skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also a good chunk of folks (i know) that are good at what they do, will not be salesy.

Call it misplaced pride or whatever, but they usually feel doing/saying something purely because it helps selling comes across "not pure" or "not in good faith" or not "why I do this".

Eventually they end up justifying with something along the lines of "good product (or person) just sells itself" or end up bitter comparing themselves with someone who sold worse stuff, but sold more to stay long enough in business.

good advertising/sales/marketing (i know they are not the same) strategies have a large upfront cost, which most if not all good-but-failed products/services cannot sustainably pay for.

My hope for the internet was to lower the bar by being accessible to everyone and allowing more indie sellers to prosper. And it did deliver. what i did not see coming was this industry for gaming the system which in turn drowns the true indie voice.
Midjourney takes their base models and does further training/guidance on them to bring out intentional aesthetic qualities. One of their main goals is to ensure that that their “default” style is beautiful no matter how simple the user’s prompt is.
> I said more money has diminishing returns, and other things become more important.

More money has exponentially increasing returns. Other things don’t increase in intrinsic importance, being wealthy just frees one to focus on them.
Perhaps use the command line program xsltproc instead of Firefox.
Uni lead "investigations" would be illigal under any other context. You are not allowed any rights in their "investigation". No representation. Their is no standard or rules of submitting evidence. The panel is not comprised of qualified jurors, nor are they generally of peers. They're positions applied for, so only those whom want to remove men from universities apply today.

Now they're installing far more cameras, telling students to report on one another about everything, and giving campus mall cops free reign to harass students into giving false information and unreasonable search and seizures.

Wish I was making that up, but that's what happens when we value "safety" more than rights.
Oh sure, but covid or no covid, I don't want to breath that cloud.
BlueWalker 3: satellite could become the brightest object in night sky
Offering to pay someone for their silence sounds like bribery. Not accepting it, or otherwise ensuring that you're compensated properly for what that silence is going to cost you, doesn't turn that into blackmail. Twitter approached op, so to speak, not the other way around.
Thank you. Have an upvote.

I don't know if that actually works, but I do know Prop 13 is a big problem and this is the first I recall seeing some meaningful attempt to suggest an alternative that is actually in use somewhere, so has some hope of being not completely nuts.
Google is able to assert a high degree of control given they can chose or not chose to let a phone manufacturer have access to Google apps.
It’s worth noting you also get MUCH better faces and hands if you’re willing to run it for more steps (100-150). It takes a lot longer to run it at higher step counts so a lot of people don’t do it.
Then maybe we should remind about this 25,000:1 ratio when an artist complains about his copyrights being abused. The model doesn't have space to actually copy his works inside, it can only memorise the equivalent of a thumbnail from each input. A very small thumbnail, scaled down 150:1 per width and height (square root of 25000). That's like a grain of rice on the screen.
While I'm all for a Cromwell II to this Charles III, I don't think it's fair to say that there are no other interesting things to talk when such a long-lived world leader (even though she was mostly a figurehead) dies. It's natural to want to look back and contemplate, and even just reminisce, about how the world has changed under her. A discussion can be interesting without being a debate.
Android version number for a app developer is only for API compatibility. It doesn't ensure memory or storage. The above minimum memory and storage is for OEM's so they can ensure new version of Android can run properly on their devices.
Great post, though for me the most exciting bit was Cem's root finding work that I hadn't seen [1].

[1] http://www.cemyuksel.com/research/polynomials/
> We could assume that they were always that way from when they were conceived

Nope. Bell Inequality: a more complex lab experiment shows that they don't hold their state, they were not "that way" before measurement.

That's the reason behind the rants about spooky action at a distance, superdeterminism, MWI, etc.

Before someone starts yelling "You can't prove that, you can't peek the quantum states, you cheater!" I'd like to point out that it's reality showing its weird face and no human-made proofs were in use.
I’m curious why no one is recommending 1Password. I use it and it’s pretty nice. Closed source though. Is that the reason people don’t recommend it here?
Aristotle’s Physics: A Physicist’s Look (2014)
heh yeah it won’t be that long until we have A Stable Diffusion for Web UI
It is very naive to think it will stay this way. Now that Apple made this move, cell providers in any country will be forced to provide e-sims to stay in business. Apple has such a huge influence it won't take years but months even if it only targets us smartphones.

Other phone manufacturers will follow this decision sooner than later.
Orange is a huge company that supports eSIMs already in their major markets. I'm not exactly sure about Romania, but this page does exist which leads me to believe they do support it. https://www.orange.ro/servicii/esim/
Stable Diffusion Takes $600.000 to Train (CEO)
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/08/us/oberlin-bakery-lawsuit...:

> Oberlin is a small liberal arts college with a reputation for turning out students who are strong in the arts and humanities and for its progressive politics... Tuition at Oberlin is more than $61,000 a year, and the overall cost of attendance tops $80,000 a year.

This is why student loan forgiveness is such an important issue.
A similar language that was created to make creating GUIs more pleasant is Jakt [1] for SerenityOS which is Impressive to see how fast they've been able to develop a pleasant modern native language, went from 0 to rust-based then self-hosting compiler inc. VS Code static analysis & intelli-sense in weeks.

Like most of SerenityOS you can follow much of its development is on YouTube [2]. A good video series that captures the language ergonomics is in the "Jaktness Monster" series which goes through creating a NES Emulator from scratch [3].

[1] https://github.com/SerenityOS/jakt

[2] https://youtu.be/RXp2T_iAhWc

[3] https://youtu.be/47svsnd7HIQ
Wirth's law strikes again.
You mean a VM on a machine with a GPU? Or does it have to be a bare metal machine? What is a good provider of suitable VMs/machines?

And what do you do after you SSHed in? The installation instructions seem to be for windows users (click here, then click there ...) is there a linux script that does the installation automatically?
Why is that important? Seems to me the most important detail is how ideological blindness led an entire college to make false accusations against innocent people, and then double down when all facts came to light, to the point of losing $36M and all not apparently acknowledging that they were ever wrong. Isn't that weird? Isn't that really, freaking weird?? What does it imply about academics, society, racism, ideological capture?

Gloaters gonna gloat. An "entire side of the political spectrum" would have gloated if the bakery had lost on appeal. Does that matter?
> I'll take the increased security (now my SMS 2FA is a lot more secure than before) and one less opening for dust and moisture to get inside.

There was so much esim fraud in Austria via customer support attacks and the online self management interfaces that they removed the ability to get an esim QR online. Some carriers are bringing it back but jusr yesterday A1 (the largest carrier) had to admit that customers got their esim stolen through attacks of their processes.
>If anyone can scientifically demonstrate that aircraft cabin air is clean, sure I'm open to changing my mind.

And

>Noone is ever going to convince me that air that smells like /that/ is "clean"

Seem to be at odds with each other. But, for what it's worth, I agree that there is a distinctive "aircraft smell" whenever I've flown, and I'm not particularly keen on breathing it in either.
Seems like maybe it's trying to use localStorage.setItem but can't because localStorage is null. Are you blocking cookies?
Signal doesn't require Play Services but if it's included in the base image you need to have it installed even if it's disabled for Signal to work.

Basically this:

__________________
| GMS Preinstalled |
Current |---------+--------|
GMS Status | Yes | No |
_____________|_________|________|
| Installed | OK | OK |
|-------------|---------+--------|
| Disabled | OK | OK |
|-------------|---------+--------|
| Uninstalled | NOT OK | OK |
+-------------+---------+--------+
I suspect it's the semiconductor shortage. There are big production backlogs on a lot of these kinds of machines (CPAP, Heart Monitors, etc.). I've noticed a lot of repossession of devices lately.

I recommend going directly to lawyers as these companies have real economic incentive to yank these back from your hands and put them into a more profitable patient. You won't stop that with "playing nice".
Is that an American thing? It's definitely not generically widespread, and there are non-iPhone devices that are premium and even sometimes cost more (check any of the Fold designs).
Happy 30th anniversary to ‘Sneakers,’ a cult classic that was ahead of its time
They were adding a hash of a photo as metadata that is unreadable by everyone except Apple after you upload an image and only if it matches the hash of a known csam image.
Based on my experience esim profiles are often not available for prepaid sim cards still.
>While a scientist might have to dreadfully deal with salesmanship now and then, it shouldn't be affecting the day to day.

Scientists spend something like 20-30% of their time begging for grant money.

Worse still, in order to get the grant money, scientists have to abandon the genuine pursuit of knowledge and do some random busywork bullshit that they deep down know will produce nothing of value.

Once they have produced the bullshit research, they then spend another disproportionately large chunk of time convincing their colleagues that their research is actually valuable.

The remainder of their work time is spent pretending that they don't realise that their peers' and colleagues' work is complete bullshit.

Don't get into academia.
>posting plain studies directly to non-industry forums is often not ideal. The studies are not written for a general audience and rely on jargon, shorthand, assumptions, and shared education that general audience readers are at least as likely to misinterpret as professional science writers.

I think there's an argument to be made that, regardless the specific subject of discussion, a forum like HN is not a "general" audience and can appreciate content that hasn't been watered down for the general masses.
That's not my understanding. The same seed value to the device's random number generator should results in the exact same outputs - there's a bug being chased down in the MPS (MacOS) backend where the fixed random seed doesn't output the same image on different computers.
> I like the idea of amassing money that can be used as a threat of a lawsuit.

I guess I don't really follow. What are they saying exactly? "Hey we have lots of money so listen to us" while simultaneously claiming SF isn't listening to them because the other side has even more money? If it is just a matter of money as they claim but they other side has more wouldn't it seem like they are just going to lose?
You are using the old syntax, there is also the HTML 5 one with data attributes, just like all those lovely SPAs.

Still the point holds, component frameworks exist for 20 years, it isn't an invention of cool kids JS SPAs, and they work without JS if needed.
Scientists Just Made Hydrogen Fuel with Nothing but Air and Solar Power
Frank Drake Has Passed Away, but His Equation for Alien Intelligence Is More
If anything, this actually speeds up some people. "Wow, I can't stand these people at the work and now I need to bear them NOT at the work?"
How to come up with good prompts for AI image generation (Stable Diffusion)
There's nothing about source code there.

The Wiphone folks have been notoriously evasive when people ask about source code. I'm pretty certain it will never see the light of day. I don't blame them for that decision; it's the only way to not get cloned out of existence. But I do blame them for not being forthright about it.
Apple isn’t compelled to proactively scan photos on iCloud.

The scanning on device was adding a hash to each photo only readable

- if it matched a known csam image

- multiple photos within the iCloud account match known csam images

- the image was uploaded to iCloud

Compare that to Google where only the last point needs to be true in order to have Google run any algorithm they please on your photos looking for violative images.
Apple's MPS drivers supports AMD GPUs on MacOS
Stable Diffusion: Tutorials, Resources, and Tools
Rails 7.0.4, 6.1.7, and 6.0.6 have been released
Android would more useful and intuitive because it has an actual file-system, and the android phones generally come with replaceable storage. This has been my personal experience using an iphone myself and helping my family with their iphones. I think apple purposefully increases camera resolution, prevents upgradable storage, and charges much more for increased storage, all in an effort to upsell users to their "iCloud" network storage service.

My experience with the iOS store is that it is mostly crap. I go to look for a pdf editor, the first three options that come up are a "free download" trying to get me to to sign up for an overpriced subscription service to use the app. The Android store is also garbage, but there is at least f-droid which is good.

The idea that iOS is somehow made more secure through the locked-down App Store and firmware is a prototypical case of security-by-obscurity. It has been trivial for law enforcement and other motivated groups to bypass iOS security measures. Operational Security is not some collection of marketable "features" or "solutions" that can be bought, it is a holistic mindset towards reducing risk and severity of cyber-attack. When you outsource the security of the device to a single all-powerful company, that is not good opsec. The find-my-iphone network is an example of this: is is an inescapable global surveillance network. to me, this reflects poorly on apple's security and privacy practices. The apple "ecosystem" is designed in a way to encourage the use of proprietary software such that apple can extract a fraction of sales revenue through their store.

Apple is a very profitable company because they are good at inventing new reasons to charge their customers more. I don't think the price of the product reflects its underlying usefulness, intuitiveness or security.

That being said, most android OEMs do ship a quite bloated, non-standard verison of android- this is analogous to PC OEMs that will install bloatware on any windows laptop they sell. This reflects quite poorly on the android ecosystem: the OEMs like samsung that most associate with "high-quality" smartphones are paradoxically the crappiest OEMs when it comes to software.
> Isn’t SF just the most attractive place for self destructing mentally I’ll people to flood to?

Well, yeah.

I grew up here. The joke is, "Folks too crazy for the rest of the country come to California. The folks too crazy for California move to San Francisco." (And then we mutter under our breath, "And if you're too crazy for San Francisco you go to Berkeley.")

Go look for footage of San Francisco from about 1965 to 1980, it's a freak Mecca. Before that it was "Bohemia by the bay".

California was Alta Mexico, basically Outer Mongolia, and then moments after some USA-ians took it by force from the Spanish, who had taken it by force from the Ohlone, gold was discovered, only about a hundred and fifty years ago.

Most of those folks were pretty wild. That was like the day before yesterday. Seriously, go check it out... God Bless Emperor Norton III

Anyway, the really crazy thing was when silicon valley (that's about an hour south of SF) transformed into the Dot Com Boom and invaded the City. Y'all fucked it up pretty good (and I say that as a computer nerd) and now it's a weird 90's Cyberpunk Dystopia version of what it used to be.

To sum up, yes, SF is and always has been crazy town literally. (I don't know what it was like when it was just the Ohlone here.)
I would recommend only issuing a single MFA device. If you only issue 1, then the employee is forced to come to IT if/when they lose it to get a new one issued. IT will need to use their admin access to activate the new fob (and deactivate the old one), but at least you're assured that employees aren't losing them without telling anyone.

If you issue 2 you greatly increase the chances of MFA devices going missing without it being reported to IT since people will either A) use one of them and forget they even have the other and not keep track of it or B) lose one and just start using the other one and never bothering to report it to IT so they can invalidate the missing one.

Employees are VERY reluctant to report lost devices, even after being told there are no consequences or costs to them as long as they report it. I've seen employees get buddies to buzz them into the building for weeks before finally admitting to IT that they lost their access badge.

The main complication is if your company relies on outside software that doesn't have provisions for administrator oversight. For example, if you're using Google Apps, any admin can go in and replace a missing MFA device for an employee, but this isn't possible if you're using some other platforms (especially the free tiers).
> I have been developing software for over a decade. I wanted to give Android apps a try too. But when I tried to install the tooling, it was all so heavy and bloated and clunky that I gave up and never tried again

At least it's cross-platform and it doesn't require you to buy special hardware like the main mobile competitor does.
This means, AFAICT, "we have a war chest and will be able to continue litigation for as long as it takes".
An Indian American has a better shot running for governor in a red southern state than in Maryland or New York. In blue states, race quite explicitly matters a lot in politics. But Indians are at a disadvantage because they Indian voter community is small compared to Black or Hispanic people.
I don't think the average phone provider in Cambodia will worry too much about the list revenue from not supporting a particular variant of iPhone 14.
USB Composite Device. for example https://www.tracesystemsinc.com/blog/composite-devices.html
https://www.charl-e.com/

There are a few bugs to iron out before it's ready for prime time. For now, create the folder `~/Desktop/charl-e/samples/` manually before you run it.
An enthusiast’s deep dive into mechanical keyboard switches
I'm a dude who uses Kubernetes to make pizzas. Kubeternetes is absolutely a commercial bakery class machine, but much of it's adoption is due to the fact that for just a bit more in price and effort, you can have that class of machine in your home and run real things on it.

Seriously: I run clusters from a few dozen nodes (down from a few hundred at my peak, sigh) down to a trio of Raspberry Pis in my living room. They're overkill by a little bit, but not by much. And it's definitely my ambition to make the tooling even easier and even more powerful, such that every small home can run something with enterprise level reliability.
There are a lot of unanswered questions related to how plants grow. If you look through the recent papers at Algorithmic Botany (linked at the start of the thread), you'll notice that they're partnering with other labs to do fundamental biological research (specifically, on the growth of veins in flowers and leaves). That's because they reached the limit of existing knowledge and needed to learn more to improve the computer models.

That's where I did my master's, though I didn't meet Holly and Steve. I'm told they left for Weta shortly before I joined.
I think the real change is not to care. The implications of red tribe v blue tribe don't scare as much as the actuality of what lies underneath.

What lies underneath is the rather stupid "I can't send emoji how you do, so I will send a plaintext which says

<the other person said> "what you said" with a smiley face next to it

as literal text.

Green v Blue, is trivialising an underlying technical problem. Apples decision is not respecting how sensible interoperability is meant to work.
Wrong comparison, sorry. K8s is enterprise thing, while LAMP is good for SOHO. So cookies factory vs small bakery.
elif is for suckers, but a COND by any other name...
The usual argument, C extensions for inline Assembly and dialects outside UNIX, no problem, it was great.

The fact that Pascal extensions existed, and Modula-2 as evolution from Pascal was a standard since 1978, doesn't count.
Sure, phones have been moving in a terrible direction in terms of privacy, but I don't really see what the difference here is with eSim. Your modem can communicate with cell towers regardless of whether it has a SIM connected.
3DSMax from 1995 could probably run emulated in iOS Safari.
How long would it take to view 2 billion results at 20 per page? I’m thinking somewhere between 100 and 200 years.
Surely you are joking. Lufthansa used to be bad ~15 years ago, but International United is on a whole different level.

I used to fly regularly from OZ to the US and often had to take United as they used to often be the cheapest by quite a margin. They had the oldest and most uncomfortable cabins on those routes. The cabin crew is absolutely atrocious, everytime they come through the cabin shouting "elbows and knees" (why is that so common on US Airlines? Never heard it anywhere else) and still manage to bump into everything. I have had coffee spilled on me at least 4 times and not once did I get an apology (and no I didn't have my elbow out). If you ask for something you often get rudely told off..
The food is absolutely the worst I ever ate on a plane and it goes on.
Oh some absolutely do, based on the bonds formed during that off-site.