skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The fun part is, this is how human artists learn too.

We don't actually know exactly how human artists learn, and human artists are capable of innovation, nobody knew pointillism or Bauhaus before they were invented.

A little know fact is that for humans it takes a long long time to learn, while they learn, they develop a style, if they don't they are not "real" artists, but merely executors, artists evolve, sometimes dramatically, in unexpected ways [1] [2].

So for us humans learning is an experience, not just recombining parts of features of other things.

We are also highly influenced by feelings, unfortunately, so sometimes we do things a certain way because we felt that way, not because we wanted to paint that thing that way, or because we are not good enough to do exactly what we wanted to do.

Is Mona Lisa happy? Who can tell?

Was Leonardo happy when he painted it?

What was Leonardo thinking when he painted it?

What was happening in his life?

Is that the best smile Leonardo could paint or it's an enigma he put there for future generations?

These questions are more important for an artist than the mere features of the painting.

The philosophical question is: is art discovered or invented?

If it's discovered, then SD can generate art, if it's invented, than SD it's not even generative work, because to invent something from something else, you need inventiveness.

[1] Picasso 1896 https://mymodernmet.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/pablo-...

[2] Picasso 1946 https://www.photo.rmn.fr/CorexDoc/RMN/Media/TR1/MS4GY/16-515...
Making defamation lawsuits less inaccessible to a significantly poorer party would be a start.
So Gazprom is a monopoly within Russia. Germany is not solely the reason for the EU sanctions. Other countries were involved in the sanctions decision. The Baltics and Poland, etc. have been far more vocal about wanting sanctions.

The fact is Russia hasn’t been stably non expansionist for centuries and it is they who have been aggressors in Moldova, Ukraine, Belarus, and Georgia. At some point it’s a reasonable response by those threatened by Russia (the Baltics) to respond by demanding action by their allies. Russia alone is at fault and it alone deserves ire.

The moral imperative clearly lies with those desiring sanctions. Europe is going through the painful process to divest itself now of Russian resources. This will pay dividends in the future.
You think that condemning them is the right way to go, rather than being nonjudgemental? The former will make them shut up. The latter will get them to open up and hang themselves with their own words, as he's proven time and again.
Yes that's how I read it, too - they regret having taken those sites down and wouldn't do it again.

This feels like it's going in the opposite direction of Yishan's "Every Man Is Responsible For His Own Soul" ( https://web.archive.org/web/20140913105157/http://www.reddit... ) and reddit's subsequent evolution.

In retrospect I was a little naive in the 90s. I read The Hacker Manifesto, I read "The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it", I didn't stop to think what would happen when weev was in charge.
There are no gas sanctions. It is the Russian side that restricts supply of gas.
His twitter account prior to February 24, 2022
> and falling on their own sword

That's not what that means.
Also per the email release, variations/inpainting, the trick used to simulate outpainting before this, now generates 4 images like a normal DALL-E generation instead of 3 (which was arbitrary anyways).

I do wonder how expensive the outpainting is. I'm assuming that each additional step in the timelapse is a full generation, in which case ~15 generations is about $1 total.
To some extent, that was Microsoft's strategy in the 90s and 00s.
Those two statements are not in contradiction though. If KiwiFarms is trying to get people to commit suicide in a willful way that breaks the law, surely they can be brought before the law. If you are attempting to DDoS the infrastructure of somebody because you disagree with them, you are committing an illegal act too. Perhaps terrorism is a bit far, but what gives the people who commit the DDoS the right to do so? No society should allow people to be punished without a due process.

I also can't go shoot up suspected criminals, that's called vigilantism and is criminal. Even if I knew they did it.
For an example of monitor firmware quality:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32634467

Hacking your (Dell 2410u) monitor through ddc
Compressing Images with Stable Diffusion
> Over the course of a year I have sent several abuse reports about this website to Cloudflare and have never heard back.

why would you send abuse reports to cloudflare about a website that hosts copyrighted material? why not send the reports to the website itself? and if that website ignores them then there are other ways to get that content offline, no?
I just have this painting of myself that keeps getting older
ok, fair. Spiegel came up with some new features for his app which people found interesting, and maybe even copied. That will make him an above average Product Manager, not a visionary leader in the caliber of Zuckerberg, Gates, Bezos, or the Google Duo; all these people are empire builders, they used their initial success acquire/build multiple billion dollar conglomerates that own multiple internet properties.

Granted, Spiegel has kept snap some what relevant all these years, but he is not an empire builder, and to be a big player in the social media space you need a leader who is an empire builder.
You are doing that when you let Google past the paywall.
foosball is strenuous and dehydration is no joke
The French property tax is not bizarre as much as absurd, obtuse and obsolete. The index hasn't even been updated since 1970, which means that it's completely disconnected with real-life rental values. Every single addition or improvement costs you something (an equivalent of 4 sqm is added to your official surface area simply for having running water, 3 sqm per heated room, etc), though it must be noted that you can't even properly simulate the impact of any improvement. I just received mine and my flat's rental value is computed based on input data I don't have access to as being roughly one fourth of current market prices. On the flip side, I'm paying the equivalent of 43.118% of its theoretical rental value this year (on top of income tax, obviously). The system is honestly completely messed up. A reform is apparently coming in 2026, and though it seems that it will be quite fair, it's mostly an excuse to increase taxes by an another 15% on average :(

it's apparently proving very difficult to reform as there would be as many losers as winners, and the losers hold more political clout (people with property in hot markets).

Referring back to the article, from what I'm seeing pools aren't even taxed that much. In most places, you're seemingly paying some €80 per year in additional real estate taxes for a standard 4 × 10 m pool. Probably much more interesting for the tax office is that if you're cheating on something as visible yet fundamentally cheap as a pool, you're probably not being very honest about your other taxes either…
Do you think CNN should be driven off the internet? Back in 2017 they threatened and harassed an anonymous reddit user into apologizing for making a harmless gif [1]. How is CNN better than kiwifarms?

[1] https://edition.cnn.com/2017/07/04/politics/kfile-reddit-use...
My office is in a small-town downtown US building that is that building on the block. Most of the buildings date to the 1870s after a fire nearly leveled the area, with nice brickwork and decorative elements. Ours however is a late-1950s department store with an imposing red brick facade and just a few small windows.

Some years ago a 1930s gangster movie was filmed here and they went out of their way to avoid including our extremely anachronistic building in the shot. I think it snuck into a few frames during a car chase though.
It's very telling that this post does not mention Cloudflare dropping switter, a social media site by and for sex workers which was, at the time, not violating any laws. They regret dropping self-described Nazis but not legal sex work? Cloudflare has an ideological agenda which they are masking behind supposed neutrality.
"throwawayacc2" is an account well over a year old with 400+ karma. His name does not appear to be correlated with his actual account activity.
I wouldn't claim Americans are lazy, in contrary - you guys work way too much and rest from it too little! But if its about physical movement thats another story for many, as is painfully visible.

I completely agree with your description, when I was in US in sort of work&travel program almost 20 years ago on university, I had such huge problems getting by walking to places in ie Hollywood or Maine (2 different universes btw also in obesity). Had to walk on the main road to cut time to work easily by 30 mins one way. I had (good) people sending me to homeless shelters since I looked so odd just trying to walk to places.

The problem is - even if movement and exercise is super healthy, and the more you do the better you feel about yourself, that's not most of the obesity problem. You would have to run 2-3 marathons every day without exception to burn all the excess junkfood energy many people consume.

You can be very healthy by eating well and not being sporty at all. You can't be healthy long term if you are sporty and eat tons of junk (exception may be folks doing sports on professional levels). You may look OK but ie your arteries, heart etc will tell different story.
I think I made my point known. Converting int to boolean is not a settled task, as different people might not agree on what the correct way is to do that. False could be zero, or negative one, or any negative number, or even one. So its better not to have the compiler make that decision, and just have the code be explicit about what its trying to do.
The website does have an agenda of not being shut down, yes, this is why it is so intent on following US laws and cooperates with US authorities. The person trying to shut it down was being described in the terms above, so its not surprising this is the characterization being used. The website defends free expression under US law, i suppose that also is an agenda.
Very interesting! I was thinking of using this to record test execution instead of recording mp4 videos – like Cypress does. Is there a reason rrweb would be a poor choice of this use case? Mostly trying to understand why Cypress is not doing this already.
Someone won an art competition using AI (Midjourney)
People are still constructing SQL statements using user provided data? Have they never used prepared statements before?
It's not so much about consumers as businesses and infrastructure. 5G speed and device capacity increases have the capability to truly bring about pure wireless communication infrastructure that's cheap, efficient, reliable and performant enough that we could actually get some legit cyberpunk-ish tech built on top of it. Comparing 4G LTE to 5G is like comparing traditional oil wells to shale. Your gasoline may not change except perhaps in price, but the business and geopolitical side is completely transformed and there's a new surge in economic growth.

https://www.spiceworks.com/tech/networking/articles/lte-vs-f...
We're working on expanding the generator to be able to easily add new languages. Will definitely look at supporting C#!
> Unfortunately, it's extremely hard to prove allegations of abuse by skilled actors that know how to use their tools (tools that are really easy to use).

so the problem is actually somewhere else.
Buried in the announcement is how Snap is shutting down Zenly and firing everyone who worked on it in Paris, France. Zenly is a location-based social application (think: you can see & connect with your friends on a map). Snap bought them in 2017 for a reported $250-350M when they had ~4M installs. Now Zenly is at 40M MAUs, growing strong as I heard from employees working there.

Zenly is (was?) popular in Japan, Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe and the Nordics. In Japan, it is head-on-head as the most used social app with Line.

I find it odd that Snap just shuts down an app that was so popular in regions that is hard to gain foothold for any social media team. They could have likely sold it or spun it out, but chose not do so.

It's also not like the app is a major cost to the company. Less than 100 people work on it across Snap, most based in Paris, France.
Maybe kludge it with a dithered transparency mask?
They do have an agenda for sure. That wasn't the question, tho. The question was whether they condone or even encourage their users to target people with the goal of driving those people into suicide?

This might be well the case. I am not one of their users nor am I educated in this matter, so I'd like to know too. When somebody makes this claim, as has been made multiple times in the threads here, with demands to therefore remove kikifarms from the internet, I think it is reasonable to ask for at least some evidence of such a claim.
You really don't need to use any new features to get the benefit of improvements in many cases, because the standard library is updated to use them. So things like string and array operations just get faster.

I've started using 'ref readonly' and stuff like that in bits and pieces of my application code, but the rest of it is basically written in a .NET 4.0 style and it's fine, there's no obligation to use the new stuff unless you want to. I've started using some of the newer syntax sugar to make things more concise, like local functions, value tuples, and short property definitions - but again that's totally optional.
More time to be a productive member of society, you mean.
What benefits? The parent is non-profit.

I'd argue they're imperfect, but they don't look like arses. Big gap between the two, too.
Zuckerberg is no visionary. He didn't create Instagram, he bought it.
France Used Google AI to Snuff Out Undeclared Swimming Pools
None of that requires identification.
Yep, I think this is a critical point. People in this thread keep saying things like, "If KiwiFarms is doing illegal things, prosecute them!" while ignoring that it's Cloudflare and other infrastructure providers that enable them to do those things across borders.
They're doing something bad - so it's okay to steal their stuff. Did I get that right?
The DMCA specifically requires hosts to remove content upon an allegation of copyright infringement. There is no law requiring hosts to remove defamatory content (without a specific court order). Congress has deemed copyright protection more worthy of protection at the corporate level than defamation. If you are unhappy with that situation then you should contact your members of Congress.
An argument should be able to stand on its own regardless of which people believe in it or use it.

As for the Twitter thread I've heard plenty of similar arguments before but I'm not a particularly big believer in them. Lots of people have very awful company (take for example Hollywood actors associating with predators) but that doesn't particularly mean that they are promoting or in agreement with the actions of their company.
The problem isn't that certain customers are bigots, but that they actively seek to allow harm to be done by their own end users like Kiwi Farms. The fact they have an exhaustive wikipedia for one person (Chris Chan) should have been the "nope" moment for them. Like if I was a host or a provider of a service and Josh Moon came to me with his site I'd just turn him away because he's like nuclear waste dangerous. It's not a matter of morals, it's a matter of social vs anti-social. Josh Moon, his own mother, and many of the loudest users on Kiwi Farms are anti-social to such an extreme that if they even tried to do their antics in real life beyond SWATing and cyberstalking, they'd probably be in prison now. It's not a matter of dealing with something like some religious organization that thinks being gay or trans is immoral, it's a group of thugs that skirt the law through various means and sometimes even cross into illegal acts that are hard to track/monitor (ex. SWATing).
Streetlight Wi-Fi Hotspots: A Bright Idea
No firm ETA right now, but it's something we're currently working on :)

Will send you a private message when it's ready.
Just wondering behind-the-scenes, is a thread like that flagged or something... or did it just not hit the right metrics at the right time to float up on the front page?
Firefox has this when you say delete browsing data on close, next to it is a manage exceptions button
Why are deep learning technologists so overconfident?
I'm convinced you can only make it easier for yourself, not for other people. The way I do it is to not immerse myself in all this noise. I don't read book reviews. I don't have a TV or Facebook or Twitter. I don't follow the news. It sounds extreme, but it is easy, I'm losing less hair than people that don't do these things. But you can only do it for yourself.

As far as the software side of things, that's a learning problem, once you've learned it's as easy as what most people use is to them, easier even. I don't have to contend with Microsoft store or nested mouse clicks galore, ad banners on my phone while I'm using it.
Sealfail: Security Enhanced Alma Linux for Activism, Insurgency, Liberation
> I suppose it shouldn't have surprised me, given the simplicity of the interface (just normally-open switches).

Sure. Even normal use allowed multiple switches to be on to get diagonal motion ("up" and "left" simultaneously, say), if I remember right. Using states that can't normally occur (up and down at the same time) to add extra functionality is a pretty clever hack.
Ariene 6 is basically useless for space solar power. Even if you assume Starship Space Solar doesnt make sense. With Ariane 6 its beyond insane and useless to even try.

Had Germany done the Grühnewende with mass constructing nuclear they would be done by now and likely German companies would be building nuclear plants in Poland and likely many other countries.

Germany could have spend the next 50 years building nuclear plants all over the world.

Honckley is a terrible example. Everybody know if you build a single PWR in a country with very little experiance its not gone be worth it. You need to build many to get learning effects, educate the work force.

If they had done that they could be finishing multible plants a year at a very cheap price. And that is even assume they built shitty PWRs rather then some next generation reactors.

Solar and Wind without Storage look good in the statistics but on a systematic level it causes many isses as well. Storage is still not solved so fossile will stay for a while yet. And even if you have storage a single matural disaster can cause a shortfall of electricity that overwhelms your storage.

Not to mention far more waste, far less attractive in term of livable envoironments. More land use and so on.
>> Get caught in a lie in front of a jury for a white-collar criminal prosecution with any sort of competent lawyer, and you never regain credibility.

Which is great for mega corporations who are always innocent of any robber-baroning or impulse to make security a secondary consideration to profit.

>>Regardless, the other points still stand.

On feeble legs.

>>It's incredibly hard to defend yourself if your head of security decides to extort you. They are the ones that design the protections to keep insider attacks from working. Luckily for Ubiquiti - the attacker screwed up his network configuration (VPN leak failure) which is also somewhat ironic.

I tend to think if you have that problem, you are probably hiring people that are much like your company. To put it differently, a known liar telling a story doesn't automatically make it a lie. I suspect we will soon be seeing later how much Ubiquiti cares about its customer base. When that time happens, I will return to this post and ask you some follow up questions.
I have been working on an outpainting piece (in Photoshop) currently 10609 x 8144. I am very pleased to see more support for this, though hoping it doesn't kill my current flow.

Seems like it is currently not working on their site.
You're absolutely right and we have considered skincare products for men! A lot of our language is women-focused because they are still the majority of the skincare buying audience. But fun fact - skincare for men is one of the fastest growing segments in Sephora. And we tried to make our products as gender neutral as possible, so we aren't alienating our male audience.
Video game performance is generally measured in milliseconds, not nanoseconds. The comparison would be if you were benchmarking things like physics sim updates on a per-object basis, or rendering on a per-triangle basis. Those would also be in nanoseconds.

As a game dev you're typically operating in terms of things like 'rendering our UI is taking 0.5ms, can we get it lower so we have more time for the terrain?'
It's the opposite for me. One day, I will be dead. I'll probably be a scattered mess of energy, unable to channel it into anything.

Work gives me something to channel energy towards. At a meeting, you can utilize the brainpower of someone who has lived 30 years in a different situation, and channel their experience towards a common goal.

I feel like you can actually get a lot out of work. Even if you were flipping burgers at minimum wage, you can enjoy the smell of a cooking burger, the crusting of a bun on the stove, the beauty of mise en place. It's like a relationship; you don't find a perfect person to love, you just pick someone and love them for who they are.

IMO the biggest waste of life is wishing that you're elsewhere. You end up wishing for a different present and future, then find that all your present is now the past.
My understanding is that simple plasma dilution (plasmapheresis) has the same or better results. Though some of the sources I saw said that a centrifugal plasmapheresis machine is better than the membrane-based machines.
Underrated comment in my opinion. Snap's long term potential lies in differentiating themselves with their hardware and UX like Apple did with the iPod /iPhone in the 2000s. An extremely hard task, but a more visible direction than a trench war with TikTok and Meta over generic social communications.
The only move left for OpenAI, is honour their name and make their own AI Open Source.
>There was lots of corruption in the Soviet Union. But we're talking about orders of magnitude difference here. Soviet corruption revolved around small bribes for services, lies on official documentation, etc. For 30 years now, Russia's resources have been looted to enrich several dozen people. We're talking about one of the largest shifts in wealth inequality in the history of the world.

This is how Russia has been under the communist rule. Everyone was "equal" and yet of course party members were "more equal" enjoy many prestiges which the common proletariat could only dream of. The meta culture was that of corruption and has been for a long time. You were never going to undo that.
> it seems that Krebs knew full well that his source was the person implicated in the crime to begin with

I would say implicated in a crime. It wasn't entirely clear at the time that the crime was extortion. After all, its a very odd way to make money, as going public as a "loose cannon who fucked a company by being so toxically bad at their job they brought down a company" is not the greatest CV experience post.

I'm still not entirely clear how much of the architecture described was bullshit.