skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Worse at image cohesion and prompt matching, but competitive in terms of final image quality in the better cases.
And the close button is guaranteed to be about 2mm wide.
Ask HN: Why are image search engines still so bad?
Our current image processing and textual description extraction from images algorithms based on machine learning have evolved a lot lately. As well as mechanisms that allow generating images from text. Why still the most popular image search engines like Google Image, Bing, Duck Duck Go etc. are THAT bad at indexing the internet images? What's the logic in that?

For example:

"a duck riding a motorcycle in the rain" don't have even a single result with a duck riding a motorcycle. But if you search for "a duck riding a motorcycle" you can see some right results.

And a lot of results with watermarks like "iStock" etc. that could be easily filtered or at least separated from the main search.

Sometimes it seems that we have evolved decades in some things, but other such basic things are left behind...
Website says cancel with click of a button...can't find the button...

Can't find an email to try to get a refund.

found in email.
There's a 15 minute YouTube presentation of the 72-page doc (by the author): https://youtu.be/JRGVqBScBRE
> How many obesity cases are there that don't have one of those two issues in some co-causal way?

You can't imagine there are a few million people like that out of the billions in the world, and that we might want to give effective medical care to those people also?

> Likewise how do you treat these people to reduce their insulin swings in such a way that they... would fail to lose weight?

Is this an actual question asking about the state of the research, or do you think that it's unimaginable that science could ever be able to directly manipulate people's insulin levels?

I get the impression from most of the top level comments on this thread that some people would be upset if fat people's mortality could be reduced or normalized without weight loss. Like there's an urge to see fat people punished rather than happy and healthy.
I suppose we’ll have to mine asteroids for these minerals. Probably better get back on that “space” thing.
Believe me, they do not want to experience you going first. Death is the only certainty of life.
the elastic container service definition reads like an absolute funding pitch and i love every word of it.
Perhaps you can ELI5 because I was under the impression Ukraine was a sovereign nation. Free to pursue any alliances it wishes. And that its 1991 borders were acknowledged in exchange for yielding nuclear weapons to Russia.
yeah the generated examples were somewhat decent, with a few more iterations I can see it matching some turing-complete form that clients will pay for.
The fact that engineers are not taught those topics are why DevOps has failed. We're expecting whole organizations to magically improve when they don't understand how. I can count on one hand the number of people I have met who understand OP's comment.
Imagine trying to promote reproductive rates while censoring sexual activity...
How do you explain the widespread availability of "drop" accounts in the US? Cybercrime forums are full of people offering services to "cash out" illicit bank transfers into cryptocurrency.
Artist uses AI image generator with own name as prompt
Let's talk about splitting things up in useful ways.

12=2 * 2 * 3.

Splitting something in half is useful; splitting it half again remains useful. Splitting in half a third time is arguably less useful than splitting it into a third. So 12 is the made-to-order number that lets you split it in half, twice, and in thirds, once.

Which naturally leads to seconds and minutes, or 60:

60=2 * 2 * 3 * 5

Because dividing the whole into fifths is more useful than a second 3, or a third 2.

So, there's your basic argument for why you would see a 12 or a 60 instead of a 10 or some other number. You have a whole that you want to divide into useful parts.

I'm not sure that the linked article, or the current top comment (Circle of Fifths) meaningfully extends beyond this "useful parts" hypothesis; we like hearing useful parts would be the somewhat surprising thing to talk about.
I find this kind of domestic spying to be pretty much the most amoral application of technology, far more than say military which gets the usual attention. I've seen similar efforts from the insurance industry. Shame on anyone involved in it (it was Capgemini here so it'z effectively mercenaries anyway)
I'm not talking about explicit notions of octaves and octave equivalence, although those do exist in very many musical traditions and appear to be extremely widespread in musical traditions where tones have names (if not ubiquitous—I'm not aware of any exceptions). I was referring to the claims that octave equivalence is in some sense hard-wired in the human brain, or sometimes claimed to be all or many mammalian brains. I'm not qualified to evaluate these claims or even whether how well-accepted they are among experts, but such claims do seem to pop up all over the place when discussing music perception.
Yes, I've been very curious about real world experience of passports in this lifestyle.
> Evil exists because we may choose it

The existence of kids with cancer (one example of the million miseries of this world) easily refutes your claim that "evil" is begotten by "free will".
There's a question as to whether Google is acting as an agent of the Government here. When the Government outsources something, that activity sometimes becomes subject to constitutional protections. Cases on this are iffy, though.[1] This has come up in reference to Amtrak, the Federal Reserve, Blackwater, and privately run prisons.

Suppose Google analyzed all business data that passed through its servers looking for patterns of tax evasion. If the probability of tax evasion was high, reporting it to the IRS, which offers rewards, could be a profit center.

[1] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2394843
> customer-facing production sites sounds bonkers

We came from very different lands I guess. Batching 50 commits with no easy way of knowing which commit caused the issue seems scarier to me, in case of an issue. And if you code correctly and have warmup requests, your deployment could be without any downtime. Obviously there will be some extra resource usage because of unready resources.
The interesting thing is that end result seems to be a proliferation of extreme views in the US vs other similar countries, which is arguably the opposite of what you might reasonably expect from the opportunity to allow freer discussion of ideas.
I can't do shit on Twitter:

https://imgur.com/a/OBnVpUI

Cool! Ok so, confirmed. Garry Tan is a sinister guy. Glad I asked here!

Edit: Sorry but how is this downvoted to zero? I have done nothing except add five "likes" to Twitter and my account is now banned there. This is insane. I was pro-or-neutral-Garry at the start of this convo, he was just the Posterous guy. Now my Twitter is gone. What the hell?

Edit 2: uhh so how do you get an account back?
The producers swear up and down to this day that they did not use a laugh track. That that was legit audience reaction.
I did web design back when it was called webmaster, and every time we finished a site my boss would ask me to 'make it sparkle' and this is what she meant, every time. I would explain why I thought it was a bad idea but then I would add the js snippet and show her. She would clap her hands and jump with glee. I would deploy it. The customers loved it. Invariably, the next day I would remove it because what mattered is whether the customer's customers liked it, and half the time they would think it was a virus and the other half were using IE 1.0 so they couldn't see it.
Getting Paid as a Freelancer
I’ve worked with over 100 creators on different freelance sites such as Fiverr and Upwork. Being a creator as well, I can tell you that most of us have one common pain point. When TF will we get paid. And why TF am I being paid so low. Notice how I ended both statements with a period. That’s because it’s not even a question anymore, it’s a statement. The freelance market is saturated with millions of creators who are willing to work for dirt, driving down the value of quality work and quality clientele. And no, I’m not saying this to discourage those creatives that are just starting. I’m only emphasizing that creatives are in demand for a reason!
If we’re in a hot market, then why aren’t we driving the price? Why are we settling for less. Why are we giving away $1 for every 5 dollars we make? Have you actually considered how the market takes advantage of us when they need US?

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A neural net properly trained with binocular vision should be able to estimate the size and distance of the sign and the distance of the sign from the actual intersection. LIDAR is still probably way easier to get right, though.
"We've improved the way you interact with our app!"

>click next.

Cursor slowly moves to the upper-right corner of the screen. "We've added a 'search by topic' functionality to our help menu! No more need to scroll alphabetically!"

>click next

Cursor slowly moves to the lower left corner of the screen. A red circles appears, pulsing. "The toolbar now displays the two-letter country code that your operating system is set to. Useful for travelers!"

>click next

Cursor slowly moves to the upper middle of the screen. A popup appears. "If you have forgotten to fill out your phone number and email address in the Account Options, a helpful reminder will appear each time you start the program. This will help you reap a number of useful benefits that sharing your information allows!"
Is there any evidence that "skinnyfat" people have high fasting insulin levels?

The OP actually says that BMI is negatively correlated with mortality if you control for insulin levels, so that would mean that thin people with high fasting blood sugar would have more mortality than fat people in the same situation.
I watched many movies through TV Guardian [0] (the old composite cable variant). It connected inline to a VHS/DVD player and read closed captioned for any swear words. It would then mute the sound and show the censored CC. Of course it simply looked for words in a database and couldn't mute innuendos or blank out non-heteronormative relations.

[0]: https://www.tvguardian.com/
> What businesses allow you to pay via ACH?

Pretty much anyone with a Stripe account can accept payments via ACH.

https://stripe.com/docs/payments/ach-debit

I worked at an ISP and we definitely appreciated it when our customers paid via ACH instead of credit card. (Less fees.) We were tiny, too; you don't have to be a giant company to get this going.
This exactly. The opinion is the wrong one and must be smashed!

Notice how they are "yahoos" or some other derogatory framing?

(*disregard whoever they may be, they aren't established, well known, approved, epidemiology experts employedby the government!)
If you have a pawn stacked on another piece, and you use the other piece's move to get to the back row, does the pawn promote, or do you have to have the pawn step to the back row on its own power? The former seems like a recipe for exceedingly fast promotion in the mid-to-end game.
So then version 5 will finally introduce the massive, desperately needed UI refactor after ten years, while plenty of clients just stay on version 4.

If your new product with ten years of improvements was so unattractive compared with the existing version your customers are currently using that they were choosing not to update, what does that say about the value to the customer of all those improvements?

In the world before SAAS we saw both extremes often. Some products had incredible dev teams and people would upgrade relatively often even when each new version cost extra money. Other products barely produced an interesting change in several new versions over several years and users mostly didn't pay for those updates.

SAAS is a convenient business model for the developers in the latter category because it locks in the ongoing revenues whether any future changes add value or not. They just need enough lock-in effects that once you've signed up you can't easily move to one of their competitors.
The percentage of people with normal BMIs and type 2 diabetes or prediabetes is so small that is irrelevant from a mass health perspective.

There are a plethora of studies correlating a change in diet with improved blood markers for fasting blood glucose and insulin response. Sugar "problems" are resolved by diet, and resolving diet goes along with reversing weight loss. It cannot be any other way.

There is no evidence that obese BMIs are negatively correlated to mortality, only the opposite. Obese BMIs still come with increased arterial plaque, complications in anesthesia and surgical healing for medical interventions, fatty liver disease, ocular pressure, lung function, cardiovascular health, and so on.

Obesity is up with smoking as a cause of preventable death. Let's not try to put a pretty face on it. A spade is a spade.

Insulin resistance/high fasting glucose and obesity are inseparable peas in a pod.
Religious tolerance is not mankind's strong point. Even in the Netherlands which prides itself on religious freedom it wasn't until 1848 Catholics were allowed to build churches again. It wasn't a popular move.
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Twitter Auth / Login – Does someone have any issues?
I have been trying to Login to twitter for a long time around half an hour - after the 2 Step Verification code sequence, it's showing a white screen of death. Anybody facing any issues with Twitter?

I am in London. I checked the console, I got this error:

{
code: 353,
message: "This request requires a matching csrf cookie and header."
}

Tried with Incognito mode, other browsers, nothing helped!
Mark and Nadiyana were doing it so tough in French winter scraping that boat together that they deserve all the success they can muster. Missing interview question: rǔbǐng (乳饼) or chèvre?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goat_cheese#France
no one said they can’t, just this is largely why they don’t. are you going to rob a supermarket where you have to hand in ID at the door? or will you find somewhere easier?
12" display is a killer requirement here. Lenovo (Duet) and Asus (CM3) make detachable Chromebooks, but neither tops 11". The CM3 has an integrated pressure-sensitive stylus. The HP X2 11 is right at 11" with a pen and dockable stylus, but in a 3:2 aspect ratio.

IIRC all modern Chrome OS devices support Linux containers, which probably won't be what you want either, and none of them are remotely very powerful. I don't know about the CM3, but I've installed Ubuntu on the Duet and I can find videos of people installing and running Ubuntu on the x2 with touch working.
Some extremely privileged takes in here which don't consider a basic truth today: the ad supported web allows information to be accessible to a vast number of relatively poor people who would rather spend their limited discretionary income on something other than online content.

It's not good or great or perfect, but the downside of the demise of ads, tracking, ad networks on the web would be a more information impoverished society any way you slice it.
I think these things are very related, but Microformats isn't going to solve this problem on its own. After all, it's been around for quite a while, just like most of these conventions.

10-15 years ago, we had a bunch of different ways everyone was trying to schematize their data on the web, and since we never all agreed to just use one of them, everyone now uses fragments of all of them — and of other pseudo-proprietary systems — in their own unique ways.
"EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service)

The tried and trusted method to conjure the dark arts known as "Kubernetes" is one of great study and contemplation, for it is not to be taken lightly, this dark path on which you embark. With dedication and perseverance, you may find success where others have failed. Trust in yourself, and the rewards shall be great."

Can't argue with that!
https://api.twitterstat.us/ (but of course everything is green)
But if you're doing 50+ deploys a day, how can there possibly enough time to know which commit caused whatever issue that gets noticed anyway?
If those 50 deploys are done during regular business hours that's 9 minutes per deploy on average!
> Most weird autopilot goofs and accidents stem from the car not knowing the exact distance to the object its seeing with its cameras.

What about crappy roads with worn markings, missing / damaged signs or out of order traffic lights? How well are these handled?
There was a whole startup, "Comet Cursor" whose goal was to get people to install a plugin (that spied on you, of course) to get enhanced cursors. I was working for a Big Media company in the early 2000s when the Comet Cursor execs managed to convince our execs that it would be a good idea to accept money from Comet Cursor in exchange for forcing downloads on our customers.
Likewise why were German philosophers and thinkers so apt to write dense and convoluted sentences? I'd like to know.
This is not the way to react when asked for evidence of your claim. Instead of talking about 100%, subtract "very rare" from 100%, and supply evidence for that. It's difficult not to like "medical facts" when none have been offered.
Biden Vows to Crack Down on Colleges Making Student Debt Crisis Worse
So much memories of DHTML and JS tips sharing websites come back to my mind when using this page ! It immediately reminded me of frames with customized scrollbars and marquee text too =).
Love this. OpenAI are livid. :^)
I was also working on early multiprocessors in the early 90s, and it's true that the terms were often treated as synonyms then, but for at least half of the time since then the distinction has been clear and pretty well agreed upon. Concurrency refers to the entire lifetimes of two activities overlapping, and can be achieved via scheduling (preemptive or cooperative) and context switching on a single processor (core nowadays). Parallelism refers to activities running literally at the same instant on separate bits of hardware. It doesn't make a whole lot of sense etymologically, might even be considered backward in that sense, but it's the present usage.

Note: I deliberately use the generic "activity" to mean any of OS threads, user-level threads, coroutines, callbacks, deferred procedure calls, etc. Same principle/distinction regardless.
This was the most kind boggling thing I encountered when I first moved to the US (that and the signature/nothing at all nature of using a card to pay for anything).

I asked about why they didn’t at least require any checks to be issued on checks that they issued and I was told it was because people might not want to use bank provided ones??

But yeah the fact that the way you did a direct deposit is give someone your bank account# and then they withdraw however much money they want from it, and they can do so in perpetuity, is absurd.

In NZ - and I presume most of the rest of the world with such systems - the only thing you can do with someone’s account details is deposit money.
Americans underestime climate policy popularity by nearly half
with all due respect - lol

there isn't a fire capable of burning hot enough, to throw every huawei device into

just google the company man, it's a track record that's genuinely hard to believe

20190409 backdoored laptops - https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-47800000

20190430 backdoored routers - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/apr/30/alleged-h...

20210813 alleged widespread IP theft from a pakistani tech firm, repackaged with backdoors, and sold back to the pakistani gov - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/apr/30/alleged-h...
I haven’t worked with Nix and this blogpost has encouraged me to stay clear of it.

https://github.com/NixOS/nix.dev/issues/275

I've never seen good names emerge out of committees. Particularly ones that are formed years after the original naming mistakes were made.
In general it seems that energy market is rather finely balanced thing. A covid lockdowns pushed it into other direction. Thus prices going really low or in rare cases even negative. Then with recovery they recovered, but there isn't too much slack on global scale and supply I think was even somewhat scaled back.

Now next stop of getting supply from rather large player with post covid recovery pushed the price massively to other direction. And do to how electricity markets work not much was needed. Now combine this with very dry summer resulting less hydro and even nuclear shutdowns. And we are really approaching perfect storm.
Yep. Word for Windows 6 was pretty much the end of the road for word-processor improvement. It has been nothing but regressions since, to the shitshow that is Word today.
There are probably economically exploitable deposits of most of these minerals left, but the current business environment disincentivizes exploration and the political situation in many of the countries that have lots of mineral resources makes big projects hard to fund/manage.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/margaritas-story-how-one-...

https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/russian-man-pleads-guilty-...

They do this, at giant scale. When you're earning tens of thousands of dollars per account, it's worth it to train people to go open bank accounts using fake passports.
Exactly - which you'd think would it make it all the more important to talk about it!
So is Napoleon Dyanamite censored too? I think he mentions nunchucks
Is it self aware? That is pretty interesting inference anyway, I guess we’ll never understand why it “thinks” this way.
The class attribute isn't just for styling though.

See https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/dom.html#global-attri...

> authors are encouraged to use values that describe the nature of the content, rather than values that describe the desired presentation of the content.
Fed Plans 2023 Launch of Long-Anticipated Faster Payments System
Sorry. Maybe I lost sight of the context of your original reply.

I think I took it to mean you saying the study hadn't meaningfully narrowed down mortality risk to less noisy factors than obesity, when I see now that you may have just been helping the prior commenter see that obesity itself is still correlated with mortality through these. Probably because I can't even grok how they got to that idea. :)
Well if you can't tell, does it matter?
Lord knows a product is problematic and complicated when it's synopsis badly translated into Victorian English seems "about right".
Same here, in Belgium.

I was logged in and got lot of CSRF token errors. I'm not able to log in again.
> Challenge-and-reward is what's missing from so many lives these days.

Just get kids -> challenge. When they’re in bed -> reward.
I believe the gasometers were replaced by pressurizing the gas in pipelines.

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

> With the move to natural gas and construction of the national grid pipework, their use steadily diminished as the pipe network could both store gas under pressure, and eventually satisfy peak demand directly.
Thanks for the info, I’ll go read up on him some more to see what I can find. If any of this is true, he sounds like an odd choice for the CEO of YC.