skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>it's incredible the engineering that goes into getting a signal (in the case of this site, 10 signals) into an FM antenna system 300m above the earth!

this is what always amazed me. we used to drive by/through the local antenna farm in my area, and it always impressed me as a kid that these towers was where the radio/tv signals originated. driving by, you could see the bases of some of them were on a single point of an inverted pyramid which revealed the importance of the guide wires. these were the first structures that i understood to be designed to move. then learning stories of the power of the signal, the amount of electricity to create that power, the fact that the AM signals could change their wattage at night to be more powerful, that video was an AM signal with the audio being FM all multiplexed together.

then there was the time that a military jet clipped the guide wires forcing the 2 occupants to eject and causing the station on that tower to go off the air. or the much more gruesome time a local teenager climbed one of the smaller towers, thinking he could recreate an action movie scene, attempted to slide down the guide wires. the attempt was not successful as it sliced off his fingers causing him to free fall catching a lower wire which created 2 halves of him. in case anyone thinks of trying this, don't.

after all of that, wound up becoming a video engineer.
Lessons from Creativity, Inc
It Hurts
Hopefully related: If I'm a photographer wanting to improve resolution of my content for printing, what's my current best bet for upscaling?

Is it realistic to make use of this on the command line, feeding it my own images? Or has someone wrapped it in an app or online service?
Maybe not equally. I know maybe like 10 old people. Most of them are very smart.

I've met several 2-year-olds. Dumb like a rock.

But should 12-year-olds be allowed to vote? I don't see a reason not to besides history. In the U.S. during Vietnam the minimum age was lowered from 21 to 18. Why not younger?
LOL - can't disrespect the 12 yo who just told me to buy AlphaGenMoon Coin to 100x my investment in 10 days.
Natural gas is only $7 / BTU if you are near an LNG terminal. "Remote areas" usually are not. Think about a military base, a relief effort camp after a major natural disaster, of a mining site in the middle of Canada or Siberia, stuff like that.
This is universally the result that I see from my nontechnical friends; Apple has literally all the money and Siri has the listening comprehension of a drunk beagle.
Ask HN: Math books you recommend just for the way they are written?
I have a favourite.

Probability Theory: The Logic of Science by E.T. Jaynes.

I just love it for the writing and the way it teaches probability. I haven't encountered any book in probability that is like this book. Every other book I have encountered are just axiom listing behemoths. This book have strengthened my understanding of probability.

Does any book come to your mind along these lines? Books that stop being pedantic where needed to first convey the topic to the reader. Then they worry about rigor.
I see, so it is a solution in search of a problem.

Sorry about being misled by the funsies killing of George floyd.
Considering the article lies, and tries to claim quotes always are respected, I wouldn't put much faith in it.
Personally I use Telescope, which has a commands menu you can use to fuzzy find through all known commands similar to shift-p. That being said, I've removed almost all of my neovim plugins. stock vim/neovim is surprisingly capable
In a sense, yes. If you’re revealing an account’s existence on one page, your system isn’t made more secure if you hide its existence on another page. If you think it does, you’re fooling yourself. Better to use other tools (like rate limiting) to improve security.

And yes, you’re missing the second part of the article where the author mentions the registration flow you describe and then points out that it’s not a great user experience.
Funnl is world’s first AI prospecting tool. Give your 3 existing customers and it provides 50 prospects list. You can find the very interesting blog regarding business and sales. https://funnl.ai/blog/
I've seen references to merging models together to be able to generate new kinds of imagery or styles, how does that work? I think you use Dreambooth to make specialized models, and I think I got an idea about how that basically assigns a name to a vector in the latent space that represents the thing you want to generate new imagery of, but can you generate multiple models and blend them together?

Edit: Looks like AUTOMATIC1111 can merge three checkpoints. I still don't know how it works technically, but I guess that's how it's done?

https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui
The real problem is people keep reorganizing where the settings are found.
I don't think the accusation of bad faith is necessary. Don't you think it's more likely the commenter was just missing the point?
You're probably better of using Real-ESRGAN: https://github.com/xinntao/Real-ESRGAN. It's pretty solid and fast, even has portable executables you can just use as is. The upscaler that comes with stable diffusion might work for you, but I suspect it'll probably do a better job at upscaling stable diffusion output rather than a natural images (might be wrong though).
i see. that's a game theory lens.

while it probably makes sense for certain consumer data companies, do you think about cases where poor data security/privacy actually harms the company? eg: when sensitive company data gets leaked during third-party interactions?
Sophist means teacher, wisdom [1],[2]

kratos means power, or ruling [3]

How big is the probability that somebody is named 'ruler of the wise' and then becomes arguably the most influential philosopher of all time?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophist

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hagia_Sophia

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristocracy_(class)#Etymology
I agree, that was the riskiest click I've made in a while.
Bolsonaro did have concerns about the election's integrity, He voiced those concerns publicly rather often, I remember it. That somehow summoned even CIA goons here to tell our sovereign president to stop complaining about the voting machines. Funny how officials of governments elected by paper ballots have the gall to tell him not to doubt voting machines. CIA people at that.

An attempt to establish an auditable paper trail was made during Bolsonaro's government. Alexandre de Moraes and all the other judges declared it unconstitutional. They said there was no need for a paper trail because the voting machines are secure and unquestionable.

Now vulnerabilities have been exposed and the election results have been questioned... And this exact same Alexandre guy is here censoring everything about it, stonewalling any attempts to get to the truth of the matter and arbitrarily punishing anyone who tries.

"Look weak" doesn't quite say it. I think it's more like "completely fucked up".
For me, yeah. I probably spent about that long reading on most school days as a kid, including hiding books in my pencil case, walking the dog while reading, riding a bike while reading, reading on the bus, reading during recess and lunch, reading in front of the TV, reading on the toilet, reading when I was meant to be asleep, and reading during family dinners.

I absolutely should have stopped reading so much during family dinners, during classes I struggled in, when I was meant to be asleep, and during recess and lunch.
I’m currently trapped in FAANG. What you have sounds amazing, but a lot of startups are terrible
Photoshop and Lightroom have had AI upscaling for awhile.
When I was a bachelor, that was my strategy. Still annoying, but at least I avoided the confrontation. Now I have a couple youngish kids and more often than not knocks at the door mean friends coming over, so they end up answering without checking first and then I get called to deal with the stranger at the door.
MS fought a legal battle with Dec over Cutler's move. Supposedly that ended up settled such that MS had license to Dec patents and explains why NT resembles VMS yet no lawsuit from Dec. Meanwhile other Unix vendors did not have said license. Fwiw I heard this story directly from Unix vendors OS devs when I worked at Netscape on servers (that supported IOCP on NT and hence often performed much better on a low end PC vs high end Unix iron).

https://techmonitor.ai/technology/dec_forced_microsoft_into_...
Content, brand and IP can 100x easily. It's just that they don't on average. Like with startups.
> That's just thinly disguised metal snobbery. Almost all metalheads adore Black Sabbath, because they wrote fantastic songs

I think you might have misunderstood the parent a bit. They're not saying Black Sabbath is really technical instrumental metal but that someone who listens to Black Sabbath AND ALSO likes really technical instrumental, is probably not looking to listen to Slipknot (though I suppose that could depend on the technical to Black Sabbath ratio).

The point is more that Spotify supposedly recommends without taking into account what people actually listen to. Spotify says "oh this person listens to Black Sabbath which is a popular metal band. They also listen to a lot of Blotted Science, which is also a metal band. They most likely will like Slipknot, another popular metal band" instead of "This person listens to Black Sabbath and Blotted Science. People who listen to both Black Sabbath and Blotted Science also listen to Nile, so this person will most likely like Nile"[0].

[0] Blotted Science and Nile are the only technicalish bands I know off the top of my head. If those bands don't work, try Blind Guardian and Stormkeep
Yeah an 11/70 needs 3-phase which I don't have.
I just thought about this, so bare in mind that I don't know much of the technical implications of this, but:

Couldn't we train a very good model by distributing the dataset along with the computing power using something similar to folding@home?
I'm a big fan of Clojure (dynamic FP) and have worked with it professionally, but I really don't see why types seem to be so cumbersome.

I hate languages like C#/Java, but not because types are cumbersome. You play around with something like Haskell (and its type system) and it's a whole other story.
Oh, I agree. Definitely an improvement over AM. With the 100kHz spacing, it would still only fit about 80% of the channels we currently have.

If they stuck with 42-50 MHz, they'd probably have to be creative, like have New York City use horizontal polarization and Philadelphia use vertical polarization (although now we know that doesn't make a huge reduction of interference).

If they expanded it downward, it would touch what's now the high end of the shortwave bands. Might have been some interesting propagation. Sometimes when the conditions are right, a 25 MHz signal can travel the globe during the daytime.
stop trying to build skynet
Ah! I see! So you can't be authoritarian unless you're the government. And the government can't be authoritarian unless they overtly ban free speech? So incidentally no matter what you do, it's literally impossible for you to be authoritarian? At least until you're elected? And even then you just need to make sure you have some nominal notion of free speech?

I gotta say, if I was an authoritarian I'd absolutely love your definition. It's certainly convenient!

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ARTICLE 125. In conformity with the interests of the working people, and in order to strengthen the socialist system, the citizens of the U.S.S.R. are guaranteed by law:

freedom of speech;

freedom of the press;

freedom of assembly, including the holding of mass meetings;

freedom of street processions and demonstrations.

These civil rights are ensured by placing at the disposal of the working people and their organizations printing presses, stocks of paper, public buildings, the streets, communications facilities and other material requisites for the exercise of these rights.

---

That's from the 1936 constitution of the USSR, also known as "Stalin's Constitution."

https://www.departments.bucknell.edu/russian/const/1936toc.h...
It's painful how slow we're coming to realize the concept of "how much screen time?" has been asking the wrong question.

Isn't a piece of paper just another screen?

Isn't a book just another screen?

What about e-paper?

Is playing a physical piano better than playing a virtual one using a screen?

There's nothing wrong with having screen time. What matters is what type of activities people do on their screens.
> What actually hurt young people was the constant reinforcement that "anyone can do anything/anyone can be the best"

I think Ratatouille corrects this idea well - Not everyone can become a great artist, but a great artist can come from anywhere.
If you have a long standing queue, switching to LIFO makes sense. It requires you to know how long the requests have been waiting, however, and many servers don't even have this basic information. Every request needs to come with a deadline and a timestamp, so the request processor can make rational decisions about processing or dropping it. If a service finds a request that arrived a long time ago and sat in the queue until the deadline was in the past, that's a fairly good signal to temporarily switch to LIFO processing.

LIFO processing in the steady state is not a great idea because it will stochastically starve some requests for no reason.
That’s not the case at all, and never was. I remember when Microsoft gave out free upgrade licenses for Windows 10 Workstation when it first came out, and it’s just an upgrade.

The weird CPU spec thing is that Microsoft doesn’t let you sell a high end desktop computer with “regular” Windows Pro, and requires instead that it comes with Workstation. But you can either version on any grade of CPU as long as it runs Windows in the first place
Yodlee, but free
A charity API. When people outside my contacts list first email me, I would (auto) generate and send a charity donation link to them, and once the donation is verified, I'd let their mail through.

I've been thinking about a captcha-like "prove you're not a bot/spammer" system for emails and I think charity donations would be a good test of that.
Be that as it may, Bolsonaro's horrible public sentiment is unlikely to find anyone defending him. It's not uncommon to see unpopular figures of power get strongarmed by democratically-elected leaders.
> Ruby 3.1 adds a new core class called Data

Typo? Ruby 3.1 was last year's version and the commit just got merged in September. It's mentioned in the NEWS file for 3.2.0 Preview 3: https://github.com/ruby/ruby/blob/v3_2_0_preview3/NEWS.md

Looks cool though and I have several immutable key Structs in my current project that will be more appropriately implemented with Data. As the posts mentions, it will be nice to stop having to override `#to_a` to return nil to avoid Struct's collection-like behavior: https://github.com/okeeblow/DistorteD/blob/NEW%E2%80%85SENSA...
Which happens to be true.
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Ask HN: Help recall command line util to search for code documentation
There was a command line utility which uses curl to query a webpage and returns snippets of code examples and documentation on how to use it.

I think the website also had ".sh" as domain.
> Was there really a dark age ? Or was it a an artifact of a Eurocentric view of the world?

A Dark Age is always, or at least has always been so far, bound to a specific region. You might as well ask if there really was a Ming Dynasty when the Aztecs never heard of any such empire. These days, the term "Dark Age" is usually used to mean the dislocation and disruption caused by the Roman Empire abandoning its western regions and retrenching in the east, around Constantinople. We can't answer how Dark that age was in that region by focusing somewhere else.
Yeah I did have a few false starts. Total time is more like 3 months vs 1 month for the final model. For small scale training I found it’s necessary to use a long lr warmup period, followed by constant lr.

There’s code on my GitHub (glid3)

edit: The architecture is identical to SD except I trained on 256px images with cosine noise schedule instead of linear. Using the cosine schedule makes the unet converge faster but can overfit if overtrained.

edit 2: Just tried it again and my model is also pretty bad at hands actually. It does get lucky once in a while though.
Then you get into the fact that the tech is really complex and slow so the cost doesn't offset the benefits.
Not an eink tablet, but Samsung Notes app on Samsung tablets do exactly this. It lets you search your handwriting without converting the handwriting into text first.
You would likely be limited by the communication latency between nodes, unless you come up with some unique model architecture or training method. Most of these large scale models are trained on GPUs using very high speed interconnects.
Artist have been drawing people of all ages having sex for literally thousands of years. Why should I care about that?
I suspect those applications will come from specializing the model. For example, there's people that have avatar generators or automated ad creatives. A cool application I've been toying with is generating icons.
Well, you can learn about generative models from MOOCs like the ones taught at UMich, Universitat Tubingen, or New York University (taught by Yann LeCun), and can gain knowledge there.

You can also watch the fast.ai MOOC titled Deep Learning from Scratch to Stable Diffusion [0].

You can also look at open source implementation of text2image models like Dall-E Mini or the works of lucid rain.

I worked on the Dall-E Mini project, and the technical knowhow that you need isn’t closely taught at MOOCs. You need to know, on top of Deep Learning theory, many tricks, gotchas, workarounds, etc.

You could follow the works of Eluther AI, follow Boris Dayma (project leader of Dall-E Mini) and Horace Ho on twitter. And any such people who have significant experience in practical AI and regularly share their tricks. The PyTorch forums is also a good place.

Learn PyTorch and/or JAX/Flax really well.

[0]: https://www.fast.ai/posts/part2-2022.html
FCC’s move of FM frequencies influenced by Sarnoff really messed up with Armstrong, making his stations obsolete. This is also why there is no Channel 1 on TV in the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_1_(North_American_TV)

Another inventor Sarnoff stole from was Philo Farnsworth (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philo_Farnsworth). He didn’t kill himself like Armstrong but was broke and forgotten when he died in 1971.
I agree with you that Bolsonaro is widely hated and not without reason... Does that justify this insanity, this abuse of power though?

I mean, they're discussing Alexandre's impeachment right now. If that's successful, then it meants he abused his power as a judge to censor Bolsonaro supporters in order to get his own preferred candidate elected. I cannot think of a worse accusation that can be leveled at the head of our Electoral Justice Court. How can one believe in the legitimacy of any institution of the brazilian government after that?

There's massive protests in the capital right now, the violence is escalating and the media is already labeling them terrorists. This is not looking good.
Hmmm my calculations show 1000% inflation over that time and $110m.
Collapsed civilizations are not all the same.

The Roman empire collapsed, but it had a few children, the link wasn't entirely broken.

Latin and Greek were still taught in school in large parts of Europe until recently.

Spain, the Netherlands, the British Empire and now the United States can be considered as a continuation of Rome.
Built a plugin for Power Point and sell it corporate wide.
Ah! Okay, that’s what I was missing. I found the blog posts on using malloc and free from D. I knew the GC could be disabled, but I wasn’t aware of how practical it was to manually manage memory. Thanks!
This all looks ridiculous. I used to be really excited about USB 3.1, until it became real.

The cable's form should tell you something about what it does. I shouldn't have to guess at what a cable is for when I pull it out of a drawer. $100 a meter just in case is ludicrous.

A cable should not be able to damage a device.

I thought these things were given and well understood.
When Yubikey secured Google account can be hacked, human support is a necessity
Funny that happened to me as well I was reading somebody's answer on SO and it took me some time to realize I had written it myself.
The network communication overhead would be way too high to make this useful. At least for current methods of training large models.
TypeScript seems to have by-and-large "won" in the JavaScript ecosystem; I can think of exactly one senior+ developer I've run into in the last few years who's expressed a preference for JS over TS and, similarly, I can think of only one greenfield purely-JavaScript project I've seen started in the last three years; that project was built in that way largely out of ideological objection to having a build pipeline. (I think it was a mistake.) It isn't a majority yet, but it seems inevitable that the future of JavaScript among non-laggard populations is TypeScript or whatever will supplant it--and whatever will supplant it will not discard types.

As for Python, adoption is slower, but for me at least, Python typings are becoming the reason to consider using Python in 2022 and I won't use a library without them. And the worst part of Elixir, from where I stand, is that typespecs are bitterly underused. I have some hopes for something like Gleam to make a backwards impact upon Elixir, because my experience with development teams trying to bang on Elixir services without it is pretty grim.
Most people don’t answer unknown phone calls, but the ones who do answer the phone don’t skew more red or blue compared to the folks who don’t: https://www.pewresearch.org/methods/2017/05/15/what-low-resp... (“Telephone poll estimates for party affiliation, political ideology and religious affiliation continue to track well with estimates from high response rate surveys conducted in-person, like the General Social Survey.”)

Pew is of course the gold standard in polling organizations.
Microsoft Designer is supposedly this, although I’m still waiting on admission to the beta.
I have a special test record that has sine waves recorded on it, just for testing the quality of your turntable.
This article was written by a friend of mine, he passed away unexpectedly back in 2011. It's a shame, he was a swell fellow and had so many more stories to tell. We miss him.
There are remote parts of Canada where solar is viable, and can save on lots of diesel fuel, but doesn’t do much in the winter.

e.g. https://www.yukon-news.com/local-news/diesel-generators-go-q...
Every time a robot is deployed by police and harms someone, even in a non-lethal scenario, the recording ought to be publicly available if someone asks for it.

If someone was shot in malice or incompetence, then they ought to face court and potentially prison time.

Police need to be accountable. They have way too much power in the US.
well, bringing the cost down is probably just a matter of time, isn't it?

what i think is more important is finding form factors of using zK that make sense to enterprises. from outgoing api calls to file sharing, the scope of vulnerabilities is extremely large.
none of those except MAYBE piano actively engage with the viewr / user to keep their attention / maintain a dopamine loop in the same way as interactive devices.

I say that as someone who'se worked on both films and games and there's just something about interactivity that has a huge leg up over all the other ones in retaining attention.
Sounds like you have identified an underserved market niche. I look forward to viewing your videos.
Dazzler, bean bag rounds, pepper spray, camera.