skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know as much about how to get the best image outputs from text inputs as the person who designed an airport knows the best place to eat in it. The emergent properties of the system are a result of the data put into it, so I can only discuss the system itself, not what it ended up doing with the data in that system.

The models are a product of their datasets, specifically the relationship of the images and prompts via CLIP. CLIP puts both images and text into coordinate space, imagine just a 2D graph. It tries to assure that for any real image and its caption, they will each be each others closest neighbor in that coordinate space.

So if you want a certain image, you have to ask "what caption would be most likely and most uniquely given to the image I'm imagining".

I'm sure this advice is way less helpful than what you find in prompt engineering discord channels and guides I've seen.
Carnegie Libraries
Even worse is that they're becoming increasingly common in European cities that really don't have much space.
What to Learn for a Senior Laravel Dev Job?
I feel like Imagen gets all the noise and people forget about Parti - https://parti.research.google/

It's another google project using a different set of techniques.
Really? I've never had spam on Whatsapp. I was just about to mention it as an example of a very successful service that didn't suffer from spam.
Cloud cover anomalies and warming trends (Europe)
You must be really looking forward to fully autonomous vehicles, then!
Being the best is just like that toy that you long wished for Christmas: once you get it and play long enough with it, it will no longer seem as desirable.

Make sure you fill your life with meaning and love. The rest is not as important. Recognition comes and goes. And even if it stays, it will lose its shine fast enough.

PS: And as a Jesuit once said, stay humble and you won't tumble :)
If you kick them off before they do criminal behaviour then the police can't do anything and you'll just wait to see them back with a new VPN/identity.
I think networks are simply that good now.
FI = financial institution
A high-dimensional ball has more surface area than volume.

Human brains are only used to thinking in lower dimensional spaces but human lives intrinsically occupy manyfold dimensional spaces.

"Better" is only a meaningful metric under two circumstances:

* A one dimensional ordering, in which case all items can be ordered in relation with each other

* A multi-dimensional ordering in which one item has total domination over an another item

Take recipes for example, recipes can be evaluated based on taste, nutrition, ease of preparation, quality of writing, availability of ingredients etc, etc, etc.

Is a recipe that's easier to make but less tasty "worse" than one that takes way more time but tastes way better? Either you can "linearize" the dimensions by assigning some kind of weighting like 0.5 * taste + 0.3 * easiness + 0.1 * nutrition + 0.1 * other OR you can accept there is no intrinsic ranking and say neither recipe is better than the other, they're just different.

But what you can say is that a recipe that is worse in taste AND worse in ease of preparation AND worse in nutrition AND worse at everything else is a categorically worse recipe. That's a recipe that's at the center of the ball and not the surface.

In a high-dimensional world, being the best is trivial, almost everyone is the best except the people who are all around mediocre, people who occupy the center of the ball.

Despite this, most people fail at this task, just like how most recipes you find on the internet are categorically not the best, because their mindset does not unlock this view of the world. They're followers rather than leaders and so they subscribe to a very narrow and rigid view of what programming means and are desperately competing amongst those dimensions with every other person who subscribes to that view and they never reach close to the top because a low dimensional ball has very little surface area relative to volume.

So if there's one single piece of advice I could give you about how to become "the best", it's to forge your own path early and confidently and bravely. There are a million different roles that programmers have in society that each require a million different types of skills and the one you're going to be the best at likely hasn't been discovered yet. Follow your passions and your interests and develop a unique point of view and thrive in the intersection between areas of rare overlap and becoming the best is simply table stakes.

Whatever you do, don't linearalize your life upon metrics given to you by someone else because they have an agenda to corrall you into a competition for their benefit, not yours. Introspect and figure out what "best" means for you and use that to drive you and you truly will believe you are the best because nobody else will share that same linearization as you.

For a very similar take on this, but from the Physics world, I recommend you read this paper: Physics in a diverse world or A Spherical Cow Model of Physics Talent [1]

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.09485
Interesting!

I knew about transformers, CLIP and diffusion, but pixel patch encodings are new to me.

Can you give me more details / point me towards an explainer? A quick duckduckgo search didn't help.
I've complained about that my whole life. Going from high school to college was wonderful because I had so much time time my first semester in college. (I ended up blowing that by overloading myself in subsequent semesters, but that's another story.)

I always hated the idea of homework in school (outside of college/university) because I have never understood being at "home" but still required to do "work" for a place I just spent 7-8 hours at and most days 2-3 more hours for sports or band.
I dispair. That people can think so irrationally that they'd risk dying in preference to being vaccinated has truly shaken my faith in humanity.
I wonder how good AI will be at recreating the look of the props made out of broom sticks, gaffer tape and paper mache.
Whut? You don't have internet in Silicon freakin' Valley? Lol
Maybe the hope that some royal library at a suddenly-dried-up-oasis palace that was buried in the sands will someday be uncovered?

Seems a stretch, but I'd watch that movie.
Careful, you might be looking at the graph of Sample Size in URLs scanned, not total kilobytes. There were more samples because they incorporated a new URL list around then. There is a size jump, but it is "only" from 1.2Mb to 1.6Mb on mobile around that time.
Reminds me of a simple implementation of a Prisoners and Boxes riddle that showed up in my YouTube feed where I had to add a comment so others (and eventually future older me) will understand what I did.

>// if one prisoner fails all are dead (1st try -> tries = 0)

https://gist.github.com/amalic/c107b5289d946b758418778a95fdc...

That being said, it seems to be a junior software engineer issue where the brain isn't wired yet for "0-based" indexing. I don't hear such complaints from more experienced developers who have simply learned to appreciate it because like in my example above it is more intuitive to me.

I have added "and eventually future older me" above because I don't do much coding these days, and my career trajectory looks like it's going to be even less in the future.
The automatic gearbox frequently upshifts in error (for example, just before a hill, making a downshift immediate) and downshifts too late when overtaking, resulting in erratic behaviour, lots of revs, and considerably more fuel consumption.

Taking this into account, in almost all cases cases, a manual transmission might be more efficient.
Not sure why this is relevant, but here goes: I was working on a greenfield project where containers were at the core of it. The amount of due dilligence that was happening was great. Containers were scanned. Configuration was sanity checked. Generally security standards were pretty high. Surprisingly there were very few security folks who didn't know what they were talking about. Contrary to other banks I've been at who don't run on containers.

Comparing that with a neobank that runs K8s, successfully might I add, who has outdated software, and only recently started investigating upgraded.

The same configuration issues you mention has nothing to do with containers, as doing an apt-get install often has the same issues. It has everything to do with people using tools they have little understanding of. I'm talking about mysql, and mongodb, not docker.
I've just come back from the vacation in the US, and my experience was: when the hotel has G or L for the ground floor, it still has 2 for the floor directly above it. "G or L followed by 1" never happened to me.
The AI is moving up the "content ladder" generating text -> now images -> next videos

Smart for Google to invest in this because their business relies on third party content to exist (blogs, webpages, youtube videos)

If they can vertically integrate their business to create the content AND own the discovery algorithms then they officially win the internet
WHERE NULL=NULL should never return true, so no rows returned is correct. It is only implementation defined in that some implementations get this wrong!¹³

SQL Server's handling of NULLs with in unique indexes/constraints is not standard. You can get better using a filtered unique index (“CREATE UNIQUE INDEX more_compliant_unique_index ON dbo.some_table(this_column) WHERE this_column IS NOT NULL;”), but be aware that filtered indexes have their own collection of gotchas⁴.

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[1] MS Access IIRC, MS SQL Server if the ANSI_NULLS option set to off, MS² SSIS's default (consider NULLS equal) behaviour for merge steps, and so on.

[2] You may be noticing a pattern here… MS are not the only culprit though.

[3] I'm making a distinction here between places where behaviour is not defined in the standards, so implementations are free to go their own way, and where implementations go against what is expected by the standards.

[4] particularly with respect to the collection of unfixed/wontfix gnarly edge cases that is the MERGE statement.
In photography, a "lens" generally refers to the mechanical component that houses the optical lens.

In 3D printing, "print" generally refers to "most of the device, except those components that one versed in the field would recognized as being composed of materials not suitable for printing".

Though I do agree with you, many people who do 3D printing would not find the title misleading.
Type of Barcodes and Their Usage
> Big corporation X can now run up lawyer cost that you have to pay if you lose

This is very much a consequence of the adversarial and very procedural (and costly) common law system as implemented in the US.

There's nothing stopping the US from passing new legislation to address exactly this downside.

The main issue is that the "big corp" can file seemingly endless motions to dismiss at any step (and then file for appeal, etc). But it seems perfectly possible to have a law that instructs the courts to by-default consider the merits of the other side without requiring that other side to also file whatever counter-motion to "yes, please keep the fucking suit going, because some random precedent from 1832 that google coughed up is almost surely bullshit, thanks y'honor"

Of course in many cases judges are elected. Which has its own very serious problems. [0]

The current workaround for the "big corp" problem is "class action", and they happen very frequently in the US. See also the small claims courts.

That said, the real problem is that the whole US system of torts/liability shifts a lot of responsibility on individuals, but in a way that's perfectly aligned with "mo' money = less worry" (Oh really? Who would have guessed.), because there are very few proactive, upfront, visible, legible pro-consumer regulations.

The most visible part is probably the endless EULA/ToS-style texts that nobody takes seriously [1] ... except courts. (See the famous case of a cruise ticket attached to a dissenting SCOTUS opinion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnival_Cruise_Lines,_Inc._v.... )

[0] https://www.propublica.org/article/these-judges-can-have-les...

[1] https://www.abajournal.com/news/article/chief_justice_robert...
An overview of the 1D and 2D barcode types and their use cases.
Thanks, it's the complete page size.
Are all Starlink costs in dollars? Capital maybe, but operating costs?

In each legal domain (country ~ territory) Starlink operates in it has to install and operate one or more ground stations and back-haul into exchanges.

I realise there is a deal with Google for some of that - most likely it varies with the country, data-center locations, and exchange facilities.

But there are presumably ongoing costs to employ and support engineers to watch over the ground station physical assets and ensure back-up systems are always available?
Deserts aren't good locations for solar, for several reasons:

1. They get hot, and solar PV needs light, not heat to work. Heat actually reduces the effectiveness which is why the difference in output between the best and worst places for solar PV in the USA probably isn't as wide a delta as you would think.

2. They're generally not near people, who mostly live on the coast and so have higher transmission costs. Transmission is enough of a cost factor that building solar and battery (or datacenters) on sites of old coal plants is often done to re-use transmission and save money.

Desert like conditions are required for concentrated solar, which require strong direct sunlight and heat, but PV doesn't have that requirement and can still work in cloudy regions and is generally cheaper than CSP these days even in the desert regions. So solar should be distributed more towards where people live and use electricity.

I think adding the costs to the consumers electricity bills made sense when the grid was mostly polluting, as it incentivises efficiency but as we get closer to a clean grid, it makes less sense. Shifting to time-of-use is probably a good next step to keep the incentive to not burn polluting fuels, shifting the costs to people still burning gas makes sense too.

The whole of society is rigged to give money to homeowners (due to racism and classicsm mostly), so it's not unexpected that solar would lean the same way, it's not inherent to the tech though, just how society works at the moment.
In the last 10 years autos have become more and more popular in the UK, they've outnumbered manuals in new car sales for a couple of years now

https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/analysis-are-man...
They have also a great YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/MiWuLaTV
Attachment to games will change. If you go in with the knowledge that the experience is epheremal (as all experiences are by their very nature!), it will be easier to let one go (not pay the rent anymore) and go into the next. Network effect of course will be horrible, if everyone plays something, surely many will pay the rent just to not feel the fear of missing out.

The second point, indie games will absolutely exist, even if AAA will go in this rent extracting direction. The next Stardew Valley will come along, just as it did in the age where AAA is $60. SV is $12 in my region on Steam.
Chrome says that they won't allow ad-blocker extensions to work starting January
What's the substitute to not using custom fonts? Or is there a better way to load it? I'm having a hard-time convincing our brand team to defaulting to a system font.
Diminishing returns.
As someone born in a situation like this (east Germany also had a fertility rate of 0.8 in the mid nineties, albeit under different circumstances), I now find it interesting how unimportant that is to you as a child. Sure, in retro-perspective it is clear that all those schools closing or down-sizing was an extreme trend but that aside, I cannot say that I ever felt like we were few kids. I mean, I had all my friends at school and many of those had siblings, neighbors had usually kids, most of my parents friends eventually had kids. And when we were starting university, we thought we were too many as mandatory military draft was abolished and hence more students were starting that year.

I am not sure what this tells me but probably that there must have been a marginalized fraction of the population that I never noticed (and living in a relatively young university town probably helped at that). Then again, obviously, our fertility rate was only that low for a couple of years and 'rebounded' to 1.3-1.5 soon after.
An important detail: it shouldn't be (and as far as I know isn't) the loser who pays but the party who behaved unreasonably. For example, if you damage someone's property, offer to pay £100, but they refuse your offer and instead sue you and win .... £100, then you won't be paying their legal costs. In fact, they may have to pay your costs because they were being unreasonable in bringing the case to court after you had made a reasonable offer out of court.
why not walk, with that argument
It is my understanding that the language teams of C# and especially F# are actually quite small, and I imagine competitive. I would wager that there's more compiler work to be done in Microsoft Research. This is a hunch based on things I have read.
I agree with this. I was disagreeing with the statement

> Bandwidth is extremely carbon intensive.

and the reasoning that supports that statement.
I found it easy to read on my phone in light mode, still easy to skim in dark mode but the losing team text is too dark and I have to focus to read it.
You're basically saying that LLC shouldn't exist ('private entities derive their rights from human members').

And that they shouldn't really have the benefit of the doubt.

I know i don't totally agree with that but i used too, and i found it funny.

Also, private orgs do regulate, it's called lobbying, and it's a feature of our best power distribution system yet (capitalism) where power is derived from wealth and not bloodline or other extremely stupid stuff.

You are basically an anarchist to me. I mean, all ancaps/Ayn Rand fans are once they understand positive and negative freedom/rights and push their reasonning on power structure far enough.

I'm sadly not an anarchist anymore, but 'autonomy is in our hearts' is a great way of reading about an existing society with humans in the center without regulations and basing most things on common decency. There is also a lot of analytical philosophy papers on this particular subject of inherent right (or freedom), mostly from your country.
true but..

it is fear of uncertainty. not knowing how to deal with something or even assess because you don't know the problem.

there is big business in people with answers as well con men.
Amazon’s Foray into Primary Care Won’t Be Easy
can you add the trainer images that were used so the original artist gets credit?
Yes, but can't hurt to reach out in any case.
They do not usually communicate to their citizens in English. The press release http://www.moe.gov.cn/jyb_xwfb/gzdt_gzdt/s5987/202208/t20220... calls the illustrations 比较丑 "quite ugly". Not sure where the Guardian is getting "tragically ugly" from, but my guess would be a social media post ridiculing the drawings.
I wonder if somewhere in that 90% they had solution to evade CAP theorem.
It's good to see Firefox on top of this list.

Is Protonmail usually accessed through web clients? I only use native iOS client and MacOS Mail with the Bridge app. Somehow I would expect Protonmail users to not use the web client so much, maybe I am wrong.
"...are genuinely, in many cases reasonably, hesitant."

Why? Are you saying they're too stupid to weigh up the facts?

The amount of factual evidence is enormous, and it's a trivial exercise to evaluate it accurately.
Saying something is starved means saying it's underfunded. The statistics show more funds being allocated to social welfare programs.

If those social welfare programs are mismanaging those funds, that's an entirely different argument than arguing it's "starved".
As the link notes, the Eastern District of Texas forum-shopping strategy for patent lawsuits was more or less shut down by the Supreme Court in a 2017 ruling [1]. This suit against comma.ai is, probably as a result, filed in the District of Delaware, since comma.ai is a Delaware corporation.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TC_Heartland_LLC_v._Kraft_Food...
Oh for sure. Microsoft seems like a good place to work anyway, with a ton of stuff going on.
I should have pointed out in the UK the cost includes 20% Value Added Tax (VAT) so the actual charge has reduced from £74.10 to £62.50 (US$87.44 to US$73.75 @ £1=US$1.18 on 2022-08-25).
Of course, poor people are not buying high end cars.

Compare what cars people drive in US, in Germany, in Greece and in Romania.
Analyzing the Impact of Face Ageing on the Recognition Performance
Matt from DIYPerks has recently built a f0.4 lens on an estimated total cost of $190: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cT0jXI7l4E
At some point you realise that its niether storage or processing. Making things faster or having more stuff doesnt solve the core problem of physics. Alot of
modern solutions are just old stuff with new names. We really need new stuff and not remixed reimplementations.
> The main findings indicate that short-term ageing in the range of 1-5 years has only minor effects on the general recognition performance. However, the correct verification of mated faces with long-term age differences beyond 20 years poses still a significant challenge and requires further investigation
You're right, my mistake. Ignore OP.
You were a trendsetter back then and are now, I guess.
Sound and moving images. Put it all together and fan fiction will never be the same again!

But seriously it may usher in a new cottage industry of content creation, from graphic novels,to animation to movies.
Why should cyclists, who got the roads built in the first place, be driven from the roads by motorists?

Bicycles aren't the problem, the singular focus on cars in our societies is the real problem. Roads used to be shared between horses, carriages, bicycles, vendors, and pedestrians.

The car is a monotheistic religion, there can only be one god, the car, and you have to devote your whole life and society to it.
So now that this powerful user is gone and the software is still out of convention, we are stuck with an unfriendly behavior on an extremely popular software because of.... Inertia and this makes a cool story?
When we were younger we used to have 1 joint account, and then we each had a personal account. For rent, groceries, etc, we used the joint account to which we both pooled a percentage of the salary.

Later on as we grew older, got married, that kind of stopped. We don't have her salary or my salary, we have our salary.

I guess it depends on people, on couples, on relationships. What works for us may not work for others. We're a team, we pool in everything we both get, we have goals and objectives for the money and we allocate it as such. But we also spoil ourselves, if she wants to buy something she does, if I want to buy something I do. It doesn't matter for us because that's our money.

We used to be on the same level, till last year, she now earns 3x what I earn and it doesn't matter. It's not "oh i make more than you so you should do more things around the house" but rather "we make more now, so we can do more, travel more, etc".
Lived in a suburb a plot away from such shop, at least I think it was one as there were regularly metal shawings outside. Never any issue with noise or anything.
I really wish we could send text/markdown emails and have clients support displaying it natively. It would be a nice middle ground.
We do the same, and always have, even before we were married.

It seems very old-fashioned for a married couple to have "mine and yours" in this day and age - I remember my grandparents doing that when I was a kid, and it even seemed old-fangled back then!