skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"With Electron you have full access to Node APIs, so a hacker could easily exploit the very powerful Node APIs."

This is not true, `nodeIntegration` has been disabled by default years ago in Electron 5.0 [1]. The default in Electron 20 will be a sandboxed renderer process that can't even read files from disk [2]. Security in Electron is great if you follow their security guidelines [3].

[1] https://www.electronjs.org/docs/latest/breaking-changes#plan...

[2] https://www.electronjs.org/docs/latest/breaking-changes#plan...

[3] https://www.electronjs.org/docs/latest/tutorial/security
Web app for stable diffusion: text to image generation model
Both actually, many public sector employees are grossly overpaid, and private sector employees should get real pay rises/protections.
Generally when you say those very lumpy models of the Earth, they've exaggerated elevation differences by many multiples. On Wikipedia there's an image with elevation exaggerated 10,000x: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoid
Thermochemical water cracking.
I think it's a fantastic idea and wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
This is effectively what the vertex shader modification would do -- the same trick that ANGLE does: gl_Position.z = (gl_Position.z + gl_Position.w) * 0.5;

This is the same as modifying a projection matrix -- you're doing the same post-multiply to the same column. But note that there's no guarantee there's ever a projection matrix. Clip space coordinates could be generated directly in the vertex shader.
Depends what is behind the custom license and how well it's communicated. If it's only the db as service management magic I wouldn't mind. Anything more and I would worry I would miss out on upcoming features few years down the line.
Each of these stories is a little push. In sum it feels like I've been shoved hard away from Google. It's taken several years now for me to separate from so many of their services, and the last big fearsome jump will be to leave Android behind. It will mean keeping a second phone, because work is still thoroughly engoogled. But stories like this make me want to complete the divorce and de-slime my personal phone. And then wonder if it's worth changing jobs.
Finally, a way to get a real person on the phone at Google!
The phenomenon I'm describing here has nothing to do with climbing any ladder, corporate or Maslow. Being bored for 8 hours a day every day and not really even being able to distract your brain from it like you potentially can with less mental labor is just not very pleasant, and many people can't just "put up with it" for years on end without it turning into self-harm.
I think that would be out of scope for the standard library. We do have an interface which might be helpful for developing such a tool, though:

https://docs.harelang.org/datetime#builder
Apple has programs for repair shops.

This program, like the iPhone program, is not that program. This is for adventurous people who want to do the repair themselves because they don’t value their own time highly enough.

One can complain about how Apple deals with repair shops. One can complain about how Apple deals with self-service repair. One should not confuse the two situations as if they were in any way equivalent.
> …the risk-reward ratio of theoretical copyright litigation is not good, especially when litigating against open source projects tends to paint a target on your back.

And the example they give (without the link being preserved) is a patent case which is completely different.

75 years from now the heirs of the developer who wrote the library being discussed can go on a copyright lawsuit spree and there’s no amount “FLOSS community pressure” which could stop them.

People keep giving advice on this issue of “it probably doesn’t matter, they put it on GitHub because they want people to use the code” which might be true today but it also might matter a whole lot tomorrow for whatever reason.

Bad, bad advice…
I could be wrong here, but it sounds like you would have been further along than anyone I met in the batch. The majority of folks I spent time with were starting from scratch.
I had a very serious case of atopic eczema wrongly attributed to an allergy to metals. Doctors had tried everything. I had resorted to wearing medical cotton gloves, and a thick perma layer of cortisone cream (nicely colored red by it mixing with my open flesh). Over the counter all-in-one vitamins & minerals have cured me. I am not lying! I now think that the root cause of my condition was my immune system. The allergy was probably just a consequence
How would one do that?

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Sorry my bad, found the answer. One simply adds the following flags to the StableDiffusionPipeline.from_pretrained call in the example: revision="fp16", torch_dtype=torch.float16

Found it in this blogpost: https://huggingface.co/blog/stable_diffusion

mempko thank you for your hint! I was about to drop a not insignificant amount of money on a new GPU.

What does one lose by using float16 representation? Does it make the images visually less detailed? Or how can one reason about this?
This title is straight-up incorrect and the article says as much. Can we try not to spread misinformation about an event like this? It is very serious and raises lots of important questions about how we can effectively reign in the pseudo-judicial systems that tech companies appear to be evolving.
I'm willing to bet race has some underlying influence whether they like to admit it or not.
Also checkout https://text-generator.io which is already 10x cheaper... I think they know text generation is no longer a monopoly any more hence having to move pricing, the openai margins are still really high though honestly.
Oh I see that’s an interesting idea.

But you’ll still need a way to send very small sums of money without an outrageous payment processing fee.
https://qntm.org/calendar

See also: https://qntm.org/continuous and https://qntm.org/abolish
I thought this was interesting so I literally pasted the entire thing into OpenAI's playground and asked DaVinci to write a rebuttal of your argument. Here is what it said:

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There are a few problems with LukeV's argument. First, he conflates the ability to generate human-like text with the ability to communicate. Just because GPT-3 can generate text that sounds like it was written by a human does not mean that it cannot communicate. In fact, GPT-3 is quite good at carrying a line of thought or argument through a longer text, as evidenced by the fact that it is often used by writers to generate ideas and outlines for their articles.

Second, LukeV claims that GPT-3 is at its weakest when writing about the relationships between a set of concepts. However, this is not necessarily true. GPT-3 may not be able to generate text that is perfectly grammatical or that makes perfect sense, but it is often able to generate text that is nonetheless meaningful and insightful. For example, GPT-3 has been used to generate essays on complex topics such as the philosophy of mind, and these essays have been well-received by readers.

Third, LukeV argues that the world does not need more words, but this is clearly not the case. The world needs more communication, and GPT-3 can help to facilitate this by generating text that is meaningful and insightful. In fact, GPT-3 is already being used by writers to generate ideas and outlines for their articles, and it is likely that this use will only increase in the future.

In conclusion, LukeV's argument against GPT-3 is flawed. GPT-3 is a valuable tool that can help to facilitate communication, and the world needs more communication, not less.

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I'm not sure who I agree with, but that's GPT-1's response to you regarding your critique of itself. Have at it!
I had undiagnosed ADHD all throughout highschool and got diagnosed my first semester of post secondary. Out of school now and I’ve been medicated for ADHD for six years or so now. For me, the only thing that reliably works to combat my ADHD is my medication (supplementing the meds with a healthy sleep schedule also helps improve their effectiveness).

In my personal life, when I’ve had friends mention that they think they might have ADHD, I have always been very adamant that the very best thing they could do for themselves is to schedule an appointment with their doctor and ask for an assessment.

For me, the assessment was very simple— I was given a self-reporting questionnaire of 20 or so questions and told to monitor my symptoms and be mindful of what I was doing during the next week, and bring it back in at the end of the week for my Doctor to have a look at my answers / questionnaire. I did that, and my Doctor agreed that my symptoms were strongly correlated with ADHD, and gave me a two week supply / trial prescription of Vyvanse 20mg.

The first time I took my ADHD medication, it was like a light switch was flipped on in my brain. I was immediately so much more productive, less lazy, more capable, more focused, etc. After I finished the trial I scheduled another appointment and told my Doctor how I felt about it, which was that I felt it provided me a great positive effect. It was at that point that I was then “officially” diagnosed with ADHD, and six years (and a few dosage / medication changes) later, here we are.

Personal anecdotes aside, I highly recommend that you take the time to simply schedule an appointment with your Doctor as soon as you can. Once you have the appointment, the first step is complete and the process is more or less on autopilot from there (provided you show up to your appointment, that is).

If you’d like something quantifiable to help you determine whether or not you’re likely to have ADHD, you can take the questionnaire I took and see how you score [0]. I am Canadian, but I have an American friend who told me he filled out the exact same questionnaire when he was being assessed for ADHD as well, so I believe it may be standardized to some extent, at least for Canadians and Americans.

[0]: https://www.hcp.med.harvard.edu/ncs/ftpdir/adhd/18Q_ASRS_Eng...
Maybe comment on things people said, rather than putting words in their mouths.

edit: and if jessaustin was trying to inject US party politics into Pakistan, you certainly jumped in right after them, literally denying the reality of what happened in Pakistan in order to defend something that you insist is not a good comparison. Who do you think you're convincing? You make it impossible to be on your side when you're so loose with the truth.
International cricket matches are typically televised in Pakistan. b^)
Sometimes 22hrs or 26hrs if traveling by ship.
I know you're acknowledging you're joking.

For those who do find themselves bothered by this kind of thing, these projects are almost always a few layers deep on what they're actually researching. I would assume this is more fun demo with a potential economic application in large scale roasting but that the research value (and intern training value) are in the general research area of broad solar concentrator R&D. If you look at the publication history for the folks involved you'll see a lot of papers on molten salt solar concentrators (materials, plant design, physics of etc).

Sandia does a lot of really interesting and valuable research (across all the sites but NM and CA in particular).
In the beginning, for mobile it's going to be a websocket to a Python server - kind of server-driven UI (SDUI) approach. Then we'll look into packaging everything into a standalone mobile app: https://flet.dev/blog/flet-mobile-strategy

For desktop using WebSockets within localhost doesn't really add a noticable overhead.
This -> https://www.mysterium.network

You can pay with btc, eth.

All anonymous

And NO you don't run a node when you are using the vpn.
> People left early in the war because of panic and because Russia was trying to invade the while of Ukraine. But if we look at the situation now, arguably there is no reason to have refugees outside of Ukraine.

Huh? Until Feb you might have said this if you did not believe the intelligence reports on an invasion being prepared, but now when they are actually deeper in Ukranian soil, and scratched near Kiev itself, are you to say they won't try again?
Very funny.

Anyway, this pretty much answered my question: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32556277
What does "ABS" stand for in this context?
The problem with your argument is that the same mechanisms that are used by government for broad-reaching surveillance are also used for legitimate government purposes. These are things like subpoenas and warrants, which are impossible to eliminate completely while keeping a functional court system.

You could try to argue that we should make sure that these are narrow in scope (that's already the rule despite the current practice), but that doesn't eliminate the problem completely: someone can already subpoena Amazon for "recordings taken in kylevedder's house between 4/22/2022 and 6/22/2022" related to an investigation, and they will get them. Even if you are not the target of the investigation, but they have reason to believe that the target may have visited you during that time period. Such a subpoena has not been tried in civil court yet, but it will likely be allowed. In an alternative world where tech companies don't track you, these subpoenas wouldn't work.

Google, Amazon, and other data collectors have a principal-agent problem with respect to data about you: while you would likely fight a subpoena for your location data tooth and nail, they don't care so much. They will often give up the data, and they won't even tell you they did.

The alternative business models are ad support without tracking and subscriptions. Google makes most of its money on ads that don't really need aggressive tracking, like ads for toasters when you search "toaster" or ads for other car brands when you search "Ford SUV." Arguably, the tracking might hurt their system since they try to produce fully personalized results for you. WolframAlpha is a search engine on a subscription model. Micro-subscriptions are already a thing (albeit invented/normalized after Google was invented), and it would be very likely that Comcast would bundle a Google subscription into your cable plan the way they do for entertainment products.

As far as this being bad for people, allowing companies to track you invasively is a little like not buying insurance. You won't care most of the time, but you may care a lot. Lots of people don't buy insurance, even though they should, because they severely underestimate tail risk. This kind of cognitive distortion is traditionally addressed with laws: social security, healthcare mandates (or single-payer healthcare), and car insurance mandates in some states all operate on this rationale. So should privacy legislation.
you and your "data points" are in need of a bottle of beer I suppose
Relatedly, Russia is a top exporter of fertilizers: https://thehill.com/policy/3513855-why-the-fertilizer-market...

Interestingly, while over the past 10-15 years the U.S. condemned Germany for importing natural gas from Russia, the U.S. was methodically displacing some of its domestic fertilizer production with imports, a substantial fraction coming from Russia and Belarus--in particular, 12% of U.S. potash consumption comes from Russia, and 93% imported overall. See https://farmdocdaily.illinois.edu/2022/03/war-in-ukraine-and.... It seems small but it turned out to be a significant direct short-term lever, and presumably a much bigger lever with many other countries; and that's not even considering indirect leverage from Russia's ability to manipulate global market prices and thus U.S. domestic prices.

Perhaps the only thing that hits harder than an increase in energy prices is an increase in food prices.

(OTOH, for all I know the USDA, etc, may have actually been diligently working to minimize foreign dependence without being too disruptive--politically or economically--and the current percentages and source country distributions were the best they could accomplish.)
You really need to brush up on your basic knowledge of statistics.
There's a penalty for generating text it's generated before (two penalties, actually, one for words and one for phrases).
Similar thing for Names:

Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1438472
If you are desperate for greater functionality, you can install the free Oracle XE database, then write whatever functions you want in pl/SQL.

Oracle "external tables" will allow you to see your CSVs directly, without creating a physical table within the database or otherwise using resources. If you actually have SQLite databases, you can join them in Oracle directly with dg4odbc inserted into your listener.

Note that the SQL/PSM standard is based on Oracle pl/SQL, and many databases implement it; SQLite doesn't.

"SQL/PSM is derived, seemingly directly, from Oracle's PL/SQL. Oracle developed PL/SQL and released it in 1991, basing the language on the US Department of Defense's Ada programming language."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL/PSM
You could run the questionable app in a local VM or in AWS first ( https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/mac/ ). Additionally, Virus Total is a wonderful resource for scanning questionable binaries.
Paying extra is not a viable solution for not receiving what one has already paid for.
I also have a 10g card and saw the same thing - to get it working I had to pass in "--n_samples 1" to the command, which limits the number of generated images to 2 in any given run. This has been working fine for me
But a decent upgrade in vehicular privacy!

Things that make you go hmmm...
Some buddies who work on CANDU tell me they have tritium contamination everywhere as a result of this. From what they tell me it's not really a big safety issue, mostly more annoying than anything.
Another good way to time certain meetings is using dollars: https://www.mcgurrin.info/mcc/meetingclock.htm
It's because US interference is actually pretty common.

Here is Wikipedia on this topic, which is actually one of the more "US intelligence friendly" sources out there: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in... This list is endless and shocking.

Pakistan is a big and important country, so their position is actually important. Furthermore, for any empire, it's vital that it gets other smaller countries in line, even if the small country's position would be irrelevant.

The way I see it is that most countries' leaders will always be both popular and unpopular in a significant portion of the country so it is always possible to frame a revolution/coup/insurgence as either a great thing or a bad thing.

I don't know what happened in this case, and in complicated scenarios like these, there are always many factors and forces at play, but it's certainly not unreasonable to think that foreign powers gave a little push in order to see the outcome they wanted in the region.
Anti-lock braking system

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-lock_braking_system
Still bitter about reader over here, friend.
If your looking for a free teir that allways is there checkout https://text-generator.io which has 100 free requests a month. The free their really helps people get started with it or run demos etc without needing to commit to anything
Yes, labor needs to increase its productivity compared to capital investments if it wants raises.

Make no mistake, these productivity increases come almost entirely from capital spent, not from labor becoming better at what it does.

If labor wants to justify higher wages, it needs to do so on its own merits, not by piggybacking on the improvements that capital is responsible for, and pretending like that increase in productivity was thanks to them.
Capacitive screens also probably don't work with prosthetics, while resistive screens don't mind the material of what is being pressed by.
I always enjoyed an entertaining talk by Peter Hall on this subject: https://youtu.be/bJmx0tcVubY?t=3224
As long as you don't change orbits, you should be fine.
Germany has lignite to use for electricity and oil for heating, as you said. That should be enough to reduce demand and thus prices.

Long-term there are gas reserves in Netherlands , in the mediterranean etc. The EU has options.

I have to also ask why? Germany obviously has options but why is it taboo to ask them to change their policies abruptly and temporarily? We have a war in europe
How is it incorrect? They proactively contacted the police and reported possible CSAM?
Is it inconsistent? Even if it isn't google's timer, you still get results for timers provided by other websites, if you google search for "set 5 minute timer".
Are we just saying the screen is there but if you touch it then it just sits there and ignores you? I suppose that might be driveable if it's just telling me pointless things until I accidentally coffee-slosh it to death.
Is this the same guy that said this?

https://mobile.twitter.com/ksorbs/status/1560238181273915392
>>> who was extremely unpopular with both the army and the public

Bro, if you want to lie, at least lie at something which can’t be countered by other sources.

Among all the leaders atm, khan is the most popular one. Ever since he was ousted, he has been calling rallies and people are coming out for him. He has pulled biggest crowd in pakistan history. All can be seen on YouTube.

I can’t even read rest of your comment given that I already know that either you are very disconnected from reality or you have some other motive to discredit khan.
Oh I have a great one:

> days don't overlap

If you ever have the pleasure of working with the Jewish religious calendar, it defines day boundaries by sundown and rise of the first star, which are not simultaneous. This leads to a phase during which two days co-exist. And of course it's not continuous over the year and by location.
The vendor's customers are already at risk. It's a peculiar arrogance to imagine otherwise.
Yannic kilchers explanation of the nyströmformer is really good and clear (though it might help to understand transformers to start out with) https://youtu.be/m-zrcmRd7E4
Cloudflare Pressured to Drop Kiwi Farms After Latest Doxing Effort
Oh shoot I'm sorry, I misunderstood your comment. Yeah you're right, the const_cast isn't important for casting away const, so it's not important for that rule as far as that goes, good point! This is why I also need to sit down and think about these before I can be confident in them :)
Hiding a phishing attack behind the AWS cloud
> still black people and indigenous populations were still left out of what you consider a feat

If we concede no feats have been achieved in human history for not being unblemishingly perfect, sure. Fine. We'll leave the term with religion (and madness). Whatever the next rung of achievement is, the highest one in realm of the possible, America's founding matches it.
Emails were not involved.
So "~Gmail~ Google will call the cops on you based on the content of your ~emails~ Google Photos"? It seems like a rather small correction to me.
I have been living in East Germany for the last 15 years. My wife is Bulgarian (is that "foreign" enough for you?) and she never had any issues with anybody being anti-immigrant or racist towards her.
Good points. I think if my 2019 MBP has a problem in the next year, I'll try and use the Mastercard extension
Thank you so much! Happy to share!
There should be more effort to support Direct3D under Linux. We have Wine and DXVK, but it should be easier to integrate the D3D support into Linux applications.
The UI part of the app with its HTML/CSS/Javascript is normally the most the memory hungry part - there won't be a huge difference there between tauri and electron.
Even in the early '90s, there was already suspicion of remailers. (Not only among cypherpunks-types; for example, I vaguely recall some relatively mainstream outlet, maybe Michael O'Brien in SunExpert magazine, saying to be skeptical of new anon services.)