skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll take the chance to recommend Microscope[0]:

It's a narrative-focused zero-preparation game where, instead of roleplaying individual characters, the whole group collaboratively roleplays a universe, using index cards for bookkeeping.

The basic action per turn is to add one of:

- Period: description for an era inside the universe (possibly spanning 100s or 1000s of years). E.g. "The Age of the Dragons".

- Event (inside any period): a noteworthy episode (at the scale of months or a few years). E.g.: "The Laghdur Dragonguard rebels against their masters, beginning the Dragon hunting".

- Scene (inside any event): a particular setting where specific characters actually play a part (at the scale of minutes to hours). The core idea of a scene is to answer a specific question and the answer will come up organically as the scene is played. E.g.: "Why did the Dragon hunting start? Setting: the Laghdur council." -- And, during roleplay, this happens: "The Queen of the Laghdur and her entourage plan to execute their rogue Dragons, but Feuner opposes since it would mean the hegemony of the Laghdur in the kingdom will end". -- This is the closest to traditional roleplaying you'll get.

You can add any of these (written as an index card) at any point in the timeline of the universe (there is no past, present or future), as long as they are consistent with already established facts. Inevitably you will form preconceptions about "your" universe, which will get completely shattered by other players developing new facts and storylines. It's truly magical.

With the right people it's a joy (I'd say it resonates with creative, narrative people), but don't expect anyone that associates RPGs with characters and levels, stats and fighting, to get into the mood (I'd even recommend to present this as a tabletop game instead of an RPG in that case).

It's easy to devolve into crazy settings with time-travelling and other trite shenanigans, but once you get the hang of it and get truly creative you can get pretty cool character and universe developments.

[0] https://www.lamemage.com/microscope/
Well I for one and shocked that Twitter, a social media company, has not solved both all human social and sexual issues with a 100% accuracy at a rate of less than 0.000001 pence per post! What is taking them so long? Why can't they reconcile all human behaviour, morals and law and do it for free?
It's only good at prompts that ask it to do a non-photorealistic artistic style. All the photorealistic attempts are bad.
Top French bureaucrats: We won’t be enslaved by robots
Title should really say mobile phone gaming.
Swift Table – produce an iOS TableView in 3 lines of code
Reduces the hundreds of lines of code needed to create a UITableView
> the War of Northern Aggression

That’s some choice phrasing there. Mind explaining this framing? Pretty sure the only people I’ve seen use this phrasing were people who thought the confederacy and slavery were good things
Firefox is the obvious solution to this problem, as you've pointed out. You shouldn't be upset that it's discussed in relation to this.
I am excited thinking the next generation of video cards will all have 10GB of memory from the mid-tier up. This is going to push up the requirements of some of the enthusiast GPUs for non-gamers.
I think you may be surprised.

There are very very large companies that surprisingly have hashicorp products deep in their central core - Vault is an obvious one.

At the heart of all huge companies are InfoSec and architects looking for a solution they can trust will scale - and what better than the OSS product they have hands on experience with.

It might not be profitable in Microsoft terms, but then again we won't see musicians earning like the Rolling Stones anymore. Open Source chnaged the software publishing game just like internet chnaged music,

But there is enough profit out there.
We do know what the US wanted though, because they were quite open about it, and they got it: in particular the neoliberal shock therapy reforms which were such a distaster.

Today, we also know that they were backing Yeltsin for a long time, and supported his 1993 attack on parliament which decisively turned Russia into the dictatorship it is now.
A Ukrainian developer is creating a game about NAFO – Fella Game
Fellas or NAFO (North Atlantic Fella Organization) not only received an official thanks from the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine for their contribution to the fight against Russian propaganda, but they will soon have their own Fella Game.
I think an important datapoint would be urbanization and population density. If somebody lives in a dense neighborhood they're much more likely to be able to bike to where they want to go.

Nationwide density is very misleading for countries where the population is concentrated in only a handful of urban areas. I wonder whether density data has sufficient quality to provide percentiles of density, say, 10km around each citizen.
Not really that topical, but this passing remark in the article opening is interesting:

>OnlyFans, the most popular by far of the adult creator sites, is projecting $2.5 billion in revenue this year — about half of Twitter’s 2021 revenue — and is already a profitable company.

It's amazing how being profitable is so much not the norm of silicon valley companies that the moment a company actually does make a profit, it is notable.
Unfortunately most packages spend more time during the configure step or other ~single threaded parts than actually compiling stuff in parallel when you have that many cores. You can compile multiple packages in parallel but doing that without running out of memory when you do get to a couple of big packages is tricky.

Ideally, portage would take memory (including ramdisk) requirements of packages into account when scheduling builds (some packages do check for free memory) and ask as a make jobserver [0] (with patches for non-make build systems to support jobservers) to always fully use the available resources.

[0] https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Job-Slots...
Last year, when 3090 GPUs were astronomically priced, I thought "screw it, I'll just buy an RTX A5000 for a couple of hundred bucks more." Which begat a second A5000 for "reasons." It was almost prescient. Now all these models are coming out requiring slightly higher VRAM GPUs than a 3090, i.e. more in the range of the A5000, and I get to run them. I am a kid in a candy store this past couple of weeks.
Oh I see. That makes it alright, then. Those Balts really should stop whinging.
Since no fully autonomous cars are sold and widely deployed, we do not know.

A lot of tech people are blind about fetishism of tech for its own sake. I am all in for new tech and modern inventions, but I am also surprised when people advocate for new things even when they do not work because of aesthetic reasons. Software engineers are not immune to this ("our scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should")

Short rant about self-driving ahead.
I think we will reinvent the train. Fully autonomous cars will work only in certified roads with special signage. This will offload the cost to the private car owner, as opposed to building public transport.

Otherwise, it will remain a lane assist tech, which I am perfectly fine with. IMHO until I see fully self-driving trucks I won't believe it is around the corner, since the economics for trucks make much more sense. But, since the cars can be controlled remotely via 5g, I do not know if it would ever be worth the cost to have them be fully autonomous, instead of remotely controlled by humans. Maybe the solution is a remotely controlled car by a human. Interesting times.
My thoughts are to look as generic as possible. Due to window decorations, desktop environments, etc, that viewport becomes identifying.

I understand there are several other ways to identify a web traveler, but I was hoping there was an extension that allowed you to use this dev tool setting persistently as an easy toggle-on/off.
Reminds me of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJ-ehbVQYxI
Businesses? I'm thinking it's something a team of developers would use. There are a ton of project on GitHub that uses various CI/CD tools to build package, rather than letting a random developer build an distribute a new release. Similarly a company might want to use this to test, build and release software. Checking that patches and updates from any number of developers can be merged and verify that all tests still passes.

If I understand it correctly, it would also mean that use Xcode Cloud to release an application into the App Store. Then no single developer needs access to submit new versions.
Thanks fur posting this. A well-written read which pretty much mirrors my own thinking on the human race's place in the great span of Earth's history.

And why [although I agree with many of their aims] I get irritated by the environmentalist slogan "Saving the planet" The planet doesn't need 'saving' by us. It will carry on just fine, whether or not we wipe ourselves out.
I'm really astonished. In what kind of echo chamber do you live in? Have you been in Russia in 90's? It was not only an economical disaster, more than ten years we lived in a constant bombardment by the media of "revelations" about our lives before, kinda non stop shit storm (we even believed this was the press freedom as the west sees it).

In the hindsight it seems like it was impossible to devastate a country to such an extent even intentianally. Getting out of this shit strongly correlated with Putin.
> I think if I was a creative writer or professional artist, the current generation of AI tools could be useful for inspiration. But the bar for quality is just so, so high in the creative industries, I am not concerned that AI will replace them.

I don't think AI will replace professional artists, but instead supplement them. Creation of Photoshop, Wacom tablets, 3d modelling and animation tools didn't put professional artists out of their jobs, it gave them new tools to create even better stuff in less time, and I think this is what's happening here too.
I wonder which Linux DE environment you will be using, KDE? I find Gnome's changes to be more unnecessary than Windows, e.g. Gnome 42 defaults to overview on login.

Overall, I find Gnome to at least be more consistent than Windows and no adverts in the activities/applications menus are of course appreciated. However, every major release tends to force the user to relearn certain how to use your desktop principals.
Not everything is about money. Sometimes its principles, sometimes its about giving back to the world, sometimes its the fun of it, or just raw boredom.

I do not claim to know what motivates gorhill, but so far none of his motivations in building uBO seem to be against my own motivation to use it, so it is fine.
I like their earlier work more, with the audio pictograms.
It's unclear who did the editing of the video, but the marketing push of the video is definitely by DJI, and the actual capture of the video (and the Everest journey) was done by 8KRAW FILMS. Original video is at their own YouTube page: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnFI8lUGeks
I don't have an answer, but I've a question :P

How do you trigger the behavior? Is it bound to a key or is there a different way to trigger the action?

For example, I'm an emacs user and though I remember a lot of bindings, I also use heavily helm-M-x which provides fuzzy completion on command name.

For example, I may not remember all org-mode shortcuts, but I can do:

M-x org subtree

And I'll get a list of all org-mode commands on subtrees.

(I've never used AHK.)
Writing a .NET profiler in C# – Part 1
Meanwhile consenting adult sex workers are consistently driven out of legitimate work, and restricting any kind of content no matter who it harms is called censorship.
Ok, we'll leave it to the EU to fix it, then.
It's a problem with every plasma TV ever made. I've got one of the last Panasonic Viera's which, after almost 10 years, has a slight dark patch around the place where subtitles tend to appear (I'm from the Netherlands where almost all non-dutch content is subtitled)
It's only really noticeable when looking at a uniform gray screen which is not my content of choice, but it's there.
> with feeling and 4 part harmony.

Definitely lol’d at that, thanks
But the bicycle for the mind idea goes further than programming your own system and doing creative works. Or rather, it starts smaller.

One example: When I encounter a word I don't know, in my native tongue or another language, how can I find out what it means? I can copy it to some service like google translate or an online dictionary. Maybe I even think of looking for a browser extension? But all these things are work and complicated. So I probably just read on. On my kobo reader, I can long press a word and get the dictionary entry. So I use that regularly to look up and learn new words which I would not if I always had to take out my phone and go online.
Back in the day, google+ had a translate button, that would instantly translate text inline, which made it super easy to follow or even talk to people who wrote in a different language.

These kind of features are empowering! They use computers at what they are good at and they benefit most users who don't want to learn to program or customize their system. But they are few and far between in commercial systems or open source alternatives. An empowering system is not just one that you can customize, but also one that enhances the users own capabilities in meaningful ways. And there is a plethora of low hanging fruit there, we sadly are just too often stuck between "good enough" and "works for me"
One example would be support for traits, that original Smalltalk (thus Squeak) never adopted other than the original discussion on the matter.
How does this not have the Anansi Goatman? That is by far the best story.

https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/Anansi's_Goatman_Story
Does anyone know if it's possible, with a high end gpu or relatively cheap cloud provider, to use transfer learning to extend the model with in-house images? I think it would be useful to customize the output for certain genres or applications.
> the War of Northern Aggression

Of course you'd have a problem with the president who freed the slaves
Oh, that's a nice one - definitely way better than FAANG!

That being said, I think that Meta is evil and should not be promoted in any way - so we might go for a version without it, for example MAGA! Oh, wait... :P
I doubt that is possible to optimize JPG losslessly as the description in the linked website.

JPG is a lossy format even with 100 quality and every additional saves will remove some data from the image.
This is virtue signalling IMO. I work in ad tech and don't use ad blockers. I can surf just fine. I don't think this is what the disadvantaged people (sounds bit like "think of the children to me) care about. They have more important problems to worry about.
> Exactly how many times does DJI shove their brand name or their product name in our faces in this footage?

I count two times, the last time together with the name of the people doing the expedition + capture of the footage. How many times do you count?
It isn't that the software is crappy (though a lot of it is), it's that it's what people buy. They'll buy a TV that has hardware on it to overlay ads on what they're watching just because it has the YouTube app built in. They'll buy toasters that require OTA updates. The eternal September of the internet began with the invention of the iPhone.

I think the OG hackers were overly optimistic, call it solipsism, but we are talking about people who double right click. The address bar now almost universally integrates search functionality because lots of people just couldn't grasp the concept of clicking s different box or going to a search site first. And that's just the bottom of the barrel. There are plenty of smart people reading this right now with 6 figure jobs in silicon valley who have an Alexa in every room.

But my comment wasn't about the mythical idiot. It's not about how smart they are. People want what they want. It's not that they're stupid, it's that they're not interested. They'd be watching TV 5 hours a day in 1995, and they're doomscrolling Facebook right now. And if you're not like that, if you don't want to live the lives they do, then you should use other things rather than complain that things designed for them don't work for you.
The main use for useCallback is to add a callback to a useEffect dependency array without it running on every render.
I've seen an inpainting technique where you put an existing character then describe what their twin is doing, then crop out the existing, which seems to persist the character at the cost of fewer pixels to work with
Residential TV power use is probably not a big factor (unless you have a TV problem), and even though CRTs got nice and warm, modern OLED TVs do just the same. Many even have cooling fans for the panel.
They neglect to ban people for advocating widespread genocide but ban people who don’t want to experience genocide and say so. Your numbers are a caricature of the actual platform as it operates.
With no js the only option would be an iframe, wouldn't it? And that'd be super easy to game for the publishers. So there's gotta be some javascript involved.
Hi, laion5b author here,

Nice tool!

You can also explore the dataset there https://rom1504.github.io/clip-retrieval/

Thanks to approximate knn, it's possible to query and explore that 5B datasets with only 2TB of local storage, anyone can download the knn index and metadata to run that locally too.

Regarding duplicates, indeed it's an interesting topic!

Laion5b deduplicated samples by url+text, but not by image.

To deduplicate by image you need to have an efficient way to compute whether image a and b are the same.

An idea to do that is to compute an hash based on clip embeddings. A further idea would be to train a network actually good at dedup and not only similarity by training on positive and negative pairs, eg with triple loss.

Here's my plan on the topic https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AryWpV0dD_r9x82I_quUzBuR...

If anyone is interested to participate, I'd be happy to guide them to do that. This is an open effort, just join laion discord server and let's talk.
If you look at the circle on a piece of paper, yeah, it doesn't make sense _after_ it's been drawn.

But it does have a beginning, you had to pickup a pencil, placed the carbon tip on the surface of the paper and then finally you were able to draw a circle.

So yes, it makes sense _before_ the circle even existed. Something created the circle, it didn't materializa itself out of nothing.
Because he is a traitor to his people. I know not a single person so universally hated by his own people but Gorbachev. He caused collapse of great country, sold it for dollars and cola. The fact that he’s praised by western people further solidifies it.
I think this is the book, for easy access: https://media.economist.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/Guide_t...

Edit: skimming through it and looks like this is a lot of material in this book and other guided by the economist listed on the second page than can also be of interest.
https://textual-inversion.github.io/
Is this what you mean by the character persisting across scenarios, poses etc?
This may be, but it is useful to point out that, in many cases, engineering practices in more tangible scientific areas are also driven by some personal preferences / opinion.
For example, in which situations should you use Redlich-Kwong equations of state over a simple ideal gas or VdW? There will always be one model which gets closer to the measured values in a specific condition, but the entire domain may be difficult to determine which model is most appropriate.
Even in these fields the decision falls to opinion - some models may be more precise and accurate, but require more processing/ development time. Which is just software engineering again.
IMO math > programming > rest is the order. On proof search there’s a lot of prior-work. Programs are super easy and cheap to verify or simulate/generate. BTW I bet that even if you aren’t using copilot VS Code collects your input as training data. With programs it’s not necessary to understand NL, might as well work as show me example of input->output
I wish developers would stop with the one or two letter names for their products. In most cases there is already another product with the
same name and you just cannot do a websearch for it without a hassle.
HCL doesn’t interop with anything. In a moment of weakness I once generated HCL using M4 (because passing a DynamoDB key schema into a module used to be impossible), but now I think it’s better to generate the JSON equivalents they also parse.

Their gRPC API for plugins looks pretty tough, and I keep hoping for an SDK for custom resources that doesn’t require writing Go.
Some of the tech and especially the platform they're building is impressive, but in terms of raw image generation quality from results I've seen and my own experience, I don't find it anything close to DALLE-2
Show HN: Have I Been Pwned? – DIY style
Apple has DMCA'd people for hosting copies of their own ads as a hobbyist historical record

https://9to5mac.com/2020/01/27/the-unofficial-apple-archive/

Their Orwellian revision of their own history in the endless treadmill of the "one more thing" I'd be surprised if they truly have any of it still

"We have always been at war with x86"
Although Belgium certainly isn't as rugged as Pakistan, it's far from flat and especially in Wallonia population is very concentrated along one valley (the sillon Sambre et Meuse):

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kobe-Boussauw/publicati...

As a result, the region has a population density of 240/km² (only slightly less than Pakistan) but about 2/3rds of the population is in this valley representing 1/16th of the area of Wallonia. Flanders is mostly flat and more evenly settled.

This is actually more similar than I expected to the population distribution in Pakistan, with Punjab being a flat plain with an evenly distributed population, and the rest of the country being mostly settled along one river. By the way, Belgium also suffered a large flooding event last year in this valley, although nowhere near as deadly as what is happening in Pakistan.
They show it when he's sitting at the summit and launching the drone.
You mean "predecessor" (twice), "prequel" has a different meaning. It's (roughly) when the medium B is created after medium A, but is set earlier in time.
Would you be willing to link your ML layout?
After hearing your comment, I humbly say that I was merely referring to the fact that, even if we exist, we might not be the only entity that does.
Yes it was likely fragmentation. You could run python with jemalloc (not sure what it does by default these day) and get much nicer memory footprint especially over time.
Do you want to learn the fundamentals of economics, as in micro- and macroeconomics?

Or are you more interested in more applied topics, such as business accounting, corporate finance, etc.?

Edit: I'm asking, because you state "for Entrepreneurs", which makes me think you're more interested in the applied topics - even though fundamentals like at least microeconomics will be nice to know.
https://supernotes-resources.s3.amazonaws.com/direct-uploads...
I think he constantly undersells compared to the CEOs and marketing dept of other companies talking about their products.
As expected, very few NSFW images were included in the training set, according to this. They are more afraid of showing a penis than showing Mickey Mouse.
This tool optimises blocky JPEGs for a better viewing pleasure: https://github.com/victorvde/jpeg2png

> jpeg2png finds the smoothest possible picture that encodes to the given JPEG file.
Like everything else, with a source control system that is image aware, like Monticello.

https://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/1287

Most Smaltalk implementations have such tooling in place, that is just a possible one.
Yes, but art school just turned into a one-semester course.