skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everytime you hear someone tell their story you get an editorialized view (at the very least by having chosen to listen to them rather than someone else).

Those videos are clearly optimized toward the desired impression, but I don't think that they used actors to make their points.

On the other hand you have problems like https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/05/12/weak-men-are-superweap... where you can construct a castle of lies and deception by only speaking selective truths...

To summarize my point: stories are ways to tell one of the many facets of the human experience, when told honestly they can be helpful to our understanding of both the common and the uncommon, when told dishonestly they can warp our perception of reality.
I would say: Writing is a test. It tests if you understand the subject well enough, and the "other person" well enough, to communicate it to that other person. Most likely you don't so then you need to think and/or learn more so that you can redraft it so it works. Write something technical and it reveals how little you know!

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It is a trope but it works: Write your problem to the most senior developer in an email/slack but don't press send. Then there is a probably 50% chance you will solve it, or reduce the scope of the problem to {more focuesed question} that you can ask about.
Giordano Bruno, philosopher and scientist, burnt at the stake 400 years ago
https://laion.ai/faq/
Based on the FAQ of the dataset that was used for training of
https://huggingface.co/spaces/stabilityai/stable-diffusion

LAION datasets are simply indexes to the internet, i.e. lists of URLs to the original images together with the ALT texts found linked to those images. While we downloaded and calculated CLIP embeddings of the pictures to compute similarity scores between pictures and texts, we subsequently discarded all the photos. Any researcher using the datasets must reconstruct the images data by downloading the subset they are interested in. For this purpose, we suggest the img2dataset tool.

I love the "*simply*", but doesn't it mean that (depending on country, laws etc., but generally):

1. The LAION group committed possible copyright infringements and even left undeniable evidence that they did - on top of their written testimony (dumping the "stolen goods into the river" does not make the infringement undone, does it?)

2. Any model trained on the "linked" data may commit copyright infringement.

3. As consequence, you using generated images may be liable.

I always wonder how it possibly is legal at all - considering that as a human artist if I was to copy material and remix it it without proper permission would be liable (again depending on situation), but suddenly ML is around the corner and it's all great and now you can keep remixing the potential problematic output further - no questions asked!?

I guess there are no precedence cases but why should an automaton/software (and its creators) be judged differently to persons? I don't want to spoil the fun but what am I missing?

Also disappointed that this dataset did not make sure to only collect unproblematic content like Creative Commons that
allows remixing. Would be a hell of a attribution list but definitely better than what is presented here.

EDIT: Formatting

EDIT2: I actually followed one of the projects mentioned not the linked repository. Clarified above.
You can buy loose leaf tea and brew your own concentration. I brew about 1/4th of a gram per liter which is... probably imperceptible to most (which probably brew about 4 grams per liter)
The solution to this is, of course, piracy. I'm glad people like those on /r/DataHoarder preserve media in their complete forms so I don't have to watch them censored.

A recent example is Community which has an episode of a character dressing as a dark elf, and the joke is that another character assumes it's blackface, even though it's not. Well, networks and streaming services now removed it and unless you have the original discs, you simply can't watch that episode.

Unless, of course, you pirate it, which is how I watched it.
That's not exactly accurate. The wiki has been edited recently, and change discussions are now done through github issues before updating the wiki, as that is more convenient than inline chat in many cases https://github.com/microformats
Also a lot of the practical discussion of microformats use is at the indieweb wiki - see https://indieweb.org/posts#Types_of_Posts for h-entry for example
It’s like the disdain for servers complaining about tips. It’s not part of the bill so it rubs people the wrong way because it feels entitled.
I like to think that the act of making tea takes my concious mind off the task, just long enough for my unconscious mind to push solutions to my current problem into my wakened mind.
What about pacing around in a quiet room?
Yes, I regularly use ACH to send and withdraw funds from my online accounts. That's pretty much how I do all my banking - I almost never set foot in a physical branch unless I need something big like buying a car. Of course, before opening online bank account, they ask me SSN and all kinds of details, but good stolen identity package (e.g. from the same bank that I gave all those kinds of details, or from one of the credit bureaus) would cover that.

That's why you have to freeze your credit, btw. They won't open an account on SSN with frozen credit - you'd have to unfreeze first, and that's usually harder to do for a crook.
> Big corp jobs, especially at non-software companies will tend to treat people as isolated cogs in the big machine, a machine you're told by everyone is "someone else's job" to understand and steer.

In my experience at a massive company this is spot on, as a mentor it feels like I spend more time on teaching new hires to realize that we're not a "technology company that does X". We are, in fact, a boring X company that uses technology when it's needed. Not everything has a complex technical solution. Sometimes the best thing you can do, even as a software engineer, involves changing processes, organizational structure, or bad habits.

When I read these "software" articles and books it feels like a radically different world than what I do.
> - a single party

> Well, there are no parties per se in megacorp. Maybe factions? This doesn't really fit well here as there's no direct correspondence so I agree this would be a total stretch.

Actually, I can kind of give you this one. In a country, a single party means that I can't vote for a different set of policies. I can't vote for anyone not "in" with the current powers. In a company, if I want a different set of leadership, I can... um... get a job somewhere else.

At least in this respect, a company is totalitarian, but with open borders. It's when they don't let you quit that things get really nasty...
Same reason why US wants to have a say about other countries' alliances and leaders:

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

I know you've accused me of being anti-West/US in another thread. I replied to it even though your comment was deleted. I spelled out my stance very clearly there.
An uncited translation that the article says comes from a manga comic. I'll trust the thousands of other translations a little more.
I think the “doing your work well” part is often the question. Am I really doing all I can? Could I do better/more? This then leads to working more and being busier. Maybe the problem is that it’s hard (for some of us) to know what “well” really means.
>We've had two good employees leave in good times for less work for more money. Both came back after a few years when boom business cycles that drove that dislocation reverted to the mean.

Did they experience a pay increase between leaving and coming back?
I was never a big fan of the show, but emphasizing stereotypes is a very common, often very effective form of comedy. If that's not your cup of tea, that's fine -- I tired of it quickly and stopped watching -- but that doesn't mean it's inherently wrong.
> David Tennant uses his Scottish accent for jokes in a show where he normally sounds English

may i ask that you clarify this point?

tennant made a personal choice NOT to use his native/normal scottish accent for Dr. Who. he discusses this with Jodie Whittaker (also someone with quite a strong native accent) in an episode of his podcast, he TL;dr said it didn't feel quite right for him to use his native accent for the role [1].

whenever tennant does TV "as himself" (for example the voiceovers he has done for various shows or charity events like comic relief etc) he uses his own/native accent, is he doing this for laughs/jokes? surely he is doing them with a scottish accent because that is actually his literal normal voice?

[1] https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/jodie-whittaker/id1450...
The YouTube app for tvOS is a perfect example of this. Every single release that fixes one annoying bug introduces another equally annoying bug.

Just this summer, we went through these bugs one after the other:

1: Putting the ATV to sleep after finishing a video results in in a black screen with the video's audio playing from the beginning. This can be rectified by backing out of the video.

2: Putting the ATV to sleep while watching a video will cause the video output to freeze for 10 seconds or so when the ATV is turned back on. Eventually tvOS recognizes the app as unresponsive and kills it.

3: "Right" on the circle pad can no longer open the subscriptions tab, even though it still works on all other tabs. You have to use the center button.

4: When starting video playback, the first several seconds of sound are cut off, requiring the user to rewind if they contained anything important.

I don't think any of these issues existed simultaneously. Issue 4 started happening with the exact same release that fixed issue 3.
Way back in the day (think before 2000), I worked for a major cable TV company that showed films around the world. Every film had different cuts for different regions to comply with various censorship rules, licensing restrictions, dubbing, etc. Including the US. Yes, there were things that were cut from the US release that might have been in the UK release. It was nightmare to schedule everything properly everywhere. From what I can vaguely recall, a lot of errors were made, but as long as a decent effort was made by the company to censor according to their rules, most nations were ok with it.
It could simply be that twitter is having issues. I see weird stuff as well. ("something went wrong" messages all over the place).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32644427
To be fair, the internet can be quite hostile.
You seem to be replying to the headline in a knee-jerk manner. The article tries to communicate that the natural language is inherently poor at giving directions for artistic work. It's a valuable observation by an expert, and as someone who studies arts as a hobby I absolutely agree. Text-to-image isn't going to change anything on its own; higher order tools are needed.
Good grief, I wish people would stop pointing to a particular subset of an ethnic group to try to "prove" that people are "wrong" to get offended.

1. Videos are easily selectively edited

2. Within an immigrant ethnic group, different subgroups will have different feelings due to their experiences. For example, 1st generation immigrants tend to be less cognizant of this sort of stuff.

Here's a bit of a rant for you- as an Asian person, I find these Asian jokes pretty fucking unfunny. It absolutely shits me when people will ask an Asian person from Asia what they think about some hot-topic issue within the Western sphere- yeah no shit they'll find it trivial. They're so geographically and politically disconnected from the issue it makes no sense to ask them.

They experience none of the effects, understand very little of the context and have very little stake in the matter, the only reason people would ask them for their opinion on these issues is so they can point to a foreign face and tell people like me "why can't you be as well behaved as them".
Where did you get the replacement parts if you don't mind me asking?
I suspect that the "printing of money" statement is about unhinged printing of money, not "expansion of population" printing of money.
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.

The people who have free time tend to require external motivation/explanation, so you will end up micromanaging them, wasting your own time.
dreambooth retains higher fidelity as the model is finetuned, but to be honest I think textual inversion is actually more applicable as you can just add some embeddings to inject new knowledge into the model and not an whole new model just for a single concept (if you want to share it with others). Also I have not seen dreambooth being applied to replicate styles.
Yes, it was a push. I guess that makes a little sense, though it doesn't offer protection if someone got access to my account.
Both Mastodon and Tumblr have microformats support built in. Twitter and Facebook used to, but they decided they'd rather be silos than protocols
Ask HN: Ok to only allow Google/Apple/FB login for mobile app?
I'm working on a food ordering app. My question is two parts:

1) In 2022, can I offer only social login with Google/Apple/Facebook? (In other words, no traditional username/password based authentication.)

My reasoning:
a) The app is US-focused and users very likely have Google or Apple accounts. (Maybe I can add a few other providers for tourists/etc.)
b) Having to think of a password for yet-another app adds friction to adoption.
c) Password managers may or may not work in an app.
d) Implementing password auth (as well as registration, password-reset/etc) is not trivial.
e) And, obviously, password authentication have many well documented problems.

2) Do I need to authenticate users at all?

When my user places an order, they will go through a secure payment-portal-hosted iframe from Stripe or similar payment processor. It doesn't seem necessary to have them authenticated through our own system as well.

Having users authenticated to our system would be better for analytics/tracking, but it seems regular tracking technology based on cookies/etc would be a close approximation.

More about my app:

The main workflow is typical: you open the app, search for deals and you order through the app. It is being developed as a hybrid-web application using Ionic (I know ionic isn't the most popular choice but I don't have too much choice, so please forgive me), so it can be used both as an app from the App Store or as a regular web app.
I did this as my project to learn Rust, to build with all the features needed for a good static site generator was a great way to learn!

I still haven't released it as there are some bugs (localization!) that i need to fix but if you want to have a play the staging site is here[1].

[1] https://stage.uwe.app/
to be fair i block people too when i don't like their memes
I definitely see your points. I would want to reserve sanctions for companies who are widely known to be evil so that anyone accepting a position there would know exactly what they are getting into. The main tech companies that come to mind as qualifying are Palantir, Clearview AI and ByteDance. But, yes, I agree that individuals' shitlists will never overlap.

I am still not hiring ex-Palantir people anytime soon, though. It would creep me out to look at them.
Yeah but the right to exit is critical. Emigration is very hard, or impossible, in totalitarian states.
Come on, this is such a joke.

Increased velocity is what business get promised, yes. It’s what you want.

The reality is that you can’t just magically make that happen.

Draw a line. Now draw the rest of the owl! Easy~

The problem has never been understanding what the desired state is… it’s always been that getting from the current state to the desired state is very very hard, and continually road blocked by:

- people who don’t want to learn new skills

- people who don’t want to seed control they currently have (over process and product)

- a lack of clarity on who is responsible for what systems

Devops is a load of hype.

There’s never been any reliable process to move to rapid delivery from it.

Yes, some teams have managed to get something that works, and there are a lot of tools and a lot of training which has resulted in over all better SRE processes.

…but by and large, that’s because of using better tools (eg. infrastructure as code) not because of devops.

When was the last time you had a “devops” guy you got to do something for you?

Right. That’s ops.

When was the last time something broke and the people responsible for making sure it never happened again were the “platform team” or an SRE?

Ops again.

You had all that before you started your devops journey.

It’s all just ops, with slightly better tooling, less outages, higher reliability and absolutely zero increase in product velocity.

Devops was the promise that by bridging operations and development you could get high reliability and faster iteration by having teams that could “cut through” the red tape and get things done.

That appears, largely, not to work.

Yes, developers that understand systems tend to build more reliable software.

No, it is not faster to do it that way, and the transition will be painful, and, because businesses mostly care about iteration speed more than reliability, even a technical success, it often a fails to deliver on its business value.
> Real estate always goes up.

Because population always goes up, for now. Wait until population starts to shrink...
Concurrent map is actually cool.
One of my favorites is Peter Norvig's spelling corrector in less than 30 lines of python

https://norvig.com/spell-correct.html
I have been blocked in your Twitter. We just had differences of opinion on certain things. I guess you might have under lot of stress at that time so I understand.
Only for $10k/year.
For those who wants to know before installing
on my 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-1165G7 @ 2.80GHz, it consumes 13 GB of RAM and takes 4 minutes to generate an image with 32 steps (~2 min for 16 steps).
Swapping ingredients is pretty common in all kinds of restaurants; a lot of whitefish are actually tilapia no matter what they say, and a lot of farm-to-table ingredients are entirely fictional.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/02/20/fish-s...

https://projects.tampabay.com/projects/2016/food/farm-to-fab...
It's minor in the grand scheme of things I guess, but it does make me sad the night sky is being taken away like this without our consent or public input.

Granted, if we put it to a vote, I'm not sure what I would expect from that anyway.
IMO, the most successful artists will learn to embrace AI artists to quickly generate ideas and concepts at scale, and then refine them into brilliantly perfect works of art for production usage.
This sounds so hilariously quaint to someone in the US like me. But, I guess that's because I'm used to being surrounded by people armed to the gills with assault rifles and shit. Maybe if you're in a mostly gun-free country, nunchaku actually seem kind of scary and threatening.
> careful, protect their reputation, and avoid taking on obvious risks

what you say is true, but system-wide, this gate-guarding by reputable parties costs unimaginable numbers of dollars in fees and delay. Everything you list is obviously desirable except.. it has gone far in the other direction -- disproportionally expensive, too much gatekeeping.

For the two billion new customers in global trade that have emerged in the last twenty years, for commodity transactions.. why pay? For those that want to tie together dubious foreign agenda with market regulation (oil & gas markets), keep your own credit records and regulators.. but dont hold the rest of the world hostage.

crypto is inevitable with these networks, so make some interesting and useful ones. Of course the old system will object.
So you're saying that the way to maintain a stable UX...is to release changes directly to customers (or at least a subset of) to test, and if they react badly, roll it back?
Lol that's pretty much my current update nofication on my samsung android phone.

Always bug fixes and performance improvements.
Except you can have thousands of std::async threads, and at best a few dozen std::threads.
I think the downvotes you're attracting give some indication for the HN crowd.
I’m seeing a lot of these posts lately.

I think if you’re writing about it, debating over it and trying to justify it, it’s likely inevitable that it will erode atleast a part of your job.
Do latent variables “look like” anything at all? Like In a PCA, for example, a factor is some latent heuristic but does it even have an actual value?
Thinking aloud?
This is escalating quickly

I'm experimenting with generative art with all this new models, and what's coming as output is wild and beautiful.

You can basically make a full AI experience now as a one man show world building with the capabilities only prior to marvel or disney...

This might be a better link> https://textual-inversion.github.io/

Also this reddit tutorial might be useful to you https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/wvzr7s/tut...
> It is affirming the stereotype Indian males lack confidence with women.

I wasn't even aware that was a stereotype, after knowing (very closely, with some!) and interacting with hundreds of Indian males in my life.

Lacking confidence with women is a pretty standard "nerd"/"geek" stereotype, though, which, given the title and subject matter the show deals with, is what I would assume they were going for. Were you ever upset that Leonard was often awkward with women? Sure, he didn't have the "unable to talk to women without alcohol" bit, but Leonard wasn't exactly a ladies' man. So it's ok to portray a white man as being awkward around women, but if it's an Indian man, it's racist?

Re: accent mocking: accents are fun and the confusion that they can cause can be funny!

I do recall references to cow worship, which was a bit insipid and not that funny, but... c'mon, racist? Gimme a break.
You're reading a page titled "How Gmail Ads Work".
Die Area of only 3.84mm2 for Core + L2. This is a similar to Apple A14/A15. On TSMC N5 although they are likely different variant, optimising for clockspeed rather than Low Power.

13% increase in IPC, and additional clock speed increase as well from N5. The server variant Zen4C with 128 Core per socket should compete fairly well with Ampere ARM variant.

I just hope AMD is a little more ambitious than they were and book way more 5nm capacity. They have been way too conservatives with their forecast on their CPU side.

Its been a very very long time since I was last excited about anything in the PC /x86 space. For the past 8 to 10 years it has been mostly about Smartphones, ARM and Apple.

Still sad I couldn't hold on to my AMD stock, I bought them at below $3. Sigh.
Ask HN: Where to find top web domains in US
I was wondering if anyone know of resources or services that gave insight into the most popular domains in countries such as the US. Alexa rankings used to be a decent source of such information, but I do not know of reliable sources that can be used since they closed May 2022.