skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Man, you just brought up one of my biggest pet peeves.

The design of modern drip coffee makers. Prior to about 15 years ago, the basket for the grounds was almost always full separated by a compartment from the heating element and pumping area. Slowly, these areas were combined into one, with a plastic lid that covers both where the grounds are place for filtering, and the basin that water sits in. Maybe its a simpler design. Maybe.

By combining the regions, steam builds up and small particles of coffee find their way into the water storage basin (inevitably). Because of this, the heating element and pumping area are exposed to small particles of coffee, which creates buildup, and can clog the elements. Thus, a modern coffee maker designed in this way *will* fail after a number of cycles. There is no way to prevent particles of coffee from getting into the pumping area, and its otherwise inaccessible (no way to clean).

Prior drip coffee makers, they had lasted me as long as I had an urn that still fit them. Never any issues with the mechanism. No issues with buildup or clogs in the water storage area.

Its my number one consideration when purchasing a drip coffee maker.
Find Meaning at Work
Hey HN,

How do you find meaning at work/life at 31? I'm finally working as an SRE at a company that pays ok but has very good work-life balance and has pretty good career opportunities. I very much wanted to work in infrastructure after toiling away at post-grad life sciences and then help-desky roles for 6 years. I feel like I should be more excited about the type of work I'm currently doing but I just don't feel excited. When I got the news about the job offer, I felt more sadness than happiness (which was completely unexpected).

I feel like I invested way too much time and effort into career and nothing in improving my personal life. I'm spending more effort these days to travel, re-building relationships (which is hard when all of your friends are married & having kids), and finding new hobbies, but everything just feels dead. I'm seeing a therapist and it helps but these feels come and go. I just want to feel excited about life again.
Well this reminds me of the priming that is in AI Test Kitchen https://aitestkitchen.withgoogle.com/how-lamda-works

I mean, the example with "I'm at a planet made of marshmallows" and how the generated text changes from the default I guess style to a bombastic description.

I don't have an example of that in GPT-3 playground right away, but I suppose it works similarly and could be used to nudge the AI writing style in some way.

This is also why I'm not holding any expectations with offering you a story idea; the AI can come up with a story idea, in my experience, once I did not start with "You wake up in a cart in Skyrim" but with mere "You wake up in a carriage" and the AI started to improv right away, "A man in black robe enters the carriage", and I let it continue, chiefly on its own. Though I haven't saved that story, I will remember it well - the mysterious man in black robe locked up the protagonist with a book containing every knowledge of the universe, telling that after a year he'll come back to ask questions; and he came back after a year and asked Deep Philosophical Questions (TM), and the protagonist had not to shabby answers to them; among them stoically accepted death. Subsequently, the mysterious man took the book and left, leaving the room no longer locked. The protagonist traveled to the nearest village and settled to a work as a teacher. Fast forward twenty years later, meeting the black robed figure again, this time it was revealed to be Azrael (the angel of death); only then the protagonist felt truly the fear of death and that changed at least one of the answers to the Deep Philosophical Questions (TM) from the earlier part of the story.

Feel free to use that as a prompt; I doubt the AI will recreate that story with a good writing style with just that, but AI are capricious and one never knows until tries.
Isn't the common use of the word "sex" just short for "sexual intercourse"?

And unless there's the possibility that people are fucking in front of the mice, there's no ambiguity here.
I am amazed you noticed this. It is correct. I noticed my mistake, didn't want to spend an hour putting back my camera and light at the same location, and proceeded to clumsily edit the audio :)
Thank you, I never heard about Smullyan, I'll check that out.
Yep, serfdom was abolished in England in 1574 and in Russia in 1861, almost three hundred years later.
Yeah, same. As soon as the story involves anything supernatural, I'm not scared anymore, since it can't happen anyway.

Does not mean there cannot be a good story involving supernatural things (far from it, magic can be fantastic--pun not intended--in stories), just that any semblance of "this could happen to me" or "this could be a real story" is gone.
If you want to crop jpegs losslessly, you can use jpegtran: https://linux.die.net/man/1/jpegtran

On Android, LLcrop
Agreed - the hand writing recognition was fine, especially in later versions!

I worked at Apple UK at the time, and for a while did Newton Support!

I loved those devices!

They were so capable. They had IR built in, and you could send files to each other. You could also get TV Remote apps! All amazing stuff to me at the time!

And unlike the Palm devices of the time, didn't erase themselves when the batteries ran out!
Say what you will, he seemed a politician very keen on world peace, beyond mere lip service. He understood the lacunae of the Soviet system and genuinely set about to reform them. But ultimately it was Ethno-national interests in Ukraine, Baltics and Central Asian republics along with the rise of opportunist power-grabbers like Yeltsin that did him and Soviet Union in.

And perhaps his own reluctance to follow the Chinese model. He prefered to do political reforms before economic ones, while the Chinese prefered the economic reforms first and foremost.

He ended the war in Afghanistan. He was more keen on Nuclear disarmament than Western leaders: Western leaders dragged their feet on that matter, and ultimately we didn't get no where near Nuclear disarmament.

He ushered in reforms. See the Soviet films of the period to see a very different picture from cold war era Hollywood depictions.
Fiasco is kind of tough because there's no real conflict resolution like in more traditional RPGs. Even in something with complex dice rolls like Genesys, there's an outcome decided and you can use that to guide actions and outcomes. With Fiasco, it really just is improv scenes and you play up your relationships and goals.

I totally agree it can be fun with the right group, but the right group is either very open minded and comfortable with each other, or decent or better improv players.
The government serves the people. A high value opportunity hasn't been slow payments. Poor tax code is way more expensive than anything else.
Yes, that tiger is shit. Here are 35 tiger stencils I generated over a few minutes with Stable Diffusion on my PC with a humble RTX 2070s gpu: https://i.imgur.com/y9oCZIz.jpg

I could run pretty much any of these through adobe illustrators auto trace and end up with an amazing vector image.

I could also leave it generating these for an hour and I'd have over 1000 results to choose from.
"I can think of no recent novel or film that provoked passionate debate."

How about the TV series Squid Game?

Another series, Extraordinary Attorney Woo, provoked considerable debate in South Korea, apparently.
> how much of these edits are low quality, false, or just vandalism

Regardless of the quality&vandalism - the name of the topic visited for review is in itself a valuable notification.
> Open source appliances [...] can't do the same thing that open source software does.

People don't write their own open source. Expertise and economies of scale are a thing. I'm fine with buying my open source appliance from Walmart, as long as I can get parts from everywhere and download a manual that tells me how to fix everything that goes wrong with it.
From C2 https://wiki.c2.com/?ArchitectsPlayGolf and https://wiki.c2.com/?ArchitectsDontCode

> "The SystemArchitect responsible for designing your system hasn't written a line of code in two years. But they've produced quite a lot of ISO9001-compliant documentation and are quite proud of it."
Japanese Tsunami Stones wish to have a word with you about cycles and long-term probability. https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/21/world/asia/21stones.html
After watching the third season of For All Mankind, I now want to use My good dumpling as the default salutation for all my correspondence.
Meta isn't popular, not with the general public and not with the VR community.

Meta for one thing wants to be the big destination and the last thing they want is portability with other platforms.

On the other hand NVIDIA wants to sell CPU, GPU and other accelerators and needs to see progress.
"Independent minds, the ones that count, don't humour though, they will always just double down and use the language you hate further just to enrage you, because fuck you"

That's incredibly immature. You're basically admitting that your position is just spite.

And no one is telling what you can and can't say. Continue speaking however you please. The younger generation are just telling you they won't like it. And no one is obligated to like what you say. It's the same sort of generational divide that's always been around. And history says the new generation almost always wins.
> I'm starting to feel more hopeful about the US's digital infrastructure.

The real American way is to have no government involvement. Arguably no federal reserve.

Banks already created Zelle which works great. Get cash instantly with a phone number. I personally prefer cash but w.e. (Don’t want to be tracked)

Why do I need the government implementing another solution that already exists. Particularly one that has partisan actors at the top of the board. No thanks.
Please stop the whataboutism.
The devil doesn't need an advocate. Go home.
It'd be nice if I could read about the reasons why, but it's behind a paywall.
If you want a cheap lightweight tractor, there are plenty on Alibaba, starting around US$3500. But you're not going to pull full sized implements with them.
You have underlying $STOCK that you have to cover the sold CALL options. When the counterparty exercises their CALL (because the market price is higher than the strike price), you can meet that obligation with the underlying stock.

After you meet this obligation, you have the option of letting the PUT expire without exercising it.

The purpose of the PUT is to help you safeguard drop in value of the $STOCK investment (in the OP's question - a hedge against inflation impact on the investment).
Sure, but people should either decide to be ok with their friends using phones or get friends who also dont use phones. The middle ground of having friends who use phones but hating them for it is stupid.
I got the joke. AFAIK, all comments on this were jokes (turning crypto's no chargeback mechanism on its holders; super-complicated movie-like scheme; mine was doing what the lady in the article already did). I was hoping someone had a joke to 'deal' with the tax office.
A layer on top of what?

I'm fairly certain interac is its own network, though transactions CAN be routed over the visa network.
Why do people keep bringing up copyright anyway? It seems pretty clear that the images being generated by StableDiffusion are transformative so it's protected under Fair Use.

Am I missing something here?
I used i3 on older laptops, and decided to try switching to Sway when I got my current laptop 16 months ago. I’ve switched back to i3 on it on a few occasions for screen sharing in Zoom, and wow, I’d forgotten how bad the tearing is, and how not-great the management of inputs and outputs (though this is unlikely to affect full desktop environments like GNOME and KDE), and how annoying it is to not be able to use my XF86AudioMicMute key because its key code is 256 (it was a pain to get working in Sway, requiring xkb_file with a manually-tweaked keymap, but as far as I can tell it’s simply not possible under Xorg which has a hard limit of 255). Plus scaling simply doesn’t work at all well in X/i3, to say nothing of flat-out not supporting mixed scaling, whereas it all just works in Sway (the only apps I have to tweak are ones run via Xwayland, which sometimes but don’t always get it right out of the box).
Microsoft found a new way to anger customers and why are you surprised?
I meant that if you intend to use a jammer as a countermeasure against a drone, you're making yourself vulnerable to ARMs. Sure, you can position the jammer away from anything important but that ups your time to redeploy / reconfigure it, reducing its effectiveness. You also lose the jammer, though that might not necessarily be a problem if it's a lot cheaper than an ARM and you have a lot of them available.

But of course ARMs work fine against a drone's controller, too - assuming it isn't using FHSS, though that itself assumes no crazy-advanced anti-FHSS RDF. That's kind of my point regarding how this stuff cuts both ways, how even if a countermeasure works in one instance that's no guarantee it'll continue working, and how countermeasures themselves generally have weaknesses.

Naval engineering provides a lot of examples of this dynamic. Check out what the introduction and development of the torpedo did to the meta.
Wordle lost its magic for me when people found the optimal path for solving any problem. I like Voggle, as that's a word searching and knowledge problem, and Semantle is kind of nifty as you really have to test your vocabulary to zero in on an answer.
> So go on a cruise where that's the prearranged theme.

The person you lambasted had said this:

> it makes sense that some cruises would offer no Internet access to passengers as a perk

I saw the comment in that minute before you responded-- this was in it. Further, there were cousin comments articulating the same view.

You're not being very kind.

> When I hear what you're saying it's roughly equivalent to "I wish I could go out to bars and talk to people who don't have TV" about 2 decades ago.

Here it's more like "I wish I could go to a bar somewhere near me without a TV blaring".
Fair use is a defense. You can still be sued for fair use, you have to go to court and prove to a judge or jury that your work constitutes fair use.
From the Google Colab product lead:

> This has been planned for months, it's laying the groundwork to give you more transparency in your compute consumption, which is hidden from users today.

https://twitter.com/thechrisperry/status/1564806305893584896
Imagine the points in the wilderness we haven't truly explored due to lack of safe passage. Valleys or caves or even just particularly dense forest. I am not sure we would discover much new, but I do enjoy the fact that we haven't been everywhere. The internet can make it feel like all possible exploration has been done, reduced to datapoints and photos.
Point taken.

It's interesting to think about nations as individual people with both innate and learned characteristics. The latter can override the former in some cases, but it usually takes a lot of effort and/or extreme circumstances.

A nation's innate characteristics wouldn't be gene based as would an individual though. It would stem from the circumstances of its beginning and its history that forms the ethos of a people and is passed down from generation to generation. In that way, it is gene like.
> Making them out to be representative of any audience is a mistake

I mean, I think before he got sued, Alex Jones would have actively disagreed with you. He would have taken pride of that in his audience. There’s some chance he may actually take offense to your comment.

Aside from that, why would it be a mistake if someone intentionally cultivated that? there’s been plenty of cult leaders who’ve cultivated terrible audiences. I’m not making a broad generalization about someone with general appeal like Joe Rogan, but there are some bad people out there, some self identified.
It’s not really a belief at all, more of a half-baked thought. I could be swayed in either direction, but I’ll continue to ramble a bit:

Sure, a light-hearted chat with easy questions can of course make a person open up, but when it comes to the billionaire CEO of one of the most powerful companies in the world (or some high-powered politician, or whatever), is it ethical to donate what basically amounts to a PR job (answering softballs and getting to seem relatable while ignoring problematic topics) that is framed to viewers/listeners as an interview?

“Yeah, I heard something about Facebook and privacy that sounded bad, but I saw Zuckerberg on Joe Rogan talking about hunting elk and smoking weed, he seemed like a relatable guy. I’m sure he tries his best and wouldn’t betray his users on purpose.”
My credit union is integrated with Zelle. I had to go through a special process to do straight ACH transfers, they kept wanting to direct me to Zelle but I need to regularly do transfers beyond the Zelle limit (business payments).

If this all works it will be an interesting culture shift.
"no moderation should be applied because inconsistent moderation is worse than no moderation"

This is still your cognitive style of wanting hard and rigid categories for no good reason.

The consistency of moderation is a spectrum, from very poor to average to excellent.

You're insisting on drawing a rigid binary of "inconsistent" versus "perfectly consistent", and saying that since "perfectly consistent" is impossible, the only alternative is "inconsistent" which is categorically worse than than no moderation by sheer virtue of the binary category that it's assigned to. This is the perfect solution fallacy.

"Actually I'm disputing the idea of "good and bad ideas" in this context"

Right, so if literal authoritarian Islamists became the dominant paradigm and Sharia was imposed on you by force you have no problem with it simply because that's what won in the marketplace of ideas. No, this is nihilistic moral relativism, and I know you conservative types don't really believe in moral relativism, it's probably just disingenuous posturing because you know right-leaning opinions tend to be banned more often in social media in the current moment, so it's helpful to adopt a stance on censorship that seems more principled and logically consistent. The left did this in the 1960s. If it was just ISIS propaganda being banned and nothing else I know I wouldn't be hearing any of these nihilistic relativistic arguments.
worth it for the great colours we get
I don’t consider it whataboutism, I think that many social media companies are clearly in literal violation of googles policies and thus citing policy to shut down truth social gets an “okay bro” reaction.

The moderation is clearly totally arbitrary in where it draws the line regardless of if truth social is or is not worse than other social media platforms. Google is effectively making this up as they go.
>The problem is that the counter drone technology, if it is a drone itself, will necessarily always be more expensive than the attack drone (because it must follow the attack drone).

Same argument made against Israel's Iron Dome against Hamas's more or less crude rockets.

Said argument misses the point. The question isn't whether an Iron Dome missile is more expensive than a Hamas rocket (it is). It's whether an Iron Dome missile is more valuable than the lives and property lost by letting that Hamas rocket through.
They do that all the time. How do you think Pelosi and Biden got so wealthy?
My point was that if he is right, many people are aware, but exploring it (or something similar) more quietly. This is because if it is not the case, it is not helpful to inflame the system until they can prove it.

There are many potential issues with lab strains beyond genetics such as microbiome, developmental processes, nutrition, etc.
Archived: https://archive.ph/M98Y7
China also learned a lot from the brutal liberalization in the breakup of USSR. Their own shift to markets was explicitly designed to avoid such a catastrophe. The book "How China Escaped Shock Therapy" on the topic is interesting.
If there's no VB6 components I will be very disappointed. I mean, how else will you create the Active-X objects for the javascript to interact with?
I drove past some rather large fields of them- perhaps it was the angle of approach, but seeing many large rotating blades just over the horizon while driving actually made me a bit nauseous. Similar to seasickness / motion sickness, I suppose.

I also have a strong dislike for the aesthetic, though my wife doesn't mind it much, so I guess it's a purely subjective take. Assuming that everyone who disagrees with you is blindly shilling for politicians and oil companies is a bit extreme, though.
Karabiner + Goku[1]

[1]https://github.com/yqrashawn/GokuRakuJoudo
https://archive.ph/6IijE
The government serves the government. "The people" only matter towards that end.
Yes but we have a common law system and there's already tons of precedent that training AI systems is transformative.

It's also quite obvious just by looking at the generated images that it's clearly transformative. The images generated are unique and you can't trace the original copyrighted image from what's generated.

You really don't need a judge to see that Fair Use covers Stable Diffusion.
Brain Science from Bench to Battlefield: The Realities and Risks of Neuroweapons
That's literally all it is.

netflix used to be a bit like youtube. A platform where content creators (e.g. the big movie and TV studios) would distribute their content (first on DVD, later on streaming).

netflix today is a content creator hosting it's own content. Similar to HBO or Disney or Paramount or whoever else.

Different business altogether really that can hardly even be compared.
> I'm not sure we've gotten the word out much beyond our circle

I can guarantee you that the people that need to be converter won't be reading this article, any more than they will be visiting HN.

> The article mentioned Safari a couple of times

Hmm, I only see it mentioned once, and it makes sense in context, because Safari suffers from the same Declarative API issue (they actually did it long before chrome did).

> it feels almost dishonest to discuss it wothout mentioning that there are better options out there

Again, that discussion has been had ad nauseum, nothings being contributed by mentioning it again.
This is well known. Have you checked how glue is made? How many small mammals die to combine tractors? What are the environmental effects of producing any of our modern goods? We have far bigger and more morally relevant issues than an arguably mutualistic relationship between humans and livestock.
Are you equating Zelle to Faster Payments? No offense, but I really don't think you know enough about payments clearing if you are making such a statement.
It's hard enough to get them to hold still on a flatbed scanner -- painting would be a team effort.