skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My point was that rather than following what most contemporary pseudo-philosophers do (acdemically or otherwise), Land fully embraced the outside. How can one fully embrace the outside / discover radical new perspectives if one is firmly entrenched in human society and norms?
And a key thing is that both files can be committed to source control, not just one or the other.
Unironically gnome 38 for me, I'm on 41 and it seems a bit buggier
It's much better than clip art. It generates fully bespoke and creative renditions of your ideas. Right now the models are a bit weak, but given a few years this will blow 90% of digital artists out of the water. People won't re-use anything, they'll generate something new for every thing they do.

That said, I still agree that we probably don't need to fear AI art. In fact, we might - as artists - want to thank it.

For a long time now a lot of artists have felt a kind of ennui because of the lack of a clear path to innovation or creating something "new" and inspiring. Things have become stale and overly commodified, with musicians, photographers, painters, etc. often complaining that anything they create or see is unintentionally retreading well-worn tracks. You talk to any striving and ambitious artist and they'll tell you there's not much inspiring art anymore.

The way this AI art works is that it essentially re-arranges old motifs in new ways. It's a permutation device that shows you the current state of art (if it has a large enough training set) applied to arbitrary situations. Artists might be able to use it to find the negative space where new exploration is possible and finally start creating inspiring art again.

Imagine coming up with an idea then feeding it to an AI and seeing if it's already been done? If the AI can't express it, then there might be something interesting there.

I think, creatively speaking, this is bad for Bob Ross and good for Dali. I'm sure Bob Ross himself wouldn't mind though.
I just cannot wait for this to come to the browsers. This will massively (and positively) impact how I can write JS.
How big is their dev team? Does their app change much? Could they have contracted it out and now only have one or two people who still push updates to it?
It honestly depends. I can name quite literally hundreds of digital releases that are objectively, measurably worse than their vinyl counterpart.

Anecdotal. It doesn't matter if you yourself would never buy a vinyl, what matters is that a lot of other people are. Likewise, it doesn't matter if you would never buy a supercar/helicopter/Breitling/Rolex/swimming pool/jetski/yacht/vegan food/meat/gluten-free/keto-friendly/whatever, because others are.
To be more exact:

If the goal is to remove fossil CO2 that is already in the air, then this process is doing more than it needs to and so won't compete with just running their system and using the output from the first step as a chemical feedstock instead of using extra energy to turn it into a classic fuel.

But, the key missing option is 3) use the electricity you were going to use to make the fuel to do the end task directly and much more efficiently, and without fossil or recycled carbon being involved.

Their pitch is a bit like: “Someone else has invented the replicator machine that makes any food you want in Star Trek and our business will use that basically free, essentially limitless food as an input to our bioreactors to make Quorn meat substitutes."

Quorn is a good thing now, when meat involves expensive, cruelty, waste, carbon and disease. Once you have near limitless food on tap though, it becomes a very niche product.
> That's a lot sources and I appreciate the effort, but also r/japanlife is a cesspool of people who basically have difficulties to adapt to a foreign culture. It's not a phenomenon specific to Japan, in any country there will be a pool of foreigners staying within their community and sharing/taking advices internally instead of participating in native communities.

That may be true but that would be to underplay the difficulty of integration in Japan specifically, especially compared to other places. The vast majority of foreigners leave within 2 years and very few settle long term, that is not a phenomena I've seen so starkly in other places I've lived in Asia.

> On the "gaijin in Tokyo" experience, I was in an US firm and fucking meeting hell with 20 people in the room and no decision taking within weeks was par for the course.

Again, that may be true, but that doesn't mean that:

a) it's representative of US work culture

b) it's not representative of Japanese work culture

I'm British and I've worked in places that certainly have too many meetings, not enough decision making or responsibility taken, but that is nothing compared to Japan. It's simply on another level here and no amount of saying "it happened to me too elsewhere" is going to change that.
The binding energy of the carbon dioxide taken from the Martian atmosphere is much less than the binding energy of the metal oxides from the Martian rocks.

So the thermal decomposition of the rocks will require much more energy.

As you say, the thermal decomposition could be done directly with solar light, bypassing the conversion efficiency of the photovoltaic cells.

That brings the energy requirements to similar values. Which would be the more efficient process would depend on details, e.g. the type of photovoltaic cells, the exact composition of the rocks whose decomposition is attempted, the usefulness of the byproducts, e.g. reduced carbon or reduced metals, and so on.

When taking into account the byproducts, it is likely that both processes will be needed anyway.
All EVs have a speaker and the noise is standardized. The problem is there is a different standard in each country and the solution is to make one noise which covers all of the standards - thats why it ends up sounding so strange. The combination of the various standards varies from OEM to OEM - thats why it ends up sounding different OEM to OEM.
I mean, they link to https://www.nebraskamed.com/COVID/where-mrna-vaccines-and-sp... on that very same page, I assume that they just thought that they could shovel it off to someone else?
It's a little sussy that they just wiped it but I don't see how that's evidence that it's untrue, rather that maybe the science isn't as conclusive as previously thought, or that the wording of "not very long" is stupid and vague, and that it doesn't need to be said because it actually is so conclusive.
Think they'll make a statement?
And Super Hexagon is an excellent game (with a great soundtrack) https://superhexagon.com/
There's an awful lot of bass on drum and bass records and yet I've never seen a needle jumping because of it.
I love the idea of this. I remember hearing about how "technically even llvm could host clojure " and I've been looking forward to it ever since.

However the issue is that one of clojure's strengths is the JVM, so I'm interested in how this plays out
BIP39 Passphrase implemented in the Alephium desktop-wallet
Competitors like Midjourney and Stablediffusion already allow you to re-use an image seed, which makes it much easier to persist style and character across images.

3D can often be inferred by 2D data, 3D training data could also be generated, etc. Think how fast the space has moved just in the last 3 years and extrapolate from that, don't focus too much on today's shortcomings.
You just need to set up a generalized adversarial model that optimizes for meaning!
Here’s a cool story about dragon hunting: https://bedejournal.blogspot.com/2009/08/dragons-of-swiss-al...
Lots of good feedback so far. My first thought was to analogize to gyms. In the United States, and maybe elsewhere, gyms fall into two camps. One hopes you'll sign up and never go, or if you do go, then you'll treat it more like a spa visit -- buying a massage, or a "healthy" smoothie -- so you're either free money or else profitable per visit.

The other kind of gym keeps membership to a fixed number, and will actually drop you as a member if you don't follow through on commitments to visit regularly, exercise, and get fit.

You can guess that the former business model is much more common than the latter. And obviously they cater to different segments of the market.

Compare gyms to your idea. Which model do you prefer? Oversell real estate? Or gamify people into chasing an artificially scarce resource?

This is a cynical take. But it's going to take marketing for your idea to succeed, and marketing is fundamentally about getting people to do something they don't want to do.
Rust is so cool.
In python's requirements.txt you can put something like:

tensorflow >=1.12,!=2.1.*
Did you ever build HTTP based APIs in Java (or C#), what makes you prefer Go?

I have been using Java for a long time but will soon be using Go because of a job change and I am trying to get a better sense of the trade-offs and advantages.
I agree it was overestimated, note to self: always redo ppl's maths.

1) number of barrels of jet fuel per day in switzerland:

34000 barrel / day = 0.39 barrel / s

https://www.indexmundi.com/energy/?product=jet-fuel&graph=co...

2) energy in a barrel of jet fuel:

1700 kWh / barrel = 6120000000 J / barrel

3) total power for switzerland:

2.4 GW

so more like 2-4 reactors for all switzerland.
nvidia is the bane of my Linux desktop as well but "just don't buy the most popular, compatible, best bang-for-the-buck GPU" isn't really advice that'll help anyone. I'd love for developers and researchers to stop using CUDA but the problem lies upstream. When the hardware and drivers work well enough on Windows the root cause may be that nvidia is a terrible vendor but that doesn't improve the user experience in any way.

With partial open sourcing efforts I predict that the nvidia situation will improve a lot the coming years, luckily. Until then, don't blame people who try Linux for nvidia's problems; there is no user friendly guide to find what hardware is supported how well for Linux and its kernel updates.

Furthermore, even supported drivers are a mess sometimes. There was a bug in the Linux kernel for months where the kernel would freeze up less than a second after boot if you had an Intel GPU and were using a second screen through DisplayPort. My laptop didn't have audio on anything but a beta driver package when I bought it. Ubuntu and friends simply couldn't use modern Intel graphics with multiple displays or hardware acceleration because the drivers were never backported to an LTS supported kernel. One in five times, my Manjaro install kernel panics on boot when switching from text mode to graphics mode, with no obvious way to debug; I was advised to get two USB to serial port adapters to debug the issue which would likely help, but I don't want to bother to be honest.

The world of Linux is full of driver issues, mostly graphics and sometimes audio, that are impossible to even debug without a second computer and a few years of Linux experience. Many common peripherals lack any kind of Linux support as well. The "shitty drivers" come from every brand on every product range and the only guaranteed method to work with you at stuff you'll find is to never ever upgrade your install once you get everything working.

I want Linux to be better for everyone, but overlooking its obvious flaws and blaming users won't get that done.
> Today's Apple computers require some connection in the beginning to "sign-up", "register", download "approved" software, etc.

I believe that is not the case. It is strongly suggested during the sign-up process, and some functionality depends on it, but it is not required, as far as I know.
Yeah, and the other bits about pip-compile -P to upgrade a single package and whatnot are very handy.
No /var/log/installer (maybe it was not the case for Woody?) and installation-birthday says 2006 but this is the date of the cross-upgrade to amd64 (using debootstrap).
https://www.zeit.de/politik/deutschland/2022-02/klimabeauftr... for example mentions that the cabinet appointed her. Of course she isn't part of the cabinet but that is also not what I claimed.
I'm glad you like KDE and by all means keep using it. It sounds like it's the right DE for you.

That being said, your statements about macOS sounds like they are coming from someone who's never used it and are making a fairly uninformed straw-man opinions about it. For instance, the statement "Apple products are dumbed down even more with every release" is just demonstrably false. Apple products gets more features with every release. For instance, the last macOS release got Shortcuts, Focus Modes, and Universal Control. All of which are power user features.
> always on top, preventing access to other windows. E.g. Password dialogs for encrypted hard drives.

this is something that should be done everywhere, if it isn't, it's a potential security issue.
This article jumps through so many weird hoops to avoid reinstalling Tailscale on (relatively rare) system OS updates and while I appreciate the author's creativity and dedication to user experience - just write a script. Your actual _settings_ / config / user data doesn't get overwritten, it's just the stuff in /usr so reinstalling means everything is exactly back to where it was before

Every system update (which again, is rare, Steam Client updates are much more common and don't change the OS), I SSH in and run `sudo ./reinstall-software.sh`.

Example script:

https://gist.github.com/anaisbetts/194def8511823c2290dbb9ecf...
Amazing! Can't wait to try it ;-)
This is sarcasm, but people unfamiliar with Copenhagen might not be aware. Some historic buildings use this shade of yellow, produced using iron vitriol (iron (ii) sulphate) and whitewash.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyboder

And https://www.reddit.com/r/copenhagen/comments/hylj0b/orange_w...
The bar people are putting here on AI art seems kind of insane to me.

Like, of the millions of working artists out there employed by various companies, what percentage of their output do you think meets this bar of "I wanna hang it up in my living room"?

Maybe AI art won't be able to hit the bar of seriously moving people to feel deep emotions consistently, but what percentage of human-generated art manages to hit that?
This seems overly complicated. Nowadays, unstable almost never break (with the exception of files migrating from one package to another without the proper metadata) and I am updating daily. I am curious, are you using testing or unstable?
> cars last far longer

In terms of mechanical reliability and longevity, this is certainly correct. But I'm really curious what the software side is going to be like, with cars being more and more dependent on the Cloud or other online services. At some point, older APIs and services will be deprecated, effectively disabling the cars. This will be quite extreme with Teslas, of course, but other cars are catching up in terms of requiring a more or less constant Internet connection.
This reminds me of Korean bath houses. They offer way more than just the spa, to disconnect. [1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jjimjilbang
Confusion about USA export restriction regarding microcontroller electronics
I am confused.
Domain and headline and frontpage says RayvnOS
but by the screen shots it says airyxOS?
agreed, 1.1 GW seems reasonable for GVA. thanks!
I think I misunderstood your question.

The plants are running now, but that doesn't make them able to replace gas. Most of the gas can't be replaced by them for the reasons in my other response, but I think your question was about the rest?

The rest is because of the different traits of nuclear and gas-fired power plants. Nuclear power plants aren't adjustable, they provide the same amount of power, day and night, plodding on, with only very slow adjustments. Gas is the opposite. Gas-fired power plants are easy to adjust on very short notice, to match the unexpected changes in demand. If you try to replace quick-changing power plants with slow-changing, the network's frequency (50Hz in Germany) suffers. When demand shrinks and the slow-changing power plant can't adapt, the frequency rises above 50Hz. When demand rises quickly, the opposite happens.

Some adjustment is possible by involving other entities than just the two, so it's not quite 0%.
True but frequently people claim that it is bad and nobody needs it. Whereas I would say Kubernetes is a bit like a bucket excavator, you probably don't need it and a shovel would do you just fine but that doesn't mean nobody needs bucket excavators.
Says you. I'm at #16. But I'll concede the point.
This is crazy. I'm an an early DallE2 user. And looks like Stable Diffusion is much better than DallE2 (at least for these genres of gen)
systemd user-scoped services are great for other software though, especially running syncthing to sync game saves between the Steam Deck and a PC
Software that everybody uses can be affected by terrible bugs - Heartbleed couldn't have happened otherwise - so what is the magic level of usage needed to avoid bugs and be stable?
It's extremely interesting, but it has a to be noted that, even though the main page claims 100% compatibility with Clojure, the status page lowers the claim down to 42%, while the GitHub page states you can't even build it.
From a song in an old Soviet movie: “all worries are forgotten, all rat races have stopped: robots are toiling, humans are happy”.
I'm on a VPN... and can't read that article.
I'll be curious to see what the performance comparisons of typical Clojure programs will be. Persistent data structures tend to benefit a lot from highly optimised garbage collectors like those packaged with the JVM. And Clojure's highly dynamic style probably benefits a lot from JIT techniques too.

Still, it's a fascinating project, which I will watch closely.
Japan's tech job market is not similar to other countries though. I can bet you that $JAPANESE_MEGACORP you speak of is well known for paying below market rates.

The salary bands in Japan are the following-
gaishikei (FAANGs) > Japanese Startups > Japanese Software tech Megacorps > Japanese non-Software tech Megacorps > Everyone else (basically minimum wage)
Could you do the same comparison with Venus please ?
Yes.. but FreeBSD is used by a lot of people! It’s used on a lot of servers. Netflix’ CDN for example runs FreeBSD.
Can you explain more about these headaches? So far i'm still convinced of client side SPAs :D
The good images come from detailed prompts, it requires creativity, visualising what you want out of it. I think anyone writing a prompt and getting what they want out of it (vs. something surreal and hilarious for its unexpected whackiness, at least while the novelty lasts) is 'doing art', just as a photographer chooses a subject and frames a shot.
Green usernames are for newbie accounts that are less than 30(?) days old.
With PIC you wouldn't even need to do relocs?
"It's essentially a hotel room, but only bookable for one person, for a few hours only. There is no internet provided, and cellular signal is blocked."

- "your meditation room with noise-proofing, privacy guaranteed. As an additional purchase you can hire a paid-by-the-hour buddy that will meditate with you in the room"

This can be your marketing.
It does not follow logically but it still is prudent to do exactly that for reasons that intersectionality doesn't have a perspective on.
It's interesting to think that people might have been making some form of this much longer longer than they've been making kimchi with chilis, because chilis are originally from Central American. Wikipedia:

> Kimchi has been a staple in Korean culture, but historical versions were not a spicy dish. Early records of kimchi do not mention garlic or chili pepper. Chili peppers, now a standard ingredient in kimchi, had been unknown in Korea until the early seventeenth century due to its being a New World crop. Chili peppers, originally native to the Americas, were introduced to East Asia by Portuguese traders. The first mention of chili pepper is found in Jibong yuseol, an encyclopedia published in 1614. Sallim gyeongje, a 17‒18th century book on farm management, wrote on kimchi with chili peppers. However, it was not until the 19th century that the use of chili peppers in kimchi was widespread. The recipes from early 19th century closely resemble today's kimchi.
Think outside the box. The human element just moves up in the abstraction stack. Don't have to spend time manually arranging words anymore, now you just direct settings, character motivations etc. Don't need to manually set pixels to certain colours, now you can quickly create complex images and combine them, remix them, create something bigger.
its AirBnB.. they should have this stuff sorted! Dev/prod should be completely separate with the vaults/secrets management in prod having the correct keys with only a few peeps having access (in a break glass situation). Dev's should not have the keys to put into code to push to a prod external service...

There is zero reason why any dev (or worse external dev team) should have access to prod secrets, or the ability to push out via prod. (unless someone cocked up the config for the dev/staging push notification tooling, again requires a level of access)
...and then there is the Apple Watch which doesn't support VPN's as far as i know.

So, when apps can communicate from iPhone->Watch, even with a perfectly functioning VPN on the iPhone your public IP can leak via the Watch (if the app is also installed on the Watch.)
count me in, I would love to go to your no internet-screen cafe
The vast majority of commercial illustrations is just beautiful/cool looking characters or landscapes, focusing purely on looking pretty rather than some deep meaning behind it.

I think it's totally understandable if you don't care about this kind of art and it losing value, but what you're really saying then is "The art apocalypse will happen and that's good". I share this opinion, but I can also definitely see why working artists don't like it!
> What checkbox do you mean? (I understood the one about ctrl+tab, but not this one)

Maybe I'm confused, but I have an right Ctrl and a right Alt. Both keys are left to the arrow keys. I thought you wanted to switch around also those two keys. That would be ticking a checkbox in the keyboard config afik.

> I'll give KDE a shot next time, but I think some apps I use heavily are actually GTK apps (such as Firefox), we'll see how it goes.

I also use Firefox. It uses GTK. But this makes no difference as Firefox does its own thing anyway. It uses GTK only under the hood.

The two most annoying things with Firefox are solvable: You can use custom.css to switch around the OK / Cancel buttons in dialogs (thankfully they don't use "real" GTK dialogs but some XUL, otherwise you would need to patch the GTK libs) and one can have proper file-dialogs by now through the desktop-portal interface. So Firefox remains its own thing but at least the GTK parts don't creep up anymore.

Oh, and global menu does not work in FF (even it works for "normal" GTK apps). Also they still didn't manage to make keyboard shortcuts configurable. But that are FF issues on any desktop or OS…
Also great for running an SSH Agent, since they aren't coupled to some magic invocation in some bashrc but will always be started when the user session starts and cleanly terminated when you log out (or linger if you set that up)
Pretty cool fable by Nick Bostrom: https://nickbostrom.com/fable/dragon and the animated version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZYNADOHhVY
>Well, that's one way to look at it: you need to carefully pick your distro, make sure it's compatible with your hardware, and so on.
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>My way is rather: I don't want to even pollute my brain cache with that. I

That is exactly what you did by choosing Apple.

If you go on the redhat website and choose certified system you can pick your hardware from any vendor the same way you choose your Apple machine on the Apple store.