skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm on a iMac M1 16gb and I can handle up to 768x768 but since it's shared memory I close out every other application and run things overnight.

The biggest issue with apple chips is that the --seed setting doesn't work. I should be able to set a seed to, for instance, 1083958 and if I re-run a command at the same resolution with that seed, I should get the same image every time. This would allow me to test different steps so I could generate a 100 images at 16 steps (which is quite fast) and pick the ones that are most promising and re-render at 64 or 128 steps.

But currently you can't do that on apple hardware because of an open issue in PyTorch. Genuinely hoping a fix comes soon, until it is this is more of a novelty than a tool on Apple hardware.
Can you be specific, on the prices I listed, even with 100% tarrifs, its still 11k of materials. Why shoukd someone pay 20k to install for a days work?
OJ Simpson is bankrupt, isn’t he?
Yeah, as soon as grant agencies add scoring criteria like "+1 point: does this application support sustainable development?", for a weird reason every grant from theoretical math to astronomy will have some paragraph with "sustainable" as the main keyword.
none of those dumb things he said on social media affect my opinion of the case against oberlin.
I’d they don’t pay but eventually will be forced, can they borrow against that fact?
For those as keen as I am to try this out, I ran these steps, only to run into an error during the pip install phase:

> ERROR: Failed building wheel for onnx

I was able to resolve it by doing this:

> brew install protobuf

Then I ran pip install again, and it worked!
Sounds almost exactly like Eastern Europe, only without the Brazilians who speak Portugese, are Catholics and also work for lower income.
I chuckled for several different reasons, but it is clearly an opinion piece so some some artistic license is allowed.

<<Teaching your kids that the world is dangerous can also make them less tolerant of others.

Should kids be taught that the world is not dangerous to make kids less likely to be tolerant ( I attempted to retain the qualifiers )?

Edit: I decided to remove the rest of the comment. The argument I presented for dangerous/safe world seemed off after I re-read it.
Well, Hacker News is a community with a tendency to embrace contrarianism. It was similar with all the COVID stuff too – articles with less mainstream takes on the negative impact of lockdowns or the benefits of Ivermectin were quite frequently and surprisingly popular.

To some extent this makes sense – there's not much interest in discussing "<thing> that everyone thought was the case turns out be correct!" and there's more meat in controversial issues.

The thing is, clickbait is popular, regardless of how much a particular community might feel they're above it. nd I'll wager there are more than a few people out there who value particular viewpoints more as a direct result of their unpopularity; we all do it sometimes, and it's a way to make yourself feel special.

Regardless of all that, I do generally agree that this obvious culture-war flame-bait Bari Weiss-backed blog post has nothing of interest to contribute to this community. But people have the right to get enthusiastic about whatever they want; best to just flag it and move on.
1.3 sec/iter on my M1 Mac, so ~39 seconds.
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> Using dubious emotional arguments like laundromats can't be historic buildings?

Ironically, the state preventing people from demolishing irrelevant structures to build housing that will exist entirely on their own private property is actual Fascism. I suspect it's a Fascism you're sympathetic to, but it's much more literally Fascism than the alternative.
Are foreigners kept there against their will?

I bet they're happy to live there, despite the housing costs.

Why is this exploitation? The country is offering a lot of positive things to foreigners. I'd love to have a Singaporean passport and be able to live there if I could afford.

May want to keep your comment deletion considerations to yourself.
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there's basically only one kind of optical cable used in consumer audio (S/PDIF+TOSLINK, or however you want to refer to it). the trick is to arranging for both ends to use it.
"Resigned" is a bit of a mischaracterization.

Then, in November, she said, came a surprising ultimatum from Google: Agree to move to Sao Paulo, Brazil, within 17 business days or lose your job.
Is there a way that adults who are capable of critically thinking for themselves to opt out of your crusade to protect us from ideas you disagree with?
> What do you mean?

I mean, you yourself said that the court has deemed the troublesome workers to be a union. Perhaps I misunderstood you.

But they are already members of a union; it's just that the real union they belong to hasn't endorsed the action. The real union has an agreement with the employer; the union the court has synthesized, and has declared to be behind the action, doesn't have an agreement with anyone, because it's not a union.
It's hard to feel too bad for them since it's a voluntary program. I'm part of it and I didn't feel deceived. 78 is hardly uncomfortable.
The article, and its data, is almost specifically about actual authoritarian regimes and actual restriction of speech by governments against citizens.

But I predict this thread will very quickly nose dive into "Twitter banned me for saying COVID is a hoax and something something first amendment."
Surely Popper wasn't so sloppy as that? There is an obvious difference between toleration of expression, which "society" certainly should practice, and toleration of more physical actions that in theory could be up for a vote. Somehow I grow suspicious of attempts to obscure that obvious difference...
Thanks for writing this up!! I enjoyed getting TensorFlow running with the M1, although a multi-headed model I was working on wouldn’t run.

I just made my Dad’s 101 year old birthday card using OpenAI’s image generating service (he loved it) and when I get home from travel I will use your instructions in the linked article.

Any advice for running Stable Diffusion locally vs. Colab Pro or Pro+? My M1 MacBook Pro only has 8G ram (I didn’t want to wait a month for a 16G model). Is that enough? I have a 1080 with 10G graphics memory. Is that sufficient?
> It's getting much much better but performance is only "identical to desktop" if you ignore anything about its resource usage or speed increases in processors over the past decades.

The high power use is what kills me. That and input lag. Fix those and I'd give way fewer shits that an Electron app eats 10x the memory that's remotely justifiable by what it's doing, and more like 20-100x what a well-made desktop program would for the same purpose.

[EDIT] Yeah, I know, high power use and input lag are in part because Webtech disrespects things like system memory, so in practice I'm not going to see one fixed without the other.
The problem isn’t what the article author believes, but rather what developers commonly (perhaps almost universally) believe.

Most developers will fall back to intuition for any performance oriented decision even when they otherwise prefer data oriented decisions and even when the task at hand is critical to the health of their product/business. This is because performance measures require:

1. Additional effort

2. (most importantly) A willingness to abandon familiar concepts of approach

Sometimes such decisions vested in intuition are truth by omission, a form of lying, because the resulting self-comfort is worth more than the numeric benefits.
Never. We need to learn to live with (and love, if we can) our reptilian side.
Another happy early adopter here: I use Google tech for a lot of things, but not for search for many years. DDG is really good, enough that I've pretty much given up falling back to Google Search if DDG can't find something. Kagi is even better.

I particularly like the ability to lower and raise domains. I don't have many in my list, but the ones that are there are there for a reason.
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We must be intolerant of intolerance — even when the intolerant are vulnerable, minority, underprivileged, non-WEIRD, reasonable, articulate, high-status, academic, or whatever.

If the only exception to a policy of tolerance are positions of intolerance, then it works pretty ok. Because it isn’t a matter of “free speech,” it is a matter of rejecting intolerance. Intolerant free speech must not be tolerated (with this one exception!)
Yes, but let's not yet again confuse "search engine" with search service (proxy or metasearch if you prefer). I'm biased so will resist the temptation to say more and only point you to the comments which are currently at the bottom of this discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32677872

Having said that I congratulate Vlad and his team. Competition and innovation, in browsers and web search, is indeed needed. We welcome, and are willing to support, all new challengers making genuine efforts.
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If you look at the substance of the changes being made to support Apple Silicon, they're essentially detecting an M* mac and switching to PyTorch's Metal backend.

So, yeah PyTorch is correctly serving as a 'glue'.

https://github.com/CompVis/stable-diffusion/commit/0763d366e...
I have a first generation 2i2, I believe, and it is a noticeable improvement from trying to plug HD600 into a random audio jack which were obviously not able to actually drive them properly in general.

You should be fine dropping the additional headphone amp, which I think beyond the Scarlett or similar audio interface will perhaps be different depending on the amp, but not clearly making up for a deficiency in interface power.
Well it helped me quite a bit, I didn't have to type it myself!
School us! What’s the latest in robotics that is going to knock our socks off?
I live in Kansas. We're fine, thank you. I pay a 1/10 of the taxes and I don't have the government invading every single aspect of my personal business.
> It's hard not to read OP as "we took an action without doing due diligence to fully understand the consequences of doing so." The point at which you make an assumption like this is the point at which you bear equal responsibility for unfavorable outcomes.

At least the last time I used the site, the UI is actually not very clear about this, to the point where it seems almost intentional. (After all, it's to Meetup's advantage to have the group continue and collect money from someone else for it, rather than have it deleted by default).

There are actually a lot of problems with how Meetup handles organizers stepping down and/or billing. I've lost track of the number of groups I've been in that experienced a "hostile" takeover because (for example) the primary organizer's credit card expired, which created an opening for any member to become the primary organizer just by providing their credit card, even though the other organizers were still present.
> Having worked on one of the most bloated SPAs at Google [...]

Let me guess. Google Ads?
In the troubleshooting section it mentions running:

brew install Cmake protobuf rust

To fix onnx build errors. I had the same issue.
I'm glad Weiss is brave enough to do this, TBH. I don't think all the causes she promotes are great, but I appreciate that she has been willing to give up her previous career to avoid being complicit.
> To what degree should one lie about experience when applying for jobs?

None?

I don't think you should or have to lie. You have to learn how to market and promote yourself. Phrasing your highlight reels in a way that makes you shine doesn't necessitate lying.

Anything you put in your resume/cv is fair game for interviews. If you claim FORTRAN in your skillset, you should expect to be grilled on it.
When your livelihood is as stake for expressing the wrong views (and I mean outside of the workplace), of course people are going to stop being public about them. And this is really dangerous because going underground is where the really nasty stuff festers.

Can't we all just be nice and not personally go after people and instead debate their views in the open?
It depends on the state and the court. Some only allow for actual/measured damages. Some allow for punitive damages. Some let the juries pull numbers out of their exhaust ports.

In my opinion, whenever cases like this end up in the media, someone is peddling a political opinion.

> The plaintiff, Stella Liebeck (1912-2004),[2] a 79-year-old woman, suffered third-degree burns in her pelvic region when she accidentally spilled coffee in her lap after purchasing it from a McDonald's restaurant. She was hospitalized for eight days while undergoing skin grafting, followed by two years of medical treatment. Liebeck sought to settle with McDonald's for $20,000 to cover her medical expenses. When McDonald's refused, Liebeck's attorney filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico, accusing McDonald's of gross negligence.

> Liebeck's attorneys argued that, at 180–190 °F (82–88 °C), McDonald's coffee was boiling hot and more likely to cause serious injury than coffee served at any other establishment. The jury found that McDonald's was 80 percent responsible for the incident. They awarded Liebeck $200,000[3] in compensatory damages to cover medical expenses, and $2.7 million (equivalent to $5,000,000 in 2021) in punitive damages, the equivalent of two days of McDonald's coffee sales. The trial judge reduced the punitive damages to three times the amount of the compensatory damages, totalling $640,000. The parties settled for a confidential amount before an appeal was decided.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebeck_v._McDonald%27s_Restau...

This case was highly publicized and used as a political boogeyman to scare the public into thinking that lawsuits were out of control.
At least that way you won't end up with zippers that fail after a couple of uses, rendering the whole garment or bag a total loss.

But yes, it's easier to signal than to make actual quality products.
It depends what we call, tactics. I think it’s clear that for the Russian military those murderous excesses are a tactic. Terrorising the population is intentional.

Systematic artillery and rocket barrages of schools and hospitals can’t be accidental. They’re not an incidental activity that sometimes happens, it’s far too systematic and ubiquitous to be that. The Russian command knows full well the on the ground massacres are in progress, but they cover them up and claim they are fabricated. That makes them complicit, that’s a tactic or even a strategy.

In comparison the US has a legal and investigative machinery primed to investigate and prosecute their own soldiers for war crimes, and they use it. Again that’s not incidental, it’s part of how they conduct military operations.

So I just flat out disagree, claiming that these excesses aren’t a tactic or part of military strategy sidelines the responsibility of the Russian command in a way I can’t support.
I hear this all the time. The joke is that both sides of the political divide think it's the other side that credulously believes everything the media peddles to them. It smells a lot like the usual 'both sides are bad' trope.
First of all you can deploy everything together, just like people ship their whole computers with containers.

Secondly anyone accessing Maven central directly is doing it wrong, the repo should be internal, validated by IT and legal, so for the consumers it doesn't matter how the JAR got there.

In a way it is ironic to see the whole containers/WebAssembly ecosystem redoing Java App Servers, 20 years later.
Part of the trouble / dilemma I see is that most (all?) of the means of combating "misinformation" that are currently being proposed/deployed are indistinguishable from authoritarianism. It seems short-sighted that we should be voluntarily building means that could be used to enslave us. The solution to the problems posed by misinformation and sentiment steering is more free expression, not less.
I get that you want to come across a wise and cynical. So why are you pretending "the media" is a single unified hive mind - that doesn't make any sense, and comes across as hyperbolic populism instead.
This sounds like what happened in the SFbay area(south bay/pennisula), I grew up there and it used to be a great place to live, center left politics, lots of families and a diverse set of industries with many middle class opportunities. right around 10-15 years ago things started to change dramatically for the worse, housing and costs everywhere skyrocketed, homeless population exploded, politics veered hard left. Most of my friends from high school(90%) were forced to leave due to rents going from $1k a month to $3k a month for a 1-2 bdrm apts. Those that owned houses also moved as they were fed up with crime and could get a way better house somewhere else. Middle class jobs all disappeared from the area, families also left, the neighborhoods I lived in San Jose (rose garden/willow glen) had barely any kids for my daughter to play with as there were no families anymore, the rose garden neighborhood had 0 kids on the street, the willow glen neighborhood had 1 family w/ kids who moved away during the pandemic.

I was lucky and making really good money in tech but was devastated by how the area I grew up in had turned into a nightmare and everyone I know (even family) leaving the area. I too ended leaving as the cost vs. quality of life didn't make any sense and I couldn't see my family living in a place I didn't even recognize anymore. Most people don't talk about it but there is a huge diaspora of bay area residents due to the stuff mentioned above and it breaks my heart to think we will most likely never return and familiy/friends I expected to spend the rest of my life with all leaving.
Reminds me of the "mountains" scene, from Interstellar.

https://youtu.be/4Hf_XkgE1d0?t=90
Walmart sued Tesla over roof fires from solar panels. Interesting Amazon did not name the solar vendors.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/20/walmart-sues-tesla-over-sola...
It shows you did the work but ultimately it's what you know. You'll have to prove that you can code before you get hired. Many companies will be looking for a CS degree or some kind of degree to consider you as a candidate but don't expect to be hired because of it. Certificates might help a bit vs someone that doesn't have one but don't expect that it will get you a job. Again, it comes down to what you know.

As an education tool it makes sense to get one since it gives structure to your education in a field where it's easy to not focus on any area and waste resources and time.

Get the certificate but make sure you learn and not think that you'll get a job because you have one.
Is it absurd though? Their business existed for 139 years(or something) but literally over 100 years in business. You also need to factor in potential future earnings etc; Would the Bakery make 35mm? Probably not. Will the University? With ease. Both need to be taken into account, not just one.

It's really tricky and I personally feel that number is appropriate to fine a university considering they have no issue taking loans with zero conscience. Gladly accept 50-200,000 from 18 year olds with limited life experience. The judgement is fair
Reflected light. The environmental concerns of lunar mining would be dominated by the effects of massively scaling up the space industry on Earth. Distantly behind that would be the potential for changing how reflective the moon is.

Changing the gravitational pull is just beyond consideration. You'll be able to take a train to the moon before that's a problem.