skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I appreciate your pursuit of this artistic endeavour. Truly great art is always the product of great personal sacrifice.

That said, it does make me wonder about two alternative approaches:

A) When a screenshot is detected, change the font, produce the screenshot and then change it back. You could probably do this on a per-application basis with something like AutoHotKey, or there's probably a deeper way of doing it on the OS-level.

B) Use the magic of AI. Given it's monospaced, you could probably modify an image model to replace the relevant font of the screenshot.

Of course, these approaches may compromise your artistic integrity.
They do make compelling arguments if you listened to them. Also, from my coding with llms using cursor they obviously understand the code and my request more often than not. Mechanistic interpretability research shows evidence of concepts being represented within the layers. Golden gate claude is evidence of this:
https://www.anthropic.com/news/golden-gate-claude

To me this proves that llms learn concepts and multilayeres representations within its network and not just some dumb statistical inference.
Even famous llm skeptic like Francois Chollet doesn't invoke this stochastic parrots anymore and has moved on to arguing that they don't generalize well and are just memorizing.

With GPT-2 and 3 I was of the same opinion that they seemed like just sophisticated stochastic parrots, but current llms are a different class from early gpts. Now that o3 has beaten memory resisting benchmark like ARC-AGI I think we can confidently move on from
this stochastic parrots notion.

(And before you argue that o3 is not an llm, here is an openai researcher stating that it is an llm https://x.com/__nmca__/status/1870170101091008860?s=46&t=eTe...
)
A bibliophile invites New Yorkers to engage with books that do not exist
Hum... I'm not sure we are talking about the same thing. Of course system and embedded software won't have invariants stored in a database, the comment isn't about them.

But, there isn't a faster way to fail to an invariant than to prove statically that your code fails it, or to test it before deploying. I don't really understand your criticism.
Sounds like flipping this switch is a component of success after using GLP-1s to shed the excess weight?
Quite a while ago somebody shared some post analysis tool that would try to pair up the accounts of multi-account users. Used some cosine distance magic IIRC. Anyway, can’t remember the link, but it seemed to impress folks (I have only one account so wasn’t able to test it myself).

I wouldn’t be surprised if anybody you wanted to do opsec against had a much better version of that tool…

I do sort of wonder where that sort of stuff will go. In one hand, we’re all mostly just shitposting anyway so we don’t really need privacy. On the other, I dunno, we all enjoy being able to explore ideas pseudonymously, right? I wonder if we’ll all end up having to pass our arguments into LLMs to get any sort of pseudonymity in the future.
Ok. My bad. I have no problem saying that. But I cut off the convo because I don’t like your attitude. Didn’t like this reply either. Let’s just end it here I have nothing further to say to you and I don’t care about your technical opinions. Good day.
There's an important difference between powerful and difficult to use. Darktable lands solidly in the latter camp. This mythical power being used as an excuse is doubly frustrating as:

- Network effects mean competitors will struggle to gain traction

- Darktable shamelessly apes the Lightroom UI which gives a superficial impression that it'll be similarly intuitive. It's not.

My favorite interface behavior is that in Darktable clicking on empty space (accidentally or in an attempt to unfocus a widget) will usually send an event to a nearby widget. That's not power, that's just sloppy design. Oh and sliders give no indication of how to input an exact value.

Or there's color balance. There are two competing modules. One presents a complex and unintuitive interface, the other offers to mimic camera settings but triggers warnings if you dare touch it. In the way that Tesla makes cars for people who love gadgets but hate cars, Darktable is a product for folks who love monkeying with code but hate photography.

Ansel solves much of this, but brings its own shortcomings to the table.
Ah yes! TOTP education takes much time. There are very few people who have invested time in teaching the uninformed about TOTP. OTOH, many more have invested time in developing TOTP apps and hacks.
Trump and Musk often campaigned against illegal immigration. It is easy to understand why. These types of people have no political power of their own and it is easy to rile up the masses against them with simple scare tactics. It is a blend of fear, racism, and nationalism. This is what the common man voted for.

On the other hand, Musk and Trump are both in favor of at least some kinds of legal immigration. Musk and other tech barons want cheap east asian human capital, Trump needs hospitality visa workers for his properties.

Couple of additional things to note. I believe Musk himself came to the USA on an H1b visa legally before over staying his welcome becoming an illegal immigrant.

The second note and the real reason tech barons want H1b human capital is that they are essentially well paid indentured servants who are not legally allowed to switch jobs. You dont need to promote them, give them raises or treat them well at all. Once you are done with them they are easy to get rid of. They don't know their rights and when they do they typically won't assert them. You can tell a kid on a visa or in OPT that they need to work 60 hours a week or more and if they balk, you can simply get the next one.

Of course none of this support is actually about MAGA. It is all about tech barons keeping labor on a short price controlled leash.

This should also explain to you why Trump and Musk want to automatically give residence status to international students who graduate with stem degrees. The result of which will flood the US tech sector with candidates driving down the cost of human capital.
Yea, that’s where we got the idea.
Interestingly enough while the Canadian constitution doesn’t flat out permits this, it does allow the province to have a binding referendum and should a vote come to pass by it’s people, it forces the federal government to seriously consider it, thus a faithful negotiating can take place which could lead to the province becoming a sovereign nation.

See the Clarity Act of 1999.
I don't have stability issues with digikam while using it on fedora. It's well maintained and sees frequent releases so if I were you and had some spare time, I wouldn't shy away from opening issues and reaching out to developers.

And yeah, sure, if the "do it all" approach works for you, and the tool you desire already exists, I'm not there to turn you away from it! Since digikam can open any lot of images in a side application for edition, I'm not sure what kind of improvements a "kitchen sink" application would do to my workflows and I was curious about that :-)
> Automated applications will not get you a job at a place that values its employees, because places like mine won't allow our hiring process to bring in someone who doesn't really want to be here

No one to a first approximation “wants to be” at your company anymore than they want to be at any other company that will allow them to exchange labor for money.

Any experienced employee knows how to look up what you do on your website and say they have a “passion for $x”.

I’ve had 10 jobs in almost 30 years ranging from a 30 person Startup to BigTech, they’ve all just been a means to support my addiction to food and shelter.
tbh I'm not sure this would qualify as steganography - the message doesn't exist at all in the encoded form. It's not hidden, it's completely gone, the information is now split into two pieces.

So it's cryptography. With a shared dictionary. Basically just ECB, though with an unbelievably large and complicated code book.
I was those people. I bought the original eee 701 at launch. I ordered it online because local stores didn't stock them. Xandros sucked not because it ran linux, but just because it was some little-tikes toy OS. But Windows didn't even run correctly on the damn thing either, because the 480px vertical height of the screen wasn't tall enough to fit the minimum height of many windows. The device was basically a toy for nerds, no normal person would have picked up one of these devices and thought "this is a computer I can use for real things"

People don't not use Linux because they've considered it and found out that their applications won't run on it. They don't use it because they've not considered it at all, because 99%+ of people do not choose the OS on their computer. They go to the electronics store and buy a Dell, HP, Acer, Lenovo, or Apple. There's no Asus Eee running Xandros at my local Best Buy, and if there ever was, it wasn't on the shelf for very long.
The idea is neat but holy SaaS, the price for what it offers is ridiculous. It’s not even about having the money, it’s just that $828 p.a. price of entry to build a spreadsheet front-end is objectively a bad buy/business decision.

Most people would just learn to code at a boot camp for $828 so they don’t need codeless.
I'm a darktable user (which fascinates my photography friends, because I'm the only semi-serious photographer they know who uses it), and think it's time to switch to something better. What non-adobe tools are other people using?
Mozilla need to remove Javascript finger printing identity from the browser

Try it from a VPN
https://amiunique.org/
If he's so hung up on the open source process of Darktable, I can't wait to hear what he has to say about enterprise software, LOL.
I’m pretty sure that the Soviet Union was state capitalist.
They're just very strict with IP blocking and ratelimits. Pretty sure VPNs and such are blocked too.
Junk science: Detecting deception in 911 homicide calls
It's saves hours of work and a lot of stress. You can basically stop thinking about applying to jobs if you set the search filters up right, so I feel at least for me it would be worth the money.
There's also just the unlimited subscription at $20 which makes your life a lot easier on its own by letting you quickly apply from the search results without leaving the page.
It hadn't occurred to me that `#set` is changing the default value of an argument, which is a really weird thing for a programming language to allow, but perfectly natural in a typesetting system.
Excellent. Wish he had cited Thompson's "Reflections on Trusting Trust" from half a century ago:

* https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_Ref...
It might be worth contributing to things that demonstrate your knowledge in an area where you would like to be employed in in the future.

E.g. If long term you want to be paid to work with WordPress (I don't know how good that market is), work on WordPress itself or related projects.

Also, you can put your agency work on your CV with a summary of what you built.
but to me it clearly says "don't use or contribute to this software"

As an end user the sheer arrogance and condescending attitude that the darktable devs bring to the table is far more offputting than someone (an ex-darktable dev no less) losing patience with that behavior.
Every single longevity project - human or otherwise - is a scam. Fear of dying is the most fundamental one to existence, and scam artists have been exploiting it for as long as there have been people.

Religion promises an eternal afterlife. Cryogenics promises a future thawing and cure in an enlightend and technically advanced future. Plastic surgery puts a veneer over the signs of the natural aging process. The more recent batch have targeted metabolism, growth inhibition (ie rapamycin), etc.

Very wealthy people that don't want to die or don't want their pets to die will never be in short supply. They will still all die, roughly around the same time they would have otherwise from different causes with different infirmities (search for "sirolimus side effects").

Enjoy and make the most of the years you are given. Happy New Year.
The best part is running this on a potato PC and watching the JavaScript kill itself.
You're allowed to keep them on your person. This isn't difficult.
The most incompetent crook is the first one to get caught.

There's a huge selection bias factored into what attacks make the news.
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There's also a moral obligation to not trespass.
I've seen his story across various sources - has he ever elaborated on specific quantities/ratios? I haven't seen anyone reproduce his regimen for his cats, and I'd love to see some more concrete evidence that the diet is effective (IMHO the extensive development of his home to act as a massive jungle gym feels like the more likely culprit in their longevity).
Since the 80s you can spy on anyone's calls using the telco's standard maintenance features. You dial up a number, you then dial another number, and you're basically patched in to the second number, can listen in on any current call. There was a different system required by the government for taps, but linemen have their own method so they can diagnose issues. At least that used to be the case through the 2010s.

Stupidity and banality is a far greater threat than conspiracy.
Yeah, back then, `pip install` just didn't work for anything written in C. I seem to remember a Windows-specific site with builds of popular extension packages - Cython, lxml, OpenSSL, and the like. It was unofficial, and you couldn't use a package manager to install them, but after manually downloading them, they tended to work.

Wheels, Conda, and WSL, helped - now, all the R&D guys at work use Python on Windows with PyTorch, TensorFlow, and all that without problems. I'm also using (mini)conda (on Linux) instead of virtualenv - it's nice because I don't need to worry about all my venvs breaking after an OS upgrade.

Anyway, compared to those days (I started with 2.4 on Windows, switched to Linux around 2.7), working with Python on Windows is at least feasible.
Thanks for catching that, I need to clean up the skills for sure. I could definitely think about adding categories, like frontend, backend, mobile, crypto, etc. that you can enable/disable altogether.
That's a good idea.
I remember back in the day of the Sony Satio U1, the last Symbian v5 phone, the software was horrendous(screen tearing, random OS freezes) and later, the phone abandoned. I think it was afterwards that Sony and Ericsson split?
Yeah, like this comment confidently stating that he's not a US soldier and the fatigues aren't military-issue...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42256857
SQLite is probably the best client side caching solution I have found. Breeze to use for most crud scenarios.
It's a tool targeted at businesses. The article writer just found a use case that works for them personally.
It feels overhyped from YT ads but honestly brilliant.org is pretty good for drilling fundamentals of math, CS, and adjacent fields if you have any weak spots there.
We compiled some of the most interesting AI predictions from Hacker News into a visual!

Here's the link: https://x.com/0xmetaschool/status/1871132412887158966
I think someone put it best: make your competitor depend on your evil thing (in this case, google donates to firefox/mozilla and makes deals about default search). In addition, people intentionally go to firefox because it /isn't/ chrome, but that only works SO LONG AS they don't copy everything google does (e.g. opt-out ads in the browser, AI, etc)
Yes, not sure what it adds to the articles either. The only thing that it ends up doing is making any miss from his end a much more serious thing, because he basically can't get stuff wrong without more or less defaming someone (which has happened in the past)
Frankly, Ansel is outdated by now. No color equalizer, no camera styles, no Sigmoid.

Mainline Darktable has overtaken it.
Yeah, WSH and VBA was available since Win98, though the documentation was scarce and not part of Windows itself (compare with QBASIC someone else mentioned where not only it came with documentation but the first thing it tells you when you run it is how to open the documentation).

I did use it for an "Introduction to programming" magazine article back in mid-2000s though, main reason because it was already there and all you had to do was open Notepad and start typing (...and make sure you save with a .vbs and not a .vbs.txt extension...). I even got an email a few years later by someone telling me they got into programming because of it :-P.
Yeah it is basically just for jobs in the US right now. You technically can apply from elsewhere, but you should specify your location correctly and make sure to set the right answers for the vis/sponsorship questions when signing up.
To expand my previous comment: writing a lesson to memorize always helps, but that does not mean that having some printouts from university won't be a good tradeoff or manually copying a whole book instead of renting it etc
This argument has existed since native apps were first introduced. One of the problems I see now is how horrible and frankly broken browsing the web can feel, especially on a mobile device. With all of the cookie confirmations due to GDPA and other ways mobile websites try to engage you (such as popups to subscribe to a newsletter or for discounts off your first order), some websites become almost unusable on a mobile device. If that's the future where native apps don't exist, count me out.
New Release is out now

> We support 7 cloud providers now.
> Beta storage providers are still being tested.

Stable:
Amazon S3 ($23/TB/month)
Google Cloud Storage ($20/TB/month)
Cloudflare R2 ($15/TB/month)

Beta/Testing:
Wasabi ($6.99/TB/month)
Backblaze B2 ($6/TB/month)
DigitalOcean Spaces ($5/TB/month)
Hetzner Storage ($4/TB/month)
Software had it way too easy for way too long. You could ship faulty code to billions without anyone blinking an eye. It was just harmless ideas after all.

The stakes are now higher with data being so important and the advent of algorithms that affect people directly. From health insurance claims, to automated trading, social media drugs and ai companions, bad code today can and does ruin lives.

Software engineers, like every other engineer have to be held accountable for code they sign off and ship. Their livelihoods should be on the line.
> What makes the "agents"

As most people understand them, a lot of marketing and imagination. There's some fairly dense theory on the underlying concept that is probably inaccessible to someone without a math degree, and much of this research happened well after my academic days so I cannot comment on a deep level, but I'm extremely skeptical of its attempted implementation in the current market, particularly when language models are at the core of it. From what I understand, an agentic system can exist entirely without LLM's and all the rube-goldberg machinations behind giving it the appearance of working. However, this is the course that every single tech company has gone all in on, so we'll see how it goes. I suspect that LLM's will be discarded in favor of something much better in the mid to far future, but the fact that no one can currently say what that is or even would look like is a little bit concerning to me when the large bets are being made that it will just happen inevitably in more near-future timelines.
My biggest gripes are u-boot and the Linux kernel. Both are clearly GPL only, you must provide sourcecode for your modifications including drivers as a vendor, and yet so many make one jump through hoops it's not even close to funny any more. Or they don't fulfill their obligations at all.
Definitely not necessary for internet service alone. You also don't need their modem. Just buy your own. Cheaper in the long run and a bit more control over the device. Never had a tech push me into installing anything either.

But, I guess if you're paying for one for one of their all-in-one packages where the service is managing voip/streaming/tv/internet I guess I can see their equipment and management tool might be necessary. Wouldn't know, have avoided all that. Try to keep them just as an ISP.
The one I use is xlite

https://github.com/x2bool/xlite

It's read-only and mounts spreadsheets as virtual tables. Very fast.

Perhaps more relevant to this thread, libgsqlite loads Google Sheets as virtual tables:

https://github.com/0x6b/libgsqlite

(I haven't tested it though.)
A problem that looks harder than it is
You're trying to step away from the mainstream thought for some very real reasons. But you have not developed good models to guide you once you're out in the woods.
Homemade powerwall made from recycled laptop batteries
I feel that the current status quo around OSI-approved licenses is largely beneficial to incumbents ("big tech" / cloud providers) and is generally harmful for software innovation industry-wide.

A fair number of vocal people in the industry express contempt for anything using a non-OSI license, even though many of these licenses are simply trying to empower a sustainable business model so the work can't be stolen and abused by cloud providers.

If you independently create a truly innovative new infrastructure software product today (or during any other non-ZIRP / non-boom-time period) with the intention of forming a company around it, you are faced with several bad options around licensing and source availability:

* If you adopt an OSI-approved license other than AGPL, and your product is successful, larger incumbents can and will steal your work and capture most of its value. You will either go out of business, or eventually need to re-license, causing mass outrage and accusations of rug-pulling.

* If you choose AGPL, most VC-funded companies won't touch your software and statistically it will almost certainly fail commercially as a result. Additionally there are several concerning theoretical loopholes in the AGPL, as well as conceptual problems with a non-EULA nonetheless trying to enforce restrictions affecting end users.

* If you choose an entirely close-sourced model, your chance of success is very very low, especially for B2B products. You're a small/new vendor, other companies won't trust you.

So the logical conclusion is you should choose a non-OSI license which prevents the cloud providers from stealing the profits from your hard work. But then random people will attack you everywhere for "open washing" and not being "open source", even if you don't use the word "open" anywhere. People have seemingly been trained to have a knee-jerk negative reaction to SSPL, BSL, etc and that's a really bad state of affairs.

It's especially problematic that the OSI is a closed-membership entity, and not an open-membership professional association. There is no democratic way for software engineers to influence its policies. As an industry we've effectively ceded control over what licenses are acceptable to a random small non-profit. And as a result of that, it's harder today to be a successful independent software vendor than it was in the 90s, which is an absurd state of affairs.
I don't have stability issues with digikam while using it on fedora

Right, I'm not switching to Linux just for digikam.

Since digikam can open any lot of images in a side application for edition

If I'm going to open a photo in Lightroom anyways, why not use it for asset management? I'm not wedded to an all-in-one solution, but neither digikam nor darktable/rawtherapee offer enough of an improvement over the respective modules within Lightroom to warrant usage.
Capture One or DxO. These are the only ones as good as Lightroom in their rendering. I'm afraid they are both much more expensive.

ON1, ACDSee, Luminar, Zoner, Silkypix, Radiant, RAW Power, Photomator are other options, but IMO have rather significant flaws that make them less good.