skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Surely the best people to create new art from models like this would be artists themselves?

Wouldn't this create more jobs for artists? It's just a different tool
The faces are particularly creepy. They range between fever dream and uncanny valley.

https://imgur.com/a/LexTjLK
I have checked it out. Also checked out Scalr and some other one that I can't remember the name of. Issue isn't finding an alternative, it's convincing the team to move away from TFE and TFC.
Regarding question 3, this would have been shot during the Spring climbing season. This year had an unusually long period of calm weather, which allowed the ~250 climbers and ~600 Sherpas to summit over the course of 12 days.

The vast majority of climbers ascend from the southeast route (from Nepal), with a smaller number ascending from the northeast (Tibetan) route. I can't tell for sure which direction the drone is flying in, but some clever piloting may have helped here.
> the Dancing Man

Good pub, still refered to as "the wool house" by most locals. Surreal to see disccusion about pubs in Southampton on hackernews this morning!
I was asking specifically for android, should've clarified that. I was fully expecting this exact answer btw.

Switching to DoH or private DNS in Android does not change the default DNS. How do you think you get the IP from the hostname when you enable DoH? 8.8.8.8 is hard coded and there's no way to change it without hacky stuff. Every time you request a record from your configured DoH server, it queries 8.8.8.8 to get the IP of that server hostname. I chose this example specifically because I'm extremely familiar with it, a good example it does make.

Are you still unsure why you can't enter an IP address instead of a hostname? There's literally no user oriented reason for this, the developer had to go out of their way to prevent it. This sort of deliberate restriction is why I call it a kiosk. Why wouldn't they indeed.

And it's not the only one in android, and it hasn't always been there. It was introduced in a later version, early versions of android left the DNS server configurable. Another good one is tethering reporting to your carrier. Look into how that works, it's ridiculous. Why is my device doing things I don't want it to do and preventing me from stopping it? Is this thing mine or not?
We do...we really do!

We have such a throwaway culture that prototyping and experimentation has a fairly low bar/cost. Getting serious and building a "sellable" product can have a bit of a ramp (my opinion due to the administrative and scale aspects which can arguably distract from the goal) but if you stick to the "by-the/for-the community" approach I feel we have a great moment where the protocols and many of the tools are open to try with.

The challenge is the electrical side if you come from software and vice-versa. There are plenty of resources but it's scattered and getting started ends up touching a little bit of everything.

Python and Arduino / Pi have been incredibly friendly to augment and don't feel like you need to start from scratch, take something that exists and extend it.

Zigbee, X10, WiFi, and Bluetooth LE are all common and open ways to talk with easy to comeby plug-and-play ish modules/hats for microcontrollers.

I suggest Python, not necessarily my favorite, but by far the friendliest and batteries included for experimentation.
You might also want to check KeyboardMaestro on Mac. It's honestly the only programme I miss after switching to Linux desktop. 40€ but worth every cent.
Computer was always for me a tool for expression. My machine with 2x 2080ti is quite dated, but nothing feels more empowering than creating something cool.

Mobile is different topic.
> Things were a bit rough around the edges back then, and strange things happened:

TBF the game engine was pretty rough (as most Bethesda games are), it has a pretty creepy vibe in the first place (dwemer spider bots <3) and some banger bugs e.g. sometimes you’d hit a house entrance just the wrong way and fall under the world.
DJI drones are basically floating tripods. It takes a hell of a lot to make their video shake!

And yeah I have no idea how they had nobody else in the shots.
No, but I can build one in a day.
Irrelevant. Literally any country in the world would suppress independence declarations with violence, regardless of good justifications or not. That's just how nations work and has nothing to do with USSR specifically.
Autokey is "good enough" but unmaintained and really rough around the edges. I really wish someone picked it up because it's 85% of the way to being a great automation tool.
Right, and the issue with that is that plenty of people lie, and even more exxagerate what they did.
Yup and if they are custom FPV builds then you get quite a lot of IO ports at your disposal. Plus the flight controller supports easy mapping to your transmitter so you just have to flick a switch.
Quotes like “ At the same time, we have some obligations for our investors as well -- you know, to not look like a shady company who gets lots of different requests from the FBI, et cetera” make me think the journalist probably took some liberties with a conversation the guy didn’t realise was on the record
Didn’t Citizen’s United make this sort of thing unconstitutional? How is it that political spending is protected by the 1st amendment, but the contrapositive of not spending on something you don’t agree with is not protected speech?
I thought it was the Royal Standard in Beaconsfield, but there's no mention of it
"No, thank you, the <insert_anxiety_trigger> is not really my thing."
Like most wealthy Americans, they were born in a wealthy and/or connected family?

I don't know them, that would be my guess.
A Linux-powered microwave oven (2016)
except that link to the paper doesnt load at all here...glad the old link was conserved
K-Nearest Neighbors Algorithm
I appreciate your good nature around telemetry, but as we have seen meta-data is trivial to abuse. The military kills people with metadata. Performance and usage metrics can tell the server when the client is being used and for how long. Combined with a license tied to a real name (or a billion other ways of IDing a person and computer), telemetry is just another way to die by metadata.

Nevermind the face-value argument of performance and usage data turns into "give me a debuglog that includes every program you have open, a whole bunch of personal computing hardware information which can be trivially tied to PII".

The argument that telemetry and server-side knowledge is safe entirely depends on reducing the argument down to an idealized metaphor that doesn't exist in practical reality, and then rejecting all forms of evidence that don't fit the mould.

Unfortunately in this scenario, telling the truth about what needs to be kept private, is in itself, a clue to what is being kept private. So no communication can happen back up the chain if the client wants to keep something private. When the server becomes untrustworthy, so must the client.
So you are not using fractional scaling which is reason enough to switch to Wayland.
The comment was in response to this, not CI/CD.

> I can't think of a good reason Apple would want to support developers who want to publish in their (very) walled garden but aren't willing to purchase at least one macOS device
Not yet, but I can definitely imagine a future where these tools get more capable and refined, to the point where all the shortcomings listed above will be overcome. Knowledge about cameras and scene composition are already encoded in the networks to some degree, it just needs to become more accessible. There's probably also a better way to seed new images than by starting with random noise, so we could get similar variations easier. We have already made the big step towards creativity and real world understanding of objects and their lighting, the remaining issues are more technical and unless we are incredibly unlucky and run into a true show-stopper, we'll probably all have access to a high quality digital artist that can reduce production times dramatically.
Kenya Supreme Court Hearing Presidential Election Petition
Hearing is set to take place between today and 5th
In Nottingham is The trip to Jerusalem. It's age as a pub is debated but it's carved into jurassic sandstone, so by one measure ~165 million years old.

wiki page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ye_Olde_Trip_to_Jerusalem - crappy pics

Pub's page https://www.greeneking-pubs.co.uk/pubs/nottinghamshire/ye-ol... - is shite. The uneven flagstones (walking on them was like being at sea) seem gone, so are all the currency notes people would stick on walls. Basically they've stripped it of its character. And no pics of the sandstone. Sigh, they've destroyed half of what made it.
How do you like nativescript? I haven’t met anyone using it yet
We have bicycle registration in Tokyo. Cops will sometimes stop people and check that they aren't riding a stolen bicycle, and if your bicycle is reported stolen and recovered, they'll bring it back to you. Registration costs about USD$5.

Tons of people bicycle here just to get around, including mothers with small children. They have bicycles which have 2 child seats. In newer areas, there's bicycle parking lots everywhere: in apartment towers, at the mall, at the grocery store, etc. Bike parking lots don't take up much space unlike car parking lots. In older areas, people just park wherever: on the sidewalk in front of the convenience store, on the side of the street, etc.
Apple's Chief Privacy Officer Jane Horvath to Depart Company
I played a bit with smoothly interpolating between Stable Diffusion prompts and the effect can be pretty cool but it's hard to avoid discontinuities (like the object changing its orientation), even when using some additional tricks like reusing the previous frame as the initial image or generating several new frames and choosing the one that's closest to the previous frame. You basically have to get lucky with the seed. It probably makes most sense to just wait for video models that take temporal consistency into account explicitly or generate 3D models. There is a lot of promising research out there already, so it's just a matter of time.
This excites me.

I've been hearing much more lately about how crude our approach to farming/agriculture is and how counterproductive current methods are. No-till, carbon farming, cover crops, etc. which spend more effort in creating a balanced ecosystem where crops are incorporated versus placing product, extracting value, leaving nutrient deficient earth behind.

There's an interesting documentary called Biggest Little Farm where a couple tries to strike that balance although not focused on tech/automation. This article bringing in the resourcefulness and ingenuity of farmers with tech alongside that balanced ecosystem has worldwide impact.
You might be interested in this roadmap to introduce UBI gradually: https://lorenzopieri.com/post_scarcity/
Linux also used to be a "hobby" OS. Now it powers the internet. Things change.
When it comes to VPN providers you're essentially moving your traffic from your ISP to the provider itself, so it's not entirely private. If you want to be absolutely sure that no logs are kept, then you're best off running your own VPN somewhere, so you remain completely in control.
I don't. I just care about boxes and lines, most of the time. When I need to differentiate between types of boxes, I use shapes or stereotypes.
> There somehow seems to be less information than there is in the input.

This captures my thoughts very well. That's why these images get old very quickly - you can basically imagine the same thing in your mind. There's no real whimsy, surprise or creativity there. For now at least.
Managing what, exactly? I get that there’s a one time cost you have to pay to set things up, but that’s true of cloud builds as well.

Yes, because XCode famously never crashes.
I think you're viewing this the wrong way entirely. Don't view AI as something unique, it's just a class of algorithms. View it in the same way that as the anti-lock brakes on your car. Did anti-lock braking systems entirely remove your need to operate the brakes? No. But its net effect was to massively reduce the number and severity of crashes.

All that these algorithms are going to do is slightly bump up the productivity of some people. But that's amazing. Productivity is basically the free money tool. If people are more productive, they get richer for doing less, and the single best thing we can do to improve people's lives is make them richer. Poor people? Make them richer and they'll be happier and healthier. Rich people? Make them richer and tax the hell out of them, make the world better for everyone. Productivity is the best tool we have for making some people richer without making others poorer.
How to get back into programming after not doing it professionally for a year?
I have 2.5 years of experience at well-known companies. I believe my CV is really going to put a high-value on me, but, truth is, I've never been good at technical interviews (normal interviews are the opposite). And this might diminish my chances quite a bit.

I've not coded professionally for more than a year because I've been in a language school abroad, but I did read technical books. It's not like I forgot everything, but I feel like it might be like taking my first swim in the middle of the ocean; how can I make sure this doesn't happen?

I plan on reading "Cracking the Coding Interview"; is that a good idea? I'm all ears for your suggestions.
Mid-infrared flare observed in the galaxy NGC 3786
You are discussing about France not Germany, right?
I was on a Princess cruise last week that had broadband quality internet provided by SES Networks: https://www.ses.com
what is Neighbors Algorithm
Weird. I'm the opposite. Reality-based horror makes me sad, creates a sense of revulsion or just does nothing. But anything that threatens my sense of reality and I start to get goosebumps.

> since it can't happen anyway

Yes but that's the point. Imagine experiencing something that you know isn't possible. And the more solid your grip on rationality, the harder it would hit you. The harder it would be to accept what your senses were telling you.
You can use the sticky tables as zombie traps.

(Has anybody been in a Wetherspoons pub that doesn't have sticky tables?)
It won't work in cases where the stories require images or interaction but for text-based stories I use

curl <pasta url> | html2text | less

Just to be sure ;)
I think its because we've eveolved to be more sensitive to faces and pay more attention to them. I suspect the whole image is off, but we really notice it in faces and particularly the eyes.
It is! My excuse is that I lived there for about 9 years, until a year or so back :)
Maybe I am wrong but I don’t think “ban” is the right word. Texas prohibited state agencies from doing business with them. Private citizens and businesses can still do whatever they’d like.

Here’s a better article: https://www.texastribune.org/2022/08/24/texas-boycott-compan...
My position is perfectly logically consistent. Art is distilled human experience and human emotions emerging in a particular context after a chain of events. None of this is true of AI "art".

What is not logically consistent is to claim that a black box utilizing statistical relationships between pixels in a giant dataset is an "artist" and that its products create "value".

The compiler is not a programmer, AI can never be an artist.
Did you know that the JPEG image format is 'designed for CRTs'?

You can use different look up tables in a JPEG image and Mozilla did this to make JPEGs work for digital screens where there isn't that blurring for free.

The Mozilla encoder went way over most people's heads and the default JPEGturbo algorithm most operating systems and applications use is from the CRT era when compute cycles cost thousands more than they do today.

CRTs also smoothed out details on screen, it was a shock for TV world going from standard resolution 4:3 CRT to 16:9 Digital Full HD because analog TV had this wonderful way of magically hiding scratches in a set so long as you threw tens of kilowatts of light at everything in the studio. With digital the sets had to be rebuilt because everything looked shabby.
The A5000 and 3090 both have 24GB of ram?
Russia may not be the Soviet Union, but the Soviet Union was Russia. Russian ambitions and attrocities in the area go back to at least Catherine the Great.

Russia has no moral or any other claim over Crimea. Their actions in starving millions of people to death in Crimea in the 20s, the ethnic cleansing by evicting Tartars and Cosacks, replacing them with Russians - these all go to the long term drive of Russian imperial ambitions in the area.

Putin tried to take the whole of Ukraine and has tried several times to assasinate Zelensky, just like he has assasinated many others (and tried but failed to assassinate a previous Ukrainian president with poison).

The internal politics of Ukraine are just a pretext that Putin is using to realize his ambitions. They are not a reason in any way for the war crimes and attrocities he has committed.
Here we come again with the "Ukrainian nationalism" and "coup". So boring. Will you ever update your guide on Russian propaganda? Even the russian troll factory stopped using these arguments like 2 years ago.
Moravec's paradox is actually an observation only relevant to 80's state of robotics and AI. I don't think it holds true, and low-level stuff does absolutely not cost more than high-level stuff. What holds full self driving back is the vast amount of rare edge cases that can't be dealt with by current methods. (largely because the system is only trained on available data and doesn't understand first principles)
jesusfreke has a 3d printed version of this on github: https://github.com/JesusFreke/lalboard
When you say they give out the raw data for free, does this mean you can download a batch of it? Or are you referring to the free API for the 5 years/30 day data on the bèage you linked?
At least the neighbouring farmers will work hard, quit drinking and be nicer to their animals, for a little while till they find out the pigs pose no real threat.
You're right, but projects like this do make me think AI handling inbetweens well enough to replace animators is where we'll end up eventually and that it's probably not far off.
I suspect negative, it steals the reward of effort
I actually don't make use of the Private DNS feature myself, because one time I had it set and it somehow broke connections to everything. Probably some catch 22 nonsense going on, since it wants a hostname but you need DNS to know where the hostname goes.

Also, apologies, some of that beer I had for dinner must still be in me because I forgot another way to set DNS servers on Android, at least partially.

Under whatever connections (Wi-Fi, etc.) is called again, going into all the various Wi-Fi connections I can set a specific DNS server (actually two servers) to use with the connection. Basically kind of like how Windows configures it. Of course, it doesn't apply to the mobile data connection, which is annoying and definitely a mark against Android...
>somewhere

You mean on a VPS that you also rented from someone else, therefore essentially moving your traffic from your ISP to...?
Chinese Database of Faces and License Plates over 800M Records
Pretty much every (PC/console) Bethesda game since Morrowind has been a derivative of the Morrowind code. It'd be a little unfair to say it's the same game engine, since they've clearly added lots of wizzbang features with each big title that must be huge diffs in the code, but I do find it charming in a weird way how the overlap shines through every so often.
That depends on how easy it is to use the new tools.

Getting higher level languages and various libraries/frameworks didn't make coders obsolete, because there was still tons of work to do at a "higher level" that required algorithmic/engineering-style thinking. Yes, previously difficult tasks got a lot easier, but that just meant that even more ambitious projects could be tackled, and that was useful.

In contrast, it may be the case with art that the things a relative newbie can spit out with the help of image generation models are "good enough" for most use cases. Yes, a real artist would be able to squeeze out even more, but many companies may be willing to go with the option that's enormously cheaper and still seems to produce okay results.
For those unaware, here is the video: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=lIFE7h3m40U

I wonder if it is actually possible to just "connect the flumberboozle to the GKX virtual port"
Any DOS is susceptible to Bad USB emulating a keyboard if the BIOS supports USB keyboards.
Shameless plug if you want to understand how stable diffusion actually works:

https://www.paepper.com/blog/posts/how-and-why-stable-diffus...
Also known as a radical monopoly:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_monopoly
Is your third example correct? Andy Warhol was famous for using photographs of existing art and transforming them only slightly. Roy Lichenstein literally took panels from DC comic books and magnified them and became celebrated in the art world for it.
Maybe GP meant 3080.
What about stablecoins? I think USDC exists on Stellar as well
I am pretty sure it's a deliberate inside joke from expertsexchange days of yore
> Human bodies are meant to move.

Most people don't understand it, or understand it too late, after they have joint pain.

I concur with you on these extremely pared down keyboards. It's a nice and niche optimization for the use cases you have (programming in a certain language, etc.), however the general applicability of the tool dies with every iteration, plus the movement aspect of the body.

I've moved to 75% keyboards because of a combination of minimalism and underutilized numpad (that part literally collects dust), however I'll not move beyond that size, because the F-Row and the standard keyboard layout is both needed and practical.

I have two keyboards (one for work, one for home). A Logitech K380, and a NuPhy Air75, both are nice and compact wireless keyboards with a 75% layout, and they are both comfortable and fast to use.

However, I don't rather comment on people's choices. It's their hobbies and path to exploration. They shall do as they please. Feel bad for the people who suffer RSI though.
> The meme that AGI, if we ever have it, will somehow endanger humanity is just stupid to me.

we have never encountered an entity with superhuman intelligence. Clearly it is hard to predict what is going to happen. There is an unknown risk.
If this is enforceable, that's ridiculous. People should not be allowed to be coerced into agreeing to give up their right to decide not to work (overtime or whatever, really).
Show HN: I made a custom news aggregator that updates automatically
Hello HN

I visit a few sites news sites daily and wanted to see the headlines all on one page and also have it update itself throughout the day. It is not finished yet, but is usable enough to share.

If you want to make a custom page, you can click the 'build your custom page' at the top, and select the feeds that are of interest to you.

I haven't implemented it yet, but the feeds can be re-ordered as well, you just need to enter their names in the address bar, for example to show Tech Meme, BBC News and Tech Crunch you would write:
nuntium.co.uk/f/?tm,bbc,tc

Then bookmark that link to visit it later.

It is very minimal and no login or account is required. It is very gentle on the sites it polls - it only polls them once every five minutes at the moment.

I'd love to get some feedback on what other people think and if there are any feeds you would like to see on there please let me know and I will add them on :)