skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems like AI image generation is close, but still slightly "off" as you say. To me it remains to be seen whether that's actually a huge achievement, or whether there's more work to be done to achieve that last 10% than has been done so far. The poster you're replying to used gaming as an example, and you only have to look there to see how graphical improvements in the last 10 years have diminishing returns versus earlier improvements.

I could be wrong but this seems like an area where our progress will look like an S-curve. Getting that last 10% could be the real achievement.
It's good that the actual file is InvestorsExchange.jl, because without the E capitalized, that's definitely not how my brain parses it.
Velox: An open source unified execution engine
For those who don't know; LtU is a programming language design treasure trove. It has been around for 20(?) years.

It's a great place for curious minds that like to explore and discuss new ideas and go down less trotthen paths.

Highly recommend, especially if you're considering to design a language of your own.
Exactly, this replaces general illustrative commercial art. This is great for illustrations at the head intro of fiction stories. However, fine artists that produce art where the object created is merely the totem for their actual art: intellectual conceptualization of an idea, often concerning the finality of life and the immature behaviors we playout within; that type of Fine Art is completely out of reach of modern AIs. I'm sure there are attempts by AI developers to mimic such art, but that mimicking will be gibberish. It requires a sentient being to create Fine Art, because Fine Art is an 360 degree expression of existence, not some pretty picture.
Fine Art NFTs – A temporary craze or a new medium to be reckoned with?
It was in 2019 I doubt it changed but the default Go compiler is overall faster than GCCGO: https://meltware.com/2019/01/16/gccgo-benchmarks-2019.html
Sorry, I forgot about WW2! I referred to Afghanistan since it was the last big War the soviets fought before their country fell.
Sabotaging an Agile Transformation
Ask HN: I discovered a lossless compression algorithm
... that can achieve up to 80% compression ratio. What should I do?
It's now enough to use the main repo only, because he's regularly copying over any changes. So don't need to manually copy those files across anymore.
I don’t think opposing someone else’s war is much of a credit to him, or evidence against the idea that he is motivated to Make Russia Great Again. It seems more like he wants International Law to bind others but not himself.
That is something I've wanted to try.

I've also thought it would be kind of funny to have a game where they players start out as themselves, at the start of the game, and then describe myself going to the door to check on some banging. I get eaten by a zombie and we go from there.
It is indeed a pitty. Imagine how much carbon could be captured if these pesky seas had their fair share of trees.
Sure, there are some, but calling it plenty while Putin's private paramilitary army is the Wagner Group is willfully disingenuous.
Thats really great and has come a long way since the beginnings... I had this video animation going on back in the day when VQGAN was still all the rave:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgDbbg802-8

Its incredible what 6 months only can do
Family of four here, all groceries done with a cargo bike, year round. And I’m definitely not the only one where I live. You can wear warmer clothes if it’s cold, the bike has lights (and there are street lights) for when it’s dark, and a raincoat and rain cover for the bike work well against the rain. Definitely more fun and healthier than a car.
Unless you're cooped up in your home every day you'll cycle past a grocery store on your way home from something else, so you can easily pop in an grab what you need. You also don't spend any time thinking and planning what you're going to eat a whole week in advance, only to forget some core ingredient for the 5th meal and then have to drive to the store again (or order takeout and let the rest sit til next week only to have it go off before you get around to cooking it).
At first glance this looks like a site that should be easily cacheable, at least for non-logged-in users.

Also, I'm surprised this isn't using HTTPS.
What if that tight integration brought the price down to what would be the cost of 5 modular and repairable versions?

My toaster isn’t modular but it’s lasted 10 years so far and I don’t think I’d pay 5x more for the repairable one.
Work in a startup where the founder has done it before and top management has some experience. I've worked in many startups and seen many more, and if people are not knowledgeable enough, you can't learn a great amount of things.
Yes, having experience in a domain can help you be more confident in your decisions. Are you trying to argue that experience plays no role in long term outcomes of building businesses?
As much as I like reading and commenting on HN, I'm not sure I'd be comfortable socialising with opinionated geeks :)
I know. Nobody's perfect. But on balance, he did much more good than evil.
Agreed. And nobody tries to replace it because nobody could replace all those providers without an army of engineers. And nobody is going to use a new project that only implements one or two APIs.
HNLondon run until at least 2018[1] and were well organised IMO. The speakers line up were mostly very interesting. And some of the recordings of the talks are still available at https://vimeo.com/hnlondon

If I'm not mistaken the organisers of HNLondon in its final years were Dmitri Grabov[2] and Stevie Buckley[3].

One recurring issue that I recall was the typical audience member trying to hijack Q&A to promote stuff - i.e. "can I ask a question?" then proceeds to make a comment and pitch their product instead. But that's not isolated to HNLondon.

PS: Big shoutout to Dmitri and Stevie for the awesome events that they put together back in the day.

[1] https://twitter.com/HNLondon/with_replies

[2] https://twitter.com/dmitrigrabov

[3] https://twitter.com/StevieBuckley
I don't know how I would go about the specifics of implementing it, to be honest. Let's suppose we suppress the actions, not the opinions. Is allowing someone to express their opinion an action? Is operating a platform (like Twitter), and letting intolerant opinions proliferate there, an action?
I consider the USA to be the rightful successor to George III, and the UK to be the rogue break-away state. Therefore, you're in a pub older than the UK, wrongly kept after The Glorious Revolution!
On the surface, yes. That’s exactly why it’s legal. However, from another perspective it’s the same company.

Let’s take the Apple example:

Apple created Apple Sales International and Apple Operations Europe as companies that own the intellectual property that Apple uses to create it’s products.

They did this because when they make 1B profit on 10B sales (let’s pretend for the sake of easy math), they would normally have to pay tax on that 1B but instead they can say “Our agreement with Apple Sales International and Apple Operations Europe state that we must pay “them” 1B in licensing fees for these sales. As you can see, we have no more money left to tax.”. Since Apple Sales International and Apple Operations Europe are subject to different tax laws they can pay little to no tax at all.

Now: Are those separate legal companies? Yes. But when it comes down to it, are they all the company we think of when we say Apple? I would say yes.
1. Some e-commerce companies founded around the time Amazon was (say Etoys) did not survive the .com crash. That introduces an element of luck.

2. Some companies make huge profits because of lock-in in two sided markets, it is good luck for the firm to get in a place where it can attain that.
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>In France the right to strike is in the Constitution, so you can't waive it with a contract.

I'm not an expert in French law but that's definitely not how it works in common law. Free speech might be protected by the constitution, but you can still enter into contracts that limit that right (NDA or non-disparagement) and the courts will uphold it.
As a tweak:

Follow a top CEO/CTO as person 2-10 with a market you like...

... And then:

* Learn how 0->1 , product market fit, and overall process works, which you miss by joining growth-stage

* Grow from working with customers hands-on to becoming an area owner with responsibility around customer journey, revenue, hiring & firing, etc. VP Sales, early CTO/Dir of Engineering, CTO where you are heavy on sales/solutions engineering flow in big enterprises, ... . Working for a VP/director/manager is different from owning a part of the business, especially where you have a teneous & sales-oriented external aspect like revenue or customer success. Likewise, not owning the customer journey hides a lot, which is easy to miss in a growing company as specialization happens fast, esp in engineering.

* Pick carefully on enterprise vs consumer, which market within that, and which internal teams you work with. That's the customer persona you need to live & breathe later.

Not easy!

Also, fwiw, there is a big class of professional startup people who are 'scale up' experts that can take a working product, VC capital raised by other people, and help that grow faster. The OP's advice is more for getting on that track. And from a founders perspective: you can just hire them, everyone wins. Just don't confuse that with a 0->1 skillset, not inherent..
Recall as a teen installing Linux and then reading the monitor manual, looking for the specs to add it to the configuration after reading to be careful that you could break it, and starting X holding my breath.
It really doesn't matter whether if it's "up to them" or not. If enough people object, then it ain't happening. No matter how beneficial the project is otherwise.

That's just the reality of the world we live in.
It finally came up but the links to older articles are dead.
Down here at BB(6) you can feel fairly sure the machine doesn't express anything inherently problematic because it's just too simple. But as the parameter goes up, the machines get sophisticated and very quickly the machines express ideas like "Look at all the positive multiples of seven in turn, halt when Fermat's conjecture is wrong for this value of n" and in that particular case we know the answer is "This never halts" but even thirty years ago the best we can say is "Probably not?".

You only need one "Probably?" or "Probably not?" to be screwed, now you can't even figure out if this machine is a candidate or not.
If only these large organised groups of citizens had some way to influence the political process?

This is kind of the theme I'm getting at today. If they're organising and then spending all their efforts fighting their employer while the winning strategy is control of the legislature then... one might observe they've really screwed up their strategy?

If there is one thing poor people have, it is lots of votes. The reason they don't get much value for them is they keep employing silly strategies (like striking). This is literally why these strategies get so much airplay despite it being obvious they don't get things done, they're divide-and-conqueror distractions because otherwise the effort might end up going in to meaningful politics or something.

The organising part of the story is good, but after organising the next step needs to be going for useful outcomes that make people better off. Striking just does damage to everyone.
Goldman Sachs lifts all Covid protocols, orders staff return to office full-time
It looks pretty good, some products even have 512 MB RAM. I wonder the price though

https://www.gl-inet.com/products/gl-axt1800/#specs
Yes. To be considered totalitarian government should claim TOTAL control on life of ordinary citizen, including his speech and mind.
Putin's regime is nothing like that.
> Not everything is about money. Sometimes its principles, sometimes its about giving back to the world, sometimes its the fun of it, or just raw boredom.

No, he has to be able to support himself somehow. Food costs money. Plenty of people have great motives, few have the means to execute on them.
apply it once more
VapourSynth Real-Time Intermediate Flow Estimation for Video Frame Interpolation
> Do you have any notable example of brilliant people working on something that doesn’t improve the world?

Manhattan project?
> And sometimes chat plus rolling real dice isn't enough, for which "Virtual Tabletops" were created.

As a counterpoint, I created https://rolz.org - it works as a basic chat with dice rolling functions and has a - completely optional - super-minimalist "VTT" mode.

When I GM remotely, I noticed simplicity is key for me. I don't want to MC what boils down to a supervised session of Baldur's Gate. I want to narrate, let my players narrate, and use some basic utilities to assist.

My general getting-into-RPGs advice is exactly the same: keep it simple, spontaneous, and dynamic. Last week I DM'd a complete beginner's session of Vampire, no rules or background knowledge required - people enjoyed it way more than a complicated and involved introductory adventure I recently GMed for the DSA world/system (it's a German D&D equivalent).

For some people modeling stuff based on complicated rules is a mandatory part of the fun, and honestly, more power to people who feel that way. But as I get older, I find myself and my players enjoy things that don't require homework more.
Unfortunately I've moved from London to Oxford recently. If the location is anywhere near Victoria Station I'd consider the trip though :)
> my example above where we decided that us meant “unsafe string” and s meant “safe string.” They’re both of type string. The compiler won’t help you if you assign one to the other and Intellisense won’t tell you bupkis. But they are semantically different; they need to be interpreted differently and treated differently and some kind of conversion function will need to be called if you assign one to the other or you will have a runtime bug. If you’re lucky.

This is a big advantage of Rust with repr(transparent) and Haskell with newtype. With them, you can make safe and unsafe string types so that the compiler will make sure you don't mix them up, with no effect on the generated code.
Carter made peace between Israel and Egypt. Hardly a term without significance. Carter went against the real powers in the US and that's why he is being written off history.
This article is not really about what’s unique about working at a startup that can give you an advantage when founding your own, but more about how to accelerate the learning of skills required to do so. Hence, the emphasis on high-growth startups.

But, obviously, not all high-growth startups can provide an environment of rapid learning. It’s not just about high-growth; it’s also about how much output the startup is trying to extract from its people. The more they try to extract, the faster the learning cycle. In that case, a high-growth startup with limited resource seems to be the ideal company to work for.
for me it was that I could play videos for the cat where it would attack the screen - the vhs tape that I played was called "video catnip".

I wouldn't dare do that with an lcd display, even (or especially?) if it were mounted to a wall.
Even their source says "a random politician", so this is geo-politically equivalent to MTG hypothetically giving a throwaway comment about how we should take the Gulf of Texas back from Mexico.
> This seems to me pretty hard to argue with - if someone creates a surplus, who doesn’t want them getting to keep some large fraction of it as a reward?

He literally just described free market competition, which reduces profits to 0, then said "I don't want that"?

That's a bad start for talking about Billionaires.

Without the free market assumptions, it's just monarchy with extra steps.
Well you got me. I guess chimney sweeps and black smiths and loom weavers and carriage drivers still exist too, not sure about steeplejacks since the passing of Fred Dibnah. But you get what I'm trying to say, hopefully.
That’s a nice way to put it. I guess there aren’t a lot of views in making a video that says that, though.
For someone complaining about the lack of nuance between too black or white you sure are being binary abour this. If someone says a mildly sexist remark, sure - grey area, could be a mistake or it could be they're a dick. But if someone says they support Hitler's ideals that's not just a mistake you can overlook.
I think the difference is SD is generating strictly derivative work from inputs where the human is synthesizing and creating from reference.
I personally use Smooth Video Project that manages this for me. That's a commercial product and I'm not a developer for it, just wanted to mention it. https://www.svp-team.com/wiki/RIFE_AI_interpolation It lets me change parameters on the fly while watching in my standard media player.
You could just not purchase the internet package?
good idea, added to my calendar
Its really less secure. There is no seperation between identity and authentication so stealing a cc number would be enough to complete a transaction whereas a UPI Id won't help you much to steal money.

This is why you need to depend on nasty solutions like chargeback
The problems you have as a founder (fundraising, hiring, finding product-market fit) are not the concern of most employees.

Also founding a startup makes financial sense, working at one usually does not.
Utrecht, but yes.
The problem is not people and intellect, it's the social contract. We agreed on consumerism as the way forward before anyone present in this discussion was born. The consumer computer being a computer is tangential. It is also a razor and blades, a supermarket, or a car-dependent suburb. These are all modes of orientation towards consumption. The involved goods and services have other ways of being delivered, but they are drowned out within this society because the primary way in which credit is earned is to devise financialization schemes and extract a little rent for oneself. Blaming the crowd for stupidity is merely a way of scapegoating what's actually wrong.
They have demonstrated through their actions a lot more of a commitment to my best interest then Mozilla has over the last decade or so. Actions are a lot more important than licenses.
Found: Page 25 of the CIA’s Gateway Report on Astral Projection
It's a shame you can't even look at some spectacular drone footage without having to wade through a swamp of baseless accusations and petty hate, just because the camera drone is made by a Chinese company.
Thanks for this, I’ve reached out to both Dmitri and Stevie to chat about the community. They definitely paved the way for this, so their knowledge would be invaluable.
Ah, I didn't know that, already have symlinks + .gitignore setup so I can update both easily with `git pull`, but good to hear it's no longer needed.

Any reason why the webui repository is not archived with a warning up top if it's been deprecated like you say?
Sounds like this country needs a kick in the labour laws.
The datasets these tools use don’t include any context. There’s no sense of what the images in the data might mean to the viewer, or how they relate to the time and place they were made. I would argue that means the tools will struggle to produce meaningful works, even if they become great at making beautiful works.
I guess you could always go the Romania way, starve the population until debt is zero. The profit extractors were the government but at least it was "our" thieves not some foreign companies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_debt_of_the_Socialist_...
I think you're right about the possibilities here and I love the idea and have thought similar things myself too, but to me the inclusion of a 3D element should probably be a format, not necessarily locked into any specific app such as Blender. Maybe (Pixar) USD is one possible format that could be used for general 3D interchange for this kind of thing?
> Yes, and tracing counts as art fraud.

I just spit out my coffee, turns out I'm not a bad artist, I'm actually a fraudster!
> Russia [after 1991] quaity of life and freedom have raised significantly

This isn't even close to true.
If the minimum price you can pay for Starlink is $50 and they think of themselves as a "global service", then do I have news for them...
Pedantic and yet still relevant correction: Thomas Edison didn't invent the lightbulb.

https://www.energy.gov/articles/history-light-bulb
It has more cuts than a Michael Bay action scene. I can barely take in the scenery due to 3 seconds cuts.
The neighbor who had one recently moved, but I think it was an Altoz.

I thought the same thing about tracks: only solves the issue of traction/ground pressure, but for whatever reason they're supposed to be better on slopes.

My (wheeled) mower sometimes slips or gets stuck on a particular area on my property because I often don't have enough traction to mow up & down the slope if the ground is not extremely dry: grass is enough to cause slip. And sidehilling causes the upper wheels to lose traction. Perhaps the increased "bite" of the treads compensates for this? Dunno.
Farcaster: A sufficiently decentralized social network
> Strangely, enormously popular internet personalities like David Dobrik, Addison Rae, Charli D’Amelio, Dixie D’Amelio, and MrBeast don’t appear in the captions from the dataset at all

Self awareness here would have lead to the removal of "enormously popular".
That's not (just) the hug of death, it's been loading this badly for years, at least to me. I think this change simply hasn't improved it that much.
> a ballistic justification for both damage and armor

You may be intrigued by Phoenix Command. Written by a literal rocket scientist, it offers a level of granularity down to time-of-flight of bullets, penetration factors of various materials, and much more. Not everyone's cup of tea as you can imagine.
> so adjusted for currency alone the lowest paid stevadore in Australia earns almost as much as the highest paid one in the US and five times more than the lowest paid one. to put this into perspective, australian stevedore gets paid as much as a mid-level senior developer in australia.

That isn't raising alarm bells for you that you've made an error in your reasoning? If strikes resulted in a 5x salary bump we'd see a lot of smart high-achievers striking.

It is more likely you are comparing different categories that happen to be labelled the same here. 5x earning bumps for manual labour is more than hardball negotiating can achieve.
I find it concerning because in western democracies, small but loud groups often get what they want over and above the majority. Hardly anyone actually thinks Twitter (or rather all social media) should be forced to close down. But that is what will happen when a small group of otherwise conflicting people all keep demanding legislation like this. Some of them will be pleased, but 99% of people will not.

The media are only too willing to wrote uninformed, uncritical reviews of those loud groups' demands and that is both part of the problem and a problem itself.

All of this is pushing me (normally a classic liberal) towards libertarianism: If you don't like twitter don't use it (I don't), but don't tell me what I can or cannot do with my time...
embrace, extend, extort?
Unbelievable the amount of money people in IT make.
Worse mandatory, and probably unpaid, overtime
So if you raised 500k, they would get 50% of the company?
I see. I'm very surprised you're getting this treatment -- there is a clear pattern of Russian and Asian app developers, and sometimes European devs, having their app business shut down by Google and Apple.

I hope Apple corrects their mistake and you get your account back.