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Typically, yeah - it does mean that if you work long enough in the market you start seeing the repetition, and you can start to see individual design houses behind selections at brands, but quality is generally unimpeded as it’s a competitive market, and the economies of scale for both cost and quality achievable by an outsourced designer/manufacturer with low labour costs aren’t insignificant.

Of course, it’s possible to choose the wrong supplier, or have mismatched expectations - a clothing retailer I worked with sent an entire range to be shredded because it arrived with appalling quality (like, seams that hadn’t even been stitched) and they weren’t prepared to even put it in outlets - which is where a lot of the misfires end up - it isn’t “oh no our factory had a booboo” or “whoops we made too much”, it’s a calculated “X% of the stock we bought last year was crap, therefore we have Y stock to support our outlet presence”. Some brands deliberately foster relationships with lower quality stock shops in order to maintain stock at outlet, but this is generally waning in popularity as retailers have realised that they don’t actually work very well as feeders, and have to stand alone.
When new technology is introduced people always talk about how existing workflows are cheaper. That's true, but the biggest impacts are always driven by things that were previously cost prohibitive that now become possible.

YouTubers are a perfect example of that, it used to take entire television broadcast studios to do what they do, and now it can be done solo or with just a few people. And YouTubers are exactly the audience for this new tech - the smaller ones who want to put out branded merch can not currently do so at a level of quality. But you hire one artist to go out and make 5-100 pictures of your branding, tell them to take their time and make those few images to perfection, and that can now be molded to anything they want to create.

Indie game devs must be thrilled. Aspiring indie directors looking to make green-screen backgrounds are thrilled. VRchat users looking for 3d models are thrilled.
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Industrial design. Whole point is that there’s usually complete vertical integration from conception to manufacturing to logistics, so they can crank out stuff that they can make without a headache with existing toolchains and ship it cheap.
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To the lay person, this sounds like "the scientists can't even figure out which ones were caused by climate change, how are we supposed to believe them."

A better explanation is along the lines of "we haven't seen such a drought/flood in 100 years, and climate change makes these extreme events more likely to happen."
Signal has been subpoena'd in the past, and the only relevant information they were able to provide were account creation date and account's last connection date. Literally nothing else. It's actually a little funny to read:

https://signal.org/bigbrother/cd-california-grand-jury/
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See my original post. I have an SFF case with a water-cooled 5950X+3090. That's already borderline for noise and thermals on a 240mm radiator, so an extra 100 W for the 7950X would probably be untenable. But as people point out - more perf per watt would probably mean cooler performance in a lot of workloads. It'll be interesting to see what the ITX options are for AM5 anyway.
> It struck me how similar this was to the basic challenge of programming

Yeah, this challenge is actually fairly universal. I said this in another comment but it is worth repeating. When communicating there is: 1) what you intend to say, 2) what you say, and 3) what is heard. These don't even have to be the same thing. There's a lot of ways the miscommunication can happen but this is also why we need to act in good faith. As the speaker you need to convey the idea in your head to someone else's head. As the listener you need to try to interpret what is in someone's head through the words they say. People think language is extremely structured but there is a lot lost in between and we fill in so many gaps. Once we lose good faith communication becomes near impossible because we won't correctly fill in the gaps.
> running Ubuntu 18.04 (bionic) VMs recently upgraded to systemd version 237-3ubuntu10.54 reported experiencing DNS errors when trying to access their resources. Reports of this issue are confined to this single Ubuntu version.
> > Basic physics is the reason rainfall is becoming intense around the world – warmer air holds more moisture.

And also warmer oceans evaporate more.

But... if warm air holds more moisture, sure, there's more moisture in the air. But there's no greater tendency for it to condense out in the form of rain, because warm air holds more moisture.

Can someone ELI5 why warmer air should lead to more rain, not just to more water vapor in the air?
> If "straight" lines are not straight that normally means the fisheye center or radius are not specified correctly or the angle is not defined correctly.

Is it possible to make the computer guess the correct value with AI? I guess a method is to identify the artificial objects like walls and doors, and assume they have straight lines. The nice curved tops of the windows may be a problem. And probably there must be a special case for circles like the clock.
The parts that are inaccessible right now seem incredibly easy to overcome.

Using a CLI-based tool is inaccessible for most people... but building a GUI around this would be very easy. I'm too lazy to google it, but I would bet someone already has a GUI, or is working on one.

12GB of VRAM may not be accessible on most computers, but there's nothing innovative about offloading that task to an EC2 instance. It just requires an opportunistic developer to tie the pieces together.

I would be monumentally surprised if Figma/Canva/InVision/Adobe are not already working on this.
And it will probably suck just as bad as any of the low-effort formulaic movie or music that humans like to produce.
Very good to know. Thanks for making us aware of this. Review scams are insane.
Yes. Too much noise.
I strongly believe the above to be true.

Devs of adblockers should all, suddenly, stop supporting Chrome. Make it a specific date (Jan. 1st 2023?) and make it known.

The web is unusable without strong, efficient adblocking. All power users would stop using Chrome in an instant. Even if they are a minority, the move would become visible on usage charts.
I'd love to see the opposite — bigger keyboards, with more keys dedicated to domain-specific functions (something like this[0]). I think that would mean less cognitive overhead in general as you do a particular job.

[^0]: https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/1537631208414191616?s=21...
The point is that they aren't neutral. They have a bias toward what they think is best, and they don't overcome it by acknowledging and advertising alternative views.
If 1/3 of Pakistan is underwater I'll eat my hat. That has got to be BS of the highest order. If it said 1/3 of the country had been rained on - perhaps. What a ridiculous lie as the headline.
It makes me wonder if all these musician’s catalogs that have been purchased as a whole lately are even more powerful than before. Owning a piece of every bit of media that contains a slice of David Bowie for example would be extremely valuable.

Consider the gaming world’s concept of “whales”. Customers willing to spend disproportionately enormous amounts of money in game. Can you sell these whales a unique, personalized David Bowie album that is about, I don’t know, maybe the customer’s own life story?
A lot of these assholes have chosen to be left behind. They choose to self-victimize, they choose to blame others, they choose to engage in anti-social behaviours. In short, society is not leaving them behind, they are choosing to reject society.
under sink would be too inconvenient

and all the RO membrane cartridges, or millipore filter cartridges are contaminated with PFAS, anyhow. it's literally everywhere. We have to run ours for 30 minutes before taking the ultra-pure water at the lab to drop the levels down to 'baseline'. Otherwise, the built up levels blow out the instruments.
Only people unhappy with what they are doing would use it as impetus to make a change. In that case it would be working as intended.
The mayor has been begging* for funds from the state for a long time now to fix the problem though. That being said, I'm sure there is lots of local and state mismanagement that would go into causing such an embarrassment.

* https://www.wlbt.com/2022/02/17/jackson-faces-uphill-battle-...
> I get it, Crate & Barrel sees this as an opportunity to monetize their brand without having to do all that much. Unfortunately it leaves me with a lot less trust for a brand that used to represent a quality and reputation.

It's essentially converting reputation to cash
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>I have yet to see an example of "Synthetic AI media" that was both realistic and not immediately recognizable as being synthetically generated.

Would you know if you had?
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Thanks! Over time this is likely to work less well, as it becomes more worthwhile for fraudsters to target your network. Off the top of my head, using a botnet to simulate traffic with a realistic range of UAs seems like it could allow a publisher to earn, say, 30% more revenue without you being too obvious. Overall, this would shift income from your honest publishers to your cheating publishers.
I have a dated 1070 with 8gb of vram, some of which also renders my desktop.

I was able to obtain 256x512 images with this card using the standard model, but ran into OOM issues.

I don't mind waiting, so now I am using the "fast" repo:

https://github.com/basujindal/stable-diffusion

With this, it takes 30s to generate a 768x512 image (any larger and I am experiencing OOM issues again). I think you should expect a bit faster at the same resolution with your 3060 because it's a faster card with the same amount of memory.
The difference is that software developers have a freedom of speech online. There is no legal liability or professional consequences for a junior coder accidentally giving out wrong-headed or misleading programming advice. So coders post freely, and the good posts eventually float to the top.

In licensed and regulated fields - law, medicine, finance - the situation is quite different. Posting a bad answer might result in you getting sued by an angry reader or investigated by your field's regulatory body.
A declarative language for diagrams without so much as a passing mention of Graphviz, or even Mermaid.js anywhere in the docs?

It does look like a material upgrade from Graphviz, but even so...
BTW I didn't receive your reply but had to look it up on HN, so I maybe be your intended recipient but technically I'm not.
For @toss1 maybe, for me I was kind of expecting it.
NPR positive spin on crypto as investment
Heard this on NPR? It almost sounded like an endorsement for crypto by NPR — that it was a way for minorities to come out shed versus traditional banking. Very odd piece for such speculative investment tool.
It seems you did a lot and achieved a lot. Congrats.
Why did you create this page? Who are you targeting? A new company you would like to work for? Potential customers for your new projects?
This, but unironically. A number of countries (and a number of federal and state orgs in the US) have competent sources of record for the public good. Why we don't have it for medicine is beyond me.
That's nice, but when I'm sick, I want to get well, and I might be willing to pay for it with my money, time, or labor.

I don't want to die just because it's more cost efficient for the government to save two others.
If people don't pay, then who pays the salaries? How will you make the nurses and janitors and doctors work for free?
I'd like a house one day, feel free to email me your ideas.
First: Congrats on attacking this space. I think there is all sorts of need in the self-managed care world.

That said (you just knew there was going to be criticism :)

> Overall, we recommend healthy lifestyle habits versus drugs to manage inflammation levels.

Such a blanket recommendation strikes me as problematic: Which "lifestyle habits" handle the case where CRP is high due to things like (say) cancer? Or mold-toxicity? Or auto-immune issues?

In constructing the company, I assume there is a general counsel talented in medical liability, which strikes me as a minefield. I also assume the very public history of Theranos is also going to invite interesting scrutiny, even though you're running a legitimate operation.

Good luck to you in any case. Self-managed care should be an interesting space over the next decade imho.
It's a bit like asking "Why do you need a phone book to store someone's number? Can't you just call people directly?"
It would be cool if somebody could crowd-source an EBS volume (or some other block storage) template of this that anybody else could easily attach to their cloud instance.
But are those shortcomings fundamental and insurmountable? I don't believe so. While I agree with you about the current state of the art, in principle I think the project of "AI creates original art" is possible. Though it may take a few centuries to get there.
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Ah that makes a lot more sense, thanks for clarifying.
Very few fan boys can survive a day of web surfing with no adblock.
I wonder if ICBMs will ultimately be a use case. I'm no fan of nuclear weapons, but the governments of the world are willing to throw money at them and weapons are generally easier to harden against g forces than an undergrad cubesat.
I'm not Google but when I write a scraper I frequently use class selectors to pick out data. It's a rare occasion when all the information I need from a page is tagged as microdata.
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Looks cool. Any inherent limitations or performance issues with graphs that are very large? (20M+ elements)
As I stated, CPUs don't actually run at the base clock rate. They idle well below and under load they boost above it. How much they boost is of course architecture, load and temperature dependent, but it's generally a fair bit higher than the base clock.
The technology itself is rock solid. The problem is that there's a chicken-and-egg situation keeping people from having enough of an incentive to properly configure it and roll it out.
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How so? You’ve given examples of good things but not bad things.
> I have yet to see an example of "Synthetic AI media" that was both realistic and not immediately recognizable as being synthetically generated.

Man, am I a good photographer or what

https://imgur.com/mUoY4b1

I mean, probably if you're familiar enough with squirrels something gives it away, but I'm not.
> We also know for a fact that global warning is directly responsible for the increase in melt water from receding glaciers...

OK.

> ... which was a contributor to the floods in Pakistan.

Can you explain how that contributes to the flooding? I don't see the mechanism.
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The method shown in this demo was already simple enough to teach someone to do in an afternoon. But we're only a week into the release of SD and we haven't gotten to all the sure-to-come GUIs that will pack the model into an idiot-proof application.

Think about it, give the user a few basic, MS-Paint level pencil tools, colors, shape makers. Ask for a description, the application can even push you in the right direction for putting together good, detailed prompts, gives you a list of art-styles, artists, filtering methods, etc all with reference images so you don't need to memorize names. You can zoom into sections of the image to work on independently (like the birds in the article), then blend it into the greater image. Drag and drop image files onto the project and iterate on them.

Implementing the glue to simplify the "tough" parts of this process is honestly pretty trivial.
WTF was this written by an AI?
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The last question in the FAQ makes it clear that this can only be used in the context of their account-based online tool. Their free offering literally says "3 diagrams". Above this, the FAQ tries to compare their tool to Mermaid, Graphviz, PlantUML which are all open source, locally runnable, etc. Their comparison totally skips the fact that, because D2 can only be used in their service, a broad number of use cases (including programmatically generating diagrams inside some other application) basically aren't supported.

Seems like it could have been cool, but likely will not seriously try it because of these limits.
On a tangent, buying a ticket for a tourist is a real pain on the Berlin system. You have to know what a zone is, what specific station etc. would be great to have a standard fare like in NYC.
On the first point, I’m referring to a new kind of marketplace. Essentially something made explicitly to address the problem you mentioned. A generic marketplace that enables the discovery of new products/markets is conceivable.

Regarding regulation, physical spade is definitely one part of it. But the public is also generally against nuisances, including too many advertisements. It’s an imperfect analogy, but not too far off.
One thing I noticed is that on GCP if you create a a2-ultragpu (Nvidia a100 80gb) and you select a spot instance, the price estimate goes down to $0.33 hourly ($240/m) which sounds really good if it's not a mistake. I was wondering if you could then turn a single A100 into 7 GPUs using Multi-instance GPUs. So on an 80gb one you get 7 10GB GPUs (can't have 8 due to yield issues on those cards). I'm pretty sure that will run much slower than on the full instance, but not 7x slower so if you're running a larger service at scale this could be an option to parallelize things. If someone is able to get that running please let me know how it performs.

The next thing I considered was just buying up a ton of 3060 12gb cards (saw a few new ones for $330) and just hosting a server from my house. This might be a good option if you don't care about speed but care about throughput.

RTX 3090s are also decent in terms of price per iteration of Stable Diffusion. If you want to build a fast service like Dreamstudio I think it's the only option to be able to do it at a reasonable price. If you want to host these in the cloud using consumer RTX cards, you'll have to go with less reputable hosts since Nvidia doesn't allow it. I don't want to name any since I can't vouch for them, but there are some if you search. The cheapest option will be to buy them and host it yourself.

I'm still researching what the best price/performance is for hosting this so if you have any findings please share.
> I've got almost 17 years exp and not making $200k base

I am surprised by this. You can check levels.fyi to target the right companies. I guarantee you 100% that you can easily make > 230k base outside FANG for a remote position.
I'm an electrical engineer and well versed in the theory and practice of electrical phenomena of most known kinds, plus did a deep dive specifically into body static a number of times, for assorted reasons.

First one was related to ignition sources for explosive atmospheres, I have recognised certification for classification and design of equipment for explosive atmospheres and depending on the gas/liquid sometimes such things need to be considered.

Secondly, my ex wife got a fibromyalgia diagnosis, along with a thyroid problem and this made her skin very dry and she had a lot of static problems (problems were sparks when she reached out to touch metallic objects, basically). The dry skin limited the normal rate of bleed off that occurs of static.
If you know someone always getting static shocks when others don't, have them get their thyroid checked.

There is a whole raft of issues associated, like atmospheric electricity etc.

But, one thing to consider is any body charge someone does have is a result of the triboelectric effect, which is charge seperation, no charge is created, it's just shuffled around and concentrations of +ve or -ve charges accumulate in one place, but the tendancy is always to try and even out, like water finding level.

If you want to really see a report of static so extreme it acted as an invisible wall, or force field, read the following link, but no associated reports of harm were ever made.

http://amasci.com/weird/unusual/e-wall.html
I don't think it's accurate to say AVX-512 was backported. The original Skylake consumer CPUs released as the second generation of products on Intel's 14nm already had space reserved in the CPU core floorplan for the AVX-512 register file. That space didn't get used until the Skylake server CPUs shipped, still on 14nm several years later. AVX-512 support didn't arrive in the consumer desktop product line until Rocket Lake, which was backported to 14nm but was not remotely the beginning of the AVX-512 story.
Seems like it is self-defined. Which if answered honestly I think is fine. Someone that drinks a glass of wine a day would likely describe them self as a drinker, while the person the person that only has one drink socially might not.
I work with SEO data, and this looks much easier to use than other tools I have tried.
I think it is SEO driving this. They want to surface product pages for as much stuff as possible so they contract with some third party to also be a reseller of such goods because it probably requires little overhead. And if it brings traffic then they can try to push their own "sponsored" products.

I think it dilutes a brand. I don't know that Walmart has any worthwhile reputation as a brand though (at least in my eyes) to dilute so they're probably selling these things and don't care.

When I search on local chain retailer websites, I try to use the "In Store" or "Same day pickup" filters to get actual products they sell. The nice thing is sometimes they indicate the inventory level.
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i don't think this is a case of mandated reporting.
Most stuff I can do natively. I am not messing with a yocto build except on their recommended platform though. Too complex to be worth the effort of trying it on something else if not needed.
Unless there are fewer than 100 places, you'd expect at least one 100 year storm somewhere every year.
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As much as I encourage people to stay out of internet comments...

("It's like bringing mentally-ill, bad faith people into your house and yelling at each other"; "They aren't your friends, and it doesn't make any friends; You really want to be the 10,001 buried comment? The internet brings every dumb thing to your door, which is not how real life is supposed to work.")

...trying to write that youtube comment in a pithy, understandable way, condense and clarifies my thoughts.
Is this the "It's my money, and I need it now" / "It's your money, use it when you need it!" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdPM6j1Q4sg) of execs trying to cash out and bail before things go to shit?

My question is, why is this happening now and why didn't it happen before?

Is it because Amazon is simultaneously wildly popular and a total trash fire, so customers are becoming gradually inured to their bullshit and so other companies are thinking they can slip under the radar with this ploy?

Was there an industry conference where this idea was presented and nobody ever explicitly agreed to collude, but there were nods all around the room and everyone knew what they were expected to do?
> student loans that could not be defaulted on (so essentially, UBI for students)

It's the opposite of UBI—UBI you're given money that you don't have to pay back. Student loans that you can't default on is money that you can't get out of paying back.