skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see any misleading links at all. It takes more clicks than it should to actually get to the download, but there was nothing malicious on any of the pages.
i think the results shown in this paper contradict your assertion:

https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content_ICCV_2019/papers/Abdal...

given an arbitrary face, we can find its embedding in the latent space of the model. this shows that the model has the potential to generalise to real but unseen examples?

on the other hand, i suspect you might be observing a bias in the structuring of the latent space.

thispersondoesnotexist.com likely samples the latent space with a gaussian or uniform distribution, and while the latent space may contain the full spectrum of possibilities, the density of semantically meaningful embeddings may be structured around the distribution of the training set rather than a uniform or gaussian.

i'm stretching my understanding of the topic in trying to convey this.
Stick it in my ass!

I LOVE covid!

Shove it down my throat! Oh yeh baby. Fuck me harder.
Yep, there's a natural rate of unemployment and a natural rate of housing vacancy. No surprises here. No One Weird Tricks to make housing affordable. Just good old supply and demand.
I'm not complaining about the dependencies, the program uses libraries to facilitate the development, it's fair

I complain about the size of the folder, and the insane amount of DLLs the program probably don't use
We had an accountant but he was unreliable. We then went for a big-four. A real headache: unresponsive, uninformed, sending tax forms at the last minute before the deadline, didn't reply to emails or questions, didn't look after us. They practically worked for the revenue service, and they were not. I also had to correct them on several occasions (I'm no accountant) when they wanted to apply VAT on a VAT exempted invoice. They'd also write documents blaming us for mistakes they made filling forms for social security and asked us to sign them (yeah, right). We at least used the passive term not to put the blame on them in the document.

We're moving to another one of the big-four, and we drafted a letter of mission to include protections of the things we suffered from with the first one. We'll see what goes. If it goes south, we'll move to another one. C'est la vie.
I agree requiring XML could have been a disaster. Still, the law seems to need to require more of we are to more meaningfully achieve interoperability. What's stopping companies from coming up with pathological data formats or generally making the data available but not easily available? Could the law specify some necessary characteristics of the data format? What if there already is a popular standard (http://fhir.org)?
A little dismayed that the sci-fi "tech futurism" attitude of previous decades is now a beaten, lifeless corpse. Opt-in health features that give you more control over your health? World-ending! But 20 years ago, we were imagining a little wristband-type machine that would be able to non-invasively and routinely analyse blood samples, detecting cancer a decade early, increasing human lifespans, etc.

This pattern is all over the place now. I get there's reasons for it, but let's take into account one thing: throughout history, the luddites/skeptics were rarely right in their apocalyptic predictions. People today may be deciding to drop all smartphones, avoid modern TVs, avoid modern computers and stick to a 2008 barebones ThinkPad, give up music streaming services and run their own email; i.e. refusing any of the time-efficiency gains technology gave us in the last decades and ensuring they'll spend much more time troubleshooting and maintaining tech, taking away from the precious, short time they have on this earth, all to what end?

That hypothetical person, who switches away from all corporate technology because of Apple's CSAM news, is now maintaining their own music library, turning music discovery from something that takes seconds, to taking minutes or hours. A pattern that'll repeat itself throughout their life if they're consistent.

But will Apple users be living in camps, in 2050, because the frog will finally be boiled by then? Or will none of these fears turn out to be real concerns, and CSAM-detection's (just using it as an example, since that seems like a catalyst for many here) errors will be extremely rare and rapidly corrected?

To me, the risk of dystopia is lowered not by those willing to burn it all down and give up modern society, it's lowered by the fact that modern society is too interconnected for these dystopian scenarios to unfold like a novel: laws will be passed, corporations will be pressured by social media campaigns, and the state of the world will remain "mostly acceptable" just like today. Why the endemic pessimism?
Coingraph 2.0.0: a real-time graph for cryptocurrencies
On a scale of 1 penis to ten penises how much penis does one have to suck to get a vaccine?
"It took four days for the Soviet navy to recover it. To everyone’s surprise – and their inestimable relief – the tortoises were still alive."

Today, this is all I wanted to know. The hoax part is good too.
Sweet, I've been hoping for good Linux TTS!
I just watched a 25 minute video [1] explaining the basics of the game. Looks interesting and extensive. Next I went to download this game, the zip archive is only 7.6MB! This is both impressive and a bit sad that more software isn't like this anymore.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMXFMjZu8j8
> The much better solution, SSR first with optional client hydration, takes more developer work and more cognitive overhead.

I would argue it takes less developer work and cognitive overhead if you're doing traditional SSR.
PENIS

PENIS

PENIS
Ask HN: Screen Sharing or Window Only?
I’m researching whether folks usually share their entire screen during video calls, or individual windows?

My personal experience is that sharing the whole screen is simpler and flexible (I can show anything without having to select another window), but it can cause privacy issues or make me look messy with icons around my desktop :)

On the other hand, picking a specific window is less flexible as I have to pick another window if the things I need to show up end in another window.

So, what do you typically do? Entire screen or window, why, what problems for each?

Thanks!
What would be really interesting, and possibly impossible to do, would be to get all the character designs that were rejected during the development process at the various studios. As has been pointed out in other comments, the GAN is generating some pretty boring variations of faces from source material that has been focus grouped and designed by committee to death before being released to the public.

I have seen some really cool and wacky designs in the hallways of DreamWorks, Blue Sky, Pixar, etc. during my time in the industry. I would love to get all of those designs into a training set as well.
Yes, I added commas at the ends of a few lines, which cues the speech engine to create more appropriate intonation and natural pauses. But parts of the second half of the poem are still not so intelligible in English
These things don't do diagnostics. They just give the user a heads up and suggest they see a specialist. The sky was already falling when they did that for atrial fibrillation, and there were lots of people claiming that it would submerge hospitals and doctors under a flow of false positive.

The sky did not fall, hospital managed just fine (before COVID, that is), nobody's precious heart rate data were leaked, and a couple of lives were saved.

These things gather metrics and suggest to see a doctor. They don't do anything like diagnostics, and they don't replace a doctor. It would just nudge someone to see a specialist, who would then diagnose according to their experience and the patient's symptoms. Noise is irrelevant here.
This reminds me of the distinction between entropy and complexity. A hot cup of water has high entropy, a cold ant has high complexity. Another example I've seen describes the transition between the low-entropy state of two different-temperature bodies of fluid in contact with each other, and the high entropy state when they've equalized: complexity arises in the mixing process, with convection and mixing.

Maybe spaghetti code is closer to being like entropy, and we should expect busy beavers to be more analogous to complexity. Busy beavers are kind of on the transition between terminating (low-entropy?) and non-terminating programs (high entropy?), and complexity arises between low and high entropy temporally... Not a perfect analogy I know, even if I knew how to describe it precisely.
"So you are saying that X is not worth it if X is crap?"

I am because it needs to be heard. Like I said, too many devs treat writing tests as a goal unto itself.
Out of about 1 million words in English language 50% probably belong to the nomenclature of more or less widely known chemical compounds. (Curiously, 'oxygen' and 'oxide' have different roots.)
https://allrgb.com/
This is a server SSD so the specs are sustained.
Sweden’s green dilemma: can cutting down ancient trees be good for the Earth
I enjoy the Bible myself but I don't think it fits in this context.

One might possibly make an exception for the Proverbs: it is a gold mine for productivity, but it is still not written in the (often) annoying form of modern self help.
On my T440p, the Intel and NVIDIA GPUs would show up via 'lspci'. I don't recall whether there were any BIOS options other than internal vs external display during POST/boot.
Surprised no one has made the connection that this score will be used to determine the extent of FSD is available to you, which seems a great solution to the scary mass-distribution of the vehicle-as-a-weapon approach.
For purists or nostalgic types, the church of ttd page still exists at https://nylon.net/ttd/. It mostly focuses on the old ttd for dos/Windows and ttdpatch to bring it a bit into modernity, but recently it also sprouted a section about openttd (heresy, so they say, but welcome and well worth it). All this is to be taken lightly :)

Also Transport Tycoon’s music is the absolute best.
As a person making a living from being the "GPU guy" - I definitely agree.

The ecosystem around AMD GPUs is quite small - and now that they seem to have abandoned OpenCL (possibly not their own fault though) - even that is put into question.

But things are bad even on the NVIDIA side. Example of how bad: I had to write my own C++ bindings for the CUDA runtime API (https://github.com/eyalroz/cuda-api-wrappers/). You'd think they would have that after 13 years of CUDA being available, right? Wrong. I repeatedly tried to pitch this to them, but they seem to suffer from the "Not Invented Here" syndrome (https://learnosity.com/not-invented-here-syndrome-explained/). This despite me having a lot of respect for people like Mark Harris, Bryce Lelbach, Duane Merrill et alia, and their work.

You're also rights about the "two kinds of brains" - or rather, it's not clear to me that the brains creating the silicon and the brains creating the software are in close enough cooperation.

By the way - it is possible to extract a pretty distribution of CUDA to justify run 20 lines of GPGPU code, from their installer. But they won't be bothered to package this nicely for you.
It doesn't seem to be as bad now, but there are definitely ads there. IIRC to download the desktop version you have to click trough 3 pages, and each used to have at least one ad only saying "download now" that looked like a convincing button.

_edit_

Example, every page used to look like that for years: https://forums.getpaint.net/topic/25741-fake-download-links-...
Google made a custom video encoder for youtube which further entrenches their monopoly. https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/google-alphabet/google-s...
As others have said, that's not the way a GAN should work. Regurgitating the training set is basically a failure mode that is actively avoided when the models are build and trained.

Looking at these images, and not familiar with how the underlying CG training set is made, I wonder if the original series itself has some comparatively small set of latent features - dimensions you could adjust when drawing the faces - that the model is just learning, so that newly generated faces are effectively the same thing as if one had changed whatever setting you tweak when working with the underlying tool.
> Yes but only authoritarianism can make big business kneel

I'd say this only applies within a capitalist mode of production.
The government can still get it with a valid warrant, though.

(Disclosure: I work for Google, speaking only for myself)
If state run housing was available I'd love to live there. Yes, it's possible that one implementation of this would be a two-tier housing market - that would be bad. But since I generally think that housing, being a basic human necessity, should be available to everyone - and there is no part of capitalism that protects people from homelessness in fact it's baked into the system, I think some socialism would be useful here.
I think bpytop is the previous version writtten in Python. btop++ is a cpp re-write
At that point, you might as well just make a shape-key based character creator.
> As it is customary, all the concerns you come up with in first 5 minutes after reading an article on the Internet were likely considered by people working on the project.

This is beautiful.
It’s basically astroturfing… domainturfing?

But I learned Google owns .dev so I don’t really trust any .dev sites now even though 3rd parties can register them now.
Parse, don’t validate. If you need a heuristic that accepts non-URL strings as if they were valid URLs, you should convert those non-URL strings to valid URLs so the rest of your code can just deal with valid URLs.

if (validateURL(url)) {
return url;
} else if (validateURL("http://" + url)) {
return "http://" + url;
} else {
return null;
}
I think this would be a major news story: I'm pretty sure it has never happened.

(Disclosure: I work for Google, speaking only for myself)
Used in conjunction with Apple Maps, they could start pushing people to take long drives off of short piers.
They should put vaults in Antarctica though.

Much safer, and the mainland Antarctica will not likely melt.
At least Nightly is the superior version of Firefox, so it’s an upgrade.
Teenage boys reveal themselves as brains behind CovidBase AU website
My history may be off, but I believe that the Chinese named their country 中國 because they believed themselves the center of the world. Much like how the Romans named the Mediterranean (which means “middle sea”). The primary meaning of 中 is “middle” and it gains the meaning of “inside” by the geometric implication of the insides of something being that thing’s middle.

中國人 is a specific term of nationality. Likewise with 美國人. But 外國人 is different—it is defined only in relation to something else, as The Other. That’s fine in the context of passport control where your nationality matters, and you need to be in the foreigner line. But it’s not okay when we all live together in the same country, speaking the same language and with our kids in the same class in school, and you still refer to me as The Foreigner. Do you see the difference?

Interestingly, A LOT of mainlanders don’t know to line up in the 外國人 line when they go through Taiwan’s passport control, and they get upset when they are told to switch. It happens literally every time I’m in the airport (at least pre-pandemic). I don’t know if this is a dialectical, cultural, or propaganda problem, but it seems related.
The best game in the "transport simulation" genre that i've played would probably be Transport Fever 2 (https://www.transportfever2.com/), because it not only looks better when compared to everything else out there, but the UI also feels really streamlined.

That said, OpenTTD is also amazing because it's free, has a lot of lovely content and definitely provides plenty of replay value, in addition to not requiring a beefy computer (unlike the aforementioned game).

Some other similar games that people might enjoy:

- Simutrans (https://www.simutrans.com/en/) is another transport simulation game, which has a lot of different tilesets, but the actual gameplay of which seems to be a bit less enjoyable than that of OpenTTD and others, though it's also freeware
- Mashinky (https://www.mashinky.com/) is an indie game that mostly focuses on trains, but also is in 3D and looks pretty good, like Transport Fever, though some people say that the economy in the game is a tad odd

I've also heard of Cities in Motion and Railway Empire, though haven't played them myself.
Tiny pools of high-priced, high-density studios and single bedrooms in a country where restaurants are forced to close for years now? Yeah, rents dropped maybe 20% for a year.

Widespread, affordable, high-density 3- & 4-bedroom units in South Korea where people will wear masks? Still occupied.
I knew even before I opened this thread up in my rss reader that it would be flagged (I don’t see a flagged indicator until I open it). The irony is that seeing the almost immediate flagging of lab leak content on here makes me lean even further into the plausibility of the lab leak theory. Simply because of the active censorship campaigns against it.

There is nothing in this article that even rises to the level of misinformation. Flagging is an overt attempt to simply hide the eyeballs from it.
Does anyone here recommend a modern-ish guide to GRF/settings/Gamescripts?

It seems like there are so many features like CargoDist/FIRS/City growth - many of which are "essential", but don't play well together, or have questionable balance.
I don't think SSR is that big of a deal these days with faster phones and data plans. You get more returns focusing on bundle size, code splitting, and time to first paint.
> However, future generations would need at least some level of technology - a camera and some compute capabilities.

It does kind of make you wonder - what is the data that is worth backing up in a really futureproof manner? If we keep our tech level, we’re probably not going to need to relearn how to make semiconductors. If we do not, we probably have bigger concerns than what a user with the nick rebuilder said on a nerdy forum in the year 2021.
Spaghetti Code: using a 1000 lines of code where 100 will do.
This is exactly what I've been needing for years. Finally, good work!
But this is not being done by the rest of the tech industry, it is being done by Apple, specifically, who have a record of behaviour with medical data that, as far as I am aware, is spotless.
When there is an indication, then it's already too late.

The trust you have in the system is not the trust I have.
It's easy to say you'd be happy to live in a housing project when there is no prospect of you living in a housing project. Meanwhile, the home values of the people advocating for "socialized row housing" continues to appreciate as they advocate against the building of new mixed-income market housing. Pretty convenient.
Malware can set that config option without consent.
> But that’s because there wasn’t widespread acceptance that there was a shared social cost.

If they were taxed high enough to offset that shared cost completly or even more than that it would be fine.

... but that doesn't seem to be the plan here.
MongoDB Atlas offers a fully managed M0 instance with 512MB of storage and shared RAM for free. You can choose among AWS, GCP or Azure and the region. I use this or the Firebase Firestore free tier.
> So why do I make an exception in this case, favoring the state government’s nullification of local government rules?

I had this same reservation, but that is looking at it the wrong way. The US constitution's 1st amendment isn't central control, it is a human rights guarantee. Liberalizing restrictions on housing is likewise not central control, but shoring up property rights against local deprivation.

Japan had a housing crisis in the 1980s, but they pulled themselves out of it by massively liberalizing zoning and other restrictions on home construction, at the national level. Today families earning median incomes in Tokyo can afford to buy homes. That is something not true of San Francisco, New York, London Paris, etc.

https://archive.is/pVrex
You can simultaneously make land a good investment and housing affordable by supporting infill densification.
Programming is a fun activity, but whether it is possible to have a lucrative career doing only programming is debatable. It's usually the case that you can maintain an upward trajectory in your pay only if you shift to the management track, not to mention the increase in your longevity.
As someone who is new to the genre, what is the goal of these games? How can you 'win'?
TL;DR we don't know
1) ...but I can only assume you realise they are sensitive to political pressure which again derives from public opinion which is controlled by the media...

2) ...but it generally is just that, inflationary. The fact that there can be exceptions to the rule does not make the rule less valid.

3) ...and inflation is also used by governments to provide funds (by "printing money" in some way or other, the actual implementation depends on how the currency is regulated) which otherwise would be provided through taxation, leading to inflation and as such reducing tax payer's purchasing power - just like taxation does.
La Palma volcano: Thick clouds of smoke billowing from eruption – LIVE
I think we need to change our attitude towards money.

People hurt each other without intending or realizing it, because it's hidden behind this abstraction called "money".
It's still buggy, but the latest Pinta (v1.7) is WAY less buggy that what you'll typically get from your os package manager.
There's actually a standard for it these days.

https://url.spec.whatwg.org/#url-parsing
I don’t think you’re wrong that there’s a solution that the free market would provide (maybe not yours but I’m a believer in the invisible hand). However, that’s no good for preventing another situation like this in the long-run and there’s no benefit to allowing renting other than destroying the environment and shifting some bank account numbers. This is all separate from high-efficiency renting (i.e. apartments) because that uses the land well.
I think I owe an explanation.

Ferrari making all of the parts of the car they can is not about nationalistic pride, it's about control.

They make a luxury product and want to control everything about it.

Ferrari's pride has always been engines and an electric engine is made by motor+batteries.

Of course compromises are made, of course they don't manufactur absolutely everything, but Ferrari batteries are a plus for premium customers, just like Tesla batteries are what people buying Teslas want in their cars

People owning Ferrari also own the leather bag set specifically made to fit that model.

An example

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/174824008379

of course made in Italy, Schedoni is based in Modena, where Maranello is.

It's part of the experience.

Apple is considered the Ferrari of computing because the majority of their customers only own Apple devices and accessories and wouldn't want anything else, especially if they are cheap off the shelf alternatives.

They live the Apple experience in full.

And Apple can offer it because of vertical integration, they are making their own CPUs for the same reason.

How long did it take to Apple to make it happen?

If Ferrari starts assembling core components from multiple retailers, it's not a unique custom made piece of ego anymore (and a show off of incredible crafting abilities if you ask me, a piece of art some would say), it's "just a fast car"

I hope I've explained myself better.

Anyway, I also think that the argument is somewhat silly from Italian politicians, but I can understand why they are pushing for it.

Nothing says made in Italy more than a Ferrari.

It's the most popular Italian brand in the whole World.