skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I find really interesting about this is that I think this is the first case of a story about Twitter that makes them look good. The standard news about Twitter is basically the whole platform is a total mess, inconsistent and capricious moderation, a totally lackluster advertising business, and an engineering environment that is constantly on the verge of collapse. So the news that they had a new product and went through a sensible process to evaluate its pros and cons and in the end came to the correct conclusion - is weird. They're actually doing something right. Interesting.
Isn't this less of a problem nowadays as most LCD's are high density (retina)?
I believe the creativity is primarily the process, something we enjoy doing, not the method to _produce_ or _generate_ something. Sort of like dogs like playing fetch. Some creative processes do not create permanent artifacts at all, like all performing arts.
It's also correct to read Feld's statement and view it as a net positive.

From what I've seen, this additional demand is a net positive for the economy and environment.

Most trains in general are already scheduled. There is close to zero marginal cost for an additional person to take the train.

There are additional emissions when more schedules are added, and this has almost certainly been the case in some of the more popular routes.

If someone is to travel, you will almost always want them to take a train. In addition, emissions from a single flight a person takes basically is more than emissions on multiple train rides on additional trains.

It's possibly also overall driven up domestic tourism, which is a positive for the economy and towns that depend on it.

The best way to see this would be that this 9 euro ticket has chipped away at the margins - primarily on the factors that people use to decide what mode of travel to use.

I've written a longer reply above based on my experience. It's not just the cost, though this is the primary factor.

I think the 9 euro ticket was absolutely what was needed when it was introduced.

I would not support continuation at that price - it's not sustainable as the train network itself can't handle the demand.

Maybe the demand will taper off if people realise it's permanent but also, I guess funding the rail network at 9 euro nationwide may be a bit optimistic
Show HN: Uncino – Fast, tiny and solid hooks system for JavaScript and Node.js
Do you know Wordpress hooks system? Uncino is a hooks system highly inspired to it!

- Async / Await support
- Node or Browser support
- Actions / Hooks system
- Easy to use
- No Dependencies
They could perhaps run the unsandboxed code in a VM. I’m not sure if iPhone cpus currently support this, but Mac ones do so it could be added.
If you just turn the PE part into a .NET executable and keep the rest as it is, yes. Windows will see a .NET executable and the other OSes will see a shell script just like it works now (and a BIOS will still see the boot sector)
I think most OSes will be happy if you come to them with actual bugs, yes. But if you ask them to stop changing syscall numbers or various other "ABI" that is not actual ABI, I feel like they are not going to be as happy to accommodate you.
One reason is that the Tech Industry and the Military Industrial Complex are deeply intertwined.

https://steveblank.com/secret-history/

The idea of a personal drone has years of military drones as inspiration. We’re just “giving back” in the form of a COTS option.
> Showcase tiered features in your trial

Story time. When I worked on ESPN.com's Fantasy Football rebuild in 2003, showcasing an upgrade was by far the largest converter of free users to paid. You could play with your N buddies where everybody was playing for free, but you could also individually upgrade.

Some context: during NFL games on Sunday your team of players would be playing someone else's in your league. As players on your team did things in the real-world NFL games, your fantasy football team would accrue points. There were two ways to see how many points your team had scored: you could wait until Monday morning when the weekly job ran, or you could pay to see your team's live scoring updates as they happened in real time on Sunday afternoons/evening.

Here's what drove the most individual upgrades. Someone on my team got the bright idea to show some players' live updates on your roster as a "teaser". You might have 20 players, and two would show live scores. There'd be a big CTA to upgrade to see the other 18 players' scores. It was admittedly pretty cool - you'd watch an NFL game, see one of your players score a touchdown, and then seconds later see his score change in your fantasy league.

I don't remember the exact conversion rate but IIRC it was 15%+ (2% is incredible conversion for free to paid).

That's one reason why, in my SaaS trial to paid consulting[1], I recommend scattering in-app CTAs to upgrade where contextually relevant. It still converts like crazy (which makes sense - you're trying to do a job, the path forward is right in front of you, and you can pay a few $$ to get the job done).

1- http://www.trialtopaid.com
Mate just look at labor laws and protections in the US vs Europe. Unionizing and striking is super effective for workers.
My school, 20+ years ago had a huge glass side (possibly still does) that at just the right time of day was utterly indistinguishable from the sky to the human eye.

I sat in many an assembly to the huge "thud" of birds flying into it at full speed. The school never did anything about it in the time I was there.

This was one school with some 20-30m wide windows, imagine just a single building with an order of magnitude more glass.

The glass balcony of the flat I used to live in caused issues for birds, I imagine glass is a much, much larger issue than wind turbines given its prevalence.
Pixelmator Pro has a ML powered image resizer built in. I like that.

Also Retrobatch has a ML based image classifier, but I didn't try that yet.

Other than these, yet all these are impressive tech demos. We need them in production and preferably open source (model + training + process) versions.
“Estimates of up to a million or more birds a year are killed by turbines in the US but that is far exceeded by collisions with communications towers (6.5 million); power lines, (25 million); windows (up to 1 billion); and cats (1.3 to 4.0 billion) and those lost due to habitat loss, pollution and climate change”
> the model can be seen as a direct threat to their livelihoods.

When is somebody going to point out that this isn't Stable Diffusion’s fault, but capitalism’s? Why are we willing to stifle innovation for this instead of first making sure that everybody can live and create?
Thanks for the response! I’m glad Colab is sorting out the pricing vagueness. I’m hoping that we get more detailed information about the changes before the launch so I (and my team) can better prepare. Do you know approximately when information about the new pricing tiers will be launched?
Washington consensus-style capitalism / Reaganite neoliberalism was not good for most countries. A good example is how the Russian economy responded to excessive privatisation instead of building a strong public sector that builds and supports private enterprise (similar to the US, although neoliberal scholars don’t like admitting it). The track record is the same in a lot of Latin-American countries where IMF and WTO imposed similar doctrines. I’m mostly for free markets etc, but it wasn’t appropriate to expect countries such as Poland with a “plastic” economy (political economy as the communist like labelling it) to succeed with a neoliberal anti-government “libertarianism” ideology overnight. It just doesn’t work that way. Stiglitz even wrote a book on the topic.
I think for the most part we can only say retrospectively, what was worth doing.

Facebook was created to connect people and ended up facilitating genocide.

Breakthrough in private health-improving tech can bring unfathomed gap between rich and poor.

We can only speculate where new developments such as AI will lead us.
It claims to be England's oldest freehouse; not sure how important that distinction is versus "pub," unless it's the whole religious affiliation thing.

There seems to be a suggestion it was "Se Scip" prior to the Restoration in 1663:

https://www.beaconsfieldhistory.org.uk/content/beaconsfield-...
I'd wager it's for the same company for over 3 months or more and its for people you've worked with or for in the past that trust you for a domain specific issue that doesn't need 100% of your time. Like a cloud infra engineer for a less than 20 person startup or something like that.

What I meant by side gigs was the more typical model of finding small gigs with flexible (read: resource constrained) buyers.
Ukraine wasn't Putin's first military offence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Georgian_War

It's reasonable to assume if we fail to stop Russians in Ukraine, they continue restoring Russian empire with military force.

In the past, Baltic states and Poland were part of Russia, yet now all of them are NATO member states.
A real opportunity to start a nuclear WW3.
The first step is usually to figure out what is actually taking all the time, Instruments is good at this. What did it say? Was it your code, or AttributeGraph stuff? Or maybe layout code in UIKit/AppKit? Once you find that you will probably want to isolate which part of your UI is actually triggering this. Ideally identifying if it's a "I got called once and SwiftUI freaked out" or "SwiftUI keeps calling me for changes and I don't have any changes, but this is still bad for performance".
Over 200k Servers in One Place Visiting Hetzner in Germany [video]
Actually vector graphics tools did mostly displace painting for those who seek commercial skills.
A lovely pub for food and drink - I believe parts of Hot Fuzz were also filmed there.
For the moment at least I'm personally more interested in the image applications than video use cases, but even so this is just fantastic for helping to develop an intuition about how the diffusion mechanism works.

It's admirable that you're so modest regarding the antecedent work, but sometimes it's the "obvious in hindsight" compositional insights that really open up the possibility space. Top work!
> he became increasingly frustrated over the years that this was not done.

This may be true, but I think it's more likely that he doesn't care about it at all. He is an opportunist, and back then the best opportunity was to criticize the U.S. and Europe by insisting on international law. Today, he is saying Europe is a fascist Nazi oppressor.
Problem with non automated tools is that editing becomes a big issue since you have to reflow big parts of the diagram to make an addition. This is always my biggest issue with any diagram, the fact that they are evolving.
> 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?

More like, if you go to the park that's closed off behind a wall, with signs saying "CRAZY KNIFE STABBING BASTARD INSIDE" all over the place, and get stabbed... Yeah, the stabber is in the wrong, but what you did is still stupid.

It's a similar lack of foresight on the part of the public that allowed tech companies to boil that frog. That the companies act like batshit insane stabbers is obvious and expected. They could have been stopped at any point in the last twenty years. The fact that they hid the knife most of the time behind a fake smile and then stabbed the knife just deep enough for it to be "below the threshold of pain", repeatedly and consistently, should have raised alarm bells and sparked opposition. Instead, they were allowed to go all the way to AC needing WiFi connection.

Yeah, there's no argument that tech companies are the perpetrators, but giving them a chance to act that way for so long is a failure of society.
> So yeah, StableDif is great for commercially constrained environments

For me, that's the big insight.

Not just SD, but any synthetic media. My take? The "upcoming revolution" is not one of a boss firing their artists and making prompts themselves. It's a shift from addictive art" to subtractive art* in commercial environments.
Takes me to a paypal page-- do you have some sort of blocker?
America has always had people who engaged in wishful thinking about funding government. Indeed that's why the United States even exists in its current form. After achieving independence all the colonists were very clear that they should just voluntarily pay to run stuff, it's obvious right? No need for a central government to take money, we will gladly give it.

But of course these good intentions last only five minutes. No, we don't have any money for Central government this year, the harvest was poor and besides we needed money for our new great hall. We'll get you next time. And like that old friend who always seems to have forgotten their wallet, the colonists never did seem to have the money they'd said they'd give voluntarily.

So the Constitution establishes a government which can take what it needs, because the wishful thinking doesn't work.
The alternative doesn’t need to be central planning

You could even make an argument that some of the current US problems are caused by central planning, for example in the form of tax code based incentives or major spending packages

Another separate (but related in some ways) argument is that many companies and individuals can externalize their costs, and this distorts markets
I wonder why this was not the case since the beginning.

Open sourcing parts that in other languages have always been open source (Rust) is still something to praise but not a world shattering event.
Upvoting and confirming your experience. Lots of commenters here sound like they haven't used the network.

I've only been here for a month and see why the 9 euro is so popular.

I've already experienced everything you mentioned in my short stay here
> which calls for workers to stop volunteering at one location, which is being interpreted as a call for a strike

No, this is called "working to rule". You don't do anything more than your contract stipulates you must.

What I suspect is happening is that the company has to pay more, or it somehow is not in their interest, when it's mandatory rather than voluntary overtime, so they're threatening people for not volunteering.
Ask HN: What all programming languages does your company use?
I usually run debian on my laptops. I recently got a new one and have run the pre-installed pop OS until now. But after trying that out for a while, I've decided to move back to debian on it whenever I get the chance. I generally prefer debian because it's what I know. I also like the stability of the OS even for a laptop.

I can't tell you how common people like me are though.
> not-made-China

All the parts are going to come from there anyway...
If only. Apple's licensing terms require you to keep the instance for at least 24 hours[0].

[0] On the Scaleway checkout for the Mac Mini M1, at the bottom: "As required by Apple License, you must keep this Instance for at least 24 hours. You will be able to delete it only after 24 hours.".
Any vacation can be a fun offline vacation, you just need fortitude! Maybe the silent retreat could help with that :)
Do you read science fiction ? What you describe is often the premise for corporate rule ala cyberpunk.

It’s often … bleak.

But yes, our political structures are showing their age.

In the US the constitution as well.
I would say that WebMD is better than Wikipedia. Anyone can edit Wikipedia, and in practice this means content often comes from idiosyncratic people with axes to grind. Wikipedia pages vary immensely in correctness, completeness, objectivity, clarity, and usefulness. WebMD, in contrast, is pretty consistent in all those ways; its flaws (wordiness, lack of reference to detailed research, catering to the customer) are of minor consequence to the typical person searching for medical information (we at HN are not the typical person). The best Wikipedia articles are better than the best WebMD ones, but the worst Wikipedia articles are worse, and in medicine it's the floor you care more about.
A Week of Bug Reporting
> But do you think this conflict is worth it?

For Russia, no. For Putin specifically, maybe. Russia is going to end up in a much worse position without any significant (and maybe any at all) gain. Putin is in a position where backtracking is difficult and dangerous, so he probably won't until things become completely untenable.

For Ukraine it's very worth it because they're fighting for their own existence.

> Do you support the Ukrainian claim on the Crimea? Is it worth the bloodshed and economic destruction?

At this point, I do. Formerly, I'd tend towards "no", but I changed my mind. My reasoning:

* The war has already started. Crimea has a very strategic place in it, and a vulnerability for Ukraine.

* Strategically it's very desirable for Ukraine to own it, as well as for its allies.

* Strategically it hurts Russia a lot to lose it.

* From the long term point of view I think it's good for Russia to lose something significant in the conflict. It changes the calculus. Trying to take over Ukraine not only won't succeed, but will put them in a situation worse than before, and that hopefully is an additional reason to avoid a repeat. Russia can tolerate losing soldiers, tolerating losing a chunk of themselves is harder.

> It's as though we're stuck in a terrible local minimum because both sides are too stubborn to compromise for peace,

I don't think a compromise is really possible at this point. It might have been a possibility in the past, but it's too late.
I’ve been waiting for an AI that can fix the color on all the old color television footage from the 1960s, 1970s, etc.

News and sports, in particular.
It's called 'work to rule'. It isn't refusing to work, it's refusing to do above that which is contractually required.
This has always baffled me. Graffiti was generally less than 20 characters per minute for me and I was an early palmpilot adopter. Eventually better options came out resembling the smartphone keyboards we have today.

I never used a Newton but the Microsoft handwriting recognition was pretty good on the iPAQ. Maybe the Palm graffiti approach is ok for people who don't care about feedback and can edit tiny characters on a tiny device.
Real minimalists use a USB telegraph key and type with their fist. ;)
This submission should probably be 'Tell HN:'.
I don't think UBI can work. I love the idea of it, but as soon as you have a democracy and state provided income, it's too easy to vote yourself a raise. Look at countries like Argentina, Spain, Greece, Venezuela, where there are or were a huge percentage of people on the dole. Their economies collapsed. You can't keep squeezing a small upper middle class to pay for everyone. We're pretty much at the limit there as it is in many countries. I think UBI is fundamentally at odds with human nature in a way that would prevent it from being successful at scale.
Many mountain regions with beautiful hiking paths will remain disconnected from internet access for quite some time. So if you are fit enough, I strongly suggest to hike. You and everyone you are hiking with, will have no option to check mails or slack. It is also a great way to connect and spend time with family and friends.

https://www.alaska.org/tours
https://you.com/search?q=alaska+hiking+trails
Japan's digital minister declares war on humble floppy disk in new digital push
"Strike action, also called labor strike, labour strike, or simply strike, is a work stoppage, caused by the mass refusal of employees to work. A strike usually takes place in response to employee grievances."
So when putin claims casus belli over another nation's land due to previous ownership a whole bunch of times, you just disregard it because of something he _didn't_ say years ago?

The tactic of "rules for thee but not for me" is as old as time. The implication that putin wants russia to actually be held to the same standards as he is trying to get other nations held to - all the while fomenting war on his borders and ignoring eight bajillion commitments and treaties - is laughable.
Reflexive heel-digging is indicative of your priorities, i.e. people you don't disagree with aren't conspiracy theorists. This topic is well covered territory and to touch further on the examples I've given: Facebook's own admissions to weighting the angry reaction 5x more than likes is, again, not a conspiracy theory.(1)

Also politically what I've written doesn't come under "left wing", it actually doesn't come under any political wing. Trying to turn this into some left/right wing disagreement is only a distraction. Indeed if you're feeling challenged in your views, then maybe the Internet isn't for you.

(1)https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/10/26/faceboo...
I think words sometimes lose their meaning in some places. Clearly, OP doesn't even understand that "voluntarily" doing something means that you only do it if you want to... so refusing to do it is by definition within your rights... what they seem to be trying to do is re-defining what voluntary means... unfortunately, a very common tactic these days.
> I dont see youtube channels having enormous budgets for marketing,

Because they mainly support one person.

You don't need a big budget to sell lemonade on the street, you can make a salary out of it, doesn't mean you have become a tycoon or have revolutionized the lemonade stand industry.

> I dont see youtube channels having enormous budgets for marketing

Have you seen those ADS every 15 seconds?

That's the marketing budget, the whole YouTube ADS revenue is the marketing budget.
no, the problem is every person I want to pay to wants in a different USD coins - USDT, USDC, DAI and then chains - ETH, Solana, Tron, etc. Every time I have to swap on different chains, pay fees, and manage multiple wallet addresses as well.
That's only for TVs, though. Computer monitors had higher refresh rates and were not audible.
Photography didn't replace painting because style-transfers weren't possible. In other words, the technique is not intelligent. This is changing now.
Don't forget to posit an infinite curator who watches every channel on the infinite TV and responds to queries for channels with something sensible, not a random garble of pixels.
>but not that I’ve figured out the quirks, I prefer Mac

And yet, Macs still need third-party software to do window management properly. Not even Monterey lets you snap windows by simply dragging them to the side of the screen, a feature both Windows and all Linux DEs have had for the past 15+ years!

It's unfortunate that you now need to pay the same 10 bucks for the Rectangle equivalent on Windows (that being StartAllBack), but ultimately Windows has passed the point where it needed to sell itself as being better and easier to use and now just chases new shiny at the expense of what happens when you purposefully ignore Fitts' Law so people who want to do actual work need to pay to get the old features back. I guess that's just the way it goes sometimes.
> Kropitz and Michel’s discovery doesn’t settle the question—titanic though it is, the new lower bound on BB(6) is still less than A(6) (!!)

Doesn't the Ackermann function take two arguments? Anyway, what I'm actually more curious about than the result (impressive though it is) is the maths behind verifying these numbers. Does anyone know a gentle introduction to the relevant maths?
3,7 kW extension cords are very normal in Europe. Of course, only brand names can do that. Asian manufacturers cheat and do 2-2,5 kW cabling. With 3 phases 11 kW is also no big deal. Older equipment had this type of interface. Modern tools use only 2 phases.
How to Minimize Your Dependencies in Node.js
It runs macOS on QEMU on machines that use Intel Xeon Gold 5218's - https://twitter.com/KhaosT/status/1410332951963869185/photo/...