skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>This is patently, obviously _wrong_ for anyone who has tried learning any artistic skill in their life. Sorry to be this straightforward, but it gets on my nerves every time I read it.

Both my parents (though retired now) were commercial artists. I was trying to be an artist at one point in my life before moving in Engineering and Science. All my parents friends are artists so I grew up around artists.

Ask any artist here who is using illustrator, Photoshop, Krita etc. How often do they google image search for textures, or reference images that gets incorporated into their artwork? The final artwork is their own but it may incorporate many elements from others artwork.

>If you tried learning, let's say, the chiaroscuro technique from Caravaggio.. You wouldn't even think of splitting the whole painting into puzzle size pieces while checking how many how those look similar when put close one another.

Ever seen hyperealistic pointillism?

Who are you to be the arbitrator of how an artists creates their work? Have you ever gone to a modern art gallery and seen all the different methods people use to create artwork?

Art is boundless and unique to each who creates it.

If a Artist uses a tool to create art, everyone agrees that is art. It could be a paint brush, clay, software on a computer etc etc. If an artist uses AI as a tool to create art then suddenly it's not art.
It's not your pro-anonymity attitude they were criticizing. Try again.
Less demand, less produced -> higher price for all
It may help them -- NVIDIA is banned but not AMD GPUs. This sort-of proves that AMDs are toys, and NVIDIA is for serious work
This is the kind of thing you say when you've never worked with a centralized version control system before, because if you had, you wouldn't.
They are very clean looking, it could be an effect of SD's compression to be so small.

MidJourney's production model is good about dirtying things up, you could use it as a post processor. I think its default style of turning everything into fine art-cyberpunk-movie matte painting gets old though.

I've gotten some good atmospheric photorealism results out of DALLE, but currently trying to get outpainting to work to extend them and it's tricky.
I've used Ubiquiti in my home for roughly 7 years now, with 2 UAP-PROs, 8 Port PoE Switch and the USG.

Apart from the USG getting a little old and struggling to cope with the latest features added (A positive in itself). I really can't think of many other solutions that tie everything together so well. Yes I've had the odd problem, or I've needed to change the config of something. But apart from that, it works fantastically and solved WiFi woes I had many years ago.

They release regular software updates to all devices, including the controller. My only issue is I think the design of the landing page on the controller has gone downhill.
> I don't understand any developer's that aren't willing to put in the time to learn how to use Git

I can effectively use, I don’t know, probably the about 5% of git that I need to do my job. It could maybe benefit me to learn 5% more? The rest feels like a trivia rabbit hole, I have shit to do, and I already have a lot of difficulty with cognitive load and far too many yaks to shave daily. With that said, I have no strong disagreement with you, but I do want to add a bit of nuance: “learn how to use git” is extraordinarily open-ended, and one of the most challenging parts is to know where to even start. Or continued learning has any practical benefit.

A little less nuanced: I encourage everyone who will listen, even experienced devs, to use a GUI frontend. Not just because GUIs do ~90% of what you’ll normally need in a daily workflow (which is especially good for noobs who learn which things are important to know first). Also because the GUIs generally have really obvious cues for how to unfuck a mistake, which is the most difficult thing for people who aren’t already well adjusted to git. I use a git GUI for almost all of my version control tasks, and I’m much more effective for it.

I’ve learned more how to use the git CLI for an art project than I’ve ever needed to know for normal work processes.

(Self nit: bullshit made up approximately educated guess percentages)
Yeah you found the right word, peaceful coexistence :)

I'm maybe too dreamy, but I feel we are all prisoners on Earth, until we reach another planet.

And I believe game theory shows that prisoners are better collaborating ;)

As an entrepreneur, if I'd be running NVidia (or just investor in $NVDA), I'd be extremely annoyed that I am forbidden to sell my products to a large market, just because of political pressure.

Regarding your solutions and analysis, I don't know much about China politics other than gifs or memes that I saw on reddit, so I cannot say :D
My uneducated and probably missing a piece understanding is it was the other way around: good roads were demanded by and built for the cyclists.

I wonder how serious the improvements in rubber (esp. vulcanisation in the 1830s) were for the practicality of bicycles.
But the whole point is grounding is relative, and this context just refers to a body with larger volume than you that can absorb your charge (if there is a difference) with relatively little change.

It is assumed that body has a balance of negative and positive charges, but not necessarily, because the purpose of "grounding" in any practical sense is to equalise the charge between two objects so there is no potential difference so the will be no current flow.

All sorts of BS arguments then start emerging, "but what about if the outside of your body is +ve and inside is -ve ?", Well where does the energy for that come from? Or do you have a little charge daemon in there splitting out charges and pushing them to the exterior?

I've heard them all and they are all BS from people that understand little to nothing about charge and electricity.

Would love to be proven wrong by someone that did, because that would mean I would learn something, maybe something very interesting, but still waiting.
The worst are the ones who believe themselves to be objective as you'll never get them to consider that they have a bias. It's like the people who claim to hate drama but are always surrounded by it.

And of course you've thought about Jon Stewart a lot, that's obvious.
Part of me suspects that this is a major reason for the push on RTO. If you hire people remote who used any one of dozens of mechanisms to cheat.. it can be hard to correct. You could have a candidate who does great on your interview then fails to produce a single PR in 3 months on the job.
This is such a short-sighed headline, because it's baiting people into snarkily answering "last week".

The reality is that the vast majority of people don't drive more than 150 miles a day except on rare occasions. And, for families with more than one car (which is a lot of people), it's not unreasonable that their second car be of a more limited range. Further complicating things is the recharging story - something that will only get better over time.

I'm not saying electric cars "have arrived", but they're going to; however, acting like they have for everyone just makes you look foolish. Writing this title as a question was a mistake, imo, and frames the argument poorly.

e: By the way: 300 miles is at least 4 hours in a car, not including breaks. It's not unreasonable to take a 20 minute break to recharge during a 4+ hour car ride - and while you're at, plug your car in as well. A better headline might have been: "When was the last time you drove 8 hours?"
Both are also available on archive.today, which I believe is less publisher-friendly for removal requests, should that situation arise.

"All but confirms": https://archive.ph/QycQv

"Charged with extortion": https://archive.ph/V4dUu
So the answer is probably to find some novel but obvious-only-in-retrospec way to combine neural networks and cognitive methods.
Maybe because the M2 is a TMSC made unit made in TW and there is no way Tim Apple is going to not be selling to the biggest market..

How is he going to make 5 Trillion in ShareHolder Value by 2025?

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We don't need to "officially" recognize Taiwan when many congress folks invest heavily there. Don't unplug the circuit that feeds you.

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https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/442...

Whit the the new delegation headed to Taiwan, they probably do not want to upset the Logan Act:

The Logan Act (1 Stat. 613, 18 U.S.C. § 953, enacted January 30, 1799) is a United States federal law that criminalizes negotiation by unauthorized American citizens with foreign governments having a dispute with the United States. The intent behind the Act is to prevent unauthorized negotiations from undermining the government’s position.[2] The Act was passed following George Logan’s unauthorized negotiations with France in 1798, and was signed into law by President John Adams on January 30, 1799. The Act was amended in 1994, changing the penalty for violation from “fined $5,000” to “fined under this title”; this appears to be the only amendment to the Act.[2] Violation of the Logan Act is a felony.

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If we officially recognize Taiwan - then we are in dispute with China - and that fucks up a lot of things.

Its also why certain investments are funneled through Proxy Countries, such has been done recently through Ukraine...
Sorry, not really making the connection. Care to explain?
I'm throwing you a real softball question and you've whiffed it like 5 times in a row.

You personally find it ethical to systemically take a stance on the exact same speech in some situations and not in others for what you yourself describe as arbitrary and meaningless distinctions. Why?
yeah, bogus... proper time keeping is key to being a contractor. If you are going to work multiple (which happens when you're brought on as an expert but there's spirts of work between lapses of down time) then you can't be doing one while on the clock for the other. Wage theft.
The code isn’t law, apparently.
China and India.
Likely the first ford Model A: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Model_A_(1903%E2%80%9304)
Meh, the stock market is a toy for the wealthy. With the value of dollars going down, the equities numbers will eventually go up to compensate.

The real interesting trend is what happens when every country starts population shrinking and gdp falls by definition.
I'm starting to think it's a good idea to stock up on all the electronics you think you might need for the next decade. Because when China finally invades Taiwan, the supply of electronic devices worldwide is going to instantly disappear. How many electronic devices do you own that don't have any part of their supply chain in China or Taiwan or adjacent countries? The COVID shortages we all saw were practically business as usual compared to what may soon come...

I'm wondering what contingency plans US companies have for this? It seems to me like Apple would be screwed. Microsoft's hardware businesses would have problems. Google and Meta and Amazon are probably OK, though it may be tough to build and maintain datacenters, but everyone will be in the same boat.
some other (often Muslim) countries are like this right now; it is well known in demographic studies
I read something like that recently you might like:

> The great junk transfer is coming. A look at the burden (and big business) of decluttering as Canadians inherit piles of their parents’ stuff. Sorting, storing and disposing of old family belongings will be a labour-intensive challenge in the next decade as baby boomers age.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-the-great-jun...
Thank you!

Yes, all of our first-party offerings are plugins and 100% of their functionality can be accomplished with Payload core itself. No need to fork or extend. Our plugin infrastructure runs incredibly deep and it's super straightforward.

Mongo was extremely deliberate. The nature of "content", especially pages and posts, lends itself extremely well to the document-based structure of NoSQL. Add in complex field types like arrays, a block-based layout builder, groups, and more, and this becomes even more apparent. But this all being said, supporting Postgres is on our radar and will be happening at some point. Our internal infrastructure is already quite organized and swapping out a different database adapter won't be a monumental task. It'll require some work, for sure, but it's doable.

Thank you for the great questions!
They're not a monopoly right now but they're concerningly large.
The speaker is pretty obviously guilty of incitement to violence if they were inciting violence. Which my parody above is demonstrating pretty clearly. Now, is one incident sufficient cause? Probably not.

What if I launched a sustained campaign across multiple media against that HN user? What if that user starts receiving harassment and death threats? I am running a sustained campaign of making specific, targeted references to how desirable "doing something" about that user is with specific violent imagery, but stopping short of directly declaring that I want something to happen.

You're far too comfortable pretending this can't be a crime, or shouldn't be a crime, because in reality you're pretty comfortable it won't happen to you.
True.

If you don't understand why that was ever a thing: This comes from a time where in networks (and, to some degree at some point, the entire Internet), basically only non-administrator users were not trusted. Besides this weird idea of "privileged ports" that would prevent a non-administrator user to pose as a system service to other computers, it was also entirely common to just use IP address ranges for authentication.

It was an entirely different world. The thought that someone rogue could plug in an entire malicious machine into a network, rather than just being a random student having user-level access, was present, but often not considered a serious enough threat. And it may not have been, given what a lot of networks--and computers--were used for back then, compared to today.
For unified coverage and an excellent headlining side-by-side image showing flood and non-flood Indus River Valley, Wikipedia:

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Pakistan_floods>

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Pakistan_floods#/media/Fi...>
Officials at Germany's economy ministry investigated over allegations of spying
Numbers are a human construct, just like words in a language. They don't "exist" in the same sense as anything physically real. Nobody has "faith" in the number one, it's just a concept that's proven to be universally useful. If it weren't useful, people wouldn't (and couldn't) conceptualize it. Again, faith is believing in something despite lack of evidence or despite evidence to the contrary.
Buddy this is the most corporate bootlicking statement I've seen in a while. I think I see what I hope you're going for and would love to hear that this advice is oriented towards achieving your own goals and not the goals of someone you don't fundamentally agree with.
Also, your brain knows how to look up things in external storage, but ML models have to keep everything in their weights even if it's not a good fit.
There is a growing amount of shareholders that pretend to car about more than profits in times of plenty and economic growth

Lets see if these feelings over profits survive the next recession, I am press X for doubt on that one
> Is there international consensus on the statistical mapping between excess all-cause mortality, "with Covid" and "from Covid" deaths?

International consensus isn't required. Scientific consensus is the best we can do, and per Occam's razor, COVID is the best explanation we have for the excess deaths.

The articles I linked make that falsifiable claims.

You are making unfalsifiable speculative statements and asking vague unrelated rhetorical questions about process.

Please make a specific claim about what you think the cause of the excess deaths is, like "influenza" or "car accidents", "natural die off of a previous population bubble", or some combination thereof, and provide citations to studies and data to back it up, as people would be interested in learning about that.
A huge number of companies use VOIP so in theory, ya you can if you know the servers IP.
Not terribly surprising, since companies have more or less refused to actually train anybody since the 80s or so.
I was hired as the engineering lead earlier this year at a company. It was packed full of “senior” engineers who wrote nested loops, each screen was a monolithic program with no abstractions etc. as I let them go we hired two more (we have a consultant that hired me and has been interviewing them) who were the exact same. Senior engineer, 15 years experience, etc.

Yes all of them appear to work a couple hours of day and I’d wager they get 3-4 jobs and work a few hours a day on each
How does setup.exe run without an installer?
I had a candidate like this. 7 years of Ruby, but didn’t know keyword parameters.

On the CV there were some companies with dubious consulting websites, super generic. I emailed them, no reply.

If I wouldn’t have given him a live coding test I wouldn’t have known.
How Did ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Get Those Dogfight Scenes? Joseph Kosinski Explains
I’ve wondered how much those speedups are due to Rust/Go/Zig/etc, versus how much is due to being able to design the system with fresh eyes and an eye for performance. JS is almost surely slower than Rust, for instance, but it’s not 10-100x in most cases, at least in this random set of benchmarks I found [0].

0: https://programming-language-benchmarks.vercel.app/rust-vs-j...
Not to take away from your response, historical context can be ... illuminating.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_deadliest_floods>
It definitely was different logged-in vs not, and I suspect shipping time to a known address to be the most likely reason.
https://archive.ph/BnMzi
Agreed. Unfortunately, it's just a matter of time before someone develops a similar open source project that someone uses for unsavory purposes.
Thanks for the feedback! Our website has changed minimally since launch. In about a month or so, our focus will be shifting back toward sharpening our messaging and presence online.

Yes—as you mentioned, Payload is self-hosted, open-source, natively TypeScript and extremely extensible both on the API and admin UI sides. Outside of specific features that we support and others do not, those are the big differentiators. But there are lots more!
Regarding Cloudflare donating their service fees to an LGBTQ support org, that's some genuine D-grade advocacy. I feel bad for the ERG members who were put in the position of choosing that charity.

If someone keeps starting fires on my property, I don't want you to donate to the local fireman's fund, I want you to stop giving that person matches.
Straight people should get their act together. Y’all are so stuck on an image of family that has only existed for two generations at most, and it causes you to be lonely and unable to form relationships of meaningful strength outside that image. I feel sorry for straight people.
Calling all fans of GrabCAD Workbench
Wow! Thank you for finding that.
I'd be surprised if it is profitable. Depending on the way the acquisition was done, they could just cut ties and let it implode in short order.

Not a huge amount the judge could do, practically, if the parent doesn't have a lot of other ties to the country.
At least to me this order shows the US govt is finally taking AI global implications seriously. And if they're taking those implications seriously, they will never let China have Taiwan.
The majority of the refugees in Pakistan are those from the two Afghanistan invasions by USSR/US, and at their peak were several times the current number.

There was also an internal operation in the last decade to remove the Taliban and such from their strongholds and that caused a lot of innocents to lose their homes.

There were large floods in 2010 and a strong earthquake in 2005 that also destroyed many towns and villages.

And as a historical tidbit, when Mao was in power, a small number of Chinese ran from there and settled in Pakistan.
It would take them years to acquire the GPUs at the scale that they need them. By the time they do that they're 2 generations behind. It's about adding a barrier.
> The damage an individual can do by being overemployed....

What "damage" does being "overemployed" do in and of itself? If the person is meeting expectations, as long as they're not moonlighting for a competitor, who cares what other things they do to make money?
This was sort of misreported. He won in the "Digital Arts / Digitally-Manipulated Photography" category, not the entire contest, and it's fair to say AI fits in that category.

This picture is also unusually coherent for Midjourney; if you just ask for a 16:9 image the sides tend to evolve into totally different pictures.
GPS wont get a signal in many datacenters given the amount of EM radiation
>On July 27th, Nancy & Paul Pelosi sold all 25,000 of their shares of Nvidia, $NVDA. Today $NVDA was told to restrict chip sales in China & Russia by the US Government on August 26. $NVDA is down 20% since their initial sale, -5% in after hours today.

https://twitter.com/unusual_whales/status/156511407338962534...
Not yet. When we built the site, Payload's licensing and business model was built around a SaaS model, and was all baked into Payload's frontend. Of course, it does use Payload on the backend (including the entirety of our old SaaS billing infra) but for those reasons, we did not open-source it.

However, v2 is coming and that will 100% be open-source!
How does Stable Diffusion compare to DALL-E in terms of features/capabilities?

I've used DALL-E/DALL-E-2, but have yet to try Stable Diffusion. Can someone give me some insight?
It might end up having the opposite effect. When all sides of an argument can bomb each other with AI generated content it could poison the well and make people less likely to believe things they see.
I like the part just above that:

I think there’s a small chance that everything that Fuchsia has done ends up being inside the Linux kernel. They’re trying! They’re actually doing things now, which is great. That would be an awesome outcome, because it’s really about the features we were trying to build.

I’m not a big believer in NIH [not invented here] or that kind of thinking, but I do feel people become complacent. Linux had “won,” and so it was very easy to be complacent. When you have new things come along and show that new ideas are possible, then other people adopt those new ideas. I think that’s awesome. That’s always a possibility.

I think the problem with Fuchsia is that it is just too much of a Google-only project. Samsung has basically only contributed F2FS, and that is presumably so that they can sell their flash hardware to Google. Other than that, few, if any, major companies are hacking on Fuchsia. Compared to dozens on Linux. One of Linux's biggest strengths is that it has been a big tent that balances the needs of different vendors (who are often in competition) in a mostly fair manner.
Yes, yes, yes.

I would be perfectly content to never hearing about any co-workers personal lives, wives, husbands, what ball game they went to, how their kids are the best thing every, etc etc etc
With enough of them, only half the lifetime of the universe!
Lack of high end tech will be the least of your problems if China and the US get into a hot war.
It's an open-concept home. It's chic.
haah you think they have not been trying this for decades?
I also see decent Google Workspace resellers.
I find it strange that there appears to be international networks within American universities. I have noticed a large number of people from the same countries, attending similar vague programs (like you mentioned), writing theses with advisors from their home country.

It makes me wonder if they are just getting into a completely different program with the "American university" name. Do you have any insight into this?
It’s not funny at all if you lived with these kind of bullshits