skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is how every conspiracy starts I think. Others believing that people in power have these plans laid out several decades in advance. Where in reality their plans (in democratic world) only spans several years (their active mandate).

Nobody can foresee the future. US supported Yeltsin because that was something that made sense in a given time for them. They didn't do this because they expected to make ton of money in 2022 of LNG and arms sales.

Now they were given opportunity to make some $ which also coincidence with their own interests.

But they are not able to tell what impact will this have in another 20-30 years. They do it because it makes the most sense now. Not because they have this super masterful long term play.
This is a Gnome issue. It works in KDE (and there are patches to make it work in Gnome too)

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/HiDPI#Xorg
duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32648589
> Definitely not something I'd want to own

Not something I’d ever want to return to. Back when I finally had an LCD, it was so amazing. When every place had LCDs, it was even better, no more annoying sounds!
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NSFW is entertaining. It tends to think “knobs” in the prompt mean “female breasts” which is annoying.
Define "extracting value from your web traffic".

VPN vendors are extracting value out of your monthly subscription like anybody else. Though the shadier ones might _also_ sell any metadata (to whom?), but we're not talking about these, and selling data is not a necessary precondition to being a VPN vendor.

In reality, the only people that are really interested in knowing in aggregate and in specific where people connect to when trying to hide are governments. And they don't pay, but just put a tap somewhere and if an alarm is triggered, send a court order to get logs and data upstream. That applies for both VPN and VPS vendors. So the goal is finding someone that has as minimal logs and invoicing data as legally possible.
Often one would get that feeling when seeing a cyclist because we realize that while we see THIS specific cyclist NOW, at some point in the future we may be in a situation where we do not see one… and end up hitting them, hence the anxiety.
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Also can't wait to see where all of this will be in a couple of years!
From your link [1].

He [Putin] became briefly close to President George W Bush - who even claimed to have glimpsed Putin's soul - until the Iraq War drove them apart. In Iraq, Putin insisted that international law must be upheld - no invasion could be allowed without approval from the United Nations Security Council, and that approval was not forthcoming.

This is also Putin and it is not singular. If you listen to his speeches, he often demands that international laws and treaties should be upheld and he became increasingly frustrated over the years that this was not done. Maybe you can argue that this was his only option out of a position of weakness, but never the less he did this.

Putin wanting to recapture and rebuild a past empire is a very new narrative without much supporting evidence over all those years.
Maaaan, I just love reading what people think of my country on western-centric states. All those vague and generalist statement, it just really shows the level of insight and competence of foreign cultures.

Always talking points and slogans, like people can't even tell the difference between nuanced and complex reality and a simplistic cartoonish impression of it. Comical.
Interesting quotes, can you add the source?
Not happy my donation is wasted on hosting this.
Well, that's one of the main points from Marx analysis of capitalism.
> being loud in numbers petitioning/screaming at officials is enough and frequently more effective when said officials gets drown in shit if they fail to maintain political serenity.

Laughs in Hong Kong.

But sure, look at China's long history of protest and tell me they respect the will of the people. You're right about one thing, "serenity" (or "harmony") is the name of the game. Lots of ways to pacify the people, giving them what they want is only one.
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Central planning got us to the moon, current market forces brought us Facebook. Sounds like a win for central planning to me.
> it is more fun and more healthy and more convenient to live in a bike culture city

When its 18:30 in November, when weather is cold, dark and raining I don't see anyone enjoying the fun and convenience of the existing bike lanes, why ?

Similarly, I don't really see bikes being used to carry the weekly groceries for a family of 4, are they reserved for the people who can afford to go shopping every day and just have to carry few items ?
I’m going to partially agree and partially disagree with you.

Agree that Stable Diffusion seems a bit over hyped. It is very cool! I am definitely going to play with it. I’m not sure really how much it’s going to change the world - there will be some neat apps and it may put a certain class of concept artist out of business (note I am not saying it will eliminate them - there will always always always be human artists creating wonderful art. But as a business model / way of earning a living, that might change).

I am going to disagree with you on GitHub Copilot. It has radically changed the way I do software engineering on my personal projects and it has increased the efficiency of the engineers at my company by at least 10%, maybe more. You should check it out. It eliminates an entire class of puzzle solving, and the least efficient kind (“how do I drop a column by condition in a pandas dataframe again?”). Simple answer via Google, but maybe 3-5 minutes of reading. 10 seconds via Copilot.
I've started an open source implementation of a Discord bot that turns your prompt into images using Stable Diffusion [0].

It would be great if this would turn into a community-driven chat-based text2image offering - which is certainly challenging as the required GPU-powered server instances aren't exactly cheap. Maybe this could grow into an open network where people provide the GPU power of their personal PCs? Or we find a way to cover hosting expenses through a credit system or some kind of sponsoring?

Feel welcome to join the community [1]. You can easily test drive the current Bot implementation on this server.

[0] https://github.com/manuelkiessling/stable-diffusion-discord-...
[1] https://discord.gg/nsfeutx35z
This means that open software for handling the raw files from 360 action cams is possible! Would be amazing if kdenlive et al could do it natively.
Please make sure to use a breakaway collar, or the cat could get stuck and die because of it.
Computers are mind boggingly empowering, the problem is always the ignorance of people. Today you can go to a dumpster and take home a perfectly working computer able to run Linux and an capable office suite. With said office suite you are able to keep track of your money, predict expenditures and find ways to save income and organize your life. Want to find the cheapest car? Go to the internet and keep track of the prices with an Excel sheet. Want to standardize your diet to buy in bulk and save plenty of money? Excel sheet. Want to keep track of all your deadlines and avoid paying fees? Excel sheet or your calendar.

Hell, even writing stuff down on a physical notepad would help people immensely to live a better life, but if nobody is educated about it they will hardly do it.
I've heard good things about the NanoPi.
The use case is more usually that the first IP is a wifi hotspot in a public place, or at a hotel, or in a different (perhaps less liberal) country.
As the article has spelled out, Nord’s operations in many parts of the world, thanks to their convoluted and opaque corporate structure, makes it hard to determine which user data may be accessed by which countries' government entities or third-party companies.

Being owned by a data mining company that also owns a residential proxy service (Nord uses it for unblocking streaming services: https://hiddenrouter.com/how-is-nordvpn-unblocking-disney-it...) is also baffling. Hard to trust a data mining company with data, when they make a profit from selling user data?

Other VPN providers like PIA have released transparency reports that contain requests from state, federal, and foreign law enforcement: https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/private-internet-...

Nord’s own employee said they don’t want to publish transparency reports out of “obligations” to their investors.
If you do that the image just looks blurry.

The magic is that it looks soft on a CRT. soft != blurry

In my experience a simple scanline filter surprisingly helps in softening upscaled low res. The draw back is that the overall brightness is reduced.

You can't win with LCD.
> GURPS was Ada. Tried to make it all thoroughly designed and militaristic/industrial. Never quite accepted.

This is such a shame. I'm not sure I would assign a militaristic/industrial aspect to it but otherwise agree with your comment.

It's unfortunate because it was my system of choice back in the day. After a few years playing GURPS (medieval/fantasy, superhero, cyberpunk, the works) I tried to play a couple different DnDs but could never get into them. They were so limiting and with progression systems that IMO work well on a video-game but not as well on a tabletop.
Similar articles have popped up in several media lately. IMHO they are mostly fearmongering.

My two main reasons for this (specifically from an UK POV):

First, energy consumption at home is largely under personal control: If energy prices are high and it is cold then I can decide whether I keep the heating on an pay a lot of money or I turn the heating off and dress more warmly. (and in any case, what will you do when you come home to a freezing home after a day in the office?)

Second, commuting to work has a cost, both financially and in time spent. People who work in central London may well spend £500 a month and several hours a day on their commute. Where I live commuting into London at peak time (which many people do) on a monthly season ticket costs about £30 a day, so even paying £30 a day in home energy costs is still an overall saving!

Obviously, this all depends on personal circumstances and some people may decide to spend more time in office as a result of sky high energy prices but, on the other hand I have no doubt that working from home will continue to be attractive for many.
What have you been using it for?
Why do you think VPS providers wouldn't be interested in extracting your data? Whether you use a VPN provider or a VPS provider, it's always going to depend on the company whose service you are using.

Pick a cheap, untrusted VPS provider and you're getting just as exploited as if you were using a cheap, untrusted VPN provider.

It's also trivial to map the traffic of your VPS to you, since there's a 1:1 relationship between the IP your VPS uses and your actual IP.

Additionally IP lawyers may have much more success in threatening litigation to get your provider to rat you out. The provider would get little reward from not doing that, since harboring torrenters is probably not their main business.
Sadly CRT SDTVs don't allow increasing the horizontal refresh rate beyond around 15.7 KHz (480i or 240p). I wish I had a CRT monitor, but don't have a space set out for it, and haven't looked for one.
Truly the only keyboard where the whole vim vs nano vs emacs "fewest keystrokes" debate actually matters.
Some people just see partisan politics everywhere, even in toasted bread.
General Availability of Amazon EC2 M1 Mac Instances for macOS
Great, Miyazaki and Lasseter can finally retire.
Lot of Red-flags here:

* Using plain HTTP
* No information about Privacy or Terms of use
* Broken UI on desktop devices
> It doesn't really make sense in that context. The Thirteen Colonies seceded from Great Britain, something not in dispute even in the UK. Great Britain sent troops into the United States to oppose the secession. But it's not referred to as "the War of British Aggression".

You're making the mistake of assuming that every conflict must follow a strict naming convention when in reality it'd usually be called something different based on who you ask. The annexation of Texas by the United States resulted in what the United States calls the Mexican-American War, while Mexico refers to it as "U.S. Intervention in Mexico." I'd say that the "War of Northern Aggression" would pretty much exclusively used by people that view Southern secession from the United States as legitimate, but that doesn't mean it is used exclusively by your strawmen.
It is in no way endorsed by MIT as your phrasing implies. Again the total fee is direct fee plus proportional share of block reward.

There’s no reason to think it wouldn’t be instant. SEPA payments are in Europe, Faster Payments are in the UK and Australia has one too. That’s not an exhaustive list.

I wouldn’t call it a “google AI” just because it was created by an ex employee who thinks it’s sentient. I wouldn’t call Nest an Apple camera just because it was founded by a group of Apple employees. If I did I’d surely be on the receiving end of a lawsuit seeking to clarify that point.
Very surreal, I'm going back 23 years and only because I'm hoping that no one will remember those days.
>Things that seemed like bedrock (i.e. "There are only two genders") crash up against reality where that "rule" is just not applicable (i.e. there are human cultures with more than two genders, and biologically there are e.g. hermaphrodites, etc.)

Have you heard of BIID?

The term body integrity identity disorder (BIID) describes the extremely rare phenomenon of persons who desire the amputation of one or more healthy limbs or who desire a paralysis. Some of these persons mutilate themselves; others ask surgeons for an amputation or for the transection of their spinal cord. Psychologists and physicians explain this phenomenon in quite different ways; but a successful psychotherapeutic or pharmaceutical therapy is not known. Lobbies of persons suffering from BIID explain the desire for amputation in analogy to the desire of transsexuals for surgical sex reassignment. Medical ethicists discuss the controversy about elective amputations of healthy limbs: on the one hand the principle of autonomy is used to deduce the right for body modifications; on the other hand the autonomy of BIID patients is doubted. Neurological results suggest that BIID is a brain disorder producing a disruption of the body image, for which parallels for stroke patients are known. If BIID were a neuropsychological disturbance, which includes missing insight into the illness and a specific lack of autonomy, then amputations would be contraindicated and must be evaluated as bodily injuries of mentally disordered patients. Instead of only curing the symptom, a causal therapy should be developed to integrate the alien limb into the body image.

Transexual sex reassignment involves the usage of chemicals and surgery that twists the flesh of their genitals to look like the opposite sex. The parallel with BIID is uncanny. Yet one is considered truth and normal, while the other is considered to be a disease.

How do I know? I don't. But I get your point. Things that seem like a Bedrock truth can change. But did it change for the better? Is the new truth... the actual truth... or not? The existence of BIID and it's almost identical parallel to transexualism confuses me.

BIID feels wrong. That's about as far as I can get. But if someone truly desires to amputate a limb... who are we to stop him? What right do we have to call what they feel a disease?

I bring up BIID because I have a strong feeling that it's wrong... That what they feel is universally agreed to NOT be the objective truth. But I cannot grasp the logic behind it. If I examine BIID long enough I feel eventually the logic behind this controversy can be crystallized.
AMD announces its new Ryzen 7000-series CPUs are now faster than we all thought
Ask HN: What is the least payment you can effectively transact in non-cash fiat?
What is the least payment possible for you? What is the least payment where the commission is less than rest of transaction? Please indicate the payment systems of the sender and recipient.
Apple's Studio Display has a “nano‑texture glass” option, which is designed to reduce reflection/glare, but also subtly-but-noticeably blurs the image.

Looking at them side by side, I somewhat preferred the blur/bloom of the nano‑texture glass, perhaps due to retro CRT nostalgia. At 5K it's still incredibly crisp compared to 1x pixels (e.g. 27" 1440p).

(But… for looking at code/text all day in a room without ambient lighting problems, I chose the crisp image of the plain (antireflective-coated) glass instead)
We can barely dig deep enough in earth before our equipment either melt or explode due to high pressure. Yeah there is a lot of exploring left right here on earth. I think the current record is 12km and earth diameter is 12,000km.
Well of course, they are at war. Especially as weapons and money flood in from both sides, escalating the conflict further (long-range missiles from the USA that can hit Sevastopol, the economic conscription of the Chechens and Daghestanis in Russia, etc.)

But do you think this conflict is worth it? Do you support the Ukrainian claim on the Crimea? Is it worth the bloodshed and economic destruction?

It's as though we're stuck in a terrible local minimum because both sides are too stubborn to compromise for peace, and there is no real way of having a truly independent process and decision-making (e.g. from referendums in the DPR + LPR, etc.) - ideally this could have been resolved diplomatically a year ago.
That’s glacial in the payments space. Imagine you had to stand in front of the counter at McDonald’s for 30-60 seconds to see if your payment went through.
I am repeating myself from another SD post here in HN [1]

"I mean, what stops us a life-imitates-art system where we have speech2img like in the Westworld ( the narative creating scenes ) ?
I guess, I hope someone reads this and will pick up this. Maybe coupled with a VR set?"

Now I really hope on this :) Imagine giving this power to kids ( they cannot write but talk! )

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32647792
You don't need genocide to be considered totalitarian.
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And also exactly in those places internet is most needed

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1124283/internet-penetra...
It doesn’t look like that’s what happened though. The issue is that they are under and active contract and no vote to strike was taken.

Contracts have terms, saying “we wont strike for 3 years if you do x” is a perfectly reasonable thing to do and has been part of contract negotiations forever. AND based on the phrasing it sounds like they still could strike, they just need to vote first.
The term "Civil War" affirms the United States' (i.e. Northern) viewpoint that the secessions of the southern states were illegitimate and the conflict that ensued was between citizens of the same country.

If you think that the secession of southern states was a legitimate act and the formation of the CSA was legitimate, you can't call it a civil war. It's a war between two sovereign states, of which the United States (i.e. "The North") would be seen as the aggressor, hence "War of Northern Aggression."

The motivation behind seceding was predominantly maintaining slavery, though then a deeper question might be, when is secession legitimate? And is there any justification that the United States might simply accept secession of a state from the Union?
s/prepared/purposes

Curse autocomplete/swipe keyboards
On a positive note, seas are not really known for their trees
I highly doubt that 50 years ago there were microcomputers capable enough to land a rocket like the Falcon 9 propulsively on Earth. This requires extremely low latency, even prediction, much like balancing on a stick. The basic idea an algorithm is simple, but you have to deal with a lot of uncertainty.

Buran automated landing is a different thing and more in line with aerospace autopilots. DCX was thirty years ago, used cutting edge technology at the time and didn't come back from anywhere near orbit. Reuseability has largely been rejected as too difficult, costly and risky. SpaceX has had a tough time showing it can work, most of the other companies have not yet succeeded.
And Crimea was in the RSFSR, both when it was Tatar (although autonomous then) and during Russification.
Oh yeah. China's a real "land of the free, home of the brave" these days. Just ask Jack Ma or Peng Shuai.
Yeah, £50/day for me from Kent. I'd need to be running a data centre at home to use that in electricity.
A good start is something like https://github.com/Angristan/openvpn-install which has pretty good defaults and isnt impossible to understand for a normal techie user.
Now there are so many very successful description -> image research and tooling, I find it surprising that most of the image -> description/labels solutions are closed source and/or paid.

BTW generating images using Anaconda on Windows using my RTX 2080 Super was very easy (followed the instructions here: https://rentry.org/SDInstallGuide ). The only thing was, because it has just (!) 8GB of ram, I had to use --H 256 --W 256 to limit the output image to its minimum size, which barely fit into its memory.
> AI-based real-world applications

I don't know; I feel the real-world applications are still missing and what we are now seeing are tech demos (impressive ones!) and gimmicks. I'm still waiting to see all this ML stuff to be used in a productive context.
> incidentally it also got me my first paid programming job

How?
If you’re going with a VPN provider one might as well go for a more privacy aware one like Mullvad.
> Is my brain's floating point calculations subject to round off error?
>
> In the (actual) neurons, is there a representation of real numbers? Where are the numbers in the brain stored?

None of these details are relevant to the bigger picture similarities of non-hardcoded learning from training data. None of these details change the ethics of what's being discussed here.

> I feel like people who assert this neither understand what neural networks are and how brains work.

That's just your bias showing.
that's because creating software is all about making human artifacts, not studying the natural world and that's an inherently subjective task. It's like asking "what's the best set of tools for a blacksmith?" or "what's the best way to brew beer?". Well, depends very heavily on the blacksmith or the brewery. Of course that doesn't mean all tools are equally good, but all the interesting cases are going to be personal.

There is no scientifically correct answer to what often are not objective questions, you will quickly find out that almost everyone will weigh the questions that the article asks very differently, for often legitimate reasons.
Besides the point that these are freely viewable images anyways, this is also clearly not people's real objection. If you were making a novel-writing ai, it would not placate anybody if you bought a single copy of each book before incorporating it into the model.
Most likely somewhere around the bottom of the trough of disappointment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gartner_hype_cycle