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According to this survey [1] of 1000 visual artists, 95% believe they should have a say in whether their art is used for training. That much should be obvious. As for hating it with a passion: that's an anecdote from my circle and the discussions I've seen online outside of tech bubbles.

You say it's more efficient but I think if artists were fairly compensated for their work, or at the very least had a say in the process, it would be too expensive or not have good enough output to compete. On top of that, it uses A LOT more energy - which should be enough to exclude it as an option considering the current trajectory of climate change.

Aside from that we need to consider the more philosophical question of whether we want to make creative dream jobs even more impossible to find. Should we degrade the public space even more with an avalanche of "good enough" imagery simply to improve margins for the executive class? Computers have already made every level of developed economies significantly more productive and yet individuals are worse off financially than they were in the 90s. All this pipedream of replacing workers with AI will do is relegate them to manual labour or lock them into some barely-enough universal basic income scheme.

[1] https://www.dacs.org.uk/news-events/artificial-intelligence-...
Ask HN: Unpopular ideas that you believe in and why?
Sunday is a good day to challenge your assumptions. So I ask you unpopular ideas that you believe in and why do you believe them. HN is full of smart people,

I start...

I believe in the idea of secession. When the spectrum of beliefs becomes too wide, reaching a consensus can be impossible or established through force. A division of 80% versus 20% is fundamentally different from a close call like 52% versus 48%. In such cases, secession — whether literal or figurative — should be considered. It allows competing ideas to thrive independently, even if the "logistics" of a secession are scary. A classic example is the division of East and West Germany, though the scale can vary.

edit: You can generalise and/or use a throw away account.
“Open-Source Utility Mod for Enhancing Minecraft Gameplay (on Anarchy Servers)” is one seriously dysphemistic euphemism for cheats. What’s the point in couching terms that’ve been around for decades like “hack client” or “game cheats” in this kind of terminology? Is it someone’s clever way of trying to work around EULA terms that ask people to please not cheat in their video games? It’s hardly going to fool anyone or do anything at all to stop someone at Microsoft from sending a DMCA or suing if they wanted to.

Just own it if you’re going to put all the work into developing it!
Stop that capybara Search party uses drone to spot rodent that fled British zoo
Nice new feature, would actually make me want to use Go without Gin.
This does seem like it would be the way to handle such libraries, considering the immense size of them. I'd be curious to hear about any efforts in this area, of anyone knows of any.
This was exactly what I was looking for. Thank you!
There's a difference between picking up your ball and walking off the field and not dealing a hand to the empty seat at the table. Silverlake can buy the DVD.
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> Blockchain interoperability conflates the need for distributed systems to communicate with third-party systems without a canonical chain or orchestration layer. As there is no “chain to rule them all” (for performance, privacy, and market forces), these distributed systems rely on exchanging data and value across network boundaries.

I confess that I'm not sure what these first two sentences of the article mean; here's my best guess:

> Blockchain interoperability ALLOWS distributed systems to communicate with third-party systems without a canonical chain or orchestration layer. As there is no “chain to rule them all” (for performance, privacy, and market REASONS), these distributed systems rely on exchanging data and value across network boundaries.
I meant social proof like prejudice against technologies that employ but don’t seem popular and cool.

Another confusion might be expecting an employer to educate you. That’s part of it but not the requirement.

Self-directed learning is critical to go with any formal learning.

First principles are needing to be taught where or before people are learning things like react. But they don’t, and get pulled into a world of complexity.
I don't think anyone runs Postgress at that scale (unless very specialized sharding setup). Given the choice between using ScyllaDB like everyone else and using Postgres in a super specialized best in the world setup, the choice becomes clear. Also keep in mind that Discord is not a huge super profitable company, so for them to develop something like vitess for Postgress would not make sense. For a small company with huge data like discord, using existing data solutions makes a lot more sense.
Largely driven? You're forgetting at least one variable
> the wanton abandonment of the rule of law we see in that space in practice

This applies only to the laws of the legacy states, not the laws of mathematics.

Blockchains are a highly lawful place in this sense.
What is your argument, besides personal taste?

Something being hard is not an argument for or against anything.

Alan Kay is misguided because he prefers a hard thing and you prefer a simpler thing?
They could also have gone the commercial route and gotten Zing with their pauseless GC. It’s been around forever and they even cover Cassandra in their marketing.

https://www.azul.com/technologies/cassandra/
I don't understand how this kind of judgement is possible, I understand that if you don't show up for a trial you can have a default judgement against you, but don't you have to be served? I know you can include John Does on the defendant list, but doesn't somebody have to be served?
Can you help me understand why we would use sample unit engineering/bootstrapping? Imagine if we don't care about between subjects variance (and thus P-values in T-tests/AB tests), in that case, it doesn't help us right...

I just feel intuitively that it's masking the variance by converting it into within-subjects variance arbitrarily.

Here's my layman-ish interpretation:

P-values are easier to obtain when the variance is reduced. But we established P-values and the 0.05 threshold before these techniques. With the new techniques reducing SD, which P-values directly interpret, you need to counteract the reduction in SD of the samples with a harsher P-value in order to obtain the same number of true positive experiments as when P-values were originally proposed. In other words, allowing more experiments to have less variance in group tests and result in more statistical significant if there is an effect size is not necessarily advantageous. Especially if we consider the purpose of statistics and AB testing to be rejecting the null hypothesis, rather than showing significant effect sizes.
Yeah, after libgen didn't work properly anymore since last month or so, I donate to AA each month for speedy downloads. Has the advantage that it also works for papers, so no more libgen/scihub split.
A flawed doomsday weapon but a good mechanism for building a fictional world where the biosphere develops underground.
Maybe in your country.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/ice-released-over-435-000-...
Infisical (YC W23) Is Hiring Developers Who Love Writing
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Mindustry: Automation Tower Defense RTS with Deep Strategy and Modding
A four year investigation to tell us what we already know. The real question is: What is the federal government (or anyone else) going to do about it?
and.. piss off another group who get their validation externally by evangelically putting down the technological choices of others.

Prejudice may not be in social areas but the same behaviour of prejudice is alive and well in justifying your own or denigrating someone else’s technology choices.

Same folks aren’t willing to be open to what is new to them in a new framework is still a 20 year old thing.
Nuclear is probably more expensive than renewable energy with storage. Geothermal will likely be limited to favorable locations or to harvest low quality heat for heating building (or district heating).
lol check out rochester ny car theft stats!
OLS legitimately incorporates all unit conversions in the betas. That's gross but sound.
I'm also self published. I would rather a thousand people steal and read and interact with and talk about my work than to be able to eat selling it to a privileged few. The free software movement is a parallel example of this viewpoint.

The economic reality of today is that words and publishing are cheap. If you have something to say and need to get the word out to as many people as possible, that's wonderful. If you need to eat, then accept this is how it is and write for an audience that's willing to pay you for your work even if it's available for free.
How would you type those characters? For me (on mobile) I have a few options: copy it from your message, or google "not equals sign" and copy from the browser, or add a new keyboard that contains the character. On my desktop, I could also memorize windows' alt+x code... none are fantastic options.
Pinning in mobile apps/IoT is usually done the way the grandparent comment suggests. The fingerprint of the key is hard coded into the app somewhere,[1] so there's no initial connection without it.

IMO, pinning only solves the corner case scenario where a public CA is compromised or issuing fake certs under the table. Everything else is make-the-blue-team-feel-good measures like trying to keep users from intercepting their own traffic, or actively owner-hostile effects like devices no longer working when the cert is rotated. I'm happy to see CloudFlare calling for it to be retired.

[1] sometimes it's more DIY than that, where the code will require that the issuing cert have a particular string in its name, etc.
There is definitely space for an opinionated set of libraries and boiler plate code for golang projects like this.

Having said that, I’d bet that the go community consensus is that you build one out yourself and reuse it. So most times I end up copy and pasting the same logic rather than recreating.
I’m not sure if you have children.

Or watch children’s videos.

Too many childrens youtube videos themselves have many, many, addictive elements in them.

Sounds, colors, too many scene changes.

YouTube kids is not delivering on its promise. Youtube and YouTube kids is meant to keep eyeballs.
Please don't do this. Do not send power into a device not designed for it, especially one where you cannot always control who might come into contact with it. 50 Watts is all your need to cause a burn.
Let it sink!
Somewhat unrelated, I can’t deselect text on mobile here. Once I’ve accidentally selected something, the only thing I can do is select something else.

Anyways the big consensus I’ve heard about panels is that 1) $50 a year is a poor value for most people, 2) a 50% revenue split with the artists without which there would not be an app is insulting, and 3) releasing a podcast episode to “address the controversy” and failing to discuss the two most common issues made people feel ignored and belittled.
Last time I answered that question honestly I got kicked out of a web site. No thanks.
Let's say that we have a hollowed-out zone in the middle of the biomass pile where we tolerate limited oxidization so we can run a fire. If the rest of it is wet, maybe the heat from that combustion could pyrolyze a large radius of surrounding material since O2 flow into the system should be small.
It's sad https://pkg.go.dev/embed was not mentioned in a post about web development in Go :-)

Having a true single binary bundling your static resources is so convenient.
With the New Territories due to be handed back at the end of their 99yr lease, Britain decided it wasn’t viable to keep the rest of Hong Kong
Don't worry: Jevons' paradox assures us that once the power becomes cheap enough, some application even more frivolous than bitcoin mining will be invented to consume it.
do you just make shit up? you are seriously arguing that the "employee per prisoner" ratio is way way better than public schools.
> IMO a backend language should integrate HTMX similar to how https://hotwired.dev/ works.

Turbo stimulus and Strada..

HTMX... Nothing. Just serve it however you feel. In the posts case, they decided to add some tight coupling with go, while not for everyone, is not really a framework.

I appreciate go server for really lightweight banal sites or even light services and htmlx is quickly becoming my new favourite markup. I will say this project isn't for me, but casting it as just another 'fasthtml' project is a bit far off the mark.
I'd reemphasize my point. When the discussion turns to public colleges in California, people often think exclusively of the UCs, which are genuinely prestigious and (non-coincidentally) expensive. The CSU system is larger, much cheaper, and thus entirely invisible to most who identify as Ivy-adjacent.
Has there ever been a widely used open source project for writing HTML as functions inside of another language? (JSX and PHP don't count - you're still writing the HTML markup).
Some great points about the downsides of Go. Btw I was a Flask junkie in early days.
The office is a productivity tool
It's not negativity so much as informed dissent.
The problem with this is principal-agent problems. The owners of the business don't want it to fail. The people working there want to make money. They generally live their life and enjoy what money they make before the chickens come home to roost. It can be hard for the owners to realize the business is fragile before that fragility becomes apparent. In the mean time the people running the business made a bunch of money, potentially jumped to other jobs or retired or died.

And the owners could have sold when the business was propped up by unknown fragility.

Human lives are too short for these kinds of feedback loops to be all that effective.
Tell Me Why: Unveiling the Reasons Behind Software Development Choices
I go over my thoughts on why it's important to explain your reasoning to your customers.
When I was a war pilot this was common practice. Shut off radio. You'd know they were going to mess with you in creative and twisted ways. So much simpler to put it on mute. Usually works best in situations where radio silence is also a mission parameter
1. If I wanted to use PCA, is there a better approach than normalization? I am asking because you seem better at math than I (based on your comment history).

2. Not that PCA is my favorite technique, but you can apply PCA to data that are expressed in the same units.

3. Do you oppose most clustering techniques since one can apply them to mixed units data?
minor complaint: every single interaction with the map results in a new item pushed into the browser history
I think its even simpler than that. The cohort with the largest amount of spare cash flow and moderate amounts of hobby time right now (35 to 55 year old roughly) remembers that era of computing fondly from their childhood. Its the same reason junk cars from the 1950s were all the rage in the 1990 to ~ 2010 era. Whatever the current aggregate richest in spare cash flow remembers positively from their youth gets a resurgence
Only if you trust Microsoft to guarantee that none of your data will ever make it out of their data centers.
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My main point is that gets in the way, unlike most other web frameworks when building normal applications. It's a headwind that always comes up and hurts adoption imho.
I understood what you are trying to say an i mostly agree. I guess most people find it a bit pedantic to make a hard distinction between believing and knowing. One of the pet peeves of mine is to use words correctly. Often in the office we use words that are incorrect but everybody uses them and hence I'm the pedantic one pointing them to the fact those wrong wording might create a wrong view on things. There are plenty such words and expressions and often things would clear up by using the most appropriate term or expression.

That said, indeed saying 'I know God exists' is misleading. It is trying to convince by stating beliefs as being True.

The thing is, i believe knowing is simply a colloquial term. I read the book 'reality is not what it seems'. We make models of the world. Those models are wrong but mostly good enough to get along, but over time science prooves that each should be replaced by a less wrong model. Models stay wrong ad infinitum. That all to say that just maybe Truth with a capital does not exist, we can only converge toward it. Hence non-colooquial knowing might not exist.
As an experiment, I upvoted your comment.

But first, I loaded your profile.

Then I refreshed it several times.

At no point did your karma score change on your profile.

It's caching.
I think it's really a matter of personal preference, experience and circumstance. For a successful therapy and healing, one needs three components: stabilization/resource building (people, things, locations), safety (no or at least reduced contact with abusers; typically there is no conscious awareness of ongoing and continued abuse and boundary violations!), and then, finally, confrontation with past trauma. The three areas need different tools and all need to be balanced with each other.

Often people get stuck in one of these areas; sometimes it may be out of their control. Without careful attention to all three areas, this then translates into a negative reenforcement of "This doesn't work", "I cannot be healed", "It's all my fault", "I'm just too much for anyone", "I'm never going to be good enough", etc.

There is a lot of pressure to try to get out of the trauma and the reenactment fast; patience is an unaffordable luxury for someone suffering and embedded in ongoing violence. If one pushes too fast for confrontation without safety or sufficient resources, they are going to pull stuff up and project it on the present experience, with a high probability of further retraumatization and confirmation of their own and other's "evilness".

The methods I mentioned are my favorites. They all play an important role in my own healing. There are many more.
Pretty sure that http://statsig.com can
With multiple devs, or just locally for yourself?
Thank you jacques_chester! Piping all that credit to my co-founders Mihai and Leonid, the key inventors.
Kinda feels like putting a serial killer on trial when you don’t know who it is
I am a Django apologist because I grew up with Django. So with that being said, I'm not out to convert you but I am genuinely curious what you don't like about it. Promise I won't refute anything I just like to try to understand where it turned off folks.

I don't like flask because it seems just easy enough to be really productive in the beginning but you eventually need most of the things Django gives you. So I would rather pick up Django Rest Framework or Django Ninja than Flask or Fast API. In those cases I jump straight to Go and use it instead because the same library decisions on the Go side give me a lot more lift on the operations end (easy to deploy, predictable performance into thousands of requests per second if built correctly).
This is not right, there's nothing wrong with typing out code. Generators are fine, until they're not.

> I suppose bike shedding still matters to people who see themselves as Hemingway not an engineer

This is anything but bikeshedding.
Phlex (https://phlex.fun), but I don't know about the 'widely' part.
One of the most frustrating results I found is that A/B split tests often resolved into a winner within the sample size range we set; however if I left the split running over a longer period of time (eg a year) the difference would wash out.

I had retargeting in a 24 month split by accident and found it didn’t matter after all the cost in the long term. We could bend the conversion curve but not change the people who would convert.

And yes we did capture more revenue in the short term but over the long term the cost of the ads netted it all to zero or less than zero. And yes we turned off retreating after conversion. The result was customers who weren’t retargeted eventually bought anyway.

Has anyone else experienced the same?
This is one of those classic LLM scenarios that doesn't make sense.

If you can tweak the model in a CAD package, you can quite possibly make it in CAD in the first place more quickly than you can manage several rounds of descriptions with an LLM.

It's like the whole "I'd like to get an LLM to write a song and then I'd adjust it" thing. No musician needs this. If you can truly fine-tune a song, writing one is easy. And if you aren't a musician, you won't get good results fine-tuning a song.
If you're not ashamed to admit it, perhaps that's because you recognize that it's not stealing, and that you don't actually believe in the concept of Intellectual Property, the legal fiction (invented relatively recently to prop up industries) that all of this is based on.

There are lots of us, so don't be afraid to say it loud. Intellectual Property doesn't exist and copyright as currently implemented is unjust, antisocial, and harmful.
Hiring good is probably the most important thing for a company and also one of the hardest problem. I have seen a team of competent engineers outperform their sibling teams by 5-10x as long as each member of the team is good enough. Just 2 bad hires will slow down a team drastically. One terrible hire can do -5x work of a normal engineer.
The people screwing them over rely on a target rich environment.

One could not exist without the other.
I am over Gin and have been for years yet everyone keeps using it because it has inertia. The docs are garbage.

Big fan of Echo and it has much better docs.

https://echo.labstack.com/
We just use bigquery and call it a day.

Bigquery had figured this out long ago and built it in top of Big table.
I'm very skeptical of this view. Additive relationships and multiplicative relationships differ dramatically; the difference is related to linear Vs non linear phenomena. If all you mean is "positively correlated" and "negatively correlated" then you should just say that (or words to that affect).
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More than a thousand generations of grannies, at that. Additive manufacturing from 30,000 years ago!
I experienced the same text selection bug and I somehow managed to get the text to unselect by panic tapping the very edge of the margin like a claustrophobe in a bubble.
Well put! I’m personally a big Marx fan so I won’t give you all of economics, but let’s say “lots” ;)

I feel strongly that math is a set of intellectual tools for dealing with quantities rigorously, so “lens” seems absolutely correct to me. As they say in formal logic: an argument can be sound (well-constructed, uses its tools properly) without being valid (accurate to the actual world) if it employs some bad premises. Which new economics does in spades by constructing inaccurate metrics to do their math with.

Which, hey, I don’t blame em. As the other top HackerNews thread rn on Efficiency and Metrics teaches us: when you’re dealing with the actual world, you can basically never have a flawless virtual metric.
It's a way they can add value. It's far from their primary way, and it's a task that is not primary done by management.

But yes, there are plenty of managers that focus on it.
I think it is only inside the household (and maybe some additional restrictions, not sure), so not very useful, but IIRC Steam actually has some ability for users to provide downloads to each-other, peer-to-peer style. Applying that at a neighborhood level could be really nice.
If he hosts his site on his own server, it will go down a few months after his death.
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