skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Germany is roughly the size of Texas.

US military have 15 military bases in Texas.[2]

Then US have 41 military bases in Germany[1].

It is a proxy war, kind of Vietname but in Europe.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_Army_ins...

[2] - https://militarybases.com/texas/
I don't know. Such connotations may also depend not only on west / east, but also on time. Those placards are from 60-70 years ago I think.

See also
https://www.google.com/search?q=%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%...
In my experience, there is no such thing as a design job where the client (or boss) doesn't make some kind of specific requests or feedback. Of course, with human artists, the marginal cost of such requests is relatively low - perhaps when the choice is between getting your stupid request honored for a human wage or taking what you get from an AI for ~free, executives will realize that none of their opinions are actually that important.
I agree with your sentiment, but isn't it a bit ironic that you made a point of emphasizing heterogeneity among ethnic subgroups, but then sort of took that away from what was more specifically mocking Chinese and North Korean stereotypes, rather than broadly Asian? If you were Filipino and got mad about a joke that poked at Chinese materialism culture, wouldn't that be a bit of a reach? Surely within Asian cultures, different stereotypes abound in regional humor, especially is it's taboo to joke about regional cultural differences
With the Ublockorigin add-on installed, I assume.
I have to use discord for some specific cases (one side project and a couple of social things) and it's been super comfortable once I did the following:

1. Turned off all notifications

2. Left / muted all the channels I didn't care about

3. Use the web app only
peter hessler had an interesting system where the blacklists were distributed via bgp. It sounds weird at first but the more I think about it the more it makes sense. delivering routes(or in this case anti routes) is bgp's core mission.

Unfortunately he shut down his bgp spam route sender last year.

http://www.bgp-spamd.net/
Planet ‘New Musk’ probably won’t be for me.

The artist is necessary for creating anything legitimately new that doesn’t suck. The critic is necessary to filter out all the crap the AI would be happy to create. Look at all these examples where the text prompts literally say which artist’s visual style to copy.

Making derivative artwork is in the process of becoming completely commoditized. That’s good in the sense that it allows novices to create visual content that they previously could only imagine (presuming they can adequately describe it).

But this also means the half-life for visual imitation will be drastically shortened, because even viral new styles will be done to death by artful copies in a matter of weeks.

Is XKCD art? Visually unchallenging (?), but certainly creative and thought provoking. What we’re mostly talking about at this point is giving kids (and some adults) who can’t draw well yet a chance to express what’s in their heads onto the page.
A) You're welcome! :-D

B), C)

I don't think all that electronic "magic" will go away anytime. It's more or less a prerequisite to create some kinds of sounds, which you just can't "manufacture".

It's not only about pure electronic music.

Almost all modern productions in all kinds of genres are depended on the usage of computers (and other machines). All that tech makes modern sounding peaces possible in the first place.

Even seemingly "maximal analog" music (like for example classic orchestra) sounds on a record the way it sounds because there was a lot of digital processing to remove all kinds of imperfections form the recorded raw audio, and of course a lot of of other post-processing.

Also I think it's clear what the majority prefers: People are asking actually for better produced pieces, otherwise the market wouldn't have moved that way.

Back in the day you would need to record and produce in one of that big, very expensive, well know studios somewhere around the world if you wanted to land a hit. The tech in those studios is worth millions to this day. Nobody would have invested in such a thing if people wouldn't have liked the results coming out there. (Today it's thankfully much cheaper to have a good recording; actually some small HW setup and a powerful PC with SW for only a few thousand bucks is more or less enough to sound absolutely professional, if you only know what you're doing of course).

On the other hand your actually right in some sense:

In a lot of genres "absolute perfection" isn't a goal. We use computers to remove "random (human / physical) imperfection" but add in on the other side some "humanization" into the sounds by digital means.

I think there is at the moment even a kind of trend to add more realistic, powerful, and interesting "humanization" possibilities to digital instruments. ("Humanization" or "randomization" knobs aren't anything new, but those functions get extended lately I think; for example you can use now AI instead of simply adding some randomness to some parameters).

So yes, we want to keep "natural" sounds to some degree. But by now we're using computers to artificially make the things that we're producing digitally sound more "natural". :-)

I think the core point here is control. To have something sound really great you need to be able to control every aspect of the sound, even the most tiny details. "Imperfections" are OK, or even actually desired, but only as long as they're added deliberately and remain controllable.
If the authors of the article are right, being able to beam power through "inclement weather" could be a huge win on its own.
> That's just silly. China hasn't infiltrated HN.

This kind of assumption is naive (no offense) and reminds me of the denialism regarding Russian disinformation. You do not need to "infiltrate" the site with "agents". It's fairly easy to write a script checking the front page for mentions of China and manually checking the thread to possibly respond with a comment. Before dismissing concerns like this as conspiratorial or silly, you should do some research on the topic:

[1] https://gking.harvard.edu/files/gking/files/50c.pdf?m=146479...

[2] https://www.info-res.org/post/revealed-coordinated-attempt-t...

[3] https://www.techdirt.com/2021/12/15/how-china-uses-western-i...

[4] https://www.state.gov/prc-efforts-to-manipulate-global-publi...

[5] https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/05/dozens-of-fake-news-websites...

[6] https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/06/28/china-m...

[7] https://www.lawfareblog.com/understanding-pro-china-propagan...

[8] https://mediamanipulation.org/case-studies/astroturfing-how-...

> the general implication here on HN is that China is the current Big Bad and everything they do is uniquely bad

The CCP is hostile to many Western values (e.g. free speech) and they are a primary geopolitical antagonist to the U.S. It's not unreasonable for a mostly U.S. user base to see the worst in CCP behavior or be biased against the CCP.
Came here to saw this. The problem with the internet as a whole is euro-centrism. Pretty sure even Chinese culture has equally old "hymns" and songs.

South American too, but the conquistadors destroyed everything.
AFAIK nobody ever got murdered by a CIA drone after using Uber.

The same cannot be said of Instagram or Gmail or iCloud (you forgot Apple on your list).
OT but anyone know how the author made that floating subscribe button happen? I inspected the code but I'm not a web dev and can't entirely tell how that was done.

AFAIK this is not a native Substack thing, and also AFAIK Substack doesn't allow CSS modification or injection of code.
Like Facebook?

https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/29/facebook-project-atlas/
Ask HN: Why can't tax pay for universal basic utilities?
Universal Health Care and Basic Income is too controversial. Universal basic utilities (internet, electricity/gas, purified water) seem likely to be accepted versus giving everyone free money and health care.
> Jeremy Geddes: "We’re only at the nascent stages, but I genuinely expect the emergence of AI into the visual arts will be the most consequential event of the past hundred years for art and art production."

Indeed. Been playing around with Midjourney and getting a palpable _this changes everything_ feeling.
the majority of the best information on the web is free
1) Can? I think so. Should? I’m not too sure. Obviously, there are people who don’t have those “social” accounts or don’t want to use them even if they’ve somehow signed up for one. The big question though is not their existence, but their numbers in the potential user base.

By removing adoption friction for one group, you are potentially adding a friction point for another. You’ll have to be the judge on whether it’s worth it.

How about email-only passwordless authentication? Seems like a viable alternative to the username/password. And yeah, keep the social logins as well on top of that.

2) Yeah, that necessity depends on your product.

In what cases or features is authentication needed in a food-ordering app? Storing user addresses and past orders for quicker reordering later? Implementing a loyalty point system?

If in your authentication-less app, you can provide similar features and benefits provided by an authenticated app without compromising much, go for it. Or just cut features and make simplicity your selling point.
Presumably there would've been fewer environmental concerns if Singapore simply had more land.
It's so bad, that even the NSA and CIA recommend an ad blocker.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/93ypke/the-nsa-and-cia-use-a...
Thanks, I mostly see the employee perspective here, good to see the perspective of an employer responsible for other people's stability.
Solar on geosynchronous orbit is 24/7 power supply. Solar on land works only in day, and in northern latitudes like in central Europe it does not really work during winter (there are too little insulation, so production is on 10-15 % of summer values).
Sorry, forgot to add that the app does have some limited adoption/validation using a MVP version of the app. Though I also agree with you and leaning towards "payment-checkout authentication" just so I can release sooner.

However, I was wondering more in general: is there a point at all in having username/password authentication in a mobile app these days, for the reasons i pointed out.
Microsoft is the main one.

Without MS Office, the USG probably could not make the scale of the wars that they do.
Facebook Widely Viewed Content Report, Second Quarter 2022
A good scene in 30 Rock is when Tracy is told about the Peter Principle and responds "but my incompetence knows no bounds!"
Show HN: I wrote some extensions for Pass (passwordstore.org)
In what part of your residence do you store the animals?

How much space does it take up?

Do you actually do the slaughtering,and if so, how do you maintain a hygienic station?

What's your technique for brining/preserving cuts?

Do you keep a meat locker or stuff all your cuts in a refrigerator?
TDP are made up numbers. Since they are arbitrary, you can't meaningfully say that they have doubled.
If this isn't a joke, I don't hate it. A little weird and fun never hurt anyone.
I prefer to call them HTML Firewalls rather than Ad Blockers. IMO they're a good computer security practise as much as anything else.

I'm near the end of reading Blindsight[0] and coming around to the idea that they are also a necessary self-defence tool to try and stem the tide of things trying to take up real-estate in my brain.

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52225003-blindsight
While you make a valid point, there is an important distinction to make clear: the US ensures global trade,
much of it contrary to US interest. If you question this consider that the US is the agent enforcing freedom of navigable waters around the world. All other partners in this effort are in subsidy.

Save your comment on embargoes! Those that are in force are pretty easily justified from a US perspective and hardly tip scales in terms of total trade. (Cuba stands as a lesson on threatening US lands with violence)

The same if controlled by China or Russia would look immensely different. No argument to the contrary holds water. Their ideas of trade and free enterprise are far more constrained.
> Another thing to point out is these teams are descendants of open source, Katherine Crawsons open source breakthroughs led to substantial improvements in DallE. Everyone should be saying her name 1000x more often.* She also helped create Stable Diffusion specifically, in substantial ways

Not only that, but OpenAI didn't seem to know their CLIP model could be used to generate images (via Advad's CLIP+VQGAN) at all, otherwise they wouldn't have released it. So they did unintentionally start the "AI art" movement even if they didn't release a trained DALLE.
I don't know. I see often here on HN people complaining that governments are doing nothing about climate change. Yet, almost every day you can read in the news about one government or another banning the sale of gasoline cars after 2035 or mandating x% of electricity come from renewables, or something similar. And generally these measures are received with popular support. The cognitive dissonance is there.
It's not simply a given that using copyright material to train a model is copyright violation.

In my view it isn't. No one image contributes a significant amount, and the process the machine is doing it analogous to that a human does when the human learns.
I believe that it is because most people are not actually actively anti-war or pro-human-rights. The median person can be made to endorse and support invasion and torture if they are fed the right media.

Most people are apathetic, and having the military-industrial complex in your work history simply doesn’t register to many.

It’s not that they endorse evil; it’s just that they don’t care.
Is there even a public keyword list of words you’re not supposed to include?
Your statements seem contradictory: AI creates new things based on what they are trained on, artists create new things based on what they are trained on. Soon enough, the training and the process will pull AI into the ability level of humans, and this is a huge step in that direction.
Thanks for releasing this. I was just wondering if something like this exists. I've worked on a few projects where scipy was banned due to the large dependencies it pulls in.
Its more like classic IRC than everything else. I think it's even more ephemeral than Slack. Most servers have two channel types: slow announcement channels that only owners post to, and fast conversation channels for fans, content creators, etc.

Any important announcement like release notes will be in announcements. Announcement channels have no discussion directly inside them.

The conversation channels are like message rooms of old. Usually the conversation channels have important or common questions answered in pinned posts. Unless you want to talk now, they are kind of useless. Also you need to spend some time in them before you know people and how best to use them. You can jump in and ask a question, you might get an answer.

It's a power use interface, and takes some time to learn. Once you learn it, you will miss features in other apps.
Today someone tried violetta, admin123, rian, phoebe, carlos, calla, es, weiguo, bzrx1098ui and many more on one of my servers.

I guess attackers has gotten a hacked password file and hope that some of the users have used the same username and password combinations on other servers.

Searching for bzrx1098ui showed that attackers try with the same logins on many servers. E.g.,
https://dataplane.org/signals/sshidpw.txt

Most of the passwords on that list are silly, but not all of them
E.g.:
)w%WLq^3UAwn
75afaf6480ca5f9c214fabb6e3663813
7h4a5n9d0a2oiang@))*
960c3dac4fa81b4204779fd16ad7c954f95942876b9c4fb1a255667a9dbe389d

The last one is used at:
https://github.com/tlaverdure/laravel-echo-server/issues/273

and
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-secu...

Which mentions that is can be generated as:
echo "digital-ocean" | sha256sum

Apparently Digital Ocean was telling people in 2014, that feeding a weak password to a hash function would result in a longer and therefore very strong password.

I am sure there are plenty of people that would use sha256sum("password")= 6b3a55e0261b0304143f805a24924d0c1c44524821305f31d9277843b8a10f4e
as a password in a redis-file. But it is not something you would type in every time you ran SSH.

So maybe someone is just trying to use a search engine to find passwords made public.
Universal health care is not controversial in developed countries outside of the US.

Universal basic utilities wouldn't work because it would need to be means-tested, and that's not easy to do. A household with $0 of income might have a secret $100M fortune somewhere. Should they get free electricity?

It makes much more sense to have affordable utilities and just give people cash. If they want to use 10% of the electricity of their neighbors, they should be able to save some money.
Have you tried installing the safari extension Purify on iOS? It has removed the majority of ads for me.
> There was a saying: If you want something important to be done, give it to the busiest person, not to a person who is free.

> The busy people tend to be more efficient and organized. You do not need to explain them what to do -- they can figure out themselves.

Sounds like a great recipe for burning out your highest performers.
NY mother and daughter scammed $850K in credit card con to fund lavish lifestyle
Why would the landlord not push the increased tax expense onto the renter?
DALL-E as it stands perhaps not. However, Stable Diffusion's img2img is going to absolutely blow this person's mind... and it's just the beginning.
AMD is giving Intel a bit of breathing space at the lower end of the product stack, the 7600X price/perf isn't that great when you factor in the requirement for DDR5 + new AM5 socket.
WireGuard Servers Running from RAM
Yea, we don't know which way anything is going to go so it might end up being better to wait. As of now though, home prices haven't dropped much in many areas due to lack of supply. I think both positions have merit, but for a variety of reasons I think the lower rate home is the better position. And you also don't really “lose” money, but yes the house value on paper could go down from the historic highs.
A lot of OP's comparisons don't ring true to me.

Art isn't like chess. Chess is an event, like boxing, where the interest is in seeing two humans square off. Art is not an event. No one pays for artwork so they can watch someone draw on a canvas for 5 hours - it's not really the same thing at all. They pay for artwork to get the final product. (Or conversely, if chess was like art, then you'd be paying money to read the moves after the game is over.)

> A machine can lift a house, but people still love to participate in and watch the strongmen competitions.

Yeah, but who would pay to watch a bunch of people lift a house? I mean, maybe as a spectacle, but certainly not as a replacement for a forklift.

> We don’t care if any average Joe is faster on his motorbike

This isn't really true, either. Have you heard of NASCAR? :P
Yeah, we should have a public release very soon for people to deploy internally. We will have support for all the commonly-used frameworks and different versions.
I don't think I agree with that. Not even Stack Overflow nor Reddit are free in this context since they make money through ads.

I don't think any of my staple websites would be around if all we could rely on was their charity, and frankly that's not the internet I want to force on people. I want the people who enrich my life to be able to dedicate their time/energy to that end.
Another explanation:

Integrating over all of the possible outcomes of wire-fraud, being put in prison is more likely than making millions of dollars and using them as you please.

Or, at least, enough people believe this, and also prefer not to be in prison, that they do not commit wire fraud. It might also be because it's difficult. (I don't personally know how I'd take up wire fraud, if I wanted to start.)

"Being put in prison" is a likely outcome because of complex and overlapping human constructs that have lead to power structures where other people can force you into a prison. This is why it's relevant that it's "illegal". Briefly, "we live in a society".

The kind of "shape" wire-fraud has (in terms of the likelihood of its outcomes, i.e. very high risk, low chance of reward) is found in many things. A lot of illegal things have this shape.

The above commenter probably assumed all this to be 'background'. With that "because you go to jail if you do that," is a succinct and basically correct statement, even if it is not prefaced with every possible exception.
> Post-scarcity doesn't exist in the real universe.

It could... at least for the things that matter to our survival. There will always be scarcity for some things, like works of art, time, etc. Those things will always have a value and people will always work to obtain those kinds of things.

> Providing actual necessities, instead of money, would be far better.

Some amount of money will always be needed since people couldn't pursue their own interests or better themselves without it, but we could just give people houses and set up stores that didn't accept money for things food and medicine and household products. One nice thing about giving people money though is that it eliminates the problem of hording. If I can go into the store and take whatever I want without paying for it, what's to stop me from taking everything? Giving a set amount of money means people will have to budget it according to their needs and wants.

> Money is a proxy, and just giving it away makes it worth less... So you get inflation.

When people's basic needs are met, money can be worth less and it won't matter. The entire valuation of money will shift, but ultimately people will still set their own prices for the goods and services they provide. It doesn't matter if a loaf of bread cost $5 or $500. If you were a great architect and I asked you to design my new house you'd set your asking price accordingly. If owning a home designed by you were my goal, I'd look for work and set my asking rate accordingly. The economy would continue chugging along regardless.

> UBI may be a wealth transfer to the poor

That wealth is already being spent. We already know that it's much cheaper for taxpayers to give homeless people houses. That's not a wealth transfer to the poor though, it's putting money back into the pocket of taxpayers instead of burning it on problems we don't bother to take the time to solve. UBI could (in theory) save wealthy people a lot of money and more importantly, the money we aren't throwing away on dealing with the costs inherent to abject poverty can be put into making more wealth and improving things for everyone.
> a busker who was a mime or something and was calling what they do "work"

How is it not work? I mean, they are providing a service and then wanting money. The money is provided after the service and 100% voluntary, but does that make it less of a job than a waiter with a base pay of $2.15 an hour? That guaranteed $4,300 a year separates a job from a not-job?
Not to be a negative Nancy, but the phrase “for fun and profit” is quite overused that any originality is lost.
Oh yes! It's not a surprise, just adding a bit to the anecdata. Internet SSH brute force attacks do not seem to have stopped here. :)
This is somewhat true, but then again it can be argued that the current style is a synthesis of already existing artistic practices from the past (aka 'there is nothing new under the sun'). And if trained on enough data, NNs do have this interpolation/generalization capability to explore spaces not seen in the training set (but seen within the training space distribution). In other words, does the distribution of the training dataset span all styles humans might find appealing? Maybe, maybe not.