skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is such a meaningless stance in the context of this discussion.

If only everyone was buying various crypto and holding it in a cold wallet for the next 300 years!.. that’s the only true usage for crypto. No insidious banks, no fiat, no regulations, just pure bits in my virtual wallet until I die.
Yeah it's the point 2 , I guess but I really tried to get into Elixir but I really don't like its syntax
Thanks for explaining that, I hadn't hear that specific thing. So he was the one that made that bizarre donation. I'd heard about the candidate out of no-where, didn't know SBF was behind it or who he was before a few days ago - I thought it was another Peter Thiel candidate purchase.
Apple maps started out poorly but these days I prefer it to google maps.
Should have licensed The Sims 4 and sold add ons.
I have tested the app on my old iPhone XS Max, it takes less than 3 mins for an image.

And also can choose a model, steps, scale, and sampler!

Thank you for your great work!
The assigning of purpose to a human life is some unholy paradoxical combination of a vast flattering overestimation of its worth, on the one hand, and a blasphemous insulting affront against its dignity on the other. The purpose of life is life itself, that's why it's an insult to demand some other purpose. And by the same token, none of us has the kind of purpose your mind is demanding, that's why it's flattery. If you don't have a sense of purpose, don't worry about it, that's how it is for most people. Try a technique from acting improvisation: say an emphatic yes to the next thing that comes along. Lean into it. Does it lead somewhere good? Keep doing it! Does it lead somewhere bad? Change direction! Repeat. Construct the grand narrative later, as a retrospective.
It's more of a cool technology that is rapidly advancing. A couple years ago, it couldn't do this much. A couple years from now, it will be much better. It does much more than mash images together, which you would know if you dug into it a bit. That's it, that's the whole thing.
An important difference here is that your shell script executes the steps in the order you defined. Make performs a topological sort on the required rules, so in the general case, a Makefile doesn't explicitly define the ordering of the steps, but instead the make runtime figures out an order on its own based on the dependencies.

The Makefile is a (default) goal and a sea of possible actions from which make creates a plan of action.

The shell script steps are manually ordered by the programmer.
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The Internet is built on a lot of great people doing things for free. That doesn't have to be a bad thing if you are okay with it. But always make sure you feel good about what you are doing. If you get enjoyment or a sense of accomplishment (to quote EA) out of it then it's no worse than playing a video game or watching a tv show.
What about my comment made you think I’d be okay with any of those things?

I think you missed the point about consistency: I was trying to say that EA, minus the recent tangent, has my appreciation for its consistency. Consistency on its own isn’t a moral virtue, but it is a sign of earnestness. And I like it when people are earnest.
If you are willing to pay for that knowledge (and boy should you be) there are plenty of books. Starting Strength is a good one and it's not even expensive.
Leverage is just another word for debt. ;-)
We're a small startup, and looking for full-time, full-stack senior devs. Any chance you may any that you'd be open to connecting me with? - Zabe
I can't speak for others, but I've personally been quite impressed by the dalle output. It creates things that would take me hours (if not days) to create, which no other tech I've tried has been able to generate. It feels like it can absolutely replace at least the stock photo industry. It's also terrific for things like blog photos if you don't have the time or talent to create something yourself, but want some creative control.

Expansions like dream booth, which let you fine tune the system with your own submitted images are also quite amazing. Being able to give it just a few photos, and say things like "show me surfing in the ocean" and get a reasonable image back.

_Much_ more broadly, this space in AI/ML with GPT3/Dalle is exciting because it feels kind of like what the internet was made for. There's too much data on the internet for any one person to ever meaningfully process. But a machine can. And you can ask that machine questions. And instead of getting just a list of references back, you get an "answer". Image generation is the "image answer" part of this system. It's an exciting space because it feels like these systems will affect large chunks of how we use computers.

Here's a cool GPT3 "programming" example: https://twitter.com/goodside/status/1581805503897735168

And here are some of my dalle uses I've been impressed by, that I feel is publish-ready:

- https://labs.openai.com/s/nkOTLRWzjgQTe4QsgoWChP7n

- https://labs.openai.com/s/uSP55qRf1SqCbYTa2UDXXEfA

- https://labs.openai.com/s/kO2purvEodK5UUxPIpL78bQh

- https://labs.openai.com/s/2P1Mb75JbS1mmpyi86xwyyUg
This is so ironic in light of the Biden family's relationships with Ukraine.
> I don't know how you are reading the word "bootlicker" and not taking the implication that their views are to be disregarded, or why you don't think "bootlicker" is an undesirable category.

I do see that.

But that doesn't mean the part before "bootlicker" was wrong!

> If you examine the sibling thread to this one, I think you'll find that the commenter clarifies that they do, in fact, hold this person's views in contempt.

Yes, the views. They're applying scrutiny to the specific views and not anything else about the person, which is the correct thing to do.

You can say they are doing the scrutiny wrong, but that's different from scrutinizing the wrong thing. They are scrutinizing the right thing. They're not bringing in irrelevant information to discredit. They're only bringing in information on the directly relevant views.

tl;dr "what to scrutinize" and "how to scrutinize" are different things. The way they did the former, "referencing views from another thread" but only on the same topic, was fine. The stuff like "bootlicker" is the latter.
I have generated some images, I think it only takes less than 1% of the battery for an image, this is already much better than most of the game(for having fun).
If you do crimes you shouldn’t take notes on it. Let alone record it in a public traceable ledger that the authorities actively track.
If Loud Aliens Explain Human Earliness, Quiet Aliens Are Also Rare (2021)
I use Wikipedia's "Current Events" portal[1] via a searchable archive that I built for that purpose[2].

This gives me an ad-free news aggregation curated by Wikipedia contributors that I can filter any way I want. Of course, there are only about 10-15 events reported per day, and some items found in traditional news sources (op-eds, analysis, "human interest" stories) are missing, but for me that's a feature, not a bug.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events

[2] https://pastevents.org
> It is more natural than mobile

this thinking is colossally misguided. People bought more laptops than desktops because they are less intrusive with real life. They bought even more phones because they are even less intrusive. A VR set is 100% obstructive , so it doesnt fit this category. it is something you use when you can "depart from real life". If something like that is the goal, the nearest thing was something like google glasses. it would have to be very useful for people to tolerate wearing glasses practically all the time (You wouldnt want to be carrying the glasses on hand).

The form factor of a phone is that of a book or notebook, and that has been favored by people for thousands of years because our hands are expressive. glasses are generally a nuissance that is tolerated because of vision issues. If the goal is really immersion with real life, it seems that neural interfaces a more likely candidate and that s the direction they should be going (or at least make something more mobile than mobile)
Nowadays I'd know how to do this with an Arduino with a GSM module, how did you receive the pictures back then?
I don't know about "EA rationales", but rule utilitarianism is unpopular among philosophers largely because it's believed to collapse into act utilitarianism. The phil101 caricature is that rule utilitarianism says "no stealing, because 'no stealing' is a rule that increases utility" and act utilitarianism says "steal if you think it maximizes utility" - but on the one hand "no stealing, except for bread to feed your starving child" is an even better rule, and so on; and on the other hand not incorporating uncertainty into your decision procedure isn't being a good act utilitarian, it's just being an idiot. And so in practice they endorse the same decision procedures in pursuit of the same end.
> With Playwright you don't need to put manual waits in your program. It's async.

That is just choosing between a blocking method or... a blocking method which suspends and resumes a thread.

> headless mode

That is really up to the browser driver to implement that, and you can do that perfectly fine in Selenium.
Yeah, the effects are not going as what I wanted
I was just trying to focus the talks on the Erlang language because I'm already aware of the success and opportunities of the Elixir language.
I'm wondering the same. The respondents' demographics hint at that this is a severely skewed sample (2nd largest identifiable nationality is Polish). Anecdotically: the frontend devs I have access to either have a strong engineering discipline or read so little tech on the internet that they couldn't possibly be aware of this survey.
If I had a billion dollars, I'd ignore what the billionaires are doing with philanthropy and the EA crowd alike.

I'd go here and in seconds it would be gone:

https://www.pay.gov/public/form/preview/pdf/103

For a moment, inflation would run backwards.

That is effective altruism. It saves all of the overhead in distributing your assets - like an index fund for philanthropy.
14 million yen per year is pretty standard engineer money in Japan for the most prestigious jobs anyway

Of course, that's like $100k or less with current exchange rates, haha
yes but all the popular ones i've seen which have both macos and ios treat ios as an unfortunate 2nd class citizen rather than a flagship experience
This reminds me of “Do you support the troops or not?” types of questions.

It reduces a vast and complex problem that’s rife with subjective matters to: are you with us or against us?

Not only that but it frames it in such a way that seemingly objectively great things are being proposed to be evil.

This kind of rhetorical question will probably never yield a useful direct response.
>And if you open an issue or pull request and you're not on the OpenCollective, it's usually immediately closed, by policy.

Issues I can understand. But if I spend time grokking your code, fixing a bug and submitting a PR, and you reject it because you want me to pay you first, I'm dropping your software without a second thought.
> coelacanths

Yes! Rediscovered in 1938. A 400+ million year old fish. Very successful species!
Find a CTO as a co-founder. Do not do anything else.

If your idea is actually good, it shouldn't be that hard to find a CTO in today's environment because a lot of engineers have been laid off with nice severance packages.
I'll leave it to you to find the paper, but this has been done experimentally and the results measured.

https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2010/07/01/128170775/a...

> Code-named "Starfish Prime" by the military, it literally created an artificial extension of the Van Allen belts that could be seen across the Pacific Ocean, from Hawaii to New Zealand.
Thank you, maybe there is a market for this
I think it’s important to consider whether this happens with all companies, or whether venture capital seeking to maximize returns to the detriment of both the business and the user is a factor here.
It’s working fine on my iPhone 11 Pro / iOS 16.1 with all default settings. Just generated an image of an astronaut skiing that looks pretty good!
I think many platforms optimise for interactions, with no regard for whether they are positive or negative.
How can you speculate if you don't know? This is the problem of american politics. People just make up stuff.
This is a value in crypto in general. There is no reason that in 10 years time, bitcoin will be the coin most used for these activities. Bitcoin could drop to absolute zero and some other coin rise up for its utility value.
I was reacting to your original post which implied that speculative concerns have marred EA the movement by pointing out that EA the movement has had close ties to speculative concerns since the beginning. It's a large, complex group with many on-going projects. LessWrong's top charities are still meat and potatoes human development in the 3rd world.
"Enough money" is usually defined by venture capitalists who want ALL THE MONEY and not by normal investors who want a modest predictable return. Patreon, for example, could have been a modestly profitable business which owned itself, but instead they keep flailing and spending lots of other people's money to satisfy the next batch of investors that one day they will be as rich as Google.
The 3 nostrils, 7 squished fingers are not that big of a problem, you can run other image enhancing AIs on top of the generated images to fix that, or just use inpainting and give it a few more tries to get it right. The models are also slowly getting better at it.

> What is the use case that I’m missing?

It's generating images from nothing more than a text description, a year ago that was something you'd only saw an StarTrek. Now it's real and we have barely scratched the surface of what is possible.

The images still need some manual work, but try to generate images of that quality and complexity by hand and you might have more appreciation how mindblowing it is that AI can not only do it, but do it in seconds.
It seems like another Flock browser - interesting but meh.

Chrome has won the wars, even Microsoft saw the writing on the wall and making it better (I personally like Edge) - it is time to move on to solving interesting problems and not the same low hanging fruit like crypto blockchain, another overcomplicated JS framework or another replacement for C++.
"I'm not interested. Why would I be?"

That just reads as a rude way to respond to me. "Why would I be?" Because you just described a plot line of a show. It might be fun to see how someone used that plot to make a show that someone reading HN might actually enjoy.

Both sentences combined also reads as "I am perfectly content in my ways and will not listen to anything anyone might kindly suggest because I know all". Maybe because it's election season, but this unwilling to listen and stonewall is quite tiresome. So maybe just rubbed me the wrong way because of everything else and might not been taken the same way at a different time?
I sympathize with them completely. The effort needed to port it to Linux most likely won't be worth the small user base (and the even smaller percentage of Linux users that'll use proprietary software)
Facebook, at one point, had 50 employees too. Doesn't mean Facebook today can run on 50 employees.
I mean, it’s fine to have other opinions, but seriously? Safari for “heavy”/professional usage?
I personally love Arc and their dedication to add features that you would need a chrome extension for any of them.
We don't. An engine doesn't need to be energy-positive, it just needs to produce thrust.
Thanks, this was helpful to better understand the use cases.
Do you have any details on why this is the case, thats super interesting.
You could do stuff like k-anonimity and onion routing (where every layer is run by a different company, similar to Apple Private Relay) to mitigate some of it, although it wasn't there in the initial implementation of the Perspectives project.
Using podman since March of 2022. The experience has been nice, and the ability to run containers under user without going root is definitely nice. Good to see it getting some recognition.
I can also confirm it works (for me) on iPhone 11 Pro.
Couldn't you use something like uBlock Origin to block unwanted sections?
I agree with VR being obstructive and awkward, but what percentage of the population would be okay with hooking a computer directly into their brains, let alone a facebook-controlled computer?
Binance probably shorted FTT and SOL.

I would’ve done the same if I wasn’t based in the USA.
I don't believe it. I have this pair of safety glasses I bought from the hardware store for $5 and they are super light weight and rock solid. I could wear them all day and not even notice. Sometimes I even forget I am wearing them and wear them around inside for a while when I'm finished my work.

If they had some tint and UV protection and I would consider using them as shades.

update: I talked myself in looking at the hardware store website and my next sunglasses will be be some 3M safety glasses with a dark tint and uv. And less than $20.
They put a different meter on it and it was prohibitively expensive.

ATT was early on a lot of technology such as working with MagicCap and Go. They had their own Hobbit processor.

It was pretty cool tech until you saw the pricetag. Then you laughed, and laughed, tears rolled down your face ... $2,000 devices in 1995 money with $200/month usage bills being common (modern money is about double so think $4,000 tablet)

Even if you got a couple price insensitive buyers, the technology is only useful if there's a network effect and that's where it broke down.

You weren't emailing their phone, it was an inbox they'd see next time they dialup to logon to the internet. It wasn't some obvious gain and faxing documents was a more reliable way to get to someone because you're changing their environment with a fax
One weird thing about the software industry is that the guys who design skyscrapers and the ones who put in drywall have the same job title

You don't need some Google genius to do a lot of this work, and sometimes a regular person will do a better job than some wonderkid who spends too much time and effort trying to automate it
Reddit mods largely aren’t doing it for nothing. They are doing it for social power and the ability to control the conversation for communities.

Just think about what it means to be top mod of a cities subreddit. You can trivially just delete conversations you don’t like.
The fundamental problem with VR is the "VR illusion" which makes the eyes focus on objects apparently in the distance that are actually on a screen very close to the eyes. This gives users headaches thus making mass appeal impossible. Solving this, if it is solvable at all, is challenge #1.
A Confederacy of Dunces is the only book I’ve read cover to cover in one day. I just couldn’t put it down. I couldn’t see straight by the time I finished.

I’d say it’s funny in a more down to earth way than Cat’s Cradle. But I do enjoy Vonnegut’s sardonic sense of humor.
on my iPhone 13, generates 384x384 images in under a minute.

discovered they have stable diffusion 1.4,1.5, waifu diffusion(Anime), redshhift(3d model) and other models.

iPhone becomes warm after couple of runs and starts draining battery, so do it while connected to charger.
No, it's not only definitely coming true, it's been happening for a while now and it's becoming mainstream. Here's a very neutral video on the topic: https://youtu.be/fKBLn--BBdg.
I think the peak was around the late 2010s.
Unrelated to this from the pricing page[1] of Kagi:

> It costs us about $1 to process 80 searches.

This caught me by surprise. It would be good to know if this is pure hardware and bandwidth cost, or if they are factoring in all the costs associated with running a business. I wonder if costs for Google are also on the same level.

There team's plan seems to quite expensive considering we are so used to free (ad supported) search.

[1]: https://kagi.com/pricing
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May be something you want.
Yes. It was also the first time I used makeself which I quite liked.
How is ft posting something like this? Prices are going up from firms raising prices?

Uh, the price is going up because the demand is there at that price. I’m seeing this first hand - customers mad for being turned away and others mad at the price increases.

I wish govt would work on the supply side for once. I don’t need lower input prices - but less hassles around for example adding three out of state employees would be fantastic
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> in the environment where typo's are prevalent

Is that a joke?
> To test a piece of code swiftly and have consistent reliable results all the other dependencies have to be replaced with mocks controlled by the software engineer writing the tests. For example, if you are testing a function that relies on a file in the file system or makes an HTTP call over the network these external resources must be replaced with mocks for the tests to be a unit test. Relying on any external resource can make the test results flaky and hence unreliable.

For both of those examples you can:

1. Create a temp file in a temp dir and inject the tempfile (probably the name of the tempfile) into the object under test. So if your object edits and manipulates /etc/passwd you can create a real file with some passwd contents (or a built-in fixture checked into the tests) and then point the object at that instead of /etc/passwd. Then you don't have to mock the whole POSIX API. Since you create the file you can rely on it existing.

2. Write a minimal API which runs on localhost with minimal or no state, no threading, possibly no auth (although something elsewhere in your tests needs to test auth) or anything else, which your code can setup expectations and responses on then point the object at the "server". Since you create this service in your tests you can rely on it existing and it shouldn't be brittle.

For other objects you can expand the System-Under-Test (SUT) so that you construct multiple objects and feed them into the test. This is particularly true when the object you are testing sends messages to other objects and then expects to get changed state back out of them. Often better to just construct a real object rather than a mock. In a perfect world you might refactor everything so perfect unit testing was possible, but in reality you just won't be able to do this.

And in general, unit tests are often useless because of the mocking and because if the contract changes on one side and not the other then you wind up shipping broken code. They're fast, which is great, which means you can enumerate all of the edge cases, but some kind of functional/integration testing that uses larger bits of the system together is almost always better in terms of giving confidence that you're shipping code that works. And with an infinitely fast CI system I'd argue that you should never write unit tests and you should be spinning up real APIs in your test harness and hitting them with real client workflows.

Instead I write a lot of fast unit tests, although I'm real quick to jettison the idea that a unit test only covers one single object under test, and if the result isn't "really" a unit test, I'll let the philosophers sort it out.
It’s not quite that bad. Certificate transparency and things like the EFF observatory extension effectively solve this issue. An org issuing a malicious certificate would very quickly be detected and their keys revoked.
A lot of entrepreneurs' personal stories start off with a setback like this last couple of weeks have imparted upon thousands of people

I'll bet a lot of those "low performers" just had a hard time jumping through hoops at the circus, but will do just fine out on the savannah