skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whoever flagged my adjacent comment, “applaud” means praise. I applaud the person who downvoted my bad joke. I was sincerely agreeing with the downvote of my own comment, not objecting to the downvote. I will however object to being moderated for agreeing with being moderated.
Unfortunately the "update on every render" is deeply anchored into devs minds, although in most cases play a minor role. It comes back from a time where browser JS engines where really slow to create lambdas - which is not the case anymore. Additionally, react doesn't really update the DOM on "render" (the internal react render cycle) - due to DOM diffing.

My best advice is (also apart from React): Do not spend time on imagined/anticipated performance bottlenecks; only ever spend time on performance tuning if there are real (perceived, not measurable!) performance issues (there has to be a profiling report in your hand).
Gorbatchev could still have sent the tanks to suppress the peaceful protests like his predecessors did in the 50's and 60's (or China did at this very point in history, and this is exactly what would have happened under a different Soviet leader). Even if this was the only thing Gorbatchev did right in his entire life, it was this one decision that deserves to be his legacy.
"The interests of the government" are not only malleable, but become highly ductile in the presence of large sums of money. Sure, at time T, the government may have decided that gazillionaire Zuck Markerberg may need to be taken down, but at time T', the government may have changed its mind (for reasons we can guess but likely never know).
>> A July study from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School estimated that municipalities and other public entities in Texas paid between $303 million and $532 million more in interest on the $32 billion they borrowed during the first eight months after the anti-ESG laws Texas enacted in 2021 took effect and some large banks had to cease bond underwriting.

So they're forcing tax payers to pay hundreds of millions more in interest fees, than they otherwise would have, just to achieve some political grandstanding??

Whether you believe in free markets, small government, or any other ideology this doesn't make sense at all to me?!
As a historical overview, I like Kevin Spacey introducing the Scorpions for "Winds of Change" (Gorbachev's 80th birthday party):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huQL5SHpFJ0

Now we're right back in the Cold War, tensions right up around Able Archer level, ready to torch much of the world on another misunderstanding. No, you won't hear about it on social media but I bet all the nuclear submarine commanders have been doing extra drills lately, what?

As far as economics, what did Russia ever have that China didn't? An absence, that's what China had. An absences of lucrative fossil fuel reserves to sell to Western countries, isn't that the Russian resource curse model? What if Europe stops buying Russian gas? But China never had any gas to sell, just rice. Now, what, we'll all be buying Chinese silicon instead? Why didn't Russia develop modern tech, while China did?

Putin would have got on just fine with Wall Street, like Mohammed Bin Bone Saw Sultan did, but he didn't sign up for petrodollar recycling, so war. Not much more to it than that, really. Same with Qadafy, Sadam, etc. Old dying empires are so ugly on their way down aren't they?
with the fairly obvious difference that FAANG receives scrutiny for its outsized market power, network effects, and anti-market behavior which is reasonable, whereas Texas has apparently decided to attack companies for being... too environmentally friendly on their own dime?
This already happens. Around 2010 the actor for the colonel from Avatar had his face digitized for use in sequels. More recently actors from earlier eras have been reincarnated in CGI (Luke Skywalker takes on his original trilogy appearance for the Mandalorian).
LK Embedded Kernel
think a lot of saas/developer tools/open source in corporate clothing are manipulating opinions, flagging, censoring criticisms. you can buy HN votes/aged accounts like Reddit.

noticed this especially when a YC company is in the submission. its funny because all they are doing is selling to the same buyers (many who are also YC companies) creating a sorta ponzi scheme where you constantly have a supply of "IPO ready" to take advnatage of the bubble which is now bursting and you have increased astroturfing

HN used to be above this. I feel increasingly that many submissions are just purely marketing hidden under a FREE sign.
Good pub that, though :)
We should, but such regulations require political will, that requires a sizeable intent supporting this to manifest collectively in the electorate (aka. "the people"), that ultimately requires alot of "the people" to care.

What often gets overlooked in such debates, is the fact that the percentage of people who know enough about IT to care about these topics, is a pretty small fraction of the general populace.

Which, on the one hand, is great, because it means job security and lots of leverage when it comes to salaries. On the other hand, it means that there are probably not that many politicians who's first thought of the day is along the lines of: "Boy, I gotta get all these IT peoples votes in the next election cycle!"
At some point I saw a report on the actual numbers (was working in a big wind power company and a colleague was heading our research on this topic). One big take-away for me was that the number of bird fatalities due to windows in high-rise buildings was orders of magnitude larger than the number caused by wind turbines.
My favourite tool for one-off lossless image optimization is FileOptimizer, each asset is processed with several size optimization libraries.

https://nikkhokkho.sourceforge.io/static.php?page=FileOptimi...
> I won't be "upgrading" to Windows 11

Interestingly, on both my laptops (2013 MBP and a 2015 Lenovo gaming laptop) Windows says that they "don't meet minimum requirements to install Windows 11". They're perfectly reasonable machines and Windows 10 runs smooth as butter on both of them, since when did Microsoft got so picky? Anyway, I'm sort of glad, because if the machines were eliglble for the Windows 11 upgrade, I'm sure MS would just go for it one night without my permission.
Prompt writing is a challenging and creative endeavor like any other, and a well-written prompt/image need not be mearly "vaguely related"; Certainly not in comparison to the stock images that are already utilized today.
Or ZZ if you want to save and exit. Saves a whole second!

Also, for those of you who think vim is old, it’s got nothin’ on Ed.

https://cs.wellesley.edu/~cs249/Resources/ed_is_the_standard...
I just got the job and have 16 years of coding experience, with complex stuff touching major operations in several companies (not to brag, but to prove :)). Now I am doing still coding of the left-overs, but the new role is really mostly designing systems. So I think your experience is not that universal. But yeah, I've also met several architects that have like two years experience, and then branched out.
No, he couldn't - there wasn't enough anything to do an operation like that, thanks to the economic pressure of the previous arms race. People were rebelling. Also, people remembered that they weren't exactly welcome in 1968. At this point the satellite states had much stronger economies than the USSR and could've effectively protected themselves (and there were very serious plans to do so).

Look at Ukraine today - they are using so much Western technology, relying on so much Western money - and yet they can't get 500 km past Ukraine border. They wouldn't reach their own border if they had only their own resources.
Met my wife in there, oo, some years ago, and I have been disappointed at how clean and shiny it all looks these days. I almost miss the days of smoking being allowed in pubs and the filthy mess they used to be.
This should be a badge of honour for banks and investment companies.

"We are so socially responsible, we're banned in Texas"
> It's pure insanity that people ever drew, by hand, mountains of individual drawings each slightly changed and assembled them into compelling illusions to tell stories.

Traditional animation by itself is nothing short of insanity, convincingly blending live action and traditional animation takes it a step further, and then there's the "Bumping the Lamp"[0] scene in Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

The film as a whole refuses to keep the camera static to make things easy for the animators, which was unusual enough by itself, but then they went above and beyond — they casually bumped a pendant lamp and let it flail about. Every time it slows down, it gets bumped again. And they shaded and cast shadows for the damned rabbit for every single frame of that sequence. Madness.

0. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EUPwsD64GI
Depends on what modern TV since most people are buying bigger TV's now. An 28" CRT uses about the same amount of power as a 55" OLED so replacing the former with the latter does not improve energy use.

Besides that, energy is not wasted if it's used to make pretty pictures ;).
These all stem from the complete lack of empiricism and scientific method in this discipline. I'm pretty sure we all have opinions on most of that stuff. None of which are backed by any evidence whatsoever, we are basically always going with our gut.
Yawn. Let me know when they fine Deutsche Bank or Spotify.
Today they are rich and poweful, but have pretty much abandoned any pretense at worrying about capital exploitation of labour. It's a nationalist, corporatist, authoritarian state, ironically closer to Chiang Kai-shek's ideal state than Mao's, let alone Marx's.

That was not the outcome he wanted. People often paper over that he was a true believer in Marxism-Leninism, unlike his predecessors.
It has improved significantly in the last 20 years. But the 90’s were as bad if not worse than in Russia in most places. And Russia was on an upwards trend until the 2010’s as well, e.g. if we look at average income levels the Baltic states only overtook Russia around ~2014.

And if we only focus ex-USSR countries, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia seem more like the exceptions than the rule. Basically every single country besides them did much worse than Russia (unless like it they had a large amount of natural resources)
If batteries and props have such issues in the cold and thin air why
not use a small jet engine and some wings?
The ethics partly depends on the analogy you choose.

I can write a book about a boy wizard's adventures wizard school and that's legal, but if I call them Harry Potter it isn't.

I can create Harry Potter fanart and distribute it online pretty freely - but slap it on a mug and sell it, and that's illegal.

I can record an audio description of a painting that's as detailed as I like and it's legal to distribute - but take a photograph of the same painting and it's a derivative work, no matter how artistic my choice of camera settings.

We don't really have any prior examples that are precisely like these huge ML models trained on copyrighted data - and depending on which imprecise analogy you choose, you can come to a different conclusion.
The politicians that have said this are either liars or fools or both. The US government has for more than a century chosen to use the tax code as a policy tool, by providing taxes, tax credits and deductions to encourage and discourage behavior of its choosing. Contrast with the situation in many other countries where the government just simply reimburses people who engage in the desirable behavior. No single politician will ever be able to reverse this approach to entangling policy and taxation.

And yes, they are enforcing laws. If they do not, then some other agency with similar or more expansive police powers will need to do the same thing.
The position of creative oversight that you describe in your second paragraph is effectively that of and art director. Not, unfortunately, an artist.
Looking forward to the open-sourced version.
Very cool, looking forward to the open-sourced version.
Netherlands. Electricity prices are linked to gas prices (EU law). Gas prices went 15x in the last year.
It's becoming a issue all over Europe but sooner in countries with a more liberalized energy market (UK/NL).
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32623488
Sony is ready to admit that mobile gaming is too big to ignore
OptiFi Program Incident Report – 08/29/22
"some hands sticking out of random places"

That's the absense of reason sticking out: the "ai" mimics, but doesnt understand, so its creations are frankenstein-like bodies, almost human and for this reason more revulsing. So this "ai" represents an insane painter.
That's one problem with Zelle.

Another is that if you live overseas it is really hard to get it to work, even with a pre-existing US bank account.

And you can't make Zelle payments to someone who is not on Zelle. While in theory that's also true for ACH, bank wire transfers have been a thing basically since the invention of wires (telegraph).

Sorry, in my experience Zelle is a major step backwards with severe loss of functionality and greatly increased risk exposure.
> If they succeed in their mission, the result is OSS software that is so simple to use that nobody needs their consulting services.

If that comes to pass I think that's okay, even admirable.

Not every company needs to keep growing and growing, trying to take over the world. Not every company needs to continue in perpetuity.
Can you summarize what’s the HBO debacle?
The Fish with a Transparent Head
It's much more comfortable imho. You can reach all buttons without moving the hands all over the place, arrow keys are directly under my fingers at all times. It's not faster if you meant that with "efficient", but it certainly makes standard keyboards feel cumbersome to use. On the other hand more keys everywhere don't make you more efficient either, they just increase the chance of you messing up a hand movement when typing blindly.

With fully programmable layouts the number of keys doesn't mean that much, though for me the sweet spot is around 42. Going much lower than that comes with too many compromises.
I know JavaScript pretty well too, but I prefer to write local automation in Bash. Why do you need such a twisted solution?
Ukraine makes push along entire front, Zelenskiy says, as Russia halts gas
Managing 10^5 servers right now with Terragrunt. Can confirm, it's the only way to stay sane.

Getting to this point was a learning process though. Probably six solid years of investment now.
I don't know how it was in the rest of Eastern Europe, but for instance the East German government was much more 'conservative' than Gorbatchev and heavily opposed to perestroika/glasnost. If Gorbatchev wouldn't have left Honecker hanging dry, Honecker would have welcomed the Soviet tanks against his own people.

You don't need to be able to compete with the US military technology to kill unarmed protesters. T-54s will do just fine.
Researchers use infrared light to wirelessly transmit power over 30 meters
I literally said "The CDK stuff would be fine as long as your code is DRY, but all that clicking on the console..." So I was asking specifically about the console parts. If you had to redo it again or repeat it a number of times, wouldn't you prefer if it was code and not clicks?
Yep, but there's no reason to use it. Just go to the settings menu and turn it off. While you're in there, set the color settings to "movie" mode too so the colors are more faithful.

Modern TVs look absolutely horrible out-of-the-box, because they're made to look cool in showrooms, but if you fix those settings they look great. Even better, turn on a YouTube video that shows how to adjust the black and white levels and tune them.
Making AI Run at Any Scale but Not at All Costs
>You can use it for commercial and non-commercial purposes, under the terms of the Creative ML OpenRAIL-M license—which lists some usage restrictions that include avoiding using it to break applicable laws, generate false information, discriminate against individuals or provide medical advice.

What I'm going to do is take all those new image-generation AIs, and use them to train an image-generation-AIs-generation AI, this way I won't be bound by copyright anymore.
I think a key piece here is missing.

txt2img is quite limited and img2img is really where the power is. With a little intermittent guidance hand of a human.

What took 100s or 1000s of people to write, act, record, post process, Better Call Saul might be doable by a a team 1/100th the size possibly even to a single individual. Which means while it might not just instantly spit it out. I'd just like youtube, there will be an incredible amount of great content to watch, far more than anyone could ever realistically watch.

And of course there will be lots of utter trash as well.

But if it took 100 people to make better call saul and now 100 individuals can make 100x different "better call sauces"
thank you -- that's something I guess.
With signal can you join public/private channels without disclosing your phone number?

The last time I checked (a few years back) I only saw private groups and no way to hide phone numbers.

If that is still the case then there are less reason to have a warrant for you phone number as it is easier to access.
That's just existing industries. All the new crazy stuff it'll unlock... Custom operating system interfaces for everything based on the data they're working with, truly-open infinite video games where you can run or zoom any direction and have it write itself, bespoke lcd wallpaper customized on the fly to the person walking by, bespoke industrial design creating 3d objects (first digital, then printed) for exactly the context they're needed for merely materials cost...
Nice! I used to love AHK to death, incidentally it also got me my first paid programming job.

It‘s about the only software I dearly missed after switching to Mac, but recently I found Hammerspoon and couldn‘t have been happier.

Yep, Lua is a bit weird and exotic, but hey, so is AHK. In the end, you trade in some of AHKs terseness for better modularity and compatibility with existing packages.

https://github.com/Hammerspoon/hammerspoon
The thing is, the tanks would have to get there. Getting a tank 1000 km past at least 3 unfriendly borders is an enormous logistics issue, and a major resource drain - resources that simply did not exist, not even talking about the human resources.

And you're discounting the strength of millions of super-angry people too much. They would destroy the few tanks with rocks (or molotovs, as illustrated in Ukraine) if they had to.
Upvoted for wholesome cat love. I miss your cat on your behalf.
Terraform is great... until you hit one of it's many limitations, or run into a bug in a provider that really ruins your day.

Plenty of people probably never run into those problems. But if you do, it's pretty terrible.

To be fair, there isn't really anything better. Pulumi and CDK address some of the limitations by using a "real" programming language, but introduce different issues. And bugs in providers are probably unavoidable, and are partly the fault of poor APIs from cloud providers.
in this instance i didn't ask for an example. I was just observing that juxtaposing objects in a sentence doesnt work at all as you might reasonably expect.
This is highly interesting.

Would you share some more details about all this, your setup and how you do it? I'm expecting you to do this in a much lower scale than "regular" coffee roasters, and I'm sure more people might be interested in this.
>The new LCDs are shit because they "enhance" the image to shit, even in native resolution.

If you're talking about motion interpolation and that kind of thing, that can all be easily turned off.
It doesn't matter how fancy your graph looks, if you don't say where the data comes from it is worthless.
Yes, because "transferring money" is a CORE BUSINESS FUNCTION of banks!

Major step backwards for them to outsource this. Your absolutely right that you should not need another app or service to enable your bank to do its job.
who says that they are going to raise taxes? they cut public services instead.
Ask HN: Why does the HN front page have 3 Stable Diffusion posts?
At 8:20 am BST, the Hacker News front page features three post on stable diffusion. All are by long-lived accounts with decent points. Is it a coincidence? Astroturfing? A glitch in the matrix?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32655497

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32658408

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32634074
I always wondered if we massively overestimate human creativity. Maybe it is ingrained in our culture and our very being. I’ve never heard counter arguments that humans are not that creative.

Creativity demonstrated by Alpha zero chess engine blows Magnus Carlsen’s mind (from his recent interview with Lex Fridman), I wonder if at some point in the future, we’ll finally throw in the towel and get out of the denial phase.
Just stay away from the vicious bird...

In Southampton I prefer the Dancing Man, which has only been a pub for a handful of years, but is housed in a building nearer to 700 years old. They brew on site, and it's really good stuff!
There is no demonstration on youtube of a drone carrying a few pounds at 100mph.

>> zig zagging through buildings and alleyways - fully autonomously

Also never been done
It's not a language. It's a service. Since diagrams like this need to be embedded into doc it's not good at all for Dev documentation.
No wonder... This is something quite disruptive
JPEG XL beats AVIF, in many cases. See for example: https://twitter.com/jonsneyers/status/1563442356493230080
Are you familiar with such a commercially-available alternative?
> Your product's time-to-value

This is such a big one for me. At my previous workplace it was fairly low friction to try new tools. I'd often just sign up, start a trial, play around with it, and start trying to get people interested. Eventually we might realise it would solve some problems, we'd then start signing people up and getting data into it. But by that point the 15-30 day trial had inevitably expired.

I would often reach out to ask for trial extensions, and was always given these, but that's friction! One thing I loved about Linear was that the trial was pegged to the number of issues you created in it which meant we could take our time and work it into our processes without them dictating a schedule, then only when we were seeing value would we need to start paying.

More services, particularly B2B SaaS companies, need to figure out trials that aren't based on time. Some tools took >1 year to go from first person on the team signing up for a trial, to valuable use.
Minutes or hours.

Travel agents are actually a great weird example of what might happen... we didn't really get rid of 99% - more like 80-90%. They just stuck around as good salesmen who use Expedia etc better than the average person and (in theory) destress the process. Just like artists of the future almost certainly will be quite good with these AI tools and use them primarily - but maybe have a bit of artistic talent themselves.
Very much like Hawaii and Florida, weren’t they? Weren’t those countries ruled for decade or so by dictators who ceased power in late 20s? Didn’t Soviet actually organized elections and then their parliaments voted to join the USSR? I’m sure it’s all a sham but history is a bit nuanced.
I think this calculation is complete nonsense and pure propaganda to support political movement.

Many people have bought tickets and made trips that they would never have made at normal prices.

The article quotes someone who travels from Bavaria to Rostock simply because it is cheap. Not because he has to. Here, CO2 is deliberately wasted out of boredom or pleasure, and then people pat themselves on the back for being so environmentally friendly.

Does anyone still remember the punks on Sylt?

https://www.24hamburg.de/schleswig-holstein/sylt-sommer-pfin...