skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hope I'm understanding this right: You're trying to build a web UI that can let you overlay and position a QR code on top of another image?

If so, I think rather than trying to build your own CLI to do this and refresh the image every time, you can do it entirely clientside with something like https://konvajs.org/docs/react/Intro.html or https://fabricjs.com/, storing the QR overlay position and alpha in state. Then once it looks good on the client, you can send that state as an API request to the server for rendering to the final image. (You can probably also just render the finished output on the client directly, but since you already have that part of the rendering in the server, might as well re-use it).

i.e. let the user handle the image positioning clientside as state, then send the final params to the server for rendering, e.g. /overlay?x=500&y=300&w=30&h=30&opacity=50.

Websockets is overkill and will cause unnecessary complexity. You don't need to sync every intermediate state., just whenever you click "save". Autosave every minute if you must. But why, for something so simple? Positioning the QR code would probably only take a few seconds.

PS And if this is for your own use (as opposed to building a service for other users), I should point out you can also easily do this with existing free web-based image editors like photopea.com

And as a service, this is pretty similar to what Imgix does already, just without the drag-and-drop overlay GUI. Example here with another QR code in the upper right: https://sandbox.imgix.com/view?hasAgreedToUploadTerms=1&url=...
I liked smitty for the <ESC>4 that would show the script/command that smitty would use. I used this feature a lot in the beginning to learn the IBMisms of AIX.
It's a better bet that it's a requirement however.

The only known examples we have of general intelligence comes with consciousness.

Not to mention, he's positing that AI researchers are assuming that consciousness is unnecessary and he's saying he disagrees with that position. So saying that he could be wrong is really just circling back to what AI researchers are assuming. Or basically, disagreeing with his disagreement.

I would expect either some sort of exposition on why or a third option being presented.

I also was not a fan of the position of "I can imagine this therefore it is a valid option". I don't accept the logic that something is necessarily a possibility simply because we can imagine that it can happen.
Well, no, but I was working with a bar of:

> I'm having a really hard time coming up with an OS feature introduced in a full OS upgrade within the last 10 years that I actually want.

which both of those easily clear for me. I bet I could come up with a few more if I read over some OS release notes from the last few years—"oh yeah, that! I use it so much I'd kinda forgotten it was a thing" sort of stuff.
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Same. It was ok. Kind of ended before it got going. Definitely not good enough to make me want to read more.
First, in the article I wrote how detrimental it is to the developer's social life, to know multiple languages.

Secondly, companies need to realize that they request multiple programming languages because the current programming languages can't parse stack traces, and they push everything to microservices, so they can parse their errors from DevOps services. Which means they don't request only to know multiple languages, but also DevOps services.

I have written about all these in a previous article of mine https://rm4n0s.github.io/posts/5-it-will-take-your-job
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ED has some cool moments like traveling, controls, vr support, but after getting over the initial impressions there isn't much of a game for many players to enjoy and the later expansions packs have not been well-received. I hope ED is not the benchmark since SC has so much more potential in single/multiplayer
In general, it depends on how much the model ends up "understanding" the input. (I use "understand" here in the sense some would claim SOTA LLMs do.)

You can imagine this as a spectrum. On the one end you have models that, at each output pixel, try to predict pixels that are locally similar to ones in previous frame; on the other end, you could imagine models that "parse" the initial input image to understand the scene - objects (buildings, doors, people, etc.) and their relationships, and separately, the style with which they're painted, and use that to extrapolate further frames[0]. The latter would obviously fare better, remaining stylistically consistent for longer.

(This model claims to be of the second kind.)

The way I see it: a human could do it[1], so there's no reason an ML model wouldn't be able to.

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[0] - Brute-force approach: 1) "style-untransfer" the input, i.e. style-transfer to some common style, e.g. photorealistic or sketch, 2) extrapolate the style-untransfered image, and 3) style-transfer result back using original input as style reference. Feels like it should work somewhat okay-ish; wonder if anyone tried that.

[1] - And the hard part wouldn't be extrapolating the scene, but rather keeping the style.
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Sure, to me it seems overly verbose in ways that are not relevant to the article.

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My wife's preferred approach is to ask the server "if [item X] and [item Y] got in a fight, which one would win?"

Usually gets a laugh and a good answer.
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A wonderful satire!
But isn’t a “gene” a frequency of certain amino acid combination? And as a frequency, can’t exist in any individual?
It's the default in Python :)
You were conflating details of C++'s object model and implementation of move semantics with RAII. Rust also makes heavy use of RAII, and the details of its object model and move semantics are not the same as C++'s.

The only thing that RAII requires is the concept of ownership, and a cleanup function that the compiler knows about. The one implicit thing here is the automatic insertion of calls to the cleanup function.
The limiting principle is ownership IMO.
The modern paradigm of "application blasts out a rectangle of pixels" and "the desktop manager composes those into another rectangle of pixels and blasts them out to the screen".

It actually separates the OS from the GPU. Before WDDM your GFX device driver was the only software that could use GFX acceleration. After WDDM the GPU is another "processor" in your computer that can read and write to RAM and the application can use the GPU in user space any way it wants, and then the compositor can to the same (in user space) and in the end all the OS is managing communication with the GPU.

For that approach to work you need to have enough fill rate that you can redraw the screen several times per frame. Microsoft wanted to have enough they could afford some visual bling, but Intel didn't give to them.
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>Nvidia is where it is because it has an army of researchers and SW engineers developing

The current local model/open source model community is literally an army of SWE's and researchers. They already make tons of tooling too.
>worse for peer review process of Nature.

Every scientist will tell you that "peer reviewed" is not a mark of quality, correctness, impact, value, accuracy, whatever.

Scientists care about replication. More correctly, they care that your work can be built upon. THAT is evidence of good science.
You can look at toxoplasmosis as an example, synthesizes dopamine and is somehow able to selectively modulate attraction to predators.
> I know I can rest assured the Excel spreadsheet for my monthly and annual budget is perfectly accurate and reliable.

Consider yourself lucky that your use cases are all on the happy path.

There are entire categories of bugs and inconsistencies where Excel's behaviour is known to be wrong, but which can't be fixed because the rest of the ecosystem depends on those same errors to manifest in the same ways.

For example - formulas with cycles have an upper bound as to how many times they are allowed to cycle. If you happen to hit the ceiling before your values converge, you will be left with the values calculated on the last iteration.
The Eiffel Tower isnt copyrighted, obviously, but the 1985 light design at night is, so you may need permission to use photos of it commercially
Some countries in Africa are certainly "stuck" but Kenya is actually doing pretty well overall [1]. Per capita GDP is about where South Korea was in 1969, or India in 2018, and Kenya's economy has been growing pretty steadily since one-party rule ended circa 2002.

Economic reforms and cutting down bureaucracy are certainly part of the solution, but "just wait a bit longer" is too. If things continue progressing as they currently are, Nairobi will look a lot more like Seoul by mid-century.

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Hiring is hard. From the company side, you might be a small company looking at a pile of 1000 resumes. It’s not tractable to send a personal response to everybody.

Nobody has the conversion rate numbers. I’ve hired excellent engineers through this channel though.
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No, I'm saying when I missed the last three sentences, now I don't even understand the lecture anymore. There's a variable written on the board and I don't know what it represents.

And then by the time I figure it out, I haven't understood a bunch of previous points that depended on knowing what the variable was.
It also differs between individuals (e.g. one can develop a fistula).
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> My metametaethical argument would be it's only humans debating the metaethics.

After which you take it as given that humans come first even metaethically? You can't from-first-principles your way around it; even your metaethics must have some axiomatic basis. It's obviously the same with me, and not a matter of right or wrong, but not acknowledging it is wrong.

> This isn't a discussion about survival, it's about aesthetics.

I addressed this in my last sentence. So then ultimately it comes down to human privilege, just not at a specific part. Again, I'm utimately going off of aesthetics too. It's just that you should recognize that, and not make arguments that revolve around not recognizing it.
Edge is a simple and Modern template engine for Node.js (from the Adonisjs team)
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IBM did lay an egg with Power10, though. They cut corners and used proprietary IP and as a result there are few (are there any?) non-IBM Power10 systems because the other vendors stayed away. Raptor workstations and servers are a small-ish part of the market but they're comparatively highly visible - and they're still on POWER9 (no S1 yet).

They did realize the tactical error, so I'm hoping Power11 will reverse the damage.
I was (jokingly) commenting on your curious definition of the word nitpick, but yeah, guess I should have read the article. Thank you for your advice.
I’m curious if Witch King will be standalone or not. That might change my answer. The Ile Rien ones were good, the Emilie ones would make good YA fare. The Raksura books are told by a nonhuman culture, but things get very dark at some points. I’d say that one of the main characters in that series is a bit of a prototype for Murderbot, and another the prototype for Ship.
There's a little ambiguity in the original quote which I think requires a lot more attention with LLMs in the mix: Whether the "rightness" of an answer also depends on the correctness of the process used to reach it.

I'd like to think that Babbage would have had the stricter interpretation.
Indeed, those organs expose to the outside world have reason to cultivate friendly bacteria for no other reason than to take up space, to stop hostile bacteria having a place to take hold.
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I had the pleasure of interviewing with Sphinx a few weeks ago, and I just want to say these guys are the real deal, would highly recommend interviewing with them if you are interested in space technology and can get a US security clearance.
It is argued that Bob sees light from Alice's crossing of the horizon at the same instant Bob himself crosses. Isn't this true of all matter that enters? When Bob enters, he sees everything that ever fell into the black hole "before" him, at all once? Is it blinding? Does it fry and scramble Bob? Or is it so redshifted that Bob survives?
> when random billionaire #38 puts in $5 million to space ventures, they're willing to also give $5 million to the environment

It was never going to the environment. It was going into space ventures or into some consumer play. There is practically zero competition between space and environmental concerns. (To the extent environmental concerns compete for resources, it's with discretionary social services. Similar donor bases. Similar line items in most national budgets.)

The engineers working on rockets wouldn't pivot to environmental sciences if we closed off space. Some would go to defence. Most would go to random other areas, likely those that pay well, like finance and that consumer play the aforementioned billionaire funded.

> people can't just focus on twenty causes effectively

We're investing more into crypto than we are into space.
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You can still use the old ABI with -D_GLIBCXX_USE_CXX11_ABI=0
That is a straw man heaven. Its supposed to be indescribable and the hymn singing a metaphor for an aspect of it.
I haven't personally used Flame, but I have extensively used Elixir and Phoenix and contend that, even without Flame, they compete well with so-called "No Code" solutions (like the article contends with Ruby/RoR).
I think many bird recordings are made to showcase songs of different species, it would be more relaxing to listen to field recordings that capture the whole soundscape.
Good job with the scan. I started reading the book and began to feel rage so I stopped after about 20 pages. Is it the most self-unaware book or just people trying their hand at PR?
I generally agree, but dont think there is anything wrong with being authoritarian over ones own property.

I wouldnt accept the irrelevance of taste and beauty if someone were putting a poster on my wall.

This becomes more tricky when you consider community owned property.
Isn't the iPhone SE basically that? Why didn't OP get the SE?

https://www.apple.com/iphone-se/
Yes, and you wouldn't even need to do it in realtime as a user walks around.

Generate incrementally using a pathfinding system for a bot to move around and "create the world" as it goes, as if a Google street view car followed the philosophy of George Berkeley.
> One of the biggest issues I have is that a good rulebook/teacher should start at the "What are we trying to do?"

This a million times. It drives me nuts when you're trying to learn a new game, and it's only at the very end that it explains what condition results in winning.

Like, if you'd started with that, reading the rules would have made a LOT more sense.