skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you scroll down to the very bottom, it tells you it's part of the Pepper platform and you can select the local version from the dropdown menu. I check it out every now and then and have a few alerts set for things.
Since this has apparently been happening for multiple years, and is a safety issue, why don't the authorities order a product recall? 100% refund for every pixel phone seems reasonable, and Google has that sort of cash laying around anyway.
Because a few large companies own all the soapboxes that are worth mounting, so in practice it ends up being a private censorship cartel.
I'm of the position that art needs an artist.

> txt2img prompt crafting is a bit of an art in its own right, as getting the model to spit out what you want isn’t always trivial.

I don't find the output images from a lot of "AI" art to be artistically interesting because an "AI" made them. The output might be novel, or even kind of surprising, but still just the output of code. Someone might say the code of an "AI" art machine could qualify as art. I often find the txt2img prompts artistic in a way that the output images lack, because they are representative of human imagination, often like surreal poetry, or like musique concrete, cutting and pasting segments around on a tape. This is not to deny that the output of "AI" art is impressive. It is, frankly. But as a matter of machine, computational, output rather than human artistic merit.

It comes down to a simple thing: if you showed me two images and you told me a human made one, and "AI" made the other, I will always find the former artistic in a way that I would never find the latter.

This is also not to touch on the licensing issues that arise from these tools. That's its own knot to untangle.
No, that's not what it means. The phone knows its location because it can receive the GPS signals. There is no 'sending' involved at all, GPS is receive-only. To 'beacon' something it needs a transmit radio. Traditionally this is the cellular network, but it appears Apple has added a new satellite radio to their phones to augment this.
Perhaps they care more about exploration and learning rather than career growth and solving business problems.
Generally very much like Rails with a running process that could be standalone or with a web server interface module depending traffic or other requirements.
USD in Forex is well over $5T per day

USD in oil is barely $3T per year

Nothing external will ever pressure USD without the United States having collapsed first.
Lots of commercial and government entities are doing that and not just in china but in the west too
What do you mean by "help fund NATO, wich is defending them against Russia", they were commercial partners, cheap gas, France could sell their cars and their big retailer had fun over there, ESA was collaborating with their space agency on interesting missions, and the Silk Road would have helped unite Europe/Eurasia/Asia to become the biggest economy and super power on the planet

The US should have been happy for Europe

Who said buying Russian oil was bad?

Why the US can dictate what the EU should/shouldn't do?

I thought they were sovereign

I can't follow your statements here

> Obviously the US wants a Europe not dominated by Russia. So should you.

Wrong, the US wants a weak Europe that it can dominate, just like they want a weak Russia, a weak China and a weak Middle East

As for me, i wan't nothing but apocalypse, so you are far off in your expectation
100%. And house prices are where they should be. Supply and demand, there's someone willing to pay more, so they charge more.

Again, why are you fine with supply & demand raising prices in one situation but furiously outraged when the same thing happens in the other?
When talking about a small polymer, I was mainly commenting on microscopic flakes and lakes laced with "chemically inert" molecules that have devastating physiological effects.

Either way, what you claim is simply not true by any reasoning [1], though I do agree eating teflon flakes in moderate amounts should not pose much concern.

[1] https://phys.org/news/2020-08-micro-nanoplastics-human-tissu...
Then you aren't visiting too many US government sites , most of the are on Drupal.
yes, the concept of OE is very new to me and I'm very ambivalent on some of it's implications the the necessary logistical hurdles to make it work that walk the edge, and sometime over it, of what I consider ethical obligations.

But in considering the concept of OE, it seems undeniable to me that a person capable of adequately completing the tasks of a full time job in 20 hours a week shouldn't be obliged to to seek out additional work, unpaid, to fill their time. In practice this happens! And people do things like walk around and talk to co workers for long stretches of time, take a long lunch, checkout reddit or go down the rabbit hole of an HN thread for a while! Countless people already work jobs 20 hours a week churning out quality work. OE simply says "Use that free time to do a different 20 hour job like that".

In the abstract, I can't see a problem with that. In particular cases, I think a person should look carefully at their contract and what they have agreed to do to determine if their circumstances would allow them to enter the realm of OE without crossing ethical lines by violating an explicit agreement. The unspoken socially constructed expectations about a 40-hour work week though? I don't see an issue in ignoring them if your employment contract isn't specific on the issue.
> Stable Diffusion? Well, that’s free-ish. Problem is, you’ll probably want to run it locally, which requires a really, really beefy graphics card. I was struggling to run it on a Vega56 - a GPU that goes for ~$150 used now - so I went out and got a RTX3090 for about $1,000. If you’re already a gamer with a GPU with 8Gb+ of VRAM you’re probably good, but for most people this is a bit absurd.

Nit: 2 weeks ago there was an article about getting SD running on an iPhone. The app isn't very time- or battery-efficient, but it just barely works on my (previous-gen) device: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33539192
It’s true. Selling in this and a growing list of other categories is gated, every year the rules get stricter.

Source: I have a seller account on Amazon.
D10 will be out soon :)
Karate is extremely powerful and mature framework, but comes with a downside of steep learning curve and requires some Java-abilities to operate it

The Gherkin syntax of Karate is a matter of taste, although I prefer more declarative syntax
The LPG BBQ on our back deck has a lid, and our setup is very common. (Keep in mind when we say “BBQ” we usually mean grilling, which is not what many Americans would call “BBQ”.)

If you go to Bunnings and look for a BBQ, heaps of them have lids.
There has been a cabal of activists that have been mass-reporting the Twitter app on both Apple and Google's app stores over the last week or so, alleging some dubious terms of service violation in an attempt to get it deplatformed. It's a sad, petulant response to Musk taking over Twitter, as he invaded their country club and is shaking things up, not unlike Rodney Dangerfield in Caddyshack.

If you can suppress your laughter at how ridiculous this scheme sounds, the irony is they are organizing this..... on Twitter.

I feel bad for the support staff manning the app store support queues who are dealing with a deluge of these idiotic requests from some of the dumbest, most childish people on the planet. Hopefully they have automation in place to separate the signal from the noise.
> I’ve been looking for a wysiwyg form builder at work

If you're looking for something no-code but more powerful that traditional form builders, check out https://fillout.com/

(disclaimer - I'm one of the founders)

RemixBlocks looks cool, excited to see how it evolves. Our landing page is built with Tailwind and TailwindUI - would be interesting if you could import in an existing project
It’s a good write up, worth a read if you’re want to understand how AI art is being used by artists and by newcomers.
I'm sure all the script kiddies who loved to take over channels in netsplits are gonna be disappointed that they never actually did that now.

More seriously, this is the second time I've seen someone on here characterize IRC in this (very wrong) way in the last day. Where is this coming from?

IRC networks are made up of servers that relay (hence Internet Relay Chat) with each other. You connect to one server and you can communicate both with people local to that server and people on other servers that are part of the same network (including ones that server is not directly connected to). Channels prefixed with # are shared across all servers in the network, while channels starting with & are local to that server (though rarely used).
Alternatively- same reason they removed Parler. It was a completely unmoderated stream of fecal matter that was far too toxic to risk association with, and had to be removed.
Spoiler - we didn’t print nearly as much as you think we did. And we generally haven’t even scratched the surface of how much more a normal growth of the currency since 2008 was needed.

What are you talking about? Aside from the indoctrinated belief that money printing is good and normal, in the past 2 years alone the US has printed nearly 80% of USD in existence. Our debt to GDP is over 130%.

If by “normal” you mean debasing and destroying the government money just like every empire before, sure.
Interesting to see that SBF was also funding the GOP in almost equal measure. Gotta cover all your bases! And meanwhile the media was heaping praise on that scam artist left and right. It’s no wonder Americans have such little trust in the press and political institutions.
Against TDD (2019)
Ask HN: Creating a solid Community
Hey HN.

I usually don't make submissions or comments here, but a few recent posts on HN have caught my attention. Another Ask post was asking about phpBB and why it's been dropped for other platforms.

This has sort of sparked me to want to create my own community, similar to HN but different enough that it's not a ripoff. But the point of this post is to ask: how does one promote and get members to their forum (or whatever medium) and have them stay there.

I know that people would probably find enjoyment in most communities, but I have never found an effective way to get it known.

Thanks.
The authors reasoning makes sense to me. Rust is powerful but also complicated and tends to encourage playing "language golf" as often as solving actual problems.

> there isn't a lot of reason to defer to Rust as an obvious choice outside of the usual focus on memory safety that dominates public opinion. As someone who actually hates to code for coding's sake and wants to Get Sh!t Done, Rust is just antithetical to my relationship with computers.

Nim made me enjoy programming again, largely for these reasons. When I was younger I enjoyed mastering languages like C++ or learning complicated generics systems, but now I enjoy just building useful things with minimal fuss. I don't care as much about type soundness of my CTFE, just that I can parse a file at compile time to do something useful. Sure its on my to ensure my files are stable, but thats just part of programming.

> I don't want to have to think about the language, and that's all Rust wants you to think about. I see a lot of people attracted to Rust where there is no shortage of funding and developer focus tends to be competitive, often leaning towards academic purity over solving pressing customer facing problems. These aren't luxuries I have and, to be frank, is not the profile of developer that one should hire for in an early stage startup. Nim gets out of the way, and stays out of the way.

This is an interesting take.
This tech is currently barely usable for any real work outside of concepts, but it is easy to envision the development of new powerful tools built on top of refined iterations of the same models and algorithms, with finer controls and better integration.

Artists should rejoice, in my opinion, mastering this type of tool could dramatically increase their productivity, and thus their salaries.
The Chinese are demanding Russia trade in yuan because the Russian currency has, through a series of impressive self owns, become completely useless. If the Russian position was even a little less weak it wouldn’t fly because Russians don’t want yuan for the same reason Chinese people don’t, it’s an illiberal currency unsuitable for trade. That’s getting worse not better, because there is a moderate chance if China relaxed its currency controls it would crater their economy and bring the ruling class to an end.

Similarly, the INR is being (slightly) liberalized, not because Indians prefer international trade in their local currency but because it costs them so much to have such a bad currency.

There are reasons to think people would prefer a different currency to USD to be the reserve currency but it’s because it’s not liberal enough. Switching to extremely repressive currency regimes like the yuan or the rupee is counterproductive To the people who want a different international trade currency.
He really does beg for and insist on it.

There is nothing unreasonable at all in "beating up on Musk and his companies" after any of countless things he's said and done, and I don't mean the merely eccentric stuff like giving his kid a weird name.

Is he some coffee shop owner just minding his own business never said an offensive word to anyone and the world just decided "F this rando"?

No. So, that attempt was misplaced.
TV makers make TVs which are controlled via software and interact with hundreds of web services. But they're often, well, _not great_ at the web services bit: https://www.theregister.com/2015/02/17/samsung_smart_tv_priv...
I'm not surprised there had to be another layoff. Vast teams were gutted at random, which would leave dozens of people with nothing to do and no immediate prospect of their skills being applicable.

But the party line that "their code was inadequate" is victim blaming. The layoff planning is what was inadequate. They will almost certainly be plaintiffs in yet another suit.
That's very interesting, thanks for sharing. I'm surprised at how little purchasing power even skilled laborers had in 1300.

A master carpenter would make 4 pence per day, which would buy a gallon of ale, a loaf of bread, and a chicken.

A master carpenter in my city makes $320 per day, which at Costco would buy you like 20 rotisserie chickens, 20 loaves of bread, and 20 gallons of Budweiser (i.e. 5 36-packs). I don't know what I was expecting, but such a high multiple is surprising. And clothes are even more extreme, a day's labor buys you 0.1 tunics in 1300 or 80 Costco crew-necks in 2022 (or 10 low-quality button-down shirts).

Interestingly, a month's rent comes out to about 5 days wages in either case.

EDIT: just noticed that the medieval "loaf of bread" weighs over 8 pounds... the loaves at Costco are only a pound each, so 20 Costco loaves is about 2.5 medieval ones. Still a good deal.
Any decent human being, in the case of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Why would Twitter be booted?
Counterpoint, the Goerli network is not useless.
But those giants of the 1970s fell victim to what's now widely called disruptive innovation, a concept popularized by the late Harvard professor Clayton Christensen. It's what happens when a product starts out at the bottom of an existing marketplace and eventually moves up in value to replace the established competitors.

The makers of supercomputers and mainframes, even IBM, were originally dismissive when a then-small maker of memory chips called Intel Corp. built a "computer-on-a-chip" for a Japanese adding-machine company.
> I'm often triggered by depictions of loving families.

What does “triggered” actually mean, specifically?

Regardless, that seems like a serious mental health issue.

You are responsible for and in control of your own emotions. If you don’t feel that’s true, you need to spend more time in serious therapy, not demanding “trigger” warnings.
Twitter data breach was far worse than reported, reveal security researchers
It's important to realize what currency really is at its core, which is not a store of value but an intermediary store of the current value of labor vs the barter value. Todays labor is worth more today than it will be in 10 years, so the dollar value of that labor should fall correspondingly. When we pick an inflation rate, we are more deciding what the time decay of todays labor should be moving forward.
Tokyo and Kyoto are remarkable and different but not like they were 50 years ago or 100. The U.S. is remarkable and different in way that's not like it was before a 100 years of immigrants came here. There's a thru line though - a path dependence in the U.S. that takes immigrants and changes them as much or even more then it's changed by them.

There's a world culture homogenization which is unfortunate in some ways but immigration is only part of the story. I don't think it's even a big part of it.
By banishment of free speech, you mean the right of a private entity to decline to host content that they seem to not be a fit with their ideals and brand?

I don't think this is a freedom of speech issue.

Instead, it's an issue that the private operators (codeberg & sourcehut) are looking to apply their own freedom of speech to take a stance against projects that have a high case of fraud.

You see the same thing from Stripe[1]: they ban similarity predatory systems from using their services & tarnishing their brand.

[1]: https://stripe.com/legal/restricted-businesses
How about the oldest software in common use? There's probably some parts of the 1973 C rewrite of Unix still around in modern Solaris, idk how common that is. tcsh also dates back to the '70s and is also falling into disuse.

Maybe TeX, written in 1982? Though pdfTeX displaced the classic TeX DVI compiler long ago, and all the major TeX distributions translate the Pascal source code to C. I don't know whether that means it's a different program from the one Knuth wrote 40 years ago.
SSL certificate has expired on jcenter.bintray.com
Nobody wanted an arm laptop because it doesn't run windows/existing software. Apple bundles an is and a decent emulator for old software. If they didn't nobody would want it.
The default for the upcoming Nim 2.0 will be ORC. Its the default already on the dev branch since the Nim compiler was switched to use it. See Araq's talk from NimConf: https://youtu.be/aDi50K_Id_k?list=PLxLdEZg8DRwSQQaK0UVRd1Dae...
Means that I currently cant build a new android project as I am unable to download gradle files.
"you’re probably not going to be using any of the AI art tools to make a reference sheet for a character, nor be able to get it to generate images that consistently have the appearance of a custom character"

This was true maybe a month ago, but DreamBooth makes this possible
You are making this unnecessarily complicated. Remember that all models are wrong, but some of them are useful. Turing machines and other similar formalisms have proven useful models of real computers. Things that are logically impossible on Turing machines appear to be effectively impossible on real computers, at least in the worst case.

Using cycle detection for solving the finite version of the halting problem is a good example of this. You are not even trying to solve the problem. You are simply brute-forcing it by running two copies of the program at different speeds and comparing their internal states.

An actual solution would try to analyze the program to see whether it a) halts; b) enters a cycle; or c) attempts to use more memory than the space bound. But it feels unnatural that you could do that analytically without being able to say that the program attempts to use ever-increasing amounts of memory. Based on what we understand of computation, it's more plausible that analyzing a program is impossible in the general case, and finite bounds simply give us the ability to simulate the outcome.

After computability theory was "solved", complexity theory became the new frontier. But it turned out to be much harder. While you can teach many of the key proofs in computability theory to undergrads, complexity theorists still haven't managed to solve basic questions like P vs. NP. While you can simulate an arbitrary program, reasoning about its behavior seems to be effectively impossible in the general case.
Yeah, I wrote an equivalent service in Java and Nim, and I just couldn't get Nim to perform as well as Java, and it wasn't even easy to write. Random segfaults, depending on memory manager used, random libraries requiring different memory managers, ORC being talked about a lot despite causing random segfaults, and so on.

I really want to love Nim.
There is no source because it's a baseless right-wing conspiracy theory.
Zero transparency and zero due process is a massively underrated feature of big tech censorship/policing.

It's one thing to debate the benefits that society gets for removing/flagging content, but the costs are immediately 10x higher when the false positives have zero recourse.

Even 'legitimate' cases often can't speak to a human to find out why or how they were flagged (unless they have influence). The public can't find out what motives/reasoning or who was behind certain content being removed. So it feeds into conspiracies and builds resentment.
I wish google had a feature to permanently ban domains from search results.
Sure, but in practical terms are there any laptop makers that sell any CPU from that list, say a i3-1210U, in a good case and with good cooling?

Because, as I said in the original post, even when Apple was selling Core 2 Duos, their cooling was better than most other manufacturers. I was often buying Macs to run Linux because of this.

Also see what the parent post says about performance per Watt, which mirrors my experience as a user. No current x86_64 machine is close to ARM if you want low heat.
The article notes that Finch is simply curating and/or wrapping Lima etc...
Can't trial the judge.
There's a spectrum of human agency in art. Where will you draw the line? Where does Warhol fit? Pollock? Bridget Riley, Vasarely or even Malevich?

Whatever line you draw will leave several canonical figures on the wrong side of it. Maybe that's OK and you'll draw your line in the sand. Just don't pretend it's a non-controversial consensus.
what a nice looking blog, the font are so easy to read, the dark theme so easy on the eyes and the images are colorful
> but the act of training a neural network on datasets like this has already been decided to be legal

?

Has it?

Look, you can argue about whether it’s morally right or not to use models that are fine tuned explicitly to copy the style of someone else, trained on their art without their consent, to make a model that can generate images very similar to the training images.

You can argue about technically of that’s copying, or if lossy compression is copying.

…but legal and moral are different things, and right now, as far as I’m aware:

- it’s only legal because there are no laws specifically making it illegal currently.

- there are active (eg. Copilot) cases challenging this to set a precedent.

- it’s sufficiently ambiguous having a model that anyone can type “a naked picture of a 12 year old” in and get exactly that as output, that stability has nerfed the most recent mode release they’ve done.

- there is a reasonably obvious similarity to other fields where a thing is itself not illegal or bad, but it can enable people to do illegal or bad things, and therefore access, ownership and usage of said things (eg. Hand guns) is heavily legislated.

I think “this has already been decided to be legal” is a blatantly false assumption.
She is not a eugenics advocate. That is a truly nonsensical summary of her viewpoint.