skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've said this ad nauseam - but people who think this is going to kill an industry clearly have no idea of said industry.

It's a fantastically great tool, and a very exciting space, but reducing the function of creatives to people who draw pretty pictures is staggeringly ignorant.
Steve McConnell's Code Complete published by Microsoft is a classic text in this area, one of the only ones I'm aware of that actually uses academic sources for its claims. However it was published in the 90s and only updated once in 2004, so I wonder if there's a newer version or new book which updates this?

https://www.microsoftpressstore.com/store/code-complete-9780...
Your link shows some pretty low sales numbers. Not even 1 mio. units sold in 2018. While the E-bike production in China the same year was over 30 mio.

I'm not saying that Taiwan is not a big bike producing country. But comparison to the total world market of all categories of bikes, their output is not world leading. Just because you are personally into Taiwan bike production doesn't make it fair to call researchers politically biased (especially with your bias so openly on display).
i think you are being very liberal about designating this as "essential service"
Plus most people are going to not be able to do everything a VPN provider does privacy-wise… kill switch, no log servers, IP rotation, etc, etc
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PicPlanner: Plan the position and time for a photo wtr position of Sun, Moon
BTW. This display is many ways similar to CRT or rather vector displays. When gaming you can send Q-messages to areas of intense activity and the rest remains the same. Q-message needs to have ignore flag (Ign).

As an example this message turns the lowest-rightmost pixel Red on 256x256-display:

(Ign Ign Ign
(Ign Ign Ign
(Ign Ign Ign
(Ign Ign Ign
(Ign Ign Ign Red)))))

Q-messages are in Lisp, of course.
What are the geopolitical aspects of having a flying toy built in China?
I've read memoirs by Anatoly Chernyaev [1]. And the whole impression was that Gorbachev had no clue about what do next. He was quite successful in breaking existing system but no feasible plan for further movement. Quite similar to what bolshevicks did earlier. Not surprising such people treated with a big share of skepticism in Russia.

Of course Yeltsin was even worse in this respect.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoly_Chernyaev
The Georgian war was instigated by Georgia though, that authoritarian president wanted to reclaim South Ossetia - read the unresolved conflicts part of the article you linked yourself! Sure, Russia took advantage of the situation, but there's no way that extrapolates to them invading Poland and Europe.
They somehow managed to make a bad show worse.
There's a bunch of companies that promise impossible things like wireless power (ubeam), or super high bandwidth radio (femtocell), or handheld spectrometers that tell you how many calories are in a dish (don't remember the name).

For some reason parts of the tech community always fall for this bullshit.
>An important thing to understand, is that public transit cannot be faster or as fast as cars. People need to change home.

In cities of significant density metro very much is faster. Even some trams are faster in rush hours.
I assume that the number of people willing to pay $50-100 per month there is not that high, though
> no vote to strike was taken.

Those involved might have thought that not volunteering to work overtime isn't a strike, and so wouldn't realize that one was required. Clearly this company believes this to be incorrect but [there] must have been some room for misunderstanding.

I do wonder what the overtime take up rate must have been before this. If it was less than 100%, then was it made apparent that this was illegal, or were employees left thinking that it wasn't mandatory and were on strike without realizing it.

Perhaps, it was deemed acceptable for not all employees to take the overtime available. In which case, who decides which employee must work and who need not? If just one takes up the overtime, would it still be a strike?
I was surprised by "An email can only have one From: address" being wrong. Under what circumstances would an email have more that one?
Microchip to develop next generation 12 core RISC-V space processor for NASA
Let employees work from home / work remotely
Not just people, nature is pretty scary too. For example, Kurzgesagt made videos about the Lyssa virus (rabies) and the brain-eating amoeba, two among many.
>Whether a country's set of economically productive organizations are owned by shareholders via a stock exchange or by whomever was powerful enough to take control of them by corrupt means seems irrelevant, no?

It is extremely relevant when you look at the outcomes.
Do you have a source for that? Eagles may not be prey for cats, but they still encounter buildings and masts, from the list in another comment.
Following this hint turns out I had left out the `replace={true}` prop on react router's Navigate component. Thank you for taking the time to point me in the right direction!
> Russia is mostly burning the gigantic former USSR reserves until they dry out. And Ukraine is way bigger than Abkhazia, Ossetia or Transnistria so it has the largest burn rate since Afghanistan.

As far as I've understood it, the burn rate is way, way higher than in Afghanistan. Soviet-Afghan War took ten years. I don't think we've seen this burn rate anywhere in the industrialized world since WW2.
This feels like something that would be perfect for one man, or small team, animation studios. If this could draw the in-betweens i imagine a talented artist (which I am not) could produce films in literal fractions of the time it takes to draw every frame. If you're not happy with the result, just add another frame.
Why can’t you turn the brightness down on your lcd?
Curtailment
> I don't know anyone who is well paid who goes on strike. I personally would gladly trade away any ability to strike for more money (which, in effect, I do)

The salaries of Stevedores in the US range from $18,280 to $80,389

The salaries of Stevedores in Australia range from AU$110k to AU$129k

Interestingly the Maritime Union of Australia has a reputation for being quite militant and left wing
The Sony Watchman[1] had the electron gun at the bottom shooting at a tilted screen instead of shooting at it from the back. This allowed to make a GameBoy-sized portable CRT TV.

There is also an interesting LCD/CRT hybrid from JVC[2], it's not flat by itself, but the way it adds color to an otherwise black&white screen could be used in slim designs.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5ZTQ5BvNIQ

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-q8ehzHeQQ
Don't you see a yellow "Buy now" button next to the cover? Might be a widget and some extension is blocking it.

You can also buy it physical if you prefer (I do), check the bottom text in that page.
It's A(6,6)
I don't know of any other VPN company that has a no-log policy and has been audited to prove that. If anybody else has a recommendation that meets these conditions, I'd be glad to hear it.
Regarding the “work to rule” points, that isn’t being disputed though, is it? The dispute is that choices are being made as a result of a coordinated action, which implies a strike.

“Workers who don’t volunteer are being threatened with jail” is not the story, and is incomplete.

“workers are jeopardising voluntary work schedules in a coordinated action” is the story. The debate should be around whether that constitutes a strike.
Agreed. Also the "cats" figures mostly come from "unowned" feral cats rather than from pets. Which makes them a tougher problem to deal with. I'm sure spaying and neutering policies help but I don't know how much.

There's no question the problem is more subtle than the raw numbers suggest. There's also no question that some factions within the anti-renewable energy crowd misstate the "bird strike" problem deliberately.
For $475/month, I hope you're able to use it for more than just iOS builds.

I know I'm too hobbyist- and small-business-minded for lots of folks on HN, but that monthly fee is a mind-boggling non-starter for me. I know that cloud services are never the cheapest option and I don't want to come off as a skinflint, but AWS' Mac pricing is just absurd. Two months' rental pays for the machine outright (three, if you upgrade the RAM or storage). I wouldn't leap into running a public-facing service on a machine parked in the back corner of an office somewhere, but it's not a big deal if your CI/CD machine goes offline for a few minutes if power or data connectivity stumbles.
> do you really want to use a handmade blender consisting of a hacked together motor, blade, and glass

Unironically yes. Handmade does not mean "hacked together". Airplanes are handmade. My dinner is handmade.
Quake on an FPGA in 5k LUTs
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Central planning annihilated Iraq, market forces brought us Ubuntu and Wikipedia. Sounds like a win for market forces.
If I found Rogan entertaining enough to listen to him frequently, it probably would affect my behavior. Instead, I have other people who I pay more attention to and whose social proof probably does unduly affect my decisions :) Lol I’m not the one here claiming to be immune to it!

Everybody is using heuristics to navigate an extremely complex world, most of the heuristics are pretty good (which is why they persist), but they also have corner cases.
So I just tried beta.dreamstudio.ai, and am a bit underwhelmed.. It's compositions generally look silly or completely ignore the instructions, even if I turn cfg way up. I was generally generating 9 compositions at a time, here's some of the things I've tried:

"An elf fighting an orc in a forest"

Half the images had christmas elves so it's obviously bad at context, half looked like miniatures (models like games workshop), so it's obviously got a load of its data from pictures of miniature but doesn't realize and thinks that's what it should draw, and the "fighting" always looked pathetic.

"A human berserker with an axe fighting 3 orcs in the desert"

That had problems with actually putting a human in. Also no axe. Orcs designs were obviously stolen from LotR films orc design, the actual breath of orc designs in fantasy didn't seem to be represented at all. Often the weapons are for some inexplicable reason only part drawn.

"A space elevator leading up from new york"

Was a little more promising, but looks pretty amateurish, just a picture of a space elevator transposed over a picture of new york with terrible lighting, though it was choosing half decent perspectives.

"A 12th century castle on a hill in a hellscape surrounded by demon hordes"

Pretty much ignored everything after "castle", just a bunch of 12th century looking castles.

"A castle on a hill in a hellscape surrounded by demon hordes"

None of the 9 images generated has any sort of demons, it just coloured some castle a bit red.

I think artists are safe for another few years.
Cloud-seeding rocket nearly hits pedestrians in China as it falls on pavement
I'm a school admin who works in this space so I know this well.

First, sites do have to do exactly what you mention and if they knowingly collect info from 13 year olds and younger, they must implement all sorts of additional privacy controls. Google, for example, was sued (but paid a puny fine) for really not doing anything at all to ensusre it was heeding to this in YouTube. If you've ever uploaded a YouTube video, for instance, you'll now always be asked to confirm of whether or not its target audience is children, the impact of which has to do with how YouTube is able to monetize or provide advertising with that content.

But the gist of it is this: Between people just lying and a non-trivially large group of parents just simply not caring, the problem is quite unsolvable. I literally do several workshops and also meet with parents individually to discuss their child's development as it relates to technology. I preach the almost comical inadequacy of giving your 7yr old a smartphone, talk about COPPA and related laws, and explain what we know about young children and mental health when it comes to social media. With YouTube, we've presented numerous articles talking about how the automated algorithm not only hijacks their child's attention for the pure intention of generating profit but also has been shown to be a tool that can easily lead to radicalization.

They don't care. I don't think I'm THAT bad at my job, but the reality is there is a small group of like-minded families who independently share this view, but the other 95% do not care. At all. The economics of it, in the real world, just don't work out in favor of people who, like you and me, think this a serious issue.
Workers intentionally choosing to disrupt a volunteer-based shift in a coordinated way is in no way the same thing as deciding not to volunteer for something.
Anime about a reincarnated Chinese general covering a hungarian pop song
NordVPN is a surprisingly slick product for casual users. I use it to access websites for work that block foreign users. The Mac and Android apps are well done and remove the friction of using a VPN. It's not like the old days of fly-by-night VPNs you have to configure yourself.

But as useful as it might be for casual users, I think you'd be crazy to trust a large commercial VPN service to anonymize yourself if you are worried about being tracked by a nation-state actor or hiding serious crimes or something like that. No large business is going to protect you if they get sufficient pressure from a government that threatens their existence.
Was genocide so rare before Facebook?

The 1990s Rwandan genocide was coordinated by 1-way radio.
Chinese observers express mixed feelings about Gorbachev, draw lessons
He joined the checheyna war instantly after coming into office. Actions speak louder then a million voices. The empires resurection was part of day one and all else was blatant lies, in public to hypnotize the chickens.

Part of those lies also was, to become as "spokesman" for all sorts of internal oppossition, left and right alike.
The general thesis: "to optimize, do less" is correct (even tautological in the time performance area) but specific examples without additional context are troubling:
I see an enthusiastic manager reading your post as an endorsement of dropping tests, code reviews, git, any kind of automation, etc (as it doesn't bring direct business value). Obviously, it is shortsighted. You'll pay dearly for any time you initially save by dropping these practices in most contexts.
Seaweed could be the future of plastic [video]
Incredible for you, depressing for me.

I feel left behind...
It is incredible how fast this thing is progressing. Amazing what you can do with some very smart people and 4,000 A100 cluster !

What is getting very clear though and this link proves it out is that 'prompt engineering' is really a thing, I tried this out and it took a while to get something I would consider half decent.

I feel like there is a space here for tools / technologies to 'suggest' prompts based on understanding user intentions. If anyone is actually working on this then reach out to me. Email on profile.
Energy prices will come down once EU is weaned off russian oil and gas.
Machines like that already exist but specifically with oil painting there is a lot of important information in how was the paint applied. So it is really really hard. Too many decisions in tools used, angles of the strokes, pressure, thickness of the color etc.

You might make painting that looks identical from far away but when you come close it will be completely different.
unilateral secession was not illegal according to the constitution of the USSR. I’m sure it (the constitution) was obviously a sham but history is a bit nuanced.
Will models like Stable Diffusion be useful for self-driving car research? Like you've got this large NN with weights that are useful for this vision-adjacent task, it should have learned concepts such as edge detection, which could serve as pretrained weights for a self-driving NN?
APIs Explained for Humans
How well central planning could work with all the computational power we now have is still an open question. Too bad there doesn't seem to be a good way to explore it without also falling to panopticon levels of social control even faster than we currently are.
I mean, if by "won" you mean, "watched powerlessly as the whole rotten system collapsed around him and didn't slaughter thousands of his own people to stop it"... yeah, Gorbachev "won" the cold war.

Not what I would define as "winning", but ok.
> This! x100!

You can't turn N=1 into N=100 just like that ...

I do hope someone will keep an independent scientific record of how this approach actually helps people (if at all).

There's a lot of money being made in the space of nutritional supplements at the moment, and yet there is very little evidence that any of them work at all. We shouldn't let the same happen here.
I love how "normal" and wholesome Junji Ito the guy, not the mangaka, is.

Junji Ito reviewing some Internet popular horror: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNXitORBeB0

I have all of his works, but somehow I forgot about Cat Diary. Here we go spending more money...
And here I thought hundreds of cheese wheels rolling down a staircase was strange.
> If you missed the presentation, look for in-depth coverage[1]. These chips are more efficient than Zen 3, consuming less power for the same performance. The higher TDP allows for higher multi-core clocks and much higher performance, but that's not the same thing as power consumption (across all levels of performance).

That's coverage from the slides, a.k.a. marketing. I don't doubt that this will be a significant performance/efficiency improvement, given the soft cap, but desktop is another thing. TDP has been correlated with average consumption, on Intel CPUs, and all the GPUs. It'd be surprising that this didn't apply to this specific CPU family.
Possibly, but the essential service classification is not essential for the point to still stand. Someone thought it was essential enough to negotiate a no-strike agreement, and union thought it was essential enough to agree.
For better or worse, you very very quickly pile up complexity when programming in a way that novices can't deal with (and experts too, often).

What we're going to find out is whether novice users of image generator AIs frequently get stuck with inadequate results. IMHO the answer is likely to be "no", especially after we've iterated on the tools for a few more years.
CA literally just passed the bill you want.

That said, the problem is that sites don’t know for sure who is over and who is under 13. And more robust age proofs have lots of problems: https://www.techdirt.com/2022/06/29/california-legislators-s...

Even if they did, many parents strongly disagree about what content is age-appropriate. When I was growing up my mom was shocked that other 10yo were allowed to view James Bond films.

So while you might be able to set some baselines, parents still need to do a lot of the legwork to make sure kids are ingesting media that’s aligned with their values. This was true on older media and it’s still true today.
Maybe.. exciting times are back
>Art critics will get the last laugh, as people start giving them truckloads of money to ask whether a piece of art is human or AI generated.

- Each image or painting should have a reference to the organization maintaining it

- The organization produces hashes for its artworks

- Users compare hashes

- Problem solved
Domain names of the old internet:

- penisland.net (sells pens)

- expertsexchange.com (renamed to experts-exchange.com)

- therapistfinder.com (find a therapist)

- whorepresents.com
> market forces brought us Ubuntu and Wikipedia

Not for a second. Ubuntu is a repackaged Debian and both Debian and Wikipedia are volunteer-driven.

They are not for sale and therefore unrelated to "market forces".

Besides, tax-funded government-managed research gave us telephone networks, semiconductors, computers, GSM, GPS, fiber optic, satellites, Internet, airplanes. Is that enough?
Without trained models from human creativity, what can AI do ?
These AI emerged because of human creativity.
Picasso created it’s new art form from its own creativity. He created something no one ever though of before. Now AI are fueled with Picasso’s drawing and can produce art that looks like his maybe.
But what about creating something entirely new that has never been fueled into the engine.
Could the AI invent something I’m about to dream tomorrow and this be the exact same copy ?
What’s New in UEFI?
it's you again, the "committee" man. actually, since Garbageoff did not do well in school and he was admitted to the universities in Leningrad on the strength of a medal he had won that was given to him based on the large amount of crops he had harvested (he was a "machinist"). There he wrote to his family members that the studies were "grueling", meaning he merely winged it and because he was not cut out for education, he was sent back to his village to do more of crop-harvesting.

So yeah, he did go to school but he was not what you call truly educated (just like other self-important, arrogant people suffering from Dunning-Kruger effect). That he was an idiot can also be seen from his posing in advertisements while his countrymen were starving in the long lines for bread--something unthinkable during any USSR year.
Skydio is an American company and is ahead of DJI technically, at least for now. Better obstacle avoidance, a beacon for tracking shots, and (this is the best one) you can fly the drone through a path and set splines in 3d space, which the drone will then fly for you as many times as you want.

I don't own one, just a fun little DJI Mini 2, but it's only a matter of time.

The US isn't the EU, but I have negative trust in DJI (that is, I assume they're doing dastardly things with their huge firehose of data) and figure Skydio has a reputation to maintain if they want to differentiate, so neutral and even slightly positive.

I hope Skydio learns from Apple that privacy is something consumers who don't want the cheapest Chinese model of something demand, and does a better and more consistent job of delivering it.
Well Britain allowed Scotland to have a vote, Czechoslovakia is another example, even back in 1905 Sweden allowed Norway to declare independence without a violent response. There are many other examples. So you’re wrong...
Lotus Elise is not for tall people
>There overtime seems to be voluntary (unless there are not enough volunteers, in which case it becomes a necessary part of employment)

So this is akin to a mugger saying "Give me your money voluntarily, or I will force you with his gun"

Sorry but "Voluntary or else" is not Voluntary
A Freehouse means a pub that is owned independently of the brewery that supplies it. Many pubs are owned by a brewery and rented to someone who runs it (the landlord).
Rapamycin, drug used in cancer therapy, emerges as powerful anti-aging remedy
Absolutely. Think the point here is that someone went around telling everyone else not to volunteer at a certain time, which is a different thing altogether.
Great blog post, particularly the anecdotes about working at GoCardless. Thanks for sharing
If you are going to send labor to jail for noping out of "essential services", you damn well better send a management to jail for failing to plan for staffing essential services. Why do the lowest paid employees carry the highest responsibilities?

The very idea that overtime exists for "essential" services, is insane.
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No, its the same as with Weimar Germany, once the "we will be big again" sentiments wins over, compromise just gives the perpetrators results. The party was over the moment "greatness/stability" won over "quality of life/freedom/chaos" in the heads of the common man.
It is a decision, you just don't approve of their reasoning.