skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is a 113,503 sq.mi. surface of water, which is about 80% of the surface area of the Caspian Sea, or roughly the surface area of 3.6 Lake Superiors, or the surface area of all the Great Lakes combined plus nearly another Lake Michigan.

With an average elevation of nearly 3000 ft., one must consider, "what countries are down the hill from Pakistan?"

[0] https://www.npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2022/08/30/11199799...
Ask HN: What helped you get better at executing?
I'm trying to step back from my ideas and focus a bit more on the execution side of things. What helped you get better at that?
Look up "[drug] FDA prescribing guide", you should be able to find it, though search engines recently appear to have gotten a bit worse at it.
That's nice. Can anything be done to not make them look like a monstrous eyesore?
Thinking over this "magical" tech.
A distinctive painting style is one of the biggest goals for an artist.
Producing unique stroke and clear expression takes years of hard work and experimentation.

An artist decides to sell prints of an expensive artwork, he or she publishes a photo on their website. AI scrapers get the images in data set update. Game over for the artist.

I hope for a class action over this training data sets.
I get that kids have fun with the new photoshop filters.
I get that software is eating "the world" but someone must wake up an push the kill switch. It is possible.
"From December 2008 to October 2014, he led the team responsible for the redesign of the software user experience of Surface and Windows. Windows 10 was released in July 2015"

Ah, the guy that brought us touch-friendly tiles. On desktop.
He makes good points, though.
There are a total of 4 posts related to StableDiffusion on the front page right now
Jamming sources can be identified and bombed because they are also effectively homing beacons
I’m confused. Almost the entire Ghibli catalog has been available for streaming here in Canada on Netflix for at least all of this year?

My girlfriend and I often snuggle up to one of these great films - have they not been available on streaming platforms outside of Canada?
Where does it say Terragrunt is part of Hashicorp?
The batteries required to get up that far would make a 10:1 thrust to weight ratio difficult to attain if starting from low elevation.

Plus Everest has strong wind shear and cold temps, both of which are extremely taxing on batteries.

That said, this guy flew his drone to 40,900 feet from the ground in the wintertime: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6QL0VjqYgI&t=0s
How about some company just make site that licenses art. In secret they run SD to generate images forever. They use image search to search for similar images on the net and claim copyright. PROFIT!!!
As a counterpoint I manage multiple HashiStack clusters in production with little overhead — it's not a nightmare. I am a Kubernetes refugee and Nomad is such a better experience with batteries included.

Nomad now has its own service discovery (along with secure variables coming in 1.4.0) so you won't actually need Consul and Vault anymore. This is perfect for smaller deployments like on a Raspberry Pi.
> I feel like I am on the right track but missing something else entirely.

A life ?
They absolutely do. What they don’t do is mechanistically clone compressed mathematical representations of input data. The human part of the creative process could very well be a distinguishing feature, legally.
I completely agree. Windows had a drag-and-drop keyboard mapping utility twenty years ago. And Mac OS has automator and applescript, with capabilities windows and linux can only dream of since it requires taking a top-down approach with your language and your compiler and basically forcing people through the narrow gates of xcode so that all the compiled binaries get their dictionaries for interfacing with the osa scripting stuff
Yep, unions are fighting against even allow moving to 1 crew member per train, let alone zero.

https://smart-union.org/our-priorities/legislative-issues/

https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2022-15540.pdf
Surprised to see something like this on Wikipedia. But okay, I've got one more. It's a bit niche: "watch the skies".

Bethesda Softworks is most famous for video games like Skyrim and Fallout 4, which are known for their vibrant modding communities. But the idea of shipping a level editor alongside an open-world game started with Skyrim's prequel's prequel: Morrowind.

Things were a bit rough around the edges back then, and strange things happened:

http://inuscreepystuff.blogspot.com/2010/09/jvk1166zesp.html...
>Slow. Fails randomly with unknown error messages.

I mean, that’s Xcode on your machine. Why would Xcode on someone else’s machine be any better?
You can't force democracy on people. US - as a state and as private persons (Soros in particular) invested a lot into trying to build up democratic institutions (at least as they understood them) in Russia. It didn't work, and in part it didn't work because Russians seemed not to value the same things Americans value. Now, I am talking in generic, in broad strokes - which is never 100% true for any society, it's always more complex. But you can identify the major tendencies and likelihood of certain ideas to win or wither.

At least significant part of Russians seems to be ok with having no free speech, no real elections and no independent judiciary or other democratic institutions - as long as they are reasonably safe, physically and economically, and the bad things only happen to those who speak up or somehow do something "wrong" (which includes demanding to have those institutions publicly). They have been living this way for decades, and they have been living in much worse way - where bad things happened to pretty much everybody, regardless of what you do - for decades before that. Looks like they developed some habits that make their society very atomized and politically inert. Couple that with significant resentment of formerly having great empire (it was nominally "Soviet", not "Russian", but everybody knew where the capital was - in Moscow, right?!) and now being forced to play by the rules they did not write - and you get the full Weimar picture, and you know where that leads. Not to the thriving democracy. I don't think any "Marshall Plan" would have helped - and Russian wouldn't accept this magnitude of intrusion anyway.
Why would you ask for less money than you could get?
> Vault has a really excellent API. A joy.

Strongly disagree: suppose we have secrets mounted at my/secrets, and we want to read a secret top/secret, which is represented as my/secrets/top/secret path in vault. However, the only way to access it via API is to read _all_ mount points, and match them with the path to split path to mount point and secret. vault cli itself follows the same logic: https://github.com/hashicorp/vault/blob/main/command/kv_help...
I wish Google cared as much about customer service as they do about 'moderating user-generated content'.
Do you know of any articles or other writeups about this?
It is not a sarcasm: thanks to a well intentioned but too trusting politician, NATO moved to East and Russia has to fight for survival against vastly superior opponent.

If you are interested, we could look at the map, compare some numbers (weapons, population, media control, the number of countries bombs, etc)
It consistently blows my mind how our societies focus on the wrong thing (though painting a wind turbine blade seems pretty innocuous (and shocking it wasn’t done before).

It’s like if someone told you we have a problem with Cara speeding, and their solution is to outlaw Ferraris because they go fast…
what's ironic about it?
Does it count when it started with a popular cartoon?
When I've played it, we had a great time. It is knocking on the door of collaborative storytelling. More structured than, say, Baron Munchausen but definitely not a conventional RPG.

You need a group that is, IMO, either:

* Going into it with the expectation that they are going to proactively try to figure out what the story is and push it forward

or

* Happy with a silly story that doesn't go in any particular direction.

I've had fun in both types of groups. You definitely don't want players to go in with the expectation that they'll be overcoming mechanical challenges, though.
That is a commentary on the performance of that software, not on the quality of its interface. Run the same app on a machine from 2000, and it'll be blazing fast - and have sane UX.
To anyone interested in this topic, I highly recommend "Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union" by Vladislav M. Zubok. This comment reminded me of one of my notes:

Near the end of the book, George HW Bush tries to convince the US government to provide economic aid to stabilize the fledgeling Russian state but this fails. Earlier in the book there is talk of a "Grand Bargain", a theory that for $100 billion the US could convert the USSR from an enemy into a friend similar to how the Marshall Plan and Berlin Airlift converted the Germans into close US allies. Japan is another example of this. After WW2, instead of razing Japan and Germany as Rome did to Carthage, the US raised them from their knees. It helped rebuild and rehabilitate these countries.

There was no Marshall Plan for Russia. Many of the Russian politicians and economists expected significant economic aid from the West. This aid did not materialize, at least not in the form and magnitude that was expected. The transition from state socialism to capitalist market economy was traumatic; during the USSR the poverty rate was 30%, after the collapse the poverty rate was 80%. The average lifespan of a Russian man was 66 during the USSR, after the collapse it was around 55.

The loss of super power status, of territory, and of economic strength created significant political backlash in the years following the collapse. These conditions promoted nationalism, populism, and authoritarianism which Putin used to seize control. Russia does not have a cultural history of democracy so maybe this was inevitable, but perhaps greater Western support would have avoided it?
>if you know how to use AI to cut that cost, I'm all ears.

Cutting costs seems to be the main reason AI is being explored. If you go to studio asking for budget to create a movie and predict "10 000 people will watch it", they will laugh in your face. If one person with the help of AI can make the movie and 10 000 people will watch it, its a win for everyone involved.

I dont see youtube channels having enormous budgets for marketing, yet they find sizeable audience and make profit still. Once you lower the cost of production, you dont need huge marketing budgets to secure profits.
I feel you. My interest in video games is what led me to getting into computers and becoming the software developer I am today. But the fact is, as you said, it takes away from other things including relationships. In low doses is probably fine, but the risk is that you are kidding yourself about how much time you actually spend. If you really can manage low doses, good for you! But many of us end up spending more time than we care to admit, and that is when it is a problem. Although, as you raise your standards for how your time should be spent, even 1 hour a day of video games might sound like a lot. You could be building relationships, or reading great literature for example.

For me personally, it works best if I cut video games out completely.
It is my understanding that these can vary greatly even based on the same sex. I don't have a subscription to read the full article but it seems very prone to having serious flaws.
If you're within a few hundred meters of one, the noise as well as the constant flickering shadows at certain points of the day can be maddening - but, very, very few people live that close to a wind turbine.
If it really does make it hard for artists to eat from selling art, that to me is just sour grapes. I mean there use to be 1000s or 10s of 1000s of liveries to lock up your horse. There's no goal to keep horse keepers so they can still keep horses and eat. Instead, their industry mostly disappeared. I'm not heartless but at the point their services are no longer needed that's just the way it is. Cloth weavers replaced by the loom.

I don't think SD will replace most top artists for now. It's hard for me to believe SD is going to come up with images like those from top concept artists. But I can imagine SD replacing lots of situations, like maybe stock photography, when you can just ask the AI to draw "people in front of whiteboard discussing sales chart"
Yup - and consumer drones have had reasonable inertial sensors for quite awhile now. Not good enough for nap of the earth, but not far off.
Do people find it hard to run Xcode on their MacBook Air? Who is this service targeted to? I’m asking because I don’t know.
I never use terraform. I use web console first and then if something really needs to be automated I use bash script to string together aws cli. If anything gets more complex than that I do not automate it, instead I use CDK to essentially write infrastructure just like any code.

There is a lot of time wasted in learning a DSL and than wrestling with the limits of what it can do. For most infrastructure scaffolding you can get away with just CLI and anything longer should require something as natural as CDK.

I also will never use Azure or Google! Why should I waste time learning DSL and it's syntaxes when I am using the best Infrastructure as Code provided by AWS? The UI is familiar and I can always reach into CLI to quickly experiment and web console for learning what each parameter does.

Sure there is value in using Terraform but I think all it does is just another Kubernetes type of busywork. 20% gain for 80% investment. Not really a good way to spend your hours, sort of like writing tests before you write code from scratch.

We will disagree but I trust my experience than what I'm told to do exactly because I realize these standards are largely just dog whistling junior developers eager to please their managers to get them on a "free" solution that ultimately bubbles up to the C-suite with some McKinsey or Forrester branded market analysis pdf attached with setting up next steps.

Not only has big corporate interests invaded consumer interest, they've hijacked the open source movement, into just series of raising money and hoping for a large IPO payout or acquisition by other corporate whales. This is why these days avoid popular opinions/standards, especially when large number of people push for them on social media.

TLDR; HashiCorp is a good example of how to use open source offering as a trojan horse to boost the personal wealth of it's investors and founders and I am increasingly wary of "standards" or generating voluntary champions within companies to parrot and becomes salesman for a bit of glory and recognition. THIS NEEDS TO STOP. Very few end up surviving the test of time. Relational database and Java is stronger than ever. Javascript took a good decade to become recognized but it's still treated as a different class than boring technology. Boring and straight forward is resilient, novelty and complex is not.
EU doesn’t have fair use in the first place, that’s a US concept.

StableDiffusion was trained by an academic group in Germany and they do believe it’s legally compliant though.
That part thanks to confuscious tradition

Look at China, Confucius is the God of Asia....
https://archive.ph/S8acn
An Unofficial ‘Ubuntu Software’ App Is Better Than Ubuntu’s Actual One
Research how many people are under 30 and general info about randomness. then decide if this is still a goal worth having.
And if you compare current eastern Germany as opposed to the DDR, current inhabitants have it so much better. Another group that did not improve are the stans (Kazakstan and related countries).
Could be worse, could be GCL or borgmon.
From everything I've read about him, he was a true liberal and egalitarian. How does someone like that rise up the ranks of an authoritarian USSR in the first place? Did he hide his beliefs and present as just a competent bureaucrat until he got to the top?
I'm curious how no other company has managed to even directly compete with Musk when it comes to a service like Starlink. I believe it had to go through regulatory approval. Did no other companies get contracts to provide a similar service, or is this just regulation enabling monopolies?
Folks are sad that Hetzner, like most mainstream providers, has a policy against running crypto software and port scanners.
Yes we should hold public figures to a standard of behavior which does not actively undermine society by giving credence to disinformation.

"You're not going to get COVID if you have these vaccinations."

-President Joe Biden, 2021

https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-2021-video-saying-vaccina...

Comedians don't qualify as "public figures" in that context. I'm not a Joe Rogan defender and don't particularly care about him one way or another, but you're obviously just making things up and trying to gaslight us. Let us know when you have a valid point to make instead of resorting to inflammatory comments about imaginary Nazis.

As for a "line", how about this. Comedians can say whatever asinine shit they like and the rest of us are free to laugh or ignore them as we please. There are no lines in comedy. Grow up.
None of those is going to be a good idea using in a stadium, above a crowd, with buildings in the background (less than 100 yards away), etc. which are the big threat areas.

Drones that can carry a couple pounds or more of C4 (which is a lot) can fly literally 10 ft above roof tops and crowds at 100+ mph while zig zagging through buildings and alleyways - fully autonomously.

This isn’t theory, there are live demonstrations on YouTube.
Are you living off the power grid? If not, someone is seeing the infrastructure that powers your stuff. Even if you are, someone is seeing the infrastructure that makes your off-grid stuff.
Well, Jesus revived a person before himself, and just asked him to wake up.

The real and first mass terror story is The Great Flood.
Is it possible to provide another image as a prompt for SD? For example, could you provide a simple drawing of a house and expect it to render a house?
El Salvador T365 and UNI say hola :)
We need a different tool than artificial scarcity. Both for copyrights and patents. Government funded prize systems and patronage systems with a lot of mechanisms for citizens to choose what to fund seems ideal.
I suspected there were more, but didn’t spot them at a glance.
We’re using different Vaults it seems. HashiCorp’s tech is a mess of over engineering, poor UX, and insufficient documentation.
There are those pesky extra cmd windows that sometimes show up when one gui program has to use a subprocess to run cmd.exe to start another gui program. The only only only solution I found after trying purported solutions in visual basic, powershell, c++, python, etc... Somehow, AutoHotKey's code for finding invisible windows is better than even what's on the msdn site.
One day, images generated with these AIs will become ubiquitous online, and new AIs training on data will wind up with feedback problems because they got trained on photos that are AI generated, possibly even ones they themselves generated!

This tech is a huge deal. Huge. Ubiquitous unique, beautiful art. Entire movies made by machines. Too many to even watch them all. Actor models that aren't real people owned by the thousands by people and corporation s.
Pretty sure this one is important: https://github.com/manuelkiessling/stable-diffusion-discord-...
When the Berlin Wall came down, there were not a few people still around with vivid memories of what 'Unified Germany' had got up to in the 20th century, so there was that. Just sayin.
These systems make for a good family game in our house. We take turns with prompts and have the laptop broadcasting to the TV. I imagine you could make a more formal party game from it - some sort of weird version of Pictionary perhaps?
This thread: HN tries to decide if slurping up mindless insipid Paul Graham blogspam drivel and then posting rambling blogs and comments about self fulfilment is actually fulfilling.
Look man, it's fine to have irrational goals. Hume's guillotine never stopped dropping.

But you have to remember that Forbes, the magazine, is run by a bunch of actual human beings. You can find out what criteria they use by asking them or observing their behavior or a million different ways.

You can then craft yourself to fit that to a T. You very clearly have enough money to have the time to make a plan and execute it. Rather than unachievable, impressing a handful or so of people is absolutely table stakes.

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That being said, there is clearly something deeper going on here. I'm not gonna nail it first try and I'm sure if you get other comments they might make a stab at it too, but why do you want this?

Like hard facts, most people do not give a teleporting fuck about that list. Even looking at it and seeing the faces of some schmucks I still - yep - don't give a shit.

If you think it could open some specific career path or be a useful bit of leverage or whatever...ok? Your plan to get on the list of people "good at business" is effectively right now "be good at business". Seems like a Catch-22 in that for folks they list the publicity of the list probably wouldn't make or break them.

Are you trying to impress some particular people?

You need to not have this as a goal. It's only loosely correlated with being a business success which is in turn only loosely correlated with your happiness.

> I feel like I am on the right track but missing something else entirely.

Memento Mori dude. You have a fucked set of priorities
Apple likes to write ten as the roman numeral X - that does not mean all uses of the letter X are the number 10.
With big generative models, seeing data even once is more than sufficient to memorize it. So your claim that performance relates to frequency is not exactly correct.

The whole point of this model class is that one can learn one word from one sample, another pixel from another one and so on to master the domain. The emergent, non-trivial generalization is what makes them so fascinating. There is no simple, linear/first order relationship with data and behaviour. Case in point: GPT3 can do few-shot learning despite not having used any explicit few-shot formatted data during training.

Not saying you are wrong, but the story is not as simple as simple supervised learning with small datasets
I think so? At least for my band.
It’s not much different than any finance startup on the east coast.
CA just voted to make it easier to add housing: will Bay Area cities build?
CBS4: KIA and Hyundai vehicles an easy target for thieves, thanks to social medi
I've got a lot of half-finished side projects that I tinker with and the thing that got me to get them to a usable state was creating a website - I'd had a personal domain for a long time and I decided to put a simple site on it (some information about me and my work etc). I realised quickly that I didn't want to show off half-finished projects so it very quickly motivated me to polish some of my projects and get them across the line.
Love this article, i was working on a project for an inverse.proxy with CORS + websockets, spent few weeks learning deep HTTP and ws. Is a good experience to learn the basic building blocks of tech
Yup, and the smallest typical flak shell is going to necessarily have a pretty large lethal radius as that is what would get the drone.

It takes a lot less than that to blind everyone in the crowd with shrapnel or kill them, if you’re trying to shoot down the drone flying 20 ft over their heads.

The smaller the kill radius, the more difficult the intercept (fundamentally) - and that’s assuming there is a safe backdrop for any non-exploded shells.

These scenarios are much different than point defense at sea of a warship, or defense of the skies over a military base or city surrounded by mostly empty desert.