skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Install size matters to me. Not as much as other things such as performance and memory footprint, but it still matters.
Google Is Showing Ads to Sell Your Kidney for $1M in India
Stable Diffusion was released just a month ago and look at the amount of applications and improvements that have been developed, it feels like a year!

Open-source is the way to get the most out of this tech. We plan to keep building all the features that are to come at krea.ai in this way.
I was always amazed that a game like Phoenix was possible on it. Really enjoyed that game.

Didn’t know about Diamonds. Something to look up. Thanks!
Author here! Happy to answer any questions.
Is there any relation to this situation and how there were attempts to enforce the _patent_ (not the standard) of JPEG[1] that ultimately mostly failed?

[1] http://www.pubpat.org/jpegsurrendered.htm
> until Fraunhofer gave up and gave MP3 to the world

I thought the patent ran out.
They’re definitely sequiturs, maybe not to the issues you want to discuss. You seem focused on how much academia is a meritocracy. There is an important and different question of how diverse and accessible academia is.

For example certain Olympic sports like dressage (horse jumping) are meritocracies, but very exclusionary (or at least non diverse, non accessible).
It's never been this evident to me how few people on HN even read the comments they spend time replying to.
Just questioning the causality link between the bombings in the cities and the rise of SD.
These people for the most part don't even like city dwellers. The president of the party doesn't even live in a major metropolitan area.

Why are they so worried about gangs and bombings when those are for the most part urban problems?

Doesn't peak your interest? It sure peaks mine.
Interesting! But I took a closer look at the source behind those statistics and it's consistent with the California data I posted.

It turns out there are seven states with very dangerous metro areas (Missouri, Illinois, Maryland, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana) and eight states with dangerous metro areas (South Carolina, Georgia, Kentucky, Indiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Nevada). The remaining states are much safer, with metro rates comparable to the nationwide nonmetro average.

Some of that matches with the conventional wisdom (e.g. Chicago is dangerous), but I think those nationwide statistics are quite deceptive. I think it's quite interesting that a California metro area is safer than a California nonmetro area, and both are nearly twice as safe as a Louisiana metro.

Take a look at these charts I generated: https://ibb.co/album/LztM7j . You can reproduce them with this saved CDC WONDER request: https://wonder.cdc.gov/controller/saved/D140/D307F000
Depends what you mean by that. If you mean someone in their face with a camera or microphone. Then, yeah I'd agree they would be upset. However, pretty much everyone walks into stores daily that record video/audio, and have signs informing people of it. No one seems to care.
There's also https://lexica.art/
From personal experience, Waterpiks do not remove everything flossing does. Doing both is even more effective, floss then waterpik.

There are different kinds of floss and they all feel different, find whatever works for you.

Flossing only hurts the first couple times, then scar tissue builds up and you barely feel it anymore.
I've found that the easiest way to extract audio data from a Blu-ray movie is to rip the file using MakeMKV and then use FFMPEG to convert the audio data to my codec of choice be it wav, aac, opus, etc. FFMPEG takes care of identifying the right codec to decode.
Dear FogBugz User,

Mea culpa — sincerely,

We've become well aware of the maelstrom of concern and comments caused by a series of emails that some of you received, but to explain, we were just as surprised as you when multiple emails were sent. Our original and only intended email, which was controlled by humans, was to inform you that the "free," non-expiring version of FogBugz is being phased out on October 17, 2022. Additionally, we wanted to offer you the option to continue using FogBugz by updating your account to a paid subscription. This was the entire, planned effort.

However, once we updated the accounts that had been identified as free and non-expiring in the internal FogBugz accounting system, the software automatically generated a form email, notifying you that we had summarily converted you to a paid account, and worse, actually triggering collection/dunning notices to some. This was unintended and is not accurate. Yes, we've owned the software for some time and should know all of the nooks and crannies by now. We don't know if this was a nook or a cranny, but it decided to act on its own. Truth. It's embarrassing, and we'd react the same way as many of you have. So this email is to set the record straight.

We do not automatically charge any customer for usage of the software unless a subscription has been expressly elected, despite what the erroneous auto-email stated.

"it decided to act on its own"

Seriously? That's your excuse? Professional software devs take responsibility for their code
It won't do that by default. You need to set some non-portable flags to get it to munmap things.

Unmapping trashes page-map caches of other threads in the process. That involves inter-core interrupts. Not pretty.
I don't know how long this has been true but all links in tweets are replaced with Twitter's own link-shortener links (t.co). No matter how short your link is, in a tweet it will consume 23 characters.

https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/how-to-tweet-a-lin...
Nah, piracy is much less popular than it used to be. And there are plenty of formats that have been quite popular with pirates but had zero use commercially. Matroska for example.
Smart Clustering: semantic video editing
Holy shit, if that's true.
Then it's likely another world government causing a coup
well... these institutions are a bunch of random geeks? Have you ever been to any of the crypto hackathons? From Jump Capital, to Parity It's a bunch of geeks who where obssesed with flipping on the grand exchange in runescape, got into crypto and are now adept at Rust, flipping bots and essoteric coding concepts like "Ownership".
Apple Watch: Wrist Temperature
I can't remember where I read it unfortunately, but yes, breathing harder will contribute to weight loss.

edit: https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/breathing-exercises-for...
the fork is mightier than the metabolism!

the breath thing is how the metabolic waste products leave the body (when your fat gets broken down eventually the mass of it leaves your body as co2).

also, the amount of hours you spend not working out dramatically trumps the amount of hours you spend not working out so working out itself doesnt change your mean..
Your ISP can still easily tell you're using Tor, and the government itself runs a ton of exit nodes.

> Augury is so thorough one expert told us, “It’s everything. There’s nothing else to capture except the smell of electricity.”

If TFA's claims are true, how does Tor actually help keep you safe in this instance?

Such a capability is an extremely serious threat to privacy.

How is it be legal for ISPs to share this sort of data sans warrant? Terrifying. Yuck.
But what if I don't have a bodice? Do I need to go get one or can I just skip the dumbbell too?
I look at the current reality of VP8/9 with dissatisfaction. Google went all-in with it and made Meet/Hangouts use it. But encoding, decoding, or both end up being done on the CPU usually, since hardware support is way behind. Zoom and FaceTime just used H.264 (and 5?), and it's way more efficient as a result. I don't normally care a ton about efficiency, but it actually matters when your laptop's fans are overpowering the audio in a meeting and draining your battery to 0 within a short time span.

Also, ironically, even Google Chat didn't seem to support webp images until recently. I appreciate the idea of open standards, but compatibility matters way more to the end user.
To be fair, in the CICO model, everyone on Earth would lose the exact same amount of weight, regardless of any of the factors you mention - or at least, the weight loss we'd experience from truly following the tenets of CICO could easily offset any individual mass modification from food or exercise!

It's also true that you'd get far more, and quicker, weight loss by increasing your distance from the earth instead of reducing the earth's mass, but that seems a little selfish...
Sure, there are ways around it, but someone who is only given the "CICO" advice is likely to run afowl of r naturally being correlated to m1.
Why stop there? Why not Fr. Coughlin or William Jennings Bryan?
A carbon dioxide shortage threatens the beer industry
It’s Harvard, Stanford, UCBerkeley, UMich, and UWMadison. Which ones surprised you? UMich and UW-Madison are mid tier?
America is divided more than, Iran maybe a glimpse into our immediate future.
Great work on Lexica.art, it's been indispensable for finding good prompts and combinations.

How much does it cost to host it? Feels like hosting 500GB of images and serving them can't be cheap.
> Can anyone understand how it's in anyone's best interest to investigate / potentially stop an open source standard / royalty-free format that has buy-in from tons of big orgs?

Because "using my monopolistic profits in one area to destroy your business in another area" is textbook anticompetitive behaviour.
Artist receives first known US copyright registration for generative AI art
In his defense, the last time I checked 50% of their revenue is from the US government which probably isn't going anywhere any time soon.

Compare that to something like Apple which depends on selling buttloads of complicated devices that are made in China by easily affordable labor, which get shipped by ginormous boats burning cheap fuel, across a entire ocean without anyone getting in the way, all to a customer base that needs plenty of disposable income. Also, that device is only so complicated because they use cheap debt to invest into developing it further.

I'm not saying that all of those things are minutes from 100% imploding all at once, but there's surely more failure points there than "we put stuff in a db for the gov and they give us money" hahaha

EDIT:

That said Palantir still isn't profitable
> I guess the credit-card company reported my grocery purchases to, well, someone

More like 20–30 someones. Cash is king!
It is meaningless drivel.

Some people confabulate, memory is not perfect, people with severe brain injuries visibly confabulate, so all explanatory power is meaningless and we should never trust it.

Never mind that some specific lesions to the brain actually provide explanations for how we create narratives and confabulate. Those explanations are equally illusory...
Are you saying Dr. McCullough, who came out with the McCullough protocol, closely related to the Zelenko protocol for firstline non-vaccine therapeutic treatment of Covid was a shyster?

He was years ahead of CDC & NIH on coming up with something close to standard of care, and he published it openly [1] yet NIH was 2 years behind him [2] despite greater resourcing... Look at the publishing dates!

You were saying?

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33387997/

[2] https://www.covid19treatmentguidelines.nih.gov/tables/manage...
its not just Citrix but corporate bond liquidity was highlighted in 2019 then the pandemic happened and everybody just glossed over it. now the pace of liquidity crunch across all corporate bonds is picking up as rates pick up.
Complains about Americans, then uses Fahrenheit for all temperatures.
I think this thread is looking back at 2020 with seriously tinted glasses. There we were dealing with a deadly highly-contagious airborne pandemic with cases and deaths growing exponentially, which would have been hard enough to deal with without politicization. But it became politicized and all efforts to stop it suddenly faced a massive, deliberate, sustained political attack. Downplaying, denial, misinformation, exaggeration, victim complexes, persecution complexes, every stop was pulled out, every tactic was tried. There wasn't even a goal, as far as I could tell--it was just contrariness for the sake of contrariness: "My political enemies are FOR sensible public health guidance, therefore I must be against it!"

The scariest thing I learned during the last two years is how many people are willing to throw me, you, and everyone (including themselves!) under the bus in order to avoid even mild, temporary inconvenience, or to simply virtue-signal their contrariness to their clan.

And the US treated these attackers with kid gloves. There were pretty much no enforcement of any of the things the complainers were complaining about: No consequences for ignoring stay-at-home mandates. Few localities actually enforced business closures. Masking was up to individual businesses to enforce, resulting in little compliance. Throughout the pandemic, I could drive 50 miles in any direction from my city and find people out and about, maskless, businesses open, no measures being taken at all. The only thing that was actually enforced were school closures, and that's only because schools are run by the government.

Those two years ushered in this new era of consequence-free mass civil disobedience. And it wasn't even in service of anything--just performative contrariness.

I guess intelligence agencies also learned the sad answer to the question "If there were a grave threat to society, is it possible to use PsyOps to get society to ignore or even prolong it?" But then again, I suppose our reaction to Climate Change has already answered that question.
Have you been on a university hiring committee? My anecdotal evidence is that yes prestige very strongly matters and coming from a very prestigious university often outweights other factors such as publication record.

I haven't read the original article yet but one can easily test if e.g. the publication record of a graduate student from a non-and prestigious uni differ to the extend that is indicated by the hiring.
That appears to be the effect of changes to calloc, though. The change to free is a security improvement.
like the auto summarize feature from MS Word that helped me do my homework back in high school
It reminds of that study recently that found dead troutcan still "swim" in water currents. Perhaps these birds have similarly incredible geometry that allow them to fly without exerting energy

https://fyfluiddynamics.com/2018/07/when-i-was-a-child-my-fa...
Umm not to be a wet blanket, but you're EXCEPTIONALLY well qualified.

I'm not downplaying your achievement, it's incredible that you've done everything that you have including getting the grant.

The only caveat being that you didn't have a network. I think that's what doing a masters programme is for... developing a network, that will lead you to an advisor and hence a "formal" PhD programme.

I don't have a PhD, but I would love to go back to school and get one. Been rejected 4 times now so I guess my time is running out or already has.

I love that options like this exist, in your searches have you found something for Canadian citizens/PR holders (I'm not a US citizen so this method won't work)?
I agree with you about that, but I also (might) agree with them about this.

Not that you said otherwise, but... I think we should go back to a transactional mix-and-match style of politics, with different coalitions per issue, instead of the "agree with your friend tribe and disagree with your enemy tribe about everything" style that we seem to be locked into these days. There shouldn't be any shame in being part of the same coalition on one issue with people who are reprehensible on other issues. Agreeing with the Florida government about some point of social media regulation doesn't imply I agree with them about anything else.
That's high but not impressively high. I make that without a degree in software.
What else do you do when backwards planning boards block new utility solar?

https://cbs2iowa.com/news/local/linn-county-planning-and-zon...
I wouldn't want them to—again, that's separate—but yeah, maybe, since they're also effectively chartered by the government (as they pretty much can't exist in any useful way absent special government support of some kind or another—but then, same goes for corporations).

I mean, they do in fact already dictate a lot about how both unions and corporations can operate, so yeah, prohibiting endorsement of candidates using union resources doesn't seem entirely crazy to me. Though, again, I'd rather they didn't.
Same here but for math. I did a survey of who was getting the TT jobs I wanted in the cities I wanted to live in and the trend was that they all went to Harvard / Princeton with a few exceptions. Seeing how strongly those profile elements, which I don't have, correlated with success getting into TT, and how few positions there are, it was easy to decide to leave.

Other factors include pay for TT professors in high CoL cities not keeping up well enough with inflation over the last 10 years. Those salaries look much worse now than they did when I entered grad school. For the level of education it is underpay for overwork.

Doing science in industry pays substantially better, has better WL balance (really anything will compared to academia), has more job openings in more cities, and there are plenty of challenging problems to work on. Moreover, research skills that STEM phds and academics have are highly valued, at least by some companies.

In the end things seem to have worked out for me. I was warned about all this back when I entered grad school but didn't listen because I really wanted to do math. Following that passion was a good instinct after all even if I wasn't able to achieve the original goals exactly as I planned. I'd 100% do it again.
> But if you want to describe human activities in a text-to-video prompt (instead of using footage of real people as a guideline), and you’re expecting convincing and photoreal results that last more than 2-3 seconds, the system in question is going to need an extraordinary, almost Akashic knowledge about many more things than Stable Diffusion (or any other existing or planned deepfake system) knows anything about.

> These include anatomy, psychology, basic anthropology, probability, gravity, kinematics, inverse kinematics, and physics, to name but a few. Worse, the system will need temporal understanding of such events and concepts...

I wonder if unsupervised learning (as could be achieved by just pointing a video camera at people walking around a mall) will become more useful for these sorts of model; one could imagine training an unsupervised first-pass that simply learns what kind of constraints physics, IK, temporality, and so on will provide. Then given that foundation model, one could layer supervised training of labels to get the "script-to-video" translation.

Basically it seems to me (not a specialist!) that a lot of the "new complexity" involved in going from static to dynamic, and image to video, doesn't necessarily require supervision in the same way that the existing conceptual mappings for text-to-image do.

Combined with the insights from the recent Chinchilla paper[1] from DeepMind (which suggested current models could achieve equal performance if trained with more data and fewer parameters), perhaps we don't actually need multiple OOMs of parameter increases to achieve the leap to video.

Again, this is not my field, so the above is just idle speculation.

[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.15556
Adam (Ditto cofounder) - thanks for the feedback! I can see how this can create the wrong impression and will follow up with our counsel to improve the language.

To be clear, we are not in the business of selling personal information. We are in the "picks and shovels" business - building great tools for other developers to use. Both myself and cofounder Max are app developers by background and we got into infrastructure software by wanting to simplify app development for ourselves and others. P2P is highly motivating because it enables use-cases that have greater data control and privacy - both of which are deeply important to us.
What? That's wrong.

The typical EU configuration:

The transformer delivers a neutral and three phases, in a star configuration.

That means you've got L1, L2, L3, N and GND.

N to any L is 230V, any L to any other L is 380V.

That also means a typical grounded socket has e.g., L1, N and GND, so a neutral and a hot.

A high-power socket or e.g. a stove will have GND, N, L1, L2, L3.

My stove has the oven running on L1 and N in a 230V hot/neutral and the stove at L2 and L3 in a 400V hot/hot configuration.

(Belgium is the exception, having phases at 113V off the center point, so sockets are in hot/hot to get 230V between the phases)
It is a working paper and you can find the whole paper here:

https://www.econstor.eu/handle/10419/256787
Easier, but far more selfish. By helping reduce the Earth's mass, you not only help reduce your own weight, but the weight of all current and future inhabitants of the Earth!
> that there is nothing in python at a language level that enables/disables this

Yes, there is. `@property` allows you to change a vanilla field to a getter/setter without modifying client code.

>> override variable access the way you can with Javascript (eg, add a `get fieldname()` method)

> in fact ECMAScript introduced getters/setters

That exchange was weird.

> huge huge codebases exist without private

I'm honestly not quite sure where you're going with that. Huge codebases exist in COBOL too.

It sounds like you're trying to argue that the software world doesn't need encapsulation. I disagree. Maybe you took my comment "99% of the time it's fine" the wrong way - 99% isn't good enough. The 1% wastes a lot of time and energy, it's better to have language support for encapuslation.

Java's support for encapsulation (getters) is pretty tedious. Lombok and records (too modern for this codebase, unfortunately) fix that. Thus "getters/setters are a nonissue".
Huddle needs much love. It is not a first class citizen. Not even full API support for it :(
Link to the working paper is here:

https://www.econstor.eu/handle/10419/256787
So we should all be wearing masks after-all.
Yeah, I didn't realize that until somebody corrected me on the linked thread. But it turned out to be an evolutionary dead end.
Maintainer of Material for MkDocs here. Correct! The Sponsorware strategy is an alternative to dual-licensing which works fairly well for our project. If you have a successful Open Source project that is a pain killer and product-market fit, this strategy might also work for your project.
When I was in high school I was a big fan of The Atlantic and The Economist. The Atlantic cost something ridiculous, I think it was $14 for two years. The Economist was at least 10 times that.

So I subscribed to the former and would buy the latter whenever I found a copy at a store.

Both were amazing experiences to read; growing up in Indiana I didn’t have much exposure to the international and cultural flavor that they reveled in.

And of course the tactile experience really is dramatically better than anything digital.
Oh my god. This means that we can use stable diffusion to do pure text processing, like, given two textual descriptions, assess how similar they are

I now expect that the next model like GPT-3 will be multi-modal like Stable Diffusion, to better account for those semantic connections
the thing is this corporate bond liquidity issue is not new. first alarms were raised in 2019, then they printed money like crazy in 2020, and now they are tightening and we are seeing bond liquidity meltingdown.

theres a very real chance that 10% yield will spike further and downgraded
Define “many”. I saw a handful of high profile cases but how widespread was this sort of censorship in quantitative terms?
Just confirming, but you're taking about Leak Sanitizer? https://clang.llvm.org/docs/LeakSanitizer.html. Not really familiar with these tools, definitely not the acronyms.