skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That really depends on whether you mean 'like artist X' as 'aesthetically pleasing'. I was fooling around with furry diffusion and got to try a few different models. Yiffy understood artist names, and furry did not: it had further training but stripped of artist tags.

All these models are pretty good as that community is strong on art, styles, art skill, and tagging, causing the models to be a serious test case for what's possible. The model with artist names was indeed capable of invoking their styles (for instance, an artist with exceptional anatomy rendering had it translate into the AI version). The more-trained model without the artist names was much more intelligent. It was simply more capable of quality output, so long as your intention wasn't 'remind me of this artist'.

I think that's likely to be true in the general case, too. This tech is destined for artist/writer/creator enhancement, so it needs to get smarter at divining INTENT, not just blindly generating 'knock-offs' with little guidance.

What you want is better tagging in the dataset, and more personalized. If I have a particular notion of an 'angry sky', this tech should be able to deliver that unfailingly, in any context I like. Greg Rutkowski not required or invoked :)
European Parliament Putin things back together after cyber attack
Almost everyone, in the UK at least, has a largely seamless experience with PayPal, Google Pay or Apple Pay these days. The shipping address gets auto-completed by interfacing with the payment processor and there's no account sign-up.

And since most of them actually outsource their websites to shopify or whoever, the user experience is basically as consistent as Amazon.
I think this is less clearly true than the funding hype imbalance though. I've seen PIs complain that a meta analysis took citations away from their paper that was included in said meta analysis. A replication study that is well written, particularly if it synthesizes replication results of multiple studies, could overtake original work in citations over time IMO. Doubly so if published in a journal that is already fairly reputable.
U.S. Navy Forced to Pay Software Company for Piracy
I think the most useful thing here is the list of supplements at the end. Isn’t there a study from this week that says nicotinamide is carcinogenic?
How can we get involved
Meta claims US military link to online propaganda campaign
> Here’s a modest proposal: No more than half of any screen we see at any given time — be it on desktop web or a smartphone — should contain ads.

I have to say, we have gotten extremely complacent if “half” your page being filled with ads is considered acceptable. I can understand the unfortunate reality that online services need ads to survive, but surely half of a screen is still far from acceptable.
Epigenetic clocks are really hit-and-miss and are mostly used at population levels and not a good way to measure changes in a single human. They may be accurate +/- 5 years, which he even says in his footnotes.

Which is not to say he didn't get a lot healthier, but the focus on biological age/epigenetic clocks seems to be more of a marketing instrument than anything else.
Where are the bodies at, Bryan?
> But isn't WASI considered harmful?

Lmao. The guy is just mad that WASI uses utf-8, as opposed to utf-16 (which is what Javascript uses)
Mosh also needs to be installed on the server.
This thread is so helpful!
I bet $100 this guy will mess up his kidneys soon.
I have Whole Foods, UPS drop off points, Amazon locker and Kohls all on the routes I frequent. And TBH, I prefer those over UPS pickup as making sure I’m home and running to the door when they arrive is not convenient for me. YMMV.
People don't mate randomly – but assumed by many studies
1- Those beams under the roof on the picture are not part of the interior. There is probably some insulation between construction and outside cladding. There is also some in-between construction.

2- If outside is painted it needs to be repainted at some point. There are also untreated facades or facades treated with fire [0]. Untreated wooden facade must have air gap behind to prevent rot. In case of untreated wood - color and shape is not stable. But in case of facade this is not issue. Structural elements and window/door frames should be treated though.

[0]: ie: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakisugi
I took it for about 12 months when I lived in Portland and it was covered by OHP. I went from about 370# down to 290# in that time.

I'm now on Kaiser in the Bay Area, and they do not cover semaglutide. In the short time I spent off of it, I gained 40#. I complained to my PCP (actually my series of 4 rotating PCPs -- medical staffing seems in disarray at the moment) and they found some injectable alternative for me (Liraglutide) which is more annoying being injection instead of pill, but I'm back to 290# after only 3 months with it.

I understand they're both in the same category of how they act. The semaglutide tastes absolutely horrible, and I've had some mild gastrointestinal effects from both -- I joke they they turn any sugar I eat into gas and discomfort, so that's their "secret" -- but I think if you're in the group who these have a profound effect for, it's worth a try I would think.

$0.02 :)
For what it's worth, appears to be from this page: https://pcmuseum.tripod.com/sparc.htm

Agreed that the old Sun hardware was pretty classy. :) They went through a number of different boot logos: https://github.com/mdehling/sun-fb-logos (I think my favorite was the CG6 framebuffer one, though I'm probably dating myself quite a bit with that opinion, haha).
Next to impossible but not impossible. Steve Jobs did it with apple in recent memory.
I wasn't impressed with Calibrate. The coaching aspect is very minimal and after several months of waiting (with no response from support) they let me know that my insurance wouldn't cover the treatment. They did refund most of what I paid but I was out $200 or so plus a lot of time.
1. You browse the web without an adblocker in $currentYear?

2. I turned off my adblocker and checked, it's not fair to call it a "pop-up", it's more like it slides up from the bottom of the screen whenever you load a new page.
The Tail End – human life visualized (2015)
Cross-trait assortative mating is widespread and inflates genetic correlations
You sound out of touch with society. Many poor people don't have time to cook. They might have multiple jobs that take up all of their time. Transportation is a big issue as well. And any disability they may have.

Most of America has horrible public transit. I don't know if it would even be possible for me to get onto a bus from my house to the nearest grocery store without first walking a mile. Some of the bus routes in this town turn what would be a 15min trip in a car to a ~2hr trip with a transfer in the middle.

In 2011, I briefly lived in a house in Northeast Tacoma, right by Dash Point State Park. Beautiful area. No buses. There wasn't even a sidewalk on the road I had to walk along to get to the bus. It was a mile walk from my house to a bus stop in Federal Way. From there I could get to a hub and get on another bus to anywhere I wanted. It was awful.
I'd like to note that every drug has its sets of side effects, and that the use of GLP-1 agonists in clinical vignettes such as in the case of an obese patient with DM are seriously considered.

More specifically, pharmacological therapy of obesity is indicated in patients with BMI > 30kg/m^2 or >= 27kg/m^2 [1] with another aggravating condition, such as DM2 or hypertension.

[1] Pharmacological Management of Obesity: An Endocrine Society Clinical Practice Guideline, The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, Volume 100, Issue 2, 1 February 2015, Pages 342–362, https://doi.org/10.1210/jc.2014-3415
This comment is why I still use Amazon, even though it has indeed become a catalogue where 90% of the listed products are junk. Because that other 10% are legit brands, and when you want the legit brand, it's still very convenient and often* cheaper than other retailers. You just have to wade through the crap to find the real stuff.

(*I said _often_, meaning I concede that it is sometimes actually not cheaper: please resist the urge to provide counter-examples, I know of their pricing trickery!)
thanks for sharing your thoughts. I agree that reinvention is primarily for one-self and seeing "it" happen or feeling that it was achieved, starts with the personal acknowledgment: I am a new ME.
>Want to bet that’s not unconnected to sacking the people who tried to block bots?

No you didn't. You made a bet and got your bluff called.
If a general purpose browser can empower hundreds of millions or even billions of regular users with better privacy (and ultimately, security) by making a change that might disrupt a small handful of power users who manually configure this stuff, I say the browser should go for it. The power users are the very people who can, without much effort at all, reconfigure their stuff, or easily find a special purposed browser, so they'll be just fine.

Spock was right, logic clearly dictates that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.
Too bad industries of this size need insane amounts of capital to stay competitive.
What did YOU mean in particular?
Holy crap that's over $2,100/month! Over $25,500/year. Even discounting the regular food you are not eating this is crazy.
Discussion on this other thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33730985
Any File Viewer
With all the craze around Generative/Problem Solving AI, has anyone attempted to build a file viewer which can open up any file in their right format?

As in, playing an mp3 or viewing a CAD file or even opening a simple doc. Maybe a boss file viewer
Tim Cook wants Apple to buy Manchester United soccer team
So this isn’t really a big story yet, is it? I’m staying at my parents’ house for thanksgiving and when I asked them about it they both had no idea what I was talking about. My mom faintly remembered something about some crypto guy or something, but “FTX” didn’t ring a bell. This was very surprising to me because they are older and watch the news on television every day. I think their schedule is fox news from 5-6, then local news, then ABC world news (then jeopardy).

Oh well. I guess an international ponzi scheme involving politicians and journalists just isn’t newsworthy.
I think it would have been impossible for the Republican party, founded to oppose slavery, to allow states to secede so they could continue to practice slavery on independent soil. People absolutely were willing to die over this: that's the whole point about bleeding Kansas.

In general, more people have died in wars have been fought over much less, either morally or materially.
Banning proof of work is one step from a free market economy towards a socialist economy, where the government decides what will and will not be produced. If you believe that government is wise enough to decide what should and should not be made and kind enough to always consider the need of the people ahead of their own interests, this will seem like a good idea. But anyone who has studied recent history will understand that it is not.
Non-white and urban here (NYC raised).

This essay resonates with me as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30043719#30047716

Today, I never feel like I fit in with my colleagues or direct reports.

The mindset itself is limiting and I fear I’ve passed along this same mindset to my
children.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33730985
There is a way [1] but the first hop will be ssh/tcp which may defeat the point of doing this if the first hop has high loss or the IP changes constantly. ncat from nmap can also be used within SSH vs their suggested fifo method. Both have some caveats. Here [2] is some further discussion.

[1] - https://superuser.com/questions/53103/udp-traffic-through-ss...

[2] - https://teddit.sethforprivacy.com/r/linuxadmin/comments/xeqp...
> Sure, it takes 15 minutes to reach the max temperature

This means it’s under powered. On top of that, the temperature might be high but energy delivery is not. That means the temperature right around the items actually drops, like how being still in cold water creates a static layer of warm water that keeps you warmer than if you’re moving around in it. With fast moving air you get significantly more heat transfer.

This is what convection ovens do but those are under powered in both heat and air flow, for my use case. Enough that I don’t use them at all, while I use my air fryer multiple times daily. Mine actually has the form factor of a toaster oven, so it’s a very easy comparison.

It’s literally just a stronger version of a convection oven, with different marketing.

> reduce energy use

I’m not so sure. It takes my air fryer much less time to cook things, so without doing the numbers I can’t say which is more efficient. I’d say that’s more about cost.
“almost immediately” relative to when?
Thank you very much, dang, for working tirelessly to moderate and maintain an amazing community. I know nothing's perfect, but this community keeps me coming back (for better or for worse) because of the quality discussion. Moderation is at least half of that.
And also Affordable Care Act (U.S.) which is not tied to employment. It's been around for over 10 years.
Computations that differentiate, debug, and document themselves
you mean, Emacs running on Ubuntu? boo
Not my experience.

I’ve tried them all.

Calorie counting.
Keto.
IF.
Full on water fasting.
Paleo.
Meal prep / logging.
Weight watchers.
Everything works for a time. None are sustainable for me.
If you're serious about that, then please consider the Bambu Labs P1P, X1, or any of the Prusa printers.

There are cheaper ones, but they're all terrible. Personally, I think the X1 is the best. Prusa's printers are good, but a little dated.
Only Americans think 250 years is old. My home town is closer to 600 years old, and the nearby castle started construction about 750 years ago.

The local history can be traced straight to the stone age.
This doesn't actually invert a Merkle tree though, since you have to recompute the hashes (except the leaf hashes) when you invert a Merkle tree. Gonna be a no-hire evaluation from me dawg.
I mean... That's not a very strong or interesting statement to make. I'm pretty sure there are a lot of mafias that did less bad than <insert your least favourite dictator here>.
SQLite has check constraints - and recent versions can have STRICT tables: https://www.sqlite.org/stricttables.html

It also has excellent JSON features - JSON maybe stored as text rather than a binary format like JSONB in PostgreSQL, but the SQLite JSON functions crunch through it at multiple GBs per second so it doesn't seem to matter.
What's "roughhousing", Google gives me answer it should be "fighting"?
Ask HN: How is Stable Diffusion different from sampling in hip-hop?
Stable Diffusion looks suspiciously like hip-hop sampling in the 80s.

How do these products really differ? Will Stable Diffusion face the same scrutiny? Could licensing be a solution (think official training sets)?
You're going to get pushback on this commonsense understanding of the world, but I've been on food stamps and of course you're right. "It's more complicated than that." No it isn't. Poor people shop at the same stores as everybody else. The food is all there. "They don't know the difference between healthy and unhealthy meals." How stupid do you think poor people are? They know how to prepare a healthy meal. The notion that this is just completely beyond the abilities of poor folks is risible. "They don't have as much time to prepare meals." Yes, they do. They have time to prepare a meal. Of course they do. Maybe not every single night, but they can make it work. (In fact, in the United States upper-income earners work more hours than those at the bottom [0].)

It's just an endless array of easily-overcome excuses (mostly from people who have never been poor and don't actually know any poor people).

[0] https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/09/working-hours-america...
It may already exist, but I want to create a simple regex-based browser plugin that suppresses Amazon search results if the product name or seller contains 4-7 consecutive capitalized letters. Call it LESSAMZNSPAM or something.
Even if you curate listings you can't fix Amazon's inventory commingling. And, as with other review services, curation would hit conflicts of interest if it got popular as less scrupulous operators would be happy to pay more to have their product listed than consumers would pay for reliable curation.
Especially when an example of a biomarker is ability to hear out of the left ear. Yes, fixing that (if you could) could improve your quality of life, but unless there's a train coming from the left side, it won't make you live longer.

Those tests also seem ripe for the nocebo effect.

All this testing and measuring seems a coping mechanism for trying to find and control some sort of objective measures in squishy, uncertain, biology.
Hmm interesting, thanks for letting me know. I always wondered why people recommend OSMAnd when it performs so poorly. Will look into this.
Semaglutide seems to be able to weaken urges, not just suppress the sensation of hunger. A lot of people have reported having a significantly lessened urge to drink alcohol, too. I wouldn't dismiss it out of hand.
Show HN: Use AI to transform my text instructions into a Google Sheet formula
I would describe it as the company has changed its priority from customer acquisition to customer monetization. When the company starts tuning by touching only its monetization knob, it slowly starts descending into death spiral. Depending on the competition it can take weeks or decades.
Sticking it in every modern web browser for the past several years is a pretty good way of battle testing it!
Which material has the highest dielectric constant?
This is awesome, but I still like using the GUI for m1/m2 Macs, DiffusionBee.

https://github.com/divamgupta/diffusionbee-stable-diffusion-...
I took a week off work once and walked from one side of England to the other, it was awesome. That would get me almost to the neighboring city where I’m from in the western US.
"Benefited from public spending" in this case means "paid a massive chunk of the failed English goverment's debts".

There is absolutely no reason why anyone north of the Midlands should be forking over a grand a year towards the cost of HS2 - a toy train that joins two towns in the south of England - but here we are, all the same...
My argument isn't that Paypal is more wasteful necessarily, it's more pointing out the inconsistencies in how value vs sustainability is weighed up.

Ethereum is currently doing 30 TPS [0], and Paypal ~200 [1]. Assuming that energy usage scales linearly (a naive assumption, but for arguments sake), it could deliver similar value with 10x lower energy consumption, I don't find arguing against the adoption of PoS crypto solely based on sustainability very credible either.

[0] https://ethtps.info/

[1] https://www.ing.uc.cl/en/boletines/engineering-student-scale....
If I host my own instance, can I federate with both 'halves'?

Or will associating with one likely get my instance blocked from federating with the other?
A double quarter pounder meal is $11 with tax in Texas.

I'm not poor but I'm realizing just how insane it is to eat out regularly now.
https://web.archive.org/web/20210506232722/http://cryptorial...

also works if your browser is picky about expired certs.
…, I get the "wrong" IP for anything hosted by Akamai (i.e. an IP address that corresponds to a part of their CDN which has abysmal peering with my ISP and is completely unusable in the evening)
Ah, you're right, I misunderstood. Thanks!
Software services are like puppies. Leave the house and everything is fine. For a while.
Both Rust (via 'cargo fix') and Clang (via `clang-tidy -fix` have ways of doing this, I don't think I've seen someone offer this automatically/interactively though.

I don't think I've ever used them, but I've ABSOLUTELY used suggested fixes from LSP/rust-analyzer tools, which fit much more into my typical workflow. For things like match statements in Rust (which need to be exhaustive), I now have muscle memory to just write an empty match statement, and trigger the first LSP/r-a suggestion, which fills the match block with placeholder items.

I guess I see LSP as my "compiler in interactive mode" interface (even if that isn't EXACTLY true).
Mosh has been sort of semi-neglected in a while - they did merge PRs, but did not release stable in years - but very recently, they started releasing new versions again.

I love to use it when I can.
No, because there wouldn't be much benefit to being able to regulate murder. (Also, I don't really think that that'd really work in terms of public approval.)
Life with no money and the perpetual fear of being evicted and living in a car with your children until they're taken away, or being fired for taking a day off sick because you work a bad job with no protections, or not being able to pay the electric and making a game of huddling together with your children at night for fear that they'll freeze, this is being poor. Learn to live poor? Learn to live this life? People do, and it's horrible, and life with nothing to ever look forwards to is a long slow suicide.

A McDonald's for some of these people IS life. It's the point of being alive, now that they have so little. It's the special treat that they've worked hard for, and it's pretty much the lowest tier special treat.
Partner. Lol.
Yep, you got it. “Air fryer” is just a marketing term for a stronger convection oven. My “air fryer” has a toaster oven form factor and the splatter containment is awful, so the basket design really helps with that, from what I’ve seen.
Hang on, but- plagiarism is a copyright violation, and that passes through the human brain.

When a human looks at a picture and then creates a duplicate, even from memory, we consider that a copyright violation. But when a human looks at a picture and then paints something in the style of that picture, we don't consider that a copyright violation. However we don't know how the brain does it in either case.

How is this different to Stable Diffusion imitating artists?
We win 14 points of conversion rate by simply reordering 3 form fields. Since then, data never left our design morning routine !
I'd first like to respond that McDonalds is terrible and don't see how it brings you joy.

I'm also not saying poor people do t get any joy. They just don't get to have every joy they want. Even if you're not poor you don't get to do that.

At what point do you see the irresponsibility? Applebees? Ruth's Chris? The French Laundry?
It all depends on what you want to do/how you want to use your PC.

I use OBSD on _ALL_ of my edge devices.
I use FBSD on all of my internal servers.

I have used OBSD as a desktop PC.
I currently use FBSD as my desktop PC.

You can use OBSD and still get a full GUI with a web browser. But (for example) you need to attend ZOOM meetings with a working webcam, and interact with MS Teams whiteboards; you are going to get frustrated.

So you need to be honest with yourself about what exactly you want to do.
85,000 Ukrainians Fled to the U.S., and Twice as Many Americans Offered to Help
Source?

Why would SBF delete his tweet claiming funds are "never invested, not even in bonds"?

Lending money and buying bonds are functionally the same thing, albeit there is legal nuance.

What is a "protocol CEX"? I'm assuming that's a typo.
Do You Trust Your Tax Preparer?
Boy do I have the site for you: https://djen.co