skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"It took just 28 Chinese characters on an obscure social media platform to ignite a controversy that’s rattled the country’s tech industry.

Meituan CEO Wang Xing lost $2.5 billion of his wealth over two days after he posted verses from a millennium-old poem about the misguided attempts of China’s first emperor to quash dissent.

Wang, a usually plain-speaking engineer who enjoys literary classics, later scrubbed his post and explained he was really calling out the short-sightedness of his own industry, trying to clarify there was no implied criticism of the government.

But the damage was done: Meituan shed $26 billion over two days"
Not a lot to ask at all. The go-to person (and one of the pioneers of this type of model) is Alexia: https://twitter.com/jm_alexia

The article you want is probably this one: https://ajolicoeur.wordpress.com/the-new-contender-to-gans-s...

I would launch into a thorough explanation, but it would likely not be correct in every detail, because it's been around nine months since I was immersing myself in DDPM type models. But, broadly speaking, with normal training, your goal is to train a model (show it a bunch of examples) until the model can guess the right answer most of the time in one try. Except, "guessing the right answer" is actually an easier problem than generating an image, because the model usually gives you its top-N guesses, so it says "I think it's a snake or a dog or an apple."

Whereas with generative images, it's much harder to come up with a technique that can be "sort of correct": if you generate a stylegan image, it either looks cool or looks like crap, and it's rather difficult to automatically take a crappy output and turn it into something that looks cool. (The "automatic" is key; there are manual human-guided techniques that I'm quite fond of, and amazed no one's turned it into a photoshop-type plugin yet, but the field of ML seems to compete/care about fully automatic solutions right now. For some reason.)

DDPM is the inverse: you have a trained model, and you start with noise, but then it gets progressively closer to a cool looking result by searching multiple times (i.e. taking multiple forward passes). That's as much as I remember, I'm afraid.
I agree with your points, but I'd really really like to avoid giving the impression of... glee? "Look at those unwashed unvaccinated Trump supporters, so good they'll be forced to do things our ways now!". I'm not saying you're doing it, I'm just piggybacking on your comment.

I'm pretty much a high-modernist when it comes to vaccines - I think that having governments build sewage and create vaccines go into the same category of "damn useful for civilization". But it does involve curtailing liberties, and I just can't put it in a "fell good" category.
Covid PCR tests check for specific viral RNA. They’re not sequencing human DNA.
GPS-based trackers don't pair with satellites, the antenna and radio to do that would be enormous.
> I'm assuming you're suggesting he just hide behind fictitious ones?

I don't think "I'm not comfortable returning to the office for health reasons" implies any medical condition beyond being afraid to get covid. Which ought to be reason enough, if there's no particular downside to allowing OP to continue working remotely. And if there is a downside, it'd be good if OP and their employer discussed it.
Agreed. The name sounds vaguely familiar but I haven't come across it either. They actually have an interactive demo [0]. It feels super sketchy and wrong being asked for the bank login.

[0] https://www.polipayments.com/Demo
Most people don't look for information. They just wait to be told it.
I set a $20/month open-source donation budget for myself
100% B. I was a senior hire, not a grad. No one at the firm told me at any point during the recruitment that this was what I was signing on for.

Now fair enough I could have checked the /r/consulting sub and found plenty of horror stories, but also I would have asked for more money to reflect the hours worked.
This is a delight to read on a topic kind of "near and dear" so to speak.

I'm an environmental studies major and a pet research project of mine had as one piece of it criticism of the location of a planned rail station in a protected bird sanctuary (critical flyway habitat) in the San Francisco Bay Area, where it will likely slowly sink into the marsh like Venice and you can't create much development nearby.

Sadly, I don't have the political organizing talents of Emily Williamson, so I've never figured out how to promote the idea that it's a terrible rail plan, though I did quite a lot of research into the myriad reasons it's bad, bad, bad.
What COVID19 Has Taught Us About Importance of DigitalTransformation in Business
Can human creativity prevent mass unemployment?
PCR tests don't analyze your DNA. They are only testing for the presence of some characteristic virus DNA segments. Other than showing your infection status, no information is obtained and consequently cannot be stored.
So let's talk about a hypothetical. You lose your job and within 30 days you are out on your rear and don't have anywhere to crash.

At that point do you start living in fear of being caught while you try to get your life on track?

When you finally get caught and go to the homeless concentration camp if they find marijuana in your pee are you now stuck with paying for drug treatment for your imaginary addiction.

Maybe we can force homeless to do labor to earn their keep without paying them beyond room and board. Then we can partner with local business who can acquire cheap labor while teaching homeless valuable skills!

I'm sure it won't turn into permeant disease ridden hellholes of exploitation that effectively transfer the people's wealth to whomever runs or owns the gaol.

When your plan starts with if only we could do away with thpse inconvenient constitutional rights and build a wall to keep out those pesky ACLU lawyers it might be a good indicator that you are starting off on the wrong foot and may want to take the time to rethink your strategy.
> international travel was some kind of libertarian utopia before covid. There are a lot of things that restrict your ability to travel, and vaccinations are one of the least problematic.

You are obviously not referring to the EU, where, within Schengen, international travel was a libertarian utopia and one of the main reasons this bureaucratic construct had so many supporters despite the downsides.
> Consider - why is it important what gender someone is? Or age?

It really isn't when it comes to arguments. An argument should not be attached to whoever brought it up. If it is it's hardly an argument and most likely something personal or morally loaded which is not suited for objective discussion.

> Should emoji only have had unisex and age-less figures instead of its current set?

Yes!

> Is it sexist to use a female-presenting emoji?

Obviously not and I don't know why you would get the impression it is. It is however mostly irrelevant: So now people assume you are an XX chromosome female or are trying to present as one. What now? Do you expect special treatment now?

> These things all have obvious utility for communication,

No they don't? And I don't know what would be "obvious" about it? You can't just present this as "obvious" fact when it's really not clear at all.

> and you're ending up making some deeply strange arguments to try and dismiss that utility.

You did not explain to me why my arguments are "deeply strange" and you also failed to explain why it should be useful to convey your own skintone in the context of discussion. My argument is that all you do with skintones and a nursing male is to bring political discrimination into electronic discussion, without providing any benefit whatsoever or even doing harm.
Although the weights aren't available, I wanted to note that the model source itself is actually hosted at https://github.com/openai/guided-diffusion.
Old discussion:

11 years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1757716

6 years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9617710

5 years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12419117

Alot has happened in the Brazilian economy/to their people in the past decade or so. And they're having a hell of time with COVID.
"return of GTA IV"
The potential exists for DNA harvesting. Dismissing it as impossible seems inaccurate.

>(CBS) — The largest biotech firm in the world wasted no time in offering to build and run COVID testing labs in Washington, contacting its governor right after the first major COVID outbreak in the U.S. occurred there. The Chinese company, the BGI Group, made the same offer to at least five other states, including New York and California, 60 Minutes has learned. This, along with other COVID testing offers by BGI, so worried Bill Evanina, then the country’s top counterintelligence officer, that he authorized a rare public warning. “Foreign powers can collect, store and exploit biometric information from COVID tests” declared the notice. Evanina believes the Chinese are trying to collect Americans’ DNA to win a race to control the world’s biodata.

https://www.klfy.com/national/u-s-intelligence-officials-say...

https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/bill-gates-china-23m...

>China's push to control Americans' health care future:
U.S. officials say the Chinese government is trying to collect Americans' DNA, and they believe a recent offer from a Chinese company for assistance in COVID-19 testing was suspicious. Jon Wertheim reports.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biodata-dna-china-collection-60...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/07/02/china-bgi...
If the person has nowhere to sleep how can you charge them for the human need to sleep.
thanks for ruining my sleep schedule
I wonder if it would be possible to train them to specifically avoid generating images that look scary to people. Eg prefer blur or other artifacts over distorted bodies and faces.
I wouldn't even call it average. In my experience most people will be getting $11.
Data sources used by IP geolocation services providers
I don't think the old line news organisations that used to be funded by classified advertising had much choice other than to become shills / reworkers of press releases. As soon as that independent funding source dried up they were always going to change.

Interestingly to me, the subscription model seems to further drive partisan reporting. The more the news organisations rely on subscriptions, the more they have to pander to their subscribers and main advertisers who tend to be skewed towards whatever political leaning that organisation had. It has almost forced them to be more extreme to keep up the clicks and keep the subs flowing in. Can't write a bad article about Apple or Google if they are a substantial part of your ad revenue and/or are restricting the distribution of your headlines.

They desperately need some other source of income.
that sounds great. How to find a company/team like that?
The problem is that there are a mix of technical and non-technical restrictions in order to keep end users from shooting themselves in the foot.

It is likely a "careful what you wish for" with regulating the platforms like utilities, because they would likely regulate much farther down - the governments would become an additional party setting app store policy to a much greater degree than we see today.
What is the metaverse?
It remained a complete mystery to me how they implemented all of the control systems without flying the vehicle single time. Now I know a thing called 'dynamic control' exists but still feels unfathomable - you build a rocket - and then without any testflights - it actually flies where you program it to?
A travesty, really
In my prior experience there just isn’t much of a discount to be had when you find people of the same caliber regardless of where they live. Someone who performs at the same level as someone local, and there are plenty of them, has usually figured out what people are willing to pay for their services.
That's likely because the immunity in Manaus was highly overestimated [1].

[1] https://twitter.com/WesPegden/status/1336801382955933697
The part about ridiculous resolutions for texture detail like leaves isn't necessarily true. There are very old techniques for scattering small decals densely across surfaces. The basic trick is to use coarse textures that encode the positioning of decals within each texel footprint.
I think it's more complicated than the title suggests. Forgive my very conspiratorial suggestion, I think that the so-called 'spy state' has become an agent of the same interests served by mainstream so-called 'journalists'. One could generously interpret the article as suggesting as much.

I think both of these institutions have been weaponized to serve to protect the business interests of America's elite. As a non-American looking in on the chaos, my belief is that the major financial players in the country are exercising their power to ensure that a resurgence of economic protectionism does not impede their financial, and political interests.
Just not be such a contemptible company? Like probably most other companies aren't?
I'm in the same boat. Our CEO was an extreme opponent to wfh before the pandemic. You could get wfh on a day-to-day base, but only if you could provide good reasons for that. During the pandemic, we all proved that wfh works. Hell, some of my coworkers and I opened up a discord, were we are more or less in voice chat the whole time. It's like working in the office, but without many of the downsides.

Being challenged, CEO decided to give everyone 12 wfh days per year. After asking why exactly "12", he argued that this were the average days people requested in the last 2 years before pandemic. That's just ridiculous.

Yet, I'm still at the company, because I don't think that now is a good time to look for a new job without substantial savings. But alea iacta est, I guess.

Also, it doesn't make sense to negotiate in private, even if I managed to get something negotiated: We are working in a team, and the team needs to be able to handle somebody who is working remotely. It's pretty hard to not let people behind if you aren't trained at wfh.
That sounds like one of those things made into law but hard to enforce for practical reasons, and if they did try to enforce it, might be something that a civil rights group might take up to get stricken down. Especially with what we're discussing in this thread coming.
More recently Martin v. Boise

https://nlihc.org/resource/supreme-court-upholds-ruling-home...
RF blocking walls could be useful for more than just privacy. Could block out neighbors overpowered wifi APs. Just have a data line in and wifi APs inside.
That is not how it works. Most people can not get vaccinated right now, even if they would want. And frankly nobody cares at this point.
Some people cannot get vaccinated.
I can imagine hostile state actors sending AirTags into the US military mail system to map relationships between people / entities.

I hope that the military have instituted techniques to avoid this.

Unfortunately, it might need millions of Faraday cages or banning Apple equipment from military installations.
Except that's not true. There are 4 endemic coronaviruses already that cause the common cold, and we can most definitely get reinfected with them: https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/common-cold-coron...
Yet that Arduino v1 IDE is everything but fast
I think your average salary figure is wrong
It’s a transcript, Dr Freud.
>Honestly I don't see any purely technical solution to this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraday_cage
RF flooding and interference is illegal but I have never seen that simply blocking phone signal is illegal. Even concrete walls will do that.
> "Interestingly to me, the subscription model seems to further drive partisan reporting"

This is a great observation. However I don't think these institutions want to be reformed. I think they exist to serve the political ends of their owners, and have for a long time.
The difference between amateur and professional grillers is that professionals use instant-read thermometers for everything. One, because the difference between a rare and medium-rare steak is only about 5F internal temperature, which is too small to eyeball. Two, because if you’re not checking internal and hold temps, then it’s way too easy to poison your guests.
> especially looking at you, JetBrains

JetBrains IDEs are an order of magnitude smarter than anything VSCode provides.
Very curious. I've ordered it, thanks for the link.
Is this still open? The site says they are currently not accepting applications... Also, I am currently in GMT+2/3 timezone, would this be ok?
The European way should be to treat the EU as one country and stop restricting movement. We've had Schengen for a long time, which meant no border checks whatsoever on most borders (we were driving through without even stopping or slowing down most of the time). With this vaccine passport, Schengen is pretty much history and that removes one of the main liberties the EU was offering.
And if someone stands out side with a wifi device emitting a signal in to your house?
I have found Celery to be a major pain. It's very complicated (Are your Celery tasks guaranteed at-most-once or at-least-once delivery? Are you sure?). There are bugs with the Redis broker that cause it to drop tasks: https://github.com/celery/kombu/issues/305

I heartily recommend: https://dramatiq.io/motivation.html - "if you’ve ever had to use Celery in anger, Dramatiq could be the tool for you".
Show HN: A curated collection of pretty places on the Moon
> a terrible a precedent to restrict freedom of movement on a forced personal health decision

Agree, let's not be reckless–restricting movement for public health only has over seven hundred years of precedent [1].

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/quarantine/historyquarantine.html
“Alone”, if I read it correctly.
How can someone saying 'billionaires should not exist' be lying? It's an opinion at best.
The number of Israeli civilians killed in those rocket attacks over the last 20 years is dwarfed by the number of kindergartens and medical facilities bombed by Israel in 2014 alone.

It's safe to say that both Israel and Palestine are terrorist states. Israel is just more successful at it.
As part of that problem it also takes no real account of marginal utility (the strong basis for progressive tax).
Aww, a genuinely heartwarming scp. I love it!
People who want to solve their problems badly enough will take the "half a loaf" solutions offered to them, even if they hate them. Choosing the lesser evil is a known rubric for fostering success in life, which is why it's a saying at all.

But we don't want to give the homeless any credit for solving their problems in our awful system. We want to give credit to other people for kindly offering more beatings until morale improves.

The assumption people tend to make us that you have to force homeless people to solve their problems and only wiser, morally better (wealthier) people are qualified to decide for them.

Some people sometimes need a wake up call. A lot of people want their problems solved and need opportunity, something people mostly do not wish to give to homeless individuals, which becomes a head trip of a trap.
Let's compare industrial grade IDE with state of the art inspections and refactoring capabilities to music players and chat clients.
Yes, but as I understand it, the EU purports to be a proponent of human rights as well.

Immigration to the U.S. is of course, a regulated activity. They can make you take a physical, pay a fee, inspect your background, call your mom and make sure you're a good person, etc, before accepting you as an immigrant. Sure. There's no limits to that, because there's no U.S. Constitutional protection for non-U.S. citizens and immigration can be stopped altogether if desired (assuming it's enforced).
CHP arrests man in back of Tesla on suspicion of reckless driving
Ask HN: Can a SaaS be successful with only social login?
Hey HN,

A friend and I are working on a SaaS productivity tool. Not our first venture, but we realized that building email+password login is a huge PITA because of password management/ password recovery / signup confirmation emails / weird ‘email not verified’ states / spammy signups / spammy logins / forgotten email / change email or password and many other cases we need to handle.

So we are thinking - why not offer only social login (at least for our MVP)?? It certainly seems much more preferable as we can focus on our core business, but it’s also so hard to find successful companies that went this route? How important is native email/password login anyway?

Are there any examples of companies that were successful with only social login (Login with Google / Github etc)? Will I alienate our users by going this route?
I haven’t opened your first link, second looks like pure conspiracy theories. Covid, China, Bill Gates, Epstein!!11

If you’re afraid of getting your DNA sequenced while doing PCR test, please read up on the process of test, equipment, materials and costs involved.
Sometimes I get a glimpse of my wife's email account ... And it is no surprise she doesn't use email.

She gets dozens of emails a day. None of them are spam exactly. Every single website you've ever signed up for your in your life sends out email "for engagement purposes". Drips, reminders, flash sales, weekly roundups.

A dozen different job boards from when she was looking for work a few years ago. Several dozen shopping websites. Four or five pregnancy apps. And more and more and more.

You could argue that normal, non-technical people should know better. That they should be vigorously jumping through hoops to cancel all those email notifications from services they no longer use.

Don't they know there's fine print (in light gray text!) at the bottom telling you how to unsubscribe? Don't they know there's a tiny button in GMail that will (sometimes) unsubscribe for you?

But I expect that my wife's email is like a lot of people's. It is almost entirely impossible to find any signal among all the noise in it.
>Don't put your wifi credentials into your TV

Amazon has a solution to this. If your tv is within wifi range of an amazon device, your TV will be able to connect to a network. It might even be your neighbors device.
Oh, I 100% agree. The companies are more than capable of preparing fixes in that time. I meant from the perspective of the end user businesses, even if they prioritize the patches (which isn't a given) these vendors take ages to fix anything.

And I mean, that's a part of why you release these vulnerabilities publicly anyway, to pressure them into fixing their crap. I just worry a bit that if the window is too small, they'll just shrug their shoulders and put out a PR piece about how the vuln isn't actually that big a deal or something.
Given that the majority of vaccines were invented in less-individualistic countries (including not one, but two that were developed in China, the first one from nonindividualistic Russia, and the more innovative ones coming from non-quite-as-individualistic Europe with Germany's Biontech-Pfizer or the british-swedish Astrazeneca), that is not a good argument.