skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s information taken from many other photos and embedded into a single one of interest no?
This is a bipartisan issue. One of the three judges is an Obama appointee. If this case goes to the SC (big if), expect it to swing the exact same way.

Trump also has no ability to upend this: he lacks the authority by law.
High transaction fees on sales. Typically at least 5% in US, not sure about Canada.

Also don't forget taxes, insurance, mortgage interest needs to get paid while house is in your hands. Most mortgages have lots of interest during the first few years.
I'm interested, how can I check it out?
Except landlords have almost all the power, just like the job gatekeepers. A landlord gets to choose who rents their property so they aren’t under any obligation to answer your questions, they’ll just find a renter who doesn’t ask questions. When you have all the power it inevitably gets abused which is exactly what we’ve been seeing in rental with things like real page.
Here is the artist’s website http://www.hiroshinagai.com/contents.html
Please don’t trivialize child abuse like this.
Fortunately, fortnightly exists :)
> but causes completely arbitrary behavior

I think we have different definitions of "arbitrary"
At least in the USA one major piece of the college application is a standardized test - a concept very similar to a Leetcode interview.
Or, more directly, Niven’s “The Smoke Ring” about humans living directly in an oxygenated accretion disk around a white dwarf.
It looks like the site is only listing hosted models from major providers, not all models available on huggingface, civit.ai, etc. -- Looking at the image generation and chat lists there are many more models that are on huggingface that are not listed.

See https://huggingface.co/models?pipeline_tag=automatic-speech-...

Note: Text to Speech and Audio Transcription/Automatic Speech Recognition models can be trained on the same data. They currently require training separately as the models are structured differently. One of the challenges is training time as the data can run into the hundreds of hours of audio.
so they actually generate the scene brick by brick, not using volumes?
There's advantages too:

- marking some columns as NOT NULL.

- referential integrity means you can't accidentally have dangling pointers to non-existant dat.

- mutually exclusive columns let's the database enforce things like "at least one of A and B needs to be Nonzero, and both cannot be Nonzero at the same time.

- create a type that allows only values matching a specific regex.

Seriously, if you want strong typing across composite data, there isn't a language invented yet that comes even close to a RDBMS.

Of course the majority of Devs don't know any of this because their ORM doesn't expose any of this; it gives them a way to store and query tabular data, and nothing else.
Recently became a data analyst. It couldn’t be more true, my CS background definitely helped me
The short answer is probably everything in moderation if you're reasonably young. Maybe don't put every penny you can get your hands on into a down payment on a house, especially if you're also a bit uncertain about future income streams and life situation. But maybe you also don't really need a year or two comfortable emergency fund.

At some point, it probably makes sense to buy a place if you can if only for the stability as you get older.
Supply-Chain Firewall: Protecting Developers from Malicious Open Source Packages
So down voted without actually reading the comment, looking at the link, and most importantly... thinking?

My gawd HN how much - and badly - you've changed.

I surrender.
> he who gets the most votes wins

Aren't you forgetting the essential "while playing by the rules"? Getting the most votes by cheating - and it looks like that was certainly the case here, no doubt about it - is the opposite of democracy. Winning by cheating just happens to be the staple of the very country suspected of interfering. Are you promoting the same "values"?

> the powers that be don’t approve

You are right here. I personally consider it completely normal if the democratically elected powers that be don't approve when someone claims to have won an election - which nobody actually won since the process didn't finish - despite cheating. Winning by cheating is the opposite of democracy. If breaking the law to win is considered democracy, then why is legally restarting elections to win any less so? Hypocritical or trollish preferences aside.
Free Pascal is not a powerhouse building large FP+SDL projects such as GearHead 1 and 2.
A comparable 486 program for DOS would be almost as slow if it was backported to DOS+FPC.
AFAIK the biggest issue is the nondeterminism ("inconsistency"), especially in languages which have a weaker type system and make upgrading easy (which is the case of both Go and Java)

- you need to remember to check the result for nil/null, but the type system won't tell you

- if you upgrade twice in a row, you can have both fail, both succeed, or the first one succeed and the second one fail

It can also be tricky to use them as building blocks for weak collections, if you want to avoid unbounded growth.
The UnitedHealthcare Gunman Understands the Surveillance State
How to manage services in FreeBSD jails with Ansible
I'd like to share a personal perspective/rant on AI that might resonate with others: like many, I'm incredibly excited about this AI moment. The urge to dive headfirst into the field and contribute is natural after all, it's the frontier of innovation right now.

But I think this moment mirrors financial markets during times of frenzy. When markets are volatile, one common piece of advice is to “wait and see”. Similarly, in AI, so many brilliant minds and organizations are racing to create groundbreaking innovations. Often, what you're envisioning as your next big project might already be happening, or will soon be, somewhere else in the world.

Adopting a “wait and see” strategy could be surprisingly effective. Instead of rushing in, let the dust settle, observe trends, and focus on leveraging what emerges. In a way, the entire AI ecosystem is working for you: building the foundations for your next big idea.

That said, this doesn't mean you can't integrate the state of the art into your own (working) products and services.
I know a woman who grew up in the typical way, in a stable loving household. As an adult, she has lived a life of self-sabotage, quitting jobs, moving and starting over, in and out of relationships with self-destructive men, never saving any money, never really planning for the future.
> All money paid out in claims – $303b

Complete and utter bullshit. That's the amount they listed as the cost of revenue yeah, but I'm willing to bet that a large chunk of that isn't being spent on claim payouts. Given the complete and utter lack of transparency into that number, neither you nor I can rightly claim that's what its spent on.

In any event, I don't care how profitable they are. I'm not looking to play that game. Their business model requires them to MURDER their customers in order to maintain their profit margin. This is what they are doing, day in and day out.

The fact they are making any profit at all, acting solely as the gatekeeper between people and the medical care they need, should be an indictment which strips them of the moral high ground... yet in this diseased and ass-backwards economic system (which has turned more into a religion than anything else) people like you actually have the nerve to claim it as a defense.
I'd never seek to deprive anyone of entertaining alien-life theories, but in general people wildly underestimate the factors that play into making Earth habitable. The only evidence for a habitable planet-type is the very precise conditions that comprise this one. Worse, it's unclear as to how much those conditions rely on the complete configuration of the greater solar system.
> 2. Force install spyware/vanguard like crap to scan your whole personal computer before doing the interview

People who professionally cheat on online exams just use an HDMI splitter/capture card to inject whatever image they need using a second computer. It’s a lost game.

For offline interviews there are hidden earpieces etc.
I'm not confused, I'm pointing out that the license in a private source repository changes the legal rights of the person with respect to distribution of the software defined by the contents of the repository, and than therefore a private repository with open source code inside is not a de facto closed source repository.
> For me personally, and I expect a not insignificant portion of users, paying for a subscription is primarily to remove advertising completely.

I also put quite a bit of effort into removing ads from my and my family's eyeballs. I hate them. But because of that I already don't see ads on The Verge so for me a sub isn't about removing ads at all. I'll sub to support the work and whatever other perks come along with it (full-text RSS for one)
| ... "but making everyone understand those very important points and act accordingly is a continuous uphill struggle."

And that right there is exactly why people who know keep writing articles and getting in arguments with people who don't know but think they do because some "expert" who also doesn't actually know anything about "AI" beyond the hype they've been sold said so... Until the "bubble pops" and the hype dies down, folks are gonna keep parroting various mistakes and misunderstandings and folks who actually understand the technology are gonna have to keep repeating the same old tired arguments... Seen it time and again over my decades in the "tech" industry. This time is once again proving to be a carbon copy of the same old script we've seen played out countless times before with each new "next big thing". Surprise!
It’s a valid question. People squeezed by the consequences of eventually push back.
People seem pissed in that Reddit thread, kind of shocking for them to take such a big risk and say “we don’t discriminate based on geopolitical issues”. Yandex is clearly not an independent startup in Russia.
I disagree.

I have been in it for the money and also in it because I like it. I don’t like it for 8 hours per day but I do like CS.

I don’t love it though, and have transitioned since. But having the skill, the background and the grit (due to not loving it), it’s awesome.

Just to give a more nuanced perspective. I think the whole love it or leave attitude is too binary.
Buying, selling and shipping physical goods. It is the simplest thing that works. Good luck.
My go to framework. I wish we can use global metrics in DSPy, for examples, F1 score over the whole evaluation set (instead of a single query at the moment). The recent async support has been life saver.
The consequences for renters is also severe if not enough housing is supplied because it doesn't make financial sense to do so.
Sadly, these sorts of “practical interviews” aren’t just limited to Big Tech. There’s been an arms race for thirty years now between applicants and employers, the latter creating new hurdles to overcome and the former finding new ways to bypass unnecessary hurdles.

Employers demanded applications instead of resumes, so candidates used copy machines. Then they wanted block lettering, so candidates used type writers. ATS systems could search for keywords, so candidates flooded their resumes with them. Then employers allowed online applications, and the floodgates opened proper - applications from all over the world, desperate for good employment. So they made you create an account, and applicants wrote or used bots to automate it - which became site features like “Quick Apply” on LinkedIn and Indeed. Practical interviews used to be a single round for only the most senior roles, but then employers wanted everyone to be as qualified as those roles but not pay them that much, which started the cheating arms race.

Ultimately, the problem remains a glut of qualified talent demanding salaries to pay the bills, and employers who want to pay as little as possible. The two sides are adversaries by default, and few companies do the work of mending the relationship into something more cooperative.
The "be yourself" crap generally doesnt work.

Good advice would be "be somebody else".

The self help books that teach various tricks... basically make one be someone else.
I did a big automation task in native code, because efficiency is desirable in such cases, while bash+grep favor running a new process for every text line. In order to be efficient, you need to minimize work, and thus batch and deduplicate it, which means you need to handle data in a stateful manner while tracking deduplication context, which is easier in a proper programming language, while bash+grep favor stateless text processing and thus result in much work duplication. Another strategy for minimization of work is accurate filtering, which is easier to express imperatively with nice formatting in a proper programming language, grep and regex are completely unsuitable for this. Then if you use line separated format, git awards you with escaping to accommodate for whatever, which is inconsistently supported and can be disabled by asking null terminated string format with -z option, I don't think bash has any way to handle it, while in a sufficiently low level language it's natural, and it also allows for incremental streaming so you don't have to start a new process for every text line.

As a bonus you can use single code base for everything no matter if there's http or something else in the line.
> I want my data to not be sold to the highest bidder, that's all.

sigh I wish this was easier to achieve. But at least in the case of The Verge the sub removes third party ads so it should increase privacy even if it doesn't remove all the ads.
Spaniard here; Spanish is like Lisp. Reading 17th century Spanish is almost a no brainer minus some Medieval knights' jargon (put from Cervantes on purpose on making fun on old-farts) and some 17th jargon too, specially from popular sayings just said in La Mancha region which are still in use because they are related to daily farm/fields/food but the rest of Spain has no clear references off.

Also the RAE institution for the Spanish Language does something similar to SRFI's + RSR?s for Scheme.
You can optimize prompt with MIPROv2 without examples (set the max number of examples to 0)
Playing with this now. It's got auto complete and some cool built in examples. Would this let me make a PWA that can install to home screen on iOS?

EDIT: looked through the forums and it's been asked about but doesn't appear to be implemented. Bummer.

I see potential here though. There's loads of examples and they're easy to run and inspect. I would glady pay for this if it could build PWAs, this would let the apps run offline on iOS.
Great post! I wish all companies would recognize their dependency on open source and compensate accordingly.
Managing claims is a waste in the sense that it contributes nothing to patient care. But every modern healthcare system needs some mechanism for allocating resources and preventing waste / fraud / abuse by providers. There's a lot of room to improve efficiency around claims but even fully socialized healthcare systems incur a lot of administrative cost on those functions.

One alternative approach is to shift away from the current fee-for-service payment model towards a value-based care model. Financial risk is shifted from employers and consumers to provider organizations who receive a fixed capitated payment per member per month from the insurance company. Then the provider org has to do whatever is necessary to care for those patients. The participating providers no longer need to submit claims for payment, just report on what they did for each covered patient that month. It's not clear yet whether this model will work at scale but pilot programs have been encouraging.
My wife kindly got me two books of his art for Christmas last year. They took forever to arrive from Japan but very much worth the weight. The aesthetic is a very particular view of the 1980s that was also reflected in TV shows like Miami Vice, and the choice of palette is very … Amiga. I wonder if the designers of that computer and its Workbench desktop environment were influenced by his use of colour.
When people say x% average annual return this is almost always referring to geometric mean already, so the above math doesn’t apply.
Right, Jens joining is what I was referring to.

It was “quite advanced” but at the same time very much in its infancy in terms of the timeline of the game.

I personally don’t think the game would have gone as far as it did if it continued as a solo project.
To me, $80k sounds like a very small amount of "F-You" money. I'm not criticizing the OP at all, but if I quit my job with 80k in the bank, I would immediately start researching the most painful B2B problem I could solve quickly using AI. Not to generate an income stream, but to build an asset (the business) to sell.

That's the quickest path to $1M. Software developers are too caught up on salary (or 73 different "income streams" that all make $0), and rarely think about building a valuable business.
With how many of those friends do you still talk?

*Liking facebook photos does not count.
There are probably some clandestine algo traders propping up the volume too.
Probably hard to make a general statement. Lightroom is better these days at making automagical editing decisions. And I like heavily culling photos and adding at least some metadata (although with shooting most of my current photos on an iPhone which adds GPS it's less of a big deal). However, JPG on that iPhone is also pretty good. Not a big deal one way or the other. I just bias to not throwing away data rather than not having it or having to make real-time decisions about how much data to collect.
This is really disappointing.

Vlad, it’s not a “geopolitical issue.” You’re directly funding—even a small amount—the extermination of the Ukrainian people. Please stop.

— A family plan ultimate subscriber
Why would you need to adjust any spacing/sizing values for for the blur? There’s not much of anything to adjust.
Can't say this is the only piece of art I've appreciated, but there's definitely something deeply nostalgic about his work. It's almost an idealized version of my childhood.
The moment you go off the memory safe route, you have absolutely no way of ever going back - the best case scenario is that the OS catches your wrong-doing and you get a segfault. Everything else might silently corrupt the runtime's state or business data. As they say, here be dragons.
Hey, keep on bein' an awesome dad, dude! Hobbies that can double as highly profitable careers later on are the best kinda hobbies (speaking from experience). Nothin' quite beats the feeling of getting paid to do somethin' you actually enjoy doing, or the feeling of being able to create things you want or need using your own skills and hands. ;)
you're an expat only if you are an English native speaker, else you are an immigrant. Hence, no such thing as Romanian expat.
>What do you think they do? One round of interviews was enough for my Google recruiter to congratulate me on getting a job there.

Your Google interview process might be different because you've previously said you were ex-FAANG from 2000s so your work history and street credibility puts you in the "experienced senior hire" bucket. The interview process may be different for that type of candidate.

My recent college grad friend's process went like this (2022 so post-COVID):

- an offsite remote interview over Google Meet using Google Docs as coding canvas. 45-minutes long

- 5 onsite interviews on same day: 4 technical and 1 behavioral
It's funny that democrats are still in denial after loosing big time against an orange felon :))

Instead of taking a cue and learning why they lost, they double down that they were right and everyone else (the majority of voters), was wrong.

So they'll have to keep loosing voters until it sinks in.
As sibling says, a proton moving through empty space would emit no gravitational waves.

The galaxy isn’t empty, however. The proton would be orbiting, emitting such waves, and yes, would slow down.
What about binary blobs? I hate having to store them outside of the database and that you can't just do a dbdump/import to clone a project.
Your proposal makes a lot of sense. I assume a number of companies are integrating sota models into their products.

That being said, there is no free lunch: when you're doing this, you're more reactive than proactive. You minimize risk, but you also lose any change to have a stake [1] in the few survivors that will remain and be extremely valuable.

Do this long enough and you'll have no idea what people are talking about in the field. Watch the latest Dwarkesh Patel episode to get a sense of what I am talking about.

[1] stake to be understood broadly as: shares in a company, knowledge as an AI researcher, etc.
You can edit the title after submission (the automatic change won't trigger).
How did we enter a world in which the only given fact that must be held true is that "the business profit will grow unceasingly for all time, no matter the consequence"

Instead of, "the human beings that we serve matter, and our duty to them comes before all else. We will profit by being the best in the market"

I think monopoly and MBAification of every leadership position at every company in at least America. Some of the curriculum is disgusting, anti human propaganda. It's absolutely not a given that shareholder profits come above everything else no matter what. The buck does not stop with fiduciary duty, the buck stops with the actual human beings you're company "serves", as we've just seen. Shareholder profits didn't order that person dead. Humans did.

It's insane that you can let your company perform so terribly, so catastrophicly evil for the public that it becomes impossible to know which of the millions of people who've has their lives damaged or destroyed would've actually decided to order your ceo dead rather than just gleefully commiserate about it at their mothers funeral. I think we get there by destroying the real market. I don't get to choose which insurance my job provides me! I don't know how that would work but all they have to do is pay more large companies to choose them and bam, locked in audience, disgusting parody of a free market, death for thousands of sick people and one CEO. Antitrust needs to block every merger for the next 10 years and obliterate any company that's powerful enough to capture over 20,000,000 customers while the vast majority of them _actively despise you_.
Why wouldn't the protections apply? They can evict him without going through the proper process? Couldn't he make some sort of claim against them if they do that?
The simple explanation, and one that encapsulates the entirety of the necessary elements, is that someone’s significant other died, and that someone believes that if she had been allowed for some treatment, the outcome would have been different.

This is a story that , justly or not, unfolds hundreds if not thousands of times a day.

It’s not the first time, and won’t be the last, that the affected person has the right combination of dark triad traits and appropriate experiences to make personal vengeance a viable response.

As someone who recently lost their spouse of 16 years to cancer, I can say that in the right circumstances this might be an understandable, if not justifiable, response to that kind of stress.