skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When StyleGAN2 came out I played with the original NVidia training set for about a week - and when I say a week I mean I did nothing else, day and night, for a week - just exploring "seed space" to see what variety of faces would come out, trying to select for certain faces, etc... I had a grand old time with it, but what you discover in the end is that the models can not nearly generate every imaginable human face. For lack of better words I would say there was a certain "averageness" to the results. By the way beautiful faces tended towards Isabella Rossellini so apparently she has the "most average beautiful face" :) So for sure this generator has blown away everything that came before, but there is still plenty of room for improvement IMO. In the end what impressed me most was the hair. It does hair better than any other software that I know of.
Is anywhere getting better? It seems the whole world is either flooding or burning right now, it seems pretty bleak. Surely some places will become nicer places to live. My friend in Chicago said winters are getting milder but summers staying the same. Eastern Canada & Greenland maybe too?
"Of course"? You've got a link? Can you share?
You can still download the Pixel 2 images via getting the version from https://releases.grapheneos.org/walleye-testing if you really want to use it. There may be a final extended support release, but it's very insecure at this point and we won't be making those extended support releases for much longer.
It's not about terseness, it's about making easy to see patterns and what is going on. You probably learnt the distributive property in school:

a*(b+c) = a*b + a*c

Let's make that "more readable":

equals(multiply(a, sum(b, c)), sum(multiply(a, b), multiply(a, c)))

It's not about the terseness, I just don't see a clear pattern using the "readable" notation. But it is obvious when using symbols.

You can find another interesting example at: https://wjmn.github.io/posts/j-can-look-like-apl/
It doesn't actually hide apps with "anti-features", you can still see them by default. The only thing it does is hide the description and install button of apps with "anti-features" in the search screen. It seems like a half-baked feature.
I dabble in embedded development, mainly as a hobby and I mainly deal with e-book reader devices.

Let me tell you this, if a device doesn't need a certain binary or tool, it ideally shouldn't be there. For security reasons etc.
And with embedded devices with a specific purpose it's highly likely that there will be very little there.

But anyway, I was mainly saying that in principle this should be considered.
Somewhat offtopic, but the subject caused me to make a disappointing realization:

The most sure way for someone to obtain child porn images that won't trigger a hit in these known child-abuse-image databases would be for someone to take new photos.

Is there a reason we can be confident that these databases aren't creating a market for novel child abuse at a greater rate than they're taking abusers out of the community? Esp since presumably abusers are only a (small?) subset of people who view these images?
It would probably not be a great idea to destroy a perfectly fine ICE, though even that can in some cases be a win, if you drive very high mileage.

But that isn't the point. We should stop buying new ICE vehicles as soon as possible. So instead of buying a new ICE vehicle, which might be on the roads for another 10-15 years, rather drive your existing one a bit longer and then switch to an electric vehicle. Currently the manufacturing capacity wouldn't be high enough to go to 100% electric vehicles for new cars anyway.
I'm not really arguing that too much, since it's a pretty elaborate and finnicky thing ultimately, although I would wager to say that you could probably find patterns to recognize and modify clang/gcc/other relatively stable compilers for a long time to come (assuming no active mitigations against it)
Wouldn't you need a way to determine if an image you generate has a match in Apple's database?

The way it's set up, that's not possible: "Given a user image, the general idea in PSI is to apply the same set of transformations on the image NeuralHash as in the database setup above and do a simple lookup against the blinded known CSAM database. However, the blinding step using the server-side secret is not possible on device because it is unknown to the device. The goal is to run the final step on the server and finish the process on server. This ensures the device doesn’t know the result of the match, but it can encode the result of the on-device match process before uploading to the server." -- https://www.apple.com/child-safety/pdf/CSAM_Detection_Techni... (emphasis mine)
I have published 2 open source books by using Markdown.

Didn't have a publisher to deal with

Wasted 3months of my time with Apress who really wanted to publish my python book through them and then backed out after 3 months saying "OMG your book is similar to some of our books"

Ans their choice of formatting was strictly Word and they'd even given a word file template and I actually had liked that template!!

On another unrelated note, the pay they were going to give me was low. My Go book earned me much more than they were going to pay me upfront+royalty over 5yrs within 5yrs.
Why needlessly hamstring yourself by specifying that any solution needs to be done without any government involvement? Governments are difficult to work with and slow to get moving, but they wield a level of resources unmatched by any company. It'd be like insisting on transporting oil across the ocean but disqualifying the use of oil tankers beforehand because they are expensive and can't dock in every port.
I’ve heard no predictions though about what will happen to society.
In a wealthy society an abandoned child is the states responsibility, a country like India just does not have the resources.

So this falls on the society, so you get social restrictions.
It was just a „Cartoon with Chinese characteristics“!
Why do you think the author is convinced these people's lives suck? I didn't get that impression from the article. It describes their life. Some might have the reaction, "oh that sucks". Others might not.
On one of my relatively few visits to America, from my hotel room I could see the zoo less than half a mile away. In reception I asked the best route to walk there. There was a stunned silence and outright puzzlement, as if I had asked what trains I needed to catch to get to Patagonia[1]. No one was even certain it was possible.

In the end I worked it out OK, only having to wait at a level crossing for a seemingly infinitely long freight train to pass. The zoo had more food outlets than animals, but that's another story.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Old_Patagonian_Express (recommended)
And neither does producing child porn. Drawn child porn is banned in most countries.
Americans drive a lot more than Europeans, that's probably why. For comparison, I'm in Canada in my mid-20s and only pay CAD$700 per year, same as you (clean record).
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I think what you're missing from Matt Damon was the expectation created around the DVD release - imagine you have a huge advertising push for the theatrical release, that isn't easily forgettable for those who watched and those who didn't for quite some time.

And then months later there it was available for everyone to see at their homes (with yet another advertising push).

Like he said, the DVD release was like another theatrical release. You could own the film, or rent it and watch it twice if you'd like to - this may sound odd, but it was almost like a ritual. At least for me, renting a movie on Fridays was a whole process.

But it wasn't a chore, it was quite enjoyable. Sometimes frustrating because you were waiting for films for months before they were available... imagine as a kid wanting to watch some Diney or Pixar movie, it could be quite painfull after watching months of advertising for the movie, for toys and merchandising, for McDonalds Happy Meals toys, etc.

Things had a different cadence, a different rhythm, and probably things were appreciated differently.

Mind you I'm not saying "oh those were the days!", I'm saying it was different and apparently it was more profitable for movie makers.

But for me sometimes browsing movies to watch on apps can become quite boring, there's something about the "i want this now, a lot of it, and fast" that I can't quite put my finger on it. Probably delayed gratification plays a role on this.
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Please look at the comments being replied to from that user in this thread. They're spreading misinformation about GrapheneOS in order to promote CalyxOS. This isn't something isolated but rather than community is highly hostile towards our project and has been heavily involved in harassment of our developers, raids on our community and coordinated spreading of misinformation. Every time GrapheneOS or CalyxOS is mentioned, the CalyxOS community and project are there pretending GrapheneOS doesn't care about privacy and functionality/usability. We're only responding to the comments where this is being done. We didn't jump into this thread but rather they're choosing to attack us and bring us into it.
This is a straw man because that’s not what the cartoon was about, at least not according to TFA.
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When I passed 40 I started to get regular lower back muscle pain when sitting or standing for some time. I understand that hamstrings tend to shorten with age and pull on the back muscles, which can irritate the muscles and tendons there. Standard advice is to do hamstring streches. This is a form of torture as far as I'm concerned, I prefer lower back pain.

Somewhere I came across the idea that squatting could help. I started to squat instead of bending over or kneeling whenever I needed to gather up something or do some work at ground level, just a few seconds or minutes at a time. It took a few weeks before I could so comforably. The ankles and hips needed some time to adapt.

The lower back pain mostly went away over a few months. This was probably had the highest benefit to effort ratio of any health improvement project I've done.
> words that describe the inherent function makes reading the source A THOUSAND TIMES easier

I disagree. Using add instead of +, for example, does not make code more readable at all, on the contrary.
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It also isn’t to bully people into agreeing with you, regardless of what valid or invalid arguments they may or may not have.

I’d suggest reading the HN guidelines one more time: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The example I had in mind was the Volvo XC40. Gasoline model starts at €30k, electric model at €59K. More often than not you pay a huge premium for electric cars. I think the cheapest right now is the Nissan Leaf, but that's still a tiny car for a lot of money.

I just don't think electric cars make financial sense at all right now. All those car manufacturers saying they won't be making ICE cars within < 5 years anymore must know something I don't, but I don't see who's going to be paying that premium in the low/middle end.
The empowerment that you feel you once lent to Apple may no longer be part of their growth plan. Whether or not it actually mattered at the time.
Big tech has been disintegrating the foundational principles on which our society is built in the name of our society. Every one of their moves is a deeper attack on personal freedom than the last. They need to be dealt with. Stop using their services, buying their products, defending them when they silence people.
100% correct, and I think FreeBSD is woefully underrated.
'Nathan Myhrvold tried' is relevant to this topic as another example [1] of a submarine story:

> Myhrvold, who has a Ph.D. in theoretical and mathematical physics from Princeton, envisioned Intellectual Ventures as a merchant of ideas [patents], not a producer of products.

> Not everyone appreciated paying for something IV was just sitting on and not “productizing.” The company has often been accused of being a “patent troll,” squatting under the bridge of innovation demanding its tribute to cross; CNET once called it “the most hated company in tech.” Myhrvold defended his patent business in an article he wrote, headlined “Funding Eureka!,” in the Harvard Business Review in 2010, which just so happened to come out the month after his ted Talk on the Photonic Fence. Maybe that wasn’t a total coincidence: Being known as the guy who shoots down malarial mosquitoes with laser beams is, if nothing else, a good way to change the subject.

> The only problem was that if you listened carefully, it became clear that the TED demonstration was a little bit faked. Myhrvold swapped the invisible infrared laser used to fry the bugs in tests at the lab for a cool-looking nonlethal green laser pointer that aimed at a Lucite box of mosquitoes across the stage, targeting them for theoretical death. But, since he knew the audience’s insect bloodlust could not be disappointed, he followed up the nonlethal light show with those slow-motion kill videos of the more carefully stage-managed mosquito target practice filmed at the lab. One of the most vivid images was a close-up of an execution in which the mosquito was, it turns out, glued to a pin, disabling flight, to “control variables.” But the TED talk has now been viewed 847,000 times, and the crowd went wild, so it was easy to get carried away with thinking this was coming out soon. “We didn’t dissuade people from saying it’s ready either,” Makagon admits. “Or communicate with people how long it would take.”

> And so, over the last seven years, “it got lots of attention,” says Myhrvold. “Lots of people who would kick the tires a little bit,” without actually deciding to invest in it.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28093743
Again, it’s not just a “cartoon which has Chinese characters”. Stop pushing misinformation in obvious contradiction with available information.
> Two People created CopperheadOS, one of them now works on GrapheneOS.

No, that's not true. GrapheneOS is the continuation of the project by the original development team. There aren't any developers who stuck with Copperhead. The project was created 1 year before Copperhead existed as a company.

https://grapheneos.org/history

> The security mitigations developed for those were incorporated upstream into Android, decreasing the attack surface.

https://grapheneos.org/features is a list of the current features differentiating it from AOSP. It doesn't list the many things we've gotten into upstream projects, since they aren't differences anymore.
Not at all.

Want to develop for Apple platform?

Depending on which level of the stack, the painless option will be C++, Objective-C or Swift.

On Android it will be a mix of Java (slowly being left behind on purpose), Kotlin or C++.

On Windows, .NET (and in some cases C# or C++/CLI only due to the way MSIL gets exposed) and C++. You can also keep using C if your view of Windows is like Windows XP APIs.

On Fuchsia, it is all about Flutter, C++, Go and Rust.

On ARM Mbed and Arduino, C++.

On microEJ, Java and C.

On Meadow, .NET.Core.

Azure Sphere, C.

CUDA, C++, Fortran, Python JIT and PTX aware backends.

There are plenty of other platforms I could keep on listing.

Naturally you can try to fit something else, but then it is on you and others to build the ecosystem, work around support issues and lack of IDE tooling.
So we can fear monger all we want into forcing change in the west with alternative energy. But you can’t change how fossil fuels make things much easier and affordable in the rest of the world which is where a lot of the pollution exists at this point (India and China). To go through the amount of energy it takes to become a 1st world nation you need massive amounts of energy that is cheap to acquire and cheap to use. And right now that is fossil fuels. Alternative energy is a luxury.

Hopefully someday the tech becomes more affordable for poor countries and can supply enough energy for them to get through an Industrial Age.
Anybody else feel the chilling effect, wanting to sign this but unsure of future implications of doing so?
Does anyone really think of Germany as "bastion of free speech"?

It is one of few european countries that still have (actively used) anti-blasphemy laws[1] and laws against insulting foreign leaders[2].

[1] https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2016/02/27/in-rare-move-...

[2] https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/04/ge...
> 1. Vote with your feet - Put your money in the pockets of the people aligned to your values.

The sad reality right now is that we're actively suggesting that peoples stop buying smart phones, and I think that would mean that any argument will fall on deaf ears. Yes, projects like the PinePhone exists, but they aren't ready for the general public.

As much as I agree with your comment, the sad reality is that I have to pick between Apple and Google. Of those two companies I still trust Apple significantly more.
I used a double negative on purpose there :)
I'm currently considering a Pixel phone with CalyxOS. It might be the good in-between choice.
This is of course anecdotal but one of the reasons I never got into emacs is because every person I’ve met who was really into it was a pathological tinkerer. I’ve worked with people who got no work done in half a day because they were remaking their config for the third time, or reinstalling their Linux distribution.

I’m not trying to insinuate that all emacs users are like this but it brings me to the point of why I don’t want to learn it: sometimes the ugly way is still the fastest way, and if it works it ain’t stupid. For me, the more time something takes to get into, the higher the payoff has to be to make it worth it. For this reason, emacs has never seemed interesting to me, because it seems like the only people “saving time” in it are those that spent a decade learning it first.
Interesting takeaway: killer drones as depicted in that famous yt video are currently deployed in the libyan conflict and explored in the Gaza conflict
>these features are part of an “important mission” for keeping children safe.

The other mistake is to think that removing privacy with longing effects on society [1] and thus attacking the very fabric of a free democratic society respecting human rights would not make children any safer. When they grow up they possibly would have to live in concentration camps or Chine-like regime. It is very safe, but not sure it is very pleasant.

It's about values. It should be absolutely illegal to install any spyware on personal device without warrant

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28084578

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28096948
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No less than with a manual transmission car. I went 5 years before replacing the pads on my last car, with 150k km driven—not because they were worn, but because they were falling apart.
> Natural keys exist

They probably do, but everytime I thought something was good as a natural key, I've been wrong
That actual number is expected to be a lot higher. The number you're talking about is people that had issues and were diagnosed with it, the associated ICD9 is usually what is used in those statistics. Not too mention a significant number of normal doctors and older orthopedic surgeons never test for it, nor know how to test even though the test itself is very simple. Basically, a lot of intense sports, especially contact sports trigger the pain associated with it. But if you don't do those you'll never have symptoms, which is why the medical decision is mostly divided into two camps.

One of them thinks it's a genetic condition that always needs to be corrected or addressed and the other believes that most of people have it without ever exhibiting symptoms because, as I said earlier, their usage pattern never triggers any symptom.
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Don't know why you're being downvoted. Zero carbon emissions is firstworldism at its core. Climate modeling is the pinnacle of pop sci. The intersection is very frustrating to live in.
CCP influence in foreign universities is definitely a thing, at least under Xi (mostly aimed at Mainland Chinese students studying abroad, not Westerners directly).

It got to the point where a special taskforce was set up specifically to tackle this issue here in Australia; I'd be surprised if we were the only country experiencing this.
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> Quite surprisingly they also claim to have found a way to make convex a notoriously non-convex problem which, when you try to optimize it, typically yields local minima. Their claim to have transformed the problem into a convex one allows them to find the global minimum. I would have intuitively bet that this would not be possible.

I have not read everything but I think it's because the other representations (parametric and level set) are discrete in nature and thus allows only jumps from one solution to the other during the minimal surface search phase.

Here they approach the problem locally and their representation is continuous in space, allowing them to move from one solution to the other smoothly during the optimization step.

In the other representations, minimizing the surfaces implied to jump from one solution to another in a non-convex way, while here they can do a least squares optimization due to the continuous representation.
Is there a way to adapt this for the overweight?

It's not for flexibility that I can't get into a deep squat. It's because my belly and thighs don't let me compress far enough to be in a balanced position when I do. I end up being back-heavy and toppling over!

I'm working on the weight factor generally (down 30lbs this year!), but is there an adaptive way I can add this into my day to be slightly more active and receive the health benefits? Or do I just have to wait a bit?

If I squatted with my feet on a slight incline, that would tilt me forward enough not to fall backward, but would it start straining all the wrong places?
> I was pretty convinced that people were taking Copilot seriously

I think people used Copilot and realised it was a bit of a nothing burger.

> find a way to combat the real threat: life goes on.

That's the curse of the news cycle. But actions that do live on are monetary ones. When Apple miss sales targets, perhaps they will take note.

> Your three bullet points are wonderful, and I agree entirely with them. And it won't change a damn thing.

I think the last one is the most important, if each of us here can multiply the awareness of the problem, we can start to make real difference. Tech people have a massive influence over what devices ordinary people buy, after all, who will they go to for tech advice?

> I'm not sure what to do about it.

It's a tough problem, but what I do know is that doing nothing will 100% change nothing.
Synology [...] have "we update your box at our whim"

You can turn off auto-updates on the Synology devices I own at least (1815+, 1817+).
Thanks for that response, not weird at all. In fact the more I read, I understand what values feel right to me and am able to find groups / communities with the same values somewhere. This has in fact been one of my thoughts as well, perhaps with more time I should be open to explore living in a small community with shared values as mine.

> I don't regret thinking small.

Makes sense to me.
That seems like an issue with your MacBook Pro? I have used MacBooks since 2007 and I never noticed such issues (unless there is a process blocking sleep). With the T14 I immediately noticed it, with the same usage patterns as I had with the MacBook.