and Google cloud)(.... there is no salvation)

Then each user will backup the data in whichever method they choose.
Why did we build society at all if we should be always satisfied with the status quo standard of living
The Metronome
Google can't defend shady Chrome data hoarding as "browser agnostic," court says
The modern states of humanity are only bound by our collective crisis. Layers of what I like to call the "onion layered shit cake," which the decent mind must cut through to penetrate the understanding of world power. Everything you know from the meme screens is lie. Well supportable, maybe polite, lie.

While incompetents does explain more easily than conspiracy, I attest there is both.

Let us play this out, while such recklessness is possible (and none would ever hear or understand the true reasons), an immediate crisis is those who simply don't care they are a waste of their humanity.

Do not be a waste of your humanity.

What more can individuals do in the contest of civilization's passing?
Ford rethinks EV strategy again–ditching 3-row SUVs, adding vans
GLP-1 drugs have been studied for decades and the side effects are incredibly low/small.

The bigger problem is frankly the reaction you display, that even if the side effects were actually zero that people feel that’s “unfair” and that others shouldn’t be taking a pill to do something their personal body chemistry doesn’t do properly.

Your thyroid medication is really a moral failing, you see. Just eat less and your weight will remain healthy.
At least it gives you the date when you hover over with your cursor.
The bigger problem here is that Slack AI has a misfeature where malicious instructions can cause it to answer questions with links that leak data. The specific examples aren't as important as the overall class of attack.

Anything you say in Slack - or anything in a document that is available within Slack - could potentially be leaked to an attacker who manages to get their malicious instructions into your Slack. There are many ways they might be able to do that, such as tricking an employee of yours into uploading a file to Slack that includes those instructions.
We have the choice of affordable, door-to-door air conditioning now, so why should we do without if we don’t have to?
Also, what about the converse? Corporations or governments doctoring images where they show undamaged and safe environments with happy people where there's a crisis they're trying to cover up, isn't it just as damaging as the images conveying negative emotions?
The problem with long distance AC is the reactive power component caused by the capacitance, and the voltage rise caused by the Ferranti effect.

The reactive component has significant impact on the generation equipment and grids. It also causes the Ferranti effect, where the voltage along the cable rises. This can make managing the voltage within the cable difficult because at no load, the load end has a higher voltage than the source, and when loaded, the middle of the cable has a higher voltage than both ends.

During stable operation these effects can be managed with Statcoms, shunt reactors and voltage regulation tap changers. However during transient operation you will be relying upon the static protective devices such as surge arrestors, depending on how large the transient is.

DC transmission does not suffer from the same reactive power component and has less losses, but it does require large convertor stations at both ends.
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There are two ways I've found success where I've come into a team with these issues:

1. Differentiate critical comments vs opinions/nice to haves. Not every comment needs to be resolved as part of that specific PR, they can be addressed in a follow up after it is merged in a disciplined team.

2. Be okay with reviewers contributing to the PR themselves. Some developers just get too caught up on 'ownership' of code that makes it in, when the team is responsible for it in the end(when you have a blameless/improvement focused culture at least). I don't need the original branch owner to fix a typo or nitpicks when it will take me less time to fix it. I haven't found any code suggestion features that are amazing for this, so sometimes you'll end up with back/forth disagreement and have to rebase a commit out, but most of the time it's fine and overall improves velocity. Basically turning the PR into async pair programming.
1) Can you explain specifically how living in an "at-will" state (or "right to work" state), assisted you in being able to ignore/defeat your non-compete agreement?

2) Do you think that if you were living in the only state that is not an "at-will" state (Montana) that the outcome would have been any different for you? How so, specifically?

3) Are you aware that many people living in an "at-will" state still have just-cause contracts? My dad did as a school administrator. Living in an "at-will" state does not mean that your employer is forced to use at-will employment contracts, it merely allows them to.

I'm completely failing to see any connection at all between "at-will", "right-to-work", and non-compete agreements. While at this point I think you're simply wrong, I'm sincerely very open to learning what I might be missing here!

For context: 49 states are "at will", which only means that employers can fire you for any (non-protected) reason or no reason at all. The only state that is not, Montana, has a law that employment is categorized as "just cause". Montana's just-cause employment law, unique among U.S. states, requires that after a probationary period, employers can only terminate employees for "good cause." This means that an employer must have a legitimate, job-related reason for firing an employee, such as poor performance, misconduct, or other actions that are detrimental to the business.
A code review is not about testing the functionality or finding bugs. It is about sanity checking the design (although in a welk performing team the design should never come as a surprise), complexity, readability, and test coverage.
I also hope Google doesn't get 'scared' by these articles anymore. Else they will have Flux, Grok, OpenAI eat their lunch
Truth. Unless I know the place, I never order a Bloody Mary.

The same applies to a Penicillin, but for different reasons. Most places don't take the time to make/age the ginger cordial or use a properly smokey Islay topper so they inevitability come out too sweet and lack smoke.
Backdoor in RFID cards allows instant cloning
Palm Foleo Hands on Gallery (2007)
Oh no, normal people will be able to create misinformation, which journalists have been doing for decades. Someone should think of the poor workers in media, the most trusted and honest profession.
I relate to them really well too!
Come and take my analog vehicle, feds, I dare you.
Can Permify 1.0 be used for multi-tenancy architectures?
> Well depends what you need to do with, of course.

given your example it's "want", not "need"

> 3300lb is very little, even our tiny (19ft) and light travel trailer is over 4000lb

Quick googling tells me that most European caravans are sub 1500kg / 3300lb, even the more spacious ones, "very little" and "tiny" are really subjective
The principle is the basis of the reward/value and the reward/value is the basis of the principle. They're so intertwined, they can't be separated. The fact that one can always conceive a theoretical "more valuable thing" is trivially true, but does not seem practically meaningful. The idea of a principle here is that the perceived value of sticking to it, or the perceived negative value of abandoning it, is so large that realistically the counterparty will not be able to offer anything that will surpass it.
It could as well be done the few secs after one uploads to the time it becomes available, and the same applies to all translations (to all languages).

It is one of those things I don't care (at all) to know how it is technically set up :)
New Phishing Technique Bypasses Security on iOS and Android to Steal Bank Creds
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Always amazed by those living in tornado areas, I've seen the total destruction those things do on YouTube and people just seem to pick up the pieces and rebuild their homes like it's another day.

I'd be devastated if something came and obliterated my home..
> You cannot do it in one pass

> If you want code reviews to be good you need a policy that the reviewers need to approve it 3 days in a row without changes

I may be misunderstanding, but it sounds like you’re dealing with very complex PRs/commits.

I think the first problem to solve is get your commits to a reasonable size, so that you don’t need 3 days worth of approvals and multiple passes for review. (That sounds insane to me!)

My typical commits are maybe 100-200 lines (many of them much smaller), so needing 3 days of approvals would be way overkill. And a single pass is plenty.
"Availability of hyperpalatable foods" and "urge to eat hyperpalatable foods to excess" are both prior causes to "eating hyperpalatable foods to excess", even if neither of them are a root cause (and I don't think the root cause can be addressed). GLP-1 agonists address both symptoms and causes.
If ever there is a time to avoid bikeshedding consciously, it is during code review. Easy nits are of proportionally relatively small value. It's not misspelled comments or "not quite the variable name I would have picked" that brings down systems in general.

One thing I depend on in my reviews is that the programmer has indeed verified that it does what it says it does, preferably via some unit testing. That frees me to consider architecture things and whether there's a lurking bug without having to review whether it works. This has been particularly helpful in our Infrastructure-as-Code reviews. Many such reviews are post-facto; they've already been run, we know it brings up the right infrastructure already, and the review is to make sure it's architecturally heading in the right direction and maybe that tagging standards weren't accidentally violated and other high level, important things, not whether we like the particular name of a subsystem.

Getting this balance is probably the hardest thing about code reviews.

Also, one of the main things in code review is having extra eyes validate that nobody's putting obvious back doors in the code. If you've done that, you've brought some value even if you do nothing else. If a bug gets past the person authoring the code, it's not a huge shock that it'll get by someone who is not in that headspace, doing something else, and has a completely different context loaded. The idea that it wouldn't borders on magical thinking. But at least you don't see any "eval(base64_decode('big long string'))" today. The goal of reviewing is just to up your team's game a bit, not guarantee on their own that no bugs will make it to QA or prod or customers. They're part of the portfolio and shouldn't be treated as anything more.
you meant systematically or programmatically?

hearing from someone else is indeed organic
Did Google take 30% of the money she lost?
If we're being trite, the best part about business is you can pay someone to deal with the stuff you don't want to. Sometimes the two overlap.
Most discussions are online now and the content generated by AI will most definitely make its way into the "real world". The recent case of people getting food poisoning to an AI-generated mushroom foraging book is a prime example.[0]

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41269514
Was reading this NYT op ed - https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/19/opinion/chris-murphy-demo... - and reflecting that the people talking don’t get that the secret sauce for meaningful labor is not just that it pays, but also the sense that it is “special” somehow, in the sense that manufacturing parts with 50000 ton press is manual labor but also remarkable because of the uniqueness of the machine being used.

Most discussions about trying to build industrial capacity in the US seem to focus on either our high labor costs or on the disinterest in capital to invest in low margin places. I would love to understand what time frame of guaranteed business the government provided these companies to convince them to participate, and also what other industrial processes the government invested in which failed to take off. Specifically, why didn’t this sort of thing work for the solar industry a few years back?
It's clear from that wall of text that you're not super familiar with autonomous vehicles. That's fine, no one knows everything. I'll try to clear up a few of the more glaring misconceptions.

First, the idea that you rarely need to update maps is wrong. The minimum you can really get away with is monthly. Weekly is preferable. Daily is the standard, with serious pressure from operations and government relations support up-to-the-minute updates to handle things like avoiding emergency services routes, route obstructions like downed trees, traffic updates, and unannounced construction zones detected by another vehicle.

Secondly, you missed the "data offload" part of what I said. One of the main limitations on operating time for autonomous vehicles isn't charging, it's running out of space to store collected data. This includes data that will be used to update maps, detailed logs of how the vehicle is running and what errors sensors are encountering, as well as the basic sensor outputs and analysis results (e.g. where other vehicles are in space). This is often terabytes after compression and log reduction. Good luck loading that to a USB drive in any reasonable time.

Thirdly, good luck making USB devices secure against evil maid attacks. It's a hell of a lot easier and there's a hell of a lot more bandwidth available with mutually authenticated wireless APs.

As for taking Waymo to a northern state, they've been testing in Tahoe for years and they used to test in New York. This coming winter they'll be doing heavy testing in both of those as well as Northern Michigan (including UP).

Waymo are autonomous. They're not on rails or anything else you've heard. The computers are given a destination and route themselves to it, handling all driving tasks along the way. When remote assistants step in, all they can do is augment the robot with new observations. It still has to do all of the driving in light of that new information.
There’s a critical mass of population density needed to support a vast diversity of specialty businesses. NYC, for example, has the second- or third-best examples of basically every country’s cuisine.
> Keep it private and closely held

Yep. I know this is probably a bit revisionist (old-timey inventors wanted to get rich quick too) but it feels like companies used to more often be geared toward longevity, not ascendance, and I don't see how they could achieve longevity while constantly trying to make shareholders rich. Longevity really should be up there on the list of goals, with security and prosperity for all those involved.

I suppose a meat grinder growfast company could invent world-improving products that justify employee churn and abuse, but those would be unicorns with diamond encrusted horns.

What is the point of any of our actions if they don't benefit people?
Those of us that actually used systems programming languages with automatic resource management, do think that way.

Unfortunately science only evolves one funeral at a time.
My understanding is artists rerecord their songs so that they own the master.

When a song is played royalties are split between the songwriter(s) and the owner of the recording. There may also be producers, engineers, etc. getting points and other music industry players taking a cut. Rerecording means the artist gets a bigger cut from streaming. That income replaces the absence of physical media sales and other changes in the music industry.

Outside pop-music the streaming services are building their own catalogs of classical, jazz, and similar recordings in order to avoid paying royalties on “legacy” recordings. My understanding is that Apple’s Classical app leverages this (but for clarity, I dont use it and am not heavily invested in classical music).

The short lifespan of digital formats also play a role. Music recorded on ADAT, DAT, and less common digital media a few decades ago is hard to recover at best and long lost to the bit bucket at worst. This means even if the artist owns the master, it may be unplayable so it cant be remastered for modern playback expectations.

Finally, artists are likely to focus on their core fans…the Rolling Stones are probably making music for the people who are buying tickets to their shows, not people who last saw them in 1982.
Fwiw I was the CEO of my startup (obviously?). I could not even get why people are fighting each other, I was so naive and bad at communication.

Now I’m called a supercommunicator at the same company just because I took it seriously and took attention and vigorously checked out results of my communication attempts.

Yeah it was like 10 years, but first 1-2 with this mindset started with almost panicking to despair to be interesting to have more and more success. Now I almost enjoy it when I don’t think about how this is about fighting enthropy
and finding out who is silly in what way later to counteract that.

Might be even fun.

Edit: most fun part when you just became quite good and got it and the troublemakers are forgot you on the loser shelf, trying baby level politics stuff on you just because they are lazy. Yeah, then you can root them out and have a nice company.
Some googling yielded: https://www.bikeattorney.com/bike-accident-common-causes.htm...

18 percent – driver failed to see cyclist
24 percent – cyclist ran a red light or failed to stop for a stop sign
22 percent – driver or passenger opened a car door into an oncoming cyclist
Great job Luna!