skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“Extreme steps”, whether they admit it or not, is a reduction in the standard of living of many and handicapping the efforts to improve the standard of living for most. That requires the power of the individual to be reduced to empower central authorities who will manage our new rationed, austere society.

That is, certainly, a recipe for catastrophic war.

If climate change is the existential crisis some insist it is, our only solution is technological. But those who wish to use climate change as a Trojan horse to enact their social whims will reject any discussion of the sort. Because solving climate change isn’t their goal, it’s the means to attain their goal.
Azure adds Actions on Ampere Altra Arm would be too much alliteration for me.
System design is relatively trivial if you know the colocation and interconnect requirements.
I do not think she is credited as a russian in Russia but rather for her books on Russia and her work as a journalist. I find her view interesting. If you belive she miss with her analysis I am very interested in your view. And if you have any serious references on the subject (not controlled by Kremlin) please share
King Shit
(I work for Palantir but any opinions are my own)

Palantir is not in the business of collecting data, and as such would have no use for this data.

Here's an official blog post explaining this: https://blog.palantir.com/palantir-is-not-a-data-company-pal...
I could totally see a friend spending 5mn explaining that his cost has gone up 300% when venting while getting a drink together. I don't understand why you're finding this so unbelievable.
"My God is the correct one."
What's the idea here? They quickly put out this to somehow hide other stories?
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Makes sense actually. Most people I think would just use one notepad text file per day I think but I can see the advantage of creating one text file per idea or note.
Mullen Automotive: Yet Another Fast-Talking EV Hustle
Funny. Has anyone done this on a celebrity AMA?
Verifying personhood in America is not even a problem. The tax authorities are in the process right now of sending money to many (most?) Americans in the form of income tax refunds. There is no widespread concern about those payments being fraudulent, despite the fact that they are specifically payments to individuals.
Just wait until they figure out music.
Also note you can make an image out of many spatially localized prompts combined, in an iterative IA-human process.
> We can now kiss-gone the security for embedded world and its IoT-related security brethren.

Is anyone using Debian for that kind of thing? When I hear embedded, I expect buildroot or at least Alpine Linux.
"original" isn't simply a verbose way of spelling "first".

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/original
I seem to recall an XKCD that I cannot find, but the premise goes like:

When you have a digital display of pixels, if you randomly color pixels at 24 fps then you will eventually display every movie that can be or will ever be made, powerset notwithstanding. This can also be tied to digital audio.

In short, while mind-blowingly large, the space of display through digital means is finite.
Impressive results no doubt, but I’m reserving judgment until beta access is available. These are probably the best images that it can generate, but what I’m most interested in is the average case.
They're also not censored on the dataset front and thus produce much more interesting outputs.

OpenAI has a low resolution checkpoint for similar functionality as this - called GLIDE - and the output is super boring compared to community driven efforts, in large part because of similar dataset restrictions as this likely has been subjected to.
Honestly seems the issue is something is preventing you from objectively observing and documenting your issue. This is the first step.

For instance, you have decided the issue is 'being boring' when what you describe is 'being bored'.

Another is you are making the successful roll out of the app the end goal, when there is no indication that 'being boring/bored' has anything to do with success of the app.

As an outsider going by the description of how you provided without taking the solution you provide for granted it seems...

You are bored/dissatisfied with your life, and you are bored/dissatisfied with the project you are working on, but (I think because you are trying to 'focus' and fight distraction) you don't want to admit this as the solution would be to change tack as its basically giving in to your lack of focus
Is this bringing us closer to combining image and language understanding within one model?
In my college, one of the more common MLM type things was getting recruited to travel to another state and do door to door sales of alarms and pesticides. With all the hallmark "You'll make a billion dollars!" types sketchiness. All structured as a standard MLM.
I went through building LineageOS for my devices for years, then switched to Pixel + GrapheneOS and have been extremely happy with my decision.

Unfortunately as you can see from these posts, there's a lot of in-fighting between developers and users, it's detrimental to everyone involved and drives away users, supporters, and other developers who would contribute but don't want to get involved in it.

Regardless of all the garbage surrounding these projects, the technical work behind GrapheneOS speaks for itself and is how I ended up selecting it vs the other options.
I wonder how much it's going to take before people realize that maybe a single server somewhere in the office running Jenkins isn't that bad of an idea after all. Unless you're Google, "scale" will inherently not be a problem, and risks of operator error can be reduced by scheduling maintenance at times where an accidental outage won't impact your business.
We've been with Buildkite since 2016, it's been a great experience, I really like the tool, and their team is amazing!
While I watched or read dystopian sci fi horrified at the twisted scenarios presented, these tech nerds on the other hand were furiously driven to be the villains in the story. I hope I'm wrong, but at least that is how it feels from the outside looking in.

And now people (lesser level of the same kind) flock to their companies to be edgy. Trust me guys I know it’s called $nameOfSomeEvilItemHeldBySomeEvilCharacter but don’t worry we’ll be using it for $randomBenignSoundingThingButReallyAScam
This is for their GPT models, not Dall-E. I don't think they have released any pricing information for Dall-E yet, as it is still in waitlist mode.
Using geothermal energy is surely a niche thing in Germany, yet. I've heard about two or three people who used it for their homes, but nothing large at all.

Here's a German article from two months ago on that: https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/geothermie-in-deutschland-roa...

440.000 installations so far, mostly surface-near (around 100 m depth).
Wait, how can you do it without any device numbers? Are they binding drivers directly to file names?
Well, one of my favorite painters is Henri Rousseau, and one of his great paintings is War, 1984:

https://www.henrirousseau.net/war.jsp

However, this painting has themes of violence and politics plus some nude dead bodies, so it violates the content policy: "Our content policy does not allow users to generate violent, adult, or political content, among other categories."

So what you'd get is some kind of sanitized watered-down tepid version of Rossueau, the kind of boring drivel suitable for corporate lobbies everywhere, guaranteed not to offend or disturb anyone. It's difficult to find words... horrific? dystopian? atrocious? No, just no.
This is true!

What I have learned is only to plan for the next order of magnitude from a sensible starting point. If you are creating a new e.g. AirBnB, you will need a minimim viable performance, let's say 1000 users at a time on the site. After that, you plan for 10000, then 100000 etc. You might get multiple orders of magnitude from the same improvements or changes but you only need to get one more step.

Why? Your team and expertise will be different in 3 years. You might get bought-out or a new thing might come along that suits your model really well. Eventually, you might have enough money to have an entire data centre with 100 support staff but you certainly can't plan for that on day one.
You can buy a snapdragon desktop, but it's really only spec'd out for testing: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/d/ecs-liva-mini-box-qc710-de...

On the plus side, they're pretty cheap.
What are they good for? The site mentions "automatic smallcaps typesetting". Why is that a good thing?

I can see they might be good sometimes but lots of them makes the page look busy.

And would you say that using lots of them is "minimalistic design"?
Yes, from my point of view, GTD does two things very right. One is separating the "defining work" from "doing work", the other is keeping contextualized task lists for "do this next time you are at that place, or meeting that person, or whatever".

And of course, both feel obvious in retrospect. I don't even remember if there is anything else in GTD, but the value I get from those is enormous.
Maybe I’m naive, but I see this as a coincidence. If it was an hour later, then maybe there would be something.
Good to know. This thread has been great. Wish it went up a month ago when I was looking in earnest haha but I like the OWC Thunderbolt Dock I picked up so I can't complain too much.
Yeah, its pretty unrealistic to imagine any zero-Carbon approach which excludes nuclear. But the greens would rather cover their eye/hears about that, and imagine that it can all be done with wind and solar (in northern europe of all places).
Does Github Actions run on Azure (yet)?
> Apathy is their weapon, and it's very effective.

Psychologically speaking, these tactics are approximately the same as the church's use of hell, in the sense of "fix your shit now, or else you're going to hell". This was very effective when the church held a huge amount of political sway + serious control over the media (no internet back then, people weren't even literate). It wont work nearly as well now.

Don't get me wrong--I'm no Homo Economicus fan, not saying people are fundamentally selfish--I just think people are fundamentally averse to change, to breaking their habits. The climate change leadership needs a new tactic. I'm totally in support of e.g. tax cuts and incentives for renewables, reducing carbon emissions, etc. Or other ways of raising awareness and taking action that give people what they want/need, right now, rather than being entirely concerned with an image of the future (that for many people with no families, no kids, no legacy, doesn't even exist).
just reduce everyone's standard of living.

that is where this is heading.
Title is wrong. The parliament doesn't have passed anything. And the article states that immediately at top!

The administration (Bundeskabinett) formed by SPD, GREEN, and FDP has decided they want to follow the draft plans worked out the ministry of economy and need to request the parliament to pass it. Furthermore Die Zeit is a recognized newspaper but with strong bounds into the SPD.
This is incredible work.

From the paper:

> Limitations
> Although conditioning image generation on CLIP embeddings improves diversity, this choice does come with certain limitations. In particular, unCLIP [Dall-E 2] is worse at binding attributes to objects than a corresponding GLIDE model.

The binding problem is interesting. It appears that the way Dall-E 2 / CLIP embeds text leads to the concepts within the text being jumbled together. In their example "a red cube on top of a blue cube" becomes jumbled and the resulting images are essentially: "cubes, red, blue, on top". Opens a clear avenue for improvement.
First, slow down - choose 1 or 2 topics at a time

Second, work towards the goal of "be an and" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30855775)

Don't limit yourself to just one thing, but do limit yourself to learning only 1 or 2 things at a time - and learn them as deeply (or shallowly) as you like (since no one is forcing you to do this (ie it's all voluntary on your part)). For a suggestion on how you might approach this, see https://antipaucity.com/2012/12/10/finding-your-niche/#.Yk2s...

It's as important to find out what you don't like as what you do like
I've been working with Unity with the intention of making a large open world, and so this was one of the things I deliberately experimented with and tried to quantify. I found I had to be several orders of magnitude farther from the origin to notice stuff like that, and frankly I was a little disappointed that it was so hard to reproduce. Is there a sample project or description you could share that would help people observe that? I would not be surprised if certain circumstances other than purely distance make it worse. For example, when I traveled large distances solely on the world X axis, I saw my meshes quiver only when the camera was also aligned on/orthogonal to the X axis (don't remember which one exactly.)
> This continues the policy of never listening to any actual Russians.

The problem is not the listening, is the constant stream of lies and denial that we hear.
OpenAI is one of the leading companies in AI that makes models with real world applications. I don't see their efforts as misdirected or futile in anyway. If anything I'm always impressed with their announcements because it's always mind blowing what their models can do!

The same technology that is drawing cute unicorns can be used for endless other use cases. Perhaps the PR side of the launch and the subject matter they show unveil their product is just that, PR.

It's like Apple Memoji thing (not sure if I'm spelling it correctly). You can think of as trivial and waste of talent to use their Camera/FaceID to animate cute animals based on facial expression, but that same tech will enable lots other things to come.
> Jetbrains products are only partially open source

You mean the repository at [0] contains code which is not licensed under an open source license? The only license mentioned at the root is Apache 2.

[0] https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community
Show HN: ProductDiv – A Website Editor for Developers
I've been working on a library for developing websites visually. There are many tools for building websites, but none that fit my workflow as a front-end developer, so I made my own! It is an open source library called ProductDiv and it lets you:

- Drag and drop any HTML template into your site.

- Change elements with utility classes you can customize

- Export clean HTML elements and copy into your source code.

- Use in any framework!

ProductDiv is developer-first, meaning the configuration for the editor lives in your source code. You can evolve the configuration as your project grows (as it inevitably will!). This lets you standardize design patterns and makes it easy to distribute high quality components to your team.

I published a demo at https://awestbro.github.io/ that includes Bootstrap 5 utility classes and some basic templates to experiment with.

I would love your feedback on UX and to answer the big question: Would you use this in your project? Why or why not?
They’re smaller problems with smaller edit windows, but still need answers, testing an implementation even if the edit persists 60 seconds.

For someone like Kanye, I’m sure that’s enough time to get pretty good traction.
Yes, especially given there's no actual product release, only a waitlist.

Easy to put together a marketing piece on short notice or potentially even push a pending marketing page out to production with a waitlist rather than links to production or even beta quality services.
I can't say what you might call "a very nice experience" only tell you what my experience was like for me. Maybe you have examples of a "real" sports car GUI which you were able to re-write in Bourne shell using your preferred toolkit ? An HPC application which was a real joy to maintain once you'd converted it from C to Java ?

That's the thrust of what's being discussed here, rewrites to another language, the__alchemist says they rewrote from C to Rust and it made their code "much cleaner and more explicit", Shadonototra insists this would happen for any language, and I opined (with some practical experience) that this just isn't so.
That’s pretty standard text in tech patent.

What exactly would it mean to file a patent “as a joke?”
It's ok...we're over provisioned on solar generation capacity. So it doesn't matter that it is night :P.
I think this statement is on point based on the article. Its important to differentiate even if the two things are related, you cant solve a problem until you can state and understand it.
Can I opt-out from ever seeing AI generated images please?
This is extremely interesting. We’ve had some amazing AI models come out in the past few days. We’re getting closer and closer to AI becoming a facet of everyday life.
Switching to LNG requires special infrastructure (harbours attached to the gas-network) - and there is not nearly enough of that in Germany right now, and it takes a long time to build.

So even if Russian gas COULD be replaced by LNG tomorrow, in terms of pure volume, it would still not possible to Germany to consume it.

Germany really screwed the pooch on their energy policy for the past 15 years...
I used to use a tier 2 carrier. Then we had the freeze / grid anomaly in Texas and it resulted in a lot of cell phone traffic. My wife who was on a direct plan with ATT was able to use her phone most of the time with little issue. Meanwhile I was on a tier 2 carrier and had nothing the entire time. Work's great until it doesn't.

I have a friend on the police/emergency responder ATT network (FirstNet) and he said he's NEVER had it slow down since those EIMIs get priority routing. I'm sure someone in telco network operations could explain this even better than I can.
This completely ignores the complexity of scale. For one given tweets up until now were immutable there are likely tons of systems with that assumption baked in that you now have to reevaluate/rework. Think caching layers and data storage. Do they need to store an audit history (I assume this requires a few different legal teams in different countries)? How does that scale? The picture is far bigger than the three main variables you mention.
Speaking of moving - isn't climate change supposed to dramatically increase the ocean levels thus induce flooding?

Politicians don't seem to have got that memo: https://www.realtor.com/news/celebrity-real-estate/peek-insi...

Or maybe they know the memo's are BS? It's always fun to compare what people say/supposedly believe to what they actually do.
I too, used to think that we'd be a species that would head to the stars, but it appears that will be just one of a long line of species that cannot get past the great filter of Fermi's Paradox.
I have been worried about climate change my entire life. I doom scroll news stories that show the coming disaster.

Recently, I stumbled onto this video [1] and have trouble refuting the data and claims.

Any experts that can explain what am I missing and why is this guy wrong?

[1] https://youtu.be/8455KEDitpU
This is a very good piece except for this part..

Did you know you can buy a terabyte of RAM for around $10,000? Even if you had a billion users, this would give you 1kB of RAM per user to work with

Not sure if the author is being facile..
Truly astounding that he was able to initiate and approve this change in only negative three days!
Yeah that comment is confusingly worded. I'm not a lawyer, but I do know that there is no explicit relationship between patent-ability and something being a trade secret. The important thing is just that patent applications are public, so once you file, your "secrets" are no longer secret.
See how many Canadians complained about carbon taxes on their recent fuel costs made me realize it's basically an impossible task -- especially considering we literally experienced the consequences of our actions in record breaking heatwaves, forest fires, and flood in the last 2 years
I've been looking at the NVIDIA Jetson [0, 1] devices for a while. They are marketed at machine learning, but they run Linux so it looks like I could use them for generic compute.

[0] https://developer.nvidia.com/buy-jetson

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/b2po26/nvidia_jetson...
You're probably right but if we start with a large reduction in livable habitat and food production, mix in a few pandemics driven by poor health and overcrowding, and consider that a situation that stressed makes nuclear war not so unlikely, then I'm not completely confident. Particularly if we get to the more severe outcomes around five or six degrees C.
To put it bluntly, because we don’t see value in those spaces.
Great article. I really enjoy using Notion's bullet lists to stay organized as a solo founder.
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If the Javascript code is running on your own computer then you by definition have authorized access.

By the same token, AT&Ts malicious pricing malware running in your browser could be construed of "unauthorized access" of your own computer, thus AT&T would be violating CFAA.