skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Without this technology, if I want to procure a concept-art quality image to promote my video game, I need to pay at least an amateur artist for their time and skill. With this technology, I can simply run some generations and maybe tweak or combine the output in Photoshop. I don't see how AI won't gobble up the bottom X% of the visual art industry almost immediately.

Fine arts, contemporary artists showing in galleries, mediums that can't be printed on photo paper (sculpture, canvas paintings, etc) will be more resistant to displacement. But the massive majority of commodity art & visuals - adverts, billboards, book covers, article images and so on - will definitely be displaced in the very near future.
Just use Blade helicopter service - 10 min to Manhattan starting at $200+ so affordable to whoever can afford business class. Still tight for one day meeting but if LHR flight was at 8:00AM and flying back a bit later at 2PM NY time it's possible.
The L-Trac trackballs have a large free spinning roller above the buttons (which surround the trackball itself). I find it really nice for navigating text in one dimension. When I was really working on the ergonomics of my setup I experimented a bit with a space mouse in my opposite hand to act as a 2d scroll device, which I liked pretty well, but I don't bother with it.
Next-gen of air travel: Boom supersonic jet design
There's one thing you can do to have a shot at getting a rivian quicker. Spec one out that matches the current launch edition (4 motors, don't get the ocean coast interior, get the tonneau cover) and you might just get one. People have gotten them in a couple of months, but they are lucky. Go to the reddit.com/r/rivian forum and read people's descriptions. What seems to happen is they have some ready for a location and someone at the last minute drops out and they can't find someone so they can go way down the list quickly.
This needs a (2020) tag. It’s super old but still an interesting anecdote about “blitz scaling” gone wrong. I found a few of these myself, was able to order a free sandwich that normally cost $16 as long as I ordered something else.
A "Dall-E for music" will put much of the control into hands of listeners. That is, you will not search for the music that matches your mood, you will ask for it directly, and maybe adjust in near-real time.

A DJ will arrive with a unique set, likely with every track custom-made for a given gig.

Selling any records at all will become very-very hard, except for rare hits with outstanding human vocal performance. In music clips, music will be relegated to the position of a movie soundtrack, if not lower.
I know it sounds cold but without knowing more about the company you work for my suggestion is to say nothing and start looking. Unless you have a new job lined up, all the papers signed, and a start date never tell your current company. At best they are happy for you, at worse they are vindictive and either fire you immediately (an no, unemployment is neither easy/simple nor is it much money normally) or make your life hell until you do leave.

There is also no guarantee that your team will be safe if you tell them you are leaving. They might decide to just get rid of the whole team and leave another team whole (instead of taking a pound of flesh from each team). Again, without knowing what your current company is like we can only speculate but tread carefully.
Next, do tech stocks. No matter your position, you have to be pretty bitter to actually develop and pay to host such a lame "told you!" site in a bear market.

"Oopsie woopsie! They're very down! Would you also like to irresponsibly gamble away your country's finances?"

It's 47 million in unrealized losses, even for a tiny nation absolute peanuts. It's a fraction of a fraction of the budget. Even the worst case is manageable, and there's a significant chance that it strongly bounces when the macro condition improves.

Should a nation put their entire treasury into BTC? Absolutely not, but diversification of assets is sane. Big lumps of low risk/low return, small lumps of high risk/high return potential. Business as usual.
What a chad. I wish I was that consistent. I distro-hop about once every other week
Running a local k8s cluster doesn't guarantee that a remote cluster on some cloud provider will work the same either.

I've heard of and worked with multiple dev teams that develop with compose and deploy a totally different way (k8s, AWS auto scaling groups, heroku, etc), to great success.

Devs know about compose and understand it. As long as the containers behave as planned, the DevOps people can figure out how to deploy them on whatever production environment.
It's pretty faithful to the book - Billion Dollar Loser.

The phrase is "unique leadership style", which is a euphemism for "that guy has no idea what he is doing".
Repro steps:

sudo apt install dotnet6

- Observe the “telemetry enabled” message.
If it's the flavor you like, and just want to add heat, you can augment the heat with a high scoville neutral chili. I've done this before by adding habanero or high scoville cayenne after the ferment is several days in.
> Those issues objectively got worst, actually? Climate issues are more acute then decade ago and college debt problem is larger.

Climate issues are worse because time passed without large action. But I'd say public opinion is even stronger in favor of fixing it. And the US just passed a giant bill about it.

On social issues, yes Roe was just overturned, but the endgame of that is still in flux. Marijuana legalization is becoming near commonplace. Gay marriage was on the fringe when I was in high school. I was out of college by the time it was fully legalized. Of course, that is now under threat. But just because it's under threat doesn't mean the future is borked. Teens catastrophize - always have.

> Also, the biggest college debt issue is among people who did not managed to finish their degrees.

If people don't have useful degrees anyways, isn't it best to not waste the extra money to finish?

Also, people use this college debt in-the-large as an excuse in-the-small. Most people made boneheaded financial decisions as teenagers and then continued them as adults (which they are from their first year onward). I wasn't dumb enough to fork out 100s of thousands to go to the prestigious private school I got into. My in-state school was clearly superior on paper. All it took was for me to not be status-seeking.

I don't even think I had it especially easy. I switched my major a few times in college - I could've been a chemical engineer, which I don't think I'd enjoy (personally or professionally) as much as where I ended up in computing. My wife switched from a non-lucrative degree to computing because she thought about what her life would be like in 5 years either way.
Nowadays arch install ISOs have an `archinstall` script that can get you going for basic setups.
They are providing like 6% of the German electricity. So yes, replacing them will require more fossil fuel short time. On the other side, the idea is to replace them with renewal sources. Germany is already at 50 renewables in the electricity mix.

Nuclear is not really a replacement for gas, rather than coal, due to its slow nature. Gas power plants are used in Germany mostly for quick peak power.
I know some of the banks in the list. They're using Oracle DB for their core financial databases and MySQL only for secondary non-mission critical systems, not really related to their core business.
That they take the data gathering and analytics they already do to provide some customer benefit?

Let's be clear, this will happen regardless if you get the notification or not. Your purchases are going to be analyzed down to the second you made the purchase.
Most of the gas isn't used for generating electricity. Rather, it's used at the point where the electricity would be used. If you build a house you can install a furnace that gets joules from the electricity network or from the gas network, see? And there are a little over ten million houses and apartments that get their warm water and heating from gas-heated boilers/furnaces.

See https://www.haustec.de/heizung/waermeerzeugung/waermemarkt-w... for example. There's also the chemical industry, which uses gas as chemicals, not as a source of joules.
Actually, this is a quite reasonable remark about the name, we should have elaborated on this part. We will change all names to anonymous.
That is only true if the Arch developers seek user growth beyond the niche they currently have. You are not entitled to them spending their time to meet your demand, though you are free to build your own distribution on top of it (or use one of the many available ones).
The keyring issue that other commenters mention has to be the dumbest misfeature ever, because upgrading is guaranteed to fail, yet nobody fixes it. To make things worse, one of the top Google suggestions is a pacman command that can cause libc to be upgraded without a full system upgrade, which will make your system unusable immediately. No process will launch after that. I had to do very desperate recovery steps when that happened to me. To be honest, I'm still not entirely sure how to safely fix the keyring issue when it happens.

Other than that, and this may sound very strange given the last paragraph, Arch is fantastic. It's the most usable and useful system for general software development I've ever owned. Basically, you follow the wiki, and everything just works, sound, graphics, wifi. I never had that with Linux, not with Ubuntu, not with SuSE.
The issue is that nuclear scales well with size, but that increases iteration time & costs for a single iteration. It also leads to much less efficiency possible compared to e.g. solar cells. So once they didn't improve and were still expensive (and getting more expensive, like all big construction projects) the potential seems limited. Same as start ups getting huge evaluations while running deficits, but no-one giving the benefit of the doubt at that scale to a failing 30-year old business with promising basic ideas.

Every (big honkin') nuclear power plant is more-or-less a giant project onto itself. The hope of nuclear advocates is that with small reactors, their reduced cost & increased scale (in terms of units) will more than make up for their small size (and resulting loss of scaling in that dimension). I think that's unlikely, but some startups are trying so we'll see if it's a winning formula.

My argument is: Why bother? Renewables are cheap, storage technologies[1] have a lot of viable ways of going forward and are getting better very quickly. Even if through a lot of investment nuclear energy gets (economically, build-time-wise) viable in 20 years like renewables are now, I doubt it would change much or solve pressing issues.

[1]: Starting from common chemical batteries, over to hydrogen/power-to-gas, molten-sand and a variety of concepts exploiting potential height energy. The limited commercial adoption yet can be attributed to the fact that they're not necessary yet, so the added price is too high. Germany, with a very high share of renewables and planned to be growing, is only starting to dip it's toes with some very basic "stabilizer" like in Australia and nothing big-scale in the near future. If this was a pressing issue, you'd think governments would do more (Especially in germany, the cost structure strongly disincentives storage right now, needing to pay certain costs twice, while sinking and sourcing the energy).
That model probably wouldn't be legal in the US where all new vehicles are required to have a video screen for a rearview camera. Since they're already required to have the screen for that purpose, it ends up being used to eliminate other controls.
Most of whom have demonstrated, time and time again, that price is the primary factor by which they decide who to fly with.
I'll agree with that. Yet I alsonever want to buy anything from an enforced middleman again. First I avoided that with Tesla, and now I did it with Rivian. It does have some bugs, so did my last car I bought 20 years ago form a major manufacturer.
I like programming, actually. I have a sense that most my collegues currently like it too.
The analogy is incorrect. Hitler would need to be a Jewish rabbi for it to be accurate
> how’s Google Reader treating you? Are you able to control your Facebook or Instagram experience?

LOL you started by asking me if I know what BFT even is and now you're going on a rant about totally unrelated things.

BFT is a mathematical property about models of distributed computer systems. A property I'm now willing to bet you don't understand. and which you are now also invoking, vaguely, as part of a sweeping social critiques. This is such a silly pitch. I genuinely can't believe people fall for it.

Why do you drag no less than half a dozen vaguely related hot-button emotional topics with your sales pitch? The only thing they have in common is the constituency you're trying to exploit. People reading this for whom the parent post resonated: you're the fucking mark.

What's the point of this rhetoric? What are you trying to sell? To whom?

The solution to the Social Media Problem is really very simple:

Step 1: log off.

Step 2: Lobby for better privacy laws.

Step 3: Avoid repeating the original mistake; the crypto bros make the tech bros look like saints.

The problem with social media not primarily that it's centralized, so the fact that anything other than "log off and pass privacy laws" is pitched as a solution to FB/Instagram is probably the most astounding "Emporer Has No Clothes" situation I've ever seen.
Love it! Reminds me of a time where every movie, game, band etc. had amazing creative websites like this, often filled with custom games, wallpapers and other cool stuff for a ten year old discovering the World Wide Web for the first time.
One example of this that gets mentioned every time are https://www.spacejam.com/1996/
> They have lost about $47M on their investment

They haven’t lost anything unless they sell.
Amazfit BIP is pretty nice, except it.stops recording randomly ( not often)
The London laundromat is a well known issue that the UK government refuses to fix as the people in power benefit from it. Same as all of Switzerland's business logic. But this does not represent the average administration in an average EU country - there is still fraud, favouritism, etc, even in the model countries, but the share of fraud is well below what you find in other countries.
I love supabase. The main competitor is the lesser well known project directus [1]. Posting my experience with Directus here to see how it compares to supabase for folks that have gone that direction.

I had a tough time picking between these, but ended up landing on directus for a few reasons:

1) I don't like using db level users for RLS. Directus has a traditional users table that can be expanded with anything you want, and their roles ability is pretty comprehensive. Column level security is also straight forward based on declarative rules.

2) The Directus admin app is second to none, other than perhaps Django. Its extensibility is the real killer feature. I'm in production right now with nothing but the admin app and a set of extensions.

3) The files and storage capabilities support pretty much any mechanism you could dream up, plus build-in image editors etc...

4) The flows capability gives semi-technical users the ability to do IFTTT like logic inside the admin app. Pretty cool.

5) Directus has a (very) basic BI capability, that's extensible, and tied into the permissions model.

6) This is just a personal preference, but Directus is a smaller company and operating on less funding. This means that we're able to sponsor issues that are important to us and we can communicate directly with core team members. The team there has been extraordinarily responsive, and their github repo is the gold standard in community engagement, imho.

7) The deployment model is a breeze. Just a package.json dependency. npm install does everything.

Downsides:

- They fairly recently rewrote the whole platform from PHP to NodeJS. I applaud the decision, but this means that the product hasn't reached the same level of maturity.

- QA: the Directus team moves fast and breaks things. We've encountered several situations where releases have come out with core functionality broken. We've learned to thoroughly QA a release before we update.

- DX: the developer experience for writing and debugging extensions isn't the best. Its also very opinionated about Vue. I'm currently operating off a fork so that I can have a better DX and use Web Components (fortunately vue plays well with them). If you're just using out of the box functionality and the API, this isn't an issue.

[1] https://directus.io/
Tourism to Costa Rica hasn’t seen the same recovery trajectory to El Salvador, even though Costa Rica historically has been much more popular than El Salvador.

IIRC, CR is still down 20% since COVID started and ES is up 20%.
"Quality" may be hard to pin down in super-objective terms, but that doesn't mean it has no value as a word or a concept. To paraphrase, "Quality is like art. I know it when I see it."

Sure, you and I might have slightly different ideas of what quality is, but in various fields, we find established consensus on these matters. I happen to know a little about music.

But surprise, surprise, while I listen to Bach, I also listen to Cameo. Nothing wrong with that, but I don't presume that Bach's music can't be considered of higher quality just because it's hard to write an algorithm to score quality, or just because Cameo were more popular than Bach in the 80s and early 90s.
Love it. Always happy to see interesting OpenSource project and so exciting to see one usable for church. Currently using WorshipTools Presenter and it's great for the cost (being a fairly small church) but I wish I could do a little more. I will definitely be following this project and messing around with it
There were news articles that they revised this law for the rivian and presumably the f150ev. At first people ran into this weight / registration issue.
https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/rationing

I mean that's the most obvious example. But really, this is a commonplace and standard practice- get out a cake at a birthday party and how are you going to divide it? Richest family gets the most cake?

This is a bad question to be honest, possibly asked in bad faith.
We have this in the US as well. People with a southern drawl may be thought of as country bumpkins and whatnot.

Some (most?) of humanity's constant behaviors over our lifetime as a species is pretty sad.
The amount of highly enriched U and Pu that has already been put into space is at least several hundred of kilograms across at least 10+ of launches. And reliability of SpaceX launches is highest in history of human space programs.

My bet is on nuclear vs solar as the nuclear is the next rocket engine type after chemical and will loose the dependency on launch windows and shorten the trip time.
Would you call TechEmpower benchmarks synthetic? I think they're a pretty useful data source and indeed support the claim that the performance of .NET is rather good.

https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r21

Personally I think that some of their tests are pretty close to what web applications might actually do a lot of the time (fetching the data, processing it, saving it), for example, see here: https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/tree/mast...

Sure, sometimes the code you see in benchmarks can be a bit more clever than the code you'd see normally, but for the most part TechEmpower seems close enough to be a vague indicator towards what frameworks/languages/stacks have decent performance.

It also helps you get a feel for how big the differences are between any two given platforms, like using something like Java + Spring and Python + Django, which may or may not be relevant in actual business conditions, since you might also want to iterate quickly.
Looking at Facebook is like looking at the rings of a tree. You can see the time where they worried about Twitter. Then they feared Snapchat. Now you can see how TikTok is making them panic.
I have also been offered to claim a business that I reviewed. There isn't even an option to say that you aren't the owner.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LowestCommonDeno...
FTA:

The most important cost after electricity is equipment cost,
typically called capital cost. Adding up the electricity and
CO2 costs, we get $1.86/gallon. If we want to stay below $3.00/gallon
(for example), then we need to keep the capital and maintenance costs
less than $1.14/gallon. Our cost models tell us that we can have
capital and maintenance costs that are significantly lower than that

The fonts are gigantic on my desktop monitor.
If it goes up 50% up in 6 months it will still be down 18.4% overall.
Note that the person quoted as requesting an investigation (Sar Duterte) is the daughter of the president that was in office when this happened (Rodrigo Duterte).
I highly recommend "The Coddling of the American Mind" on this topic.
What Beirut was like before the war (2019)
Are food deliveries in densely populated US cities really done using cars? Why? All e-bikes/scooters here (city of >5 mil in Aus).
I don't know if it's the same for MySQL, but in Postgres a CTE would possibly force the planner to make less efficient choices [1]. Would be interesting if someone who knows more than me could clarify on this

[1] https://hakibenita.com/be-careful-with-cte-in-postgre-sql
Hum, I'll complain about calling it "being picky". We are up to 3 completely different theories about what the GP meant, and no way to tell them apart.
That may be, but it wins because it's vastly better than all the alternatives, except tesla or a few other leading 'new car companies' like rivian.
Made some last year using fresno chilis, garlic and onions. It came out great but had a tendency to go right through me. I threw some in a pot and boiled it briefly and now it doesn't cause any issues. I'm guessing the fermentation bacteria were warring with my natural flora. Anyway, try this if you have similar issues.
In this article, we examine the effects of batch size on DL model training times and accuracies, and go on to describe a methodology for finding the maximum batch size for any given task.
The ones I have direct anecdotes of myself involve strong subcultures with strong ethnic and caste ties (e.g. Punjabi Jatts in the Central Valley or to a lesser extent, Patels) sometimes retaining casteism (even inter-generationally). It also wouldn't surprise me if the Cisco allegations are accurate (less selective / meritocratic places are more likely to retain old prejudices), though the constant media claims of casteism in FAANG make me hesitant to take any allegations at face value.

Edit: to be clear, I don't want to imply those subcultures are always casteist - plenty of Jats and Patels are really chill and accepting, and to stereotype them as casteist would ironically be casteist in itself.
I could make the same statement about classical music, opera, ballet, film, "oldies," folk for at least some subcategory, etc. and I think it would still be generally true.
I've worked on teams with 6 month ramp up times. Almost always this happens because there is an absurd amount of domain/business knowledge encoded in some massive 500k line code base. Tenured engineers gate keep with domain knowledge. The real learning happens by switching between working on those types of systems and then moving to greenfield to implement the patterns you observed.
I've never understood the food delivery services at all. Maybe it's a different experience in the Valley. I would gladly pay for delivery to try a new restaurant that's across town. But instead all the offerings that I can choose are within 4-5 miles of my house. I could literally walk to some restaurants much quicker than I could get a delivery. Locally its mostly college kids using the food delivery services.