skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This piece isn't really anti-China in the usual sense (denunciation of China's "treatment" of its muslim population, of its neocolnialistic policies, or basic infringements on human rights).

It feels more like a pro-globalized/unregulated economy piece. It's a sneer at every country trying to get self-dependent on chips (ie most of the major economies in the world) and at planned economy. The quotes are from Intel high officials. It sounds like they're simply using China as an example because it's "communism".

Honestly it just sounds like Intel trying to convince people to keep the economy globalized (which, obviously, is its own interest).

Going back to your point, I feel like those things (cities being safe, no homeless) have nothing to do with the issues people are finding with it. You can have people living decently in cities and still commit a genocide on the side.
Tech Debt – Reclaiming Tech Equity
> Now we're right back to the exercise where we give everyone in class the average grade and see what happens. This punishes work.

Giving everyone an average grade isn't wrong because it hurts the kids who worked harder to learn. Those kids already have their reward. It's wrong because it hurts the kids who need extra help but now won't get it because their understanding is seen as equal to everyone else's and adequate when it isn't. We could eliminate grades entirely and it wouldn't matter at all so long as we ensured everyone actually had a solid grasp of the material.

If UBI is well implemented it actually would raise everyone to an acceptable minimum standard of living set by society. That would mean that everyone has shelter, food, clean water, and enough money to comfortably live, improve themselves, and pursue their own passions.

It doesn't punish work. There are always rewards for doing work that you find meaningful and so the people who work will still obtain those rewards.

> and we have the worse problem of running out of other people's money to pay for UBI.

That will never happen. Money is just a proxy. It's not even tied to anything meaningful anymore, it's just a ledger of credits and we all just put our faith in the ability to exchange those credits for actual goods and services.

The real fear with UBI is that we will run out of material goods. Right now, we have the resources to meet everyone's basic needs, but that will not always be the case. Clean water, healthy food, and even clean air are becoming harder and harder to obtain.

UBI is still a good idea while we can set and provide a decent standard of living, but it can't be sustained forever while the most basic resources we need for survival are being destroyed.

Sci-fi gets away with utopian societies because they are post-scarcity, but for us even drinking water is becoming increasingly scarce. UBI could help us to more efficiently manage what resources we have left until we are able to either reach a state of post-scarcity or push the timeline back by exploiting new reserves of resources by doing things expanding to other planets.
What was the software they used to make those goofy title graphics back in the day?
That's great for you, but this is rarely, if ever, logical for the employee. This is very much a "you should be happy with your stable, lower wage job because it's stable" argument that is frequently used to suppress wage increases.

As an employee, the only thing that really matters is the dollars flowing out of your account into mine on a regular basis. Trust, job security, growth opportunities, work life balance... they're all just words until they're not. Unless you're willing to sign a multi-year contract guaranteeing job security, put your money where your mouth is or I'm out the door as soon as greener pastures present themselves. And in this industry, there's always greener pastures.

> 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.

Sounds like they were properly maximizing their opportunity.

Alternatively, give people job security and also pay them what they deserve. It works even better than whatever "the mean" is.
Yes, in fact it's two metaphors in a row.

"Once more, with feeling," is a cliche that a conductor might say to an orchestra during rehearsal. Presumably professional orchestras usually play with feeling, even on the first attempt. So the conductor means, somewhat condescendingly, more feeling. It has been said so many times by so many conductors that it has become a running joke. If you were doing a comedic impression of a conductor, you might insert that phrase.

Four-part harmony is the performance of a song by four singers (or four groups of singers): soprano, alto, tenor, bass. You could have just one person sing a song, but if you have a whole chorus sing it, it will sound fuller (though not always better).

It was a funny way to say that the bank not only will require the money from the person who began the transaction but also will impose severe fees.
I find the process of hand-writing notes, rather than typing them, helps me to remember the details that I've noted down. I don't often refer back to my notes, but that's kinda because I hand wrote it, and so there's some kind of visceral mind-body connection that seems to help in remembering.
This tutorial on reddit best close thing so far. https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/wvzr7s/tut...
This is why many Eastern Europeans do not trust the media. A lot of immigrants from the soviet bloc are very confused at how much Americans trust their media/govt.

I know it is not just Eastern Europeans but there is something to be said about the level of distrust for the media after having lived through the USSR.

a lot of people in the west think Russian propaganda is very effective. It is loud, and it is constant, but it is not as effective as perceived. if you speak to the average Russian, you’ll find that this distrust of the state is now deeply embedded in the culture.
We don’t have AGI yet so those are not enough for a car.
It is not that viable. Even large drones cannot carry more than a few kilos for 40 minutes (on one set of batteries). It just doesn’t have good ROI, and is mainly a PR move by Amazon and some VC funded startups. I accept there are some practical applications, but a human on a bike/ on foot is a lot more efficient than buying and maintaining a fleet of mini aircraft.

Source: I run a drone company
Too dangerous to release, a codeword for selling access at 100% markup.
There is always a certain amount of luck in successful runtime feature/platform detection when the system doesn’t provide an explicit mechanism for it. I would not call it a coincidence though. It would be rare for the systems to be different enough to require customization but also impossible to differentiate between at runtime.
I'm not certain of this, but my understanding is that Pythagoras generated these notes (actually more than 12 because there was a distinction between flats and the matching sharps) circa 500 BCE, and this predates chromaticity in music in the west.
And concurrency can be a tool to implement threads (albeit, with no parallel speedup).
Same in Finland. Issue seems to be European.
meanwhile after 20 years, foobar2000 only gets better with each release. I even still use (the Windows version) on my Mac thanks to Wine. The memory footprint of Music.app when I load a large playlist is an order of magnitude greater than that of foobar2000 despite all the overhead that comes with Wine.
including all the fringe costs.. power lines, sewage, roads, schools etc etc?

because the 13B includes all that.
BMI uses an exponent of 2, for physical reasons it needs to be around that value, but the "correct" value might be different; it appears that GP believes it should be higher.

The point about body builders is that BMI as a metric assumes a fixed muscular profile, so doing (an healthy amount of) muscle training can wildly affect your BMI independently of your fatness.

If is still likely a good measure at a population level as very few people that have BMI > 30 are also fit. But you need to contextualize it to your own case.
Truly dynamically typed language of the week is the future of programming.
Yep https://replicate.com/pixray/text2image
Love that these include a basic igpu. Makes them much more viable for home server and low end desktops(when eventually discounted).
From the article: the Chinese government believes the primary purpose of culture is to raise healthy children, not to entertain or amuse adults.

The Chinese also believe it is the government's responsibility to maintain their culture over time, which is why the government exerts cultural control.
So when the accepted "Norm" was to stay with a company for their entire career, this was an issue. Changing jobs regularly solves it, wages just need to keep up. When wages stagnate, this is a systemic issue.
Why should something like a drawing app, or a music app, or anything else that doesn't need to be online, need this kind of patch schedule?

This world does in fact still exist, this is how most OSS works!
So don’t sanction the aggressor that the world is trying to sanction? Brilliant, why didn’t anyone else think of that.
Not only the end result of these deep learning models can be tricked over a single pixel or get confused by malicious input and becomes useless, Deep Learning training, retraining, fine tuning on GPUs, TPUs, all running in a data center contribute significantly to burning up the planet and driving up costs which the models are just used for nothing but surveillance on our own data.

If it doesn't work it has to be retrained on new data again and there are no efficient alternatives to this energy waste other than use more GPUs, TPUs, etc emitting more CO2 after years of Deep Learning existing.

A complete waste of resources and energy. Therefore it is not worth it at all.
Is it that unbelievable that its role in a years-long effort to destroy a good man's reputation, as well as in a coverup of that effort, has made your organization disliked by more than one person?
If the current generation votes for censorship, should the next generations have to live under those rules also?
Or get so close to the end of the point you're trying to make, and then BAM, you realise an alternate interpretation of the post you're replying to, which, upon further consideration is more likely the intended interpretation of the comment, than what your now almost-completely typed reply was addressing, rendering the reply pointless.

There's so much processing the brain does in the background, that it makes the foreground seem young and foolish.
It’s certainly an interesting philosophical problem, finding the balance between the individual and the society. My take on it is this: decisions should be made by the people who those decisions affect. In the case of censorship I agree with you completely- my watching a slasher flick does not give you nightmares. If I were playing devils advocate I might say that it corrodes the national character or something like that- but that to me is a very weak argument.
5 whole minutes, how dare they !?
Raj is an Indian male who is desexualized.

Sheldon is a white male who is desexualized.

Leonard is a white male who is desexualized.

Harold is a white male who is oversexualized in creepy ways.

And I'm not even sure "desexualized" is the right word. With both Raj and Leonard, at least, I remember there were many plot points about their difficulty with women. "Desexualized" to me would mean that they weren't even seen as people who are interested in sex or relationships -- that is, their status as having sexuality at all was minimized and never touched upon -- which was clearly not the case for either of them.

In any case, "relying on a stereotype" does not make something racist. When I watched the show (admittedly not for long; I probably got tired of it after a season or two), yes, there were certainly jokes that only worked because Raj was Indian, or Harold was Jewish, or Sheldon was neuro-atypical, but for the most part it was the stereotype "nerdy people are awkward in all sorts of social situations, especially when nerdy heterosexual men interact with women". Being Indian, or Jewish, or probably-autistic were secondary characteristics that gave them more color as people.
Almost everyone has some kind of base workload, whether it’s RDS or EC2 operating some specific piece of infra.

Some people may not be able to RI their entire workloads, but EVERYONE can reduce their AWS spend partially using RIs. It may only be a little bit but better in your pocket than Amazons.
In some ways, it can be better than lidar. The colour signal can be perfectly matched with the depth signal to provide further context. This is particularly useful for tracking moving objects. Vision-based systems also have a far greater resolution, especially when additional cameras are added.

But having both would be best. The drawbacks of camera are additional compute being necessary for stitching and the risk of occlusions occurring due to something like adverse weather conditions. It also only offers a calculated estimation rather than a true distance measurement.
This is Youtube's fault, as they could (should) require video creators to identify the start and end timestamps of sponsor segments, and then their player should just skip those automatically for logged-in, paying subscribers.
No lag on my 6 year old iPhone. (I wasn't even expecting the site to work on it!)

Thanks for the tips, I make interactive art and creative tools these will come in very handy.

On a related note (input lag), I noticed in my high speed recordings that even programs with no input delay (mspaint) lag 1 frame behind the mouse cursor, something to do with double buffering (and the cursor being rendered separately by the GPU?) Is there any way to get around that on Windows, eg. in fullscreen?

I.e. instead of predicting where the cursor will be to compensate for the fact that everything is rendered 1 frame late, can we just make it render on time?
Yes, down from Latvia.
The second part of an in-depth look at how to nail cold email outreach.
No expert on photography history, but I know that it took quite a while for people to recognize the innate strengths of photography. Indeed, I have heard it said that the first true photographer did not arrive until around 50 years after the camera was invented.

The first applications of photography in art were clearly trying to emulate the paintings of the time.

Mobile RN otherwise I could throw a few links.
Right on, you could see a marketplace of those mini- pretrained weights to have stuff a styles much more available in a UI like setting without needing to add style manually... Very interesting.
Hm, I confess I don’t understand what you are talking about. Who is claiming that there is a global (or even national) meritocracy? What is meritocracy?

Do immigrants outperform natives? On what metrics?

Let’s suppose, as a thought experiment, said immigrants outperform natives at being seven feet tall, since maybe we need them for some set of tasks and we are short of seven footers. If we preferentially admit seven footers and find that immigrants statistically outperform natives at being tall, I don’t see that we’ve necessarily disproven all forms of meritocracy.
Please don't perpetuate hellish flamewars on HN. It's exactly what this site is not for—regardless of how wrong some people are or you feel they are.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
I'm fearful of these algorithms, how can I ensure my economic status will not be affected? Any stock tickers to buy?
Now comes the age of Abstract
You appear to be trying to Godwin a discussion about automated picture drawing... even accounting for how your carelessly your analogy normally gets used, I'd say you're reaching
This reminds me of how Aereo worked. They effectively built small little antennas that they could put in a data center. You’d then rent the antenna and stream data to your home instead of using your own antenna. This was found (Supreme Court) to be unauthorized as it was a “public performance”. This DVD streaming service would likely have fallen under the same category.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aereo
They sold Uber for a couple billion profit earlier.

Their significant stake in Z Holdings, Yahoo Japan and LINE merger, is doing all right too.
Please don't use HN for political/ideological/national/racial/religious battle. It leads to hellish flamewars. We don't want those here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Congrats. I was binge-watching on Youtube and came across one of your videos a few days ago which inspired me to start thinking of doing something with my 10 year experience, specially when you talked about there being no shortage of money :) No other investor has ever reached me via Youtube let alone inspire. Great move by YC.
We know but OP was telling you to experiment: turn off auto update and turn on the play store, and see how many prompts you get.

We're not sure why you went to describe how you read emails, and that's why we downvote you. Your answer was completely irrelevant !
> there was some gatekeeper group with a monopoly on it (to some extent true right up until digital photography became common)

Bollocks. There were consumer photography options widely available for decades before digital photography became available - everything from point and shoot cameras to decent SLRs, with a dozen kinds of film available, all at a price point pretty much everyone could afford.

Disposable cameras were even a thing for a couple of decades before modern digital photography took off...
SLS is ready now.

Starship hasn't yet reached even the Kármán line.

we don't get to go to space with what we'd like to have, we go with what we have.
It's costing a LOT yes, but time is of the essence. Arguably we waited too long to do this again.
The Lumpenbourgeoisie
> If the US wants to maintain tech advantage, open up immigration and make it super easy for intelligent people to immigrate and live here. And welcome them instead of being racists to them so they stay.

Worked fine in WWII. It's in time somebody reinvent this wheel.
> https://github.com/rinongal/textual_inversion

Netflix UI of 2033: I want an episode of Senfield with X, Y, Z... Starting brand new (never aired) just generated by the AI episode now.
A lot of people in the west (especially the US) are raised with the Sunday school idea that religion is something you choose after an objective weighing of ideas. The reality is that both China and the US have engrained cultural values which lead to these regulations. Those cultural values sometimes manifest as religious practice, but there is no hard distinction.
Indeed - every silo wants you to use their own specific markup, but even then they choose what to show. I made a post a while back that gave a different summary on every silo platform https://www.kevinmarks.com/partialsilos.html
Of course, since then some of the silos have died or given up on their own systems, but microformats remains useful if you want to co-operate.
This is only tangentially related, but it dawned on me that we truly have a unique culture as programmers that you're basically forced to learn in the process of getting a CS degree.

And you can usual use cultural references (such as joking about 'Do you know how to close Vim?' or complaining about symbolic links, or talking about RMS) to tell who is a more traditional programmer versus someone who has had less exposure to the programmer culture (this obviously only applies to Americans, with international hires they'll have their entire own programmer culture)

Another thing I noticed is how niche cultures tend to be less homogeneous, I feel like in all 'mainstream' cultures, the celebrities are almost always white, attractive, and socially confident. While in programming, our celebrities are pretty off-putting to the mainstream.
I read a statistic once that said the high water mark of homosexual relationships in the United States was during the Second World War (because all the men were overseas together and all the women were back home together). But you don’t see that portrayed in media.
This happens in the West too. For example one of my favourite shows, "Peep Show" has a scene removed because one of the main characters wears black face to break social taboos. Obviously, it's done in a mocking way, but even mocking someone for black face has been deemed inappropriate by modern Western standards. The show isn't even that old either.

I'm almost certain there would be things seen as normal or inoffensive in China that would be seen as offensive and censored here. For example, a show that expressed criticism of homosexuality probably wouldn't be tolerated in the West. I'm guessing there could also be scenes that we would consider examples of animal cruelty given our differing views on animal welfare.
On the flipside, browsers not auto-updating would be both a security nightmare and make web development miserable.
At least in the realm of editorial illustration, concept is king. You can get away with very simple art so long as it is conceptually effective. Like, it wasn't the widespread availability of pencil and paper that put the poets out of work.
Bonus points: If dall-e rejects an output image because it thinks the image is inappropriate they won't show it. But they will still charge you for the prompt.
Which part of Yahoo do you mean? They bought out a lot more of Yahoo Japan from Yahoo/Altaba before merging it 50/50 with LINE (which you pointed out they owned a significant stake of).
I didn't downvote him, but I could see how even a staunch COVID denialist would think his comment is taking the thread off the rails
Really interesting projects on the index [1], just wish there was an RSS feed!

[1] https://justine.lol/index.html
It’s just a blob of paint until someone says (with conviction) that it’s “art.”

You perfectly know fine art isnt the issue here because its a small industry anyway and you guys arent investing dozens of billions to take over a niche industry.

For those who dont know what we are really talking about here: it's the illustration and entertainment industry, which combined are probably well over a trillion dollar industry.

Creating compelling results which connect with people requires practice, patience, the willingness and ability to explore, a whole lot of cherry picking. Iteration.

It doesnt. And you know it. It only takes taste. Which is very easy for an AI to acquire with intelligent supervision. It will be way better than the 99 percentile of artists very quickly. The rest is monkey work and is worth nothing.

There will have to be protections for content creators, which will have to evolve to accommodate AI’s increasing capabilities to mimic, some might say “steal,” the style and character of an artist’s work. It’s simpler in the case where the AI clearly imports entire assets from a single source, much harder when it almagamates tiny fragments of a large number of different artists’ works. Some kind of tax may be necessary to ensure that human creators of source materials are fairly compensated. Nothing happens without their work as the basis of creation.

One of the first things I noticed on the SD website is the cleverness of the bullshit. With "ethic" and stuff everywhere. Did you wrote it? Are you CEO?

There wont be taxes mate, there will be questions :)