skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, no what we learn is that after 60 years of dumb usage of nuclear we need to finally fucking evolve and build air cooled nuclear. Sadly most projects that could do that get killed in the political battle.

There is nothing inherent in nuclear that is bad in heat. In fact, air cooled nuclear, is perfectly fine in the hottest desert and coolest tundra.

> conflucts & war will now also only increase, that is for sure.

That is against 50 years of trend, and despite Ukraine, it not actually flipping the trend.

> Worst of all I cannot get rid of the feeling that everybody shouting "nuclear now" was denying or at least ignoring clinate change for the last 30 years..

That is a totally uniformed opinion. Lots and lots of people have been wanting nuclear for a long time.

France as an example of a green grid has been held up as an example by many technology people.

The simple problem is that those people didn't really have a political home, so they had little relevance.

> Be happy in your nuclear focused states and fantasies but leave this at rest here at least ..

Nuclear has actually managed to make grids green. Like actual large industrial countries, and did it 40 years before anybody came even close with wind/solar.

You should worship at the feet of nuclear given how much CO2 was not produced because of nuclear for the last 40 years.

And had it everybody had embraced nuclear like we wouldn't have the problem anymore.

The reality is the environmentalist with their obsession with natural energy (whatever sudo-scientific nonsense that is) have been holding back the flight against climate change almost as much as the fossil fuel lobby.

For 40 years the environmentalist failed to produce a solution for green grids and dreamed about solar and wind. Sure over the last 20 years that has started to work. But we would be done with this by now had the environmentalist community embraced nuclear.
self driving cars would be easy if all the cars on the road were self driving, what makes it difficult is getting them to operate in an environment with illogical human drivers.
That's the thought I had; at least the car would take some damage.
According to the Amazon recruiter that reached out to me for Amazon Ads, their growth has been significant and they're now one of the largest sources of income for Amazon at $30B+ a year in income.

All the Amazon devices are likely whats being targeted for Ads. Kindles, Amazon Prime, Audible, alexa, firestick, and now that Prime has access to Thursday night football they'll get some of that ad revenue too.

TLDR: Amazon is going big on advertising.
How about these should-be-equivalent links?

* https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.6592

* https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.6592
Stable Diffusion has dominated the front page recently. There has been 3-4 articles on it at all times.
It's the search engines definition of reasonable. Don't like it? Don't let the search engine get to the content.
This is called fedposting and it's basically the message board version of what the FBI does to entrap Muslim terrorists and white supremacists IRL. The problem you're going to have with making it a crime is, where do you draw the line?

If someone gets in front of a big crowd and says "Donald Trump is a fascist, he's the next Hitler", and then one of those people takes the matter into his own hands - do you think the speaker should be found guilty of a crime?
Wishing you are always on the beach is pretty much just about hedonic desire, like wishing you were always eating steak. I've never heard of anyone on their death bed who wished they ate one more steak or spent one more day on the beach in their twenties. People regret not building/maintaining important relationships which generally require real environmental stressors, more like the office but not with coworkers.
The only thing this achieves is that your high performing teams will use a communication tool outside of your reach and premise with all that this implies.
There's really nothing else to say here other than, "no, you do".
AI techs is really good at "artistic" domains where the product is to make people feel. Can't be used where u want 100% correct output.
maybe "embrace, extend, exploit" works, too.
>>because they want to take advantage of peoples indifference to small subscriptions

Hmmm. I may be odd, but I and everyone I know have a very high resistance to subscriptions, even small ones, because they are maintenance and just a general budget leak. My impression of the reason that companies want subscriptions is that they tend to extract much more revenue from the customer; of course they don't get it all up front, but recurring revenue streams and especially that continue even when the product provides no value (e.g., the customer forgets about the ongoing charges), can be ridiculously profitable.
I'll try. I haven't seen that yet but if its true it might make it somewhat bearable.
They played League for so long the word "Win" and its relatives "Winning" and "Victory" left their vocabulary. I'm surprised "fun" is still there!
I agree, but I do think the big question will be supporting plugins without recompiling. The answer is probably WebAssembly or one of the native-node interops but it's still not trivial.
Adblock does this pretty well tbh. target `tr.athing` which `:-abp-contains(diffusion)` or similar.
You mentioned the concept of repentance. The biblical concept of repentance requires action to restructure the way you do things and is mutually exclusive with "business as usual". Anyone who is doing the BAU part skipped the repent part.

Regarding laws, we live in a representative republic where anyone can vote for any representative to act in their interests. If you would prefer that we remove the rights of Christians to vote because they tend to vote for policies that you don't support, well, that's a very different type of government. Historically, in the US, we have gone to great lengths to give marginalized groups the right to vote.

Finally, a Christian is simply a person who has decided that they will organize their life according to the standard defined in the Bible in preference to other options. Other people make decisions to organize their lives in other ways. It seems like you are willing to tolerate folks in the latter camp, but hold a special animosity towards folks in the former camp. Do we not each have our own autonomy?
> what are other use cases are there for the greater collective good?

It could radically change how humans produce and perceive art.

I just wish there were more technical discussions around prompt engineering, so far most of the articles focus on particularly good examples authors got out of DALL-E, MJ, SD.
I wonder how that number compares to other forums and social media sites.

Seems odd to me that everyone is hyper-fixating on that site, as tasteless as it may be, when much larger ones are given a pass.
Isn't this what flash tweening already allowed 20 years ago? The technique here seems ideal for already-existing drawn images or photographs, but if you're drawing something from scratch you can provide a lot more context for interpolation by starting with vector data instead of raster frames.
No the majority of researchers in the field who have been researching for decades already know deep learning isn't the correct way forward

(playing Devil's Advocate here)

That doesn't even make sense. Correct way forward to what exactly? I guess if you assume that the only valid goal of AI research is to eventually achieve AGI then you might have a sort-of valid point. Except that nobody "knows" that deep learning isn't the way forward to AGI. Nobody "knows" that it is either.

But all of that said, current deep learning research has absolutely created systems that do amazing things and create tremendous value for society. So in what sense can we say that it "isn't the correct way forward"? Do you suggest abandoning DL completely? If so, in favor of what?

(OK "Devil's Advocate" portion over)

My own position has long been that "just deep learning" might be sufficient to achieve AGI if we eventually make networks that are big enough to support the right kind of emergent behavior. But I've also long been skeptical that this is the most direct or efficient path to AGI. I'm an advocate of hybrid symbolic/sub-symbolic systems that integrate deep learning with other AI strategies.
DNSSEC is top-down securing chain, DNSCrypt bottom-up. Each has their pros and cons. Relying on your government to keep you secure can be a valuable factor, depending on your threat model.
In addition to the advice already commented, if you are using AWS I'd recommend checking out our recently released AWS Startup Security Baseline Prescriptive Guidance: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/prescriptive-guidance/latest/aws...

This is not a comprehensive checklist per se, but a minimum set of security controls to implement to help secure your AWS account and workloads running on AWS within your account.
I think kaon123 was being sarcastic.
The one time cost of widening roads go down but the additional transit line costs which are yearly outweigh those costs and continue.
Cleopatra’s Needle: a 3500 year old Ancient Egyptian obelisk gifted to the US
I might be wrong, but that seems pretty far out to me, because it requires higher-level coherent understanding in a way that the current systems don’t seem to have.
Google reproduces the entire page it searches. This is not some oversight or hidden secret - it is how it works.
> I just don't want to live in a world where society is governed and censored by big corporations.

You already do. And that's actually a good thing. It means that in free societies like the USA, these companies are free to choose to do (or not do) business with whomever they choose. They are not free from the market reacting to those decisions, though.
Also missing, from the top of my head: your customers' data, company reputation, trade secrets,...
This hasn't happened with ISPs that prohibit harassment.
Cognitive loads in programming
Wonder why that's isn't in the nav - to cool down active discussions?
>basic/mechanical tasks to a tool and give more focus to higher-minded problems.

>rendition quality... [is] so incidental.

There's this thing in painting called 'mark making' and it can be the difference between an all-time-great painting and a throwaway portrait. Mark making speaks to every momentary choice of physical process a painter employs and reveals their thought process. For some of the greatest painters, it reveals their genius.

Do not discount execution. Overlooking "basics" and "mechanics" is what results in disappointing work.
I've played with them a bit. I understand at least a lot of the science behind it, and the tech is interesting, but what people seem to want to do with it is kind of boring to me. I've been working with generative art for a long time, but for some reason this doesn't really move me the way that far less technically impressive stuff does.

I'm especially bored with the "Will AI replace artists?" breathlessness. It's tedious. Of course not. These tools are each like an artist in and of themselves. Did Picasso replace Rembrandt? Did Warhol replace Picasso? Nah. No AI will create what I'd create, or what Takashi Murakami would create, or any given high school kid with a paintbrush.

If all you think art is is being able to complete a commission, then sure, you'd probably see this as replacing what you think the purpose of an artist is. But you'd be wrong, and wrong in such a boring way that it's not worth debating.

Even if these AIs started generating their own ideas, it would be amazing and fascinating and worth celebrating, but it's not replacing anything. Just adding something new and cool into the world.
Agreed. IMO, people encouraging Cloudflare and other corporations to take political stances are very short-sighted. With the amount of Saudi Arabian and Chinese investment and influence continuing to grow in major corporations, you have to imagine that large tech corporations being aligned with west-coast US Democrat politics isn't going to last forever.

As the article says, "... [not providing services based on moral character] is a dangerous precedent, and one that is over the long term most likely to disproportionately harm vulnerable and marginalized communities."
I may be living in the past in this aspect. I admit my statement earlier that only plastic being printed reasonably may be wrong. I don't know what SLS is, but I briefly looked it up and it looks like the cheapest ones are more than $5,000, with the larger ones being hundreds of thousands. There may be cheaper options that I didn't see. in any event that may not be an issue if only specialized people use them, and others can buy parts from them locally or online. Would you mind sharing more about what SLS printing is and what it can do? Can I print real appliances with it such as a microwave or blender? Do you see the cost as being reasonable or would it simply be paying more for guaranteed quality? For context I tried searching for what SLS is made of but it seems like it a process and not a material. Can this process be used for metal? If it can only print diamond than I don't think it could be used for appliances. I also found this result which just lead me to more confusion:

>The two most common powder bed fusion 3D printing systems today are plastic-based, commonly referred to as SLS, and metal-based, known as direct metal laser sintering (DMLS) or selective laser melting (SLM).
Cf themselves are disincentivized to make that change
Amazon was hurt deeply by TikTok. TikTok pushed Shein which is now the top shopping app. shein is direct from china sales and is now insanely popular for cheap fashionable clothes. TikTok is eating many.

https://techcrunch.com/2021/05/18/shein-overtakes-amazon/
Kind of the extremely radical opposite to the reasoning behind accessibility, then? Ever have someone in a wheelchair get mad at you?
This is mind boggling.

How deep is it? I mean, I'm sure there are areas that are a few inches deep and others that are dozens of feet, but generally speaking -- is this more or less than the height of a single story?

Edit: And is it generally of similar depth or does it vary greatly from locale to locale?
That could be an interesting discussion! Cloudflare should lead the charge and restructure their company to be legally considered a utility.
If there had been an advanced industrial age in the Silurian epoch then it would have been very different to ours.

For starters, the reason we have coal today is that during the Carboniferous epoch, ~358 to 298 MYA, the Glossopteris forests that covered large sections of the earth evolved before the bugs - termites etc. - evolved to break them down, hence we're still left with vast quantities of coal which is essentially squashed unrotted Glossopteris 'trees' (actually they're a type of primitive fern).

Presumably, a Silurian, ~443
- 419 MYA, civilization wouldn't have had these bugs either. So that must have posed major problems for them.

Alternatively, there was some kind of 'Carboniferous' epoch before the Silurian one and it and the 'termites' that came after it became extinct before the Silurian epoch began. Funny that we've not yet come across any such epoch(s).

Such extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
very cool ! So Samen is a way to manage types across frontend and backends?
If anything Copilot makes Stable Diffusion seems way more impressive.
Yeah mikrotik config is like trying to learn gregorian incantation spells and you have to be in the right 3rd harmonics.
It is a free speech issue. It is not a First Amendment (or equivalent in non-US jurisdictions) issue. Legal provisions that protect speech from government interference provide a minimum level of free expression; in a health society private citizens and organizations will generally go above and beyond that minimum.
I can't think of any instances of people being persecuted for being cisgender. But I suppose you can draw a reasonable comparison to The Pirate Bay, which has received much more attention from law enforcement for cutting into record labels' profits than Kiwi Farms has for terrorizing queer people.
Doctors is a better American analogy than firefighters
I'm not an expert when it comes to drip coffee makers, but I had a cursory glance at Media Markt's offerings. There's an entire category of machines with a removable water tank (which implies a separate lid), with machines starting at 33 EUR for a Grundig and 40 EUR for a Bosch. They're not as pretty, though.
Drupal is obviously one of the longest-running content management systems available and they have done a much better job at keeping up with the moving target that is tech, when compared to Joomla / WP.

Outside of being written in TypeScript with more modern conventions, the fact that Payload borders on an application framework is what would make someone choose it over something like Drupal.

Feature-wise, this commonly means reusing Payload's auth in your own app(s), defining function-based access control rather than RBAC, swapping in React components into the admin UI, and more.

But another HUGE reason is that when we built Payload, we tried to keep its own internal conventions as close as possible to just regular JS / TS. If you know JS, you know Payload. With Drupal and even WP to an extent, you need to know how _their_ conventions work. It's all very specific to the platform and the Payload team has always hated that. Devs don't want to learn CMS - they want to learn the underlying language, and Payload embraces that to its core.
> The have added a lot more to it than just change the license

I see that, but that doesn't mean they can ignore the original license.

> The original wording in the license puts arbitrary and unenforceable limits on what the end user can do.

I'm totally with you here. The original license is absurd. Still doesn't mean we can fork the repo and replace the license without (probably) breaking the law. Which, by all means, do. In practice maybe nobody will care. I'm just pointing it out because it's sketchy.

> I would argue the original repo license applies to the weights only and not the code wrapping it.

Most of the clauses only apply to the weights, yes. The first clause in the license applies to the whole repo, though: "All rights reserved by the authors."

> They have also made a way to use real-esrgan/gfpgan and so a license change is practicality required.

I don't see how this is relevant. Even if there is a license conflict, the authors retain control over their source. A license conflict might lead to a damages settlement, or an order to halt distribution. It doesn't magically switch the license by implication.
From what I saw, that was indeed one of the more common complaints about Windows 8. Nobody could find printers and thought Windows 8 didn't support printers because Windows 8 merged everything to just "Devices" (and the short-lived Devices "charm" as an intended one-stop print shop/"universal Print button", RIP). It didn't help that Windows 8 tried to at the same time update the ancient Windows Printer driver model and remove some of the worst habits of Printer driver vendors (background apps that are always running, bespoke updaters, weird unregulated UI extensions to Win32 common dialogs via backdoor hacks, etc) so there was some Manufacturer-encouraged hysteria that Windows was moving too much cheese on Printers and coming to take people's beloved Printers away (which did result in Microsoft killing that nicer printer driver stack initiative of Windows 8 and its user-focused experience).
As much as I'd love the headline to be accurate (we use pylint and friends extensively) I think the comparision is pre-mature.

The linters the author is comparing against have significantly more features an more overhead given they need to support many more complex rules/situations, also I'd argue this linter is far from well organized given it seems all checks appear to be implemented in a flat file [1].

I would not be surprised if a fully fledged linter written in rust outperforms any linter written in python by a factor of 20-25x though.

I'd be curious to see functionality & performance comparisions if this project continues.

[1] https://github.com/charliermarsh/ruff/blob/0b9e3f8b472dc3fd0...
He also should have had some help from the news agency in them asking him for his opinion and using some of their own judgment about which parts of it to publishin case he accidentally shared anything in such a large group of documents. That probably also happened.

I think it's telling that multiple administrations have failed to come forward and promise him a fair trial, let alone any sort of deal, commutation, or pardon.
Sounds like you're heavily invested. I found the piece interesting. CSS is far from perfect and could definitely use a rethinking once in a while.
Biggest difference - Bloomberg still hasn't retracted that garbage story...
> But that still doesn't make Cloudflare the fire brigade.

Why not? That particular service seems a lot like a volunteer fire brigade.
It's definitely not popular in the Nordics.
That gave me a chuckle. Good luck with that.

The contracts they signed with the government doesn't guarantee them any number or percentage of loans to service. By contract twice a year the federal government evaluates the loan servicers and decides what percentage of existing and new loans the servicer will receive. The contracts even contain terms which allows the government to completely block servicers from getting new loans at the government's sole discretion. Servicers also get a bonus depending upon percentage of loans they service which are in default. Reducing the loans would reduce the percentage of loans in default which means more bonus for the servicers.
I actually pay for Copilot, because it is useful, but during the hype phase you had people claiming that it could replace programmers entirely. That is patently not true.
Yes, exactly. They want all the benefits of being seen as a utility, but none of the obligations of actually being one. That's called being slimy.
It is honestly beyond Star Trek. The Computer was extremely capable, but also very literal and creative interpretation was not a strong point. Data painted, but not very well. Reality is ending up to be more interesting than our wildest fantasies from a few years ago.
Doctors and lawyers are doing great, still.
As a poc, I ‘m wondering what makes your products different than the other countless skin care company targeted at poc that have been started these past few years? Everyone is riding the trend and the meme that we’re being left out of big brands’ doesn’t hold up anymore. And please don’t tell me WYz dermatologist works with us and we use the best ingredients, everyone says that, do you have an actual differentiator?
This is as ridiculous as claiming that a neural network is going to make Skynet.

First, statistics is not a small branch of math, proability theory is (not a small branch by the way, not by a long shot, just a branch, one of the fundamental and very large ones). Statistics is the art and science of dealing with data, it uses probability theory like physics uses math, but is far more than probability theory just like physics is far more than math.

Second, Neural nets and machine learning in general is an extremly powerful way of solving problems of certain structure and form, and it solves problems not encountered in statistics. Claiming it's a small branch of statistics is like claiming that the entirety of computer science is a small branch of logic.
Cheeky:

https://github.com/hlky/stable-diffusion-webui/blob/master/i...
META: Isn't this one?

I'm not tired of it, as we often have "deluges" of posts about current events.

It'll die down.
> by exposing horrible people

I've listened to probably 100 episodes so far, and I don't recall being exposed to any horrible people. Do you have some guests in mind? It seems they're incredibly rare.
> very much doubt it

It's week two, give it two decades.

Or come and build some!

Amazon in 2000 didnt knew it would become infra for the world with AWS