skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes and I think it will especially push the boundaries of art forward like we have never seen before.

Also, it will be interesting to watch whether and how people will be assessing art created by AI. Will there be something like Connoisseurship for AI art?
So, to you, "Tool" or "Language" do NOT imply that you can use it independently of a specific online service?

I mean, I agree, that "new" is marketing speak for "alpha/beta", but -to me- there is a difference between a "language/tool" and a "Single-Vendor-WebService". Or is my understanding of the semantics of the English language outdated?
Why does my down arrow-key refuse to bring me downwards on this webpage before it shoots me back to the top ;(
The higher education system we have is broken. We are pouring money into a system that apparently doesn’t enable graduates to pay off their loans. Your answer is to subsidize further?

Colleges will continue increasing tuition and pumping out worthless degrees. People will continue to rack up student loan debt. It’s just not sustainable.
Rust adopted Node's quadratic dependency model, so Rust binaries are going to be O(n^2) larger and tree shaking isn't going to help unfortunately.
It's because there always has to be some retarded-ass "enhancement" going on fucking with the colors, fucking with the image in any which way possible. Bullshit sharpening filter, bullshit edge detection filter that produces shitty artifacts around actual sharp edges that don't need to be fucked with.

The early LCDs were shit because they did only nearest-point sampling. The new LCDs are shit because they "enhance" the image to shit, even in native resolution.
Nah, that's not it. I mean flat #000000/#ffffff. Google "stencil image" and you'll see what I mean.

AI really doesn't handle styles with restrictions like that well. I tried the stable diffusion website with variations on "black and white silhouette stencil image of a cat". It kept wanting to give the cat colored eyes, or it used shading, or the cat didn't have a coherent anatomy, along with the typical AI art "duds" that aren't really anything at all.

To be fair, I did get a couple of passable results when I replaced 'cat' with 'dog'. They were simple, but didn't have any obvious errors.

To be fair in the other direction, replacing 'cat' with 'abacus' gave me an (admittedly pretty) grid of numbers and some chainmail, and 'helicopter' suggested a novel design where two helicopter bodies would be stacked vertically, connected by a vertical shaft through the rotor, and which turned into a palm tree trunk above the top unit. Once you get out of the sample data, it starts to fall apart.

I feel like other people here are willing to forgive more errors than I am. They see an incoherent splotch in an image and assume more development can iron out all the problems, and I see a unavoidable artifact of the fact that these systems don't have a real understanding of what they're making.
Can we see your work of art?
Yeah but they're pushing it to do this. The plot is human-generated. And in any case it passes the buck onto the inside universe to come up with the excursion that escapes endlessly outward.

It's a little like Rick and Morty. I think they have an episode about this with energy, infinite recursion then something happens then you get excursion.
oh waw, this is great, thank you for sharing!
I do know that funding and managing local services like water, sewer, schools, police, fire dept., etc. is the responsibility of the local municipalities.

If you want to argue something else then please explain why local gov't even exists in the first place.

This is a primarily a failure of local government likely due to weak/inept leadership. Just because something like fixing your water supply is politically difficult or expensive doesn't mean you can ignore it.
Another question being, since those same guests have been present on many other podcasts (most do rounds for promotions), why does his podcast seem to be preferred?
the concerns on wind energy are blown up artificially.

specific example from Germany is "the dangers of infrasound", which led to a highly restrictive anti wind energy "protective distance requirement" of 10 x height ("10H rule") in Bavaria.

And then someone figured the underlying study was off by three orders of magnitude, i.e. 1000x off.

yet the disinformation has sunk into the heads and wind energy now has an irrational and steep uphill battle.
Was it? Was it because it was intentionally 'manufactured' to genocide 'political opponents' that the Soviet state ordered food rationing EVERYWHERE else in order to be able to help Ukraine. So much that the people in Leningrad and Moscow ate less than people in Ukraine during the period? Which we know beyond any doubt because the records of who was given how many grams of what type of food during the rationing is still in the records.

Holodomor became a thing when the 1930s Rupert Murdoch started doing propaganda on behalf of Nazi Germany after signing a deal (for $500,000 dollars). Back then propaganda was not a dirty word, and it was business.
You can do similar things with xdotool (actually a lot more complex things) but it's missing a good GUI-based recorder tool.
Given that wind turbines are universally(?) white, I've always assumed it is to minimize heat absorption. If so, painting 1/3 of the blades black would increase heating of the painted blade, especially in lower latitudes (this study was done at high latitude in Norway). What's the side effect?

Also, this strategy will obviously have zero impact on bat deaths, given that a white blade and a black blade are identical to echolocation at night. Curtailment of turbines in low wind condition - which is when bats are able to fly, and when turbines produce the least amount of energy - is the proven way to minimize bat deaths. But wind farms want to maximize energy production (profit), so are not fond of curtailment as a strategy.
Yep, same place they’re getting it from; exchanged messages with them too.
eh, do people want this? Twitter, unlike Instagram, feels less "personal" and I get the impression Twitter users LIKE the audience (but wish it was better moderated / less spammy / etc.).
With Artemis, NASA is aiming for the moon once more. But where will it land?
We aren’t climate “deniers.” We just don’t subscribe to the sky is falling religion. A few times a generation the sky is allegedly falling. And it’s always overstated for political gain.

Where is the actual proof humans are changing the climate? Not theory. Not models. But scientific proof? If we are going to make huge policy shifts that affect everyone’s economic prosperity, then it better be more than some computer modeling.

Yes the climate is changing. Does flying on a 747 make it worse? Can you prove it? Conclusively? Because I’m not going to support policy decisions based on a best guess or faith.

And is climate change bad? Any proof of that? If it gets warmer and it increases the growing season in Siberia or Canada, is that “bad?”

And what’s the consequence of batteries everywhere? What are the environmental consequences of that? How about covering the land with solar panels? Can that have a negative effect? Windmills? Any effect on wildlife? Mao tried to exterminate sparrows and it led to a famine.

Debating human caused global warming is like debating fundamentalist Christians.

There is no coming catastrophe. That’s made up. It’s like using Revelation to increase donations to the church.
> Who really likes [...] Microsoft Mixer [...]?

Mixer was great, may it rest in peace. (Mixer in part died so that Facebook Gaming could live. There was a hand-off of streamer exclusivity deals to give Facebook Gaming an early bump when Microsoft decided to graveyard Mixer. More ironic now that Facebook Gaming is dead too.)

It had better game-focused streaming tech than Twitch and easier barrier to entry (and monetization).

For one instance, what Twitch calls "squad streaming" where multiple streamers can share side-by-side streams Twitch requires monetization to be able to use the feature and at least one of the streamers needs to be the "Partner" level of monetization to turn it on, whereas Mixer's equivalent feature was a baseline feature available to all, very easy to turn own (especially if all streamers were already in an Xbox Party together), and had a better viewer experience because it was used more and built to be a common way to view people gaming together. I still miss Mixer sometimes for that feature alone and the ways it was used by some of the groups I was in. It felt much more social in multiplayer games than Twitch's more solo streamer-focused approach.
On the other hand, if everyone's yard is accessible, it's unlikely that yours will be the one subject to anything bad so I guess it's a number's game.
They do not just kill "common" birds, they have led to the extinction of several bird species. Keep your cats indoors.
I agree, in New York City there were those few months of car-free bliss (because there simply wasn't anyone in the city), but when they ended cars came back louder and meaner. The aggression has not yet subsided to pre-pandemic levels
Highly unlikely, unless by “mimic” you mean “vaguely evoke”. There is no actor behind these models. Recombination is only a very limited form of intelligence.
https://youtu.be/4KOgmxCKhws

The technology might be there but the capital structures...are not?
Mermaid has heaps of problems. I discovered this when I tried extending it myself.

Firstly, neither its parser and its visualiser can be extracted from the library. You can't process a grammar on a backend and then render out an SVG. You can't generate an SVG as part of a CLI tool - not without spinning up a web browser in automation mode.

Secondly, the grammar is messy. Really really awkward. Flowcharts are OK because they were the first Mermaid usecase, but other grammars are quite weirdly written, brittle, and try to be a mismash of other DSLs. Which in turn leads to very awkward token choices to avoid stepping on the toes of parts that are UML-like, parts that are DOT-like, etc etc

My impression reading Mermaid's issues is that it was built from scratch by a JS developer who hadn't any previous experience with DSLs, parsers, or language design, and largely learned as he went along. That's acceptable for a proof of concept. But as a finished product Mermaid is a lumbering mess
We're Doing Kindergarten All Wrong in The US
Exactly so. I wondered what the OP was talking about. Some mathematically-inclined friends on Twitter enlightened me.

https://twitter.com/lproven/status/1564613978155802631
A fairly straightforward answer is that the government's goals are not necessarily aligned with your own. You, presumably, care very much about your own personal health. You also care about other people's health, but you really, really care about your own health, and probably don't want to die earlier than you need to.

The government, on the other hand, doesn't generally care about individuals, and is working on a statistical level. A good government wants the population overall to be in good health, and has a budget within which it must operate. It may make more sense for the government to ignore your rare disease if detection/treatment is expensive, and that money can be better used to save, say, 10 people with a more common disease.

Now, if the government was just providing health information, and individuals were on the hook for payment, this disconnect wouldn't really exist. But if the government is also providing the healthcare services "for free" to individuals, then there is an incentive to downplay testing for rare or expensive to treat diseases due to the cost/benefit ratio.
IIRC it scales logarithmically, which is the wrong side of the logarithm to be on. I might have missed some new compute-data ratio breakthrough though
Being able to just make a mental storyboard of ideas, and have that be trivially easy to turn into a finished product will transform who can express, and how they will express ideas and stories and art. Now you can do images. Will we also be able to do voice actors, video, 3d Assets, and even story beats and dialogue? It seems quite possible. Everyone just became, or is becoming, a director with 1000 cast members, concept artists, and crew at their disposal.
That's lots of hypotheticals. I've used the cycle path in question myself many times. It's one of the best I've seen, and part of a great network around my city. The road he chose to use instead is one of the busiest routes into the city centre, and frequently sees accidents, many of which are fatal. It's certainly not a road I'd choose to cycle on myself.
Update: as I was just now searching for information about some equipment to keep at home to make (these too overly frequent) glossy displays matte,

I met from a most prominent producer of chemical products the statement

> Glossy Protection Film offers a glossy finish to help maintain the finish of a glossy display or instantly upgrade a matte display to high-gloss

Repeat for disambiguation: they would """upgrade""" matte to, mh, glossy and highly so. There was also a picture for the monstrosity nearby. So, that «isn't possible» has a counterexample. (Which is not difficult: rub some oil on it etc.)

When I saw that further confirmation of the apparent ongoing process of the total eclipse of good sense and downfall of ethics for the perverse purpose of courting lunatic rubes for their wallets, I uttered something along the lines of Sean Lock's "Are you mental?!" (from the cab driver asked if free for giving a tiger a night ride) - only, in a discriminatory form that moderators would not approve.
You broke the site guidelines egregiously with this comment and other comments in this thread.

We ban accounts that do that, so would you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and avoid posting like this in the future?
And the information customers want is missing! Customers want to know the VALUE of a product.

I am looking at barrier hose crimpers for air conditioning lines. Okay, there's about a dozen identicalish looking ones on amazon with a price from 100-300 dollars, and a reputable united states manufacturer starting at 2500+. How do I know what's the best option?

I really don't care about the price, I want to know if the price is worth it. If these different products are different or just rebranded, I want to know.
You also broke the site guidelines repeatedly and egregiously in this thread—maybe not quite as much, and maybe you didn't start it, but that doesn't make it ok.

We ban accounts that do that, so would you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and avoid posting like this in the future?
I see the benefit in this, having one script that works everywhere.

It's also good to know linux has autokey (https://github.com/autokey/autokey) for the same result. The name is close, but it's a different project.

It's not compatible with autohotkey, but you can script using python. I used it to enter dates, emails and automatize dynalist.io actions.
I'm not accusing anyone of lying, I'm suggesting that they might not have fully seen what this technology is capable of yet. I'm sure that I haven't. The whole point of the post we are discussing this under is the rate of progress in the space.
People get B12 injections from nurses all the time. It's extremely common in the US. NAD+ is probably less common, but it's not the nurse's credibility that's recommending the substance. The nurse is just there to inject it safely, something any nurse should be perfectly qualified to do.
If it’s just cough suppressant and buspar, I imagine it could be prescribed off-label instead.
Also #1309 Naval Ravikant
I mean why go through all this effort at all?
I was also talking about that compiled code.
It's not a matter of personal preference. They put these thing away from most people for a reason. If they put them in cities or suburbs, a lot of people would complain and put an end to them.

Siting them in rural areas - who cares if some people in flyover country complain about the incessent noise or the ruined landscapes?

Don't believe me about the noise? Get a tent and try camping under one for a few days.

For someone living in the mountains, putting windmills atop all the mountains makes the views strictly worse. For someone visiting the mountains, it looks novel and sci-fi.
Contemporary identity politics are at least in part a response to the contemporary "occupy" movements, sure, and that's pretty much by definition.
Dismissing an opposing view as “lacking nuance” doesn’t really add much nuance to the discussion.

The fact of the matter is most Americans do not have a college degree. You can perform all the mental gymnastics you want but at the end of the day, it’s a direct subsidy to the upper class.

Perhaps you are the one lacking awareness and maybe you should read the article.
> places like Arizona for millennia.

Millennia? Do you have any references for this?

AFAIK the natives did not do large scale irrigation, I'll be interested to know if that was the case.

Further, my understanding is that we are getting out a multi-hundred year wet period for California and the Southwest. Before then it was particularly arid, and we are returning to that and then some. Which is all really unfortunate as most of the concentrated population settling there has been since the 1800s, when the climate was maximally accommodating.
Sounds like the idea for a company. Does Ikea deliver yet? If not, add them to your vendor list.
Lol, it didn't tell me that.

In case anyone is worried, it isn't remotely erotic or otherwise nsfw.
Right; PDF is just a static record of whatever got generated by executing a PostScript program. So it doesn't try to represent anything about the PostScript program itself, which is why I was idly curious about PSON as a container for programs.
> Not “appointing”, but voting. Just like in US.

No, not like in the US. When someone is allowed to run who is not a member of the CCP (and who is running against the CCP), then that's getting close. When the chairman loses an election and has to leave office, replaced by someone who is not from the CCP, then that's elections like the US.
Absolute level of awesome ( even though some companies do clamp down hard on features like these for a variety of reasons ). Have you tried offering those scripts to players? I am more than certain that most MMOs would have loved to use them.
It wasn't until I was shopping for an LED TV that I really understood a lot of the important details in how a sequence of images can be made to look like the images are in motion.

The biggest revelation was the difference between showing a still image for just a moment vs holding that still image on screen for a long time. Illuminating the screen pixel-by-pixel with a short duty factor gave CRTs sharp crisp motion compared to LED and LCD screens. The UFO tests really drove the point home (along with a lot of other visual phenomena).

https://www.testufo.com/blackframes

What got me hung up for so long was that so much of the conversation has been about frame rates and shutter speeds, when it's really a different (but related) effect. I've been wanting to play around with high framerate video with frames combined to mimic slower shutter speeds. That is, 120 Hz open shutter video blurred with a 4-frame sliding window to look like it was shot at 30 fps. Or other such tricks. I thought high-end cameras might do such things automatically but it seems like they don't and I want to figure out why not. (does it look bad?)

https://kevinlisota.photography/2020/04/understanding-video-...

https://www.cnet.com/tech/home-entertainment/tv-motion-blur-...
I welcome cyclists, but experienced my first cyclist rage incident a couple of days ago.

I was driving to take a right turn into Mathilda Ave, Sunnyvale at its widest point from a small inner 25 mph road. Naturally, I came to a stop before the six lane right turn. And then checked left for incoming traffic.

I saw a cyclist about 20 yards away on the left staring daggers at me and throwing up his arms in anger! Not exactly sure what he was angry about, as my car was stopped well outside Mathilda ave.

However, definitely better than being chased by a car for a whole minute because I merged from one freeway to another at the speed limit, so the person who was driving at twice the speed limit in the merge lane had to slow down.
The majority of Americans do not have a college degree. You should read the article!
Is there any explanation for the frequent Rene Girard references on HN besides the influence of Peter Thiel? It's odd. I'm not all that familiar with his work but in most circles you're probably more likely to see names like Charles Taylor, Alasdair MacIntyre, et al.
The Victorians started with a huge societal bias for mysticism. It was even coded into law, making atheism effectively illegal. Digging out from under that mountain of shit was a huge job with little room for nuance. Science is even today not very secure (cf. antivaxx, flat-earthers), so being open to non-causality is still hard.

Similarly, geologists had to carve their field out of universal insistence on catastrophism. Appealing to a catastrophic explanation in geology was akin to appealing to God in physics, or "life force" in biochemistry. It has been a productive esthetic. But catastrophes really do happen sometimes, and are the explanation for, e.g., the eastern Washington state Scablands. It was very hard for geologists to allow that. Thus the K-T bolide strike was very, very hard for them, and the Younger Dryas boundary strike that killed off the mammoths and the Clovis culture is still hard for many.

Historians have had to begin to adjust to results from archaeology, carbon dating, surface luminescence, pollen analysis, and population genetics, where everything used to depend entirely on preserved texts. They still have not internalized big, organized, pre-literate societies, and societies like the Harappans whose entire written corpus is forever lost.
I, and my friends, were very skeptical of Jon Stewart taking over for Craig Kilborn but he really did a fantastic job. Think about how many careers were born on that show. Steve Carell for one. Stephen Colbert for another.

EDIT: for those who don't remember policital comedy/commentary shows were not a thing before The Daily Show. Sort of like how people forget conversational format and ajax weren't really a thing before gmail
power laws everywhere. i think people imagine that the distribution of content is new? did you think the evening news was good in 1973? popular implies lcd trash
Ah yes, just what the world needs, more soul-less art
No, original comment was:

> If someone is an expert in their field or has a depth of experience, I'd prefer him to be challenged by someone with a similar level of expertise.

Preparing for an interview will give you some superficial understanding, which will probably fall apart during the interview, unless the interviewer is very intelligent/curious (Sean Carroll's Mindscape and Newtons Apple comes to mind).

Another alternative would be to have people on both sides present, but I've never seen that work out. The discussion you get with hostility is nowhere near the discussion you get with curiosity.
I suggest the link be changed to point directly to the open access paper ( https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.6592 ). The linked article adds nothing and, as Symbiote's comment points out, doesn't even include an image.
Sounds you're asking for an old-school good team competition.
Forget about rendering, just doing the layout would be extremely challenging.
Things are always about to go nuts and yet mostly they don't seem to...
This is still a solution in search of a problem. Hosting artifacts is not that expensive. Disk space is cheap.