skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The issue is that Ukraine refuses to allow for the self-determination of the Crimea and Donbass since Euromaidan.

Wow, just wow. And how exactly were they supposed to do that?

The unity government was declared on 24th February and was formally convened on 27th February 2014.

How long did Russia wait to see if the new government would accept regional referendums?

Well, Russian forces seized control of key strategic sites across Crimea on, er, 27th February 2014. The same day the new government formed. The idea that genuine free and fair regional referendums were ever an option, or even something Russia had any interest in pursuing or allowing whatsoever, is pure fiction.

Suppose the regions did hold referendums and chose to stay part of Ukraine, do you think that would have been the end of it? Russia would have just backed off and respected Ukrainian sovereignty? That's just not how the Russian leadership thinks. Putin had no interest in allowing even the possibility of any such thing.
When witnessing a huge leap forward in human technological achievement, doesn't it feel a little strange to respond with "looks like crap"?

Even on your own terms, you're engaging in hyperbole. I've looked though thousands of these images and the harshest I can come up with is "assuming the result isn't obviously broken (i.e. some generated anatomy) then the results are sometimes a little bit uncanny or 'off'")
I think Tradionalists and Artists do what they do because they enjoy the process of creating/creating something unique, not because they want to be productive/fast.

So yeah, StableDif is great for commercially constrained environments, plus, it frees some of your time so you can enjoy creating art that matters to you :p
You managed to combine sexism with useless consumerism while missing the point of the article entirely: owning 6 bikes while still using your car for the most part is not sustainable and might even hinder bike adoption in the long run. So why would you be in a bike club again?
different jurisdictions, pick a VPS in a country that doesnt exchange data with the one you live in.
More than 333M Downloads of Apache OpenOffice
Let's say some Hollywood lawyer finds the IP address of your Amazon VPN in the list of seeders for some big movie torrent. They send a threatening legal letter to Amazon. Will Amazon forward them your contact information? Will they lock your AWS account?
This is a real problem - like how does this end?

Even if Ukraine "wins"? Then what?

What happens to the Russians in the Crimea? Do they just let Right Sector and the Azov Battalion carry out their persecution, and move Ukrainians in just like the RSFSR did to the Tatars?

Likewise how do they control the DPR and LPR? They previously elected Yanukovych, the problem isn't just going to disappear.
I can already foresee a new wave/trend of fancy people working remotely from cruise ships.
No, they're shilling for the top quintiles. They want those in the middle to turn on the poor, to stop them voting together in their own best interests.

They work for the AEI who think redistribution of wealth is immoral.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB124104689179070747

But climate change denial and racism and lying and masterminding the Iraq War amongst other things aren't immoral by their measure.
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If we really want to go down this route, here's what I notice. I remember almost every single time a website changes its design (namely the major ones, like twitter, facebook, etc), a lot of people complain almost immediately, then the complaints stop and people adapt. The reality is such small nudges are below the threshold of pain, so people put up with it and adapt, and the next thing we know after many nudges later, my air filter needs to connect to wifi.

Still, however we want to analyze it, I still don't know why we need to go after consumers over the people who actually did the deed, no? Why are consumers who do not make the design and development decisions become who I should focus on instead of the people who implemented the actual changes? If someone stabs me in a park, sure it is a sad state of affairs if no one will call the ambulance, but surely the fellow I should be more upset with should be the stabber, no, and not aloof by-standers?
30 minutes of recurring work everyday for years is not the same as a few months of directed work.

Automation forces you to understand and document a process, and usually do it more thoroughly and correctly. From then on, it relieves you to do other stuff.
The Euro has also crashed 20% in a year though.

That's a massive loss in purchasing power considering most things are sold in USD (including oil).

We didn't intervene in Armenia or Georgia, there's not much difference here.
> These are common search terms.

It's not a search engine. It takes a while to get a feel for what prompts work and how to phrase things. I suggest browsing https://lexica.art/ and using some prompts from there as a template.
It did? I thought they're advertising themselves based on how effectively they can blind you.

You could turn down the brightness on a CRT down to 10% or less at night and still use it.
Nice.

I installed autohotkey on windows because I wanted to duplicate subcommands that I use with linux for ages (xmonad has it more or less built in)

meta m n # next track
meta m space # play/pause

Was relatively easy to implement, after i got help in r/autohotkey
not intuitive to use, fees for swaps, ban account at anytime
Mullvad does not use residential IP botnets. They also own at least 150-ish of their 800 servers, and the rest are rented. 45 of their servers also run diskless: https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2022/1/12/diskless-infrastructur.... If you still don't trust their datacenters a multi-hop will probably hide your actual traffic source.

Having a stable, unchanging, unique IP (that is also tied to your identity via billing, etc.) for all of your traffic (like you would with a VPS VPN) is terrible for privacy and the cloud provider will often give out your info for any legal or governmental request.
> though then a deeper question might be, when is secession legitimate?

It's an entirely subjective question. Never, according to the state being seceded from or revolted against, and always, according to the secessionists and revolutionaries.

It's worth mentioning that the same American government that added the Second Amendment and spoke in florid prose about the blood-sacrifice of patriots and rebellion against governments also put down rebellions against itself.

>And is there any justification that the United States might simply accept secession of a state from the Union?

No. Cultural reasons aside, there is simply too much money and infrastructure at stake (to say nothing of political instability threatening its superpower status) for the US to be willing to lose even a single state.
So. Many. Terrible. Cuts. It's just "mountain mountain mountain" to me without the slightest bit of coherence or sense of place.
Junji Ito is awesome, in both senses of the word.

I love "Junji Ito's Cat Diary". It is a collection of slice-of-life stories about his cat, but drawn in his usual style. The cutest things, told in the most horrifying way.
I more meant that they didn't want to help, because they want an enemy, not an ally.

Someone to point to and keep the military and intelligence agency funding flooding in.
Not sure what you mean by "standards/frameworks". It's an art rather than a science. Some of the tips passed around smack somewhat of cargo-culting, some genuinely make a difference. Everyone has their own approach and some techniques work for one topic but not others.
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I’m not saying de-anonymisation is impossible. Obviously it is.

I’m asking you to

1. Tell us what VSCode collects that’s so sensitive

2. Show us how you’d de-anonymise a person with that information (but I’m willing to concede that this is possible)

3. Demonstrate harm from knowing that a specific person is tied to a set of VSCode logs.

Don’t hand wave #3 away. Don’t assume that it’s self-evident that the harm is high. You’re talking in such vague terms that it’s impossible to respond. So be clear and concrete. What specific harm comes from the specific data that VSCode collects, assuming that it’s de-anonymised? Don’t talk about a random German judge. Talk about me, a developer using VSCode.
List of managed WordPress hosters from companies based in the EU, EEA or EFTA.
What if we went the other direction and made windmills out of transparent materials so the NIMBYs and Kennedys would not bitch about them?

Glass-effect windmills would look pretty cool.
The confidentiality required by businesses with billion dollar contracts is far removed from the confidentiality required by a VPN user. Do you think Ebay or Uber would care that their web traffic can be linked to them?

Even in the low stakes situation of a lawyer going after you for torrenting, I see a high risk of a cloud provider giving out your information. They'd just have to reveal who rented your VPS instance.

Not only would companies not care about discretion when it comes to catching torrenters, they especially would not care for confidentiality about who rented their infrastructure.
Yeah, Russia is aggressive and opportunistic.

Peacekeepers should be sent to carry that out (e.g. from the UN directly).

But dragging out open war like this is just terrible for everyone.
I haven't seen other CEOs randomly mention on every interview they attend that their company is literally intended to save mankind from complete disaster by moving us to another planet.

I also haven't seen any other car company CEO claiming that the car they sell you will literally pay for itself in 1 year by collecting faires as a robotaxi starting from 2019.

I also haven't seen any other company CEO claiming that their company will give you virtual immortality by uploading your brain into a computer.

Well, I should say for all of these, any other CEO that is not running a scam company.
> All the photorealistic attempts are bad.

I wish people would stop exaggerating or making statements without some insight behind them.

I've seen hundreds, if not thousands of photorealistic result that range from acceptable to remarkably good.

One example it took seconds to find:

https://lexica.art/prompt/3fbc30ee-ca0f-42f6-8ea5-6890d469ab...
Awesome perspective. Would you be able to link to an an example of what a finished style frame looks like using Stable Diffusion? I am curious what human and machine can achieve in 20 minutes.
> If they suffer from these copies (morally, financially, spiritually, etc) without a way to offset it, then it is not ethical.

So since automated driving will result in financial suffering to those working in trucking and Uber and whatnot, automating driving is not ethical?
There's got to be some recognition at Microsoft that the entire Windows 11 project is being held back by the Taskbar and Start Menu UI team right?

If I were an engineer on Windows and I saw every day how take up of useful improvements I'd worked on were being held back because of the ego of this team I'd be livid. At what point does senior management step in to clean house?
Automating React Native app deployments with Fastlane
Societal value does not equal central planning. I understand what you were implicitly referring to (Soviet-style "socialism"), and I agree it can serve as a negative example at best.

I think the real dichotomy is societal (long-term) value vs. individual (short-term) value. The latter has led to an industry destroying the planet, "social media" actively promoting hatred etc.

How to implement socially valuable objectives instead of those destroying the basis of human life and atomizing society is a difficult political question. Central planning is probably not the answer, but that does not mean we should just give up.
It's obviously all bark.

The company didn't require the employees do anything, it only demanded it.

The managers demanded compliance virulently, but again, just people squirting words at each other.

There's some lingering logical issues having workers who are, in their own view, not workers.
If you don't think that was a marketing stunt for Tesla, I don't know what to tell you.
>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.

The presumption is that the business of VPN providers is fully based on providing privacy, giving them a strong perverse incentive to abuse their access to this information and for whichever purposes. Plus, their whole infrastructure is orientated towards providing VPN services, with their own software, making the effort involved in collecting their customers' data and behaviour much smaller and more scalable.

VPS providers, on the other hand are in the business of offering hosting. What software their customer chooses to use on their VPS, and for what purpose, is anyone's guess. While the VPS provider could technically log and exploit the incoming and outgoing traffic from customers who happen to be running VPN software on their VPS, the effort involved in handling the myriad of bespoke VPN setups used by such a small proportion of their customers would be utterly pointless.
See my other comment.

> [...] It takes a while to get a feel for what prompts work and how to phrase things. I suggest browsing https://lexica.art/ and using some prompts from there as a template.
$600 MRR in Only 2 Months from Blogging Platform SaaS for Notion
Now this is a perfect market fit for two shockingly polluting industries that probably should be banned by the developed world.
Places in your customer journey where you should be placing 2FA
Best of luck.

Out of curiosity, shouldn't this be a blog post with examples/demos to copy-paste and try out. Or even a digital product that you sell one-time on the likes of Gumroad, with a pay-what-you-can pricing.

I may not need this immediately at start, but when I need it, I will likely be tinkering or keeping the pricing really simple. The moment, I grow either with revenue or start to get some investor money, will I not use and connect to whichever I want to accept payments in.

Most startups, once they get past their founders, and even with the seed-level funding, have either dedicated people or dedicated resources for SaaS pricing - because that is the most important thing for the Startup.

Again, honest inquiry on how this can become a product on its own.
This headline is incredible, are there actually existing case laws of illegal strike resulting in custodial sentences?
Two objections:

1: you cannot produce thousands of detailed pictures in a day, this program can. The argument gets pretty clear if you transpose it to other objects, ie why is it fair to ride a bicycle in the sidewalk but not drive a car?

2: copyright laws. You may not see a picture and imitate it. How do you know this AI didn't just imitate one of the million pictures it saw? And if you distribute it and the author wants to sue, who should it sue? The author of the AI or the person who prompted it?
The point is that it was a marketing stunt for Tesla. It was inspiring alright - inspiring people to associate Tesla with cool space stuff, and hopefully buy one.
I don't think anyone has a definition of "nearest" that could accomplish that in general. Comparing pixel data is easy, but comparing the subjects portrayed and how is much harder to pin down.
Is the same not true for programming? There's a lot of non-programmers that create programs in Excel, or use no code solutions. A relative newbie can still get a Wordpress website up and running, you only need professional SWEs for the heavy duty stuff.
‘It rained like never before’: Pakistani flood survivor
Just did a thousand images (different seeds for the same prompt) with the base (not fork) model at 50 iterations in a couple of hours (RTX 3080). Gpu vram usage seemed to hover around 9 gigs. This model is pretty damn fast for what it does.

I quickly threw together a folder structure where I have a md5'd prompt as a folder name, into that goes _promp.txt with the actual text of the prompt and the images i generate in a loop with the seed used and iteration number in the image's file name. That way I can generate like 20 seed-based images for a prompt and if the model bites I let it run with a much higher number of seed-based images. When you have a 1000 to pick from, some of the results are freaking amazing.
A title is relevant for the person claiming it, and the people around recognizing it. If it helps him feel proud and accomplished, who are we to argue?

We - unaffected bystanders - don't really need to have opinions.
Yeah, I'm using the lossy compression for blog posts.

And, I was comparing `pngquant` to `oxipng` sizes (not the default png output I get after creating a poster). For example, 70KB with oxipng changes to 32KB with pngquant at 99% quality level. This depends on the image of course, but most of the time I do see significant savings.
The marginal cost for an additional person on a train is close to 0. Only when extra services(increase in scheduled trains) are added does this increase the CO2 emissions.

From my experience, because most trains are at higher capacity due to the ticket, the marginal emission per person per train is greatly decreased too.

There is also a net benefit to the economies of small towns that depend on these tourists, so id say this is an overall economic as well as environmental benefiy
Your employer writes the contract and they write it specifically to remove as many rights from you as possible.

Thats the definition of employment you sacrifice your freedom for money so you can buy food and a roof over your head.

In the UK if a contract infringes on your rights then the contract as a whole is void but most employers will still write up illegal contracts to pressure their employees. Most employees don't know what their rights are and if they do they don't know that legally they can't sign away their rights so the contract doesn't matter, but even if the employee knew all their rights its cheaper and easier to get a new job than fight it in court.

In other countries like the US you can sign away your rights apparently Canada is the same, this is metal to me that some one could legal sign them selves into slavery in the USA and Canada and no one has a problem with that?
Now let's have a real oil on canvas hard copy painting of that digitally generated image please?

SD is limited to only digital art first of all, so let's not get too over-excited and hyped around this tool just yet.
You are exaggerating. HN is fairly broad in it's politics and there's often quite challenging discussions around topics related to diversity. Whilst there is a tendency towards "Silicon Valley neo rationalist" and other voices are sometimes in the minority, you using a term like "suppressed" comes across as slightly overdramatic.
My predictions for 10 - 15 years:

- Mandela effect for famous art pieces: "Monalisa was AI generated" "No it wasn't" "Yes it was".

- 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.
Doesn't everyone climb at the same time of day, plus or minus an hour or two? So in the morning everyone is on one part of the mountain, in the afternoon they are somewhere else and the first place is clear of people.
It can't be that much higher.
Ads, imo.
We are still waiting for the infinite precision displays "pixels are dying at alarming level, but they are individual atoms so no matter". Was this from William Gibson?

Anyways. I have already planned how this display is constructed. Instead of individually addressing every pixel, the display is backed with layered pyramid of guad-decoders, which divide the display to four smaller displays. The picture or quad-message Q={Q,Q,Q,Q} can be of any precision, but when the decoder does not see sub-decoders but just pixels, it just calculates the average and turns the pixel on.

The beauty of display of mine is that they can be stacked. You just add another decoder-level behind the display. Or may they are constructed that way, so you can repair a display by replacing one 64x64 pixel module.
What are the specs of your setup? How high is the power draw?
>And Ukraine is a complicated conflict, Crimea was granted to Ukraine by the Soviet Union which modern Russia considers to be an illegitimate act,...

If they considered it illegitimate, why did they sign a treaty guaranteeing Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity?

The answer is because at the time Ukraine was controlled by Russian stooges, and as long as Russia had control of Ukrainian politics it was all fine. What they couldn't stand is the idea of a genuinely free democratic Ukraine sat right next to an oppressive and kleptocratic Russia. The Russian regime sees all of Ukraine as their back yard, every last square inch of it. They have even said so many, many times. Putin wrote an essay about how Ukrainian sovereignty is "only possible in partnership with Russia", and if you think he means anything like an equal partnership I can't help you. Crimea and the Donbas are excuses, they're a foot in the door to Ukraine as a whole.
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In terms of just masking your source address from services that you actively chose to connect to, a self-hosted VPN may reduce your traceability for many – going from potentially many source addresses (your home ISP's range if they use NAT, your mobile provider's range as the almost certainly have you behind CGNAT, and any wireless networks you pass through if you use public networks) to a single fixed address.

But for other details, more significant in many use cases, a private VPN wins because you are protecting your activity from being viewed by those potentially untrusted networks.

Of course once traffic leaves your VPN it is once again at the mercy of the wider Internet between there and the destination sites & services, so use secure transports like HTTPS where-ever possible even over the VPN.

It all depends on what your threat model actually is.

In fact the advertised “access different media” use case isn't addressing an active threat at all, it is about gaining access to something rather than protecting you from someone/something.
Main advice from the blog is Curcumine, categorizing it as the most effective lifestyle change for bringing down inflammation. But, even though "natural", Curcumine is very strong and perhaps should be classified as a medicine.

This might seem like nitpicking. But something with a strong effect on the body hardly every just has the effect you want it to have. By seeing it as a medicine it forces you to also look at the negative side effects of it's use over a long period.

It's been known to help people with arthritis, but is it wise to use it on a daily basis as a healthy person?

Even things as basic as muscle growth have been known to be suppressed by anti-inflammatory medicines like Ibuprophen. I wouldn't be surprised if Curcumine does the same. As well as indications that it might block proper immune responses to infections at times, but Im not sure about this.

In general a lifestyle change in my opinion would be: sleep, exercise, stress, meditation, cutting out fried food etc.
I had a lot of fun running a low-prep one-shot zombie apocalypse game extensively drawing on google maps and streetview - looking them up ad-hoc during the game as players explored real locations.
My armchair theory is that anyone smart enough to inflict horrifying damage on society is able to find a comfortable niche for themselves within it, with a very few rare exceptions. Maybe the FBI and other agencies are more effective than we give them credit for, too, and can crack down quickly on groups with a central mastermind and expendable minions carrying out attacks
According to the linked Atlas Obscura article, they have 31 citizens.
Things that made me do a double-take this morning: A mention on HN of my hometown of Bolton and Ye Olde Man and Scythe!