skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wondered what stable diffusion was, so went to stablediffusion.com. The front page gives no indication as to what it is. So I clicked on their FAQ page:

> What does Stablilty AI do?
Stability AI is building open AI tools to provide the foundation to awaken humanity’s potential.
Our values are lived by every team member and shown by everyone who excels at Stability AI. They are how we measure ourselves and our work.
Our vibrant communities consist of experts, leaders and partners across the globe. They are developing cutting-edge open AI models for Image, Language, Audio, Video, 3D, and Biology. AI by the people, for the people.

Still don't know what it does. Continuing to the next FAQ:

> What’s our business model?
We’re a company of builders who care deeply about real-world implications and applications. Many of our most considerable advances grow from working across multiple teams. We are unafraid to go against established norms and explore creativity.
Our primary drive is to generate breakthrough ideas and convert them into solutions. We respect innovation over tradition. We trust that our differences make us more robust, and so we seek reason within every difference of perspective.

Oh well. I give up.
Your birthday does not move on the calendar, but your celebration can certainly be ramped in order to try to overwrite how badly you behaved a few weeks ago.
Might need some systemd as well then to be fair
I did the same thing, but with Linux and Windows build agents - it's so nice having a fast feedback cycle again!
How about Acquire? The game ends with all players liquidating their built up equity. You cannot lose, only benefit in the tiled “marketplace”.
Yeah it looks like a scam website. No offense but there’s like a billion landing page templates out there these days that look slick and are easy to implement. This is pretty lazy.
It really isn't convenient to be locked into an ecosystem.

You should test your backup. And the best way to test a de-drmed book is by reading it.
Without a community, an open source code repository is text files you can use to run or compile an application. An open source project needs maintainers, active contributors, a roadmap, etc. Github is full of very popular open source projects that have been completely abandoned, and forks of those projects that are also abandoned. An open source project having maintainers after a company has abandoned it is not the default. Sometimes it happens because the company nurtured an open source community before abandoning it, sometimes it happens because the project is crucial enough it scratches enough itches to attract volunteers. Sometimes it happens out of spite. But those are exceptions, not the rule.
It's pretty evil to troll people into giving them e-mail and name and then have the audacity to ask for a phone number. Without giving people who don't want that the possibility to delete the previously entered personal data...
> as far as not getting out, any lock unable to be unlocked from inside seems like something should not be allowed to be made. ever.

This would vary by jurisdiction, but locks without an unlock lever are usually prohibited by the fire code.
It's not a linear function of raw ad spend dollars, as there's a huge amount of different ways you can spend an advertising dollar. Trump ran a very smart advertising playbook, because he had some serious manipulation experts on his team. Hilary ran a terrible terrible campaign strategy because she was sure, like many people, that it was in the bag, and she basically felt entitled to the position and didn't really think she had to earn it. They spent that money because that's the point of political contributions. That's why even Ted Cruise, who will probably never be voted out, still spends a majority of his time phone banking and getting campaign contributions.

The campaign contribution network is the whole point. That's where most of the lobbying comes from.
I don't think a sequel is the best course of action yet to course correct. CDPR got some of their Witcher reputation from their free and paid DLC support lifecycle. Some people's favorite parts of the Witcher series showed up in DLC.

They've been almost entirely focused on quality of life improvements since launch (1.1 through 1.6), which has delayed some of their promised DLC, some of which implied would add some of the "missing" things that people complain were "cut". Based on what I saw of particularly Witcher 2's lifecycle, I think CDPR expected to deliver a lot more, faster, in DLC than they've managed so far. But also I'm sure they expected to need a lot less quality of life improvement on the base game than they've needed to prioritize since launch.

I think that a big part of needing so much quality of life improvements and bug fixes was CDPR using a game engine that wasn't ready for this kind of game. A sequel is an excuse to switch game engines (CDPR has already announced that they expect future games to be Unreal and that after some of these issues their Red Engine, which they've been using since Witcher 1 may be dead and Cyberpunk 2077 the last game on it), and CDPR would risk repeating all the same quality of life problems in an engine switch. Even with an off the shelf engine like Unreal, there's a new learning curve and a lot of code (and some of the assets) won't directly transfer and a lot of starting from scratch.

I think CDPR has a chance with two or three DLC launches to fulfill a lot more of the game's potential. I would hope they swing through those promises to deliver strong DLC and give us something interesting.
Just got

"We’re experiencing a temporary issue with signups due to a vendor outage. We apologize for the inconvenience!"
For sure, there's a reason I just said association, but in the absence of evidence that the cause is something else just trying to spin an argument from first principles is dangerous. For a story to sound good it need not be true and any story that sees the bad things that happen to people in the world as somehow their own fault is bound to be attractive, though weirdly also a story that removes all personal responsibility so I must admit it goes a bit both ways.
Silicon Valley Had Its Heyday. Can Tech Ecosystems Now Grow Inland?
Sure. I guess in this very narrow situation where the content is no longer available, I don't have an issue. But the person I responded to seemed to be suggesting stealing content as some sort of broad solution to an undescribed issue.
I think you’re presenting a false dichotomy here. Piracy has always been there and studios still make a lot of money.

People are still willing to pay for things, they just want a copy of the thing that they paid for so that it cannot be stolen from them later. The only answer here IS piracy.
It took me about 8 years of experience after college in brain numbing entry level jobs before I got what I would consider a satisfying job. What I’m saying is, you may have to build some career experience in order to give yourself more options.
https://archive.ph/uIJi8
Remarkable 2 doesn't have a backlight. Kobo's software is fine (mostly), but the design or manufacturing seems to be a notch below. On my Kobo the touchscreen is enragingly inaccurate.

And, direct access to the Amazon library is not an insignificant advantage.
Aren’t houses normally bought (and therefore priced) by two income households?
The US for the most part has an insane amount of leeway for political advertising. They are explicitly exempt from anti-cold calling laws for example.
I think they did, i've read an article about that with my previous job, when i was mostly working with EU and universities: they created a meta-language to convey ideas fast between scientists of different fields and talking different languages, but with a common culture.

I dont' have the paper but i found this [0] which might refer to the paper i read.

[0] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/332781241_Developin...
Maybe you broke it?
I don’t know Usenet is still running fine for over 20 years for me.
Large companies have lots of employees not because they need them, but because they can. Many of the people who are good at leadership happen to like empire building and having reports. Every employee in a company is also an evangelist and a marketer, without even trying. Everyone answers the question "where do you work." Having lots of employees gives you slack, and it's easy to get rid of the slack with layoffs.
That's because both engines are under a libre license. Check Arx Libertatis.
YADD = YACC++ ? ("yet another different device") :-)
I think the issue is more that you can't save the 100ish thousand needed to avoid pmi. Assuming you live in the a HCOL area that's understandable. I live in Chicago and am spending 25k a year since my total housing costs come out to less than 1k a month, so I'm already halfway to saving the down payment after just a year. If you don't want roommates than you should be looking at household income, for which 90th percentile is 200k, making a 440k house pretty easy to afford.
I'm surprised they're both used, from that description it sounds like one would fall by the wayside, like cursive has in North America.

...

That said, culturally Japan seems like exactly the kind of place where, were they English-speakers, all the kids would absolutely be required to learn perfect cursive.
Have you seen a decent tutorial for setting up SD locally? I've been using it through huggingface, but that seems pretty limited.
Management at PlanetScale
I see China's soft power quite a bit differently. China has an increasingly large presence throughout all of Asia. There are obviously the government initiatives but in many ways the non-governmental stuff is far more visible. 1.4 billion people + rapidly growing middle class = Chinese are absolutely everywhere. Chinese tourists are playing an increasingly large role in the economies of nations throughout Asia, even including Japan with whom China has poor relations. There are also large numbers of students from China that are living/studying abroad (Gaokao), and so on.

This is all creating an increasing intermingling of cultures and economies that's improving relations in a meaningful way. It's easy to discount this sort of stuff, but I think it is what really changes the world in the longterm. When people themselves are able to change their own views gradually over time, without effort at "directing" them, those resultant views tend to be quite difficult to ever change. It's in this domain that we were once unrivaled.
Google to Make Search and Maps More ‘Immersive’
The consumer did not actually agree to the terms of: "I, the consumer, will pay you $XX to download the film to my device, but you can delete it from my device at any time in the future without giving me a refund".

It may be written in the fine print, but it's not something that most rational consumers willingly agree to.
what happened to stop.lying.cloud?
Indeed, software archeology already is and will become a very exciting discipline. And the stakes are quite high, at least for science. Here is a great example of how NASA almost lost precious data from Viking missions back in the 1970s (the article is from 1990, so history in history format):

https://web.archive.org/web/20220121041452/https://www.nytim...
Here is what I consider a quality article that mostly agrees/echo's what you said:

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/money-and-elections-a-c...

The article mostly agrees with you on the topic of the general election, but as you travel down the dependency chain (general election depends on primary depends on fundraising depends on capability to run), it becomes clear that money matters more. Effectiveness of spending at the roots of the dependency tree offers disproportionate effect on the final candidate choices in the general election, a general election that is likely already pre-decided based on demographic make up of constituents.

So money's effect on the general election in many ways doesn't matter if money can decide who can even be an option in the primary, or which candidates can have their names heard before the primary.

Excerpts from the article:

> But in 2017, Bonica published a study that found, unlike in the general election, early fundraising strongly predicted who would win primary races.

> Another example of where money might matter: Determining who is capable of running for elected office to begin with. Ongoing research from Alexander Fouirnaies, professor of public policy at the University of Chicago, suggests that, as it becomes normal for campaigns to spend higher and higher amounts, fewer people run and more of those who do are independently wealthy. In other words, the arms race of unnecessary campaign spending could help to enshrine power among the well-known and privileged.

> The best time to donate is early on in the primary, Bonica said, when out-of-the-gate boosts in fundraising can play a big, causal role in deciding who makes it to the general election.
Ray Camden: Converting Markdown Code Blocks to Gists
It's a little heartbreaking because arguably, OpenAI tried to do the responsible thing here: come up with a sustainable business model to make AI-generated images profitable while respecting trademarks and controlling for some objectionable content. Very corporate; very above-the-board.

Emad Mostaque, a millionaire hedge-fund manager with money to burn, spent approximately $600,000 to train a model and dumped it out for public consumption: no account for how it will be used, no concern about any sociopolitical consequences, damn the torpedoes and straight ahead. He basically burned down a potential industry space and hugely complicated an ongoing conversation on how these tools will interact with / disrupt the lives and livelihoods of artists... But he also basically changed the world overnight. Hashtag-squad-goals, am I right?

There's a lesson to be learned here. I haven't decided what it is yet. Though I note that it's a lesson that probably applies to few people who don't have $600,000 to set aflame.
> my Google-fu is strong

Initially read this as, well, "FU Google", and thought "yep, FU to them too". I guess I will acknowledge I have a bias. Then curious about this term, I googled-on-bing "FU Google". Top result was Google-fu, not the expletive.

I have no Google-fu.
VC is the type of grassroots investment that still can be called "investment" in the economic sense. Ie. you're not looking for immediate returns so any money pumped into startups by VC firms helps the economy whether or not it yields anything.

The VC scene in the US will help your recovery since VCs will still be putting money into the system (albeit at lower valuations) meanwhile in Canada it'll completely dry up.

And again, this isn't the type of "investing" where you're super concerned about paper losses like, say, the stock market.

Also software does count as an economic investment, the same as infrastructure.
and they had trouble moving workloads to the cloud because bringing up new capacity was a giant set of circular microservice dependencies
Wow, Gary Marcus just Schmidhubered Yann LeCun.

The ironic thing of course is that Yann has not been at the forefront of AI for many many years (and Gary, of course, never has). Facebook's research has failed to rival Google Brain, DeepMind, OpenAI, and groups at top universities.

So to the extent that Yann is copying Gary's opinions, it's because they both converge at a point far behind the leaders in the field. Yann should be much more concerned than Gary about that.
I love the Onyx as it runs full Android. Also its built in apps and ink settings have a slightly steep learning curve and what seem like weird UI decisions at first, but turn out to give a lot of control over the experience.
I read about a child porn guy on the dark web once, he was an auzzie I think. He always said some strange greeting on every post. He would say hiyas.

They found Facebook posts where some dude said hiyas, did some police work and got him.

Found an article:
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-36437856

This isn't quite the same, but validates the point you are making for sure.
Lost on Earth: Wealth of Data Found in Space (1990)
I think you're reasoning about it from the wrong end.

The implied precursor I took from the article was that another nation suddenly decides to remove access to a critical technology, via coercing or ordering the company supplying that technology.

"Technological sovereignty," in the context of the article and quotes, would mean a country has the means to continue without that access.

This doesn't mean creating a commercially-viable, world-leading industry (there can only be so many of those!), but does mean having a plan and emergency suppliers who can make functional substitutes.

As an example, the US's strategic petroleum reserve made it sovereign in the matter of energy (effectively, and pre-recent production increases). Which is also a good example because it didn't mean 1:1 replacement of 100% of supply volume, but rather replacing enough so that alternate suppliers can be switched to and restricting access lost its power.

But that was my read. Ymmv.
All three seasons are available for streaming on hindilinks4u and probably a lot of other places so it's not yet lost.
site:old.reddit.com "query"
Nikola Badger Was an F-150 Raptor All Along
YouTube Shorts copies TikTok again with voiceover narration
https://archive.ph/2022.09.23-051026/https://www.ft.com/cont...
Many, many jobs are only paid in straight wages. No commission, no bonuses. This bill will highlight the gap between the lowest-paying jobs and skilled trades, and induce pressure on workers to skill up (they see exactly how much they're missing out on) and on low-pay employers to offer more (because some of their workers are freshly motivated to jump ship).
The problem is that you don't know which things need to be downloaded until they disappear.
I'm a bit skeptical of TLA - while I'm not so full of myself that I believe there's nothing I could learn that would make me a better programmer, TLA has always seemed... awfully dubious. In fairness, I haven't devoted more than a few minutes scanning over it, but I've also never seen or heard of anybody else using it (but maybe I don't travel in the right circles?), much less getting any benefit from it. The examples always seem awfully contrived and prone to exactly the same sorts of problems that code itself has. The promise, if I understand it correctly, is to have a way to nail down the design before you start coding so that you don't have a whole class of surprises (bugs), but this extra non-debuggable step actually seems like it would be worse.
Why do you need an alternative? It's a good product.
Write-up of the vulnerabilities and attacks by research team who reported them: https://nebuchadnezzar-megolm.github.io/
Yes, we actually have a mass download application (it's Windows only so far) which downloads all signed PDF files.

https://bulksign.com/docs/EnvelopeDownloader.htm
Because you can't read it because of their broken "consent" intersitial https://archive.ph/0ekuT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rA4Ny-QQfg
> We believe that today we are the only hosted CI or build service offering the ability to natively build multi-platform Docker images

Dagger.io, by the originators of docker, can do this too, though it is not well documented. They have not yet enable public signups either by the looks of it.

Pretty sure I've seen some other BuildKit frontends that do as well, the space blew up this year with several startups
Wanting your purchase to persist is totally reasonable. Not buying a digital copy where it can disappear is the solution.
Yea I'm seeing this. Lot of 'lets throw more eng fte's' on this problem rather than trying to make existing more productive. This will have to change.
And your employees could’ve access your old salary data already. Giving access to it for prospective employee doesn’t change it.
Sounds more like meth.
>You're missing the concept of "credible accusations".

I don't consider them to be credible so I am not missing anything.

>The court of public opinion does not care about "beyond a reasonable doubt" because if we actually limited anything to that nobody would be punished for anything.

Sure, but people don't need to go calling people rapists just because they got accused.

>If you want "convicted" to be the bar before the public treats someone poorly, you're going to have a bad time, because it's terribly difficult to actually convict someone of rape because there's almost never any actual evidence, by the very nature of the crime

I just want some level of evidence more than just having an accusation that something happened years ago. That just isn't enough for me to treat someone poorly. Maybe a couple accusations or weird behavior or the alleged suspect getting caught in lies about this issue or something.

Eye witness testimony is very frequently inaccurate especially when the incident occurred decades before. And that is with the assumption they aren't making it up. An accusation especially against political people is just not trustworthy in my view to begin with.

People lie for politics all the time. People slander/libel for politics all the time. Why should I trust an accusation without any corroborating evidence or additional accusations or anything of the sort?

>Nevermind the fact that lots of people either cannot admit to themselves or don't remember or don't realize they were raped.

That presumably wouldn't make a difference in this situation. If they won't admit it or don't remember then they won't be accusing justices of doing it.

>Very few people who actually commit rape (whether they realize it or not) end up convicted. It's not a rigorous stat, because again, the reality of the situation is only truly known by the two involved, so it often comes down to who you trust

I understand. I should have been more clear that I don't strictly need a guilty verdict. I want something more than a single accusation especially against political people.

>Consider why you trust supreme court justices to not have raped people.

I never said I don't think they raped anybody. They very well may have. I think people who are in positions of power probably on average have lower morals and are more likely to be a rapist. I just don't like going around calling people rapists without any real evidence other than just an accusation that came up years / decades after it allegedly occurred.

I think we are getting to a point where people throw around allegations and various -ists and phobias too often. Every day somebody is called a racist or homophobe or is accused of being a traitor to the country. I think we need to cool it with decisiveness and stop with this type of language unless there is a reason to use in a specific case.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2013/12/30/steam-remov...

Citation on "Removed a few entirely". I'm not sure what the most recent example is, since this was a while back, but it has happened and could happen again.
US senators aim to amend cybersecurity bill to include crypto
AI ethics as a whole has become a bit of a joke.

Any highly motivated group without much to do will seek out things to make themselves seem important and necessary.
no need to create a service for things that can be just a library '__')
Another recommendation to use Yandex Image search as an option. They search differently and also try to find similar images.
Hiding documentation in some Discord is infuriating.

It's Yahoo Groups all over again, except that open groups could have their messages indexed, unlike on Discord.
Now do print, online, radio, etc. All of that is "mainstream news", right?
The marketing strategy for anything remotely developer-oriented is literally just to find those posts where somebody figured out the best times to submit on HN.
wonder what the type of roles are (sales / support) vs eng
I am very satisfied with it. In addition to passwords, I also use it to manage my ssh keys, which works great.

The browser plugin is good too. It rarely malfunctions, and when it does it is on user-hostile websites, like the Office365 login pages.