skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been learning about this stuff for about a year now. Your earlier experiments with learning to drive in GTA V were an inspiration for me - because they hit that perfect intersection of machine learning, accessibility in education, and just plain cool.

The pandemic hit and Open AI had released DALL-E and CLIP. I was unemployed and bored with my Python skills and decided to just dive in. I found a nice gentleman named Phil Wang on github had been replicating the DALL-E effort and decided to start contributing!

You can find that work here

https://github.com/lucidrains/DALLE-pytorch

and you'll find me here:

https://github.com/afiaka87

We have a few checkpoints available with colab notebooks ready and there is also a research team with access to some more compute who will eventually be able to perform a full replication study and match a similar scale to Open AI and then some because we are also working with another brilliant German team https://github.com/CompVis/ who has provided us with what they are calling a "VQGAN" (if you're not familiar) - which is a variational autoencoder for vision tokens with the neat trick from GAN-land of using a discriminator in order to produce fine details.

https://github.com/CompVis/taming-transformers

We use their pretrained VQGAN to convert an image into digits. We use another pretrained text tokenizer to convert words to digits. The digits both go into a Transformer architecture and a mask is applied to the image tokens in the transformer so that the text tokens can't see the image tokens. The digits come out and we encode them back into text and image respectively. Then, a perceptual loss is computed. Rinse, wash, repeat. Slowly but surely, text predicts image without ever having been able to actually _see_ the image. Insanity.

Anyway, taking a caption and making a neural network output an image from it has again hit that "perfect intersection of machine learning, accessibility in education, and just plain cool". I don't know if you could fit it into the format of your YouTube channel but perhaps it would be a good match?
Is there an online interface where i can try this myself?
It's more like a writer using an autocomplete tool to write the first chapter to their novel.
> I’m going to write my own mail server.

Fantastic news! An email server that would be as robust, self-contained, and simple as SQLite...
Probably because minorities like myself don't like being pandered to.
No, more like

"I live an exceptionally wasteful lifestyle, pin all the blame on other groups, and deflect any responsibility for my direct participation in excess of what is needed for a reasonable standard of living."
>The linked article is an example of the market self-regulating.

This is incorrect. Amazon controls the market, as the indie contractors are created out of Amazon's pockets, and Amazon solely determines the operational practices, business demand and contractual rules.

If you, by "Free Market Self-Regulation", mean "Monopsony Risk-Arbitrage by a Multinational Giant" well, now I'm on board.
Taxing billionaire can generate additional revenue, bit it is nothing compared to corporate taxes.
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Ben has a camera in his apartment’s peephole and it takes a picture whenever he returns home. This site documents those incidents.
> And people w/o formal education isn't really a minority group.

They’re a minority / highly underrepresented in other highly paid professions (law, medicine, finance). That’s something that IMO makes tech a truly exceptional industry!

(Technically, women aren’t a “minority” either.)
As a European right winger, I find it strange how group identity, which is important to us, is valued by left wingers in the USA.
I work in a US company that has an African American VP of diversity and they regularly post in a diversity focused slack channel. The responses are 95% white people posting platitudes and saying how great the VP is. They do however force people being interviewed to answer on the spot diversity / anti racism questions that really almost no one is prepared for, forcing people to just make up answers to check a box. Seems forced.
Having a pet isn’t vegan.
lot of marketing shit with no substance. no thanks
> [...] no matter how many ISO revisions it will still have, lack of safety due to C copy-paste compatibility will never be fixed.

Okay, no idea how that's relevant to "built-in decimal types" vs "library-defined decimal types", but if it makes you feel better, you can do the same in Rust or Python, two languages which are "modern" compared to COBOL, don't inherit C's flaws, and which enable defining custom number types/classes/whatever together with convenient operator overloading.
I imagine a trillion of these floating along the coast of the western United States, little landing pads (and solar powered charging stations) for a trillion drones that can move the freshly desalinated water from the ocean to the nearest forest fire. You need a drone cloud 500 million strong to deliver 100 million gallons of fresh water to X location immediately? No problem. Need a drone cloud to water your 20,000 acre vineyard? Coming right up. Who needs clouds?
Is this any worse? Maybe not. Is it better? Absolutely not.

This kind of tool will only further entrench the production of mediocre, bug-ridden code that plagues the world. As implemented, this will not be a solution; it is a express lane in the race to the bottom.
https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/127330116441995264...
Why haven't they at least set up something temporary?

Yes, just spin up e-mail addresses for 400,000 people in 177 countries. No problem. Just run it on a Raspberry Pi in the basement.
I wonder if Amazon will start stores and do click to collect. Maybe the front half of a warehouse or something. Maybe you'd get some money for bringing your neighbors package back with you.
All the otherwise smart people on this website who still defend meat is priceless.
Good point. I also really shouldn’t say strain is unitless, just a case where the units happen to divide out.
best case for humane animal farms are those for health. When it can roam and forage, the meat quality is much higher. I find factory pork tastes weird....

A lot of illness comes from vitamin D deficiency. When the animal had a lot of sun, the vitamin D from the animal ends up in the fat.

And lastly, if everyone had a pig, we wouldn't throw away so much food. Instead we would add it to the pigs diet and convert waste back to good protein.
Dr Robert Malone got censored for speaking out about some of the research being done on Covid Vaccines, including having his name wiped from the Wikipedia article about the invention of mRNA tech and having his premium LinkedIn account deleted. Enough to make a person suspicious...
I'm partially in the same boat there... but I also see that most other brands do the same thing in perhaps a different variation.

Generally most of them just shift the problem around; i.e. for Samsung devices you can sometimes have good access to OEM replacement parts, but support and lifecycle in general is so short that it doesn't really matter in the long run. Or sometimes you get both but the performance is bad. Or you get both and good performance but the price is bad. Or everything is 'just right' about the product, but then the platform is lacking and there is no buy-in from the larger community or consumer market.

Sometimes it seems there is no 'total' solution, except in a few niche markets.
I tried doing a strict vegan diet for about a year and found it was endless misery for me. I could never get adjusted to it. There was a constant feeling of torture and self-flagellation.

Staying vegetarian is easy enough because it didn't take long before the concept of consuming animal flesh started to repulse me. Even after about 6 years I still feel occasional impulses, probably because I grew up on southern BBQ, but it's really small and easy to pass.

So here's what I will say about this. Not everyone's dietary choices are rooted in ignorance. Everyone has different bodies; different hormones and chemistry; different synapses. All we can ask is for everyone to try eating mindfully at minimum. That alone is a great start and will make a huge impact.

As for how we feed our pets, I agree with this article, and I'll add pets have such short lifespans, and very few needs, the least we can do is try to give them the highest quality version of the few needs they have. For better or for worse, my cat is a spoiled princess because of this.
We are almost all descendants of slaves. The issue is not if … it’s when Your descendants were slaves.

Not sure anyone can speak for all Slavic people. However, just because someone complains about something doesn’t mean it didn’t happen to others.

Can you name a city in the world that doesn’t have some sort of racial, religious, economic or other form of segregation?
Phase-In Codes (2009)
OP here. Not sure about other people posting it but it’s a pretty well known interview. What makes it propaganda? Do you have a better source for what the IC communities of other countries are doing to weaken our institutions than a defector from a rival country? What do you think our very own CIA does with the opaque budget we provide it with every year?

The same thing. They do the same thing. Don’t turn a blind eye to it.

Also the Assange case is near and dear to a lot of people. It’s evil what’s happening to him. And the only reason it continues to happen is because of the silent consent of people who really probably have no idea what our intelligence agencies are doing and because of the cultivated ineptitude at some of our important institutions.
That would make the drivers Amazon employees so they'd no longer be able to use the "it's not us, it's the delivery firms" defense.
> United Russia is absolutely not Communist, statist yes, communist no.

At some point they were 90%+ ex-CPSU members, and somehow they are still not communist?

90% communist, and still not communist? Well, lets call them 10% non-communists then, if you want.
> The code transparency file does not verify resources, assets, the Android Manifest, or any other files that are not DEX files or native libraries contained in the lib/ folder.

> Important: The Android OS does not verify code transparency files at install time, and continues to rely on the APK signing schemes for verification of any installed APKs.

This is like having checksums in a Readme. If nobody checks them (and that's the likely case, since the OS doesn't), it doesn't matter if they differ from the distributed files.

It's still the case that Google is taking over the code signing roles, so that the user's OS will no longer tell the difference between a developer signed update and a Google signed update. This is a negative for security and transparency, regardless of the size benefits and regardless of the fact that the Apple App Store has operated in this fashion since the beginning.
Gosh, I'm tired of MDPI emails asking for reviews in 10 days, or asking for papers, etc. They are terrible.

I also made the mistake of reviewing for them once. It was a very easy review, as the paper (also mathematics) was absolute crap, and I said as much. It was published anyway, and now I'm definitely on a list. My spam box slowly accumulates more and more MDPI emails.
Yes the linked article is the opinion of one person. One person with a proven track record of maximising the conversions from landing page visits.
One of my recent revelations was when I told my teen children "... a company like IBM".

To what they said "what is IBM??"

They know all the large tech companies but that one was a surprise to them, they had a look at Wikipedia and said "ah yes, it was a great company in your times".

Time to get some wine.
Stock is down 4%
Thanks for the response, suddenly this makes it very interesting!

I wish K-9 had snooze-email, it's the one feature (non-standard) I use a lot
set him free - who gives you the right to enslave "your" dog?
Maybe scrap the leadership principles and start over instead of thinking an additional amendment will but you good faith in the community of workers that your company habitually shits on and abuses.
Can you dictate to plaintext (notepad?) and use an oral markup - if punctuation is the problem - like saying "bang" for "!". Then parse your input, cut-paste into the IDE.

It seems very niche, which is why I'm not surprised not to see mention of it in the docs?

Why did you see it as particularly curious that VS and Dragon weren't setup for interoperability?
> https://www.mail-tester.com/ is a useful tool for testing.

This is great! Thank you!. I scored 2.7 out of 10. I'm using NameCheap's Private Email service. What a waste!
Dogs at least can easily live happy, healthy lives on a plant-based diet. It isn't cruel at all, as long as you're feeding your pet all the vitamins and minerals they need.
Maybe to show how this prediction came out to be wrong ? Or right ? I don't know I didn't read it.

But At the very least it needs "2014" in the title.
Perhaps a bird strike?
The act does define the word initiate, but it defines it to mean what the person who originally sends a message does so they can exempt relays. It's not originating or transmitting a message if you break off the connection before a message is fully transmitted.

> The term "initiate", when used with respect to a commercial electronic mail message, means to originate or transmit such message or to procure the origination or transmission of such message, but shall not include actionsthat constitute routine conveyance of such message.

I also don't think (but with less certainty) that what isn't fully sent counts as a message, as the primary purpose is verifying if the address exists. Message is defined as

> any electronic mail message the primary purpose of which is the commercial advertisement or pro-motion of a commercial product or service
You are getting some jeers but many consumers have made big lifestyle choices like this because of feeling the responsibility, so it's not useless, even though it's limited compared to collective decisionmaking.
The similarity between human and chimpanzee DNA is about the same IIRC.
I don’t think we can solely blame big oil companies.

People love gas powered planes and cars, and they love plastic even more. They choose to buy these things, and without them oil companies wouldn’t be profitable.
Returns are a nightmare in practice. I ordered a jacket from the manufacturers website and had to return it because it was stained on arrival. Unfortunately for me, their courier of choice is on the wrong side of town for me, and only has one drop off office open between 9 and 5 Monday to Friday.

This was also over the Christmas period, so when I returned it I was asked to pay customs charges (thanks brexit), and it took the guts of a month from the initial order to refund.

You don't know in advance whether you're going to have that sort of experience with a manufacturer, or whrther it will be easy, but with Amazon they accept returns at a post office and you send it to your own country which skiets all the issues above.
Sham Surveillance Safeguards vs. Tucker Carlson
Show HN: Fabform.io an Alternative to Google Forms
He's going on a short couple of minute joyride that's equivalent to being launched in a cannon straight up.
Over the last 50 years capitalism has gotten everything it wanted - extremely free trade with minimal tariffs, international agreements on IP and corporate law, and the freedom to offshore production to any number of less-than-democratic states where labor is cheap. And you're saying that this capitalist utopia is the result of soviet infiltration? That's a little hard to believe.

All of the media organizations discrediting and debasing themselves are private companies who prioritize ROI above anything else. They're not run by bureaucrats, but by amoral capitalists. The universities themselves are also increasingly run "like a business".

It takes some serious blinders to look at the consequence of 50 years of free market maximalism and say: "This is the work of the communists".
Yep, if you contact them about it they'll provide you with more info. Both CardDAV and CalDAV will be available, documented and all, to the public in September/October. When I emailed them earlier today about it (pure coincidence) they gave me the necessary info on CardDAV and also directed me to a post[0] made by another beta tester explaining both DAV services in more detail.

[0] https://www.billdietrich.me/SecureCommunication.html?expanda...
Looks like Copilot is smart enough to understand its own licensing situation. It should continue to suggest this for any empty file.
I'm the vegan in this house, not the dogs. Just this morning on my daily pre-WFH walk I was reminded that many non-humans eat other animals (crows aren't quick about it, either) and that they do not share my ethics, nor should be expected to. Enjoy the canned rabbit, Rover.
I haven't seen anyone mention this issue for some reason, but in fetch_tweets.py:

fetch_tweets_from_user(user_name):
...
tweets = api.user_timeline(screen_name=user, count=200, include_rts=False)

'user' isn't defined, should be user_name, right? Side note, 'copilot' is a decent name for this (though copilots are usually very competent, moreso than this right now). You must check the suggestions carefully. Maybe it'll make folks better at code review, lol.
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Sure - my main point was that reinforced concrete will fail concretely and not only theoretically unless maintained. I was not suggesting it could be replaces.
Oh I think there's some confusion here: for your own domains it doesn't cost anything extra, so go nuts with addresses.

Purelymail also has some domains you can use like I can get "koselig@purelymail.com" and then I'm charged in the 7 letters tier for it.

At least that's how it's been for me as a happy user of PM for the past year and a half.
I agree. I think a polite mode for Alexa would be great.
This article explained a lot to me about why people purchase these types of things.

https://newrepublic.com/article/147192/modern-art-serves-ric...
Oh look, it's the dumb, comma-style, title
When it comes to social issues, the republican party is typically more in line with international norms, whereas the democratic party is far far to the left.

People will mock this sentiment perhaps, but it's true. Take the polarizing issue of abortion for example. If the USA had the same abortion restrictions as Germany, you'd likely see the GOp drop most of its prolife stuff. Right now, the democrats are very extreme on abortion and other social issues compared to international norms.

It's why places like France are now also explicitly condemning american leftism despite nominally and fiscally being far to the left of the democratic party too.
Perhaps because the summary is inaccurate? They also include more auditors, more support personnel, more reporting requirements for financial institutions, and more regulations on tax preparers.
> I would say, everyone should listen to the environmental scientists.

I am fascinated by the people who claim, “well those scientists are just saying that for the money”. They plainly have no idea what the financial life of a research scientist is like.
Are these based on self-identification? How do you account for that in the analysis?
Hi! I'm not a veterinary nutritionist, but I did used to teach metabolic biochemistry, and I spoke to a few veterinary nutritionists before putting my own dog on a vegan diet. Dogs are omnivores, so there are many vegan diet options dogs can live on healthily and happily. We like to think of dogs as friendly wolves, but they evolved a significantly different metabolism to co-exist with humans. I use a combination of Wild Earth and Bramble. Cats are obligate carnivores, so they require some chemicals (most notably Taurine) that don't naturally occur in plants. But there's no strong scientific barrier to us creating vegan cat diets through supplementation in the near future.
If you do this search you'll see that the text of the act doesn't support what smileysteve says. See my other comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27713089
weather =! climate. If climate change is real, which I believe it is, it is a decades or centuries long process. A temperature fluctuation in a single season in a single region is does not prove or disprove climate change. So the passage of 6 or 7 years does not really have much bearing on the article's relevance.

It is fascinating to me how people assume pseudo-religious extreme stances on things like climate change or covid.

I believe both are real, both can be deadly on the margins.

However i don't believe either poses or posed an immediate existential threat to civilization and I do suspect that either mass hysteria or rent seeking guised as mitigation attempts are both more likely to cost society more than the harm they purport to mitigate.

Just like with covid it is likely we will incur great costs in ineffective mitigation of something that was overhyped and won't stop the bad thing regardless.
The original code was attempting to set a single form field named "text", while actually allowing that text to control the whole form being submitted.

This is a security risk, because form requests can mix trusted with untrusted inputs. (Trusted: e.g. the action selected from a drop-down. Untrusted: e.g. another user's text or name, or an entity name decoded from the initial URL.)

So, sticking with the "moderation tool" example, you could make a moderator execute an unintended moderation action when they interact with your carefully-crafted username.

The article showed that a piece of vulnerable frontend code was generated. Most commenters instantly dismissed that as an irrelevant concern and instead talked about securing the backend. Yes, you need to secure the backend. You need to protect against XSS. Neither of those fixes the problem that was shown in the code.
Is this sarcasm? I fail to understand how taking a dog from a loving household into scrounging on the streets is at all an ethical solution.
That's the speed of light in a vacuum. The speed of light in fiber optic is slower.

Travelling half of the distance is not good enough, because if you haven't received _confirmation_ of the purge, then you can't trust that it really happened. There could be network errors, etc.

Sorry but it's not physically possible to do a global purge in 150ms.
> your dog's consumption of meat is ethical

If eating meat is wrong, why does it matter whether it's a human or a dog doing it?
O & G industry aren't dictators, though. People willingly buy and even demand their products. That is very different from coming to power and deciding to kill some outgroup out of hate.
Blackbird works because of the friction between the wheels and the ground. On the water you don't have that, so I don't expect it to work.
I don't think anyone is suggesting vaccines are the end all-be-all regarding the pandemic. Vaccines are the first line of defense, with treatments being for those who still manage to get sick. These treatments aren't an alternative to vaccines, they are a complement.

That's like saying seatbelts are an alternative to traffic laws.
ex-IBMer here, product side: GTS sometimes had better private pricing and incentives for products from competitors that other business units couldn't match due to internal pricing policies.

Now try explaining to the customer why IBM is recommending an IBM's competitor while IBM is also offering the same product with a better price directly to the customer. It doesn't make sense at all.

Consider two service-focused business units (GTS and GBS) that sometimes are complementary but mostly adversarial and it is chaos for the customer.

Spinning-off GTS (and I dare say, GBS too) is better for the customer and for the product business units.