skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not disorienting, but definitely not as useful as a chat application could be. Especially when concepts like 'server' and 'team' are overloaded so gratuitously.

Ironically, MS Teams suffers from this as well, as do some IRC clients that try to aggregate interfaces on top of the network+channel concept.

Most classic chat clients used to have a user-managed interface for 'people' and
'groups' and while the service decides what a user is, everything else is left to the user, and all the concepts of communication are inside each 'chat' instead of extracted into the main interface. It's almost like the hierarchy is broken down where elements of different detail level are just mixed together. Not even Internet forum software is messy that way.

On Slack you can get the same issue when you use Slack Grid, and in certain scenarios with non-local participants as well (i.e. Slack Connect).
I don't feel it's that much of an issue. I hardly have any idea what roles do, channels remind me of IRC except they are grouped by ownership rather than literal servers with independent channel mods.

I just ignore all the power user tools and the stuff I need seems pretty well exposed. When I start a game, a little thing comes up asking if I want to stream it, etc. It all just seems to do what I want while ignoring everything else.
Not sure if M:N maps to thread+coroutine combo here though.
absolutely, i3 and i5 Alder Lake is incredible value already and Raptor Lake will improve that even more
Top Gun vs Maverick is a good example. Top Gun has a long, steamy, but non-explicit sex scene. Maverick has an extremely short, clothed, mostly implied sex scene.
Thanks for confirming I was relaying truthful informations about the market sizes.

As an AI practitioner, if I could so easily bottle up taste and sell it, I surely would.

And would you lie to protect it?

Snuffaluffagus

You're the aggressive one by my book :)
Is that important in a static site generator?

In a server-rendered site you have to worry about injection attacks, but that's not really relevant when you're statically generating a site from content that's fully under your control
Same here in Cheshire, UK.
I love my older ROG Zephyrus G14. Use it everyday for heavy Ruby on Rails + Java, with some gaming on the side (Control, Warframe)

It doesn't necessarily look great, but it's not offensively gamerish. There's a nice utility that lets you turn the fans off/on and GPU on/off, so it gets good battery life with GPU off. USB-C charging supported, nice matte screen, 120hz+ refresh rate. I have mine setup with 40gb of RAM (one 8GB dim is baked on, one is upgradable) and with a replacement Intel wifi chip.

When I need a replacement, I'll probably get the newer 2022-ish G14. They upgraded the USB-C ports (both now support display out), they put better WiFi in by default, and they went all-AMD for CPU+GPU, all of which seem like great ideas to me.
I mean....what's a realistic split on this? 95/5 bad to good? If these unicorn companies exist those jobs are vanishingly rare because people wouldn't move, correct? Im 'young' and I don't know I would ever give a company the benefit of the doubt. Been screwed too many times
You don't even have to go to that level to know it's all nonsense.

Someone had to pay to put that toothpaste on the shelf.

In capitalist societies, it's the person who provided the capital to the business and what you're doing is repaying that investment when you buy the tube of toothpaste.

In modern socialist societies, you don't have to worry about it because there is no toothpaste on the shelf. Just kidding. You are paying the workers for the labor that went into the production of the toothpaste. In arrears.

I didn't read much past that because I started seeing how we are not working for money or something like that.
How were you able to avoid using it?

It seems like everyone is promoting their discord servers these days, and some to the point of only Discord (or maybe Reddit) and nothing else.
I find it really fascinating to see the amount of similar posts theses past few months. Professional artists, fearing for their jobs due to AI-generated art, who find solace in the fact that the resulting artifacts are still missing on production quality by a tiny margin. This is somewhat similar to the fear that self-driving cars will one day replace the most common job in America.

In the short term, I think there's a real opportunity for artists to leverage those tools to create things they didn't think were possible before. In the long term, it seems inevitable to me that all jobs today will one day be performed better by computers. I do like to think that we will adapt to those changes over time, like we have in the past technology breakthroughs. While the nature of our jobs will most likely change, ideally we all end up having more time to spend with the ones we love.
Interesting, but I would argue that this is actually supporting the West/East distinction, as this kind of imagery would have fit closely with the USSR's push to promote the communist "workers of the world unite" agenda.

Would you be able to find any similar western imagery from that time frame?
Sure! I'll even agree (trivially, I guess) that thinking is definitely a part of that process... but that doesn't seem to contradict my earlier comment. I really just mean the "thinking" metaphor for writing is very far from my experience of what ordinary thinking is like -- so much that it seems bizarre to me to conflate them.
The only way to use Discord is to mute all servers, and just browse what and when you want to. You can usually opt into roles to get important notifications about what you want.

The need to mute is annoying, and the search function is garbage, but otherwise Discord is pretty great.
I have seen images at openart with promots that considted entirely of different types of whitespace. They were haunting images of humanlike shapes. The prompt found some odd vocabulary that had trained to some concepts was my assumption. Is that impossible?
The article mentions different tools to think with (pen, paper, keyboards) and different methods of thinking (drawing/writing). Knowing when to pick what, or when to transition to using other tools/methods (usually CAD software or programming for me) often isn’t as obvious or as easy as I’d like.
I suspect a lot of HN users have some kind of willful ignorance where they mentally block themselves from being able to use the tool because they are upset about it being written in electron or blocking user bots. So as soon as they come up against the first uncertainty, they mentally shut down while a regular user clicks around for a bit, finds what they want and then moves on.
Honestly, I'd argue that few people do. At a previous employer, we used it in situations where would have been much better off with a more mainstream language, in my opinion.

Of course, there are few situations that require any particular language.
Or if you don’t want to tweak anything, just use the hosted version? https://beta.dreamstudio.ai/
I find all the modern chat apps to be this way.
> So any time you're seeing a 2-3 day hold on ACH, it's the bank doing risk management decisions, not something in the underlying transfer.

I'm not sure if this is what you meant to begin with, but the institution is probably not doing anything at all. They're just waiting to see if the name gets flagged and to give you time to cancel your credit card or whatever it is. The fishiest transactions start to smell immediately and all you have to do is wait a second for the smell to waft in.
> there'll still be a 1% who does because money is nothing to them

I recently heard someone well off describe fines like parking as "the cost to park here".
> So all of that to say that it’s very, like very, difficult to describe an image with words.

DALL-E isn't going to steal your job... but likely within a year a better interface for it will.

I don't think it's going to take too long to be able to specify textual components for image parts to occupy certain areas, and then to do iterative non-textual refinement simply by selecting among rendered variations "genetically" until you get what you're looking for.

> It took me maybe 10 to 15mins to generate all those images... And it took me something like 30mins to draw it myself,

But the point is, I can't draw. We are very quickly going to reach a point where anybody can produce basically the exact illustration they want in 15 min. It's not here today, but will almost certainly be here in 2 years if programmers and designers are allowed to experiment with the raw models.

I actually think discovering the best UI interface for generating illustrations, the magic combo of prompts+seeds+outlines+refinement, is going to be the main area of progress soon.
broadcast != distribution

It's not illegal to import/purchase the unedited original versions with guns, deaths, and nudity (excluding lolita). With online streaming being the norm now, the government has no say in the content consumed.
It's funny that people (including me) see things that aren't there. I could have sworn it said "large organizations". My bad.
It's good that AMD doubled the lanes on the PCH as 4 was a real limit (some of the higher-end motherboards have 3xM.2s plus Wifi etc hanging off the PCH, so definately a bottleneck).
> you can't lend out individual chapters of a book

You can't? If I buy a physical book, I can't rip a page out of it and sell that to you? That's certainly the first I've heard of any such law.
I think the Discord interface is decent, the issue I have with it is the resource usage. My suggestions are to stop caring about the unread indicators, mute any channel you don't read or care about, and put servers in folders organized by how much you care about them. The quick switcher is useful, ctrl+k to find a channel or server. Don't bother reading backlog on public servers. The search is ok. You can turn on compact mode to make messages smaller. Honestly just avoid big servers in general.
I use M$ Teams at work so I have enough trouble without it already.
I'm not sure how you found this website then.. I don't recall seeing superbowl ads for Hackernews.
Yes, other taxation devices should be created to target such individuals.
Vidangel is a pretty absurd company. I read recently that they are still around and trying to come up with their next strategy.

It does raise an interesting question for me though: is Hollywood losing out on profits by not offering censored versions of their content? Clearly there’s some demand. People like to make arguments about artistic integrity, but they have no problem censoring content to air on network tv.
There are millions of people in slavery today (considered slavery by contemporary standards) who "chose" to make the journey in exchange for passage, food and opportunities.

The vast majority are of South-asian (India/Bangladesh) and South-east-asian (Thailand) origin.

They sign agreements, get on those flights, and find out that too late that they've basically signed themselves into slavery.

This was the lot of the Irish, and of Indians under the British Raj. Indentured servitude differed in only one way from slavery... the slaves were property and could therefore be destroyed (killed) by their owners with impunity.

The case of the Indians was even worse because illiteracy meant that many were tricked into it. They thought they'd just be a short distance from home, and had no idea they were going to be transported across two oceans.

Recommended reading: https://harvardlawreview.org/2021/03/the-agreement-and-the-g...
> What country/party has this position?

Northern Europe. In Iceland even porn is illegal.
You can do that. It's your app, your rules. And doing that might be easier than setting up email/password authentication.

That said, whenever I encounter a site or app or service that only supports so-called social login I give it a pass. Mainly because I don't have an account with most (if any) of those kinds of services. I might be a weird outlier, but I'm sure I'm not alone.
We're talking about first sale doctrine here, not fair use. If I did the exact same thing with a VHS tape, cutting out 10 second strips of tape and renting them out to people, that'd be totally legal under first sale doctrine. Doing that with VHS would be totally impractical but legal. Doing it with a digital file would be totally practical but illegal, since currently first sale doctrine doesn't apply to digital distribution of copyrighted materials.

My point is just that if you think it's a good idea to extend first sale doctrine to digital files without any restrictions you may first want to consider the logical consequences of that.
It's wrong to assume that all of the several hundred prisoners from multiple countries were "unlawful combatants".

As stated, a large number were delivered to the US in exchange for bounty and were alleged to be working with terrorists, allegations that were taken at face value, not looked into for years, if ever, and often lacking evidence.

Attempting to slide out of this via a false binary (ie. either lawful or unlawful combantants) is simply sleazy.
Going to space is important, and we should strive to fill the sky with space structures housing trillions of people. Yes, the consequence will be a changed view, but the upside is so high, orders of magnitudes more people than have ever existed, as well as spectacular new views.
If people use threads more, messages in a channel should be less of a mess. From what I’ve seen, only a few use threads and they’re either a moderator or a prominent member.
All to save maybe 0.5c per unit on their BOM. Now the cost is incurred by the customer.
> We don’t know how many of those children were subsequently rescued, but a question worth posing to anyone unilaterally opposed to Google’s approach is how big that number would have to be to have made it worthwhile? [..] how big the number of false positives would have to be to shut the whole thing down?

There's nothing worse or more myopic than this kind of "pragmatic", numerical approach towards liberty. As if living in a panopticon cage is desirable, as long as the wardens never make a mistake.

Why is it myopic? Well, if being forced to use technology that betrays its user is okay as long as one number is sufficiently larger than another, then why not force all new houses to come with indoor microphones and cameras, always listening and watching - only for the most heinous crimes, of course!

Are you "unilaterally opposed" to such a measure, despite how much sexual abuse and domestic violence and murder it would prevent? What about tracking and shock collars for everyone? How much violence could be stopped if everyone was forced to wear those!

Don't like it? Not even if the false positive rate was zero?
Have you compared these to StatsModels? Or R? (which includes most of these ootb)
The current discussion around 'harm' from AI generated images is the most hilarious example of a cultural more trying to find a justification for its existence after it is no longer applicable.

Will no one think of the pixels being exploited?

The older I get the more I realize that culture is what keeps us back. The Romans didn't invent steam engines not because they didn't want them but because they couldn't imagine a world where you wouldn't need slaves. The Catholic Church didn't survive the printing press.

Currently there is no society which is friendly to digital information. The first one which is will overtake everyone else in the same way that industrialization let the west overtake everyone else.
My first bet would be the GSL library: https://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/doc/html/
Because large organizations are slow to respond to market forces, it is typically easier to get a rise by leaving and coming back than by staying on, which is a shame.

Worse, in many places, people who stay on for half a decade or more are assumed permanent fixtures ("Bob has been here forever, he doesn't want to leave, or he can't get a job elsewhere") that are unlikely to ever leave, and therefore may be ignored when salary adjustments are conducted.
We wouldn't be able to run it ourselves if they hadn't trained it on 4000 GPUs for a month.
Something about this just turns me off, not sure why.
It's interesting that, in a certain phase of the learning process, words in natural language already work this way. Before a language learner has enough knowledge to understand word etymology, they have to just form an association between a word and a certain set of sensory experiences that the word is meant to represent.

Seems like we have the same thing happening here. The input images are the sensory experiences. The dummy word "S*" is the linguistic symbol that is attached to them.
I absolutely hated it but I had to use it to participate in a Tetris Effect competition. Hated it for weeks and then it just suddenly clicked. Now I use it for more varied things.
Interesting. How does this compare to stats models? https://www.statsmodels.org/stable/index.html
I don't see it as a metaphor. Writing and thinking are different. They can affect each other. Writing doesn't usually (ever?) happen without thinking. Thinking can happen without writing but, for me at least, the act of writing promotes a type of thinking that makes it easier to understand, analyze and develop my model of the world.
AI Images: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
I don't think it's an Electron thing, because you'll see the same kind of HN comments about not "getting" Twitter. In both cases I'm not really sure where the confusion lies.

For any kind of social tool, there's presumably a reason you're using it, so go pursue that reason. For me, Discord is primarily about casual competitive gaming. It helps organize races, tournaments, etc.
You mean like `setAccessible` and friends?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1196192/how-to-read-the-...
Why not use the mobile app as well? Your 1 and 2 already cut a significant amount of noise.
Does Zelle work the same way?
Sneaky synthetic molecules open the way for new types of drugs and a new startup
Discord "clicked" for me when I realized it's arranged hiearchally from left to right. Select the server you want on the left, the chanel you want to the right of that, and view the individual messages to the right of that.

Also for OP: you can right click on any server or channel you don't need all the time and mute it so you don't get notification spam.
Twitter too
I think we'd do well to look at the full implications of what you're saying:

1.) We're in agreement that energy sources need to be positive sum where you're putting in less energy than you get out. Using my point of "tech isn't the problem" here points to a ton of tech you can buy today that does this (from nukes to solar, wind, etc.), and we need gov't intervention to help fund more R&D, adoption, etc.

2.) We actually get to our carbon goals faster when we grow GDP, especially those of the developing world who can bypass old tech and techniques. Just see how much people vote for expensive climate measures when they're poor.

3.) "Wait until we're sustainable" is easy to say when you don't have to look at your family starving or in some other personal hell because you can't afford things for basic living because some high income Westerners want to tell you to pay more for them
while they live in luxury and have never known true hardship.

That's the real choice we have to make, and I'm not willing to accept a no-growth world that forces us to put those people through hell. I'd rather have a 100 years of superfund sites to clean up and 1000s of species go extinct than to make billions of people suffer through that.
> the crossover between clueless arrogance and absurdity is very subtle

You mean like in the language this is a parody of?
A satellite that can beam gigawatts of power from space is indistinguishable from a weapon.
While Aereo is certainly relevant, the 2011 "Warner Bros. Entertainment v. WTV Systems" is even more similar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warner_Bros._Entertainment_Inc....

WTV ran service called "Zediva" that streamed video from physical DVD players to customers. The District Court of Central California (the same court that ruled against VidAngel) decided that this violated the performance rights of the copyright holders.
Twitter automatically bans new accounts all the time. (I’ve heard from others that contacting support helps, but I personally just gave up on getting an account.) If you want to test getting blocked, you need to do it with an established account.
People will use (waste) more energy and water when they are not paying for it. Do you want to encourage huge homes with high heating and cooling bills?
I remember some years ago reading a reply, from a film critic to a newspaper reader, about a letter he had received from her. He had reviewed Cinema Paradiso in glowing terms, and was then surprised to receive a letter that was incandescent with rage.

The cinemagoer was disgusted by what she had seen, and didn't understand how such an epic display of toilet humour, slapstick violence and general crude behaviour had attracted any sort of positive response, let alone the recommendations he had given.

The critic pointed out that it sounded like she had probably been to see "Guest House Paradiso", a very different movie...
I've worked at a private fortune 100 company and a publicly traded company and both had their ups and downs. I get compensated substantially more at the public one, but as a consultant of sorts, the work ethic and vacation expectations are a bit more... Documented. Either way, I must have been lucky to have 10 of 12 years with entirely competent and hard working managers, good vacation and so on. I liked almost every coworker I've had and pre COVID, we would get lunch or coffee together every day and chat about work and life.

If anything, I've lost some sense of purpose and direction, partially due to societal upheaval and partially due to depression and burnout. But I have never hated my job or been afraid of losing it.
I think Discord has an absolutely atrocious mobile UX, to the point where I have gone back to standard SMS to keep in touch with my friends that insist on using it for group chats. For the majority of my friends I use basic-ass apps like Groupme/Telegram on account of them not feeling like I’m trying to navigate some eldritch Laveyan ritual to figure out who said what and where they said it.

As for the idea of using it as a social network or giant chat room, that’s not something I’m interested in to begin with, largely because of this terrible UX.
Is that really Discord’s fault though? I’m not familiar with other chat apps, so maybe Discord is not doing something to prevent such accidents from happening.
This got me HYPE
I think more and more humans are seeing this as a serious disadvantage that creates an ever greater asymmetry between companies and humans. The most egregious example is spam, but these days almost every large company communication essentially uses this "scale advantage".

Very few people are happy with that.

Therefore, if there was some way to eliminate this sort of advantage, especially for very large organisations like the government, that would be excellent.
"how each message somehow takes so much vertical space"

Discord has a compact mode https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/217047657-How-...
I also have my own implementation of packfiles [1], which I implemented as part of a toy Git implementation in Haskell [2]. I personally found the packfile format underdocumented, e.g. the official reference for the packfile generation strategy is an IRC transcript [3].

1: https://github.com/vaibhavsagar/duffer/blob/bad9c6c6cf09f717...

2: https://vaibhavsagar.com/blog/2017/08/13/i-haskell-a-git/

3: https://git-scm.com/docs/pack-heuristics/