skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> we can ask them “Do you want to join our text club and receive offers from us” at the time that they order food

So let me understand this.

* I order food through a self-serve PoS or website, or cashier/waiter, whatever

* Presumably the interface collects my phone number - potentially a checkout process which previously did NOT collect my phone number

* Immediately after I receive a text from you, a third party that I may never have heard of, not attached to the restaurant, and this text asks me to opt into marketing for the restaurant I just ordered from

Questions:

1. In the initial SMS will you identify yourself as a third party not affiliated with the restaurant?

2. How do you plan to identify and report success metrics for your customers marketing campaigns? Tracking links in the SMS that mark as conversions when clicked?

3. If your company succeeds and you get a whole bunch of big chains to do this, how will the average dining experience change for a customer of the restaurants you partner with?
This is a perfect example of the bourgeoisie complaining that worrying about Proletariat lives is harming their ability to optimize profit.

One wonders how they feel when the proletariat decide to optimize their own lives and rise up against the bourgeoisie.
> Orion browser currently has around 1,800 active users. The way we measure this is through auto-update “pings” to our updates server.

I'm happy for them, but is this an accurate measure of active users?
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There seems to be a problem with Digital Ocean login system and cloud support.
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Bari Weiss is well aware the money is coming soon because there’s no way to appeal any more. What she needed was an example of “wokeness gone mad”, so her readers can confirm whatever biases they hold. They pay her $5/month for that and boy does she deliver.
The difference is more heuristical than technical.

Render the entire page in one go, rather than have the server render small chunks at a time and have the client patch the DOM. I.e. not having to think about below the fold, adding event handlers to pre-empt and preload. In practice, you’ll need to sprinkle in JavaScript interactivity, but the point is keep this to a bare minimum. See Craigslist or HackerNews.
I think, one requirement is that the user has to interact at least 30sec with the app, which makes the whole thing feel a bit random.

You need to design some intentional onboarding for this to work consistently.
"The police arrested the students, charging all three with assault and the shoplifter with robbery as well. In August 2017, the three students pleaded guilty, stating that they believed Gibson's actions were justified and were not racially motivated.[9][11][12] Their plea deals carried no jail time in exchange for restitution, the public statement, and a promise of future good behavior."

(they may have been jailed while under arrest, but their plea deals kept them out of jail after that)
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Not necessarily. We understand lots of the underlying orbital physics and know from stellar lifecycles how much of each element to expect. From there you can run the math on radius and density and only be left with so many possibilities of what the thing is made of. It’s not certainly water, just one of the likely possibilities. An interesting hypothesis that could actually be tested by atmospheric spectroscopy using Webb.
Not a controversy, but my gripe with ddg is whatever they do when I click on a result that puts the title and icon of the target page in my history, but when I click on the link in history it takes me to the ddg search results page, not the actual page.
Par for the course. Sell sugar water, sell bottled water, sell cigarettes, sell quit cigarettes products.

The cycle is meant to continue forever, increasing in velocity, until all the paperclips are belong to us :)
Actually, that is something many middle-aged Portuguese are keenly aware of. Either because they lost relatives in that war or because they are still trying to figure out how to cope with the mistakes of that generation (most people who lived through that are gone - and so are their worldviews - so I don’t see any point in demonizing the dead).
Is there a good set of benchmarks available for Stable Diffusion? I was able to run a custom Stable Diffusion build on a GCE A100 instance (~$1/hour) at around 1Mpix per 10 seconds. I.e, I could create a 512x512 image in 2.5 seconds with some batching optimizations. A consumer GPU like a 3090 runs at ~1Mpix per 20 seconds.

I'm wondering what the price floor of stock art will be when someone can use https://lexica.art/ as a starting point, generate variations of a prompt locally, and then spend a few minutes sifting through the results. It should be possible to get most stock art or concept art at a price of <$1 per image.
Isn’t that what I said?
This is sad. Regardless of whether they'll get the money or whether the cost is justified, it's a bad state of affairs that an accusation and a protest etc. can more or less destroy a small (long standing) business like this. Things like "innocent until proven guilty" etc. are time tested and really need to be held up.

It's a good thing that the courts see this and awarded punitive damages. Oberlin trying to appeal that is just part of the process so that whole thing works. However, the outrage culture which can be weaponised and deployed against anyone causing great long term damage without any checks and measures is not healthy.
This is the natural outcome of bad economic policies. The world today runs on interest and usury, things that prohibited in the three major religions of Islam, Judaism, and Christianity. Yet, people refuse to learn.
The facebook posts made by Allyn Gibson make it clear he is racist, which is how he earned that reputation. The court didn't hold Oberlin College responsible to pay because Allyn wasn't racist, he is racist. They held the college responsible because an administrator was on site for the protests and handing out fliers making it seem as though the college endorsed the protests. If that administrator had not been there, the college would not be responsible for any damages as it's otherwise perfectly legal for any of its students to protest anything they like including racist individuals and their family establishments.
Broadly speaking, it looks like they are. The implementation of Stable Diffusion doesn't appear to be using all of those features correctly (i.e. device selection fails if you don't have CUDA enabled even though MPS (https://pytorch.org/docs/stable/notes/mps.html) is supported by PyTorch.

Similar goes for quirks of Tensorflow that weren't taken advantage of. That's largely the work that is on-going in the OSX and M1 forks.
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I can no longer edit my comment and feel the need to add to it: upon reading the FB post (https://tinyurl.com/2h9rmkzu) this points to the bigger issue that is worth at least mentioning. Often people who are not very eloquent try their best to state their (sometimes naive but often not ill-meaning) views, instead of being treated as the beginning of a conversation (in which the person is validated and a dialogue forms), their words are publicized and they are demonized, which polarizes the issue. It is deeply unfortunate that in this case somebody chose to publicize rather than attempting to start a dialogue.
And what does some historical injustice have to do with ordinary people being pushed out of their homes? Maybe you could try to not put them all in one caste and judge them all as a single entity?

Really, it is not appropriate to wish them all suffering, because of some historical fact, which they most like did not have a hand in. A little empathy seems appropriate. Maybe with more empathy in the world, we would also see some more apologies for historical injustices.
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"the administration doesn't have the guts to do anything but go along with it"

The previous administration actually did, but maybe that's why they are now "the previous administration".
It's crazy how detrimental dating apps like Hinge has been for my mental health these last 6-8 months. I'm relatively pretty good-looking as an early 20s male and I've been on multiple dates but women always have the opportunity to "find someone better". I haven't been able to find a serious partner at all and I might be due to how long I have been out of the dating game but all this liking and swiping makes me so self-conscious and insecure.

I've also started balding since I was 20 and it puts that much more pressure on me to find someone through these apps. It's so unhealthy but I don't know what to do anymore. Male pattern baldness is a horrible disease especially since it is genetic and not something that can necessarily be stopped, just slowed down by medications that aren't even effective for me, lol. I hate to think like this but it makes me mad that there are unhealthy and overweight individuals out there with great genetics and I'm just sitting here losing my hair at an unfair age even though I'm very health-conscious and fit.

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> Decades old mismanagement (governments use these "free" services to cater to their party members and get them nice administration positions for which they don't have any experience) and some outright corruption, destroyed the quality of most of these "free" services.

Tangential, but I recently visited lisbon and realized how terribly mismanaged the airport is, as well as TAP Air (Portugal's flag airline). Everything should be well, because it's a pretty big airport but yet it was a mess, and delays of several hours was apparently an every day experience (which I learnt the hard way). It did give the impression of having root causes in corruption and complete mismanagement of public funds.
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Well for what it’s worth, this was simple shoplifting and the situation was escalated by the store owner.

I’m not suggesting shoplifting is also not a crime, but it isn’t violent. And when somebody is chasing and grappling you it is a natural reaction to fight back.

So basically it seems like here the violence was perpetrated by the white guy, if we are taking the facts at face value.
> I think it’s much better to have two high-quality dates than dozens of low-quality ones.

But first you have to meet the person to go on a date with.
like, 36 large vs 36 large large
Apparently, this release should include a Dockerfile for easier replicability.
If it's not understood then those are the wrong people to be making decisions wrt to the problem.
I’ve been very surprised at how quickly the American left has turned its back on free speech. I guess that’s why they’ve stopped calling themselves “liberal”, instead calling themselves “progressive”.

Much like how the American right has stopped calling the US a democracy, instead calling it a republic.

Or how Google changed their motto from the specific “don’t be evil”, to the ambiguous “do the right thing”. After all, whose to say that being evil isn’t sometimes the right thing…

The problem of course, is that if you bootstrap on good principles and then replace them with dubious principles, your past success is no longer predictive of future success.

It’s like ripping out your home’s foundation - what good is it now that the house is built? It’s just getting in the way of that sweet basement you want to add.

Edit: as I rack up downvotes, I see that complaining about the Left, Right, and Google in a single post on HN is a losing strategy :)
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What a clever trick!

Like magic, anyone who doesn’t agree with you then instantly becomes “intolerant” and dangerous so we shouldn’t allow them to have a voice or power.

That line of thinking is nothing but BS mental gymnastics to justify oppressing and silencing the other side.
Nah I don't think that's true, at least for me - I tried low effort, I tried high effort. High effort has definitely worked better.
Between this and efforts to add 3D dimension to 2D images, I don’t see much of a future for digital multimedia creator jobs.

Even TikTok could be an endless stream of ML models.

Fears of a tech dystopia may be overblown; the masses will just shut off their gadgets and live simpler if labor markets implode within the traditional political correct economic system we have.

Open source AI is on the verge of upending the software industry and copyright. I dig it.
Portuguese IT is pretty good in general, and that could easily have been part of the solution. The problem is that there was a large exodus of talent in the early 2010s (including yours truly), and that has caused some serious brain drain.
You surely do, first of all the borrow checker is only a compiler validation that you are writing the manual code correctly, and no one is magically writing Drop traits implementations for the user.

Likewise on the C++ side, someone has to write those constructor/destructor pairs, and there are ways to get RAII wrong.
To be fair, many people are missing many points on this issue.

People miss that the tech is here, and it's not going away. We've open sourced it already. It's burgeoning at a wild speed.

Most people seem to miss that this artist was entirely honest about his use of AI assistance.

Many are missing the point that this was a casual art competition; a state fair. There wasn't a huge prize at stake.

Many are missing the fact that there was undeniably artistry in the methods used, including weeks of work, touch ups with Photoshop, etc. I doubt that one in 100 people could get a work like this from MidJourney even given a week of unlimited research and experimentation.

People don't care about these issues. It's ignorance. Trying to have a fruitful discussion on this stuff when basic facts are left by the wayside is like trying to drink water with a fork.
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not every country does allow it, but you don't have to buy to cause a problem for locals - just be willing to pay more rent than a local can afford is enough of a problem to price others(locals) out.
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So how does this contradict what I said? The leak is still there. As I said... people just choose to ignore it.

IO has not been following moores law. So you can see high level abstractions around IO leak like crazy.

And also, there is no "retiring" going on. Retiring something because of a bad abstraction almost never happens, whether it's because of performance or not.

The bad abstractions stay forever. You just don't notice it. You just master the abstraction and keep on using it.

Learning about the leaks and learning how to manipulate the high level abstractions to get around the leaks becomes an intrinsic part of the culture. It becomes so intrinsic that most people can't even wrap their mind around the flaw in the abstraction. They get defensive if you talk about it. It's invisible, but it's still there.

SQL is the most leaky abstraction I have ever seen (in terms of performance). Learning to deal with it and all it's leaks are the norm now. People don't even refer to a query planner as a leak. The technical debt is so entrenched within our culture that it's actually considered to be a great abstraction. And who knows? Maybe mastering SQL with leaks and all is not a bad way to go. But mastering SQL involves dealing with a declarative language and manipulating it in ways that leak into the underlying implementation. No amount of optimization has fixed this.

SQL isn't the only thing with this issue. For SQL the crappy abstraction is just performance related. But you see other abstractions continued to be used because simply it's too hard to retire them. Javascript, CSS, HTML, C++. Python2 (finally this has been retired). Basically it's everywhere.

Abstractions are rarely retired. Abstractions with leaky performance problems are also never retired.
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Read Samo Burja, John Mearsheimer, Oliver Stone, etc. It's been in the working for many years, and Russia's hand was forced.

Simple mental exercise: imagine Russia or China working out plans with Cuba to set up an MWD-armed military base there, then try to figure out if the US would invade.
Try the lstein fork: https://github.com/lstein/stable-diffusion/tree/fix-cuda-res...

You'll still need to play with modifying some of the code to get it to run, but `dream.py` works for me. Funny enough, I got only img2img effectively working with the lstein branch; it broke txt2img for me.