skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> until a few seconds after I got the chance to try some queries myself.

I’m the opposite. I’m finally, after a long time, starting to get excited about AI. Yes, most outputs still suck and require a lot of experimentation and rephrasing, and yes, midjourney produces a lot of same-looking things (less freedom, but also less crap compared to dall-e).

But wow, now even I, someone with no artistic talent whatsoever, can with just a few prompts create a cool illustration. My current discord avatar is a sloth drinking a cocktail [0]. Zoomed in, it looks a bit uncanny, but generally and especially at smaller sizes, it’s fine.

I could not draw something even halfway as okay. I would not want to pay someone to do it for me as it’s of no big importance to me (I once paid someone for their Stranger Things as sloths image, but even that was just something they already created, not a commission which would have been vastly more expensive).

Personally, I really can’t wait what the next generation will be like, and what it will enable people to do, what they will enable me to do. Yes, I’m very excited.

[0]: https://i.imgur.com/0RwVNP4.png
> Individual rights do not trump collective rights in all cases.

I agree, though:

a) I didn't make that claim

b) You may as well just say "one right does not always trump another", which is just as true and more insightful

Which makes this part:

> This lack of nuance in your argument is absurd.

actually absurd. And this part:

> The selfish part is suggesting that your individual rights trump everyone else’s rights.

as I've already pointed out, is not something I claimed. This was my claim:

“To protect or support one individual's rights is to protect or support everyone's individual rights."

Perhaps you'd like to try again, and this time actually address me with some respect, not least by actually replying to what was written and not what is most convenient to you in the fantasy argument you've spilled out from your head.
What was the full sentence? I've marketed a lot of games on Facebook with much worse words (kill etc) and never had a problem. Also, kept money how? Facebook charges you in arrears.
Your 66% number includes generation losses. You're literally arguing that we should be horrified that solar panels don't produce 1 watt of electricity for every watt of light which hits them.

Would it be great if solar panels and wind turbines and nuclear reactors converted 100% of the heat/light/wind energy into useful electricity? Sure. But that's also not something we have the technology to achieve, and likely never will. People are constantly researching ways to improve power plants, but they will never reach 100% efficiency.

What we _do_ have the technology to achieve, however, is turning off things which use a ton of energy but provide no value. Saving 1‰ of earth's global electricity consumption just by turning off a useless gambling toy is a huge win, and the fact that it was allowed to use 1‰ of our global energy use in the first place is horrifying.
Count me in this camp as well. The hardware guys did their jobs, our hardware as now faster and more power efficient that anything that came before it. But now the software guys are letting us down making everything slow again.
The more we become overly sensitive, the harsher it will feel if we accidentally miss being overly sensitive. Now you tell me I shouldn't use "you have a sec?" ? if this goes on where are we going to be in 10 years? No personal communication at all anymore because it might make somebody feel anxious and I can only have a personal discussion with them if I send a week before a full agenda and rundown?
Jesus forgot to end the book right after (and before) that sentence.
Quite a bold claim I think to say that wolves were domesticated for spiritual reasons rather than as hunting companions, the latter being much more a much more intuitive and immediate benefit.

It is quite a mystery to wonder how domestication happened at all, though seeing how modern wolves can be made (relatively) tame and biddable if you get them as pups, maybe it just took one person to have the idea. I imagine you would have been quite the badass in early human society with a tamed wolf at your side.

So maybe rather than some semi-spooky pan-human thousand year plus directed domestication effort it grew organically with people inter-breeding their captive tamed wolves?
I don't know when the last time was I logged into my Google account. Probably when I got my current phone. No login = no question if your 2FA details are current.

Also, Google doesn't always make it clear when something is being added as 2FA. E.g. if you log into an Android phone future logins will use it as 2FA.
Usually software designed explicitly for the hardware where it runs, while OS software is designed to run on general hardware. If there is hardware specific fixes, they might be skipped as it'll make compatibility worse while software designed for exact hardware doesn't make tradeoffs like that at all.
I’m surprised at how bad native widgets are in general. They’re inconsistently styled, ugly, hard to override, and not all that usable. It’s nice that they have built in a11y support, but that’s about all they’ve got going for them.

I wish there were a web standard for modular, customizable, styleable inputs and pickers. It would eliminate a lot of needless wheel-reinventing and also make the web more accessible.
I'm sorry, appealing to in-group/out-group bias is a horrible way to address a point, regardless of what the point is.
Terminology can display images and video inline.

"This is an EFL terminal emulator with some extra bells and whistles such as the ability to display in-line images, video and even play music files, background images, videos, Z-Modem like sending (e.g. SSH into a server and use tysend to send a file back to the local terminal), GPU Accelerated rendering (optional - just set the EFL Elementary toolkit engine to use OpenGL) and much more."

https://github.com/borisfaure/terminology
> careless click

Careless click is not enough to compromise someone unless they are also running software that is not up to date. For example, how do you compromise someone if password login is disabled in all of the systems?
People will pay for something that they value but others do not.

I prefer to think of value as a function of rarity and utility. I'll skip over rarity but utility can include the possibility of selling something for more than it was purchased at some time in the future.

If someone pays an exorbitant amount for something it has that value to them at the time of purchasing. Whether that value is reflected in the market price or persists over time is something else though. Value is not static. Value is dynamic. You can observe this both personally and in the markets.
Yup.

Looking to develop my Rust skills I found a OSS project to contribute to. Learned a ton working on an issue. A few months later I found out the company was looking to hire so I applied on the basis of my contributions. There was no interview, the company just took me on straight away. I'm still there and loving it!
> But maglev was researched extensively and then we decided against it.

The people against it were the Boomer-Greens, the same generation that got us Harz-IV and favoured Coal over Nuclear. Their anti-transrapid standpoint was just a political counter point to the policy of the CDU, which is absolutely insane, considering that todays greens would be super happy if the CDU started to propose better faster trains.

The BUND (Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz) made some wild claims about bird sanctuaries, ignoring the fact that the reduced noise level and lower ground area requirements would have been a huge improvement for bird sanctuaries, compared to ICE.
The same BUND that has a working group against cell towers and community wifi because of RaDIAtioN.

> Regarding prices: those are actually very reasonable prices for High-speed-trains.

That's only if you book months in advance, and even then it's often cheaper to take the plane, which is absolutely insane.

> Maglev is so much more expensive to build

At 17Mio/Euro per double KM, it's EXACLY the same as high-speed ICE tracks.
The more costly linear accelerator tech is set of by the cheaper pylons. Turns out preparing the ground and piling up a 5m pile of Gravel is really really expensive.

> I simply can't see how that would lead to better prices

The main ticket price contributor is not the tracks, it's energy and maintenance.
Both are significantly reduced for a contact free system with no moving parts and no vibrations.

> The one that failed everywhere they tried?
Because solar panels don't like being driven on.
But the Transrapid would just float over the solar panels embedded into the center of the track.

You might argue that one could also put solar panels in between regular train track, but the vibration and material dust would quickly render them useless.

> Or you could place them literally anywhere else, there is no shortage of space to put solar panels in.

NIMBY NIMBY NIMBY. With solar transrapid pylons kill two birds with one stone, the track even provides the infrastructure to transport the electricity.

You also forget that the self contained shuttle design of the Transrapid would allow for completely new routing schemes. Instead of a fixed timetable you could use much more flexible "package" based routing, where trains are scheduled on demand. You'd also be able to save a lot of energy lost in regenerative breaking at ever stop by booking a single train from say, Hamburg to Rome, without any stops.
Same here, surprisingly good compared to the last LG TV we had in 2012 or something, they've made it a lot snappier. Maybe as time goes on, with more updates, it'll end up in the same situation...

What I really miss though, is being able to write my own apps for the TV without having to jump through 1000 hoops, sign 5 EULAs/NDAs/contracts and be able to develop said apps on my computer and then simply push them to my TV, just for me.
Four Causes of Product's Success or Failure
How to come up with a product development strategy that is clear, consistent, and reconciles rather than divides the efforts of different disciplines, and why is this even so difficult? Some food for thought comes from a pretty unexpected time and place: Ancient Greece.
Also, calling a home device "hackable" is not exactly going to make it attractive to most people. I know what they mean, but most people will read that very differently.
I'm not concerned at all, I love how AI enhances my work. It takes me on deep journeys of endless imagination.

AI generated content is going to be personal content and it's going to do away with copy right as each piece will be unique to the individual. Rather than share a single image we will share abstract concepts and styles for our friends to explore.
Does anyone really use SMS for communication with friends and family? With unlimited data plans being cheap and widespread there's no longer reason to use SMS. Personally I only use it for 2FA for some services which require it.
Sharp/NEC - System on a Chip Powered by Raspberry Pi
That’s an easy one. What I don’t understand is why the lost campers in the Blair Witch Project didn’t just follow the river downstream.
If it goes on, who knows? We might belong to a profession where people are known for their tact and sensitivity and keen ability to intuit someone else’s emotional state. People might say, “Those software engineers, they sure do know how to talk to people!”
Well if someone falls through a literal crack IRL then there will be emergency services ready to try to get them out and we don't just say they shouldn't have been absent minded so now they get to rot down there. And if a particular crack swallows up multiple people then we won't say that's life but find ways to fix that crack (probably even after the first person).
Former Reg vulture takes on Nominet – by running for board seat
Crypto aside, most collectable card games aren't very much fun in my opinion.
Stackpath (previously maxcdn) has cdn/waf/dns with ddos. The service is actually really good and pricing very competitive. Support is knowledgeable and very helpful and the cdn has extensive customization options. Only downside I’ve seen is somewhat slower performance in Asia than comparable cdn’s. In terms of cost they blow cloudflare, fastly or aws out of the water once you start needing enterprise level features for small to medium size sites.
I’m surprised they’re rarely mentioned on HN.
Discussion (106 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32836661
In all honesty, 12 pages per day doesn't really seem that much.
Looking at the product page, quite prominently this is displayed:

> WARNING: This product can expose you to chemicals including Styrene and Formaldehyde (gas), which are known to the State of California to cause cancer, and Lead

I'm not sure the risks are worth the price, I've never seen such warning on any product, but I don't live in the US. Is that a common warning to see? How likely is that to happen? Is it a thing that happens in case the TV breaks in half, or is something that slowly slips out in the air around the TV?

The linked website says "Exposure to these chemicals may take place when products are acquired or used", am I supposed to believe that just buying this TV and bringing it home can make those chemicals to leak out into the air in my home?

The statement brings so many questions but so few answers...
Every song have associated colors and emotions
I think you haven’t read the article…

> This new proposed Text and Data Mining exception for commercial purposes – by the UK government – undermines this by freely allowing the machine mining of all imagery published online for any use by anyone, including AI developers. It would cover both copyright works and those protected by the UK Database Right.

>With serious economic consequences for any creator, but most especially photographers with data-rich images, this proposal completely short-circuits the licensing process allowing AI developers and others free commercial access to content for which, under normal circumstances, they would have to license and pay for.

>On a practical level, it would mean that AI bots/crawlers would scan or read any digital images (much like many of the image infringement identification services we use already do), on your websites or social media accounts, and extract any data the bots have been programmed to search for (extracting both an image and the embedded metadata from the original source and any versions found elsewhere) at neural speeds. The bots would make copies for the AI platform in order to ‘learn’ from and, potentially, create new images.

>Creators are doubly harmed in that not only is a potential revenue stream being removed but the very platforms being trained using their works may ultimately replace the work they currently do! Think e-Comm fashion on artificially-generated models or make-up on AI-rendered faces, much of which is already happening.
Hmm, instead of 12 pages per day, that's just 84 pages per week. Nothing to "tone down" IMHO, because that's easily managable. We have about 5K books at home (not pages, books) which we bought and read over 40 years (not owning a TV set over that time ;-) and reading sixty to one hundred pages per evening isn't that hard to accomplish for a book lover.
Solar-powered Bitcoin mining centre open in industrial city of Whyalla Australia
When I got my Apple Watch I was really disappointed at Spotify for not having streaming, then I learned that Apple kept the APIs private and only Apple Music allowed streaming.

When finally Apple relased the feature for third parties, Spotify was really slow at implementing it. What should have been a couple months max took like a year or so...

I would really like to know who is responsible here.
It's not considered a repost unless it has already gotten attention recently. Things like time of day or day of the week or just randomness can affect if a post gets the discussion is deserves, so HN does allow reposts.

From the HN FAQ[1]:

> Are reposts ok?

> If a story has not had significant attention in the last year or so, a small number of reposts is ok. Otherwise we bury reposts as duplicates.

> Please don't delete and repost the same story. Deletion is for things that shouldn't have been submitted in the first place.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
ISP email are an important factor on why email federation still work.

But not all ISP are evil, here we have a lot of city operated ISP with free minimal service.
Did he actually read War and Peace, The Great Gatsby, Catch 22, Candide, The Picture of Dorian Gray, a Malcolm X biography and two other books during the single month of Feb 1969?? I find that a tad hard to believe... But whatever. I'm a pretty fast reader myself, so I'll take that as a challenge / inspiration for myself :)
I think fungi first crawled upon that great land.
Indeed - even the late 18th century national revival romanticists thought it's important to create a special word in the language for each of the hundreds of different kinds of torture instruments and ways of torture.
The future Gattaca warned is about is here, it's just unevenly distributed.
It may be innocent, but also don't forget that many people don't waste any occasion to make others feel the weight of whatever little ounce of power they have.
I use LibreElec on a Raspberry Pi 4 and it already supports receiving remote control messages from the TV. So if you hit the play button on your remote, your TV's IR receiver will pick it up, then pass the signal to the Raspberry Pi over the HDMI cable.
Like APL notation being a tool of thought.
Are you sure you're talking about the same chip? None of this is consistent with what I see on the die.
It's easier said than done. It would be good if USA would stop to push that reliance using its military power, economic power, media and soft power, open and covert intelligence operations with the only purpose to extend its power and influence around the world.

If USA starts treating other countries in a biblical "don't do to others what you don't like to be done to you" sense, the world would be a much better and safer place for everyone.
> A corollary to this piece of advice I wish I could give to some other coworkers is don't just say hello in chat.

https://nohello.net/en/
The failure that is being talked about is the fact the we reward risk-taking much more than we reward effort. No one is saying there was no risk involved, rather what we're saying is the proportion of how much we reward risk vs. how much we reward effort is skewed in favor of risk. And the magnitude of this skew is unhealthy to society and leads to results that I (and others, clearly) don't consider fair.

To that I would add that the only risk we're rewarding in this way is the risk to capital. While we do pay more for jobs that are more risky in terms of safety, it's close to impossible to become a multi-millionaire by risking your life in your job. I would say that kind of risk is higher than the one taken by entrepreneurs, but entrepreneurs and investor have an easier (though not easy) path to getting outsized rewards for their risk.

It's OK to reward risk, and it's OK to reward effort, and it might even be OK to reward risk more than effort. But by how much more?
What are the usecases for designer proteins outside of medicine? The article mentions pollution cleanup. Anybody have any resources to learn about the mechanisms involved in a use case like that?
Maybe its just me, but listening to audiobooks are absolutely impossible for me if I want to retain anything of the material I'm reading/listening to. First problem is that I seem to forget everything as soon as I stop listening, so next time I listen, I have no memory of what happened before. Second problem is that sometimes my brain just tunes it out, and I catch myself 5-10 minutes later not having to actually listened to any of it, having to go back again.

This happens both when I'm listening to audiobooks and doing something else, or when just sitting and doing nothing when listening. I don't have the same problem with reading, I can do that with high focus for hours without any problem.
I highly doubt that "most people" would ever change their stock TV or TV dongle OS. So it targets geek and privacy-aware auditory and geek auditory understands what that means.
Wait isn't Google sitting on a dormant cash cow in helping all us lemmings?
> the left, with its eternal desire to monitor what everyone says or even thinks.

Would you say that the NSA is a left wing organization then?
On Firefox, you can type a dot at the end of the domain, and it successfully loads the page. But it seems to consider the domain with dot a different from the one without, for purposes of cookies etc.
If that's the state of XD now imagine what a shitshow Figma will be under Adobes control.
If doctors not only had to treat broken legs but also somehow prevent people breaking them in the first place...
It's definitely not entirely true, the license grants that "the current version" under "the current license" will be under the Apache license in 5 years that translates to in 5 years dragonflydb 0.6.0 / 0.7.0 will be under the apache license.
That's the only guarantee.

The change date can be changed at any time, the license allows it, almost all the projects I saw using the BSL actually use a sentence like "X years from the release", on top of this it can be even removed and if that would be the case than the paragraph below would apply, which clearly refers to 5 years from the released versions.

> Effective on the Change Date, or the fifth anniversary of the first publicly available distribution of a specific version of the Licensed Work under this License, whichever comes first, the Licensor hereby grants you rights under the terms of the Change License, and the rights granted in the paragraph above terminate.

5 years old software is a dead software :)

The only reason for adopting the BSL is to prevent companies like Amazon to take ownership and don't give back to the project (e.g. elastic), which is totally understandable.

Do you think that future releases, much more feature-complete and flexible, will be given under the apache license as they are meanwhile less feature complete versions aren't? Looking at the facts, I would say the answer is very likely no.

Would you build something in 5 years based on dragonflydb 0.7.0 when most likely there will be a v2.0 or even a v3.0 out there?

When it comes to non open source licenses and companies it should be clear that the companies want (and need) to take care of their own interests: the BSL "change date" is a way to be able to say "yes but it will become OSS" so you can keep using and contributing, like the sop you give to a kid to stop him from crying.
Teach your kids the love of books and when they reach school age, they will be sitting in a cosy corner and read books. I started reading at the age of six and "plundered" the local library with eight or nine. That allowed my parents to read too (again).
Welcome to our high tech cyber punk dystopia. Tent slums in the worlds richest cities, rampant opiate use and food delivery robots.

All we need is someone to start barcoding fentanyl zombies and it's a 1970s movie.
And if you do it, Facebook will probably retaliate by permanently closing your account.
I am referring to the new testament. Please point me to a line in the new testament which you think is objectionable, even by the wokest modern standard. I did the exercise to read it with this lens and the only thing I could find is a reference to women not asking questions when in church (something like that).
I'm still in high school so the scale of everything would probably not be an issue although I see your point of maintainability and showing the relations between classes graphically is probably also helpful when you're still wrapping your head around OOP concepts