skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Potentially good advice here, but some of the details seem off to me. Here are some quick attempts to summarize hopefully as constructive criticism:

In my experience the best options are almost always the middle ground. That is, the startup mentality drives sloppiness and excuses while the big company mentality drives slowness and perfectionism. The best option is somewhere in between. At a startup it can often be extremely valuable to have a "parent in the room" enforce big company thinking and oversight, and at a big company it is almost always useful to at least envision a shorter path than the usual consult with everyone and make a design and see how it goes kind of thing.

The "allows you to respond with “I know this will be ok”" statement as a reaction to major changes and challenges sets off red lights all over my dashboard. The situation will be okay because you made it okay. This is true in companies of all sizes. Fail to take responsibility for the full situation and you are likely doomed.

The "any process you introduce will break by the time you double the headcount" strikes me as classic startup sloppiness. If you really know what the situation is and why you are doing what you are doing then even when changes are necessary it is usually quite explicitly clear what and why. Solid processes and operations often go the other way: even with significant changes the core ideas and methods endure, so be careful what you start with.

Hiring from your personal networks first is another classic sloppy startup error. This tends to end up with clubby teams made of people who aren't actually as good as they might be and that exclude the people you really want to hire. Better to start well outside your personal networks and bring people in as needed. Sorting out the interview process at least at first also works better if it isn't all friends and long time coworkers.

And this business of defining levels is a real mess. All the best organizations I have contributed to have been close to flat.

There are always many paths, but given how treacherous the path to startup success can be it seems worthwhile to air criticism.
Not the global pandemic?
> See, people will make up any kind of shit just to make shit up.

> The overwhelming majority of wind turbines that will be put up haven't been put up yet.

All the cars to be made haven't been made yet, so why rely on current cars for analysis? The cognitive dissonance is staggering.

> There is absolutely no value at all in uniformity of wind turbines.

Saying there is not, is incorrect. In the very least, HAWTs are the same, which is what most people are think of, when talking about this topic.

> And they are not, in fact, uniform.

HAWT are, as they have no patterns, in the US.
Direct link to the video if you’re not in the mood to be bombarded with 17,000 ads on that awful site

https://youtu.be/Zz9oI3B6v4c
They could call it "disable cookies and other persistent storage (more information)" with more information providing their reasoning why they are bundled in plain English. There is no reason the setting has to have a two word name with no description.
Fake musicians: a million-dollar Instagram verification scheme
> If you pick a city like New York or DC, maintaining public infrastructure without car-related revenue would be fiscally impossible.

This doesn't seem right. 92.8% of New York's revenue comes from Sales and Income taxes.

https://ballotpedia.org/New_York_state_budget_and_finances#:....
My uncle bought a Lexmark inkjet for my parents about 20 years ago. If anyone wanted to print something, it was a 50% chance there would be some problem (driver issues, wouldn't turn on, ink dried out, etc), and another 50% chance that it would be recoverable and result in an acceptable printout. It was such a piece of crap that it made me avoid printers of all kinds because of the trauma. I swear that the Canon inkjet that came with the old 486 was more reliable.

I got a Canon laser printer 2 years ago. I guess I'm a boomer now.
I have a goal of taking a ~14-day transatlantic cruise with Royal Caribbean and working 4hrs a day from my laptop onboard. This news makes that much more of a feasible option!
That does seem way too high, unless they're including caffeine and alcohol, in which case I guess I could believe it.
To be fair regarding the pain, I was in approximately 0 pain when I first broke my wrist, to the point where I didn't even realize it was broken until I realized that I couldn't move my hand. I definitely got worse over the next 24 hours or so, after they had set it back and sent me home with a soft plaster half-cast thing.

But I definitely didn't need opioid painkillers, acetaminophen did just fine. Same goes for my wisdom teeth.
A lot of artists make a living doing commercial illustration.
Savage Worlds is my personal favorite. Its not exactly rules-light but it is fairly "a-la-carte". You really only need to learn the basics to play but there are a ton of subsystems you can employ if you want to.

Another great one is The Black Hack which is much more rules light and in the DCC vein.
The general understanding is that noone cares if they're ok with that as training a model (even if a competing service) is not among the exclusive rights of copyright owners where their permission is required - if you have a legally obtained copy, you can use it as you want (except for the specific explicitly enumerated use cases that copyright law awards exclusively to the copyright holder) no matter if the copyright holder likes it or not.
Git’s Database Internals III: File History Queries
This doesn't strictly have to do with stable diffusion, but I really really hope that someone eventually creates a service that hosts live interfaces for all of the legacy image generation models. The turn around on these things is wild, and I worry that unique image generation techniques will become antiquated and forgotten.
He was not completely opposing it, he just demanded to follow the law - you make your case in front of the UN and get it sanctioned. And in this case you should get credit for opposing it as it was all made up bullshit.

Making Russia great again is also perfectly fine if it means to rebuild the economy, improve living standards, and similar things. Making it greater again, i.e. extending the territory with force is of course a different matter.

How well Russia followed the laws and treaties itself, I can not judge, I only know that Putin often said, we are fulfilling our obligations even though the US or someone else does this or that. See for example the speech at the 2007 Munich security conference [1]. How true this all is, I can not tell, I would have to become a full time fact checker.

[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hQ58Yv6kP44
You... are trying to troll me, right?

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https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/rxrate-maps/index.html

This would indicate that after a peak in 2012 of 81.3 prescriptions for every 100 people, it has decreased to 43.3 in 2020.
All Google Ads to Comply with “Better Ads Standards” from October 2022
From October 2022, all Google Ads destinations will have to comply with the requirements laid out by the Better Ads Coalition. This includes basic requirements like no auto playing videos with sound etc.

From October 2022, Google will disallow ads that lead to destinations that violate these rules.
Why do driver updates matter?
I am hoping the following expansion will make it more clear.

The subjects of the Mughals adopted their religion, influenced by their culture, famous Mughal monuments like Taj Mahal dot the subcontinent, the legacy of sufism and emergence of Sikhism, all of these are their traces found in the substance of what it means to be Desi. Not all of these are shared by all people under the term Desi, for example the history of a person from Tamil Nadu will differ markedly from the history and view of someone from Punjab. But they are still part of the overarching sense of the Subcontinent. The Mughals and previous Sultans brought a new civilization that fused with the identity of the region over time.

Conversely, despite the British way being heavily influential in the Subcontinent and having had the most recent influence on the makeup of the countries there, nobody will mistake the Buckingham palace as having the same legacy as that of India. The British colonial era was clear in transferring wealth away from the region and the British did not consider India native to them. The Mughals came as conquerers, yes, but they became integrated into the culture they conquered. They also brought wealth to the region. Did the British Monarchs ever marry into the culture of their subjects like the Mughals did?

For the British, India was a profitable "Crown Jewel" but the mission was not to find the new land as a home. See how their presence in the region began as a trading company.

Contrast with the US where Native Americans were forced into reservations and their culture and language has little influence on most of the inhabitants of the US today. But the idea of the US also departs from a lot of ideas about nation, it is its own beast.
I use certificates to deal with the n clients -> m servers i have privately. On some machines i have AuthorizedPrincipalsFile include my username, so i can directly login as root there.

I found these SSH features while studying the ssh-keygen(1) man page. I don't use extra tools aside what SSH ships.
Thank-you, that is really helpful - I like the icon approach - it would add access to comments, but also keep the interface clean.

Glad you liked it too :)
Sort of? "Tahoe" isn't the problem. Sure, "hoe" is a substring of "tahoe" but it's pretty clear that "tahoe" is a placename in a string like "visitlaketahoe.com". IMO they absolutely knew what "gotahoe.com" would be parsed as, it's very clever. It'd be a Scunthorpe if the site was getting flagged for "hoe", but it's a parsing problem at the user layer, not censorship elsewhere.
“There’s one guy on the [Fuchsia] team who has a history of leaving a company and then spending the time after he’s left the company to transcribe his brain into GitHub. Because that’s the one thing — it’s in his head, and if he puts it on GitHub, it’s his forever.”

Public repositories? Who is this/this would be interesting reading.
How fast are you driving that a 30 minute charge (even at a level 3 charger) gets you sufficient range for 5 hours of driving? It should be closer to an hour of charging I'd think, if you are driving at highway speeds.
I don't think printers are a dying industry. But they're a commodity where nothing new happens anymore and sale volumes are pretty stable. But companies try to figure out how to increase their margins anyway they can, which leads to all these scammy tactics.

I _wish_ printers would die. I've hated them with a passion ever since I've had my first job as a computer "operator" where I had to feed and align perforated paper forms to monster IBM printers. The boundary between electromechanics and software is a very dirty place.
I'm way older than that but I work from home. I actually just made an account after a long time of lurking because the lack of lunchtime tech rants is starting to feel isolating.
Your response is a perfect meta-example of the side-effects of a reliance upon formally-structured knowledge transfer, i.e., waiting for the answers to be provided to you. This is typical of a junior engineer's approach.

The second approach relies upon independent inquiry plus personal initiative, a strong requirement for a senior engineer, who may be independently approaching a problem for the first time and understands the value of time spent (e.g., avoidance of rabbit holes, the need to document one's findings, etc.).

As an example–in a company full of senior engineers, the relative merit of time spent to develop training coursework is offset by the cost of getting other, more valuable work done; as a consequence, hiring decisions are often made based on a given candidate's ability to work on one's own, rather than being led.

On the other hand–in a larger company that has a wider variety of experience levels, training and certification are a must-have in order to bring forth capable employees that can rise to individual challenges without hand-holding.

Does that make sense?
Thanks. Good point in the commercial grade search.
There are stores in my area which sell, at a discount, overstock food products before they expire. It costs less stores less than simply wasting food, and people who aren't picky about what they buy are able to get quality food at a low price.

And to the employee point, overtime (and contractors) typically get paid more to fill gaps when demand exceeds supply. In some cases, when there is reduced demand, employees are offered furloughs. I recall during a recession when I was a child, my Dad spent about a month at home, but was still paid some fraction of his normal salary to stay on payroll.

Adjusting pricing to supply-and-demand isn't exactly crazy, freeloading, or communism. If co-lab were designed to generate a profit, the same type of pricing as AWS and GCP do would make sense. Since it seems designed to position Google in some position in the ML ecosystem, free makes sense.

As a footnote, I don't use co-lab. That's not because of pricing, but because in free offerings like these, I am the product. That's not always a bad deal, but it is for me for the type of work I do. I like running ML models locally (I have a pretty fancy GPU) using my employer's in-house cluster, or paying for AWS. I don't discourage others from using co-lab (that decision is specific to what I do).

I'm not sure why this discussion is so hostile, and reads so much false subtext into statements which shouldn't be controversial at all.
Farmbound, or how I built an app in 2022
Do they haven't, not at the level that Smalltalk does it.

To affirm otherwise only reveals lack of experience on the matter.

No Smalltalk environment has ever shown an error message about not being able to do edit-continue/hot-reload/whatever.... after doing a code change in a debug session.

Nor are they capable of transparently exposing their internal structures in the debugging session.
Traditional Packaging Is Not Suitable for Modern Applications
It’s a fair question. There is evidence that working increases your life expectancy, at least among men[1], and under the regime of western societal norms.

Working with “ambition” could result in more stresses that counteract this gain. Hard to say.

Also possible that the gain would disappear outside of a culture that places so much value on jobs and wealth.

1: https://crr.bc.edu/briefs/do-men-who-work-longer-live-longer...
"a prisoner trapped inside of a giant lightbulb" using Midjourney --test

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/999426920376717513/10...
To expand on the toll road example, I will take the radical position that it is exactly the implicit subsidy of roads and automobiles by the government that has resulted in the nightmarish car-culture of the US -- one which has had myriad externalities, including the destruction of town centers, the concentration of commerce in big-box stores in sprawling suburbs, and an annual number of road deaths that is a full 25% of what COVID has wraught, except for every single year forever. If you are an American, you are forced to pay for this atrocity with your tax dollars.
I have a ~$400 HP with a flatbed scanner and sheet feeder, no complaints. Works well with Windows, Mac GUI apps, Mac CLI, Linux, iOS, and Chromebook. Use the generic Post Script driver for Mac CLI printing with lp, not Air Print, as the duplexer won’t work with Air Print and CLI apps (for instance I print groff PS files.) Works fine with Mac GUI apps and Air Print.

IPv6 completely locked it up. It would reboot over and over. This happened after changing my home router to one with full ipv6 support. Disabling ipv6 on the printer fixed it. It could be that subsequent firmware updates fixed this but I haven’t checked.

I use only genuine HP toner. No way I am trusting random toner from the flea market—er, Amazon.

HP Color Laser Jet MFP 281cdw
> There is a 75% drug addiction rate in the United States currently

This number doesn't pass the sniff test unless you're including caffeine dependency.

In 2015 NIH reported 10% had ever had a substance abuse problem:

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/10-percent-us-...
I wrote a piece about why office printers in particular break down so much. One thing that stuck with me when I spoke to an IT repair guy was that users often cause more damage to worn out printers by trying to fix it. https://www.ciodive.com/news/perplexing-it-questions-answere...
Last suggestion deserves a caveat. Unless more than 5% of your revenue will unconditionally require SOC2, you should avoid doing it and accept the small revenue hit.

But you are correct, if you do need it, you should do it as early as you can and buy it out of the box as much as you can. I recommend Tugboat Logic for this.
Lambda the Antepenultimate ;-)
I find it really funny that they apparently just bought a lot of Mac Minis and put them into racks. Not even Amazon could negotiate a special build.

When I was in hardware business, we were always eager to make customized builds. Even if someone just ordered a couple hundred PCs. If the customer didn't need the speakers, we could leave them out, and split the cost saving between us and them.

Apple doesn't need the cash, but there is no need to leave it on the table, and it seems in their interest that Amazon has this service. At the very least, Apple could leave out the cases, but maybe they could even build a custom rack. No doubt they have something internally for their own build services that need macOS.

It amuses me to think some trainee at Amazon has to unbox all the Mac Minis and throw away the unused accessories...
Not disagreeing, but you have to create a shit ton of scaffolding to work around TF's lack of useful functionality and painful UX. Terragrunt exists because somebody had to do the same, and then kept adding on "smart" features making it even more overcomplicated.
Diamonds and rust at the Earth's core-mantle boundary
Whether I agree or not, I have my own thoughts as to why that comment was flagged and it's not because it was "difficult opinion".
Do you know of any US based web hosts?

It appears Hetzner managed hosting is only in Europe.
Is there really no choice of OS?
> never

Yeah, never say never. If AI can replace artists, it can replace animators, it can replace programmers, and ultimately it can replace humanity altogether.

I think we all knew this in the abstract but the pace is a bit faster than anybody expects.
A combination of Firefox Enhanced Tracking Protection and Cookie Autodelete works quite well here. Along with I Don't Care About Cookies to hide the inevitable slew of consent banners.

I do use Multi-Account Containers and Temporary Containers too, but typically when I want multiple simultaneous sessions, rather than wanting my current session to be cleaned up.
I think they meant fasting.
I did find some vague claims on the internet saying there were ways around this, but I just don't have the energy. Tinkering with things can be fun, but I specifically bought a laser printer and specifically from Brother because I thought they cared about their customers and wouldn't do stuff like this. It's a betrayal of trust.
As a Canadian I can tell you, no. This year British Columbia on average has 5 deaths per day from fentanyl OD, rising from 3/day from just 2 years ago.

The majority of deaths are normal people who used contaminated recreational drugs in their home, as oppose to street junkies that are quickly revived by ambulances.
Right. Over a million excess deaths in a short time will do that, and a non-negligible number were not elderly.
Just put a cat on a keyboard treadmill and supply a constant influx of sardines and tuna. The typing will never cease!
Recently saw a guy do a really cool E-Ink display for smart homes here:

https://github.com/Madelena/esphome-weatherman-dashboard

He lists out the materials and code he used. He went with a low cost / low power ESP32 microcontroller. This is fine if you mostly want to do lower resolution, static stuff. Here you could design something that'd run off batteries for quite a while.

If you're into fancy animations, maybe some videos, then you'd need to go with something a bit more beefy, closer to a Raspberry PI running some sort of *nix, potentially with some browser to render beautiful pages :)

Obviously there's significant price difference between the two approaches, but there's also some pros and cons you'd need to consider.
But we don't really have the option to buy a good quality printer. We can spend more on a printer, but the printer companies don't say "here we have a cheap printer that is designed to cause you trouble so that it becomes effectively a subscription service; there we have a quality printer that will last". And if they tried, it's unlikely we could reasonably believe them because everyone else lies. Cost is no indicator of quality, the reputation brand names are not protected, business do not have pride in their products. All they want is to take more money out of you than you gain in benefit.
>You also need some overlap between what the model has likely been trained on and the expected output.

Ooooo. Ouch. That's... Kind of a death knell for a good tool in my experience, and suggests the tool in question is a glorified search engine in a sense. With a really confusing query syntax composed of words, and graphical starting states.

If I have to become <an expert on SD's training data> to get anything done... Why not just learn to draw/hire a creative?
With enough of a heads-up, I might travel from Cologne to hang out. The London meetup is way too short-notice for me.
Giving the prescription rate as a percentage confused me (though it seems commonly done). What's meant is the number of prescriptions per 100 persons, per year. I assume a rate of 70 could mean 70 persons received one prescription each, or one person received 70 prescriptions?

https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/rxrate-maps/index.html
Check out Hero Kids. Super simple mechanics that still have the general feel of D&D. In my experience younger kids are way more interested in narrative than in combat though so I would lean into that aspect of it.
That bank quote is too funny!
What was the product if one may ask?
Even numbered versions are LTS
Android Auto vs. Android Automotive: What's the Difference?
Decentralized economy – on tech companies and startups
My father in law had an old laser printer that he could not get to work under windows 10 since the drivers only support windows 7 and refuse to install.