skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
GitHub Repo: https://github.com/Stability-AI/stablediffusion

HuggingFace Space (currently overloaded unsurprisingly): https://huggingface.co/spaces/stabilityai/stable-diffusion

Doing a 2.0 release on a (US) 2-day holiday weekend is an interesting move.

It seems a tad more difficult to set up the model than the previous version.
Depends on your situation, sometimes a WhatsApp group is enough, although there's always someone that doesn't have it (for reasons of their own, all are valid). What's your use case? You could make a case that pen-and-paper letters are a valid medium of communication if you're a notary, so tell us what you're looking for.
That is some very nice sarcasm. Humor much appreciated.

> Socrates did not write down any of his thoughts, however his dialogues were recorded by his student and protégé, the philosopher Plato (428 – 347 BCE).

Plato did not "write down" Socrates' dialogues. Plato wrote the dialogues. Though we do have some authentic ideas from Socrates, such as, "I know that I know nothing," the idea that wisdom begins with ignorance, and most scholars still accept The Apology as at least quasi-historical. Socrates must have made a great impression on Plato, but when we read The Republic, we are not reading Socrates. It is the humble and brilliant Plato, alone.
> she got the weapon and was threatening her attacker

Are you talking about Ma'Khia Bryant?[1] Because in that case both parties grabbed knives, but Bonner was unarmed by the time the police arrived. Also it doesn't matter what happened beforehand. Bryant was about to stab a woman to death who was not a threat. She shouted, "I'm gonna stab the fuck out of you, bitch.", lunged toward Bonner, and ignored police commands to stop. Of course the cops are justified in shooting Bryant.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Ma%27Khia_Bryant
What digital art sites are these? Been looking for some good ones.
oops left out a 'no' between with and concern.
Police departments literally own tanks. https://www.aclu.org/news/national-security/towns-dont-need-...

Plus things like grenade launchers are provided to police departments by the Department of Defense, at steep discounts or for free, through the 1033 Program: https://www.dla.mil/Disposition-Services/Offers/Law-Enforcem...
> Train citizens to drive robot surveillance drones, do paperwork

Aka hire more cops. A cop in the US is just a citizen with 3-6 months of tactical and paperwork training.
Sure, there are. Using written notes is the topic of the article, though, so that's what I was commenting on.
> upset about was the growing reliance on ..

Then he would have freaked out over smart phones. I've first hand seen what happens to e.g. sense of direction once use of the navigator-assist becomes habitual. Some auxiliary mental muscle atrophies in the brain.
The use case for these nuclear batteries isn’t to power NYC. It’s to be able to replace industrial needs for energy and heat at the source. A glass or cement factory could have its own power source that’s carbon free. It also means that hydrogen production can be considered green. It’s also great for rural communities that might otherwise have expensive/dirty electricity.

The goal is for them to be autonomous for this reason: install it at some industrial site without any nuclear expertise. Have it shipped in fueled, and then shipped out to maintain or refuel.

These are absolutely the future.
I think this phrase showed up around the time police departments started getting military hand-me-downs like MRAPs.
Please mind the distinction between functional programming and pure functional programming - despite the name it's very different.
I don't see how letting nazirape88 back is worse than letting Trump or Taylor Greene back on.
Also considered rude and antisocial in many parts of the country. shrug

If there are no buttons for salespeople to push successfully, then everyone wouldn’t be so irritated at them I guess? And they’d be a lot poorer.
Wellll, that depends. The base case, sure. but meetings are between two or more people. so what do you do when one of the people is in a different timezone from the other, with different dates for daylight savings time crossover? a solution can be reached, but it's not clear that the meeting time shouldn't move.
Jordan's video about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZI3zaHUsgXg

Absolutely disgusting.
There was not much in the way of civilization there 150 years ago. There were indigenous, sure.
It's the opposite. If cops were invulnerable, they'd be far less likely to use lethal force. It's usually because they fear for their lives that they shoot.
What is the point? They have to have had X number of hostages die in a year before we approve a remotely controlled robot?

Even if the number was zero, being able to remotely assess the situation before risking your own life and/or killing someone is nothing but a good thing.

Officers don't shoot people for funsies, despite the current prevailing narrative. We remove all risk to an officer's life, and we will get more peaceful solutions. In the event violence is required to resolve a situation without harming innocents, this is by far the safest way to do that.
Rails remains a best in class framework for web application development and ruby (in my opinion) a fantastic programming language (amazing object model + standard library).
As the article mentions, they are bomb disposal robots. There is absolutely reason to have a tool capable of firing a shotgun shell attached, and an arm capable of placing a charge. You could hobble the bomb squad with legislation, make their job more deadly--or you could ban this particular use.

Source: I just know. That robot saves lives.
> So many times I have seen C++ programmers disappointed that D is not C++.

More generally, every time I learn a new language, it is always frustrating, because I cannot write the same thing in the new language that I was used to writing in the old. It takes time until one starts thinking in terms of the new language, and only then will the frustration fade.
> E.g., think about adding a new line to a program, the new line you're adding is typically invalid for the majority of time until you've finished typing it out.

That doesn't really bother me. The line of code you're currently typing is generally so invalid that there's not much point trying to color it.

But what does bother me is the code below where you're typing changing its color as the IDE tries to make your partial line fit.
They don't, even if the victims are children and the ratio of cops to shooters is 100:1
Ah, yes, that explains to me how it is that when I'm stuck in some bit of code and go look on StackOverflow or wherever, I find an answer I'd posted long before.
Hmm, this is interesting. Rereading that post, it looks to me like McCarthy and Hewitt are mentioned as influences rather than a manifestation of ‘OOP’ as such, and I can’t quite think of any OOP system in Lisp he could be referring to other than CLOS, but then again I don’t know sufficiently much about this area to be sure either way.
This so much. Can't wait for scamming and malware infested ads on twitter. Just another nail for the coffin.
Normally they are also a danger to a responding officer who is fearing for their life. This removes that fear in the decision making process.

Yeah, this part is actually fairly intriguing. It might be easier to depersonalize and shoot, but there would be fewer defense options in court after.
So recognizing that periodic fire is part of the natural cycle is one thing, and purposely igniting every tree you come across is quite another.
Even darker when startups are encouraged by SaaS pricing to avoid SSO like the plague.

Everyone is running around storing databases full of passwords, and for what? So they can put "CALL" on the Enterprise tier.
#1 defines a compatibility later, rather than an emulator, in my mind. Emulators typically perform some form of translation from the original (completely unsupported) code to something the host can understand. Wine implements PE binary support natively in Linux.
All political problems of sufficient gravity become military problems.
For CSS layout related stuff, I think video tutorials are a really good resource. In particular I like Kevin Powell who has guides on both subjects.
Climate change deniers were right after all, earth will be perfectly fine, it may just have to do with one less ape species /sarcasm
First time they strapped them to robots, maybe, but the police have a long and storied history of bombing folks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_MOVE_bombing
A great deal of the following text focuses on this exact issue. Dig in.

Cities Under Siege: The New Military Urbanism
by Stephen Graham

“ Drawing on a wealth of original research, Stephen Graham shows how Western militaries and security forces now perceive all urban terrain as a conflict zone inhabited by lurking shadow enemies. Urban inhabitants have become targets that need to be continually tracked, scanned and controlled. Graham examines the transformation of Western armies into high-tech urban counter-insurgency forces. He looks at the militarization and surveillance of international borders, the use of ‘security’ concerns to suppress democratic dissent, and the enacting of legislation to suspend civilian law. In doing so, he reveals how the New Military Urbanism permeates the entire fabric of urban life, from subway and transport networks hardwired with high-tech ‘command and control’ systems to the insidious militarization of a popular culture corrupted by the all-pervasive discourse of ‘terrorism”

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6499353-cities-under-sie...
How about instead of caring about what the young or old do we mind our own fucking business?
I for one welcome our killer robotic overlords!
Americans don't understand that their police forces are gangs. Yes, they have to follow the law and protocol. But the immediate second code they follow is brotherhood. When multiple officers are hurt or killed in action, they escalate the violence to the maximum extent possible, law be damned, as the AG and media is on their side and moves the spotlight away. Thankfully they usually consider public safety when they crack open the can of whoopass.
Bingo.

The military is a tool wielded by the government. They don't go anywhere without being ordered.
> One wonders how many botched drone missions wouldn't have been performed in the first place had the operators been physically present in the areas they were attacking.

They wouldn’t be any more connected to the people if they were in a secure US camp in country, I think.
I wish I was naive as you and I am sincerely hoping this will happen.
Running emacs in tmux over SSH can be faster than TRAMP. TRAMP gets very biggy when you have a lot of third-party elisp extensions.
I wonder what could be incentivizing all these groups to rush to publish copy pasta articles so they can run salacious headlines of killer robots.

Oh, I've got it, it's journalism!
Qualified immunity is a precedent that needs to go away. Cops and other government officials should be much more liable for their bad acts.
We read Plato's writings of what a character named "Socrates" said; this character is based (to some extent) on the historical Socrates but is largely Plato's invention.
They seem to shoot dogs, unarmed people, actual crime victims, when there’s no fear for their lives.
That's not my experience; it sounds like a glib rejoinder.
> Asking a cop to walk into an active shooter situation isn’t great either.

That’s quite literally the job.

There’s a bunch of other stuff cops do, but at the end of the day, they exist to risk violence so the rest of us don’t have to - without that, there’s no point to a group of state-sanctioned violence dealers.
> One of the reasons you rarely see a MAMAA (Meta, Alphabet, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon) VP or above start a company is the lack of desperation

Only Facebook/Meta, only VP or higher, only exit-to-founder, only since 2021, and only the ones that I can find in <15 minutes:

- Statsig, Vijaye Raji (VP Entertainment, VP Gaming): https://www.geekwire.com/2021/former-head-facebook-seattle-s...

- Anonym, Graham Mudd (VP Product Marketing/Ads): https://www.adexchanger.com/ad-exchange-news/metas-graham-mu...

- Mori, Cory Ondrejka (VP Engineer): https://www.speakers.co.uk/speakers/cory-ondrejka/

- Detect, Hugo Barra (VP of VR): https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-12-15/former-fa...

- Lightspark, David Marcus (Head of fintech unit Novi): https://www.protocol.com/bulletins/david-marcus-lightspark

- Additional Ventures, Mike Schroepfer (ex-CTO; he founded AV two years prior to exit, but left FB to focus on it): https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/30/facebook-former-cto-mike-sch...
To be pedantic, that is not a tank. That is an armored personnel carrier.

The article is also wrong about the military restraining from using .50 caliber machine guns on infantry... but it's very clear the person that wrote the article really doesn't know much about these things anyway.

I agree the uses for a .50 caliber machine gun for policing is very, very few if any. However, .50 caliber firearms are indeed used quite often, just not automatic ones.
Considered harmful by whom?

After looking at the objections from these guys, they seem to boil down to, "but it makes non-web development more viable again, and that's bad for the web". The first part is true. The second part is arguable, but IMO if it is true, then balance needs to be restored.
Report: FTC “likely” to file suit to block Microsoft/Activision merger
Yeah, I know a lot of other folks with ADHD who get a ton of use out of a bullet journal or something similar. The variance is not at all surprising considering that even the two primary symptoms, inattention and impulsivity, often aren't both present. These things aren't cut-and-dried, but these sorts of cognitive problems often impact writing: sometimes enough to make basic mark making a real chore.
Maybe they could start by selling all those military toys.
> "Funny you mention weather because I have worked in the field. We had to make a change in the discretization scheme, and pretty much all of the assumptions of the super optimized parallelized production version had to be thrown away, to the point that we had to abandon it completely."...

Ah, so initial pixilation for front fonts weren't unicode compatible? :-)
No, let's get rid of humanity.
Yes, we worked very deliberately to eradicate those indigenous civilizations, and finally isolate what remained of them from white America.

I’m not sure why people keep bringing up political institutions when the conversation is clearly about cultural institutions.
Rearchitecting without knowledge of the existing architecture and why things are designed the way they are is a recipe for disaster and i known it first hand.
Aaron Peskin added a line saying something to the effect of "shall not be used to kill people". SFPD sent it back with a red line through that part.
I have a similar experience, parents and in-laws are totally consumed by right wing media and conspiracy theory’s to the point that we have to be careful about who we bring near them due to racism comments etc.

Its also super exhausting to be around them as we’re always on edge.

There’s not doubt its Facebook and modern “television”.

Ten years ago they were different people.
On the other hand, the decision to shoot is going to be based on a lower fidelity information than available if the officer has a gun.

And I think the US should really be going in the direction of fewer guns, i.e. gun control. The US has way more guns per person, gun deaths per 100,000, proportion of homicide/suicide by gun than any other country. Pick one of those "dangerous countries" you are advised not to visit ... they have way less than the US on all these stats.

The police could lead the way by using force that doesn't maime or kill to control situations. That is where the innovation should happen. A robot could be ideal here - send in a robot to disarm, control, resolve, but not to kill.
> If you believe officers use excessive lethal force, then removing their lives from the equation can only make it better.

Or, they feel free to use the “Easy Button” to end situations faster, precisely since there is no risk to them to do so.
Rebuilding after the replication crisis
I don't want to argue about medical conditions, but clinical trials are unnecessary in this case. More than 20,000 skincare brands claim to help with acne, aging, and other skin concerns. But I've never about even one conducted double blind randomized controlled trial. And I agree with you, some kind of control is needed. That is why I said skincare is about marketing.

About helping, it helps the vast majority, except in severe cases, and the result is a reduction in pimples on the face. It is the only thing that teens care about. You should follow simple rules and pick the right products. I think the accuracy of our recommendations is relatively high. I don't have big numbers to brag about. But over time, I will.
Now the primary source of information is TikTok.

I should consider rewriting the message, though. Thank you.
Police didn't go inside because they were scared of dying.

Were they cowards? Yes. Does calling them cowards solve the problem? No.

Robots would actually solve the problem.

In tech we have a culture of blaming the process, not people. Now, we should definitely blame the Uvalde officers for their cowardice. But we should also think about how we could improve the process around dealing with active shooters and officers who simply aren't brave enough when push comes to shove. This was not the first time, and nor will it be the last time, when innocent lives die because of afraid law enforcement officers. Let's solve this problem at the process layer.
<< Folks - this is not a lethal autonomous robot.

For now. Israel has already implemented/tested AI driven non-lethal guns. It is a matter of time before it is normalized.

<< A human still has to pull the (digital) trigger to use lethal force.

Yes. Drones in Afghanistan ( and elsewhere lately ) truly taught us nothing about human nature and how we perceive danger.

<< This can do nothing but reduce lethal force use.

If anything, it will significantly increase it, because:

1) cops will demand more of them
2) they will get them
3) budgets will forever be increased
4) people that are trigger happy will just be pressing different triggers

<< In the field, lethal force happens because people are forced to make snap judgements.

We are in agreement. Is the street a field though? We ask for a human, because the moment some random John is controlling the robot he has no stakes in local community. He might as well be controlling it from India.

<< Sometimes they get things wrong...

Yes, which is the reason for concerns.

<< This robot removes half of the equation that leads to lethal force.

Maybe in theory, but that fails to account for cultural differences, human nature and the fact that is merely a stepping stone away from autonomous robot deciding who lives or dies.

<< This is nothing but a good thing.

Time may prove me wrong, but from where I sit, there is a reason to be concerned.

edit: Crap man, this does not even scratch the surface of how bad an idea that is and most of it is not even based on technical issues, but merely on knowledge of human nature.
Spam was a losing battle. I stopped running a bulletin board around the same time I stopped hosting a mail server.
What is it about pure functional that makes concurrency much easier? Is there a code sample that would illustrate it?

I've done both Haskell and Erlang/Elixir and yet I don't really see what you're referring to concretely. There was hope that automatic parallelization would be a big win for pure functional, but I don't think it's really worked out in practice, because of the overhead and difficulty of predicting if parallelizing something would make it faster or slower.
Not to mention a need for heating!
It's not useless, it's just a lower layer in the stack. Decoupling high-level managed runtimes from underlying low-level bytecode makes a lot of sense. Delivery is another question, and we'll probably solve that by caching common runtimes.
Might also be good for concrete production, perhaps. Most cement plants burn loads of coal to heat up the limestone, producing loads of CO2 in the process. Not sure if this reactor could heat up the kiln to >1,000C. Seems like there's some interest in the UK, so perhaps this could be a good solution for on-site production in remote areas...

https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/news/view/hinkley-poi...
Sure, but you gotta consider the entire system, so adding the heat pumping system actually may decrease the overall power generated per unit of volume; at least, certainly increase cost and decrease reliability. I wonder if thousands of SMRs spread over an area wouldn't actually generate more power per acre.
Not sure how the article can state it so conclusively. See e.g How Much Mightier Is the Pen than the Keyboard
for Note-Taking? A Replication and Extension of Mueller
and Oppenheimer (2014) [1] and Don’t Ditch the Laptop Just Yet: a Direct Replication of Mueller and Oppenheimer’s (2014) Study 1 Plus Mini Meta-Analyses Across Similar Studies [2]

1 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10648-019-09468-2

2 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0956797620965541

There's quite a bit of variance, and the early results may have been biased by the fact that have a laptop and typing while taking notes were relatively new things.
Would you object to police putting remote controlled gun turrets on the corners of buildings around the city?
Mixed feelings about involvement of robots at all, but ABSOLUTELY YES the use of NON-LETHAL FORCE is outrageously under-utilized in every kind of policing IRL and as depicted in popular media. Set em on stun, FFS.
That very much depends on what you need a runtime for. JVM bytecode semantics are not a good match for something like C++ or Rust.
Tell that to the Uvalde police department.

Police are concerned with their own lives. They have no duty to protect anybody else’s lives
Noise Route: use other device as Network-attached-speaker for PC
Or a drone which dives bombs with a tazer. That's the worst thing about this: robotics should mean that we have options because robots are replaceable and should be expendable.

But this tells you the real story: an expensive robot is more valuable then a human life.
I doubt that will be the case. A lone officer shooting someone while covering their camera is far easier than hauling out this huge machine and deploying it. It literally requires only one person to make that decision all on their own.

I also don't think it's lost on anyone how the public would react if these RC robots started to stack a body count...

The risks seem to be extremely minimal. Accountability can be built into the machine itself. We can even require multiple layers of "sign off" before the digital trigger can be activated.

This is all good stuff to have in the vein of reducing lethal force use.
> SCOTUS has ruled that police have no duty to protect citizens.

That is not remotely true. What SCOTUS has ruled is that police have no constitutional duty to protect citizens, i.e. the Constitution doesn't say anything about it one way or another. The actual duty of police to protect citizens arises from state law, departmental policies, and/or employment contracts. If you are so unfortunate as to live in a municipality that imposes no duties on their employees, perhaps you should vote for someone who will.
> They wouldn’t be any more connected to the people if they were in a secure US camp in country, I think.

I meant in the field, but I take your point -- drones generally have this "problem" (arguably a strength in the military's eyes).

Maybe the better comparison is any degree of drone strikes, versus having to send a bunch of troops into a town.
That is great, thanks. And thanks for this resource. If there is one thing I hate it is re-reading about flexbox. But playing with a widget is much more fun and tells me in 10 seconds what I need to know.
How about dot grid paper?