skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A few weeks ago I was skeptical that this technology would get past the emotional response we get from procedurally generated game environments, but I've been convinced otherwise. The emotional response I get from some of the best of these images are novel and thought provoking. Makes me wonder what percent of what makes us human is now algorithmically solved....
It wasn’t. That it would be dealt with by the courts if it broke the law — that was
I have been looking at this a lot recently and here are some of my thoughts. I mostly work in Python doing data things, and I wanted an easy way to orchestrate some of my workflows. So I decided to build a UI. First, what is the landscape. If you are in the Python world, probably the most popular frameworks are
1. Streamlit
2. Dash
3. Panel

I started with Streamlit. And it is really quick and easy to get started. And that is why I think it is very popular as well. But then you immediately start hitting walls. The whole page refreshes everytime, so you put just one element in there. Query parameters are experimental. And so on. So, it quickly became clear that unless I am trying to do very simple things this not going to be useful.

Then I went over to Dash. The initial learning curve was a little steep and there is a lot of boiler plate. But Dash is much more powerful. I can get much more done than Streamlit. However, Dash is maddeningly hard to debug. It runs React and Flask in the background, and you can step through your Python code, but the UI elements show up as API calls and this is completely opaque. Don't get me wrong, its way better than Streamlit, but I want to better understand what is happening and I can't do that.

At this point I am starting to think whether I should try out Panel, or just use React + Flask, because I know it can do a lot more.

On another note, maybe we as a community can decide what such a solution would look like, lay out requirements. Maybe someone here will actually build it!
Just what's in the square I believe. The only difference here is one of UI, since they give you a canvas in which to place your generations.
Currently this library can generate multiple images and upscale them through RealESRGAN:
https://github.com/hlky/stable-diffusion

If you are not using this library already, give it a shot.

Also, I'm using Nvidia Studio drivers though I'm not sure if that would make a difference.
Very cool. I think one doesn't need to join a startup for such experience nowadays. Simply joining YC/XYZ accelerator might help get a structure around the million things that are now institutional knowledge so you can focus on what matters.
He's not banning a slogan. He has a plain black shirt dress code going back to 2017.
Heatpumps had been trendy for a while now in NL, and if you can supply and install them, you are having a great time right now.

I managed to snap up one of the last relatively favourable long term energy contracts that controls the damage a bit, and fortuitously I had solar panels installed a year ago. For a heatpump we'd need to replace all radiators as well, so it's something I'll have to get done before the contract is up.
The issue has nothing to do with a lack of railroad. The issue is the insatiable drive for profit by capital in an industry that is already incredibly profitable.
I’m also curious who the “we” you mentioned is supposed to refer to.
Google Drive Deluxe streaming original series and anti-originals

https://twitter.com/nickciarelli/status/1337205352027181056
One of the last companies I'd whitelist.
So then how do you explain this?

https://twitter.com/firstsquawk/status/1564771213506818048?s...
Motionity is a free and open source motion graphics editor for the web
True, but you sacrifice global competitiveness if you force a company to operate uneconomically, and Germany is an export-driven nation, even more so if German consumers are being eaten alive by inflation.

Not that said countries won't try or that the industries are leaving tomorrow, but at the end of the day the energy has to come from somewhere, and every day it doesn't those businesses are losing money, or the taxpayers are losing money subsidizing them. In the worst cases you end up like that Soviet company that exported industrial furnaces to then West Germany and was held up as a bastion of Soviet global competitiveness, when the West German buyers were literally melting down the furnaces for the raw metals because they were just so cheap and the metals so comparably valuable in the global market.
This assumes that law enforcement is both effective and fair. It is neither.

"Police exist, therefore nobody except the police is allowed to do anything about anyone's bad behavior" is a terrible argument.
> There seems to be a growing trend of generally healthy people looking for drugs/supplements to provide marginal improvements. I can't help thinking it's a sign of a vacuous and unfulfilling life.

Not sure I agree with your analysis. If I had a vacuous and unfulfilling life, I wouldn't strive to prolong it.
Or rename themselves OpaqueAI.
Everyone says stable diffusion is a free alternative. Where do I get the weights without passing a gatekeeper?
That's what this is about - there's a uniform dress code. It started in 2017. It's not a ban on union messaging - it's a ban on anything that isn't the plain black shirt.
I really doubt it's related at all, though everyone would think it looks that way. SD has only been out a week and this feature would have taken much more than that to build, test, enroll demo users, make a webpage for, etc.
I've been complaining for years about WikiLeaks not being a wiki -- no one wants to listen....
I read about the Marjorie Taylor Green incident. The swatter apparently claimed to be a specific moderator from the website (by username, not actual name), while commiting a serious felony against a prominent politician... If anything, it looks like a two-for-one swatting, getting the moderator and the site a visit from the feds in addition to Marjorie Taylor Green.
Really impressive, congrats on the launch!
Yes, Russia briefly had free elections. Unfortunately, this did not result in a functioning democratic society - not because of lack of resources, but because of lack of desire to resist the oligarchical clique that managed to control, subvert and ultimately destroy the democracy. That wasn't the problem of the economy - in fact, Russian economy in a better shape now than it was in the 90s - it's a societal problem.

> This is true also in the United States

Sadly, true - but hopefully, it is still possible to avoid Russia's fate. Even though many institutions - including major part of technological leadership - are leading us to the same place, where expressing dissent is virtually impossible and any political action is only possible with approval from above - ironically under the slogans of "preserving democracy" and "fighting misinformation". We're not there yet, but the road has been built and we are marching along it. What works for us is we can see where this road ends, so maybe we can find in ourselves to stop and turn back before it's too late.
I know that a lot of web frameworks already have admin panels available either released by the main development team or by a 3rd party. What is the advantage of using Payload over those?
> Is it more profitable / money saving to let someone die?

"Old" people are expensive because as they age, their body degrade and gets harder and harder to "maintain".
If you can prevent aging, then you pay a bit upfront for prevention, but then it get cheaper later.

If you want to compare with COVID, it is cheaper to vaccinate everyone than treat the bad cases in a non-vaccinated population
> There are no lines in comedy

Isn't this a "court jester" interpretation of comedy? The comedian debases themselves on all issues so thoroughly that it creates a convenient bi-directional fiction: I can ignore things that bother me, because they are just the ramblings of a clown. And so they can say whatever they want, with no requirement that it make sense (because there is no "low" they won't sink beneath).
We use SSH certificates for host keys at work. That way we can avoid the constant "is this the host key you were expecting?" that everyone just pounds 'y' through.

I've used user certificates personally in the past but no more. These days my SSH key is a GPG key on my Yubikey.

For (centralized) user auth at work we use Kerberos/GSSAPIAuthentication (Windows 10's ssh client finally has support for it! You don't have to go download a newer version off their Github!). Users are free to use that to drop an authorized_keys on systems themselves as desired.
I aspire to offer that level of transparency. I am foiled by (1) GPU prices can change randomly on me, and (2) it's hard to convey to a user pricing without giving them a huge incomprehensible price sheet.

All is not lost though, I've got a few irons in the fire that should help resolve those points of feedback over the coming year.

In the meantime, you can always just buy a GCP VM and you have all the certainty you want: https://research.google.com/colaboratory/marketplace.html I find most people don't want that because it's a pain that Colab Pro/Pro+ largely abstracts.
Congrats on launching!

For anyone looking for more (open-source) alternatives, here's one I just discovered today: https://microsoft.github.io/kiota/
Finally we have the answer to that age old question of how one might type with boxing gloves on.
Just yesterday I got contacted by a Google recruiter through LinkedIn asking me whether I was "interested in discussing our current remote opportunities!" .

Given the infamous Google 5-7 stages interview process I promptly rejected the offer. IMHO It's just not worth it for an employed person to go through that hell...
I have a first-gen Zen from 5 years ago, and I feel no compulsion to upgrade. I recall reading press articles claiming the sanctions would set China back by decades. Assuming they have chip- & interconnect-design chops to match, then they are likely only a decade or less behind the leading edge- which I did not expect.
Is this effectively part time employment?
The solo roleplaying subreddit is a great resource too.

https://old.reddit.com/r/Solo_Roleplaying/

And I second Me, Myself, and Die. Starting out solo roleplaying can be daunting and watching someone entertaining who has a lot of experience doing it helps a lot in the beginning until you figure out your own flow that works for you. As an example figuring out how to use GMEs isn't exactly obvious (what sort of questions should I be asking, and when?) but it quickly makes sense watching Trevor do it.
If you go back tens of millions of years ago there were dinosaurs in polar regions. Of course it was much warmer then

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-strange-lives-of-...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Polar_region_of_the_Cret...
When you have something like `const [variable, setVariable] = setState('foobar')`, you are not getting "variable" back directly. Instead, you're getting a pair of a setter function and a getter function. React keeps track of the variable's value internally, and when you access `variable` you're really just calling a getter function that "requests" the value from React, essentially. So you can can call `setVariable` to modify the value internally to React without actually changing the binding of the variable you see, hence it can be const.
From The Great Train Robbery (movie):

Judge: "Now, on the matter of motive, we ask you: Why did you conceive, plan and execute this dastardly and scandalous crime?"

Edward Pierce: "I wanted the money."
So then this becomes a question of: is it responsible to talk about this with the general "you" as though unhealthy young people or healthy elderly people don't exist, as the parent comment did? To create a perception of AC being generally decadent that discourages it for all, including those who may not know they need it? I'd say it's not a small caveat to elide.

Something like one out of ten people around the world is over 65. In the US, something like one out of four. That's a huge chunk of humanity, not a corner case to handwave.
Yeah, this story headline is misleading and most people not applying any critical thought to this and just jumping to "space man bad"
Male dolphins form lifelong bonds that help them find mates, research finds
A little looking around points to global plastic production being near 370 million tons. By comparison, global seaweed production is near 10 million tons, wet. Trying to expand seaweed aquaculture 37X is not very likely, and would have many negative ecological effects. Existing seaweed production is already in high demand, and cheap plastics are not a likely endpoint.

Basically, the biosphere is not capable of replacing fossil fuels on the scale they're currently used. Corn ethanol can't replace gasoline, soy oil biofuel can't replace diesel, seaweed plastic can't replace natural gas petrochemical plastic. There's just not enough to go around, and the costs - in area, in fertilizer, in processing energy - are just too high.

There is a solution, it's industrial-scale renewable-powered direct-air-capture-and-reduction of atmospheric CO2, plus water, to hydrocarbons from methane to jet fuel (including the plastic precursors). It doesn't require arable land - a desert wasteland bordering an ocean would be a perfect location.
Congratulations and great idea! What's your roadmap or appetite for pay-for-features? For example, what would be involved in hiring your team to improve a specific area or two?
Price would have gone up if SD wasn't open source, look at the new google collab pro limitations and you have indications that they're loving this new wave for milking it properly, I just ordered a GPU to run on local.
They should hire these guys

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duJwGSUhRQA
Punjab Canal Colonies
(Maybe not)Fiction: Sinking EDF cuts off power to freezing London to save Paris
I'd recommend trying a different fork. Perhaps you're using the the official one. I believe that one still "ramps up the system" on every image generation. Other repos do the ramp up only once.
The annual cadence simplifies our planning— we can preview features a year ahead and prepare for the LTS release. It also shortens the feedback cycle for Microsoft which has to be useful.

From a recruiting standpoint, it allows me to start conversations. I don’t take points off if candidates haven’t worked on the latest version, but one of my go-to questions is “What features in .NET X are you looking forward to using?”.

In an industry of constant change, it’s a negative signal if you don’t know anything about the current version of the platforms you use. Many, many candidates don’t.
Google is most interested in maintaining mind-share so that researchers don't jump ship. They could always monetize Imagen through Google Cloud but are concerned about risks (NSFW, legal issues, bias, etc.) so would rather wait for others to step into the water first.
Thank you! We're looking forward to doubling down our efforts. So much more to come.
Also very interested in this - I have a mini 2 as well and if I can get it to follow me that would be AWESOME.
You can't fly a Skydio in Europe. (source: I own one)
I think the point is that he did, and that we all do, when we train our meat neural networks (on copyrighted material) in a way that makes us better at providing a commercial service (our job).

If a human has a right to view and learn from a copyrighted image on the internet, why shouldn't an AI?
Interesting take, we'll see in a few month what happens in Europe energy markets.
Game dev, because it's creative and it's what I've spent most of the last 20 years of my life doing in my spare time anyway.
I'd guess he's been advised not to say too much, and the specific way to say what he did.

Besides the ongoing criminal case for which he may be a witness, I'd guess there may be potential liability wrt the company, and I'd guess that he's being careful not to create new potential liability wrt the indicted person (see several different nuances in his "My sole source" sentence).

And this sounds like a lawyer-approved away to convey that he recognizes the importance, without saying any specific possible mistake of his that could be fodder, nor prejudging the case:

> I always endeavor to ensure that my articles are properly sourced and factual.
The smartest people I met in my career were at Google, and their main concern, institutionally, ultimately, was increasing ad click thru rates. (their main concern, individually, was doing whatever the institution required for getting promoted)

There's a lot of people on HN who can relate to this experience. That's where our intuition that there's a lot of people working on stuff that is useless to 99% of people, but will help a small elite get richer, comes from. It's literally what we do for a living, or used to.

Look at the top companies on the S&P 500 and where most of their revenue comes from. How much are these activities really improving the world?

If only the internet had had a built in mechanism for automatically micropaying for content as part of your internet bill (like flip phone ringtones used to work in the aughts, or how Minitel supposedly worked in France in the 1980s) adtech would never have happened and we would have a totally different internet. Instead we have this tragedy of the commons where the greatest minds money could buy are figuring out how to get people to waste more of their precious minutes on earth clicking on more cat videos so candy companies will pay for the server bill.
Agree, there are double standards in work here and I think cf must pick a side.
Do you maintain a GitHub Action? Contribute to the SecureWorkflows project
This is backwards.

Companies that cannot survive without massive infusions of cash go to Wall Street asking for money while promising growth.

So if there's anyone to blame, it's companies who are unable to sustain businesses without raising massive sums of other people's cash.
Is there a open source fuzzing framework for Go?
> In a deeply troubling response, after both terminations we saw a dramatic increase in authoritarian regimes attempting to have us terminate security services for human rights organizations — often citing the language from our own justification back to us.

So, that's the reason then? It becomes hard to justify also not shutting down activists or dissidents and such. But why can't they just say "no"? They are a US company, if someone from some authoritarian regime wants them to make logical or consistent decisions or points out some "hypocrisy", they can still shrug and say "so what, we wanted to terminate that service, but we won't terminate this other nonprofit organization's service you want us to, tough luck".

Or, perhaps, they do want to have a nice relationship with those authoritarian regimes, and keep getting business from them...
I am in the same boat as an employee who left a cushy job at G to join a startup with the motivation to start my company, but I feel there's a limit to "preparation" and one needs to be honest and take the plunge. Else, I am bs-ing myself.
They're currently hosted on Google in a way that you can download them via curl/wget. Here's a guide including the link: https://www.assemblyai.com/blog/how-to-run-stable-diffusion-...
The UX is evolving around AI image generation so fast, everyday is something new. There's so much greenfield exploration space for new interaction models.

6 months from now, how we interact with these models will probably look entirely different.
> This is a failure across many journalists

Only one journalist was involved here. I think you meant "failing of many journalists" not "failure across many".

> The amount of scrutiny applied to a source is inversely proportional with how much I want to believe the source.

Why do you disbelieve a source that has been greatly scrutinized? Did you mean "directly proportional"?
> made public for obvious reasons

Read: to put a target on the back of anyone making an abuse report about the website.
Dall-E so far hasn't been able to grow an ecosystem because of how restricted it is. Meanwhile Stable Diffusion makes trial-and-error and innovation around it easy, and as a result only 9 days after Stable Diffusion's release we see OpenAI release a feature that looks like a copy of a tool from the Stable Diffusion ecosystem.

I agree that Dall-E isn't obsolete. I'd also add MidJourney to that list. All three are great models in their own right with their own pronounced strengths and weaknesses. But when it comes to enabling novel workflows Stable Diffusion seems lightyears ahead of the others.
Er, you'd store the data in your DB of course and only a comparatively small, encrypted index to it in the URL. You wouldn't trust the client to "persist" the data anyhow.
True. The new UI finally got better ... and that was what everyone was complaining about ;). And let us be honest, the UI matters with Unifi.
Sure, Oleg Kiselyov, the owner of that site, is a very frequent poster at Lambda the Ultimate and entries on his site are frequently discussed there.
Is Cloudflare a government service? Do local fire departments remove copyright infringers' sheds?
The problem we are trying to solve is to automatically calculate what the minimum GITHUB_TOKEN permissions should be for a given workflow.

We are solving this problem by building a knowledge base of permissions needed by each GitHub Action.

If you own a GitHub Action, contribute to the SecureWorkflows project by adding a YAML file describing the permissions your Action needs.
Yes to both questions. It's a (set of) specific thing(s) in company law.

https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/810...
I mean, Michael B. Jordan is a good example of why you don't have a good example. Even if you share the name, you have to differentiate it somehow to be marketable.
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I am here for the comments only. :)
Let me share my (unpopular) opinion: whatever minimum mandated by the applicable laws, and nothing else. If you are not a bank, and don't have EU customers, it could as well be an empty checklist. If you need anything more, you are not a startup. Well, if you disagree, let me add one item to your checklist: know when to stop expanding it.

Rationale: I have seen enough organizations with the checklist-based approach to security. In all of them, it had nothing to do with actual security, but with convincing customers that the organization is safe to deal with - even if it is in fact false. People responsible for filling in such questionnaires often had an outdated vision of the practices of the company.

Also, once you allow any checklist in, or hire any so-called cybersecurity expert who is actually a checkbox-ticking expert, you will be under constant pressure to strengthen this "security posture" more and more, way beyond reasonable. Hypothetical example: this expert decides that you have to comply with Cyber Essentials, and one of the requirements is to install, on each laptop and desktop, an antivirus that can live-check all of the web pages loaded in browsers. But no such desktop-ready thing exists for Linux, and this expert will tell you to stop using Linux on desktops, thus leading to mass-resignation of developers. While the proper solution would have been "don't deal with the UK government".
I assure you if I had a plan to monetize a social media account, and needed 1M followers to do so, I will happily pay 100k to make a few mil!
Manufacturing the new TV costs energy. When you buy brand new you’re just paying the energy cost upfront. Depending on the usage this may or may not break even.