skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What cartoonists (and moviemakers) need in an AI tool
Everyone here has probably seen the current MidJourney, Dalle2, and StableDiffusion tools (which are getting updates every few weeks).

There has been talk of an 'Anime' version of stable diffusion.

What we need for that is

1. Characters. An interface that allows us to save Characters with a name, so that we can prompt with that name to employ the character. (Currently, people storyboarding with AI image generation use famous actors because they're the only thing the AI can reproduce in each scene). It would be nice if we could also save a few images of the character, from different angles, so the AI knows what they look like and can produce fewer mistakes.

2. Clothing. Characters needs to keep / change clothing based on the scene. This could be done by naming clothing, or with a prompt-language such as 'clothing-234j320' and this number corresponds with an image we already generated, which has been assigned an image number.

3. Locations. Same. We could also have a prompt, 'same-location-as-previous' or 'same-location-as-234j320'

4. Style. Putting several prime example images into a folder to indicate the style of render. Better than 'realistic' or 'photorealism' or 'anime'.

5. Angle. Zoom / crop / indicated angle (possibly from model of a 'sphere around the scene'). eg 'closer-zoom than this' or 'from-Zaxis-45/90-from-Y-axis-50'. Usually, the angle doesn't need to be specific, or can be like 'viewed from above' but occasionally a specific angle is needed.
Yes, but how many of them understand front end? It's not a matter of language and syntax...
First result on DDG [0]:

“The French Newspaper Le Parisien calculated that an average pool measured at 322 square feet is taxed 200 Euros per year.”

I think the middle class should be able to afford a 8x4m pool outside of big cities. Especially since other large expenditures like overpriced cars aren’t that big of a deal in France.

https://nypost.com/2022/08/31/google-ai-helps-france-tax-ove...
> These positive traits you cite are defined by human minds and have no meaning outside of them.

They can certainly have consequences though, and consequences can lead to meaning.

> Their value is determined by humans.

On one level of reality, but there are many different layers happening at the same time.
If by "sizable fraction" you mean "one NY Times opinion columnist" then that is a good source. Nevertheless, I'm often surprised (but I guess not really) that when the time comes to actually shrink the government, people balk at it.
gcc's -Wmisleading-indentation will gives warning for:

if (some_condition ())
foo ();
bar (); /\* Gotcha: this is not guarded by the "if". \*/
No. It lasts years because pacemakers have a really tiny power draw.

There's not a miniature nuclear reactor in there, it's just a RTG, which is simple but also very inefficient. So it doesn't get the crazy amount of power from a tiny amount of material a fission reactor does.
Self-hosted.
Yes, do buy and do read, though maybe pickier than before. Also, often just going with the e-book version of things for practical/portability reasons, but not all the time.
Yeah - I'm a big framework fan but the battery is not easily swappable (if you define easily swappable as being able to do it without tools on the go between meetings). To me easily swappable is like that dell or the lenovos which had two batteries and the second one was hot-swappable.
This is established and commonly installed technology in Japan. It's called EneFarm. Lots of newish houses connected to natural gas have these largish boxes out front. The odd name leaves most people confused.

The EneFarms used to be heavily subsidized by the japanese government in a long term program to encourage fuel cell development and manufacturing. Over time prices have decreased such that the subsidy is either already expired or could be soon expired.

The tech is near, and allows getting a bit more energy out if natural gas. The gas companies hope it will allow them to eventually reuse their pipes to send hydrogen. Personally I think the combo of cheap solar panels and 400% efficiency heat pumps will outcompete gas.
I'm not sure i understand the Watch here; just sew an AirTag into their underoos if that's the goal for ~1/10th the price.
The main issue is the conflating of usage and value. The persona/user group that consumes the Trending pages are likely users who themselves contribute to open source, and thus are part of a flywheel that drives more code contribution overall. (e.g. how 1% of users post on reddit vs 99% consume) Not all usage is made equally.

This scenario reminds me of a funny story posted on HN a while ago: https://memex.marginalia.nu/log/48-i-have-no-capslock.gmi (TL;DR; if you take this "usage based" feature removal logic to it's conclusion, a lot of important keys would be removed from computers/keyboards).
Interview: Vitalik Buterin
What makes me not full time? Particularly if I'm producing the same amount as everyone else? The teams I work with span 9 timezones collectively, and that's when they're not traveling.
It depends on the government, many of the "bans" are not very technologically advanced and easily circumventable with a bit of knowledge (however, doing so is usually quite illegal).

Australia and New Zealand have banned lots of content that can be easily found, at worst you need a VPN.
But in practice, at least in big tech, they will always want to have a documented and defendable reason for firing people to avoid lawsuits.
Probably, given the right modifications.

However I do not trust the public to dispose of recyclable waste properly, let alone radioactive devices.
My first “tech job” was supporting DOS games at EA in the late 90s. Post windows 95 they still had some bargain flight sims that seemed popular. I can’t remember the exact numbers but one of the sims checked for sufficient RAM. I think you needed 16MB but there was a bug where if you had more than like 512 it would think you didn’t have enough (pre-internet so no real patches). The “fix” was a “boot disk” (on a floppy) that would create a RAM drive to partition off some of your RAM getting your available total under 512. RAM had just started to get “cheap” enough that some folks had 1GB and we were able to use the RAM drive (which worked like a physical HD) to install the game and play it from RAM instead of the old slow spinning disks.

But yeah memory hacks in those days were rampant.

Side note the most common problem for the PS support queue was PlayStations not reading disks properly. The fix was to turn the machine on its side or even upside down to get the CD closer to the laser.
In this thread: complaints of how the Universe used be available to purchase as a perpetual license, and now the option is buried in some page only linked from a KB article.
Hi! Knut from Sanity.io here.

Would love to learn more about:

* What you find finicky with installing basic components
* What SEO issues that are connected to using GROQ/TypeScript

As far as I can gather from the docs, Payload doesn't come with more out-of-the-box components, and doesn't support custom blocks in the rich text editor, unless you commit to building the UI for it yourself?
I’m not associated with the project and don’t follow it super closely, but I think this is the idea behind the briar project (at least for messaging)

https://briarproject.org
I tried hosting a universe on-prem once. Trust me, you don't want to deal with that kind of paradox if you can avoid it.
You might find "Exponential Economist Meets Finite Physicist" an interesting read.

https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2012/04/economist-meets-physicist...
I just purchased Jon Gjengset's "Rust for Rustaceans", since most online documentation I've found on Rust assumes you don't understand or just don't care about how computers actually work.
The problem is that 2K is already taken. So we have

1K --> FHD (1920x1080)

2K --> QHD (2560x1440)

4K --> UHD (3840×2160
Mobs can do that. Pesky old First Amendment, again.
As mentioned in other threads, I'd say this is still problematic because refunding isn't always the preferred outcome. Re-booking would be better in lots of scenarios(like you have to be someplace, even if a day late, or you already paid for accommodations that won't let you cancel), but if you hadn't even been charged, would the airline have any obligations to re-book you to your destination at the same price?
I believe the founders are Jewish and are hypersensitive to any criticism of Israel, even if it comes from one of their own, and do not tolerate it. Hate speech against any other group is far more tolerated than what is perceived as criticism of Jews and Israel. If you do this at Google as an employee, they will squash you. Like a bug.
What’s wrong with scripts anyway? I always call qemu from shell script and don’t understand why would I need more layers for that.
Right, one can't but helped to have noticed how remarkably quickly that legislation passed.

...And it did so without a squawk!

Edit, it sort of proves my point, doesn't it?
People are why we can't have nice things.
Who needs your prosperity promises if you turn 5 million of their compatriots into refugees, captives, or worse? Russians've seen that kind of "prosperity" in the 90s and I don't think they're going to fall for this one more time.

If you think Ukraine have won the war, let's see how they arrange the life on all the lands that they have already reclaimed.
Ah! I remember looking forward to that one. Based on the press coverage it seemed like a "modern" of Sinistar, a favorite of mine.
Well, if the other option is that your heart won't work without one, and you are already elderly, why not?
If you host your own network, you can work with your network provider to blackhole basically everything except your known clients.

You'd have to record IP ranges and other things, but you could do it.

Or you can ask them to blackhole the rest of the world and add exceptions if necessary.
Andy Murray was twice Olympic champion, won 3 Grand Slams and was World No 1 for 41 weeks. His hip injury meant he didn't have the longevity of the others but he was hardly an "also-ran".
I have begrudgingly gotten our kids apple watches for exactly reasons outlined

I am in some latent way, however, concerned with the idea of them wearing a cellular radio directly on their skin all day - I have for the most part avoided any of the EMF/4G/5G handwaving but would love an informed opinion from HN if there is any reason for concern / need to moderate or otherwise?
When it's a girl I'm dating. No other time. I've never had a situation where a video call was necessary for work.
Could always chip them.
No need to go for the client, it's working fine on my machine, nearly 60fps with a 12-core, 32gb + RTX2080TI with Iris, Sodium, Phosphor and Lithium </i>.
the amount of trust we give to private corporations is remarkable. Who decides which news outlets are 'authoritative' - who makes the list, who doesn't and who decides that? We don't know, we just have to have faith
Secret ballots in a representative democracy actually demonstrate the problem very well. Often the choice ends up between the two loudest candidates.

The tendencies towards binary "us vs them" thinking and using magnitude as an estimate of correctness seem to me to be instinctual social reactions, the type of thing that needs training and constant self-reflection to recognize and consciously avoid succumbing to or exploiting. It's unreasonable to expect anyone to constantly be on guard against themselves or to avoid using every available tool to achieve success, especially when we are so good at rationalizing our positions on anything.

What's required might be a technical solution (not necessarily technological) - arranging meetings and discussions so that everyone can be seen and heard, using formats that promote reasoned discussion, greater expectations of formality and politeness, etc. A change of rules could kickstart a cultural change, but would certainly change how people behave in the fora where they were implemented.
For programming, no. Any programming question I’ve had in the last 15 years has been answered with a Google search, and any new language/technology I’ve picked up has been learned from online articles. Any programming books I still have are language reference manuals, which I keep purely for nostalgia. These too are all online these days.

For math/algorithms, yes. There are still many topics that do not have good online articles but are covered at length in textbooks. These topics are usually covered in journal articles too, but at a much more terse level than a textbook chapter.
You have two people: one has the right to take others lives and the other doesn't have even the right to their own life.

How can that system be justified? Label one "good guy" and the other "bad guy".

It's one of the most pure forms of the ideology I've seen.

You have people like George Zimmerman doing pro-gun confederate flag artwork, the connection is rugged and robust

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Confederate_battle_flag...

The tribal ingroup outgroup dynamic happens all the time. Take Kyle Rittenhouse versus Ashli Babbitt for instance.
“Quiet Quitting” is paradoxically defined as doing “the minimum to keep your job.” If I’m doing what I agreed, I’m working. If my boss only pays me the bare minimum stipulated in our agreement (eg. my salary or agreed rate including overtime and stipulated benefits), am I being quietly laid off?

Reminds me of the “pieces of flair” scene in Office Space.
Australia has to “kowtow” to whoever is the dominant naval power. Once Britain, now the US, perhaps in the next 100 years it will be China.
Separating Quantum Hype From Quantum Reality
https://archive.ph/cikWE

This is a reply to the previous article referred here:

"The Quantum Computing Bubble" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32630815
They sure do make for a great Zoom background!
Isn't "Enterprise" the vehicle you get in the Pro tier?
I encourage my competitors to keep thinking this.
The first thing I thought of when I saw the pacemaker photo was to adapt the miniature RTG to power a digital watch. People have Nixie tube watches, I want my RTG powered watch.

I'd use a capacitor to accumulate a charge which would power one of the really old-school LED digital watches of the early 70s.

Totally impractical, dangerous and illegal? Sign me up!
Yeah, right, because Denisova was the only Ukrainian person who was lying to get Western help for Ukraine.

The only source this article cites is written answer of Ukrainian prosecutor general’s office and even it mentions only single anonymous case of coercion of 16 year old girl. Which is one too many if true.

Note, that's the same Ukrainian prosecutor general’s office that for eight years failed to investigate the death of 42 people burned alive by Ukrainian nationalists in Odessa [0].

Please read the wikipedia article on atrocity propaganda [1] and how it's been used for ages.

Having said that, I do believe that war crimes inevitably happen in all wars, even in ones waged by 'enlightened and civilized West' [2].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Odesa_clashes

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atrocity_propaganda

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brereton_Report
Just because you pay a positive non-zero amount for less than a quarter of the energy in, it does not mean that a device has greater than 100% efficiency, which is not possible.

If heat pumps are 400% efficient then log burners in cabins in the woods are even better.
It also let us delay giving both kids a phone.
I'm sorry but I'm flagging this as Off Topic. No matter what my own feelings and opinions are on this it definitely is not a suitable topic or theme for posting on Hacker News.

YMMV and I'll leave it up to the HN mods to decide.
On some micros Graal beats C2, on some others it doesn't. It's not a silver bullet.

GraalVM is regular OpenJDK with the compiler switched out, AFAIK.
I'm not sure younger people do age into a social media product. To give an example, I'm about the youngest (~35) that my cohort still uses facebook. people slightly younger than myself (~30) tend to use whatsapp and google calendar for the useful functions of Facebook and instagram for doomscrolling. They have no reason to switch, except if someone slightly older is 'pulling' them towards the platform. But the only time I've seen that happen is on facebook marketplace, where they're interacting primarily with strangers.

I don't think social media is like a minivan, where a different lifestyle suddenly makes it make sense to switch. People are on social media for the other people that are there, I don't see the incentive the other people would have to migrate at a certain age, seems more likely they'd change how they use it (as indeed happened with Facebook). Maybe I'm misunderstanding your premise?
You really should not. 60 beats per minute means that in ten years the leads of a pacemaker will be bent *315 million* times. That's an order of magnitude higher than we typically test fatigue resistance, and even if we were that confident about being able to produce flawless materials, there are millions of different enzymes and acids and temperature fluctuations in the body. Any one of those could impact the fatigue resistance.

Additionally, any kind of implanted device is significantly prone to a wide range of problems that range from inconvenient to devastating. The human body is very hostile to foreign objects, often with few warning signs. Clots and fibrous capsules (and eventually, calcified capsules) form around ANY implant, and that's the best case problem.

Titanium is extremely biocompatible. It forms a thinner capsule than most materials. It integrates with bones beautifully, due to surface treatments that allow bone to grow into microscopic surface cavities, with strong molecular bonds. But also sometimes, for no apparent reason, all the bone around a titanium implant will just start dying and resorbing. It's rare, but if you get a hip replacement you absolutely need to check on it regularly because if you don't you'll lose use of the leg completely (and quickly, and permanently).

In and around the heart is one of the most challenging places to implant things, aside from maybe the brain. Any moving part of the body will constantly stress any mechanical part, and build up scar tissue around and rubbing spots. The only reason the brain is worse is because its fragile and changes size significantly when you sleep.

Recently we started using leadless pacemakers. Even before that pacemakers were continually getting smaller, and smaller pacemakers are less irritating and experience less stress and movement. Even if that weren't true, it would still be worth checking in on pacemakers, because they're doing incredibly hard jobs and if they fail people can die faster than they can get to a hospital.

EDIT: oh, and heart disease is the #1 cause of death in the US, while heart surgery is one of the most difficult specialties to get in to. They are absolutely never short on patients, lol.
> Where can I upgrade?

Given our longtime subscription to Universe Standard®, Universe Pro® probably busts our budget.
What is your point? If I need transactions, not just bulk loading inserts, then SQLite isn't the bees knees. PG can handle at least an order of magnitude more transactions per second on the same hardware.
Which system calls are you thinking of? The only ones that I can think of would be brk(2) and sbrk(2), but any recent libc should be resilient to calls to those.

That being said, I'll grant that the distinction between "tiny runtime" and "no runtime" isn't useful and that C can be said to have a runtime insofar as most systems provide a `crt0` or equivalent.
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XKCD style what-if:

We'd need to have a lot of money, a disregard for return of investment and a lot patience: Current RTGs can do that, but they're rather expensive for heating houses and problematic from the nuclear materials POV (waste / profileration), not to mention the regulatory and licensing for using it a neighbourhood - better budget the time and money for lobbying for some legislation changes.

If by building we mean say 10 apartments, and each needs 10 kW, the RTG would need hundreds of kg of Pu-238 plutonim dioxide [1].

It's hard to cite the exact cost for that since it's not a freely traded commodity but that's a lot of plutonium. Eg NASA said that with a $75-90 million investment they can make 1.5-2 kg per year of it. [2]

[1] https://drinksavvyinc.com/blog/how-much-does-a-radioisotope-... gives 2 kW per 5 kg
[2] https://www.space.com/20774-plutonium-spacecraft-fuel-nasa-b...
First time I've ever actually laughed at an XKCD.
I generally find everything that I need online. Most of the languages I've learned recently have had their 'bible' books either online or included with the language tooling.
All the more reason to be derisive about marketing then.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32661638 is probably a better comparison than Twitter doing whatever Twitter does.
"First they came for the Communists

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a Communist

Then they came for the Socialists

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a Socialist

Then they came for the trade unionists

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a trade unionist

Then they came for the Jews

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a Jew

Then they came for me

And there was no one left

To speak out for me"

- Pastor Martin Niemöller
I did not see that dimension of it at all; but is interesting now that you point it out.

Thank you for having one of the better arguments/discussions on this site – the ones where, by the end, I'm mostly going "Hmm...".
There are many projects similar with Briar, they all have the same limitations:

"The range of Bluetooth and Wi-Fi is around 10 metres, depending on obstacles. Clearly this isn’t enough for communicating across a city or even a large building. So when Briar receives a message from a nearby contact, it stores the message and can later pass it on to other contacts when they come within range (for example, when you move from one place to another)"
Normconf: The data/ML conf about all of the “boring” stuff
Is something less tragic if the victims weren’t fully participating in capitalism at the time of injury? If they’re performing a societal function that you obviously think is beneath you?
A number don't. But as far as the number that needs some kind of pacemaker tune-up or revision during that time-- it's a really big share.
It's not new speak. It's a more accurate set of words to describe what we used to call "lone wolves". Stochastic means random, statistically measurable but not predictable.

The term "stochastic terrorism" means terror attacks like school shootings, swattings, and driving trucks into protestors that happen with a certain statistical likelihood, but whose individual events cannot be predicted.
A large enough number of people believe(d) it that the editorial board of one of the biggest newspapers of record deemed it worthy of publication. This isn’t some random blog link, it’s the New York Times.
For parents who are opposed to the technology in the hands of children, any senior phone will do, with a broken keyboard, and the speed dial(s) set to the parent phone(s) - this of course, depends on the age of the child. I agree that a persistent communication channel is a helpful tool to develop independence.