skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Russian citizen here, and one with enough self-honesty to talk about 199X without selling self-pity, unlike my compatriot here.

> The United States didn't do enough to help Russia transition to democracy in the 1990s. There was no "Marshall Plan" after the Cold War like there was after World War II.

Total bullshit. The West did put in nearly as much money as part of GDP in aid to early 199X Russia as US did in Europe after 1945. US aid was pouring from every hole up until mid-late nineties.

I would argue America went too much Marshal on Russia, and you are reaping the results of this folly now. It was a giant mistake not to finish off the beastie, and not to SCALE UP the pressure after the USSR collapse to force genuine reforms.

The West is responsible for much of CPSU's comeback happening in 200X, repeating how USA saved early CPSU from total collapse from food riots in early 192X out of pity. A giant mistake.

US humanitarian aid was stolen many times over, sold again, stolen, and resold, giving a headstart to CPSU elements turning to banditry. It was totally unsupervised. US totally failed to empower the right kind of people back then with its aid.

Subsequent entries by Western multinationals funded much of 200X mess in Russia, rise, and legitimisation of early Putin's mob regime. The first Western supermarket in Russia was literally inaugurated by the mob boss of Moscow.

Much of Kremlin's current denizens owe their meteoric rises to megabribes they got from Western MNCs in early 200X, which they used to fund their political ascensions.

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Other post-USSR countries which did have their economies opened up, and claimed by the Western capital yearly on were super lucky to have the West "rob" them like that.

Russia, or Central-Asian states were saved from such "robbery," and their economies at large stayed with the CPSU mobsters instead.

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"Russian Liberals" == Total intellectual dishonesty. They share as much the blame for Russian devolution into North Korea 2.0 as Putin himself.

> short stick (like my parents, who lost their jobs, their city apartment and who had to resort to literally subsistence agriculture in a matter of 4-5 years maximum;

Good for them! They did live in apartment, unlike the 80% of Bloc's population, who lived in wooden barracks from fourties. They likely had a white collar job, and been on good terms with communist authorities.

Not living in an apartment for 5 years is by far not a life breaking event, nor is anywhere close to worst shit happening to less elite people back then.
There is nothing arbitrary whatsoever about the conversion of any string of bits to a boolean, it is false iff none of the bits are 1.

If you want to call it arbitrary, it's been arbitrated decades ago, but Boolean logic is much older than computers and works as it does for a reason. I suspect you know that.
Unfortunately, a paint job may not save vultures from collisions [1]. I learned of this from Ed Yong's new book, "An Immense World".

> Vultures have such large blind spots in their visual field that they cannot see objects directly in front of them when they fly. This discovery explains why vultures frequently collide with conspicuous structures such as wind turbines and power lines, despite having some of the sharpest eyes of any animal.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2012.10214
how many times do you need to hear from a flat earther? its not really open minded to listen to the same dumb shit again and again. its a necessary part of growing up but it makes no sense to keep doing it. it takes no investment or skill to be a flat earther. id rather listen to people who have expended effort in a particular area.
federalism is an excuse to reduce regulation and continue stealing money from the lower classes
First they choose DDG right after the Microsoft Bing trackers drama, now they are about to embrace non-free firmwares

What's going on with Debian? They made some very weird choices the past month
All Figures in Evidence-Based Software Engineering
Yes, and they will. Despite the wishful thinking to the contrary. It could have been prevented with more responsible monetary policy in 2021
If our enormous economic engines were devoted towards efficiency rather than profit motive, I think we would be there.

How many appliances do we build to last for a few years and then break? How many economic resources could we save by building fewer products to last longer? If the economic engine were tilted towards quality rather than churn, we could be much more efficient about our use of resources.
It is not important. It is personal preference. I, for example, couldn't care less. I would be even fine with my colegues using nicknames like here on HN.
"Performance" is hard to define in cases like this, I think, what does an image that's 10x better mean?
> eventually every operating system is just going to support x86_64-linux-gnu

Whether it's batteries included, or batteries sold separately, we'll still be stuck with batteries. If I want to run Linux on my Mac, that's what UTM is for.

Despite my reservations, nothing but respect, & enjoyed your Feross presentation.
The only people who think this are people who have no experience in the field.

The creative process, like many kinds of fields applicable to business is about problem-solving. AI text-to-image generation doesn't replace that function, however it does form an excellent tool, especially when it comes to rapid conceptualisation.
This will allow more people to be creative problem solvers without needing to possess technical skills in image creation. Much in the same way that graphics apps allowed people to make image without needing to learn studio or art skills. Or DTP tools allowed more people to publish without the tedium and high set up costs.
I will still be hiring illustrators and designers, and this may be one of their tools, and it would be their responsibility to be experts in it, but it doesn't replace them - it makes them better illustrators and better artists.
The right way to think about this is not that it shrinks the field, rather it opens it and accelerates it - for that it's a very welcome addition.
No creative is scared of this - they're looking forward to the next-generation approach, and it's clear that 2D images are not the end point. Soon we'll have 3D (already in progress), soon we'll have music, soon we'll have this for animation and programming.

People fiddling with the technology have noticed some obvious short-comings, such as getting consistent results - for example it's currently not possible to develop a series of story boards where the character is obviously the same. Instead some level of reseeding the image with the desired character or outright recomposing the graphics later is needed.
These aren't things that can't be fixed however, what we're seeing now is definitely an exciting new tool in its infancy.
Yes, this could be hyperbole or my memory misleading me. I'm not Russian and it's hard to find good resources on this topic from the time.

I found the following article from the Associated Press. It looks like Gorbachev said that Soviet Union didn't expect famine, but would face food shortages. It's still sad that the humanitarian aid didn't come, leading to Gorbachev's resignation.

https://apnews.com/article/a9a10bdf38d213033157d6d98c29e2c1

> In a letter last month to Jacques Delors, the EC commission president, the Soviets asked for millions of tons of food that it valued at $7.5 billion. The rest of the $14.7 billion in aid was requested from other Western nations.

The Kremlin’s request included 5.5 million tons of grain, 900,000 tons of sugar, 800,000 tons of meat, 350,000 tons of butter, 300,000 tons of vegetable fat, 300,000 tons of flour, 50,000 tons of tobacco, 50,000 tons of baby food and 30,000 tons of malt.
There are lots of things visible from my house that I don't want to look at. Power lines, poles, buildings, cars and roads come to mind. I believe if you own a thousand acres you get to look at what you want, otherwise it's not up to you?
> In 1955, eastern europeans were so thankful to be free from Germany.

Not sure which Eastern Europeans you mean, but I can assure you most of those 150 mil people were not happy they got conquered by nazis or commies, it was the same amount of genocide and societal damage from both sides.
> The Zuckerberg interview he did was probably the most important interview of the last few years

Why is this the first I'm hearing of it? It didn't seem to have any effect on how Facebook operates.
That was one way. Another was not paying salaries for months ("company has no money" was a common case) until employees sell their "vauchers" to those who wanted to buy.
> Not sure how much the details of the technologies used would affect the ruling, but probably not enough

Right. Aereo notwithstanding, one way around this might be to set it up like MP3Tunes[1] where you're a specialized digital locker service. The "fixed" "tangible medium" should originate with the customer, and a transfer from the customer-controlled copy to the business should be involved (rather than the other way around). With a large enough physical presence, you could get this down to pizza delivery time frames and/or Redbox levels of friction.

1. contrast with mp3.com
Yes, I expect VMs will be adopting this idea -28 years from now. :)
I would love to apply on these positions but it takes a colossal effort to pull anything. Those willing to bet into the future, I have few suggestions.

1. Design an app that takes in series of text prompt and generates images for corresponding prompt that is coherent across all images. These images will be keyframes.

2. Design an app that acts like database of videos, so that you can query any kind of clip.

3. Try to use view- consistent generated images to get 3D models.

4. Define agents that can play for a given rule and gradually adjust the rule or even form new rules!

I want to be that post in hn which inspires multi million dollar company!!

Good luck.
> What would be your opinion of US president, if he goes to to retire in Russia?

Did Gorbachev retire outside Russia? I wasn't aware of this. He died in Moscow. The last time I heard about him before this was when he attended an RT event in Moscow (which was also attended by Jill Stein and Michael Flynn). Where outside Russia did he retire? Why did he leave this place to die in a Russian hospital? Your comment leads one to infer he retired to the US.

> I'm reading some Russian news site, and almost universally Gorbachev is hated by Russians.

Russian news sites are notable lately for not allowing the free expression of Russian opinions, so what they show you may not be representative. I'm not saying you're wrong but that Russian news sites aren't great evidence that you're right.
Are we taking billionaires on their word when they're talking about business decisions now? It was probably just a flex for him from the beginning
don't get the downvotes; do people here actually believe in trickle-down economics or just fail to recognize the sarcasm?
Wayland support when ~Civvie~?
I’m not sure your specific speculation is on the list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War_alternate_h...
How fast is it? I tried to do something similar myself but it pegged a CPU core for 5 fps.
"Who would be a peer as an interviewer?"

Dick Cavett has forgotten more about the art of the conversational interview than most people have ever known. Intelligent, perceptive, and witty. I'll take his 40-year-old youtube clips any day of the week over the wannabe everyman that Joe Rogan pretends to be.
And there’s a couple of ways of going about that, depending on the guest and the interviewer. If you’re Chris Wallace interviewing Bill Clinton on Fox News, you can just start an argument because Bill Clinton loves arguing with people and will rise to the challenge. Other times you have to open people up with kindness.
Per the project page: https://laion.ai/blog/laion-400-open-dataset/

> There is a certain degree of duplication because we used URL+text as deduplication criteria. The same image with the same caption may sit at different URLs, causing duplicates. The same image with other captions is not, however, considered duplicated.

I am surprised that image-to-image dupes aren't removed, though, as the cosine similarity trick the page mentions would work for that too.
Sure, but given multiple opportunities (every time the clip gets brought up) to condemn it, he hasn’t. This should tell you enough.
Ummm... you can, for both, at least in the US.

There's no reason to involve a third party for either of those things. I'm not sure I understand the question here.
Yeah, can be easily combined with super-resolution or by generating the image one section at a time.
Is there a show that lets the guests talk, except with guests who are worth listening to?
I mean to be fair his father owned those, not him. I don't think it's fair to get him for the sins of his father, and besides there's really not a lack of examples from Elon.
Artificial Intelligence Model Can Detect Parkinson’s from Breathing Patterns
of course it was a decades long policy, but Reagan takes the laurels because his predecessor was appeasing USSR and Reagan did the exact opposite, bringing about the downfall of the USSR. If a new Carter would have been in power, I am not sure 1989 would have happen when it did.
For the West he was a hero, for the Russians he was a disaster https://www.theglobaleconomy.com/Russia/Death_rate/ . I don't blame Gorbachev for this. Just as in the case of Nikolai II Russian totalitarian state and lack of checks and balances washed out an inept person to rule the country.
Local maxima that can not be left anymore with the given mutation rate.

Better alternatives for so many functions that were never explored/reached by evolution.
I assume having multiple captions for the same image is very helpful actually.
I also thought I would share our blog on lifestyle interventions associated with decreased inflammation levels:

https://www.begolden.online/post/lifestyle-interventions-ass...
Is that true? Have they been investing the required billions (tens of billions?) in datacenter infrastructure across the globe to do this?
I can't think of a good reason Apple would want to support developers who want to publish in their (very) walled garden but aren't willing to purchase at least one macOS device. There are services which provide virtual Macs, this isn't meant to be one of them.
isn't it cultural ? japanese seems to be ok struggling under american control and keep reaching higher. People say US money made Japan thrive but so many time throwing money at a large problem fails.. I think the population was just more mentally compatible.

Or maybe the post soviet Russia was dealt a bad hand. Hard to know (just like here, you can find infinite streams of contradictory arguments)
I would think the National Labor Relations Board would be filled with those who are acting on behalf of those doing the labor.
It’s a small c in Xcode…
The grift continues.
If you read any of the responses by VidAngel's CEO (?), you'll find the answer: hubris.
Authorship and Copyright in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (2016) [pdf]
Spain isn't a union state
The pricing is in compute hours, which means that their app-integrated CI/CD offering directly competes with offerings that require you to purchase your own retail-rate AWS EC2 &co compute hours.
Maybe you're not aware how much the USSR was spending on defense, espionage, space programs...By the end of the decade they ended up spending 14% of the GDP on military, trying to keep up with the US
Like telling an artist "hey, could you add a tree", "now recreate it, but make it appear to be on the moon", only that he's talking to an AI (artificial neural network).
I feel like you'd have to be pretty deep into silicon valley progressive culture to actually ask this instead of presuming that people have the capability of coming to that conclusion on their own. I would assume that someone would laugh at just how absurdly awful it is.
That's even pushing it. Texas had a 20-year freeze and it pushed the grid to failure!
we need go dev part time fully remote is fine
as much as he's tried to distance himself from his skeezy father (the guy who screwed and married his own stepdaughter who he raised from a small child, ewwww), a lot of elon's own political positions and actions taken are not any different from errol musk's positions and statements.
Scrolling through the sorted link from the GP, there are a few dupes with identical images and captions, so that doesn't always work either.
Isn't everything representable in a digital form? I think we're in the very early era of entertainment becoming commoditized to an even higher degree than it is now.

I envision exactly the future as you describe: Feed a song to the AI, it spits out a completely new, whole discography from the artist complete with lyrics and album art that you can listen to infinitely.

"Hey Siri, play me a series about chickens from outer space invading Earth": No problem, here's a 12 hour marathon, complete with a coherent storyline, plot twists, good acting and voice lines.

The only thing that is currently limiting us is computing power, and given enough time, the barrier will be overcome.

A human brain is just a series of inputs, a function that transforms them, and a series of outputs.
I went through a lot of this as an adult, though in a metro area (yeah, Seattle did have a lot of BBSs...but not all of those area code 206 numbers were local calls from 253!).

At one point, I set up UUCP on a Kaypro 10 CP/M box with a built-in 300 bps modem and exchanged email that way for a few months. It was the only way to get Internet, even in the Seattle area, back in those years.

The key to connectivity on Novell networks was their groupware product, GroupWise. The law firm I worked for had three offices, and for several years we used it to exchange interoffice email powered by a gang of modems (starting at 1200bps and eventually topping out at 9600 before we decided we could make use of a T1). The main office would connect with the branches once an hour. It was life-changing for us in the early 90s.
Google Colab Pro is switching to compute credits
Just got this in my inbox. They haven't updated the FAQs page yet, as far as I can tell.

> Hi-

We’re improving the Terms of Service that apply to your Colab Pro or Colab Pro+ subscription making them easier for you to understand and improving the ways you can use Colab. The changes will take effect on September 29.

The [updated Terms of Service](https://research.google.com/colaboratory/tos_v3.html) include changes that will allow you to have more control over how and when you use Colab, allowing us to offer new services and features that will enhance your experience using Colab.

We will increase transparency by granting paid subscribers compute quota via compute units which will be visible in your Colab notebooks, allowing you to understand how much compute quota you have left. These compute units are granted monthly and will expire after 3 months. You will be entitled to a certain number of compute units based on your subscription level and will have the ability to purchase more compute units as needed.

Additionally, we will allow paid subscribers to exhaust their compute quota at a much higher rate. This will result in paid subscribers having more flexibility in accessing resources. Read more about these changes at our [FAQ](https://research.google.com/colaboratory/faq.html#compute-units).

If you would like to cancel your Colab Pro or Pro+ subscription, you can do that by going to pay.google.com and clicking Subscriptions and services. If you have any trouble canceling, you can email colab-billing@google.com for assistance. Please include an order number from one of your receipt emails if you email us for assistance.

-The Colab team
Mapped: The Wealthiest Billionaire in Each U.S. State in 2022
> make people not want them on their land or within eyesight

I think that’s already the case. Better paint one black before someone has the idea to put ads on them, the only thing that could make them even less pleasant to have around
Laziness is stronger than greed. Indian tribes in America already live off UBI, and how does it work for them?
Ask HN: How to politely decline requests to meet?
Recently, I started posting about my work on social media, and now I regularly get invited by LinkedIn strangers to chat over coffee. I enjoy those chats here and there, but with the commute, they're 3-hour, 10-euro blind dates in the middle of the day.

Business partners also invite me to private networking events. It's meant as a token of gratitude for our collaboration, but they're an anxiety-inducing nightmare for me.

How can I politely decline such invitations without being rude or making excuses? I am not too busy; I just don't want to go.
Wouldn't a carbon filter work better then? If I understand them right it will keep the pfas stuck inside itself and not let it diffuse.
> This engine literally grows 6" in length when it's at cruise. And 2.5" in diameter. So how do you design to take care of that?
I'm not necessarily a UBI proponent, but the interesting thing to point out here is that if a job is so essential that it is required for society to function, maybe it should be paying a whole lot more.
On that note, any VC's needing a CEO to start a new company when this guy goes to the feds, HMU.
> I think US did enough divide and conquer and meddling to help bringing back an authoritarian government.

There is a phrase in Russia, :) "But in USA they lynch people". The idea is that in Russia it's often that discussion is interrupted by listing the ills of America, to avoid talking about Russia or for other reasons, so it's easy to justify pointing fingers to "the real evil".

I think you're wrong and your arguments are misplaced.

The phrase "never stopped the expansion eastwards" suggests that you don't see e.g. Slovenia as an interested party to join NATO, for whatever reason they chose, and instead see it as an evidence of guilt.

> Stalinist USSR and Nazi germany ... apply to that definition... even less Russia since it is a de jure democracy.

Current Russian laws mean little to define Russia de facto. Just like Hitler laws meant little at the time.
Doing a grueling low wage job because you need those wages to survive makes sense. Doing low wage jobs for the extra cash is not, because it's not a lot of cash. Money, like everything, has a diminishing marginal value. The first bunch of money is keeping you alive. If the government provides you that first bunch, your employer is providing much less value to you. Everyone preaches about how UBI will allow people to start businesses and learn skills. Well yeah, but that means they're dropping out of the labor force because they don't need to do those jobs.

How do you incentivize people to work? Pay them more.
I hate both sides of this. I don't think he's a terrible scam artist or the ticket to humanities future. I think he's obviously really smart and successful, but also clearly cocky and it feels like he's trying to prove he's one of the cool kids the way he posts on Twitter. I will give him props for getting the electric car to become an accepted thing, though I suspect his most valuable talent is his ability to market.
It's halfway there anyway, it's full of accounts of naked girls and lewd artists. They only need to add "pay $5 a month to gain access to this user's tweets and media" and they'd have 90% of OnlyFans' features.
This thread is people talking past each other on varying definitions of “breaking.”
Nut.js
You cite no evidence for this conspiratorial claim.
> It's an intriguing historical question what would have happened if Fort Sumter hadn't been attacked. Would the Union have eventually made the first move?

Going by what happened during the Nullification Crisis, the answer is likely a "Yes".