skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This? Looks pretty amazing:

https://film-net.github.io

https://github.com/google-research/frame-interpolation
Stable Diffusion is due to these people, all apparently Europeans working in Europe.

https://ommer-lab.com/research/latent-diffusion-models/

I'd honestly be interested in your response.
> Even though I have a old version of Firefox, I had to edit one of the files to make it unable to recognize that response header, and change many other things.

You can edit newer versions too. It’s fully open source, the world is your insecure oyster!

> You are right that HSTS is a response header, but I think that it is a bad idea.

Fortunately for both of us, I can enjoy the good idea and you can enjoy exposing yourself to potentially compromised websites! Hopefully no one is harmed.
A microwave hacked to work with the doors open will disable most of the commercially available drones. 800W of transmission at 2.4 GHz is tough to speak through.

Of course, this way is quite dangerous, and violates radio frequency regulations, but if it's a war, who cares.
That’s unfortunate to hear. I was considering buying this for travel and I’ve been looking for objective feedback. I’m seeing very mixed results.
I used to sporadically try to run D&D games (each edition since AD&D 2nd) and I’d always have trouble improvising so it really made me feel better when he showed it being normal. As for reducing the need for the DM to come up with stuff, I thought Mythic sounded promising. I didn’t end up playing it, but I thought it partly involved turning the question around to ask the player to answer questions the GM would usually have to answer. The current product page seems to emphasize solo play though.[1]

Considering how much I browse RPG books I’m surprised I haven’t heard of “Powered by the apocalypse” games at all. But then those don’t appear to be ones available in game and book stores.

[1] https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/16173/Mythic-Role-Playi...
A Python script to convert any Arch Linux package (official/AUR) to an AppImage
Vim has had mouse support for a long time.
Baader-Meinhof Effect
That is not EEE. But monopolistic behavior.
That article determines a "positive transition" based upon the raw percent growth in unadjusted GDP since 1995, which is dubious. The "value" of that metric is illustrated by referencing one of the 6 Soviet Republics that page "forgot" about: Moldova. Moldova is Europe's poorest country and suffers from widespread poverty, rampant corruption, and is a major source of things like human trafficking of which the government is involved. Yet it's seen an increase of said metric in 250%, so the article must conclude it's been one of the most successful transitions. Handy instance to suffer a bout of amnesia on.

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I've started to become increasingly jaded about economic indicators not only because of articles like this, but because of how they are used in general. We seek data on things like economies not because those numbers matter whatsoever, but because those numbers are supposed to reflect of an objective measurement of the quality of life of people living under that economy. In effect, it's an effort to create objective metrics to try to impartially answer subjective questions.

But it ultimately fails, because subjective determination is going to be based on a practically infinite number of metrics, many of which may be immeasurable. So why not simply ask the people? Should we not be aiming to maximize e.g. contentedness/capita instead of GDP/capita and just hoping it leads to the former, somehow? Of course that's a far harder metric to maximize, but that's the whole point. Just doing everything to maximize one metric's value and then waving a "Mission Accomplished" banner clearly is not getting the job done.
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Right. I'd add that it was, judging by historical parallels, rather happy dissolution - not perfect, as GP mentions, but hardly a cause for too much annoyance.
What was used to author/render these docs?
> Sure, but then you are hiring less skilled talent that is probably incapable of working on pricing and matching algorithms

This sounds like a variation of the just world fallacy to me: in a just world, talented folk who solve hard problems get paid more, and the less talented ones - who are unable to solve hairy problems - get paid less. In such a world, you can identify the talented ones by how much they are earning. Yet in the real world, geography, and luck/ability to bootstrap to HCOL areas plays a huge part

> Also, a quick look at levels.fyi says salary at IBM (i.e. your median salary dev) for a senior is 192k.

I think you're underestimating how wide the gap is between the bimodal peaks. $192 is too high[2] still; it slots just below Senior executive average ($200k) and right above EM ($180k) in the 2022 StackOverflow salary survey[1] for the US

1. https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/#work-salary

2. the survey doesn't distinguish between junior & senior engineers, but I'm guessing even the seniors earn less than CxO's.
Tracing and collage both mechanistically clone elements of the input. Trendfollowing, mimicry, and copying others is standard in any creative area.

I don't think computer-generated works will be easily distinguishable from human unless they're desired to be or shipped with metadata. It's already hard enough to distinguish human artists from other human artists without having names attached up front.
Their strategy is a mixed bag. They want to maintain that in an open source way but they work very hard that their experience is the best so they can capitalize on that. Not a new playbook.
How about obj[2]?
I'm not quite as sure. To me, its kind of like saying "well, we don't have to worry about global warming, oil is awesome and if it gets too bad we always have Mars". Which, I can explain a little bit because that analogy maybe only make sense in my head.

I can't think of very many, if any, examples in computing history where a project, open source or not, followed the path of "dominating a domain" -> "sponsor does something crappy" -> "the community rallies around a fork" -> "the fork becomes a dominating force in its domain". I'm really sitting here trying to think of examples to help disprove this thesis, and would love to hear them. LibreOffice may be a good example. I can also see an argument for Oracle/proprietary SQL vs MySQL/Postgres. The NodeJS/iojs situation from years ago is, I think, a hallmark case-study in open source that more-so skips the "rally around the fork" step, but is nonetheless worth mentioning. There's probably dozens of examples in the "random esoteric npm library" domain, but those aren't hitting a thousandth the scale that the gigaprojects like VSCode do.

There's a far more common path for projects, however. I'll pick on MongoDB as an example; they did something kind of crappy, with their GPL-wearing-a-trenchcoat-proprietary license which, in my experience, all but killed the database for some companies I've contracted with. These companies (users) took that opportunity to move to a truly open source solution, like MySQL. The move, in all cases, was long; arduous; cost a lot of development time; and they were happy in the end.

Circling back to the metaphor; there's a hypothetical migration path for anything. Its near-laughably trivial to even list that as a triaging factor for "well, they could be evil, they could turn evil, burning oil could destroy our planet, but at least we have Mars." Computers are turing machines, anything can be rebuilt. That's not the point. If we opt in to an environment which is only deemed acceptable because of a Plan B, it behooves anyone with investment in that environment to think critically about the probability of being forced to implement Plan B, and the cost of that implementation.

Circling back to the examples: one is behooved to analyze this through the lens that Plan B may not be the Plan B one thinks it is. If VSCode jumps the shark; will vscodium take its place? MongoDB jumped the shark, and no one was there to catch it; those people who were left wading in the water had to invest significant engineering time transitioning to something entirely different. VSCode is more than just Code; its the users, its the marketing, its the trademark, its the extension standards, its the governing body, maturity, maybe even patents, its all these things which vscodium does not have.
I think they did envisage it---thus the urgency at developing their own content.

Hard to compete right away with a century of Disney content etc. But, give it a few decades, and things might look better in hindsight.
Another solution to the 'flashing console' problem is to wrap cmd invocation into VBS script. It allows you to set that flag to hide console window.
Just gotta install open pilot.
Linux started out pretty mediocre compared to closed source Unix, and even today there are operating systems that are better, but being freely available made it a game changer. I don’t foresee Dalle2 being open any time soon.
After launching DoorDash in APAC, we wanted to make sure our product is reliable and delightful for regional users. To achieve this, we started conducting a series of performance audits for our consumer website to find if there are any quick wins that we can apply to improve the user experience. In this article, we want to share our story of how we diagnosed the performance issues of DoorDash web pages and how to apply the improvements while working with big teams and high traffic web pages.
or when you try to google something that would better be answered by a professional that costs $1000/hr like doctor or lawyer but you just want a vague idea of the landscape and all the answers are "you need a lawyer/doctor" and not any real attempts at an answer. just shutup!
One of the surprising parts to me from this comment is that there are 4B+ birds in United states alone
How was it ever confirmed that Everest was truly the highest peak on Earth?
>This is probably a controversial opinion, but it feels like Apple is trying to lock developers in to a single path of constantly upgrading hardware and getting more and more specialized in the skills required in the Apple ecosystem.

That has literally been Apple’s business model since the 80s.
Yeah, I mean it keeps on adding to the list of complaints and M$ won't budge.
The "Librem is to iPhone as Stable Diffusion is to DALL-E" analogy breaks down when you consider that Librem phone works about 10% as well as an iPhone, whereas SD works 110% as well as DALL-E.
Did you just explain to someone from a communist-bloc country, who had just said how badly the transition went in their country, that the transition had actually gone well?

This is a cousin to both mansplaining and gaslighting, and if we want good, lively discussion on HN we should try to be careful to avoid it. The gp comment gave some very specific and relevant comments about economic upheavals in the late Gorbachev period and deserves better than a well-actually.
After the novelty wears off and everyone has already seen tons of these automatically generated images, will writers still want to adorn their blogs with these generic illustrations? Or will it turn negative: "If you have nothing to say, add an AI illustration."

I could see it becoming a marker of low-brow taste where vaguely related illustrations become something akin to decorating your home with velvet paintings of Elvis.
But even a single pixel being one shade brighter would make one hash completely different, that's the point of hashes.
If you use oracle's java, it's not as easy as you present it at all.
They did not sue as such, but never provided Apache Harmony with their TCK compliance test suite.

Oracle haters worshiping Sun, keep forgeting Java was only free beer until Java 6. Sun went bankrupt shortly after Java 6 (which still had a couple of comercial stuff like Swing fonts rendering engine), and only Java 7 released after Oracle's acquisition was fully open source.

Given that no one else bothered to acquire Sun, Java would have died with Java 6, partially open source.

Maybe Apache Harmony would kept going at it, but I don't expect the amount of language changes, JIT or GC improvements to happen as they did.
Putin 2022, 80% approval ratings
I won't be "upgrading" to Windows 11. Once W10 support has ended I'm moving full time to Linux. I've already started the transition so I'll be more than ready when the time comes. Unnecessary changes with no benefit just show a lack of respect for the consumer and a level of arrogance I thought had been extinguished in Microsoft after the Windows 8 debacle. Clearly it hasn't.
They could offer the ‘are you feeling lucky’ package.

Free all day every day to check to see if something urgent has come in… $200 an hour to use VPN / Web to fix that something urgent.

This is how I managed to break the cycle of checking work things on my latest holiday. Was I actually going to do anything about ‘something urgent’ there and then? No? Well don’t bother checking.

Nothing bad happened.
Dungeon World, Masks and Blades in the Dark are some popular TTRPGs that use PbtA as their basis.
Cannot blame them to be honest, many countries outside the US have privacy laws considering IP address to be personal information (notably EU's GDPR of course but also Canada's amended PIPEDA and Brazil's LGPD), and it's clear that Wikimedia really wants to steer clear of any controversies there.
> It's September 2022 - where is my self driving car?

Nearly impossible because logic doesn’t work in the real world like it does to make pictures.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravec%27s_paradox

https://metarationality.com/rationalism

I can think of two good businesses you could build with SD right now. Neither of them are text to image models or necessarily "art", both involve using it to visualize other kinds of sensing by transforming them to image embeddings.
Kinda hard to avoid the juxtaposition though, isn't it? Not like you can conjure suitable old neighbors for these survivors.

For an example of the same thing (except with jarringly more extreme difference between the old and new) in the New World, take a look at Fraunces Tavern in New York City:

https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7035379,-74.0113687,3a,75y,2...

The tavern dates from about 1720. So, it's old for America, although nothing special age-wise from a European point of view. But it's almost literally buried in 30 to 50 story glass and steel towers, between Wall Street and The Battery.
> Proprietary software vendors were able to condition users to execute programs they could not inspect or modify. They also attempted to prevent copying with DRM, but an active cracking & piracy scene stymied that. So people were now blindly executing modified applications.

Interesting analysis. But free software is demonstrably more secure. Are you claiming that proprietary vendors intentionally mislead people with FUD?

Or was it a cultural zeitgeist in the era of shrinkwrap and slow telecom where free software was simply harder to find? i.e. it’s hard to experience more secure software if you can’t find it.
What is creationist bullshit doing here.
I swear this is a real thing. I never noticed Fly.io company, even though it seems like they've been for a while. Now that I read a few of their blog posts recently, I see them _everywhere_.
Learn, earn, or quit, career advice from Garry Tan, YC President
First of all, I didn't say we should hold back progress. Just that I'm personally mourning the loss of disconnected spaces.

Also, it's not an issue of self discipline when social norms dictate that everyone around me is using their phones, and expecting me to do so to interact with them. On a cruise ship there used to be no such expectation. No boss expecting me to be aware of new emails, no friends expecting me to respond to their Facebook invites if I want to come to their parties, no one at the bar expecting me to follow them on Instagram, and no restaurants asking me to scan their QR code if I want to eat.

I don't know when the last time is you've tried to live for a week without a phone, but its become next to impossible unless you're in a protected environment like a cruise ship or a wilderness retreat.
That error bar on magnesium though... they're quite certain it's either the single most effective treatment for inflammation, or totally useless.

https://static.wixstatic.com/media/26b4af_ab521cefbc2e46ba9b...
If by emotion you mean faces then that’s just a lot of data to fit in the model.

The rest is up to the skill of the pilot. You can do a lot with color palettes for instance.
> It's absolutely logically consistent to allow humans to do it while forbidding AI to do it.

Why would you, though? If art is for the sake of art, then all art is valuable regardless of origin. If art is for the sake of providing human employment, AI being better in no way stops performative make-work from existing. If art is for the sake of copyright trolls to troll harder, then fuck art, feed it to the AI!
They weren't even tax audits in the 'targeting scandal' - 501C4 groups are required to be non-partisan. In the wake of Citizens United, tons of new C4s sprung up and the IRS was required to vet them to make sure they were actually non-partisan. So they started trying to filter that list down from every new org, to those that would likely be partisan.. e.g. those with "tea party" in the name or "progressive" or "occupy".

Through just relentless bad faith and a bottomless victim complex, the Republican House committees spent years insisting that Obama was targeting them, by literally restricting the IRS audit to only the right leaning lists and then presenting the IG results as comprehensive: https://thehill.com/policy/finance/154584-ig-audit-of-irs-ac...
Interesting, my tinnitus increased recently and I started vit k again.

I'll see if stopping helps.

Thanks
I love how some of the haters suggest using JetBrains products instead, as if they were any different.
How to offer effective free trials
Why would he end up in hell?
>A kiosk is a type of interface that intentionally limits functionality to restrict user behavior to behavior desired by the actual operator.

So Debian? Who are holding a grand discussion on the merits of making "non-free firmware" more accessible? So GNU? Who insist everything must be free-as-in-freedom and open source and anything to the contrary is a cardinal sin?

Meanwhile, the rest of the world carries on.

>But you know what I can't do? Change the default DNS server.

You can do this on both Windows and Android. I have no direct knowledge on iOS/MacOS, but I presume they also do it because why wouldn't they?

Perhaps a better example was called for, but DNS servers configurations an example ain't.

>It's a kiosk. Just because it does everything you need it for doesn't change this,

Your definition of a not-kiosk was, quote: "they ... enable you to operate your property".

Windows, Android, iOS (and MacOS) let me (and the vast majority of people) operate my (and their) property. Desktop Linux can't (or won't). OS market shares are an objective evidence of this.

>it just means your needs are very limited.

My "needs" are my need or desire to operate my property. What I do with my property is none of your business, unless we're talking ideologies (and it would still be none of your business, really).

>You're wrong about Linux BTW. You can do anything you want with it, with as much ease as you desire.

Sure, I can do anything I want with it; if it's something the distro devs are concerned with. And yes, I can do it as easily as I want; so long as I don't step outside the command line.

I give many flavors of Linux a shot every few years, and every time I fail to find a practical desktop use case the machine could serve me that something else wouldn't do better for much less effort and stress.

>It's not about ideology.

Far as I can tell, this is all about the ideology. You said it yourself that my "needs are very limited". Why do you care about the nature of my needs? I need a kitchen knife, I bought a kitchen knife, and I argue for the kitchen knife. You're telling me I'm wrong because the kitchen knife has a handle of a shape you don't like. The kitchen knife suits me, what's it to you?

Also, why would anyone left-handed be pissed off at a right-handed kitchen knife? If they don't like it, don't buy it. No need to get insulted over it. There are plenty of other, valid things to be insulted over in life.
The same students and the instructors that usually used Chromebooks?
It is not EEE. But monopolistic and capitalistic behavior. It is impossible for companies to shake that off.
Just down the road in Angel a pub celebrated its 600th anniversary a few years ago, dating back to 1415, that doesn't even feel particularly old in the UK.
Death of your people vs death of other people.
Open source rules the world. A lot of people use HashiCorp's OSS products; not a lot pay for them. I certainly haven't and I don't think I've ever met a paying Hashicorp customer even though I know lots of people that use their products.

They are a consulting business ultimately. And like many such companies they thrive on complexity. They are doomed to become part of the problem they are trying to solve. If they succeed in their mission, the result is OSS software that is so simple to use that nobody needs their consulting services.

Like many OSS companies, they confuse control over the software with controlling the wider market. Amazon, Google, MS, etc. don't provide just software but their 630B dollar industry that is enabled by their massive data centers and infrastructure. That's what people pay for.

Hashicorp is a small fish in that pond as they don't really own or control any such infrastructure. I'd say they might end up being gobbled up by a bigger consulting company. Oracle and IBM come to mind.
Would it have been better if sovjet union would have ended? In the 80s sovjet union was in a very bad place economically, and it might also have collapsed if it didn't end.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought this, I actually gave up reading it halfway through because the ads fracture the content far too much - it just doesn't flow.
With all respect, Nat is not a Satya. And Microsoft is a lot more than just DevDiv.
In the sense guns and body armour are stalemated? Only arm chair theorist think like this lol
Yes, check out Neural Radiance Fields (NERF).
Despite all the really shady stuff that went on under his leadership, I think it's a fair statement to say that Russia/Soviet Union was a more prosperous, happier and more ethical state under his leadership than it is currently.
If you forbid it, the investment in developing those models disappears. They will be stuck at ~what we have now at best.

You can also require cloud providers to enforce a ban on training (and deploying) such models, it's doable. Good luck training it in your basement, it will probably take you a decade.

If this is banned, it will become a lot like piracy - yes, it's available, no, most people (at least in the West) don't do it, practically no businesses do it.
In my mind "working together" is called a government. Government has always been fairly terrible but we have made some strides.

We need government and money to become an integrated high technology deploying on decentralized technologies (which are the best way we have of creating large scale systems that are both holistic and evolutionary).
I think it's pretty notable how most of the explosion happened since stable diffusion released their model and code as open source, while Dall-E generated initial excitement with their closed source model, but limited progress / creativity since. It's a pretty nice demonstration I think of how much innovation can happen from openness.
I just came across this on twitter, every frame appears to be an evolution of the previous frame using img2img paired with a tilt/zoom to create a psychedelic animation.

The author claims to have made this with Stable Diffusion, Disco, and Wiggle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nz_n0qxqoPg

I believe Wiggle is used to automate the tilt/zoom between frames.