skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
first few hits to get you addicted then charges going forward.

Sorry, but this comparison doesn't hold water. Your ability to use Youtube is not a binary decision based on being a premium subscriber or not. Advertising has been a thing on the Internet for a while.
It’s complicated. We’re so sensory overloaded that I might wanna hear just how far the flat earth guy can take it.

Tall tales are a guilty pleasure for many. Clinically we call this conspiratorial thinking (or really clinically, paranoid schizophrenia?).

Some people really indulge in their campfire ghost stories. I would be interested in the “Lincoln actually loved slavery” lol, just want to see how far some asshole can take an idea.
Maybe they just told me that to stop me loosing it all the time!
> it's WW3 for real; there is no 'tactical' nuke scenario that doesn't lead to a wider war.

How so, why are you confident allies will declare some kind of war in such event?
Their legal worry probably makes sense, but my suspicious mind also feels like it's in their long-term interest maybe not to open pandora's box too much on letting AI art in, because wouldn't one of Getty's competitive advantages be the relationships it has with (I imagine) hundreds of thousands of artists? And so if they let AI art in then suddenly the historic artist relationship means less (because a lot more people can now contribute) and they may end up competing against new and emerging low-cost AI art marketplaces? Not sure, just speculating future scenarios and not eroding ones own competitive moat.
Half of the "Linux" books are about BSDs, or open source applications that are not specific for Linux. They seem to be scraping the bottom of the barrel there.
Not for free, but they very likely exchanged Tether for assets that are not dollars and whose value has since dropped. In some cases we know that those assets were very dubious and they had trouble getting the money back.

Banks have losses too. But they raise money by selling stock, which provides a cushion against losses. The stockholders lose money first.
Sure, and I have no problem with people that just want a bundle of goods. But the charity angle is just disingenuous given how much Humble takes for itself.
I don't think you're far off with your first couple of points, but I don't think the USA will try conscription, precisely because it would have destabilizing effects you mention.
Doesn't matter, as far as they are concerned that's on you for breaking the terms and conditions. They're just 'making an effort' for legal reasons.
How long have you been at Microsoft?
By default, Stable Diffusion watermarks images. However as it's open source, it's obviously trivial to remove it.
the original implementation of Bitcoin had bits of code for an online poker game: https://cointelegraph.com/magazine/2020/04/08/bitcoin-poker-...
The brilliance is that framework doesn’t have to ship anything, unless customers pay a deposit, which would validate the demand. I don’t see how they could lose here.
I am responding to: "these bans are predominantly targeting books that have LGBTQ characters. And books that have non-white characters."

My assertion is that I wouldn't expect a book that simply had a gay character in it to receive that response from the school board.
The solution is an extension called Temporary Containers.

You have to turn it to "Automatic mode", and fiddle a bit with the settings, but I have it set up so that every time I open a new tab it is a fresh isolated session, and will be destroyed when the tab is closed.

When I need to be logged in, I use the regular containers in Firefox for each service, or a context like "work", instead of the temporary containers.
Google has fairly strict requirements around power consumption. They have a standard test for 10 hours of active use through common use cases, which we were able to meet. For standby, the requirement is around 14 days. I have to double check where we are on the current software and firmware, but we are close to that number.

We actually did learn some things about the Intel re-timers through this product development that let us come up with ways to improve the behavior on the regular 12th Gen Framework Laptops. We are currently developing a firmware update for that that will improve both active and standby battery life.
I think the question is, why ChromeOS instead of a Linux?
FWI, the OpenZiti project 'integrated' their Go SDK into NATS last year - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8V_HlDZy6M8&ab_channel=OpenZ....

I say 'integrated' as it was a quick and dirty integration rather than anywhere near production ready.
Hydrogen is rather troublesome to contain due to the fact that it is the smallest, lightest atom.

Just one of several significant problems associated with efforts to use hydrogen as fuel.
What about images that are a hybdrid, i.e. human composed but using AI elements? Similar to Worhol and photography. I'd imagine a large percentage of artwork will use this approach and Getty will have to evolve their stance to stay relevant.
I usually WFH, but that's about the distance to my job if I take the highway, where bikes aren't allowed. If I were to go using side streets it would easily be double that.

Wouldn't be looking forward to a 50 mile ebike commute!
With some financial engineering, an "absolutely 100% dollar-backed" asset can be backed by a "more than 99% for-sure" mix of assets, which are in turn backed by a "96% good in even the worse case" mish-mash, which are in turn backed by a "I'd bet my left arm that more than 91% are okay" heap of stuff, which are in turn backed by a "we have checked on 84% of 'em" pile of smelly things, which are in turn...
You can also plagiarize someone else's work and submit it as your own, and they won't notice. But if they find out, it'll be removed and there will be some punitive action. I assume it's the same enforcement model in this case.
Crypto is growing up. The little tyke we got to know in 2014 is getting its first meaningful encounters with the consequence of young adulthood.

Growing up is hard, but the outcome can be positive.
It felt like a natural metaphor.
In addition to veterinary applications in horses, Ivermectin is approved for human use and is a powerful anti-viral that is effective against "wide range of RNA and DNA viruses, for example, dengue, Zika, yellow fever, and others"[1].

There is, to date, no evidence that it is effective as a treatment for the Covid-19 variants. However, it's certainly harmful to post in a public forum that it's just "horse de-wormer", which could lead patients to reject approved treatment for these other diseases.

1. https://www.drugs.com/ivermectin.html
Linked thread shows you getting schooled. You used a crappy library that died before it ever made it to version 1.0, a mistake that everyone makes at least once.

On topic: This article was written by an SI (system integrator). 2011 is ancient history as far as PC hardware goes. Eg today's fans are a lot more efficient at the same price point and most enthusiasts need a lot more static pressure for radiators.
>Well of course, this war looks like it looks cuz the reality of involved force does not match the reality of total force, ergo mobilization.

Except it's not total force, it's fictional force. Those new people will be less trained than real soldiers, will have worse equipment (all the newest stuff already got spent); Russia lost a lot of officer cadre, so their leadership will be (somehow) worse too, and most importantly, they are being sent there by force, so will be less motivated to fight.

Given the collosal failures in Kyiv and Charkov, the new corps, being even worse, will either become a low-grade meat for Ukrainian artillery, like the recent "Third Army" reportedly did, or realize their situation and change sides.
If it less laggy than Notion, that would already be enough for me.
I think we may be talking about two different concepts regarding creation of art.

Absolutely humans (and myself, I'm a professional illustrator) use a mental patterns to come up with ideas.

The physical difference in AI generation is the lack of butt-in-chair time of the flow state. Painting/drawing/rendering art is not just mindless time to be compressed; it's a mental/physical/emotional/(and some would say spiritual) flow state with a lot of "input" abstractions beyond the patterns. Things like the creative's personal mood, personal past experiences, recent discussions with friends, recent texts they read ... those all fold into it. I wouldn't trade that flow state for the world, and it absolutely leaves fingerprints in my creations.
Given how much Twitch is moving to advertisers for income (they've bumped up ads to 3 minutes/hour), I think there's also a risk of losing people willing to advertise on Twitch due to not wanting an association with "illegal in the us" activities.
I'd love to get something that efficient. What model is it?
Install update to your Malwarebytes app
OSSU
I would love to sympathize with the author, but this isn't a hill I would die on. The biggest complaint in the article is:

> Fast forward to 2022, and I cannot open YouTube without having an annoying pop-up urging me to subscribe to Premium

I mean, hitting skip on a popup is a very small price to pay for the content provided for free on YouTube. As opposed to cable, where not only did you pay for the service, you were still forced to watch 3 minutes of ads for every 6 minutes of content.

And then the author goes on to complain that:

> I’m sure I’m not the only one who noticed that YouTube has progressively shown more and more ads to free users

This isn't controlled by YT. The people who make the videos decide how many ads, what timestamps to place them at, whether or not they are skippable, and whether or not there are ads at all. The YouTubers have full autonomy over this, and for the channels I watch that have chosen to not place ads on their videos (like NoClip), I have never seen YouTube place ads on those videos. So it seems like YT is respecting the channel owners decisions.

So I really can't get behind this sentiment.
Bitfinex has 42 times less volume than Binance so it likely doesn't add up to all that much of the total exchange USDT usage to make a big difference.

0. https://www.coingecko.com/en/exchanges
Yeah I love my chromebook as a cheap, almost throwaway device, for when I go on business trips. It's light, it keeps me away from my favorite games, if I drop it no big financial loss. All my work "work" is in the cloud.
If you own Tether right now, and you don't liquidate immediately, you 100% deserve to lose all your money. This thing is going to collapse. There's no reason why Tether would keep its holdings secret unless it's hiding a secret. So be warned, if you don't want to suffer the same fate as Terra you need to liquidate right now.
This sounds like the sort of routine police violence that happens every day in the USA. There's nothing there to suggest they had any idea who he was.
> They can print Tether for free and use it to buy crypto.

Ah yes, they can just operate a classic ponzi scheme!

They can use new investors money to cover for the ficticious assets that previous investers were told that they hold!
Open source doesn't mean that the upstream project wants to / is obligated to merge any and all changes that appear in the wild.
>Are there any at-home PFA tests?

From everything you hear about their ubiquity, that test could almost just be a slip of paper with "Yes" written on it.

I've switched to stainless steel & cast iron pans, but there are plenty of PFAS in wrappers[1], etc. so I'm not sure if there was any point in trying to avoid them in cookware (other than stainless steel is delightfully simple to clean)

1: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/24/revealed...
But it is locked down, in a way. It doesn't ship with a regular UEFI bios so you can't just install an alternative OS.
From your comments throughout this thread it seems as though you are either confident that your personal convictions will remain within the overton window in perpetuity or you lack the ability to imagine that one day they may not. Not to mention some of your convictions may have been outside the overton window in recent history. In a world where cash can be refused by businesses and governments can ban physical interaction, the ability to conduct digital commerce (and speech) must not be frustrated regardless of its general unsavoriness. The fact that we as a society have allowed a small cabal of payment processors to collude on who is allowed to conduct online commerce is a tragedy.
We ended up implementing an API Gateway in AWS that just proxies the request to our CI server after a simple authentication (and also checking the signature of the request as suggested by GH).

Another related option is that you can run GitHub Runners in your own environment and they will connect to GitHub to accept "jobs" from GitHub Actions. This is another thing we've started doing as we look to pare down our self managed CI. This is a very solid choice I think. In case anyone is interested: https://docs.github.com/en/actions/hosting-your-own-runners/...
I've almost bought some of the book bundles, but then realized that all or almost all of the books in the bundle were also on O'Reilly online learning. I've got a great deal on that [1] and the Bundle books were all books that I would not need long term and so losing access to them if I ever cancel O'Reilly was not a problem.

[1] Way back when it was Safari Library they had a variety of plans. They wanted to switch to a single unlimited plan. Those of us on the cheaper limited plans were grandfathered in. To encourage us to voluntarily switch to the new plan they offered it to us for $200/year for as long as we kept our accounts active, which was 1/2 the current price for new subscribers. Now it is $500/year for new subscribers, but still $200/year for those of us who accepted their offer.
I haven't looked into exactly what it does, but it seems like there's a (hidden?) watermark: https://github.com/CompVis/stable-diffusion/blob/69ae4b35e0a...
https://www.wonderslist.com/countries-worst-police-brutality...
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/police-ki...
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1274278/trust-in-police-...

I don't know, seems pretty debatable. It also probably depends on your ethnicity.
Having just bought a Framework to replace my 5-year-old XPS, I really hope I have the same experience as you. Do you run Linux, by the way? I hope Linux support is good.
Yes, that is exactly what happens to me, I find writing the task down and starting the timer makes me less likely to jump to that next task, instead I just write it down.

With a normal to-do list, you can write down your task, but you don't feel as committed to an "active" one.

You mentioned feedback, I don't have anything on the site for that but feel free to email hello at wedeserveless.com
This is a great point. Also, even if it is actually cheaper in the long term because they can just upgrade parts from the modularity of it, I somehow feel skeptical that a school IT unit is going to have that level of foresight. Even if they do, will they be able to successfully persuade the suits that control the budget?

Yup, you're right, this could be a very tough sell.
You are right that the effect on workforce won't be as bad. But the political effects will likely be huge: for now Russians can pretend there's no war, because it's not them who's dying, it's "some ethnic minorities".

One can't avoid drawing parallels between what's happening now and what happened after Russia's defeat in WW1.
We bought refurb HP and Lenovo laptops for less than $400. >$900 for student laptops is a big no-go. I guess if you were a bigger University, but I cannot see it for the average school.
No offense to GlobalWebIndex, but garbage data in garbage data
out. There's no possible way that 0% of Twitch viewership is under 16 (go to literally any school or place with children under 16 and casually observe their screens).

Children have been lying about their age on the internet since the beginning of the internet. Any service that says no children are using it without very sold proof is ignorant or lying.
Because the main goal isn't entertainment.
Concerns of spyware are precisely why those switches exist.
In practice, full, stable hardware compatibility and battery life. The Linux experience on the Framework Laptop on recent distros (e.g. Ubuntu 22.04.1) is solid, but battery life will still generally be better running Ubuntu on top of ChromeOS.
> At the very least, everyone is going to get nukes

its ongoing process already. On one hand you have Iran, Israel, N Korea who developed/developing nukes, on another hand US has agreements for sharing nuclear weapons with plenty of countries already, I think American nukes deployed in several European countries right now.
Humans don't usually do stroke for stroke copies of paintings. Or pixel for pixel sampling of photos, unless they get rights to the sources.
Wasn't the first one called GeForce 256?
Why is this voted down? It's true. How can this be in actuality prevented?

Changing times. Not even imagery or art can be trusted. A whole range of human creativity based occupations is approaching the border of redundancy.

You can argue that they may never arrive at that border, but there is no argument to be made that this is the first time ever in the history of human kind where artists are approaching that border of redundancy.

And what does this mean for every other human occupation? The AI may be primitive now, but it's still the beginning and it it is certainly possible for us to be approaching a future where it produces things BETTER then what a human produces.
To be fair, I’ve seen this in c++ as well. Building an entire structure of classes like “java” and then using “design patterns” on those abstractions. All to implement a simple 7 step socket communication protocol. It was a “wtf is going on here moment”?
> To me, the issue comes down to the fact that companies are fundamentally relying on software that comes with no promises of support or a warranty.

Interestingly, software users do this too with free web services, but generally we don't treat it as entitlement when users complain that a free web service is discontinued or migrates to a subscription model.
PFAS are so ubiquitous that I suppose the only interesting thing about TFA is that some children are required to wear the uniforms.

Though I can appreciate an article on PFAS that doesn't just have everyone hyperfocusing on their cooking pan.
A specific date would be better, because otherwise it’s ambiguous. Eight years starting when?
Stable diffusion does: https://github.com/CompVis/stable-diffusion#reference-sampli...

Seems like a good idea to me with almost no downsides. If sites start discriminating against images based on that watermark though that's going to incentivize people to turn it off.
Tell me how you support censorship without telling me you support censorship

> We facilitate voluntary exchange between consenting adults and it is that exchange which promotes peace and prosperity.

who decides what peace and prosperity is?
Malwarebytes desktop app freaking out over Google services here. Keeps blocking the app from trying to access various Google services and subdomains. Google.com also was being blocked. Added chrome.exe to the Allow list for web processes and it stopped alerting.
Next week: Effective immediately, Getty Images will cease operations citing loss of their entire business model due to AI.
I wonder if it's a difference between countries that use the comma to indicate the decimal vs a period. The comma also being used for separating values in a list might make omitting the zero more confusing. I've generally noticed a higher eagerness to abbreviate in the US though.
Occam's razor is an heuristic for proceeding in the absence of certainty. Anyone claiming otherwise doesn't understand it.

As for Tether I'm certain enough to advise anybody investing it or any currency supported by it to not invest money they can't afford to lose.
> I'm not sure I understand the mechanics behind this point of view.

Here's the definition of Ponzi scheme from Wikipedia:

"A Ponzi scheme is a form of fraud that lures investors and pays profits to earlier investors with funds from more recent investors."

Social security operates in the same way. It pays earlier investors (old people) with funds from more recent investors (young people). Like a Ponzi scheme, it can only maintain stability with ever larger numbers of new investors. If the demographics shift to a much older population due to a low birth rate, there won't be enough new investors to keep the scheme going.

> 1. There are always more significantly more people between the ages of 20 and 65 than there are over 65 - the ratio is currently about 5 to 1 in the US. We'd have to see a catastrophic level of depopulation for this to become untrue. Even if everybody stopped having kids tomorrow, it would take 20-30 years before the ratio became unreasonably unbalanced.

This is exactly the scenario that's predicted to play out in South Korea, which currently has a birth rate of 0.81.

https://thediplomat.com/2022/08/south-koreas-demographic-tre...

"Workers between ages of 25-49, those who are in their prime working years, however, are expected to decline from 36.8 percent of the population to 23.1 percent by 2050."

"Based on current trends, Statistics Korea estimates that senior citizens will account for 30 percent of the population in 2036 and 40 percent by 2051."

The US isn't nearly as bad in terms of birth rates, but the decline in birth rates is a global trend that shows no signs of stopping.

> 2. Social Security is in trouble because the government sees/has seen it as their private slush fund to spend on other things, not because it's inherently unsustainable.

Social security IS inherently unstable, in that it will cease to be funded if there aren't enough young people.
The US Copyright Office asserts that AI generated images can’t be copyrighted. Getty lives and dies by copyright and artificial scarcity/control of image rights.

For stock images and non current/news events, Stable Diffuison and its successors are the future.
If it's good enough for the SSA why not for tether?
It doesn't have to be based on a particular metric, they should just pick a numerical sequence and stick to it. I would suggest:

G-M, where G is the generation and M is the market segment. They could even make M a letter (A, B, C) to avoid confusion (rather than using 50, 60, 70, 80, which was the closest thing they got to a convention). A=awesome, B=better, C=consumer. They can stick a W on the front for workstation cards, and give them another letter at the end for special high-memory runs or whatever.

So this could be something like the: w20a-h.
Hey thanks. Yes, esoteric enough to keep it interesting day to day. I mostly work with architects and design engineers to coordinate quiet building systems and good interior acoustics--projects anywhere from K-12 to major performing arts centers to commercial offices, including some of your US offices...

On that point, I feel everyone's collective pain on the situation with open offices. I don't have the power to avoid them, so the best I can do is advocate for getting the signal-to-noise problem solved right.
New Webb image captures clearest view of Neptune’s rings in decades
I love ants. Ant farming is an interesting hobby if you like ants too. They're so essential to many biomes that it's hard to imagine how we'll survive if the mass extinction takes them.

That's a lot of biomass!
> They also have been sending their b-c teams not their A-list because they wanted to save them

That this comment claims this really says all one need about the comment. Russia Just admitted it was over extended and had exhausted its professional army by declaring a mobilization of reservists.

Everyone clearly knows the professional army is the C list and it’s the reservists that are the true A listers. <heavy sarcasm>