skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With all due respect, I've been using it for over a week and I don't think you've given it a fair shot.

There's plenty of cases it's worse than Dall-E and there's plenty of cases where it's better. Overall it seems to show less semantic understanding but it handles many stylistic suggestions much better. It's definitely in the right ballpark.

In fact I'm still using a wide range of models - many of which aren't regarded as "state of the art" any more - but they have qualities that are unique and often desireable.
Apple is selling you exactly what they use to repair their machines. If Apple shares all of the tools/parts/manuals they use to do component level repairs, the result is NULL.

This isn't anything limited to Apple, or even computers. For just about any OEM repair process for nearly any product, there's someone who will do a repair with a higher labor cost and lower parts cost. That doesn't mean it's a reasonable process for a business at scale.
I found a year old article making a similarl argument:

https://theconversation.com/films-made-for-netflix-look-more...

It reminded me of the work that the cinematographer on Knives Out did to kill the silly idea that "digital cameras" couldn't do "film look".:

https://www.polygon.com/2020/2/6/21125680/film-vs-digital-de...
> Of course it can be used and modified. It's the redistribution that is covered by copyright law.

By what law or principle? IIRC most software is licensed and not sold. And the copyright dictates who defines the terms of the license for software which can be copied. Otherwise how would 'freeware' and trial software be practical if folks could just modify them to bypass any limiters therein?
Really, the licensing is most interesting? There’s a lot of public info about training and development too.

The license itself is pretty irrelevant. What people will actually do with the training blueprints, and how fast things will evolve.. now that’s interesting.
> Some are also ferociously defending the system. It's some kind of religion to them, and they are fanatics.

I think some are just more aware that StackOverflow as a whole is a complex functioning system and not just a collection of standalone questions. Therefore, their behavior is focused more on the well-being of the system rather than a singe question or a single user.

> I have a problem with this site: some people pay more attention to form than to content.

I would say, people pay an equally high attention to form as content, again because form really matters on a scale of million questions, which is sometimes hard for people to appreciate who drop in to ask a single question and leave.

> If I post a question which doesn't really follow the rules, I very quickly get downvotes. Not more than 7 in my case.
> If I post a question which follows the rules, I may wait days for an answer, and I may never receive an answer, but I get no upvotes.

For the first posts and questionable posts, there is a queue for "first questions" and you get some number of them a day (I get up to 80). Which means there are lots of eyes on such posts. You need a certain number of downvotes to close a question, that's why you tend to get a limited amount and get them quick. To be fair, the guidelines don't mention downvoting at all:

How to work through this queue:

Edit or share feedback on questions that are good, but could use some help.
Choose Looks OK if the post is fine as-is.
Be sure to upvote good posts to encourage new users.
Skip the task if you aren't sure which action to take.

On the other hand, for your question to get on my radar and get an answer, you need to tag it 'oslc', 'rdf', or 'semantic web'. There will be a very small number of people monitoring these.

> Even constructive criticism seems to be illegal there.

I think it's a matter of perspective (i.e. lots of criticism says "it works poorly in my case" without considering if 100k developers did what they tried to do every single day), and to be fair, SO's platform-centric view could be a bit more user-centric.
I think the answer is yes, but setup is a bit complicated. I would test this myself, but I don't have an NVIDIA card with at least 10GB of VRAM.

One time:

1. Have "conda" installed.

2. clone https://github.com/CompVis/stable-diffusion

3. `conda env create -f environment.yaml`

4. activate the Venv with `conda activate ldm`

5. Download weights from https://huggingface.co/CompVis/stable-diffusion-v-1-4-origin... (requires registration).

6. `mkdir -p models/ldm/stable-diffusion-v1/`

7. `ln -s <path/to/model.ckpt> models/ldm/stable-diffusion-v1/model.ckpt`. (you can download the other version of the model, like v1-1, v1-2, and v1-3 and symlink them instead if you prefer).

To run:

1. activate venv with `conda activate ldm` (unless still in a prompt running inside the venv).

2. `python scripts/txt2img.py --prompt "a photograph of an astronaut riding a horse" --plms`.

Also there is a safety filter in the code that will black out NSFW or otherwise expected to be offensive images (presumably also including things like swastikas, gore, etc). It is trivial to disable by editing the source if you want.
I clicked the comments to make a comment about The Mote in God's Eye, probably some cryptic comment about old crazy eddy and his starship drive that just made him vanish forever.
Once again, Apple calls workers back to the office–once again, workers fight bac
Ukraine was actually pro-Pakistan on the Kashmir issue and sold them battle tanks. He needs to fire whoever in the Foreign Office advised him to do this.
It is absolutely acceptable. Corporate negligence harms everyone. If disclosing vulnerabilities is what it takes to force them to do something about them, so be it.
A bug is a bug. "Why would anyone ever do XYZ" is a separate discussion. And if you write software for a living you know that there is always that one user who will do exactly XYZ.
You could spawn any local server from Node and talk to it from the web side.
> The right thing is not building your product in such a way as to require specialised equipment in the first place.

A product like this would not be popular because it would be thicker, heavier, and have worse specs.
The 538 possible solutions are not permutations, and are drawn from the set of 5977 unique non-anagram 5 letter words that can be extracted from words_alpha.txt. There are 536 solutions that include the letter "m".

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11sUBkPSEhbGx2K8ah6Wb...

That's a spread-sheet of the various solutions as maintained by Benjamin Paassen, who was the author of the user-submitted solution featured in Matt's video. The times he presents are from being on his own system. Some of the solutions listed there have advanced since Benjamin ran them.

I wish you all the best! It's a fun little challenge to code for.
Every model I've used initially seemed poor compared to the one I was just using. It takes time to figure out their sweet spot and what kind of prompts they excel at.

I've had a lot of great results from SD - but different great results to Dall-E.
Maybe he’s been listening to Zaid Hamid too much.
Some kind of overflow, it resets timer to 40 hours. Same thing happens with 1 year, except timer is reset to 60 hours. Another interesting observation is that "timer 723 years" did not bring timer up, but "timer 722 years" did.

Update: "timer 100 hours" works, but "timer 101 hours" does not. That is 100 hours is 144,000 seconds, does not seem to be anything special about this number.
The cause of the criticality accident was that they did not remove the uranium when they were done with it. This is straightforward to do, you pump F2 gas into the salt and this gas is produced

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_hexafluoride

which can be stored in tanks. Instead of removing it they let the salt sit, and radioactive decay led to F2 gas being produced by the salt, which caused UF6 to be produced slowly and then migrate.

This mistake won't happen again.
Ask HN: Should I tell cofounders/investors to optimize my env before startup?
I keep my Aspiring Founder profile active in the Co-founder Match platform at Startup School and despite having written very low information density stuff in the profile, a few people contacted me regarding co-founding and applying to a batch in another accelerator.

My main startup idea is in agritech, but it is malleable and scalable to many adjacent fields as well. In the majority of agritech you may not need to survey what users want, as the majority of users in this field just want better yields.
Apart from making notes, collecting information about the field and conducting some sparse pilot research in the field, I as a founder haven't done much about it for years for various reasons.

Currently I need to repair my habitable property in Lithuania and I can basically do 80% of this myself, so won't have time for optimal work on a startup. Any of this property is not suitable for optimal work, so I may need to flip or rent it.
Should I tell all this stuff to potential co-founders/investors now, or should I suspend my Aspiring Founder profile for some time?
Yeah, i was hit by lay off near end of 2019, and then i floated unemployed for a couple months...taking my time to find my next job, thinking that i should be more careful, and not just rush to the next job. Not knowing what i wanted to do next. So, i reflected on things a bit, decided that i hated corporate life, so took a job - still in digital/tech - but with a non-profit...thinking, yeah, i can still "do tech" but now i'll help the world! I took a 25% hit to my salary with worse healthcare coverage (the non-profit was significantly smaller size of an org. so healthcare costs were much more expensive). Well, that experience sucked greatly! While i did feel good for a few projects, gained a few good friends, and honestly there are some great people out in non-profits who are both smart and well-intentioned...i did not have a good overall experience. Honestly, non-profits sometimes are just like the corporate world in many ways, but with much less pay. Clearly, not all non-profits are like that...but my experienced soured things for me...at least for now. Maybe as i grow older and/or find a better organized non-profit, maybe i will go back...but for now, no non-profit jobs for me thanks!

Fast-foreward 2 years later, and i'm now back in the corporate world (ugh!), but at least making about 15% more than when i was hit by lay off at end of 2019. So, nice increase in pay, healthcare is not as great as back in 2019, but not as bad as the non-profit...but of course not happy. I don't know where I will end up next, but for sure the corporate world and most non-profits are not for me.
You can thankfully turn off Autoplay. I agree, it's horrendous UI.
Apple can't realistically do board level repairs because they can't guarantee that a board level repair will bring the device back to its original level of reliable functionality. When you mess around with soldering and desoldering individual components, you can't guarantee the end result in the same way that you can when it's the outcome of a reliable and repeatable manufacturing process. For example, rework with a hot air station might imperceptibly weaken a solder joint somewhere else on the board, which will then fail 6 months later.
LANL built a reactor like that, with liquid fuel in tungsten capsules. It was called LAMPRE.

https://www.osti.gov/biblio/4368180-operation-plutonium-fuel...
In the normal BnB world anyone with a account gets a phone call before they get cut off.
I wouldn’t shift responsibility on the shoulders of the last newcomer. The top of the management has had ample time to diagnose this. If it remains like this, it’s by design.
Great to see this discussion here. Concerning

"pretty much guaranteed to be incorrect"

... as it happens, SL (and infer) can be used to prove this too :) though that is more recent.

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3527325
I don't see it on mobile (Firefox Android) but do if I hit request desktop site, in case anyone is confused
That's pretty much the gist. I don't know much more than you, anyone else feel free to correct me.

This guy made a Javascript library running on WebGPU (an upcoming web GPU wrapper) that uses the coding style popularized by React.

React was designed to make it easy(-ish) to dynamically update web pages. When data or properties are changed in the JS code, React updates the DOM (HTML that tells the browser what to draw on screen). That's reactive.

Declarative is how it's organized. To change what shows up on screen, there has to be some kind of update loop that checks for/reacts to (pull/push) new data. React hides all that, the idea is you declare what you want drawn once, and it's updated for you as the data changes.

React stays efficient by only updating what needs to be updated in the DOM. This gets a similar result by memoizing (caching function return values) (for what data??).

Editorializing from my experience with web frameworks, that style feels magical when it works, and makes for flashy demos (look what I can do with 10 lines of code!), but it gets there by hiding a lot of complexity inside an opinionated framework. It's way easier to get started with, but you have to be disciplined and know how it works under the hood to stay on the happy path with larger projects.
Anything close to a decent modern gaming PC will do it fine. I'm running on a laptop 3080 and I can generate 768x512 in about 20 seconds (with a 30 second overhead per batch)
I think that many times, many of us have a post all typed up...then we reconsider how well it adds value to the conversation, and close the tab, thus not posting something of lower value, that we would normally be just fine posting elsewhere.

That act of self-censorship (or just plain quality control) is a big part of it, in my opinion.

I only actually post less than half of the time these days. I'd nuke this one too, but then I do want to make the point, so here goes.
Point in our case is ssh always leads to root kind operations (because of admin’s role). So it’s always ends up with using sudo - but password-less (because needed for non interactive sctipts). So it’s more or less the same as root login.. thus the reasoning of why not just use root in the first place?
Its not click bait, the contents are what the title claim to be.
It's entirely possible to appreciate the focus, and desperately want to not have the forum fail, yet still kind of undermine the whole thing. If I honestly held election denial opinions, for example, I could post in complete good faith and still cause chaos.

That is: contributors motivations can be pure, their hearts can be pure, and they could still end up undermining the HN discourse.

To the extent that HN maintains high quality, it's not the contributor's purity.
Are any plagiarism detectors capable of recognising generated content? I’m not even sure how they might ever go about it?
> Apple is pretty tight so they probably go into the trash.

Let's destroy our spare parts to make sure that Louis Rossmann can't get his hands on them and use them for board-level repair!
> you can fully expect your asshole friends to grab a dozen photos of you from Facebook and then make a hyperrealistic pornographic image of you with a gorilla

my prediction is that, as a result, people will start assuming pics online are fake until proven otherwise.
What about “the RAM is on-package” strikes you as being unnecessary?
What makes you think it was unnecessary? Sockets are good for expansion but they increase failure rates and the extra distance increases latency so losing it is one thing helping push unified SoC performance.
According to this post, it needs 6.9 Gb. So the 3070, 3070-Ti, 3080, etc. can all run it. Sadly, my RTX 2060 is below that limit...
Such an important subject and they touch on important topics within that subject, but ultimately end up confusing things more and ultimately probably making things even harder for those who would be in service of advice on how to manage their weight (most of us nowadays).

Losing fat when overweight, provides very clear health benefits, we don't need to look at observational studies for this, the fact that gastric bypass operations have such positive impact on health is enough to show this.

It's true, that dietary advice rarely can make any lasting dent in population level body composition, however, this should not be confused to mean that a motivated individual can't. A very simple and robust method is to count calories and drop the amount until the desired level of weight loss is achieved, then simply revert back to a comfortable level when the goal is reached. It's just that this takes a level of motivation that most people don't have. This is not surprising as many of the negative effects of being overweight are rather subtle and takes time to appear.

This means that many people will have to live with their overweight and ideally not feel severe anxiety from it, which is the constructive point the article is making. The problem is when they try to cloud the evidence to achieve this goal.

This makes people believe that staying at a healthy weight or losing fat when overweight is not meaningful at all and you can be just as healthy while being obese as long as you take some walks and eat your greens. Which in turn means that we don't get motivation to do the things we need to keep our weight in check.

Now, this doesn't, of course mean that keeping a healthy weight is the ONLY thing that matters. But it's a pretty important one, in particular for those who are obese.
It seems to me that companies like GE and Westinghouse have tons of money. Add that to the billions pro-nuclear folks have in SV and you've got quite the war chest to fund effective pro-nuke campaigns.
As an aside I wonder how performance would be like running this on CPU (with the current GPU shortage this might well be a worthwhile choice). Even something like 30 minutes to generate an image on a multicore CPU would greatly increase the number of people able to freely play with this model.
Yes they're turning on their graphite moderated MSR reactor that's fully constructed in the next few days? weeks? not entirely sure, but soon.

https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Chinese-molten-s...
Ten characteristics of the cloud operating model
Oh, I see! Thanks, I should have read the mail more closely.
Oh I understand, so it's not to make sure you do enough but to stop you doing too much.

> I could easily work from the moment I wake up to the moment I fall asleep, seven days/week, every single day

I for better or worse don't have this inclination.
This is a good post to reflect upon when considering the bias in HN moderation. The moderation is not just invested in YC financially, but the depth of self-righteous philosophical conviction is there too. This isn’t Reddit nor your average Trust & Safety team that aims at neutrality, dang wants to be a Drudge or a Jeff Zucker.
> Vulkan is nice, but it goes into the other extreme. It's very low level and designed for advanced users. Even getting anything on the screen in Vulkan is intimidating because you have to write everything from scratch.

I honestly believe that this is the major reason. Developing a hobby project with OpenGL is little more than using SDL or GLFW to get a window with a GLContext and then you can just start calling commands. Vulkan is much more complicated and unless you're really pushing performance limits, you're not getting much of a benefit for the extra headache.
For many classes of prompts - yes. It has less semantic awareness in some regards but it's in the right ballpark.
I was wondering how long it would take for an anti-capitalist rant to show up. :/

Anyway, capitalism does not require the extraction of natural resources. That is a problem related to building a modern civilization. There is NO WAY to have the kind of technology (and therefore quality of life) we have today without digging things out of the ground to either burn for energy or manufacture into tools or products. We're making progress on solving parts of this (e.g. renewable energy sources, recycling) but it's fundamentally intractable and orthogonal to any economic system.

If what you say is really true, then capitalism should spiral into non-existence and cease to exist whenever there is an economic downturn or decline in productivity. As it happens, we have those roughly once a decade and times get tough for some people but civilization doesn't end and eventually we pull out of it. Ergo, either world trade is not dominated by a capitalist economy, or your definition of capitalism doesn't align with reality.
Sure. It depends on how much you value time, how much else you have to do, and what the goal of the design is. I don't work or lead on one-offs much anymore, myself.
"The share of renewables in actually generation has gone from essentially nothing in 2000 (a bit of hydro), to 40-50% of the total (depending on how you count biomass and waste-to-energy)"

Based on that, it's one of the only sane energy policies on the planet! Minus the premature closure of nuclear plants.
I'll note that getting crapped on from all sides isn't always a good indicator. See: mainstream media since 2015 or so.
LFTR is just a trade name from a guy named Kirk who tried to rebrand the Thorium fueled Molten Salt Reactor.

So basically yes but like all thorium reactors it has to start with enriched uranium first.
No, it shouldn't overwhelm it, but it should inform it. There is no proliferation risk associated with wind, solar, geothermal, etc.

Where I live is at risk of declining political stability in the near future. I don't worry about living next to a nuclear power plant because I'm worried about maintenance or operational safety or whatever, I worry about what happens when a thousand men with machetes and an apocalyptic ideology show up. And perhaps you look at the news in your country and wonder if you also may be heading towards declining political stability.
I like EasyOrg as you do not need to use Emacs. It also has a useful agenda.

[1] https://www.easyorgmode.com
No it’s all about the prompt. It takes some getting used to, you have to look at a bunch of prompts from experienced users.

SD is waaay better than Craiyon. And better than Dalle2.

Check out r/StableDiffusion
The inexorable rise of wooden buildings
Debugger Lies: Stack Corruption
It's running fine on my gaming laptop.
As much as people portrayed an epic battle between renewables and nuclear the real winner from the move away from nuclear was natural gas fired gas turbines.

The most obnoxious thing about the energy literature is that it frequently reads like a stopped clock. People still compare the cost of nuclear energy to the cost of coal, but it's no accident that the US stopped building coal plants at the same time it stopped building nuclear plants because it stopped both for the same reason... The capital cost of a gas turbine generator (even in a hybrid cycle including a steam turbine) is dramatically smaller than the steam turbines used in coal and nuclear plants.

Since molten salt reactors run a lot hotter than LWRs they could drive

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed-cycle_gas_turbine

but it's a technology that is not very well developed. If nuclear energy is going to compete with natural gas, however, they need to ditch the steam turbine.
Hyrum's law. How meta.
its much easier to just buy any smart tv and not connect it to the internet
Looking forward to a future where all a politician’s quotes are on a blockchain, signed by their private key, and they chose to do so voluntarily out of fear of deep fakes.

Will remove all the useless “I didn’t say that”
I really wonder about the economics and business models of large models APIs, mainly because of:

* large running costs due to the expensiveness of the inference

* low barriers to entry: the tech behind Dalle appeared 1.5 years ago if I recall right and there are already a few competitors (Midjourney, Imagen, Stable Diffusion)

* low value at the present time of the raw APIs