skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for your thoughtful questions. I’d be happy to provide some details:

1. Model Training and Evaluation: Yes, we do train our own models, including specialized ones like AI model try-on and fashion image-to-video conversion. Additionally, we fine-tune certain models, such as hand-repair. To determine whether our models are improving, we employ a case-by-case evaluation approach. This involves manually reviewing and comparing outputs to ensure that each new iteration effectively addresses the issues found in previous versions. This meticulous process helps us maintain high-quality performance and continuously enhance our models.

2. AI Fashion Model and Virtual Try-On: AI Fashion Model allows to take an image of someone wearing a particular outfit and transfer that outfit onto a different model using AI. The quality of the initial image plays a significant role in the final result. High-resolution, well-lit images lead to more accurate and realistic outfit transfers. Our technology leverages powerful feature embeddings to control the generation process, ensuring that the transferred clothing fits naturally on any individual.
Then complain that they are lonely. One common trait of I have seen in those with good people skills, even those who use them for bad like pushy salesmen, is that they know how to treat people as if they matter simply because they are people.
Given the context (him not wanting to stay with the acquiring company), I'm pretty sure he was referring to the large number of people at big companies who don't seem to do anything, but get in the way.

I think most people who work at Big Co's have their share of meetings where half a dozen people attend regularly, but have never said a word and you have no idea what they actually do. Those are the "NPCs" he's referring to.
Adapting ML models to run inference on devices: phones, smart cameras, edge accelerators. Computer vision models first, now LLMs.
Ordinary things can be stolen, real ones cannot - Oscar Wilde…

money is not being rich.
You can keep all three and still use UUIDv7 as a performance improvement in certain contexts due to data locality.
>This fails to explain why private corporations (which presumably have from one to millions of stakeholders that care about cost saving) would waste millions of dollars.

Of course it fails to explain something was wasnt talking about. I wasn't offering an explanation of private corporation waste. were you under that impression I dont think it exists?

I have a 50 million dollar project right now for a private corporation that I think is a waste, despite being the being the one to create and lead it. I'm doing it for short sighted reasons. My boss thinks it will make him look good, I expect a promotion out of it, and we will both be gone when it is cancelled with absolutely nothing to show for it.

This also happens in government. As a taxpayer, I dont want to pay it. I love the idea of someone looking out for waste and even counter productive spending.

>The second assumption that I think you're making is that "wasteful outcomes" are by definition a bad thing...

Please don't strawman me and put words in my mouth. are you arguing against points I didn't make.

My point is that true waste, however you want to define it, exists, and can be improved. Are you claiming there is no room for improvement?
The trouble is, if you think in abstract terms at all you'll start seeing the patterns in the reasons many people are suffering, and the patterns in your relationship to them.

Then you'll have to ratchet up boundaries to address the relational patterns with people who are having a hard time, so that you're not a participant in their suffering.

And you'll have to start working on the patterns underneath the problems, which when you get into it starts to look more and more like the kind of megalomaniacal moonshot ("give computers arms and legs" / "fix the government now!") that the author ran out of gas on.

I think where you end up if you think about this is just recognizing that a) you probably should try to do some ambitious, high-leverage project to make the world better and b) reflecting about the world and about life in a thorough way is emotionally difficult for most people, so you also have to deal with those emotions.

The author's original somewhat manic intentions were probably right, and maybe he needed a bit more of a rest but was plowing forward out of fear that he'd lose his nerve. Now he's getting some rest and will probably figure out something big, important, and hard to work on in the next few years.
This is the most childish thing I’ve read. And shows a lot about he doesn’t have any people relying on him or community to support. He takes one hike and throws away 60m. Doesn’t try to find anything interesting to do at Atlassian just calls his coworkers NPCs. This is zero-empathy Peter Pan syndrome at its worse.

Sad how he just goes adventure hopping to try and find meaning. The problem is no matter where you are you are also there. Time to look inward and not outward.
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Sounds convincing!

...unless there were actually several thousand people who performed this experiment, got a negative result, and therefore don't remember it or post anything about it.
Siri doesn't let you do that, it doesn't give you audio it does pick up, and it doesn't even listen for the wake word with the main CPU.
>If Congress were to pass a law

wonderful joke, thanks for the new years chuckle.

But yes, that's all part of the plan. rely on the dysfunction of congress and the end of Chevron to impart a deadlock that lets private corporations run free. All while dismantling whatever other regulations they can get away with.
Very very well said. OP's vapid writing kind of tells the tale.
We can read the brief from the petitioners starting on p 32 of https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ca6.151...

Looking at p 36, two information services offered are caching and DNS.
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They should go to war with it. Imagine the jobs created!
This could be true of songs and movies. But cars are too expensive. And Teslas are bought not just by the rich but all across the economic spectrum. I can't relate to what you talk about here.
In five letters: POSSE
https://indieweb.org/POSSE
Thanks for asking about market applications. Currently, this tech works best for marketing materials and social ads where rapid content generation is prioritized over perfect details. For e-commerce main product images that directly affect sales, we still recommend professional photo shoots with proper lighting and detailed post-processing, as these require higher precision and authenticity.
indeed. how many of these overturns in the last 10 years helps the current voting citizens and not corporations?
See my reply to DylanXXXXXX immediately adjacent.

I'm not making up my own definitions. I'm contrasting Garrett Hardin's use of the term in his famous book "Tragedy of the Commons", which is the way most people on HN use it with Elinor Ostrom's much more enlightened definition of it in her refutations of Hardin's claims (refutations that Hardin has accepted).

In Ostrom's sense, yes, GPL'ed code comprises a commons. In Hardin's sense, it does not (or at least, it has a bunch of features to it that render his entire thesis about commons inapplicable).
> The fact that he was able to make a few phone calls and actually get hired into an influential position despite having zero background in government, civics, economics, finance etc. should, however, tell you everything you need to know about the department and its brain trust

I have no interest in defending Elon, but this assessment is unfair. Recall how during the Obama transition, a bunch of Silicon Valley'ers got hired in to help modernize government tech (and doubly so after the disastrous obamacare website rollout). Very few of those people had experience in govt, civics, etc.
Hm, I’ll need to ask about it!
marking this as "wontfix"

we are currently focused on the ai

sincerely,

sotya nutella

p.s. im also a dev with a lot of complaints on gh actions >.< haha
If I became rich, I would create a company of metal detectors that would uncover long lost treasures. They would also find lost items for ppl.

I can dream, right?
Location being on in general doesn't mean the search query has access to it. Safari makes you approve each individual location access by a website.
I remember the feeling of being 12 or so and lamenting that I no longer enjoyed the same kind of play in the (literal) sandbox any more; a bit of sorrow at the loss of a source of joy in my life that I had grown out of. It was an interesting realization that growing up means changing desires and priorities and that I should expect to reach plateaus where I would need to pick a new direction to go in. I've always followed my personal interests and hobbies since then; there seems to be a fairly broad line between nonproductive hedonism and goal-driven productivity where there's plenty of room for personal satisfaction without risking an identity/purpose loss when big goals significantly drop in priority.

Working on a particular goal to exclusion of all else sounds like quite a shock when that's no longer a driving priority.
Also, do let me know how you can legally re-use GPL'ed code if you own code is not GPL'ed, unless you just mean "by reading it".
ahh yes, the overreach like making sure Netflix can't make competition worse by bribing ISP's.
How many people do you know pick their ISP because they prefer their DNS services?

Phone companies are information services because they mailed you a shitty phone book!

What an absolute bullshit argument.

Back when the law was written, people actually used the services offered by their ISP and they were differentiating services for their subscribers. CompuServ newsgroups, Prodigy message boards, people generally used their ISP provided email services as their primary email, many services offered their own portals for their customers which were quite popular (remember AOL keywords?).

None of that is true anymore. Nobody gives a shit about some landing page portal the ISP makes anymore, if they even bother reskinning Yahoo.
> Netflix using too much bandwidth on an ISPs network

Netflix doesn't use any ISP's bandwidth without a colocation agreement. The ISP customers use the bandwidth they have already paid for. If you're going to sell IP services you have to deliver those services honestly and fairly.
This looks great, thanks. But I think gists are better for unimportant stuff - for this I think it deserves its own repo.
you went to work for "doge"? Man don't take it the wrong way but you really are cringe.
Bench reportedly mandates data sharing with Employer.com to access data download
For context, the Bench bookkeeping SaaS suddenly collapsed and was subsequently acquired by employer.com:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42549343

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42523061

When users now go to login to Bench, it asks if you want to consent to share your data with employer.com; OR request a download link be emailed to you. However, the download links never came, and Bench now says they will arrive by January 15th. Additionally, Bench now reportedly says that you must consent to share your data with employer.com in order for them to prepare a download link.
that we know of.

I'm a bit tired of living in history in the making. Please can we not tempt fate here too?
NGL, still sounds like a pyramid scheme to me. I mean I like kids and I might have kids in the future. But I'd rather have purpose and joy and share that with future generations and keep it alive. I wanna be proud of humanity and what we are accomplishing and progressing into, not fix my own misery by bringing someone else into a world to distract me from existential dread.
Yeah, that all hits close to home.

I find that having a daily schedule and trying to stick to it helps. Also, going for small quality of life improvements, trying things out to see what works and what doesn't, such as a different pillow, or replacing some foods with alternatives.

Having free time forces you to deal with all the emotional baggage you have accumulated over the years and it's a bit much, too. I was obsessed with saving money so that my family wouldn't struggle if I became unable to work; as a result, I didn't process the reasons why I had that fear in the first place. My dad became severely disabled when I was in college and it was a very traumatic experience for my family.
I only use Darktable because of Negadoctor. I don't want to pay for Negative Lab Pro, so does anyone have any suggestions?
That’s actually just categorically wrong and frankly easy to find out. First of all the one that jumps to mind is AOC, but also just in general apparently econ is the third most popular study for congress members, behind politics and law.
Even when you have granular permissions, though, it just means the negative UX of having to click "no" every three minutes because some jackass at Adobe is convinced you really want to be told RIGHT NOW about every single product they make (or whatever).
Yes, and I think the percentage of the population with these abilities is diminishing over time. People are too used to having their interactions intermediated by screens.
My distant #2 (I even game exclusively on Linux) OS is Windows 10. 11 seems like more of the things that suck about Windows and nothing worthwhile.
We do that all the time.
They probably pee in it. That’s usually the secret.
Well, for one, categorizing the people he'd have to work with at Atlassian as "NPC Coworkers"
Think about what this implies. If your phone is listening, it’s listening all the time, right? So like 12-18 hours of continuous audio every day. That’s a lot of ad triggers. Way too many to actually be served with ads during your browsing time, which is a strict subset of your total audible proximity to your phone (plus ad inventory is a strict subset of what you view on your phone).

So how does the phone + ad networks decide which words to prioritize to trigger which ads when?

So for this anecdote to be true, not only would the phone have to be listening, but the targeting algorithm would need to decide to actively exclude all the other audible triggers from that time period, and fill your limited ad impression inventory with the one phrase you were intentionally testing.

How would it do that? Especially if this is indeed an outlier one-off topic of conversation that you cover in a single sentence. There would not be contextual clues (like repetition over time) that might indicate you are actually “in market” for a pool fence.

To me this is the problem with these anecdotal tests. You understood that that was an important phrase in the context of ad targeting. But how did the automated ad system know it should serve you ads on that topic, and not one of the many other advertisable topics you talk about over the course of several days? Or that your phone hears over several days?
Here's what I would accept:

Go to a public library without any electronic devices and pick up a print copy of a magazine with some ranked list of products or brands. Select a handful that you don't think would be targeted towards you. For example, beauty products, childcare products, cruises marketed towards seniors, etc.

Over the course of a few weeks, use Siri to send text messages mentioning these brands, add them to your Reminders list, etc. Just don't allow it to redirect you to any apps or web searches, since that would invalidate the experiment.

Browse Apple News daily, which uses Apple's internal ad service. If you see any ads related to at least 2 of your canary brands, you have plausible evidence that your Siri interactions have been used for ad targeting.
Windows Terminal is though!
It took LTT years to detect this behavior despite it coming up in forums and HN. They then decided to stop accepting sponsorships from them.

Sponsored ads also often boasted Honey will get you the best deal anywhere. Yet some have found them knowingly preferring their own coupons even though others users had manually entered and successfully used better coupons from elsewhere (while the extension was installed).
> I wasn't offering an explanation of private corporation waste. were you under that impression I dont think it exists?

Earlier you had said:

> .... if there is a stakeholder that actually cares about cost savings.

which tends to be short-hand these days for "in the context of a for-profit company where people actually care about this stuff". I accept that you may not have meant it that way.

> Are you claiming there is no room for improvement?

Certainly not. But starting with the claim that a gigantic percentage of US federal government spending is wasted (as the whole DOGE thing starts with) is almost certainly not the way to find actual improvements.
insufferable and now our tax dollars are paying for him to cut government services via DOGE.
Easily my favorite two sentences of any programming-related writing ever.
>Technilogical causes are much more likely than accidental causes for such effects to appear, in today's world.

This is absurd. The chances of rolling snake eyes twice in a row is 0.07%. However, that doesn't mean if I do get snake eyes back to back, I should think it's caused by "Technilogical causes" (aliens? CIA remotely controlling the dice?). At best, it's an incomplete argument. The power of the birthday paradox, along with the factors I explained in my previous comment means such occurrences are virtually guaranteed to occur if you're on the look out for them. This can't be dismissed with an off-hand with "Technilogical causes are much more likely than accidental causes for such effects to appear, in today's world".

>Occam's Razor and the answer to the question, "What kinds of companies are at work in the environment?" push that probability in a specific way, because the motives and means are definitely there. Do you think they are the kinds of companies that would waste such an opportunity?

Apple got sued for accidentally recording siri queries, and that cost them class action lawsuit, along with the requisite discovery. Some company intentionally doing this, all the while actively engaging in a conspiracy is far harder, and much easier to fall apart due.
Honestly that 7 year old thread makes me glad I use iterm2. George posted a fix in a short period of time (which he still does today), and added comments to that thread addressing the issues. Sounds like a decent person who cares about his users.
> life for almost 20 years post college has been nobody wants to develop me.

Is that really possible? I have often thought that the only person that can develop you, is you.

Sure you might get some good advice from some people, maybe a helping hand, a business loan or grant etc. but I don't view that as development.

Your biggest asset is you. Don't be reluctant to use it.
We can read the brief from the petitioners for the (apparently winning) response to this on p 38 of https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ca6.151...

“That exception focuses on inward-facing controls. But ISPs do not use DNS or caching to ‘manage, control, or operate’ their own purported ‘telecommunications system’ or ‘telecommunications service.’ Both DNS and caching provide a user-facing functionality.”
hmmm they are ephemeral by design.

spot instances are designed for short-lived stateless tasks (think of it as workers that just connects to databases with persisted data).

also it looks like you're trying out aws on your own money. on your first year you should try to apply for their free startup credits to avoid getting burned on their initial costs.
My interpretation of their words on the cloud front was more like, don't depend on or become locked into any specific service. If you're using Azure to host a VPS, you could easily move it to AWS or, Hetzner, etc.

Likewise, if you're using Cloudflare as a CDN (and only as a CDN!) there are other CDN providers available that you could switch to with relative ease.
The issue comes down to what we consider "piracy".

- P2P networking by itself is not piracy, but the casual connection can put a lot of honest sites in danger, from malicious actors.

- If the Internet Archive survives its current ideal, this is an easier way to kill that off.

- Any storage company that can't pay enough money can be thrown off the map. You can share files, which may or may not be copyright after all.

rulings like these start to make the cracks.
I just started using it when it launched 1.0. the stock configuration is basically perfect for me, with a few minor tweaks and a theme:

confirm-close-surface = false
macos-titlebar-style = tabs
theme = IR_Black
It certainly did for me. Practically the first thing my therapist said to me was exactly what he said to someone else before, since apparently it really helped the first person.

The next session was my last, when I told him I had figured out the issue. I don't even know what he said any more, but I haven't had that particular kind of depression recur for like 6 years now.

Gives no guarantees for your own experience of course, just wanted to give a different perspective.
> Human needs purpose in life

Not sure if I agree with it in this form, as I think people can get by quite well without an explicit purpose. My grandparents were farmers, and I've never pictured them to feel any specific purpose. They were still content with their lives, as they simply didn't even considered the question of what their purpose was.

Modern success is all about fixating on a single measurable goal, and grinding that out. What if there is no single purpose but rather a diffuse set of meanings? Even worse, half the battle is you figuring out what this set of meaningful goals is, where before the goal was given to you (make lots of money).
AWS WAF is even worse. I recently moved from Australia to India, and quite a few high-profile websites are now completely inaccessible to me because WAF seems to be legitimately broken. Two such sites: https://officeworks.com.au/ and https://centrecom.com.au/. You successfully complete their annoying thingummy, and it redirects you… to the same Human Verification CAPTCHA. This has been the case for at least half a year, so it’s not a recent breakage.

If I tunnel via my VPS which is still in Australia, then I can access it.

But complete blocks via Cloudflare have also been a problem: I had to do something with VicRoads as part of selling my car, and was blocked outright when I got to the actual form page. Had I not had my VPS in Australia, I don’t know what I would have done.

My IP address is massively shared (CGNAT) with plenty of botnet around, so I’m frequently troubled by Cloudflare, but not often outright blocked, and if challenged rather than blocked, I’ve never had any problem with it. Linux, Firefox.
ISPs used to have in house e-mail, Usenet, and FTP services. They realized they didn't need them to keep up the charade of being a telecom provider.
It's an unpopular opinion for sure.

Try to think about it in less capitalist terms. Say you built the world's first bicycle and can now move faster / more efficiently than anyone else.

What is the most likely thing that will happen if you give the bicycle away to the person who appears to need it the most and go do something else? (One broken bicycle.)

On the flip side, isn't the most important thing you can work on something like, "figure out how to make a bicycle—and maintenance supply chain—for everyone who wants one"?
I work on a laptop with a small scren most of the time. I am constantly going in and out of the shell. iTerm2 has a quake mode that allows me to seamlessly pull this up on top with a keypress. It significantly reduces the lag of switching to another window with CMD+Tab or w/e.
The domain name is consistent with the name of one of the founders of the mentioned startup, Loom.