skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Can we please get real nerdy about this?

So as someone who works in generative modeling I'll give my best guess as to what is done and what is happening. It is a guess because they don't say everything, but there are some hints. Scambier linked these two twitter threads[0][1] which can give us some insight.

> I'll explain negative prompt weights, in case you don't know. With these, instead of creating an image of the text prompt, the AI tries to make the image look as different from the prompt as possible.

What's important here is that the machine doesn't actually know what the opposite is. In fact, I would ague we don't either. What you can do is use Lp distances from a latent representation. This is where things start to make sense. If in that we find faces as a large distance away, it is also unsurprising that we find many different facial characteristics. These first images look like there is a high mixture between strong masculine features and strong feminine features. These are not things we typically see in reality and combine with our hyperactive brains for recognizing other human faces, we enter the uncanny valley.

Next I don't know if this was done on purpose or not, but there are very clear issues with scene lighting. I can totally believe that this is not on purpose because this is something generators are bad at already. So we have shadows cast along the face in unnatural ways. Upping the creepiness factors.

Now we need to look at important features for recognizing faces: eyes, mouth, and nose. You may have noticed that text to image generators are typically really bad at these. Generators are also typically bad at facial symmetry (why we're trying to get transformers in, but this still isn't working to the degree we would like). In fact, I actually find it more interesting that these are coherent given the explanation of how the latent representation was created.

So I think we have good explanations as to why this would turn creepy very fast. Especially given the hype and that the creator is leaning into it. But these are my best guesses. I can't really know without seeing what is done.

But honestly, I am super interested and would like to see these latent representations and play around with them. This could be a good thing to investigate if you are trying to determine how smooth the latent manifold is, which is extremely important if we're going to make deeper content contributions and rely less on our prompt engineering. Maybe I'll have to play with some negative prompts (if I can find the time lol).

[0] https://twitter.com/supercomposite/status/156716228808747008...

[1]https://twitter.com/sheslostheplot/status/156737091948789350...
One person's established religion is just someone else's cult. They all engage in indoctrination and belief in magical thinking with absolutely no proof in the existence of its deity or deities.
> You’d have to be drinking truly epic amounts of tea to see it affect your electric bill.

That was based on comments from the outgoing UK PM. I don't drink the stuff myself, but “epic amounts of tea” is not an unusual concept amongst many of my friends over here.
Your site has a lot more subreddits than OPs. Wonder how you did that given there are literally millions(maybe even billions) of comments on popular subreddits. As for getting recurring users you can ask interested users to join a mailing list, you don't seem to have that on your site.
The images up thread were scraped, not cherry picked. So it's more like walking through an apple orchard.
I don't think the author is arguing that you should seek only pleasure or always avoid discomfort. The author is saying that you should notice what is pleasurable and what is causing discomfort.

Frustration is a kind of pain and pain is a signal that we should avoid a stimulus. It is frustrating to 'eat frogs'. You can force yourself to go through frustration, or you can use tools help manage those feelings. Or you can try to address the source of those feelings. Or you can choose to not engage in activities that bring up those feelings. We have words for some of these things like 'procrastination'

The point is that those feelings are real and they are not your fault. It is not a failure to feel frustrated. It is a signal. Forcing yourself to go through frustration repeatedly may strengthen that signal, laying down cognitive and emotional scar tissue.

Noticing a stimulus does not mean being fixated on it. It does not mean that you give that stimulus more power. It can feel that way at first, like noticing a tiger in the room; but the tiger has always been there.

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On another level, the article hints at the real purpose of mental/cognitive/emotional therapy. "Therapy doesn't fix anything, you have to fix yourself" is a common way to say this, but I would say "Therapy is a way to see your situation more clearly, help you develop tools to deal with your personal situation, and help you decide what to change about your personal situation". Therapy can make you feel worse in the short term, and sometimes life does just suck; but it can also help quite a lot.

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A tool that helped me -

Emotion Wheel - https://feelingswheel.com/
It's plain to see that Germany's policy has been a disaster (not only Germany, the UK is a massive shambles). The Netherlands are still using fossil fuels for about 40-50% of their electricity. Etc.

France, for instance, has had problems recently but at least they made the decision to replace fossil fuels for electricity decades ago by going all in on nuclear (and hydro wherever dams were possible).

So these are choices.

More generally, the so-called 'energy crisis' in Europe at the moment is self-inflicted. Because of the above, because a ban on fracking (gas is still used but then it has to be imported), because no Russian gas when there is no alternative in place.
in general if you are concerned with performance you will want the ability to "touch metal", which means digging into implementation-specific compiler details. this is something that sbcl is very good at providing

portable code is appropriate when the whole language can benefit from your library
Can't wait to roll up my TV
Congrats on what you've built so far. I'm curious if you have ideas or plans on how to gauge and communicate demand for experts for an open source project you don't have listed yet. It would be cool as a project contributor to know where unmet expert needs are in the community.
The pace at which these technologies are accumulating is breathtaking.
That seems smart - but then they need other numbers for coordinates I guess.
For those who don't have economist subscription, what were the four books mentioned in that article?
It's true that Berlin public transit has no physical fare enforcement (e.g. there are no ticket gates at subway stations), but the state operator of public transit is anything but lax on fare dodgers: the tickets are being checked randomly by undercover ticket inspectors, and every so often there's news of an inspector being violent [0]. The reality with ticket inspectors stands in stark contrast to the witty and playful online identity maintained by the BVG.
Additionally, repeated fare dodging is treated as fraud by the German law and repeated offences can land you in jail [1].

[0] https://www.sueddeutsche.de/panorama/bvg-berlin-strassenbahn...

[1] https://taz.de/Haftstrafen-fuer-Schwarzfahren/!5529577/
Natural building and bioclimatic architecture
>> "Introducing"? Hasn't Svelte existed for a couple of years already?

So has your significant other at the time you introduce them to your family, right?
Community isn’t social media.

You don't advertise to your community. If you do you're actively killing it.

Community is made up of people making connections and building relationships with other people. Savannah CRM helps you manage those connections and relationships.
I'm assuming that such a species would themselves have fully exploited the energy output of their local star(s) before they embarked on building an artificial one. And that they would view any species trying this in reverse order as unintelligent.
Looking at Tenerife south...
If you quit, you won't be able to collect unemployment. If they try to make a case that you were let go "for cause", then you will have to fight that to get unemployment. Start documenting everything with timestamps in a place they don't control.
I assumed the latest idea was for Apple to adopt RCS

> But Apple can adopt RCS—the modern industry standard—for these threads instead.

Source: https://www.android.com/get-the-message/ , published around the beginning of August as far as I recall.
Egregious mismanagement by stupid European leaders. Why would they hold themselves accountable?

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...

"Production of primary energy in the EU was 17.7% lower in 2020 than it had been a decade earlier." [this includes renewables and nuclear, as well as fossil, gas, geothermal, etc]

"Indeed, more than half (57.5 %) of the EU’s gross available energy in 2020 came from imported sources."

--

"Invest in renewables!" Ok, but that means needing to restart coal plants and import natural gas when there's no wind or sun. Where are the massive battery investments in Europe for energy storage? Nowhere.

"Everyone, buy electric cars!" Ok, but there's be a permanent blackout if every car was actually electric. There's not enough electricity being generated to charge them.

Insane maniacs.

Switching to clean energy means transitioning from non-electric energy (gas, petrol) to electric. That means we must produce more electricity. Why aren't they obsessed with increasing electricity production, so electric cars won't lead to blackouts and import dependency?
Ask HN: I just finished creating a project and I’m lost
I spent the last month creating a little project only to realize it could be useless to anyone because it doesn't solve any real problem.
Long story short, months ago I discovered the existence of productized services, or as I like to call them “SaaP”.

I was fascinated that they offer customers an affordable alternative to traditional service agreements, where they might be paying for one on one attention and unpredictable hours. Basically, a productized service provides them with a set price and scope of work and the chance to choose what fits their budget.

So, without taking any time to think further, I thought that creating a SaaP to design pitch decks was a good idea. That’s why I developed Deckly.
Problem is, I don’t know if anyone would actually use it. I don’t know if there’s a market for it. I don’t know if it’s even a good idea.
I’m lost.

For context, this is my first project ever, I’m young and I don’t have any relevant work experience. But I can design and I think I’m good at creating pitch decks, perhaps that’s why I made such a sudden choice.

Do you have any suggestions?
This is the landing page if anyone is interested: https://deckly.altervista.org

P.S. payments are on test mode of Stripe, so if you want to test the pipeline feel free to.
this is dumb but I’m trying to play along and match the energy
The image looks a lot like the haggard female protagonists or victims in a lot of horror movies so it could just be a composite of those. The rosacea might be due to it confusing blood splattered faces with medical images. Honestly it just looks like a still image from a horror trailer to me.
I am, and do.

I'm wondering what Ringer will do for these kind of case.

Or if Ringer is only for GitHub libraries, or smaller projects or...
Ah damn, I always forget that one!
What exactly separates a "cult" from any other church? It seems that the word is often lobbed against minority religions that either aren't mainstream (or somehow related to mainstream religions), are recent in origin, or are viewed as eccentric or peculiar.

There are truly damaging religious groups, but this doesn't seem to be what is referenced by the word cult. It seems to be used more often to describe religions that are unconnected (or less connected) to religions considered "normal" like Christianity, Islam, etc.
Like a retractable screen+projector, but no need for a projector. Sound nice.
I had the opposite thought. Couldn’t properly see the images because I don’t have twitter.

I even signed up recently just so I could click links and they immediately locked my account for being a bot.
It's not that the messages are in green, it's that videos and pictures sent over SMS are terrible.

My dad sent me a video the other day, and it was 176 x 144 @ 10fps.
One downside of having an industrialized high technology society with a good education system is that radicals will tend to have the skills and knowledge required to create harm on a large scale.
>> If youre taking advantage of that and exploiting them -- you are a part of the problem -- it is that simple.

The only side expliting anyone here is the employers exploiting their employees. It's that simple. But we don't have to agree on this.

>> If you disagree with tipping then dont go to a restaraunt in a state that requires it.

Like I said in my comment above, I was only visiting America - and I did tip while I was there, for your information.

>> Your self righteous arguments fall on deaf ears of people who work for tips and have to put up with jerks like you.

All I have done so far is made my arguments here on HN, not sure that deserves being called a jerk.
Frogs are actually pretty tasty.

Contrary to the article, I am a human piece of trash.

The problem with those questions of what will make you successful that you hate doing, is that you can't say with certainty that the behavior will make you successful since there are multiple variables at play (most of the time).
Is included sandboxing really that useful? Why not use a standalone sandbox, or OS’s permission system, MAC, etc?
Especially that the biggest problem is the program corrupting itself, which will readily happen if we make C and friends more popular again for these kinds of applications.
Sequestring CO2 is a huge scale problem, and all solutions have significant flaws. Forests require vasts amounts of land, and storage is only assured as long as nobody decides to chop down the forest for other more pressing purposes (looking at you, Brazil). Storing CO2 in oceans (either in the form of "ocean fertilization" or by directly dissolving CO2 in seawater) could have huge and unknown consequences for marine ecosystems. Other solutions such as biochar and enhanced weathering of minerals have limited scalability.

As I see it, Geological CO2 storage (CCS) may be the only large-scale practical way going forward, despite all the bad rap it gets due to its historical association with the fossile fuel industry. After all, the excess C in the system came from the ground, and the ground may be the only place able to re-absorb it without significant environmental consequences.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_of_deferred_payment
Looking at your ToS:

https://www.ringerhq.com/terms-of-service

Why won't you notify about changes to the terms? At minimum a notice at login would be a good idea.

Maybe add some links to Wikipedia for the (presumably USA?) laws users are prevented from using the site when affected by the laws.

Wow, it is long. Please add a summary to https://tosdr.org/ :)
Tl;Dr: software is sold per-core at the enterprise level. IBM offers more performance per core, so any solution with significant software per-core costs will be cheaper on IBM, even if the hardware was more expensive.
This is now supported without extensions in latest vscode
I have a hard time typing when I'm cold. Putting on jackets doesn't seem to help, unfortunately. I can't imagine trying to work in a 55° room all winter.
On Looking for a Job
Earliest Known Amputation Was Performed in Borneo 31,000 Years Ago
> residual heat from neighbours

I miss the old lady who used to live under me. My winter heating bill increased when she left for hospice care and a skint young'n' moved in!
I was really surprised that all the cellphone manufacturers went with flip phones, rather than roll-out phones like a miniaturized version of this.
You're exactly right, but that's kinda my point.

I think my definition is quite fundamental, and holds true all the way back to the beginnings of finance. We used to just trade directly - trading horses for maize, etc.

But then humans realized that having anything be money is inefficient, so we invented currency as a locally acceptable surrogate for whatever humans value. But it's still rooted in humans exchanging goods and services they find valuable, for whatever reasons.
Not everyone has the same belief in market based solutions as you do.
Or don't visit the sites with it on. There's no way to opt out of state surveillance.
You do not need a third party - that's one of the many great things about this. You can go download (or compile, or make) software right now to generate a completely functioning Bitcoin wallet that you can then send/receive coins from.
Perhaps make it valid for only one year or a limited period or make it conditional. We do it for interest rates. I am sure we can do it for termination of life itself. It is an easy problem to resolve.

If living is pain, physically or mentally..let them go. It is an act of compassion. We do it for animals all the time. Suffering is suffering.
Assuming that all warehouses are the same size and shape and carry the same things, which is why they instead use Local bin numbers.
Works a lot like an IP and MAC I suppose.
"hate having to shop-around and piece together every basic platform feature."

Can you elaborate on what you mean by this?
Thanks! Agree those components are important. Some of them are already available for the Prosemirror ecosystem, so it should be straightforward to add them.

Focus so far for BlockNote has been to get the “block” system right (including nesting, drag and drop, etc) and the basic UX elements (placeholders, menus, etc). Now I think we can continue working on more block types!
From someone who's read the 1st edition, what age would this be suitable for? From CP's description it didn't sound like it needed any advanced knowledge to read. I'm wondering if I could get my kids interested in it
Start looking for a new job. Worrying and over-analyzing and preparing for trauma is just going to paralyze you. Jobs don’t always work out for any number of reasons.

Have you tried talking to your manager about your performance and future at the company? If the company wants to get rid of you they can just fire you, dragging it out as you describe doesn’t make much sense with at-will employment.
Someone had to borrow to create that dollar.

In other words, your money is someone else's debt.
This is a good summary with many references https://soundcloud.com/trueanonpod/mooned-in-nara
There seems to be some background lurking behind this text. Could someone explain it?
Comtrol seems so good it should not have been a typo. Dot com is still the premiere domain suffix despite all trends otherwise
Wait until you find out how wirecutter makes money...
> But it's not 'as they wish' as you say, depending on where they operate, they are typically constrained by capital and liquidity ratios set by their regulator.

Okay! Then why don't families and individuals have an equivalent mechanism? Set capital and liquidity ratios by law. E.g.: if you have 10k$ on hand, you can create 100k$ of liabilities. If you have 10k$ on hand and 50$k in medium-risk investments, you can create 300k$ of liabilities, and buy a house that way. Something along those lines.

Of course, since ordinary people can't do that, they need to go to middlemen: the very banks who can do that x) Doesn't strike me as very fair.
I think they are mostly used for things like games, where this is less of a big deal.
Someone tell Ars Technica no-one asked for TVs in the first place.
I don't need all that stuff. Reddit is plenty credible as long as you use comments as an exploration point, instead of a "buy" indicator.

For categories like men's shoes, I've gotten more value out of 3-line Reddit comments than I have with 20-minute influencer reviews that are mostly ad-infested infomercials.

I'm somebody that grew up on message boards like SlickDeals and RedFlagDeals so maybe I have a better eye for spotting astroturfing.
I'm still looking forward to the UI revolution due to touch screens on computers becoming mainstream. Too bad the big PixelSense screens never took off in the mass market.

But bendable screens... meh. I wanted a flat screen, only got a curved screen. And still never felt the urge to unbend it.
I agree with you. But all churches start as cults. Romans viewed Christians the same way most Americans view Scientologists. Actually, Romans killed Christians, so probably they viewed them a tad bit worse.
Christianity was a cult during the Roman empire. The only difference is the reach of these religious entities.
The creators of the mainstream AI art generators went to great pains to prevent these tools from being used to generate pornography.

If you want to talk about statements on society in general, I think the fact that nudity is seen as more harmful than gore, is a bigger problem than an AI generating either one.
I was also thinking the girl from "The Ring".
I took care of my elder grandparents for the last 7 years of their lives. It was probably the worst thing I've ever had to go through in my life. There is nothing as soul crushing as watching people die in slow motion. It's been 3 years since they passed and I'm still a fucking wreck. I've had loved ones pass before in my life but its not the same when its someone close that suddenly passes vs elder care. My grandfather was a strong man, I remember hiking Pikes Peak with him when I was in high school. He beat me up the mountain, and I wasn't exactly out of shape at the time. Near the end his parkinsons was so bad I had to feed and change his diapers. Watching someone go from being the strongest and most independent person I've ever met to someone embarrassed to tears while I'm changing his diapers. That's not the same type of impact on loss.
It would not amaze me if you're spot on. Lots of images scraped off the 'net, especially celeb websites and quelle surprise.
Geekbench results show how much faster the iPhone 14 Pro’s A16 chip really is
Are you thinking about management consultants (hatchet folks) and/or accountants? Economists are nerds that identify margins for improvement/opportunity cost -- they tend to fill strategy / marketing needs for quantification.
It's both - there are compressors sitting in the UK that are blocked from being returned to NS1 because of British sanctions. The pipeline needs compressors (technical) but can't get them because they're repaired in foreign countries (political).

The stupid thing is, somehow these facts seem to have got lost somewhere along the line and the European countries are convinced this is 4D chess by Russia instead of the exact outcome sanctions were intended to create.
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On the contrary, California is struggling with with electricity generation during times of high A/C loads due to a heat wave. Those times correspond with high solar power generation, without solar they'd be doing a lot worse.

On the contrary, Germany has met their goal of 80% full natgas storage several weeks early despite the French nuclear reactors being offline due to higher than expected renewable energy supplies.
Hi pabs3, thanks for your comments! We already have an improved "clear English" version of the ToS, which you will be glad to hear includes updates on changes going through review now - getting the legals right has been a really big deal for me, especially to make sure they are fair to everyone!
It's not that I don't like it; I use it daily at work. It's just that I am seeing far too many people instinctively reaching for it when they need to build a frontend of any complexity, for any purpose. I was like that once myself, and I'm looking back to those days with embarrassment.

Personally, I like the movement back towards the web platform, browser standards, and web components. For many cases, these are more than enough.