skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was almost 4 years ago, I bet that today someone could fly even higher.

> The flight took place on January 3, 2019, near the Strezhevoy city, Tomsk Region, RUSSIA. (Western Siberia). My goal was to overcome the record height for rotary-winged machines (According to Wikipedia: June 21, 1972, the French pilot Jean Bulet raised the Aérospatiale SA.315B Lama helicopter to a height of 12,442 meters), which was completely possible. My drone reached a height of 12,467 meters from ground level as measured by GPS and 12,925 meters from ground level as measured by a barometer, which is standard for aviation.
or a feature

Traffic coming from your IP would be mixed up with unrelated traffic
This doesn't contradict anything I have written. The average technical user will be unable to train this exact model (not to mention the supposed future more powerful ones) in their basement in this decade.
> a prisoner trapped inside of a giant lightbulb, banging on the walls, no hope of escape, all hope is lost, gritty, extreme detail
I'm not pro-Russia either, I just don't understand why we're completely destroying our economies for a conflict that has nothing to do with us (post-USSR border division and nationalism).
Sweden and Finland asked to join NATO as a response to the Russian aggression. NATO then invited Sweden and Finland.
I wouldn’t be too surprised if tools are created to quantify the amount of a source image that’s gone into an output image.
I've been thinking about building a motion graphics editor for a while now, since I feel like After Effects can be pretty overkill.

My idea was to combine the simplicity of a tool like Canva or Kapwing, where you can easily search and drag and drop assets into the canvas, with more powerful features like keyframing, easing, masking, and more. I decided to make it free and open source, as I might add more to it in the future.

If you're curious I've been sharing how I built this on my newsletter, here's one of the issues I wrote a few weeks ago: https://www.getrevue.co/profile/alyssaxuu/issues/adding-imag...
Yeah, like the Trail Of Tears in the USA, etc.

But what do you do now? You can't just get the Tatars back, even if Crimea were made independent.
You don’t need to rely on the government in all places. Cycle registration is available, but not mandatory in germany. The ADFC (German cycling club) offers it and they basically engrave a combination of initials, birthday and city into the frame with a high-vis sticker https://www.adfc.de/artikel/fahrrad-codierung/. Police offers similar services too, but since the encoding scheme is standardized, they‘ll know how to decode the sticker when a bike is found.
> Let's go to the Winchester, have a nice cold pint, and wait for this all to blow over.
Of course not, it just gained a new "advanced stable diffusion usage" track. Photography didn't displace painting from art school, and even outside art there are plenty of examples to be found. CNC machines are awesome, but every machining class in existence still teaches manual lathing and milling.
Like my other favorite play on words like that - the famous “Pen island”
There's one huge difference between Copilot and stuff like this. Art that's 98% correct is awesome. Code that's 98% correct is completely useless.

I think Copilot is going to live off hype for a while then tank and be looked back on as a failed experiment. Whereas I think that this kind of AI will eventually get to a point where it's extremely useful and could change up certain industries (game assets, marketing materials etc).
You have to see for yourself, but my experience is that, it won't feel like creating. You'll be closely managed by the startup founder/CTO and will execute his vision. It will be basically him creating something, with your brain and hands. Working in an super early stage startup felt nothing like a fun side project for me.
> Traffic coming from your IP would be mixed up with unrelated traffic

I'm sure that notion will keep the FBI from raiding your home when that unrelated traffic turns out to be involved in something illicit.
ah yea, but investorsexchange.com is availiable :D
You object to the use of the term AI but then go ahead and use another definition for the term which is equally as arbitrary.

No hate. Just saying. Nobody has a clear definition of what constitutes AI vs ML vs "statistical/algorithmic optimisation" these days.

My own approach is to restrict the use of the term "AI" to cases where a tangible "agent" is involved, which is capable of taking "actions" within its embedded context in the broader sense, and whose "intelligence" is somehow relevant to solving the problem at hand (rather than, say, simply an algorithm fed inputs and making predictions on a computer)
I'm not pro-Russian.

But here in Europe we've had 25% of our savings and purchasing power destroyed almost overnight, for a conflict that really has nothing to do with us (CIS borders and nationalism after the USSR).

Why can't we just be neutral? We didn't do this for Georgia's claim in Ossetia or Armenia's claim with Azerbaijan (both similar scenarios), or the Iraq-Iran war, etc.
>dall-e provides good enough results at zero cost

Even the direct costs of using OpenAI APIs are not zero.
To answer your question: No, I do not, ever. I don't want shit all over my desktop. I have them auto-arranged in a grid. On Windows they start on the left, on Mac they start on the right. So when I (for example) take a screen shot and it gets deposited on the desktop, I know where it's going to be.

But now that you finally gave a concrete example of what you want to do, I can at least picture it.
That’s part of it!
Worth waiting for their laser links to come online and see if they improve things. May be coming by the end of the year.
In my opinion it’s just a technical side of ethics, which has much less value than the main side: what it does to an author. If they suffer from these copies (morally, financially, spiritually, etc) without a way to offset it, then it is not ethical.
Giant also produces bikes in main land China. On top of that is the carbon bike market quite small compared to casual alloy bikes.
It's pretty shitty to argue that something BS without providing a single datapoint for the contrary. Just the internal yearly market for bikes in china is larger than the Taiwan population. It would be extremely surprising if Taiwan is even got close to the production output of China.
Maybe I can shine some light on the debate from an concept artist standpoint that works in VFX and advertising. I worked on feature films (3 of them in the imdb top 100), tv shows (like game of thrones) and hundreds of AD campaigns.

In the last 10 year the work of a concept artist changed dramatically we have gone from purely painted concept art to mostly "photobashed". Photobashed means basically that you rip apart other images and stitch them together to get the desired image. Some start with a rough sketch for the composition or make really rough grey shade 3d model and "overpaint" them. When it comes to "photobashing" the disregard for copyrights was always there and it's the worst in smaller studios and a bit better in the leading ones. Still most of the time everyone argues that if you only use really small parts of the images it is covered by fair use. There are some examples were studios got sued but mostly without bigger financial impact.

A few months ago I started working with "DiscoDiffusion" to generate the images I use to photobash. "DiscoDiffusion" can produce great "painterly" images but struggles with photorealism and is slower, not as coherent as "StableDiffusion".
Still the adoption rate in the concept art community was insanely fast. This all got topped by "StableDiffusion" in the last week. Ofc there are still people that want to do it the "right" way and not use AI but we had the same discussion years ago when "photobashing" came into place and some artists still wanted to paint the whole image. As concept artist you are mostly paid for your design thinking that means it is less about the process and more about the finished product. The turnaround time for styleframes got reduced from 3-4 hours while painting to 45 min - 1 hour when photobashing with stable diffusion me and my peers in the studio are now at 20-45 min per styleframe. When "photobashing" most people constrain themselves on their image library and ressources like Photobashing Kits. Not only does "StableDiffusion" cut the time in half it also gives greater freedom in composition and design especially if you are using img2img.

So where does this leave us? For the work in fast paced art environments like VFX, games, conept art or advertising "StableDiffusion" is a welcome gamechanger. Tradionalists and Artists outside of the industry might feel threatened but for us in these industries it's a god send.
It's legal where I live. It just makes sense. Much safer for everyone. Sky hasn't fallen down either.
>>While this is true, I wonder if the union is still representative of the workers.

In my experience, people negotiating the contract rarely have the best interest of the rank-and-file employees.

I have negotiated several union contracts, if we knew we would need to cut positions in the near future, all you had to do was promise a small jump in pay to the senior employees (usually the ones negotiating across the table from you) - and they then happily threw the new hires and junior people under the bus to pad their own paychecks.

Worked like magic every-time. Literally tell the person negotiating the contract that they could personally get a $5K bump in pay (i.e. by offering a longevity bonus in the contract) , and they would give the green light to cut as many people as we needed to make that happen.
Not saying I don't believe you, but having had little experience with drip coffee makers since ~2010 when I lost my last one, I simply can't imagine the design involved that would let coffee get into pumping area (worst was that you accidentally spilled ground coffee into water tank.

Can you point to some examples? Just so I can share what to avoid :O
Oof, right in the Brave.
I would assume that the point is that you had to pay - in one way or another - for access to this material, which is the intention when it is published and shared. You bought your books, your toys, your TV shows (through ads).
SD, by scraping the web, gets all the benefits of prior work without necessarily having adequately compensated the work's creators.
How else do you expect to get around maxmind’s anonymous db?
I am not sure it will be possible to get enough training data that way.

I don't know enough about diffusion models but if LLMs (of current size) have to use only public domain, they will be undertrained and we will see significant degradation in performance. Not to mention that Codex will be effectively dead.
You can see it in usage stats for desktop Linux. So many people have claimed over the years that they were going to change, yet never did. If they had, the usage stats would be much higher, but desktop Linux really hasn't gained much popularity over the years. It's sad, because it actually works pretty well these days, despite Gnome doing its best to scare people away by offering a radically different UI than they're used to and pitching itself as the standard (with most of the corporate backing).
It's just surprising to me. Really makes you think, you know?
That bitterness is cyanide, right?
I have a bus pass for my city giving me unlimited use all year round, and the service is excellent, a stop right outside my house with buses every 5-10 mins, I still walk a lot, but I do like the option of jumping on the bus if the weather is bad, or I'm just lazy
Show HN: Tool to compare House of the Dragon characters height to yourself
Open-source Gradio demo: https://huggingface.co/spaces/akhaliq/frame-interpolation
Nice! i often wished for this before a flight, but it would need to include the article and comments in offline mode =)
‘man in a box’ sorely missed :(
I could argue this subject all day! Like you said, I do ultimately think it comes down to personal preference. If you like your setup, you’re going to get more done with less stress.

I really do feel that CRKBD has optimized a particular utility of keyboards (I use one). By having every key no more than one unit away from home, you can always be confident that you’re hitting exactly the right key. This eliminates errors in a way that I personally enjoy more than any alternative. With QMK, layers make full utilization of keycodes trivial. I use 20+ layers, and it’s second nature now that it’s all muscle memory.
for my needs I didn't have to shell out a single € yet
Is it really "on the other hand"? LSP has paved the way for 'hybrid-source' (part closed part open) IDEs. Technically you can close down all the good parts of the IDE and open-source the bare minimum client-side functionality.
It's not just carbon bikes; e-bikes are also a huge export from Taiwan:

https://cyclingindustry.news/taiwan-export-figures-analysis/

The e-bike market, unlike carbon sports bikes, is rather huge, and growing fast.
..RIAA
Ask HN: Can you keep Stable Diffusion models on topic?
Say I wanted to illustrate a novel. Can I make two images like:

1. Sara starts the race

2. Sara receives an award

And make sure that it's the same Sara in both images?
Illustrations play a crucial role in UI/UX design and branding. Depending on your final goal, you can use popular styles to bring the content or application to a new level. Discover more information about trendy illustration styles here:
Why can't we have one damn HN post without some obscene war tech shit?
Beautiful. Thank you.

> (1) HN's only value to YC is the community; (2) the community only comes here to the extent that it finds HN interesting; (3) therefore, to optimize HN's value, we have to optimize it for being interesting. Moderating for parochial interest (e.g. suppressing things that some $ingroup doesn't like—VCs or whoever else) would make HN less interesting, so we don't.
We also don't do it because (a) it would be wrong and (b) it would feel bad, but those concerns don't belong in a cynical argument. YC's business interests, however, do belong in such an argument, and it's very much in YC's business interest to keep this community as happy as possible. That's a sort of miracle if you think about it—a freak of economic nature—so we should all enjoy it for as long as possible.
Cards do not compete with ACH or FedNow. Cards are intentionally reversible and non-final. They serve a different need and use case.

People want insurance products, they want rewards, they want chargebacks and they want to borrow up front - and so do merchants. It increases average ticket sizes and it saves them from having to deal with cash. This system didn't get foisted on anyone, it was built to meet the needs of both buyers and sellers.

In Europe where interchange is regulated, credit cards are capped at 0.3% interchange but don't come with those features.
Nobody gets paid to be a telephone operator or a cobbler or a steeplejack anymore either. If new tools come along that automates and further commoditizes the production of art, I don't see the issue. Automatic driving for trucking, public transport, taxis would economically impact vastly more people, and everyone here seems to be cheering for that.

There's nothing special about art. People will still do it as a hobby, like they do with a lot of other dead trades and professions. In many ways I think the personal aspect of the creation and sharing with people you know is the special thing, rather than the creation or performance of a commercial success (not that I've had any experience with the latter, mind you). And I'm not against the mass consumption of art, just that it needn't be produced by people if it has the same entertainment value then that's great.
It's exactly the same with Swedish kollektivavtal and fredsplikt.
Amazing! So counting years now when a first AI feature film hits the cinema screens. Source code: screenplay text. I imagine it may look a bit like "A Scanner Darkly" (2006).
Off course it is censorship, what definition of the word are you using that it isn't? Before anyone jumps in with something off topic, I'm all for for censorship of non-consensual porn.
Just as well it went missing in the much smaller Indian Ocean then!

A surprising amount of that ocean was searched in some way or other in the year following MH370's disappearance (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_370#/...), but pieces of plane are still pretty small in comparison.
Ye Olde Yew Tree is oldest near me 1348, not a bad pub too!

https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/ShowUserReviews-g8521445-d2037...

Has some random relationship with Dick Turpin!
I'm sure some of the brits on here could review each of these as pubs. For my part Ye Olde Fighting Cocks has good beer and food and of course very low ceilings - definitely feels like a very old pub. The George Inn is also very good, although in a much quieter area, and I didn't even notice it was particularly old when I visited, you also start to get suspicious when you go across to the Fleur de Lys and find out that both of these pubs in this tiny tiny village are run by literally the same people - on the day we were there one guy had to run back and forth across the road because they were low on staff.
Half a dozen articles on ML-based image manipulation on HN at once. Seems we're really entering into a golden age of AI-based real-world applications, at least in specific niches. Personally I'm really excited about the potential of this in design, art, movies, games and interactive storytelling. Hard to imagine what will be possible in 5-10 years from now, but I kind of expect RPG games with fully AI-generated aesthetics / graphics and stories, where only some core gameplay mechanics are still determined by the designers of the game. Really can't wait to see that.

The work described in the linked article is also extremely impressive and feels almost unreal, in any case.
Lol thoughts and prayers for you bud.
Same in a random rural location in Germany. Works perfectly with <3s downtime in a week.
There are far worse things one can do anonymously over someone's internet connection than download an mp3.
How to pay anyone in digital US Dollar coins?
has anyone come across a platform that makes it easy to pay anyone in digital US Dollar coins without having to worry about different USD coins, wallet addresses and chain swaps?
> JPG is a lossy format

"Lossless JPEG is a 1993 addition to JPEG standard by the Joint Photographic Experts Group to enable lossless compression."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lossless_JPEG
I'm citing my own experience working on several large high performance react apps. Yes you can make it work. No it's not easy at all.
Sure, but if I need to trust someone, I'd rather trust a company whose reputation is staked on not giving out my data.

A VPN provider that easily bows to authorities is a VPN provider that will lose a massive portion of their user base. Some server farm probably profits very little from VPN servers, so if some government (or even some IP lawyer) knocks on their door, then they won't take the risk.
You're right, but it also means current, and that meaning is often used (in German too) to refer to electricity, which I imagine is what OP had in mind.

It's indeed a perfect surname for researching / working on hydro power.
The problem is not small birds, it is big birds like eagles that can get 20 years old. For example in northern Germany wind turbines are the most common factor of death for them. Thus if just one blade needs to have a different color ot prevent collision and death then it is a pretty decent solution for a major problem.
With american ISPs (specially mobile ones) moving more into tracking and advertising I think you can still get a privacy boost from using a reputable VPN. If you want to access things that are banned or illegal in your country (either for free-speech or piracy reasons) using a VPN will definitely help with that too. I'm definetly aware that I'm just moving trust from my ISP to the VPN, but most ISPs do not even consider privacy as a selling-point or a feature, while a reputable VPN often will.

So far I haven't seen anything about mullvad that makes me doubt them.
Parrot Anafi is pretty nice. Haven't tried the Anafi Ai though.

That won't be a Mavic, but that's european, and really not bad.

Open source would be PX4, Ardupilot and BetaFlight, pretty much. But there you need to build your own frame.
> I've literally never seen an iPhone fail to be a phone.

OTOH, I literally stopped using my iPhone when it randomly decided to take a break from being able to make calls. Except as a beer opener
For me, it’s the confidence of knowing you’re hitting the right key. Memorizing how your layers are configured is nbd (it quickly become second nature). 42 keys (CRKBD?) allows you to confidently strike each key and confidently return to home. I’ve never been able to guarantee this if a single key is even 2 units away from home.

That being said, I think the most important thing is that you like what you’re using. If you prefer Mac’s native keyboard, more power to you. More keyboard happiness is less work stress.
They're vintage enthusiast items. Someone who likes classic cars will probably not want to replace everything with modern digital stuff. CRTs will always have that, as long as they are available.

Definitely not something I'd want to own though. They're bulky, significantly hot, sometimes noisy, full of lead glass. And... HD is pretty nice.
All VPNs are shady, unless you self-host your own one. And if you're looking traffic privacy, Tor is pretty much the only effective option.
what an incredibly one-sided and purposefully misleading article; sadly 95% of people will just read the headline, assume it must be true and move on. Mission accomplished.
The UK launched its Faster Payments network in 2008
What do all these trite propaganda lines about "UkRaiNian NazIs oPpreSsing RuzZiAn-sPeaKinG pEoPleS iN teh EaSt!!1" have to do with Russian army trying to occupy Kyiv or annex Kherson (while indiscriminately murdering civilians in the process)? Do you need my help to verify on the map that those places are not in eastern Ukraine or in Crimea?

P.S. I'm a Russian-speaking Ukrainian.
I haven't tried any of the other comparable frameworks at similar scale. Both Svelte and SolidJS seem much nicer than React to me on the smaller projects I've tried them on but I haven't used them on large enough projects to make a direct comparison.
Those people existed in 2005 and Microsoft released solitaire without ads in it for them and me. Now Microsoft does not. As far as I am concerned, I could play solitaire without ads and I still do today but it's harder and requires more steps. Again, I don't know how non-technical people's existence influences the garbage IT companies now put out and have gotten appliance makers to put out because they always existed! The only thing I can recognized as changing is just a profit-minded decision by IT companies (and even there, the jury is somewhat out, but that's another discussion).

Talking about people who don't know to look harder is not even the issue or relevant. I apologize for being miffed about the "stupid people" talk because it is somewhat presumptous to me, but at the very least I want to submit that I don't understand how that knowledge helps me or anyone at all who has to deal with the garbage the tech companies put out now. As far as I can tell, things that were easy for me years ago are harder now. It doesn't mean I don't still make things work for me because I still do like likely most HN readers, but I did not have to do half of these things 10 years ago but I have to now. I cannot blame "stupid people" because "stupid people" didn't make my computer, my OS, or my air filter, but developers at IT companies did. That to me is the more interesting conversation is because they're the actual responsible party.