skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "Believing in democracy" means believing that granting real power to all adult citizens through voting and other forms of feedback is a better form of government than those governmental forms that only grant power to a few.

That's a false dichotomy. In a western democracy, do you vote for the things you believe in, or do you vote for one of the few representatives that pretends to approximate your beliefs closely?

> Democratic leaders can easily fall due to scandal. Authoritarian figures cannot.

Is that true? What if the people likes authoritarians? What if it doesn't care about scandals? What if it democratically decides it doesn't want "free and fair elections" anymore? If the majority wants "the wrong things", the outcome will be poor. Democracy is not the distinguishing factor, it's not inherently good or bad, functional or dysfunctional.

> So sure, you can believe that Putin was elected democratically if you want.

The proceedings may be illegitimate, but there's no doubt in my mind that the Russians would have elected Putin over Navalny again. Of course there is an opposition in Russia, but it's not a majority and in any event Navalny isn't all that popular.
That's actually the reason I'm principally against using brave: they were accepting token payment on behalf of unsuspecting content creators without their consent. [1]

I don't know if that rises to the level of fraud legally speaking, but morally it's very sketchy. I don't want to associate myself with that and I don't trust them.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20181224011529/https://twitter.c...
Tom Scott on his experience. He makes a good point on potential GDPR compliance issues as well.
Another way to put it is that for a group of 100-150 or so, you'll be able know everyone decently well. A small college graduating class, or a tiny high school perhaps.

At about 300 or so, you'll "recognize" most of the group, but you won't know much about many of them, or really have a relationship.

And once the group is above that, you either need to have it hierarchical setup (you don't know all the members of the families at your school, but you recognize the parents, etc) or it just becomes a mash of smaller groups (no matter how you try to pretend it isn't).
I think it doesn’t have to be coercive or even conscious. Basically there’s a million content creators out there saying different things. On their own volition, some will say stuff the Chinese government likes, some will say stuff the Chinese government doesn’t like. The former get upranked, the latter get downranked. The outcome is it seems like “everyone” believes the former.
Companies do this so they can price discriminate for high margin goods and services
I think people might be missing the point here. Elon probably wants higher turnover.

These are very desirable jobs. People would bend over backwards to work at Twitter. Younger, cheaper people who have strong ideas of how to fix Twitter and would actually try to push these ideas. And these seats are currently filled with older, expensive employees who like things the way they are averse to things breaking. Either that or you are a rough and tumble old timer who can thrive in chaos.

This is very intentionally the model at his other companies. Or places like Amazon where they have almost perfected the art of extracting exactly 3 years of valuable work from young developers.

I don't think Musk actually cares about that 84th hour of work. But I think he is very much trying to signal to current and potential employees that this will not be a comfortable long term career prospect.
Since I started reading HN (2020) I stopped read news elsewhere. HN has enough of most important news for me.

Less consumption of news makes me less manipulated and more open for other opinions. Problem is that I find less and less people around me with same approach. Then leading unbiased conversation on various topics is quite difficult.

I guess rising of "tribalism" is product of overconsumption of news.
What a smug post from someone who is completely wrong.

The car that crashed had radar, vision, USS, AND it was based on another company's technology.
I mentioned this in another comment, but I once had a bug with a build caused by a JAR file (which is just a zip archive) ordering the files differently inside the zip archive. I'm not sure if it would handle that particular case, but more commonly you might have a huge build directory and want to see what files are different (particularly on Windows where you can have dozens of different DLLs).
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Yes but no, as the Chinese or Russians may be much more likely to take down your site.

If the site is supported by the country, it is VERY hard to take down.
My data point: I prefer tmux/multiplexing over job control because the process hierarchy leads me to managing them better (I never accidentally quit tmux). Also I don't have to worry about std stream usage. I'm actually not sure of a case I'd care for job control.
character limit is my guess
You might find my inference implementation of Whisper useful [0]. It has a C-style API that allows for easy integration in other projects and you can control how many CPU threads to be used during the processing.

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Exactly. That's why its so ridiculous.
The author clearly knows a lot about photography, so I don't think this is a mistake in the article... When did "depth of field" begin meaning the opposite of what it traditionally meant in photography?

For example:
A nice side benefit of a larger sensor is a bit more depth of field. At a 13mm full-frame equivalent, you really can’t expect too much subject separation, but this shot shows some nice blurry figures in the background.

For as long as I can remember, depth of field referred to the range of distance that is in focus. So more depth of field would mean more things in focus and less subject separation. And "distance to subject" and "field of view" equal, a larger sensor results in less depth of field.

But in the article it is clearly the opposite. This isn't the only place I've noticed the change in meaning either.
Rap, MTV, Rock, Jazz, even marijuana wasn't controlled by Communist China
https://archive.ph/jxI7C
I dislike the drift this "need to work for food" phrase that I'm hearing so often. Job automation never reduced our ability to produce food. The harvest is not in any danger, not even if we suddenly produce twice the art with the same amount of work.
Sounds like he doesn't need your help to get there.
You're also allowed to say 2.2 pounds, and many (though not most) will understand.

You're even allowed to be a pedant, as I am often accused! :)
Elon Musk personally moderating tweets about Brazil’s election: sources
That's brilliantly obnoxious or obnoxiously brilliant. I can't decide which.

If A is less than B it calls itself with the terms reversed.
I don't see any evidence that things being generated with SD or similar somehow remove those same limitations around IP and copyright. I am just as much hoping Disney looks the other way when I make fanart of their IP regardless of how it is made.
You can have that. Just don't buy a new model "pro" iPhone...
Yeah if I were at twitter I would accept these deadlines with a smile on my face, turn around and start applying to competitors 12 hours a day until I got a job that valued me as a human being.
Musk is a bully.

Like any bully, he is doing this to find out who is easy to pick on, and will keep them around, while dismissing those who are willing/able to fight back.

Life will continue to be miserable to those he keeps around.

My advice to all engineers feeling this pressure -- start looking now. Leave as soon as possible. You are more valuable than what Musk thinks of you.

Those who are in a position to do so -- punch back. Do no, or negative work (if it does not harm teammates who cannot afford to be laid off). Force him to lay you off and give severance.

Bullies do not deserve your time. They deserve to be crushed.
This is not taxonomy, is classification.
Sure am glad that they saved all the money /s

Also I still don't understand why the executive board of Boeing aren't in jail (I mean I "know", in the sense that they're rich and so the laws don't apply to them, I just don't understand why that still works even in such blatant cases of deliberate mass murder)
For clarity, #1 is the Sun and #2 is the Moon. ISS is brighter than literally everything else in space, including all the other stars and planets.
We should go roll around in the mud at the Hanford site. It's the most healthy soil!
You say that while letting the modelers of your cosmology get away with the most egregious science man ever witnessed. The models do wonders for technology on earth, but they do not produce any meaning out of the sky, only fantasies built on mathematical aberrations. On the contrary, and contrary to your favorite Razor, these models only make the wildest claims about the universe possible.

Occam's Razors says your cosmology is wrong. It's too convoluted, it has to explain the craziest singularities, which are not observable, yet it cannot explain real observations, like missing energy sources and background radiation. No math changes these facts. It's all in your head.
Space exploration is, I hate to use the word "traditionally" here, but it has a history of being extremely nationalistic. We give astronauts from different countries their own different names. We put big flags on things. We fund space missions because it keeps us ahead of other countries. It's funded like a war because it's very nearly a wartime activity, except mostly it's used for good, almost by accident.
Yes, it is a minor annoyance and actually seems to be counter to Apple's historical product design
In an odd twist, We've had calls where the provider's questions almost asked we prove we should onboard their solution. I guess there are people who try to onboard a wrong solution and then bad-mouth a provider as not solving their need, but I think that could be "solved" with trials --that most of these solutions provide anyway.
Twitter Will Sell Coveted Blue Checkmark for $8 a Month, Musk Says
> due to the idea that potential customers will immediately click away if the price seems too high

That's not how I read these at all. "Contact Us" means the company doesn't have set pricing but rather will have a sales person/department that will structure a specific deal and negotiate a contract for your business's specific needs.
I don't think the issue at hand is truths and lies, it's the ability to both communicate with hundreds of millions of people easily while at the same time also being able to create smaller silos of group think with no restriction on geography.
We are talking about a real black letter crime here, not just a vague Terms&Conditions violation. If actually detected, humans will (or should) be involved way beyond mere suspension of an e-mail account. As in "actually running a criminal investigation".

Which will either clear or implicate the person involved, but either way cannot be done robotically.
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Because “depth of field is when blurry”
If they stay in a closed pay-per-view environment, I have a feeling most of them will definitely starve then.

Technology has messed up industries before. Everyone's not going to die.
Now the Star-Belly Sneeches
Had bellies with stars
But the Plain-Belly Sneeches
Had none upon thars...
Same. As a casual Camera user / not an enthusiast, I find the camera experience on the 14 pro unpleasant and a downgrade from the 12 pro.
It isn't as if there was this long line of sad rocket companies waiting out in the cold, shut out of their dreams of outer space by the mean old government. There simply weren't any others except for the go-to contractors that NASA always relied on.

Now that there is a critical mass of billionaire nerds and venture capitalists who want to build rocket companies, there is now competition in this sector. It is a case of monopoly vs competition. That is the real answer.
And then, after 30 seconds of watching the redirects, you finally reach a page that says... "your tenant ${uuid} cannot access resource ${uuid} on realm ${uuid}, sorry".
From an academic cryptography perspective, blockchains (as opposed to just Merkle trees, as found in lots of useful things like Git) are an interesting and valid solution to the problem of constructing a shared distributed ledger with no trusted party.

From a non-academic perspective, the trouble is there are few or no real-world problems for which such a thing is the best solution (judged by logistical practicality, performance, or ethics).
For techies, for sure. Also most techies (in my experience) don’t have a lot of exposure or hands on with blue collar type stuff, which most of this is.

Every town in America has at least one, if not several Home Depot’s, Lowe’s, OSH’s, etc. and at least 75-90% of the traffic at any given time is private home owners, not contractors. Americans do a LOT of DIY.

There isn’t any real comparison anywhere else I’ve been able to find, and I’ve looked. Not as much in France, but Germany, Switzerland, Italy, India, Bulgaria (closest to having something like that), Singapore, Malaysia, Japan, etc.
It's very true. However what is intrinsically better about a .deb or .rpm apart from having been there first? Are they the epitome of something?
This is an honest question, I am really not sure.
I vaguely remember that making an rpm was unpleasant and not very well documented, but it's been about ten yeats now...
Perhaps? Can you think of a counter-example, where seeing an event happen once is more attention-getting and memorable than seeing the event happen twice in a row in quick succession?

Imagine you see a herd of deer trotting along, and one goes down. A hole, or ditch, or maybe a predator? Now imagine two deer go down at nearly the same time. Different implications, or at least different probabilities to the possible implications.

I'll stand by my over-generalization for now, but I'm open to counter-examples.
People are definitely going there. Like, people who have hundreds of thousands of followers on Twitter. William Gibson, Leo Laporte, Jordan Mechner, Martin Fowler, just to name a few I noticed having recently joined up.
> sitting on the floor of a halloween party bathroom

i feel there is more to this story
For $8/month you can get Twitter Blue; payment == verification of identity; how long before Twitter Blue members demand/are given the option for non-Blue members to even see their content much less interact with them?

It's either an ingenious way to get rid of all of the bots or a way to do away with anonymous accounts on Twitter. Or both.
Exactly how panicked should I be right now?
By "Visa" do you mean "all payment clearing houses" and by Meta do you mean "all social media"?

Because if Visa shits itself (it has) I use Amex, Mastercard, cash, debit, or even checks.

And if Meta shits itself I don't even notice except to make fun of it.
Well he wants the state to raise them so they can be trained into thinking all there is to life is pleasing a boss, while being farmed in crowded offices and not owning anything.
I think the tagging issue can be solved by a system that gives the user suggestions from what they've entered before, and if they need to create a new rag, it has to be an explicit "create new tag" action so they don't end up with similar tags due to typos "pictures" "Pictures" "Picures"..

But yeah, I can't argue that tagging solves the problem at hand.
> Are there any large sensor cameras that are working on computational photography?

Not sure about the current state of the art but I do know Fuji has had some pretty fancy in-camera processing for years now.

When I was more into photography however it seemed the 'culture' was more into post-processing with computer software for reasons.
Did the game use their branding?

It seems they stylized it in a way similar to IKEA, but it doesn't appear to use anything trademarked or copyrighted.

It's not like IKEA owns Noto or Verdana.
I think this worked well.

Instead of conversation about how Elon would use twitter to undermine democracy, civil discourse, whatever, everyone is talking about what’s a fair price to pay him to undermine democracy, civil discourse, whatever.
The OP didn’t say it was technically superior as a camera - they said it produced better photos. Which you can argue it does, with all the fancy post processing. The statement was only about the final result, which for the eyes for whom most peoples photos are presented to are excellent.
You're correct, I misspoke. One is counterproductive and one (icing the kicker) is benignly useless.
There was NXApp, the quarterly NEXTSTEP Developer Journal, mentioned at http://www.kevra.org/TheBestOfNext/ThirdPartyProducts/ThirdP...

However, I can't seem to find scanned copies online and it's not clear how many issues were published. The only thing I can find is a scan of the summer 1994 edition title page at https://ia801602.us.archive.org/22/items/GerbenWierdasNeXTCo...

Maybe a request at the NeXT Computers forum helps?
http://www.nextcomputers.org/forums/
Having AIs train robot dogs to balance makes them a lot cheaper
It does! Generally if you quit you can't collect unemployment insurance, but if your boss places unreasonable expectations on you or creates a hostile work environment you can argue it was constructive dismissal and collect unemployment even if you quit. The current Twitter situation is ripe for such claims.

Criteria from Wikipedia: "The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has provided a 3-part test to determine whether or not a constructive discharge has occurred: (1) a reasonable person in the complainant's position would have found the working conditions intolerable; (2) conduct that constituted discrimination against the complainant created the intolerable working conditions; and (3) the complainant's involuntary resignation resulted from the intolerable working conditions"
RISC no longer has the clear border as it had 30 years ago. Nowadays RISC just means an ISA has most of the following points:
1. Load/Store architecture
2. Fixed-length instructions or few length variations.
3. Highly uniform instruction encoding.
4. Mostly single-operation instructions.

These four points all have direct benefits on hardware design. And compressed ISA like RVC and Thumb checks them all.

On the contrary, "fewer instruction types", "orthognoal instructions" never had any real benefit beyond perceptual aesthetics, so as a result they are long abandoned.
Yes, America has a concept of constructive dismissal. If an employer drastically changes the employee's working conditions or assignments and the employee then resigns, they might still be able to claim unemployment insurance as if they had been laid off. Authorities look at several criteria when making that determination but it's kind of a judgment call depending on the facts of a particular case.

If anyone wants to know how this applies to their particular situation then they should really consult a labor attorney. You're unlikely to get completely accurate legal information here.
You're right, he should have written shallow depth of field.
CKEditor, formerly known as the much more accurate "FCKEditor" inspired me to combine its logo with that of one of the Call of Cthulhu board games. I definitely lost sanity points every time I went in there. And I definitely said, "FUCK" every single time.

Prior to the rewrite it had a bunch of global state and someone on the team I contracted on had decided to use it anyway but patch things up so it could work with multiple edit panes in the same UI.
So the simplified view of a diffusion model is like the following (this leaves out the role of the prompt):

-Sample random noise.

-Ask the neural network "Here is a noisy image. What do you think it looked like before I added all this noise?" (note that you did not form this image by adding random noise to an initial image)

-Adjust the pixels of your random noise towards what the network said.

-Repeat until there is no noise left.

During training, we take a training image and add noise to it. This way we know the "correct" (in scare quotes because there are many possible clean images that lead to the same noisy image given different realizations of the noise) answer to the question in step 2. This is used to update the weights of the neural network.

Ultimately, a diffusion model is just a denoiser. A denoiser implicitly represents an underlying distribution of clean data. The diffusion process used to sample from the diffusion model is a clever way of drawing samples from that underlying distribution given access only to the denoiser.

At sampling time, we have no training image that we add noise to. We just sample random noise out of thin air. This works because in the limit of large amounts of noise, the distribution of "initial image plus lots of noise" and "just lots of noise" are the same. You can certainly draw an analogy between this initial random noise and the uncarved block of marble that the sculptor says "contains" a sculpture waiting to be uncovered. Given the same noise, the neural network is deterministic - it will always produce the same output.

You could even imagine an oracle who can unwind the process of the neural network being cranked and tell us exactly what initial noise sample would produce any desired output. Just like an artist might just draw the image that they want rather than waiting for the random pixel machine to output it, the oracle could simply set the precise values of Stable Diffusion's noise input to produce a Hollie Mengert work, rather than sampling repeatedly until it found one.
It's never too late to reverse a bad decision - Max series is and remains a low bar airplane; we all know why: Marketing took over engineering. Accept the problem, scrap it and move on.
JS is a much better compile target. WebAssembly doesn't have GC and it's just not geared towards dynamic languages.

You might attempt the equivalent of a native code compiler for Clojure but just targeting WebAssembly, plus a low level runtime implementing GC and JS interop, but it's a lot of work and there's no guarantee it would be competitive since JS JITs are quite good.
There was a pretty good documentary recently on how Boeing got to where it is now.

https://www.netflix.com/us/title/81272421
I'd guess that Photoshop et al. are the cause, with virtual depth of field effects.
Reflections of a web creator
Reality Distortion Field.
I think it’s because there’s sooooo many software engineers or sys admins on here who work on higher level applications.

Anytime something lower level comes up (like graphics APIs or OS architecture) or hardware related things, the quality of comments drop because there’s less familiarity (and perhaps an over abundance of confidence)