skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Technically true, but I think this is VASTLY understating what has become possible with your average PC over the past 30 years.

Today I can get quick, effortless renders from Blender with a zillion available assets on the internet on my laptop. I can drop that directly into something like Clip Studio and paint right over it.

In the 80s you needed an extraordinarily expensive workstation like the Quantel Paintbox to even do primitive Photoshop type stuff. If you wanted a 3D render you needed a whole farm of servers.
[2019], the twitter list is gone...
ITT: Bunch of white dudes deciding on my behalf if Raj's character should offend my Indian sensibilities or not.
Sweeping Children’s Online Safety Bill Is Passed in California
This is the first time I see this accessibility issue, pressing the "Down" key (▼) doesn't work to navigate the page (scroll down) and instead goes all the way to the top.
How about framing it differently?

To say something like: "of the five recent weather catastrophes (off the top of my head: this Pakistan monsoon, Europe drought, California drought, heatwave in India, heatwave in Spain), we can confidently say at least four were caused by climate change, and perhaps, perhaps one wasn't. Which one? It doesn't matter, and we don't even know if it wasn't." might be correct and understandable enough?
Delta Works
I faintly remember a load of bingo and bejeweled clone shovelware circa 2012.
Tips for Self-Taught Japanese
It's been interesting to see Facebook do the Google Graveyard thing with also-rans. The difference with Google is that users actually miss some of their axed products. Facebook Gaming was an attempt to challenge not only Twitch, but the glutted cloud gaming segment as well, which based on the OP sounds like they're keeping on the website.

At this point these giants have enough cash to challenge each other at every vertical, building services that don't look like but are basically clones. But I don't know if any of these recent spin-off products have much staying power. Who really likes Facebook Reels or Amazon Luna or Microsoft Mixer or Reddit Talk or Shuffles by Pinterest? (Okay, maybe the last two might be able to capture some niches.)
I am aware that I send my messages to HN, they are not forwarded to you but you open the HN page to read my response.
HN is more like a message board with message hierarchy.
The communication is public, the transmission path is encrypted.

It's more like whispering in your friends ear and she/he writes in down and pins it to a public board. My communication was private, but he/she is a chatterbox and I'm well aware of that.
There is also the Smalltalk Zoo [1], where you can try several of the old systems which have been reimplemented in Lively:

[1] https://smalltalkzoo.thechm.org/
As someone who lives in a hurricane prone area I hope you knocked on some wood after saying that. 75% of named storms occur after August 20th and NOAA still expects and above average season. There is some evidence that the high wind shear and dry air that has been impeding storm formation is starting to subside.

I also think this comment makes the parent's point about probability distributions being difficult for people to understand. Global warming doesn't mean every hurricane season will be more intense than the one before it. Just that the probability distribution will shift. That might mean more intense seasons on average it might not. I'm not enough of an expert on it to know, but the consensus seems to be that they will become more intense on average. I could see a situation where a warming environment could lead to more of the wind shear and dry air that is keeping formation down this year though. Either way one below average hurricane season after 2 really active ones doesn't tell you that much.
You can, but they do hide it. And if the product you’re looking for isn’t currently in stock, you won’t see the filter at all.
>I know that technology has displaced workers in the past, but it seems to be doing so at a faster and faster pace.

Yes, and isn't it wonderful?

Ideally machines will do all of our work as soon as possible.
No, because people would stop using the crappy search engine.

That's how the world was before Google.
We have a visualization like this for our own project. It actually involves a 3D globe you can rotate and explore and it is mobile friendly. You can see it here:

https://qbix.com/ecosystem

Click on the globe and explore different countries. You see those circles? They represent people using our apps around the world! The Wikipedia example gave me a lot more ideas though.

It hit me, any project could use this. We could make it a widget that people install on their own sites, and feed it with pings. The location is determined from the IP or fuzzed location from what people voluntarily enter in their app for other reasons.

Would love feedback and if anyone wants this on THEIR site for whatever app or site you currently own, I’ll give it to you. Just comment here and tell me how to reach out.
Speed painting also usually involves practicing certain scenes. This method anyone can use to create any new scene that they can imagine and the result looks quite good with some patience. Seems like some people are overly pessimistic but to me this seems like we’re on the cusp of something truly disruptive in the arts space. And it’s not NFTs. Remember that last year this would have sounded mostly like sci-fi unless you were following cutting edge research.

In the realm or “real” art I’m actually very excited since I believe there are hundreds of very imaginative and patient people who just can’t paint well but will be able to create new art with tools like this. It can also synthesize new and alien things.
This is cool. I’d like to do this with one of my adult children who has been into Minecraft for years. Was a setup/getting started guide captured from the session that you can share?
… there's a difference between "cheap and low quality" and fraud.
Yes, there have been several recent changes to make Cosmopolitan executables run under Rosetta.
Not really relevant bc it's kinda nitpicky but amazingly it's not even 4gb, it's more like 2gb if you use the float16 version (which has no quality degredations). Quite amazing that so many images fit in that small a package.
Get out, focus on bettering yourself and don't let crooks and dishonest people drag you down. Don't let them negatively impact you.
didn't the same thing happen in 2010?
https://www.criticalthreats.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/P...
I have an 16" M1 Pro Macbook Pro. I use it for C# development using the Rider IDE. Other than the clunky name, I am very happy with it.

I have a test program that pegs all 10 cpus at 100%. It cannot get the machine to heat up or get the fans to be audible; apparently to do that you have to also engage the GPU or other components of the chip.

I got it with 32GB of memory that that has turned out to be overkill. For my use 16GB would have been sufficient. I would only need more if I were running a VM.
“Do you really want the government deciding whom is allowed to speak?”

The answer to this question is yes.
There was a baseline expecting of quality, because Walmart would not be expected to buy from counterfeiters. For example, if I buy 3 mule team borax from Walmart, I expect it to come via official sources.

If I buy 3 mule team borax from a Walmart reseller, I have no idea where it is sourced from or how much those entities care about reputation. It could be from 3 mule team, it could be counterfeit.
it could also be explained by All Cause Mortality being higher in vaccinated populations than unvaccinated (which, by the way, is the proper use of ACM when you compare two populations with a control).
>there's no "specialized" NSFW content maker to be highlighted

Unless I'm misunderstanding you, yes there is, and it was even posted on HN last week:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32572770

(And yes, many of its results are horrifying)
Looks more realistic like that I think: startups are supposed to struggle so doing dips of almost bankrupt seems smart really.
List of beautiful products presented in their first and last version
> Now try properly aligning with an "entity" that thinks nothing like you, has a vastly different set of experiences, doesn't know how to count, and has no real concept of physical mechanisms (and more).

Indeed. This point was also made in a different way in the article:

> So all of that to say that it’s very, like very, difficult to describe an image with words. There are so many things that an illustrator will instinctively know how to do, that the machine would need to be told to do. Even if it was possible

It struck me how similar this was to the basic challenge of programming: computers don't have the layers upon layers of background information that humans take for granted, to be able to accept descriptions of the simplest tasks. You must explain every minute detail to them.
PgDn also does this... strange. Scroll wheel works fine.
Yes! We will still need new creatives to dream up something entirely new, which then can be fed into AI as new seeds. The cycle continues.
"ID houses" in this context is interior design, right? How does manufacturing work -- interior designers are typically not manufacturers? This is super interesting to me, so if you have any links or further info about this process, I'd love to know more.
I think I'm a noob here, but what is the use case? Why would I want to sync GA data to Google Sheets?
> You needed to have tools, skill, resources and time to do such things.

Downloading a cracked copy of Photoshop and checking out a book from the library on how to edit photos is only somewhat more difficult than learning to use Python and write programs that generate art from some model. And only because learning anything is extremely easy today with so many free resources and help forums.

> Anyone can do anything on any scale.

I'll believe it when I see it.

> Now that prices are low, that opens infinite number of new space exploration possibilities.

Except SpaceX is still in the "crawl" phase of "crawl, walk, run", and they only got even that far because because an eccentric billionaire has staked his reputation on the problem and thrown a huge amount of money at it, without having to worry about things like "reporting to Congress" and "making sure the space program creates jobs in such-and-such voting district". And after all that effort and truly astounding engineering (the rocket lands itself back on the launch pad!!), space launches are still expensive, risky, and complicated, and will remain so into the foreseeable future (~decades).
Humans are unreliable. Thanks to Elon’s incompetence, my scheme will stop all the FSD Teslas all the time. And what better target, than those who can afford to piss away five figures on a half-assed scam!
> other countries have managed to enjoy greater liberty (in particular, fewer murders per capita)

Fewer murders aren't an example of greater liberty, they're an example of a desirable outcome that some people decide outweighs the loss of liberty.

To illustrate, you could also achieve fewer murders through warrantless government spying, and I think you'd agree that that proposal would be pretty hard to spin as increased liberty.

> You want an environment where parents need to surround their children with armed guards in order to protect them from armed militias trying to intimidate them into not exercising their right of assembly.

Do they want that? I just heard them say they respect the second amendment, nothing about allowing intimidation or making no tradeoffs to the point of requiring armed guards. This feels like a pretty big strawman to tear down the opinion above, rather than acknowledging that it's fine to prioritize safety over liberty but it's also fine to prioritize liberty over safety, and everyone is okay with different tradeoffs.
I use it exclusively, I'm quite happy with it personally. I do wish they allowed more than just a few specific extensions to work, though.
Unfortunately a lot of folks I met fall into this trap: I'm a senior engineer with XX years of experience, I cannot write bad code.

Still haven't found a good way to convince them.
Maybe lockdowns and protections where appropriate for the at risk populations?

The blanket lockdowns of individuals not at risk was the height of tyranny!
This is a great idea, but the website could be so much better. I felt like I wanted to be taken on a journey, of what is this? why does it matter to me? how does it work? how can I get involved? what's the projects future?

I love the idea, and so do many others, hence why Theranos was able to raise what it did, the idea of having insight into our own health is exciting, intriguing, and important.

I wish you the best of luck on your journey, but I would definitely improve on the site, if you have the resources to do so.
Well IIRC DALL-E specifically in their public release tries to censor humans. But other works like Stable Diffusion and Midjourney do not have these restrictions. Still, both are quite terrible at human faces. This is always interesting because generative tasks like FFHQ or CelebA have always been considered easy (despite humans being quite adept at recognizing when something is wrong with a face). But being able to create whole scenes requires a substantial amount of diversity. A good network can both memorize and create. There are some technical details that I am certain will be resolved (like long range features) simply due to increased hardware power/memory. But alignment will still be quite difficult as the entire problem is ill-defined to begin with.

But to give you some hints of how to use DALL-E better, there are magic keywords and this is why people suggest pretending like you're writing a prompt as if the thing exists. Some of these magic words are: screenshot, unreal engine, photorealistic, studio Ghibli. It does better with anime styles, probably due to training and human interpretations. Try to write longer prompts too. For example "flying otters" will give you otters in the water but "a photorealistic unreal engine render of otters flying through a beautiful sunset" will give you something much closer to what you actually want.
I found this one to be really rad too: https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/x0u9a8/ama...
>It sounds like we have a very different idea of what "ethical" means. In answer to your question about "what's stopping them?" - well, just that: ethics, morals, the desire to act decently even when there might be some additional benefit to being sleazy

for some private companies, sure. but the second a company goes public, all of this completely goes out of the window. the only time a publicly traded company acts ethically is when it thinks its public image (read: stock price) will be harmed by acting otherwise

>Waiting for a law to prohibit immoral behavior doesn't seem like a sustainable way for a society to function, even though it does seem to be the way we're trending

as far as I've seen - i.e. the rise and dominance of free-market economics - we're trending and have been trending since the 70s, in the opposite direction.

creating laws to prohibit harmful behaviour isn't some kind of crazy unsustainable new invention, it is just the basis of how societies maintain themselves. it's convenient for corporations (read: groups of resourceful people that will do anything they think they can get away with to take your money) to act like rules for them are a bad thing, but they are not, and short of implementing actual communism, they will continue to find ways to make profit. and if they don't? well should they have been making profit from harming society in the first place?
The book "actionable gamification" talks about different sources of "core motivation". The author gives 8 typical sources, of which "social reinforcement" iirc, is one. (I found them all quite poorly named).

In any case, they provide a lens on building productive and rewarding systems. One observation is that these "extrinsic" motivators, alone, leave people unhappy (but engaged, until they arent).

What we appear to have here is a "social proof addiction trap", in the manner in which gambling is a "curiosity addiction trap".
What I find particularly annoying is that these online “marketplaces” are not curated - they literally sell anything, probably drop shipped. It used to be that you would shop at a branded store, and there was a level of expectation that they had curated their collection so that it was of a quality that matched the stores brand. Some of their wares may be under their own branding, but they would sell other bands too that they had explicitly decided to. You could trust them.

By making everything an open marketplace it places the risk onto the customer. They are responsible for reading the reviews and deciding if they think the item will match their expectations.

I hate it, being back the days of a store that would stand behind its wares as they had actually chosen to sell them!
Sure -- it's a neat story. Happy to share it..

Digs through some emails

Looks like it was 2015. We did a fundraising campaign on our site (wrapup blog post here: https://blog.readthedocs.com/fundraising-wrapup/), which was our first big attempt at fundraising. To be 100% honest, we didn't reach our goal, and we padded the numbers with a Python Software Foundation grant, and the Twilio ad sponsorship to not fail in public. We were doing millions of pageviews a month at that point, but had a lot of failure around fundraising. More info on the burnout and sadness of that period here: https://www.ericholscher.com/blog/2018/feb/7/the-post-i-neve... -- but moving on to the happy ending :)

The Twilio folks reached out as part of that campaign. Specifically it was Rob Spectre, who I think was very forward thinking about their developer outreach at the time. They wanted to sponsor us, and in return we promote the upcoming events & blog posts they were doing.

It was very lightweight to start. I think we filled out their "event sponsorship" form, they gave us the money, and we put some images & copy in the sidebar of the docs using our theme.

I think they were willing to do this because they saw the massive opportunity of the channel we had. We've been able to build a business that supports a team with almost the exact concept they pitched to us, so the value seems obvious in retrospect.

More info on our eventual transition to advertising is here: https://www.ericholscher.com/blog/2016/aug/31/funding-oss-ma...
I just purchased $10k of I bonds for this reason. They’re easy to understand. TIPS learning curve seemed much higher, to the point I’ll have to dedicate some time to understand then before even attempting to buy them. Though I suppose I saw the minimum investment for TIPS is $100, so might be worth learning by doing.
I think the key thing that makes Discord less usable than IRC or Slack for me is how unreads are handled. In both my chosen IRC client and Slack, I can set things so that I am only notified when my name (or chose alias or string) is referenced. In Discord, it's more like a blacklist than a whitelist, and I have to end up muting every channel to avoid the unread counts piling up.

Once you mute very nearly every channel and just pop in manually to see what you want, Discord works very well!
I’ve had much better experiences getting what I order from eBay than I have from Amazon. Random junk is fine, but I at least want it to be the random junk I ordered.
Another keyboard for this use case is Unexpected Keyboard [1]. I opted for this one, because Hacker's Keyboard seems to be in maintenance mode (sure, not necessarily an issue, but see the warning in the readme [2]).

[1] https://github.com/Julow/Unexpected-Keyboard

[2] https://github.com/klausw/hackerskeyboard#overview
Doesn't it depend on the application?

Messenger like the telegram are something different than sites like HN.

I am aware that I send my messages to HN, they are not forwarded to you but you open the HN page to read my response.
HN is more like a message board with message hierarchy.
The communication is public, the transmission path is encrypted.
Interesting insight, but I don’t think she will be able to build software, I have to be realistic, it seems fairly “easy” to help her make 500$/month after 2-3 months (which mean should go from having a regular full time job where she can’t scale anything and she does not grow much, to learning valuable skills, being able to scale and pretty much being paid to grow)

But software is a different beast, I would rather direct her into something where she can see quick results.

That being said, I do think I am going to take 2-3 weeks to introduce her to nocode tools (Notion, Airtable and n8n), I am open to other suggestions
Twitter is launching its ‘Close Friends’ feature Circle globally
The US is the least racist country in the world, evident by the most multiculturalism found anywhere. There are rural farming towns with more religious and ethnic diversity and equality than Amsterdam.
indefinitely is a bit extreme. it should say "until pumps are fixed and service is restored"
Or maybe it'll provide them insight into how their own modern technology works that they didn't understand any more. ;)
Put them on The Blockchain so you can prove you own them. You can write a smart contract to pull your dotfiles when you log in, and if you leave the big tech company you invalidate the contract.
Oops, you are right I read too quickly and missed the social context aspect... which I believe you are 100% correct! :-)
There's something wrong with Walmart's review system too. I've tried leaving a 1 star review on a product recently and after well over a month it's still not posted on the product page.
Google's problem is that it ranks pages, not sites.
It will much prefer a crappy site with a crappy page that is highly specific to your search query, instead of showing you a good site related to the idea you are looking for.

It puts far too much faith in its language parser, which doesn't comprehend.
I think this comment was meant to be a reply to the Vice article posted elsewhere in this thread
Many things can kill cancer cells... or any cells. I am not sure how scientific this statement from the article is: "minimal harm to the other cells." How minimal and what kind of harm? Isn't the goal to find an intervention that only kills cancerous cells and no healthy ones?
Why cryptographically signed photos matter
this is 'meta moderation' - a platform assessing the quality of the assessment of another platform, presumably by random sampling of permitted posts to see what percentage breach ToS. Actually, does anyone know how Google does this verification - is it a human making the decision at the end of the day?
Hint: Anybody can ask any amount of money for anything. You don't need to pay it.
For analysis. In the future we'll also offer syncing to, for example, BigQuery, Redshift, Snowflake and all the other data warehouses. However most of the marketers we interviewd analyse and create charts of their data in Sheets or Excel.
Still Entombed: The continuing twists and turns of a maze game