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The EU's biggest contribution to the internet in the last 10 years was forcing every site to add a popup, ruining UX while desensitizing the world, where it was transparent to everyone in the industry that if they wanted to do something they should have targeted browser vendors and not websites.
Supposing this is true, if you're asserting that those weapons are hypersonic then why aren't we hearing about that?
> Now I know that this tool is just a “starting point” for using as ideas, but I have seen way more fabulous (and sane) kitchen designs en mass on houzz, dezeen, basically any online blog.

Somehow I doubt those blogs have the same floor plan as my house or any easy way to filter for things that would fit in my own kitchen. Don't underestimate the power of seeing a design in your exact kitchen/space. What looks good in one layout isn't guaranteed to look good in another.

> All this to say, I work with architects professionally, and I do not see this as something that will cause their field concern in the near to mid term. These programs cannot make drawings with structural suggestions, floor plans for the layout they produce, or anything else that a person pays an architect for.

Ok but that's not the point, at least it's not for me. I'm not trying to replace architects, I'm trying to figure out what I want so I can take it to someone who knows better and say "I want this". They can kick back anything that's not going to work structurally but I kind of doubt this is going to be a big problem as, not to be an ass but, I have a brain. I know where the cabinets can go (the same place my existing ones are) along with my sink/oven/dishwasher. What I'm looking for is designs/colors/etc and how that would look in my kitchen, I'm not designing a kitchen/house from an empty plot of land.

As with all Stable Diffusion (and most AI stuff, see CoPilot) the goal (or at least my goal) isn't to replace the designers/architects/programmers/etc but to automate away the parts that waste a bunch of time. For CoPilot that's boilerplate or similar code blocks, for this it's letting me see designs and (hopefully) tweak or re-gen parts I don't like until I get it close enough to take it to an expert. I fully understand the "kitchen remodel" tool doesn't exist today but it's not hard to imagine what it would look like with image input, in/out-painting regions, and a nice GUI wrapped around a Stable Diffusion core.
The author of this piece doesn't seem to understand the basics of systems thinking and the entropic effects of non-moral action on human collectivism.

EA won't produce the proper outcomes. It's the 80,000 hours people are likely more attracted to and the job listings that come with it. In most instances, positive outcomes for humans begin with negative perspectives because that's how our psychology works.

Practical Altruism isn't about what people deserve it's about what they need. It's not enough to teach a man to fish if he is unwilling to learn. You have to make them believe there will be a crop shortage so they need to learn.

True altruists will change their methods of effecting change for the situation, people, times, and needs. Because, if not we as humans will find a way to corrupt it.

Adam Smith was a moral philosopher. Which is why the invisible hand acts the way it acts.
this is one of those things that's genius for properties-as-investment (and their corresponding pricing) and awful for properties-as-housing (where many people value stability in their housing situation above all)

Also i might have missed it but what does this have to do with an everything app
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... except when the bad actors are the central authority.
4 in 10 are lucky to avoid the tighter DRM requirements
inb4 it was the Russians as retaliation for nord stream. As a brit im still glad the US blew it up.

edit: Should have read the article before shit posting.
App-think is going to become the new group-think?
As an imaging enthusiast who uses both smartphone cameras and larger ILCs (Interchangeable Lens Cameras), I disagree with this statement. Just based on the physics ILCs can capture far more light and do so through more capable optical lens elements. That said, the capabilities of smartphone cameras are remarkable given their constraints.

The key is really in how one defines "image quality" and this varies based on the user's application and requirements. Also, AI enhancement techniques can be applied to ILCs too so they aren't a differentiator.
Your useful heuristic is that any Chinese idea in inherently bad?
At least within social structures, I would argue it is, much like power vacuums and game theory.

Even monkey troupes and wolf packs have central power figures.
Do you want more than a name and a organization? Would you like John’s home address?

> Over a dozen airport websites were impacted by the "denial of service" attack, John Hultquist, head of intelligence analysis at cybersecurity firm Mandian[t], told ABC News. That type of attack essentially overloads sites by jamming them with artificial users.

>” Killnet," a pro-Russian hacker group, is believed to be behind the attack, according to Hultquist. While similar groups have been found to be fronts for state-backed actors, Hultquist said there is no evidence the Russian government was involved in directing this attack.
Comments are secondary to code. Not that they're less important, but they're usually read when the code isn't obvious.

I read in the following order:

1. Top-level comments or README.md to get an overview. I don't care about the color.

2. The structure of the code - either looking for specific names, through source-code navigation, access of a specific variable, .... Here, non-greyed comments make scanning the file more difficult.

3. Comments that describe what can't be inferred from the code. Symbol names can be seen as headlines for comments - again, secondary to the headline.
> we end up with entire countries whose sole goal is to eternally increase their GDP

What countries are you talking about? I don't know of a single country that does this.
At the end of the day, the people signing paychecks care more about their priorities than they do about these 50 points. But they can be useful to keep in the back of your mind when making decisions that aren't governed by anyone else.
How does one obtain a realistic and reliable measure of the 'happiness index' for any particular country? I imagine this is something that's subject to massive propaganda efforts (for example, East Germany attempted to keep its suicide rate hidden from view, at least according to the movie 'The Lives of Others').
Taking down an airport’s website does not meaningfully reveal a nation’s “cyberattack” capabilities. It’s the same thing as a shot across the bow, and nobody doubts that the other guy’s boat has a gun.
In oculus quests case it does mean low quality. The experience is not as immersive as it should he when all you see is blocky low poly content with artefacts everywhere. When connected to a pc it’s okish until it starts loosing tracking as it gets startled by heck knows what lighting conditions.
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I know and work with a lot of people outside of the tech sphere, and nowhere near SF, who have quite negative views of Google and Facebook. Mainly in the Chemistry and Biology spaces, though to be fair those people are generally very highly educated and tend to maintain a high awareness of what goes on in the world in general.

Your claim about the "real world" sort of boils down to "people are less likely to dislike Facebook and Google if they do not understand what they are doing", which isn't really a great thing to be able to claim.
> rampant fascism

Honest question - do Americans really believe fascism is increasing? By most (all?) metrics Western societies are radically more tolerant on racial, LGBT and religious issues than even 2 decades ago.
This isn't meant to be a literal blueprint maker- it's an idea machine. The advantage of Stable Diffusion is that you can put an actual photo of your real life kitchen in as a seed, and see the ideas applied to your space. It's not the same as browsing through pictures of kitchens on pintrest or houzz, which show entirely different locations of different sizes, different lighting conditions, or different dimensions; it's hard to imagine or apply those ideas to my space if my space is radically different. My kitchen is a small apartment kitchen with a single window and a narrow space, it isn't analogous to 99% of the posts I saw scrolling through houzz just now. But if I could upload a picture of it and see 5-10 new cabinet arrangements or designs, I might be inspired by one and use it as a jumping off point for a new setup.

Someone with zero design experience could run this over a photo of their kitchen and realize that their exact real world kitchen would look nice with a different set of paneling, or a different set of chairs, or a larger window, etc. Obviously they have to consult with an architect or other expert to see how feasible larger renovations are, it's not meant to replace architectural work, but there is plenty of value already added as an inspiration tool. In fact it might lead to a lot more work for architects, if they can use a tool like this to show potential clients a bunch of inspiration for how their kitchen could look, without doing any actual architectural work up front.
There is no such thing as a "reliable" sensor in the marine environment. Everything is constantly corroding and requires frequent skilled maintenance. This is only solved in the sense that skilled workers know how to do the necessary maintenance, but it's never going to be cheap and I wouldn't want to rely on the average homeowner to do it properly.
Seriously???

I'm not talking about "transitory" frames. I'm talking about things like the bottom of the top kitchen cabinets frequently being missing, top beams being at different levels in an impossible "MC Escher"-like configuration.

I definitely could see this being useful in plugging in different "styles" to decide what you like, and then taking that to a designer or architect to build out a real design, but anyone paying attention should easily be able to identify the generated images.
> It was much more convenient to declare the native Americans as barbarians with little culture & society and the land unused and open to be claimed by European settlers.

I went to a US public school in the South and also went to a private school. We spent most semesters of history learning about Native American civilizations, construction, and at one point had to build small-scale physical replicas of their cities.

That's to say, I don't really buy your explanation for the broader US. Maybe specific pockets. What I do think is more likely is that people believe that warring kingdoms were still normal back then and view Native American tribes as just that - kingdoms that were conquered. That much I can live with, but the constant lying and taking back promises we made to the Native Americans is absolute trash and should be rectified.
The reality is that in a healthy workplace, you could whiff on 25-30 of these and not get fired, because a healthy workplace gives employees guidance and room to grow. Eventually with enough time in that place you'd be at 40+. Of course, some of them (like professionalism) are basically non-negotiable. But nobody starts at 100%.
Oh, sure; so does Facebook. Douyin/TikTok is clearly the market leader in both its incarnations, tho.
first we should clarify what we mean by 'power'

in this context, 'energy over time' is not what we are talking about.

I'll leap to say ultimately, it's probably quite like mass and gravity; the end observed effect of mass lumping together is like this 'observed' effect of power agglutinating. but which is the mass? and which is the gravity?
I believe it works on aarch64, there's even a raspberry pi target. Don't know the state though.
What do you mean? Boost Mobile loves their base and wants to help them as much as possible! Sometimes you're in a tight spot between rent and food and all you need now is a couple parlays to hit to be living large. I can't wait for them to start offering payday loans to really help people out and let them make income on leverage! Wouldn't that just be swell.
Because I signed a contract that specifies contractual hours and duties?

Edit: I’m also sympathetic to the argument that students shouldn’t be required to do school work outside school hours; however, that is a much more involved conversation than we are going to have here.
wasn't expecting to read this at the time I logged on but glad to have read it anyways (:
I can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic or not..
Is the well-being a result of a strong economy or vice versa? You seem to assume directionality that might be the opposite. Perhaps workers not fearful of losing their healthcare if they leave their jobs are more productive, or do more broad schooling because there is less pressure to immediately start making money to avoid poverty, and this leads to more productivity or innovation.
Waivers don’t protect against gross negligence.
"People" is the stretch, if it was "person."
>They are grasping at straws.

But why? why are the western media doing it ?
Are there any connections ?
Funny that he works at Unity, I can feel the toxicity oozing from that company just trying to use their product.
Unless I am missing something, there is a terrorist watchlist or similar and I don't think it is legal to send to groups on that said list. So, I will stick with my statement that they should not be biased against parties that can legal participate in transactions.
> your value to the company has increased from experience and institutional knowledge

It's my understanding that regular raises used to be the standard practice in the private sector of the US employment market for this exact reason.

Every year, you'd have your performance review, and assuming it wasn't bad, you'd get some sort of a raise.

I'm not sure where this nonsensical "no-raise mentality" comes from, when clearly it will hurt retention and lose the employer some of its most valuable employees with their knowledge, skills, and experience.

Multiple companies are paying to increase veteran retention, and I've generally been working for these companies, but the complaints here make it seem like it's the exception rather than the rule.
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Seattle area has the nations largest and oldest grocery co-op - https://www.pccmarkets.com. 16 stores and generally doing well. The answer to how to keep it going is to run it like a grocery chain with experienced leaders and good board governance. In my experience a lot of the smaller coops I've seen have a problem separating the ideology from the need to run a business, grocery is notoriously low margin so a little waste is all that is needed to sink the buisness. Check https://www.ncg.coop/find-co-op to find a co-op near you.
What is a btc maxi?
Has the battery life issue improved with Firefox at all in the last year or two? I had to choose between degoogled-chromium and Safari because videos drained my battery so fast on my Macbook.
fr i don't think it's a coincidence that our market has been flooded by software-controlled chinesium. not to get too tinfoil-hatty but it makes sense from the chinese perspective.
Probably not, unless that service is AWS or GCP. It’s more likely that none of them have meaningful DDoS protection, since it isn’t really worth it.
The most interesting Insight from the US data is that happiness is very poorly tied to how much people actually have, and more tied to perceptions of where they stand relative to others.

It is like the classic experiment of a monkey being outraged when given less treats than another monkey, despite having more treats than they otherwise would have.

It is all tied to expectations
I would have agreed with you assessment in pre-MAD world, but in MAD world, "shoot to kill" means we all, likely, die. Those that don't initially perish, do so shortly thereafter.

In other words, there are good and valid arguments to ( using your words ) shoot in the legs first.
> If you ask people if they support a constitutional right to free speech, they'll probably say yes. If you ask them if someone should have a right to say some specific disagreeable thing, many people will say no.

Source? I think most people are going to understand that speech you disagree with is part of freedom of speech.
As others have said, 60fps can actually look "off" to some audiences. It definitely looks "off" to me, and I can't quite put my finger on it/why. It could just be my age (late 30s) and my brain grew up on 24-30fps.

Many new TVs interpolate 24/30 fps to be 60fps. This is knows as "The Soap Opera Effect", and has been written about here before. [0].

To me, 24/30fps feels "smooth", almost "buttery". 60fps feels crisp. 60fps feels almost too real. It makes it more difficult for me to suspend disbelief, whereas 30 makes it easier to suspend disbelief and get lost in the imaginary world that's being presented to me as if it were real. It's really difficult for me to explain....

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10613575
Yup - have noticed this. Just in the past week or maybe 2. Safari doesn't exhibit the issue so it seems to be with the wrapper - & definitely related to addressbar/URL typing/homepage functionality freezing the app. Quite a few crashes too which I've never seen before.
The Americans peppered it with useless pop-ups because they want to try and make people think that regulations empowering users is annoying.

Just look at the amount of Americans that think that they have to request permission to use cookies. Disinformation is a powerful tool.
Yep, plus I know a lot of my friends using Spotify login using Facebook, which displays their full name & profile photo. Also followers/following lists are public, so if you can find a close contact of theirs who is less serious about opsec, you're that much closer to their actual identity. This is only really relevant to the truly paranoid who try to use a different identity for every service.
What I’m saying is that an ad hominem attack must avoid the subject to be a logical fallacy. So, saying it’s ok for cops to murder George Floyd because Candice Owens convinced me he wasn’t a good guy is an example of an ad hominem attack. Saying Floyd was a bad guy avoids the subject.

The blog post, however, is about the author. So, while I did call her stupid, that wasn’t avoiding the argument. I was addressing her point by saying that she’s not a conservative anymore than she was a liberal. She’s just easily swayed by faulty logic.

I just think this instance is interesting because it does look like I am guilty of a logical fallacy. But, given that the subject is the author, I don’t think I have committed a logical fallacy.

And, to be even more difficult, I think the author is stupid because she fell for the logical fallacy of an ad hominem attack.
Maybe. The real question is how many people in tech saying this would say the same thing without that Tweet by Musk.
What I'm missing from the Guardian article is why Gaultier would even need permission to use the likeness of works by Botticelli (who died in 1510 CE). An Italian law that mandates permission is mentioned, but how does that square with international copyright law?

Wikimedia Commons hosts a public domain photgraph of The Birth of Venus even:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birth_of_Venus#/media/File...
As of March, Apple had a 12% share earning the #4 market slot. Not dominant, but “tiny” is an exaggeration.

https://fortunly.com/articles/lap-top-market-share/#:~:text=...

Update: after actually RTFM I see that Apple’s share has risen to 13.5% as of October thus prompting the article.
Remember the D.C. Sniper attacks?

Not sure if grenades are as available to the public as bullets and if I remember correctly bombs are illegal to make.
Probably related to this [1][2] and giving their government the ability to monitor traffic. Their tech-savvy citizens are still able to use a handful of VPN's but I suspect those days are approaching an end. Many of their Youtubers have already fled the country.

[1] - https://threatpost.com/russia-issues-its-own-tls-certs/17889...

[2] - https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/03/you-should-not-trust-r...
Anybody who loves statistical mechanics has surely heard of Jaynes.

Unfortunately, those who like statistical mechanics seem few and far between. :(
Unpopular opinion: it seems a waste of time to have every company/organisation (re)design an entire visual language instead of using browser/OS standard controls, as well as having to (re)learn how to use each of those UIs as a user.

If designers at these companies create "design systems" to have consistent UIs, why not aim for the ultimate consistency in UIs – whatever is standard in my computer?
^^^ this comment was posted by someone who does not know what an assault rifle is. it is very difficult and expensive to get ahold of a assault rifle these days and has been for almost 40 years.

though yeah i think we should repeal that law, there is nothing wrong with civilians owning assault rifles. the federal government is literally not allowed to pass or enforce laws against this because it clearly infringes the individual right to keep and bear arms. we can only hope some time in the next few years the NFA, GCA and FOPA are struck down, along with all the asinine regulation that has forced so many small gun manufacturers out of business, increased gun prices for American consumers and retarded innovation in civilian small arms.
On docs, texlive-full (or similar naming in Guix/OpenBSD/Nix...) will provide the PDF documentation and an intro to LaTeX.
> it makes it impossible to just parse an arbitrary expression.

All language suffers from this. Without context (assumed by the reader, provided fully or at least referenced by the writer) all arbitrary expressions are impossible to parse. Tell me what this means:

map f xs

If you guessed it was mapping the function f over the sequence xs, maybe you're right, maybe not. Maybe a fool wrote it who can't communicate and chose bad names. Maybe an adversarial programmer (wants job security, or is just a dick) uses `map` to mean `reduce` or `mapreverse` (so that it does most of what you expect, but produces a reversed output from what you expect).

Math isn't any different here, don't try to parse arbitrary expressions until you've identified the context. Maybe a fool used notation foolishly, maybe an adversarial mathematician used notation to obfuscate and has, hidden away in their diary, a key that explains it all. But most of the time the context will be provided directly or indirectly. The notation will be explained in the text or the text will be in a field with notational conventions that the reader is expected to know. Same with code, same with every other human language.
You haven't been paying attention.

Or you're going by what they say, not what they do.

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