skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is some work exploring that with Textual Inversion[1].

Another trick to approach this problems is specifying the random seed, this will cause the same image being generated by the same prompt without any randomness. When you now change the prompt you get an image that is very similar to the first one, but with the variation included. Somebody used that to age a woman across 100 years[2] with quite stunning results. Even works with gender or style changes.

[1] https://textual-inversion.github.io/

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/wq6t5z/por...

[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/wq6t5z/por...
I think it is because of the retention policy many companies have: after a certain amount of time (3 months, 1 year, 3 years are most common that I've seen) data has to be permanently deleted. This means if you make copy/paste/save/backup harder, there is less chance people will do that.

In my company messages in Teams disappear after a few weeks, emails after 3 years. You never know when your chat telling someone the app you just put in production is not fully tested and not ready and that chat will end up as evidence in court. Companies want to protect themselves, this is why they shred all data as soon as possible.
I haven't seen number 1 actually "fix" Vienna's rental market? I mean it's not as crazy as other places, but I moved to Vienna in 2005 (since moved out) and it used to be a lot more affordable to rent in than today (even adjusting for inflation). So it's not that it's completely ineffective but it's not on it's own enough.
> I've not seen loading screens since about 2000 on any native apps.

Have you used any real apps, because Macromedia Dreamweaver/Adobe Photoshop/etc had literal minute long splash loading screens where they zoomed text on a small snippet telling you what it was doing since at LEAST 2000....
Which is weird as hell because treating PWAs as apps (from a mobile UI perspective) could be built in to the OS itself. Maybe there's some reason The Google won't do this, but OSes already treats the web as a real thing (integrated web views and such), so PWAs would seem like a next step to that.
There are always going to be individuals that say yes the moment money enters the conversation, as long as food and housing cost money and there is the possibility of going without.
The same can be done in the US -- just pay it off before it accrues any interest.
github trending, and the social media aspects of github in general, are the major differentiator between github and all other git providers.

at present, github is the only social media worth using. dropping trending will damage github. perhaps something better will emerge to fill the void.
I'm also going to offer some advice to the men out there that may hit some people in the soft spot. I apologize in advance but this is some tough love: please, please work on your stamina for when you do end up in bed with that special someone. Ejaculation isn't the finish line and your partner will appreciate you aren't racing off to its little death.

I've learned to really enjoy all the other feelings around sex not ejaculating and that has given me a whole new lease on the act and my partners have really, really appreciated that I don't go for 5 to 10 "cum and done".

There's tons of methods of training yourself out there. Just Google around. It really helps when dates are thinking if they should keep dating you.

And yes, sex isn't everything but good sex sure does help and it's an intrinsic, important part of coupling.
Nuclear is way more expensive than other renewables and even gas. It takes a long time to build too. What no one seems to be exploring is creating a world wide array of solar panels so that everyone has power when they need it. Atleast US, Africa, India and Europe could do it together.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-energy-nuclearpower-idUSK...

Edit: Hell, US alone could do and get over peak demand in the evenings by having panel array spread all over the country.
Here’s my Stealership experience:

I bought a car from Shift.com and it was an absolute nightmare.

Originally I had decided on a Tesla that was in Oakland and put down my deposit. The rates Shift gave me were laughable so I contacted my credit union. Shift put every roadblock up trying to convince me to go with their financing and refinance at a later date. I declined and shortly after my car was sold to someone else. If I remember correctly it was within like 24hrs. They apologized profusely and told me that it shouldn’t have been possible for that to happen, but it did.

I found another car in San Diego and put down another deposit. I was contacted about shipping and told if I did it by a certain time they would ship the next day. I did. It took something like a week to arrive in Oakland and sat for a few days before they could inspect and schedule a delivery.

The delivery was a parking spot on a major street with a rushed employee. I mention that because I didn’t notice anything major with cars flying past me.

I immediately drive to a parking lot and start examining the car. The trunk alignment seems off and there was no mention of damage so I take some photographs. Maybe it happened in shipping? I take it to a car wash because it was filthy. The trunk has a leak. It’s gross and musky in there.

Shift blew me off so I emailed their CEO, legal, PR, etc until someone reached out to me. They paid for an inspection and I choose the Toyota dealership. Dealership was shocked that the damage wasn’t spotted during Shift’s initial inspection. There was a huge hit in the rear and the repair work was subpar at best. The body panel was leaking water and the advanced sensors weren’t working because the rear left one was broken. The initial quote was ~$10k.

Shift was provided the report and after some time they scheduled a pickup to have their team preform their own inspection.

Fast forward 8 weeks of very little communication I am informed they have fixed the car. I pressed for more info and they said they sent my car to a DETAILER. Not a mechanic. Not a body shop. Their detailer said the Toyota dealership was wrong. No leak. Sensors work.

Somehow they decided that my front bumper was the problem and “painted it”, or at least that’s what Shift told me. Turns out they lied about that too. Original paint that they buffed, but left compound everywhere and fucked up my headlights and Toyota badge.

When confronted with all of this, with photo evidence, Shift offered me $250.

That’s it. $250 after keeping my car for nearly 10 weeks and then not fixing it. During the time they had it the avg MPG dropped to 21 mpg (typically 40) and managed to break a bunch of fasteners in the trunk.

Now my car has a major accident on the carfax and I’ll be out at least $10k to fix it. Fuck Shift.com
It is called being 'creepy'. Please don't do it or suggest it. The outcomes are neither favorable or painless (depending on whether it's a Taser or Mace). It is far better to send dozens of messages or interests in Tinder - than make a spectacle of yourself, be it US or India or EU/Asia
What does this mean for the sale of Twitter? I still can't quite figure that out. Does Musk really want it at a lower price, or is he truly walking away from the deal? If he walks away from the deal what happens then? Someone else buys it?

I guess the real question is: Can twitter be saved?
It's not marketing imo, it's the type of social network. What made linkedin and facebook take off was the fact that you follow people in your real social network. Almost all my twitter followers/followees I've never met, so there is not really a viral growth coefficient.
Very clickbait-y title but a good article.

I read through the actual whistleblower complaint and to be honest I was shocked as well. If true, the security on their laptops was extremely lax or nonexistent. My current and previous companies will not let me install what I want on my laptop. Even something as innocuous as Signal is not allowed and I'm too scared to push the issue. I basically assume that everything I do is being watched and keylogged which actually makes life a lot easier for me.

The idea that Twitter would allow anything to be installed is kind of shocking to be honest. It sounds like they're not taking their place of prestige in the Internet hierarchy very seriously.

The fact that Mudge couldn't lock things down after Jan 6 or that there wasn't adequate logging etc is also extremely shocking. I would love to hear Twitter's side of it and the reason why it wasn't a priority. Was it because Jack Dorsey had taken his eye off the ball and was a missing leader that lead to this? Or was it Parag Agrawal's poor leadership as CTO and CEO? It certainly sounds like he was an obstacle in the way of Mudge, which doesn't sit well with me at all.
It’s already so hard to build a large company, you just don’t have the resources to chase super rare, low pain outcomes.

This is the first time this has happened and the total cost of it is at most a few hours revenue. They’ll likely add safeguards to prevent such a thing now, but if they ran the company preparing for every possible way things could go wrong, they’d get absolutely nothing done.
Not all queries are the same.
I don't want to sound dimissive but if you code anything more than 90's stuff an 11 years old desktop won't cut it. Especially if you have an apple computer. Such a model is not just obsolete but would open a lot of security issues.

Invest in a laptop? With the current prices pretty much everyone that uses a computer professionally can afford a laptop.
There are only two bookmarks on my browser’s home page: hcknews.com and github/trending

Seeing other people saying that they are visiting github/trending every day too, I can’t understand how it is “low usage”
When you have to eliminate data relationships for it to scale, you no longer have a "relational" database.
I agree that there is a difference between the two of them and I think in both cases if any termination is going to happen, it ought to come from the legal system itself as a Court Order.
Show HN: Async OK – Find an async job, work anytime
> I got a B in Linear Algebra, and I still can't describe why you'd need that in the real world, while calculus/diff eq/discrete math were clearly tied to physics/thermodynamcis/computer science problems I knew.

I thought this was an interesting comment, because I personally believe linear algebra is one of the most applicable topics in math and relates a lot to the topics you contrasted it with. For example, in multivariable calculus, derivatives of functions with multiple variables end up being linear maps, and understanding properties of those maps and how they're transformed helps a lot with understanding the properties of derivatives and how to apply them. Differential equations are solved in practice by approximating them as linear systems and solving those equations, so again, understanding linear algebra helps a lot there (e.g., eigenvalues are intimately connected to the ways differential equations behave). I'm not so familiar with discrete math, but I do know there are connections between linear algebra and some areas of graph theory (not sure how critical they are to those areas, though).

That's not meant as a criticism of your comment, because I think the way linear algebra courses are taught doesn't do much to make those connections clear. Intro courses focus a lot on mechanical problem solving and do a poor job of motivating concepts (e.g., I remember eigenvalue problems showing up mostly out of nowhere). In courses beyond the introductory level the presentation and focus is more abstract and does little to demonstrate why you would care beyond intrinsic interest. I think if more motivation or context were provided, it would help encourage those more interested in applications than math for math's sake to go deeper into a topic that can be very useful in a lot of applied areas.
Interesting it states it is in maintenance mode due to there being a MS Linux client but just had a release 2 hours ago. A bit shooting itself in the foot. Will give it a try. The last time I saw it, I skipped it because I though it was obsolete.
> What might a commitment to AI justice look like in practice? At a concrete level, it may mean organizations engaging with groups that bear the brunt of AI impacts but are not typically consulted: children, people of color, LGBTQIA + communities, migrants, and other groups. Those who develop AI need to better understand the particular needs of these communities, and then work with them in meaningful ways to ensure that AI contributes to their well-being and does not exacerbate historical inequities.

This is useless. Consult who for what.

> How else might AI justice manifest? Considering justice in AI more broadly might mean confronting the longstanding relationship between capitalism and computation [4], recognizing the extent to which technologies have marginalized women [32], or considering the knowledge-systems that have been privileged and the indigenous epistemologies that have been ignored

Seems like AI is just inserted into the madlib.
>You can't imagine that someone with radically different experiences than your own could genuinely object to some aspect of this "Paradox"?

I'm sure they can, but most people don't seem to understand it well enough to formulate a coherent argument against it, they only know that they hate it because the politics of their tribe hates it. Like people who object to CRT who obviously have never engaged with the source material beyond a quote or two taken out of context.

The poster above it drivel and anyone who brings it up anti free-speech. That isn't an argument it's just shit-talking, and it conveniently ignores the fact that the parameters of "free speech" are very much up for debate here.

>What dastardly scheme do they advance by pretending to so object?

Mostly - because there's a reason none of this was an issue before 2016 - they want to ensure the spread of right-wing accelerationist propaganda without significant social or legal consequence for themselves. But of course they can't argue for this explicitly in most public spaces, so instead they couch their real politics in arguments like "intolerance of intolerance is itself intolerance" or "sunlight is the best disinfectant."
that's weird though (in the CDN case) because one of the primary reasons to use another domain is to avoid people sending you cookies because it's useless data for static assets.
Don’t forget about transaction costs.

IMO, buying an economic new car and then keeping for most of the vehicles lifetime is close to optimal. No need to stress about comparing a bunch of specific cars just a few models you can research online. It’s low stress because you have a lot of leverage at the dealership as you can get the same thing down the street or in 3 months if you chose to walk out the door.
In what way is building more housing simple? If it were that straightforward, California (which has much more space and money) would have done it, and Californians wouldn't be moving to Portugal.
Hertz has (or used to have) a "rent to own" deal with cars.

You go to their lot of used cars, you poke and prod them, then you rent one you think you'll like for a week for a couple bills.

If you decide to keep it, the rental cost is put against the purchase and you keep the car, if you don't like it you return and try again.
I'm saying what he says is not necessarily what he knows.

As for the rest the judge already decided he wasn't credible as far as the judge was concerned.
Everyone I know with a desktop computer installs & uses tons of programs that aren't Chrome. And most of them aren't programmers or other flavors of computer nerd.

The non-nerds also absolutely notice when some stupid Electron chat app makes their laptop hot and takes their battery life from 16 hours to 2.5 hours (ahem, Discord when using voice and/or video chat). Proponents of that tech claim normal users don't notice, but 1) they definitely, 100% do, and 2) more than one might think are even able to figure out which app, specifically, is responsible, not just "my machine's slow and battery's dying fast and I don't know why" (it's usually not exactly rocket science).
Ah, thanks. Yes, that makes sense.
During my studies when I was overseas we had a seminar on how to buy a car in NZ. The guy was absolutely awesome, he told us about a lot of the tricks employed by dealers from subtle things like mirrors where you are supposed to park the car (you see yourself in the mirror) to things like working you with two people (it's much harder to resist 2 people arguing with you, also why you should never go by yourself). He also gave some good tips: go at certain days of the month when they are about to get new stock in, try to find the underperforming salesperson (they get away with worse deals, because the others feel sorry for them), give the impression you are planning to buy for much less than you really want, because they always try to get you over your budget.

I managed to use those tricks when I bought my first car. Managed to get it at about 40% of the sticker price (used car). Haven't been as successful since though.
I have a pretty conservative (paranoid?) security posture, where I do not want any banking app or any ability to initiate or confirm financial transactions via my smartphone. I don't even use non-free apps because I refuse to have a credit card associated with my phone and its app store.

I also don't like the idea of many sites/services trying to roll their own 2FA and introducing custom phone apps. I frankly do not trust most vendors to design nor write secure software. I want an interoperable standard so I can choose a trusted authenticator and enroll it with as many different services as I need. I want to use such sites with my desktop/laptop browser and like the idea of 2FA login or transaction approvals to limit the chances of unauthorized use.

I don't mind using the phone as a 2FA token, but I want to have extra tokens as backup in case the phone is lost or damaged. The yubikey seemed attractive in that way, but support is not as good nor widespread as I would need.

I discovered absurd things like a bank allowing multiple tokens to be enrolled, but automatically expiring them if I don't use them frequently. This blocks the idea of enrolling a backup token to store safely offline.

I also want to disable any SMS/phone call/email mechanism to do account recovery by sending secrets through an insecure channel. Otherwise, the 2FA tokens are mostly useless security theater. But, for most things I would care about personally, this is not offered even if you enroll multiple tokens.
I am continually amazed by the accessibility and power of the query infrastructure, some of the queries I have written and seen are downright magic.
This is exactly what happened. Or some employee decided they wanted it themselves.

If you still had the VIN you could probably search what happened, heh.
I wonder if this is due to a lack of usage of the trending pages or adverse effects of attempts to game the trending system.

Even a slight increase in spam, manipulation and gamification of GitHub features would have a significantly adverse effect for a huge audience, and the perception of quality towards the GitHub product.

That would need to be carefully balanced against usage of “trending”. And if trending is causing the increase, it’s a pretty clear trade off.

It’s a pity we can’t have nice things. But this could be rebuilt outside of GitHub.
> They actually do just do as horrible of a thing as possible

Yes, the do that when their enemies are individual people, since that tactic works on those. I doubt the same tactics would work on armies or nation states.

> so they can watch those people die in a gas cloud.

You still seem to think that the cartels do things merely for their own cruel amusement. I, on the other hand, believe that cruel amusement is luxury which they allow themselves only as long as it works.
People miss the nuance and become intolerant even when violence isn't on the table.
I once froze a subset of the training data and used it in the test suite for the training pipeline. It was pretty handy as a quick test while refactoring. I don't think I got it integrated into our Jenkins pipeline so it wasn't used by the rest of the team and eventually got outdated as the training data changed.

We didn't do the "at least as good" thing though. In prior jobs I'd seen too many legitimate situations in which a metric declines even though there's no regression, such as bug fixes in metrics or occasional updates to the test data. Instead we committed the model evaluation to git and had to review and approve model updates.

I wish we'd done more testing for that pipeline, particularly the parts that fetched and preprocessed data. I think we had a couple bugs there over the years, or partial missing data.
I don't think that's a fair characterization of his concept (which he called ephemeralization), e.g. "to do more and more with less and less until eventually you can do everything with nothing." He was critical of the lack of effectiveness of politics, arguing that energy put into it is unlikely to result in any real change. He showed that one could promote a radical new technological idea, and be seen as a non-threatening 'out of touch nerd' to all sides of a contentious political issue like climate change. This allows you to build cultural momentum and funding towards a solution and avoid the polarizing gridlock of politics.

He absolutely intended to radically change behavior, by replacing our current way of doing things with a very different better way, that uses less resources. Not just the same thing somehow miraculously not problematic.

Summary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephemeralization

This is a different idea than blind technological optimism, although they seem similar on the surface.
You are right, but I don't think it is just the fault of the media, this is how the human brain works. No one is losing their minds with fear at dull but distressingly common causes of death like heart disease and car accidents. It is the rare, dramatic, unexpected kinds of death and violence that govern our thoughts.

People fear flying for psychological reasons of control/helplessness, not for logical statistical reasons. Fear of 'scary' death is like the negative version of the inaccurate and over-optimistic math that causes people to buy lottery tickets.
well said! I read it but the "only using webrowser as light as possible and notepad for text, thats it" gives it away. I am just surprised how many experienced coders don't realise that technology is moving fast and, if you use obsolte hardware, your work and code will be as obsolete.

Imagine having to do any testing for a mobile app or a new website and you go like "oh sorry I only use a light web browser" or having to code anything more complex than 90s cgi scripts "oh no I use only notepad" .

Or receiving an excel or word document to edit, notepad is not going to cut it.
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Can someone please critique on the difference between SeaweedFS and Colossus?
https://github.com/seaweedfs/seaweedfs

Need some advice on how to make SeaweedFS more scalable.
Well, the West (TM) has a ton of freedoms and wealth. It does nor have the moral hogh ground when it comes to international affairs, there we follow money over democratic values more often then not.
Meanwhile in Switzerland, 4 year olds walk to Kindergarten and back home again, twice a day, on their own.

They meet friends along the way, play games, take detours, catch lizards, but also learn how to manage their time. It’s very good for them.
limitless possibilities?