skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is not a rule that is preventing you from writing websites with JS, HTML, and CSS or even just HTML and CSS with no JS at all. Like everything else in the world, right or wrong, people have preferences for different things. Some people prefer your approach. Some feel more productive with Vue/React/Angular/etc. Some people even like writing web apps with Rust.

I personally like using React and Typescript because I feel really productive with it. I’ve built out open source libraries that I use in my own projects to prevent massive bundle sizes. That works for me. Do what works best for you :)
so you’re the best at making yourself happy.

this is a good thing.
That's just the excuse they've been trained to shout so they can get off scot-free should they ever end up in court, just like "stop resisting". Saying that they "feared for their life" makes what would otherwise be murder or manslaughter into a legal application of deadly force.
Elon Musk rules out conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’s return to Twitter
In which case 'the conscientious minority' must continue to breed to at least slow the rate of the declining percentage.
I thought Robocop was Detroit PD, not SFPD.
This is pretty stanard KGB English typical for Russian native speakers. So it is not uncommon in KGB/FSB promotional materials.
They’ve ensured the only way to create CSAM is through old-fashioned child exploitation, meanwhile all perfectly humane art and photography is at risk of AI replacement.

This is a huge missed opportunity to actually help society.
Anki, like a hammer, is good, for some things. Indeed a superior tool, to drive in nails. With nuts and bolts however....

Always a good reminder, the man with a hammer syndrome.
Cool code. Typo and grammar error in first sentence won’t encourage many to participate. I’d think.
George Hotz – So How Does Twitter Work?
Reading can be a communal and simultaneous activity. Through most of history people (well, at least I know about Europe) did not read silently.

And Reading aloud clubs exist too. Really fun actually!
> The importance is that a trained and accountable human is making the decision to take a life and that it's a method of last resort to protect others.

There is no evidence that any of this would be true about lethal robot operators or their the use of the robots themselves.
Yep, absolutely. But there are plenty of other people, notably here on HN, who get very excited about grid-connected SMRs.

It's also worth noting that the majority of people living without access to grid electricity are in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, places with much better (and much less seasonal) solar resources, and far less capacity to safely manage nuclear power.

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-billion-people-witho...
This discussion has nothing to do with the Jones Act. Bot spam!
10x revenue multiple is not crazy for content. Content has zero marginal costs like software.
All hires are being personally vetted by Elon.
YMMV.

But the Apache License is truly dead for startups. Most of "open source" startups are living on the VC investments. If a good business cycle cannot be built, the achievements of open source cannot be truly maintained. This is the author's usefulness.
A slightly comical animated look at Edwin Armstrong's invention of FM radio can be seen as part of Tim Hunkin's "The Secret Life of the Radio": https://youtu.be/LMxate9gegg?t=779

It's split into two parts, with the second part later in the same video, here: https://youtu.be/LMxate9gegg?t=1350
I don't really care about the other later phases of Earth's natural lifecycle - I kinda like this one. So much so, that I'm going to be investing in the other ones at all.

Now if only that was the kind of short term thinking humans were afflicted with.
Writing by hand is how you have been taught to retain information when young so that what your brain is trained for it. This has nothing to do with writing rather something to do with how your brain had been trained to retain information.
Seems the structure of UNet hasn't changed other than the text encoder input (768 to 1024). The biggest change is on the text encoder, switched from ViT-L14 to ViT-H14 and fine-tuned based on https://arxiv.org/pdf/2109.01903.pdf.

Seems the 768-v model, if used properly, can substantially speed-up the generation, but not exactly sure yet. Seems straightforward to switch to 512-base model for my app next week.
My brother is in a band in the neighboring metro.

Each year they do a show at one of their houses, and the same core group of 6 or 7 guys shows up in different permutations in various acts. They also tend to bring in one or two "away team" bands as well. This year, they put on a show with a total of 8 acts.

Last year, when I went, I was in awe of what they'd built together. In a very punk DIY ethos kind of way, they've assembled their own little music fest. There were probably something like 60 people there through the night. Seeing these guys run through their music was so impressive to me. The level of technical skill and musicianship varies between the group, but none of them are what you'd think of as professional musicians. Some of the songs lack polish, or do awkward chord changes. There's plenty of sloppy guitar work. The vocalists are generally less than amazing.

But damn it, they're out there making music and sharing it with people. Don't like their stuff? Well, it's their house and their show!

In my own musicianship I've always been overly perfectionistic. How can these guys get up in front in random people and play these imperfect songs? And how can it be that the net result turns out to be the best show I've seen all year?

Because all of them care more about making music than being perfect at it. They'd rather be on stage with imperfect material than relegate their playing to the bedroom or garage trying to polish technique for no one.

I got the opportunity to jam with them after the show, and felt intimidated after having watched them all play. How was I going to stand up to these guys who just put together an entire concert?

But the thing is, I was able to hang with them. I was probably the worst player in the room, but I have enough skill to get up there and make music. It doesn't have to be perfect. We played the same chord for almost 20 minutes and the 6 people left in the crowd danced like we were the greatest show on earth

Sorry, this got long - but here's my point: Put yourself around people who do what you love. Don't worry about who's 'better' - there are so many dimensions that it's meaningless anyway.

The joy of life comes from going out into the world and playing your heart out whether you're great or terrible. I've been so much more inspired to play in the weeks since that show, and I hope to have some of my own imperfect original material to play next year.
>>> Just about everyone has switched from JS to TS

You are mistaken. While TS is popular it's nowhere near as popular as JS. In fact, just looking at online community counts, I'd say it's 1/2 as popular. Will it continue to gain? I'll never bet against JS.
You're wrong. Intrinsics for SIMD are not named by Windows people. They were named by Intel engineers and supported now by all other compilers. Naming is actually in the C/C++ style - __simd_do_something_here() and such
> say a special closure that gets recompiled on the fly based on the value of its free variables

That’s ‘partial evaluation’ - I have a Ruby JIT that works like this in Java.
There is worry about generating illegal content. If the model understands multiple concepts, it can combine them.
Periodically, when I load the page I get two results.

One of them is for an engineering manager. Half the time I follow that link, I get a 404. Now when I follow it, it takes me to https://careers.twitter.com/en/job-closed.html

The time I did get a result for it and a non-closed page, I exported it as a pdf (searched for a pdf hoster) and uploaded it to https://rose-wynny-98.tiiny.site

For those who don't want to chase such links...

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Company Description

Twitter is what’s happening and what people are talking about right now. For us, life's not about a job, it's about purpose. We believe real change starts with conversation. Here, your voice matters. Come as you are and together we'll do what's right (not what's easy) to serve the public conversation.

The Position

Who We Are:

The Data Experience organization of Twitter's data platform is responsible for identifying, deploying, and supporting state of the art data analysis, business intelligence, and behavioral analytics tools that operate at Twitter scale, such as BigQuery, Looker, Druid and Interana. Data Experience is also responsible for tools which help with simplifying data discovery, data management and job scheduling, as well as the data portal that is the main entry point for discovering and managing data inside Twitter.

You will be leading a team that owns Twitter's Metadata system, providing oversight of technology evolution, feature delivery and customer adoption.

(and it continues on)
I don’t know anybody that is blown away by keyboard auto suggest. It’s wrong as often as it is right. Not saying it isn’t useful, but let’s not oversell it.
> But Tesla isn't worth anywhere near it's current market capitalization either.

In what sense?
> But the Apache License is truly dead for startups.

Maybe, but the right move is to copyleft, not to closed source.
I know mobile Firefox extensions are a big pain for a small userbase but that'd be my #1 feature request.
I did too if I was losing.
> I wonder about the economics around the 13MW of heat that it outputs.

I'll take a stab, if only to start a discussion:

13MW is about 450MBTU/hr.

Natural gas is about $7/MBTU. Assuming 80% efficiency of gas to heat conversion, you would need 562MBTU/hr, or a cost of about $80/hour.

If the heat from this nuclear device is sold at the same price per unit heat, it will make $80*8760=$700800/year.

If read correctly, the reactor can make either 5MW of electricity or 13MW of heat, but not both, so it wouldn't make a lot of sense to sell the 13MW of heat. At best sell some of the waste 8MW to make a few extra marginal bucks.
Housing Breaks People’s Brains
Here’s one concern highlighting the value of broad defenses. A targeted software-based attack may trigger supply chain disruptions with significant (even if only short-term) impacts. If combined / coordinated, multi-billion dollar disruption is within reach.
Got flagged multiple times for saying it, glad Meta finally helping me
Are you gonna argue that no GC language exists that is more safe than rust?

There were over 200 memory safety violations discovered in rust crates: https://www.infoq.com/news/2021/11/rudra-rust-safety/

Elixir for example, is very safe and guarantees more safety than rust.
By your definition almost no popular website - including Google - implements signup flow correctly.
I'm fairly new myself to web development, but have programmed desktop applications for nearly 20 years, and share your sentiments... I personally found good traction with Dart/Flutter and Svelte. Every other web based framework has felt insanely bulky to me, and I gave many a fair shake.
The Secret Life of the Radio [video]
Don't use Docker. Use heavy sigh systemd security features. Yes, this is something that systemd actually does really well. And it keeps all your processes and files visible and inspectable to standard unix tools (ps, htop, ls, etc).

* chroot
* cgroups
* PrivateNetwork
* PrivateTmp
* isolated devices
* IPAddressAllow
* SocketBindAllow
* ReadOnlyPaths

https://docs.arbitrary.ch/security/systemd.html
Most people deserve more fun
It's really not any more complicated than "see a nazi, punch a nazi". These people were swastika waving full blown white nationalists. People have every right to support these dirtbags, but don't be surprised if you get outed because of it.
common (and actually recommended) idiom on intel/amd is to do 'xor reg,reg'
No, not really.

Proton is a fork of Wine with patches for games specifically.

There are no frontends for Wine, maybe Winetricks and Lutris can be called that but not exactly.
> closing all inbound ports by implementing authentication-before-connect using strong identity (e.g., x509)

Bad bot.
How do we know material abundance (I’m assuming that’s what you mean) “is the way”? Perhaps that’s not what you mean but it’s not an unreasonable way of describing contemporary zeitgeist.

A material minimum to sustain biology and abundance of time for altered states of such resolution and variety produced through nascent regenerative medicinal therapies like bio electrics is way more interesting; hack realities fields directly versus build synthetic machines to upgrade forever? Sign me up.

IMO more building of synthetic stuff to appear different and novel is the wrong path. It’s classical physics.

It may reduce industrial consumption as the outputs are the uniform means of producing a variety of experiences not a literal variety of things necessitating bespoke assembly lines.

But humans are so literal. Carry on with rockets because Star Trek. Few think “take pill, believe I’m Captain Kirk with Orion cadet for an hour.” Drugs are bad, mmmk.
Right but to my knowledge (and I could be wrong) that unsafe tag does to prevent it in the crates.

Many memory safety violations have been discovered in rust crates: https://www.infoq.com/news/2021/11/rudra-rust-safety/

Maybe I wrong on that, but if it can’t guarantee crate safety, then it doesn’t really do anything.
To really rub it in in proper libreoffice fashion it also needs to pop up an opaque warning message telling you that the restore failed and this is your only chance to try to restore the restore of the restore.
> And would rather we dedicate our resources to bettering our own clearly failing country.

The vast majority of our support is in the form of weapons, and the vast majority of those weapons come from existing inventory.

Even the new spending is just money cycling back to US weapons manufacturers.

What good would weapons do to solve our domestic issues?
What We Lose If We Lose Twitter
DOS Game Club
I took a photography class in middle school. We used 35 mm black and white film. I scanned all the negatives in with a decent Nikon film scanner. I can't remember why I settled on scanning at 2MP, but you could already see the grain: https://i.imgur.com/dcFksGp.jpeg
This sounds so similar to my new place of employment, it has to be the same.
I don’t think that’s correct and you’re reading too much into popular blog posts (“we tried typescript and decided it wasn’t for us” doesn’t make for a good article). I don’t have any hard data either, but since we’re swapping anecdotes it’s my impression that typed pythons uptake has been very meh outside of multi-million line codebases (and is basically not seen in ML work!), and typed racket and typed clojure are basically unused in practice
The main reason why Stable Diffusion is worried about NSFW is that people will use it to generate disgusting amounts of CSAM. If LAION-5B or OpenAI's CLIP have ever seen CSAM - and given how these datasets are literally just scraped off the Internet, they have - then they're technically distributing it. Imagine the "AI is just copying bits of other people's art" argument, except instead of statutory damages of up to $150,000 per infringement, we're talking about time in pound-me-in-the-ass prison.

At least if people have to finetune the model on that shit, then you can argue that it's not your fault because someone had to do extra steps to put stuff in there.
“He built an experimental station and 410-foot tower at a cost of $300,000 in Alpine, New Jersey.”

Assuming this was done in 1938, this would cost the equivalent of $5.6 million today. And it was made obsolete by the frequency change just 7 years later.
Wraps an ML model that blows people away in opinionated UX
The Secret Life of... series really is wonderful (and he has remastered versions on YouTube).
"This website" referred to Hacker News itself, which is written in a Lisp (Arc).
Highlights:

768x768 native models (v1.x maxed out at 512x512)

a built-in 4x upscaler: "Combined with our text-to-image models, Stable Diffusion 2.0 can now generate images with resolutions of 2048x2048–or even higher."

Depth-to-Image Diffusion Model: "infers the depth of an input image, and then generates new images using both the text and depth information." Depth-to-Image can offer all sorts of new creative applications, delivering transformations that look radically different from the original but which still preserve the coherence and depth of that image (see the demo gif if you haven't looked)

Better inpainting model

Trained with a stronger NSFW filter on training data.

For me the depth-to-image model is a huge highlight and something I wasn't expecting. The NSFW filter is a nothing (it's trivially easy to fine-tune the model on porn if you want, and porn collections are surprisingly easy to come by...).

The higher resolution features are interesting. HuggingFace has got the 1.x models working for inference in under 1G of VRAM, and if those optimizations can be preserved it opens up a bunch of interesting possibilities.
i always want to do this but instead get a sharable url. i wrote a quick, dirty version of it https://reader-next.pages.dev/?url=https://netflixtechblog.m...
Huh? You're misunderstanding my point. It's not that a crowdsourced financing is required to achieve some outcome. I'm simply pointing out that it would have been a better option for all stakeholders than what just happened.
"Avoid generic tangents."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Ask HN: Sources of news that aren't misrepresenting the SBF/FTX scandal?
The SBF/FTX saga is making me overcome my Gell-Mann amnesia for good. Most MSM seems to be writing puff pieces about SBF, who admitted stealing billions of USD from a million of customers worldwide.

Any source of news that doesn't misrepresent the facts?
Docker doesn't hide your processes from ps.
This is publicly available for any Chrome extension in the Chrome webstore.
Maybe 1 too many people are missing on the Cache team, and results are varied because cache servers are out of sync.
The point is trying to make sure that the parser doesn't choke on the entire file just because one line is incorrect.
Money is basically the ability to get other people to do stuff for you. There have to be other people around worse off than you for that to work. Dense clumps of rich people are surrounded by people that will take their money to do stuff
> However, you can be extraordinary in your own unique way. For example, running. You may not be the best runner, but you could have a lot of insight into running and a good writer at the same time, and thus be extraordinary at writing about running.

Oh, my Lord, you type a people are just incredible. If everyone is extraordinary, no one is extraordinary. You’re only afraid to say this because saying it means that plenty of people will not be extraordinary and that kills not only their dreams but your dreams.

Just because you want to put all that stress in your life, does not mean you have to put the stress on everybody else’s life. My shoes are
Lol. Especially the AI version of keyboard auto suggest.

Let's take a deterministic algorithm that predictably corrects your typos and build it on AI. It will offer you no benefits, but it will completely destroy the utility since it will never work predictably or accurately.
All it takes is Square and Stripe preventing CC transactions from known VPN node IP addresses to de facto make that happen; they're like the Cloudflare of ecommerce
> Monetisation has proven to be hard

What paths have you taken/considered? Given that this is open source, how would you get users to pay?
None of that is what I’m talking about, no. I know many researchers who are quite proud of the fact that their research is never going to make money but is super interesting from a scientific perspective.

The crazy amount of skepticism this always draws is simultaneously very funny and very saddening.
They know they are going to be the next target in the war on general purpose computing. They're trying to stave it off for as long as possible by signalling to the authorities that they are the good guys.

A confrontation is inevitable, though. Right now it costs moderate sums of money to do this level of training. Not always will this be so. If I were an AI-centric organization, I would be racing to position myself as a trustworthy actor in my particular corner of the AI space so that when legislators start asking questions about the explosion of bad actors, I can engage in a little bit of regulatory capture, and have the legislators legislate whatever regulations I've already implemented, to the disadvantage of my competitors.

For people who say "people can make whatever images they like in photoshop," I will remind you of this:
https://i.imgur.com/5DJrd.jpg
There are a lot of very, very successful sites running on vanilla JS, css, and HTML.

Also a lot of pretty simple old school PHP sites that are doing really well.

If you’re working on something at work, it’s best to pick the established frameworks for whatever you’re doing. Easier to get people up to speed, more people to hire with x skill, etc.

Or you may pick a specific thing because it makes the most sense for your specific use case.

Outside of work though, all bets off. I just do what I’m best at, personally. For you, if that’s vanilla JS + html + css, power to ya. You can do a lot with that alone.
This Thanksgiving, I would like to extend a very warm Thank You to the Stable Diffusion team!

Side note: The 4x upscaler model is showing as unavailable if you follow the hugging face link to it.
Ingenuity Flight 34 Was Short but Significant
Amazon to spend $1B on movie theatre releases
This comment pretty clearly breaks the commenting guidelines https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

>Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community. Edit out swipes.

Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.
The normie doesn’t want simple, they want fancy
> Dark ages themselves may not even exist.

Perhaps they're just a "Under new management" sign.
I am intrigued by this concept and would like to learn more!
Strongly believe selection bias among the folks you're getting this impression from. The avg user is not our circle.
>And why could/did those other virtual machines not evolve to fulfill the need that WebAssembly fulfills?

All three were designed primarily as bytecode interpeters that would run as a layer between the OS and application, and were primarily designed to run stand-alone (i.e. desktop/server apps). Java was originally included in most web browsers, but the applet model just didn't get it done for users - and most Java software moved either be web applications (i.e. serving HTML) or desktop or mobile applications.

> Why is a new machine language and new virtual machine necessary?

WASM was designed to be embedable (and secure), streamable and is now ubiquitous as it is supported by all three major browsers, plus Node (and Deno) and many desktop web-app platforms (e.g. Electron). The embedable part is what makes it really different than JVM, CLR and BEAM - for example, you can include a WASM runtime in your application and call WASM code from a C or Rust app just like the browser does.
Feds likely to challenge Microsoft’s Activision takeover
I would be interested in watching recorded YouTube sessions of this, to see how it works
This is unnecessarily presumptive and targeted, offering no practical value
Nixon: (muttering) Jesus Christ

I swear every time I find myself thinking “Hey, stop being so cynical and jaded all the time”, I stumble across something like this.