skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean not really, even a layman non-artist can take a look at a generated picture from DALLE and determine if it meets some set of criteria from their clients.

But the reverse is not true, they won't be able to properly vet a piece of code generated by an AI since that will require technical expertise. (You could argue if the piece of code produced the requisite set of output that they would have some marginal level of confidence but they would never really know for sure without being able to understand the actual code)
I think we'll never know because the way our brains are wired. If you ask yourself "what's the origin of reality", there are 2 kinds of answer:

1. Our reality has been created by someone or something. This could be God, or some civilization that lives in an upper reality (so we are being simulated), it could be randomness, anything. The point here is: something started the fire.

2. It has always existed. No beginning, no end.

Now, answer 2 is something we (humans) can't grasp; our brains can't think of something that has existed forever. Imagine no beginning at all... that's hard to grasp (if not impossible), I think.

Answer 1 is just a "local" answer. The immediate follow-up question would be: "so who created our creators?". And again, the same two answers apply. At the end of the day, answer 2 seems the only answer I can imagine (because answer 1 just starts a loop of questions/answers that is never stopped).

Edit: I'm not talking here about the origin of our universe. That can be discovered just fine. I'm talking about reality as in: the reality of everything.
By 2025 probably the majority of new cars in Europe will be electric and by 2027 >80%. After that the share of electric cars in the fleet will increase by about 4-6% every year. Almost complete electrification will probably take until 2040.

If robotic cars take off and people stop owning cars in larger numbers, things might be faster. Also old combustion cars might still exist, but these are often cars that are not moving a lot.
How do you run such a Google Colab thing?

I don't see a run button?

On.. maybe "Runtime -> Run All" from the menu ...

Shows me a spinning circle around "Download model" ...

26% ...

Fascinating, that Google offers you a computer in the cloud for free ..

Now it is running the model. Wow, I'm curious ..

Ha, it worked!

Nothing compared to the images in the Dall-E 2 article but still impressive.
I've been yammering about this for months and years here and other places and somehow missed it — THANK YOU for sharing, incredible.
I remember a Douglas Adams book (one of the hitchhiker's guide books I think, but I can't remember which one) that had a planet where every inhabitant broadcast their thoughts ESP style, so the planet started playing loud music everywhere to drown out each other's thoughts because they were so horrified to find out what everybody else had been thinking.

Of course, it was a funny Douglas Adams throwaway joke, but it got me thinking - if we could actual hear each other's thoughts, would we be horrified or relieved to find out how many people were actually thinking the same things we were thinking? Maybe rather than blocking out each other's thoughts, maybe we'd suddenly get to be more reasonable about each other's thoughts.

The internet is slowly creating a world where we're discovering that a lot of the things that we assumed were pretty rare and unusual are... actually pretty common. We can either insist on going back to pretending that the world is a certain way that TV has been presenting it for decades, or start to collectively become a lot more reasonable about how the world actually is.
I hope he is save, he didn't write anything for a while now, last post is from Kharkiv, which is under constant bombardment by Russian forces.

https://zverok.space/blog/2022-03-15-STILL-WAR.html
Why data needs more than CRUD
FYI, this is not legal in Switzerland and most likely Germany. Your footage will not be accepted by the police or authorities and you may have the person depicted in the footage go after you for violating their privacy.

Capturing speeders and red light runners is the job of the state.

Red light cameras are very expensive in Switzerland because they need to be certified to be accurate.
It is not only the missing LNG terminals. In the last 15 years gas heating has been been pushed to a degree that roughly half of all buildings are heated that way.

I'm willing to believe that we can build an LNG terminal in a year or two, but replacing the heating systems of our buildings will take decades.
_only_ 10Gbps
I am not trying to defend the study, but I don't think any of your points actually mitigate the issue of volatility.

1. trades with neighbours: most european countries face similar weather conditions at the same time. The french will need their own nuclear capacity to make up for their own lack of wind.

2. demand response: switching off factories or heating when you need it? That's no solution

3. over building: the problem is that the volatility of wind is massive, if you look at the uk grid website [1], it can go to nearly zero for more than a week. If the volatility was smaller, over provisioning could be a solution (provided the economics work).

4. efficiency measures: you only make the size of the problem slightly smaller, but you still have a volatility problem. And with cars going electric and us not relying on russian gas for heating, I don't see the demand for electricity going down

5. hydro, biogas: there is only so much hydro you can build. And the places where you can build some (Sweden, Norway) leave you at the mercy of a russian submarine cutting the cable. Biogas: isn't that co2 emitting?

[1] https://gridwatch.co.uk/
> Or how another authority could cut millions of trees solely because of the fact that it lies on his/her territory and that it's none of our business, triggering irreversible climate change

Even worse, authorities across the world are collectively cutting down about 15 billion trees per year, split roughly evenly across permanent deforestation, shifting agriculture (conversion of forest for farming), and logging: https://ourworldindata.org/deforestation#not-all-forest-loss...
Similar to conferences - $2500 plus travel means only a few successful consultants will go on their own money.
TIL: #method(:method_name) in Ruby

I'm a big fan of Ruby, and feel like I know the language pretty well, but, my goodness, I don't know how I've never come across this one before. THIS is something that feels like magic!!

[1]> 3.method(:days).source_location
=> [".../lib/active_support/core_ext/numeric/time.rb", 37]

[2]> puts 3.method(:days).comment
# Returns a Duration instance matching the number of days provided.
#
# 2.days # => 2 days
=> nil

[3]> puts 3.method(:days).source
def days
ActiveSupport::Duration.days(self)
end
=> nil

https://ruby-doc.org/core-3.1.1/Method.html
Absolutely. I will 100% keep this up and running and freely available for all. It may be on my own personal website though.
You seem to think AMD has no patent on Ryzen. Don't worry, they have. Hopefully not containing loads of diagrams from Intel :D
It's already private, I presume you mean some form of restructuring the cap table so the founders/team have fresh ownership to work with.

A noble thought, but then what? skeleton crew the business at a snails pace while still being unclear how to actually make money?
What about starting a failed insurrection? Can we relate that to sex workers as well?
I noticed too late that it had already been posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30932201
> Who decides that? And do you think that the definition that would be most geopolitically convenient at that moment wouldn't be chosen?

Oh absolutely it would.

The Charter is just a lot of verbiage around two promises: NATO members will defend each other, and NATO won't wage aggressive war.

If you are so inclined you can also doubt Article 5 itself: are we really going to unleash the apocalypse over Latvia? Wouldn't we be tempted to bend the rules in that case as well?

The point is whether you believe those promises to be credible. IMHO history implies they largely are, but that's something reasonable people can disagree on.
People boycott oil companies all the time, why should the class of sex workers be different?
I gotta wonder what their mindset was doing that? We’re they particularly struggling prior to switching to subscription-only? Had other publishers begun to do something similar? Data collection scheme?
Our society, especially in western cultures.
Advanced Optimization and New Capabilities of GCC 11 [pdf]
I’m kind of confused by these comments. When I open my plex I only see my local libraries and my Live TV (with my HomeRunHD tuner and antenna)
I like it! but you might want to let your friend know the link color very accessible with that background color: https://wave.webaim.org/report#/https://moonmusiq.com/
Ask HN: Tool to export AWS configuration entirely?
I'm looking for a tool to export all the AWS configuration into text files, but maybe I'm completely wrong because I can't find anything related.

The most similar approach is a IAM cli command "aws iam get-account-authorization-details" who dump the IAM settings, but outside this service there aren't any equal. Think about something like "get-network-details" or "get-s3-details" who could give you a whole view of them.

Maybe someone knows something similar to etckeeper, but for AWS?
Spoken word was the original form of communication for "intellectuals". (e.g. Sokrates was famously against writting things down).
If it culminates in plans to end democracy it does.
I think when people say “sales” they mean closing the sale. I’ve seen people fail to close when it was already “sold.” The client was begging without outright saying to sign the contract. The dev just kept on trying to sell the guy, but he was already sold.
Fair but air travel is a blip in global emissions despite the disproportonate media coverage.
What am I gonna do, tell them they won? Never.
There exists LNG terminals in Holland, Belgium and Poland: Rotterdam, Zeebrugge, Swinoujscie etc.

They are connected to German pipelines.

This map is excellent:
https://www.gie.eu/publications/maps/gie-lng-map/
> NATO members will defend each other, and NATO won't wage aggressive war.

Article 4 is also important, and more actual NATO interventions have been triggered by Article 4 consultations than Article 5 direct mutual defense.

NATO is a regional security organization with a mutual defense commitment, not a pure defensive alliance.
This is the unintuitive thing about growth stage companies and just the scale that internet companies can achieve today. They might already have a million users who are happy with how it works and would rather that the UI didn't change. But they are on track to grow to 100 million users, and so if making things a little bit more flashy improves the new user activation rate by a small percentage for the next 99 million users, that can dwarf the preferences of the existing users. Especially if the existing users grumble for a few days but then mostly continue using the product.
The context of Baker and Gorbachev's discussion was only within the reunited Germany, not Europe generally. See Gorbachev's explanation at https://www.rbth.com/international/2014/10/16/mikhail_gorbac...
"make love not war" sounds like a timely category
> I can't help but feel a lot of the safeguarding is more about preventing bad PR than anything

That's no hot take. It's literally the reason.
>but I still end up in weird jams where Emacs has opened up 3+ panes (buffers), and I can’t figure how to even close/quit them.

<meta>-x close-buffer will do the job.

Actually, using <meta>-x allows you to execute any emacs function, whether it has a key binding or not.

Even better, emacs will suggest completions (and once you are down to a single potential completion, tab completion works nicely) as you type the function name.

And if you don't know the name of the function you want/need, <meta>-x apropos will allow you to search for what you want -- with regexp support.

All that said, depending on your use case, it mightn't even be necessary to modify your init file at all.

I'm not a previously frustrated newbie (I started with Lugaru's epsilon[0] back in the early 1980s, moved to straight-up emacs in the late 1980s and never looked back), but I'd be happy to help.

That said, using emacs' built in help/info/apropos tools, not to mention just using <meta>-x <start typing function names> would almost certainly be a better way to figure out how things work than asking me (but don't let that stop you from doing so). And definitely better than googling/ddging/whatevering what you're looking for. '<meta>-x info' and/or <meta>-x help are good places to start.

HTHAL.

[0] https://www.lugaru.com/
This is only a problem because of our absolutely crap-tier city design.

5,000lb, 100+mph (capable) motor vehicles are in an entirely different class than pedestrians and cyclists. They really should have segmented transit options.
“Sex work” is just the commodification of women & does not deserve to be legitimized as a profession.
This looks like a great solution, congrats on the launch! I don't know if I would store that information in the cloud though. If you were to offer a self-hosted option I would be all over it.
The classes that are protected are those that are intrinsic to each human and are unable to be changed - sex, age, race, looks, health e.t.c

Anything that can be changed (like a job) is not considered a protected class.
limiting the accumulation of political, economic and military power requires a tremendous accumulation of power
IANAL. This is my current understanding. If I'm wrong, feel free to correct.

Using it in a product counts as "public disclosure". If you've shipped it, that's a public disclosure for patent purposes.

But it's more complicated than that, because you can file for a patent on something within one year after the first public disclosure. That also means that you can file within one year after someone else publicly discloses something, if you lack morals and decency.

So if person A develops something and starts shipping it, and person B files more than one year after the first shipment, then the device is now "prior art" that invalidates the patent. Person A faces a legal fight, but they shouldn't be infringing, because the patent should be invalid.
I guess I meant more in which scenarios. E.g., an edit button to fix the typo I realized I just made after seconds after posting, or the edit button to add additional info that I forgot to add a week later, or the edit button to change my tweet based on what i learned from tweet replies, or the edit button to add info to clarify what I meant, etc.

I actually like that Twitter is somewhat immutable so I'm curious which scenarios are driving the pain points for people.
This is a niche complaint, but I get frustrated at how imprecise open AI's papers are. When they describe the model architecture, it's never precise enough to reproduce exactly what they did. I mean, it pretty much never is in ML papers[0], but open AI's bigger products are worse than average with it. And it makes sense, since they're trying to be concise and still spend time on all the other important stuff besides methods, but it still frustrates me quite a bit.

[0] Which is why releasing your code is so beneficial.
I'm having a hard time finding proof in that twitter chain, but I was also having a hard time just understanding it.

A commenter here dug up https://www.inputmag.com/culture/report-airbnb-owns-ai-tech-...

so reading between the lines, it appears that they have the capacity to have banned her for whoring but there doesn't appear to be any 'smoking gun' connection. I'm a little torn. I've seen lots of complaints "XYZ banned me for NO REASON", but when it gets dug into it turns out there were lots of reasons, but on the other hand the smokescreen that Door Dash (and other companies!) give themselves by stating vague "violations of our terms of service.." combined with their capacity to actually do this makes it difficult to give them the benefit of the doubt.

I don't know what to think, but I figured others might also be looking for proof.
I don't think it's fair to include this one with the other "growth & engagement" bullshit we typically see go belly up.

This company only raised a reasonable amount of money (450k according to https://www.failory.com/interview/friday) and had a real product people were paying for.
> I love how it was technically put together, browsing it on mobile was a great experience, chapeaux bas

Actually, my experience was the exact opposite on a desktop. First, I landed on a black page which showed some video for less than a second and afterwards the page didn't respond anymore. After switching from Firefox to Chromium, the page probably worked as it was intended.

Nevertheless, scrolling with a mouse I landed somewhere between the right positions. So I tried using the buttons on the left and while the positions, I landed were much better, it felt very awkward to continuously press buttons on the left while my hand was on the right (might be good for left-handed people). Furthermore, the videos played somewhat irritating, as if they continued playing when you went to the next part or paused a bit delayed. So when switching to a previous part you land somewhere in the middle of the clips.

So while admire the story, I didn't enjoy the experience.
If this was the true concern of the Kremlin, why would they do the one thing that strengthens and enhances NATO in ways unthinkable even 6 months ago.

The war in Ukraine is the rebirth of NATO;

- Finland and Sweden on the fast path to joining.
- Every member country making good on defense spending and more.
- Eastern member countries inviting ever larger standing forces.
- Renewed interest in Nuclear deterrents.
- Reinforcement of other "NATO like" alliances like AUKUS.

If the true reason for the war was US-NATO provocation, the it was the most successful, long term, multi-administration conspiracy of the century.

Or - the Kremlin could simply be lying and have other ulterior motives for war (territory, hydrocarbons, empire, legacy, etc).

They are either stupid, or liars.

Fyiw - the only real "winners" here seem to be China.
too big to fail strikes again!
There's emotional/spiritual inner work like therapy (invaluable for most, but not all).

And then there's mentorship sessions that I see are becoming more and more common in the visual arts world, where the focus is improving on a specific kind of craft and exploring mental blockages. Jayd (https://www.jaydaitkaci.com/services.html) was instrumental in my own maturity in the art world there, and I'd highly recommend those sessions if you're a maker in the visual/drawing sense.
We desperately need property rights in the US if we want to build our way out of the housing crisis.
> does not create a victim

Isn't that massively debatable?

Even if you find someone that says yeah I want to do this - what in their background/life story pushed them into that and made it what they "want"
Both arguments fail to distinguish between what a company can legally do, and how consumers can react and feel about it.

Sex workers aren't a protected class, but that doesn't mean customers have to like it or shut-up about it.

Similarly, McDonald's is private company and can decide to go 100% vegan. That doesn't mean the customers have to like it.

The solutions are simple, complain to the company, tell others, and take your money elsewhere
Let's assume for a moment that not only he said that, but also made a promise, and later even signed it.

Now, imageine you are one of ex-Warsaw Pact countries. You know very well NATO is the only thing that can stop Russia from changing their mind and taking over your country. What will your government do? They will do everything to join NATO. And this is exactly what happened.

Putin's propaganda is that NATO is a threat to Russia. Yet, NATO has never attacked Russia. NATO is, however, a threat to Russia's imperialism. After Ukraine they can turn to Kazakhstan and a few other countries that are not NATO members. He can't just invade the Baltics just as he invaded Ukraine - just because of that single reason. No wonder Putin is having a fir over it again and again.
Figuring your self out and facing your darkness is about as difficult and challenging as goals get from my experience, anything else is a Sunday walk in the park in comparison.

It wont yield any improvement as long as you're too terrified to try and too busy judging those who are trying.
I agree with you in so many ways. Lucid and illuminating post.
As others have stated, legally, minorities are a protected class. Discrimination on the basis of race is illegal.
Isn’t this wonderful? This is why the competition is tough, assuming you want to make it with building new apps. There is so much obstacles and this is just one of them you’ve listed(a detrimental mental state). But if you can fix it one by one, that will cut you through the top.
There was a very different attitude to budget offerings from nvidia back then, and despite a lot of complaints about them I'm not sure the new way is better.

Nvidia seemed to like to take their old hardware design and crank it up a bit, slap a new version on it and sell it as a budget offering. No new features, but it did a respectable job of playing older games which is what I think most people want out of a cheapo card. Later offerings usually featured super cut down cards that had more of the new features but not really enough power to actually turn them on and get playable framerates. And that is how things have sort of gone since then.

Like you said, the GF4 MX440 was actually a decent performing card. Sure, you were stuck with DX7 rendering path but it did a good job with it.
This is seriously terrible. Gross
An open food delivery service isn't even needed. The solution is much simpler, and is the subject of a 2016 song by Kevin Gates

2 phones.
Cool, thanks!

I'll get search working at some point. It looks like simplenote doesn't have an API, but there's just a native copy button that'll copy both your notes and the reference sections, to your clipboard.
They are not trying to patent anything other than their own work. Their work is something which can be added to certain processors(AMD's included). Why not base the example on a competitor's processor so there is less of a chance someone could argue it is reliant on Intel's processor architecture?
Yes?? Humans have preferences and think some things are good and some are bad.
The internet is slowly creating a world where we're discovering that a lot of the things that we assumed were pretty rare and unusual are... actually pretty common.

That doesn't necessarily mean they're ok. For example, imagine being an attractive woman and thought-hearing "my god look at those tits" every single time you walk into a room. Frankly I'd rather the whole world not sound like 4chan.
I’d be interested to buy your website. I have some ideas on how to improve and I’d like to take a chance.
Good schools are overrated, don't let them ruin your life