skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A shameless plug - I've built (recently) a simple yet powerful blog reader that could satisfy the needs of most people https://lenns.io. Why - it solves three primary issues with "traditional" readers:

1) You can follow websites (based on blog-post titles) when there isn't a proper RSS feed.

2) You have control on how many results per feed to have listed (e.g. not having your whole feed overloaded with the posts of one source)

3) You can assign priorities to Sources and categories so that you have control what's on top of your feed.

... if someone here bothers to give it a try, I'd be happy to receive any feedback.

p.s. there's a full OPML import/export support.
It doesn't need to be game-chaning to be considered V2. It just needs to be "the next version"
How crypto goes to zero
The RCA suit was settled for $1 million in 1954. Assuming the other suits were completed around that time this would be $93 billion dollars today!
It’s quite possible. Depending on how our civilization collapses, and how our immediate replacements view us, most of our records and art may be lost to civilizations a millennia from now. A dark age is more an inability to communicate with the future than a lack of activity or culture.
Frankly, I don't understand why it isn't much, much more popular.

It's been a few years since I walked away from Elixir and Phoenix for recreational projects so I've forgotten the finer points. The two things that bothered me the most were that a.) Erlang treats BSD as a second class citizen and b.) I got the sense that there was a lot of cargo culting going on. Getting an informed answer felt like it was just that much more difficult than with say Ruby.

Professionally, as an ops monkey, I wouldn't want to be on the hook for supporting an Erlang or Elixir app. There's definitely a chicken-egg problem and I'd worry about finding coworkers who would be comfortable with Elixir, but there are also simply far too many moving parts. Like. Yeah okay channels are cool, in-place upgrades are cool, and a well disciplined team could make good use of them but to me that all sounds like a lot of very tempting footguns. All of a sudden I'm not just supporting an app, I'm supporting an entire runtime on top of Linux. I'd much rather deal with a single binary like e.g. go or rust provide, and I'd much rather not deal with Erlang processes and whatnot.

That said the language itself is great. At the time I started dicking around with Phoenix I was working with a guy who was making a big push to use clojure for internal tooling. I liked the Elixir syntax which felt like a great mashup of Ruby and Clojure.
https://archive.ph/Mfd7X
It's as fair as any other use of the entirely bogus concept of "screen time", yes.
To put things in perspective, the dataset it's trained on is ~240TB and Stability has over ~4000 Nvidia A100 (which is much faster than a 1080ti). Without those ingredients, you're highly unlikely to get a model that's worth using (it'll produce mostly useless outputs).

That argument also makes little sense when you consider that the model is a couple gigabytes itself, it can't memorize 240TB of data, so it "learned".

But if you want to create custom versions of SD, you can always try out dreambooth: https://github.com/XavierXiao/Dreambooth-Stable-Diffusion, that one is actually feasible without spending millions of dollars on GPUs.
Without the changes they made to Stable Diffusion, it was already able to generate CP. That's why they restricted it from doing so. It did not have child pornography in the training set, but it did have plenty of normal adult nudity, adult pornography, and plenty of fully clothed children, and was able to extrapolate.

Anyway, one obvious application: FBI could run a darknet honeypot site selling AI-generated child porn. Eliminate the actual problem without endangering children.
https://archive.ph/lmu8y
In reality that's what, Thanksgiving and the Friday after, and Christmas Day and possibly Christmas Eve?
They’re already out there, although they’re hard to find via Google - people are doing wild things like “merging” hentai models with models trained on real life porn to get realistic poses and lighting with impossible anatomy.

The scary thing is that you can then train it further with things like DreamBooth to start producing porn of celebrities… or, even more worrying, people you know.

Seriously folks, we are within a year or less of this being trivial. It’s already possible with a lot of work today.
Depends on the dataset. You can probably get decent results by restricting the modality of the images (faces, cars, bedrooms etc)

I trained from scratch with 4x3090 and while it’s not as good as SD it’s surprisingly better with hands.
If your theory was correct we would live in a world run by specialists. But it’s actually generalists that thrive, start, scale and run successful companies. Specialist work for generalists.
"nowhere near"
It was! I scanned them around 2009, so it wasn't size, it was that I wasn't getting more useful resolution. The scanner was a Nikon Coolscan V ED. I might still have some prints I can look at to compare, but I'm not sure how to do the same with a negative.
That's going to require changes in licensing in the US. I don't think even remotely operated reactors are legal in the US.
Yeah, framing it in a gatekeep-yy way is in poor taste. I've taken these sorts of quizzes with languages I use professionally, and they always kick my ass but I learn from them. Presenting it as a tricky challenge or parlor trick is much better.
I sympathize with the sentiment, although I don't blame the issues on a dearth of altruism. If you grew up in the 1400's could you expect widespread equality during feudalism? It doesn't matter how magnanimous a king was, inequality was built into society. The question then becomes, IMO, what sort of economic organization would help solve these issues?
Exactly: the Dark Ages were called that because there just wasn't that much written history that survived from that time, compared to times before and after.

These days, for some reason, some certain groups of people are trying to rename the Dark Ages and whitewash them, but I think it's pretty clear that there was a lot more learning and recording of knowledge after the Enlightenment than before.
OOP implementation in Next Generation Shell was inspired by CLOS but it's way simpler.

Defining a type: type MyType.

At any point one can declare method: F myMethod(..., mt:MyType, ...) some_code()

Anything defined by F is automatically a multimethod. When invoked, all methods in the multimethod are searched bottom up. The first one where the call arguments match the parameters (by type, with inheritance) is invoked.

That's roughly it.
That’s a rookie telescope. Let’s use the sun!

https://youtu.be/4d0EGIt1SPc
If corporations have a duty to bring profit to shareholders, I hope all these companies have done proper analysis/testing to determine if showing their ads next to porn is unprofitable. Just saying...
538 gives Monmouth University an “A” in its ratings of pollsters: https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/pollster-ratings. I think they know what they’re doing.

(This October poll also nailed the actual 4 point spread in the congressional popular vote.)
How is this free? Is it possible to download the checkpoints?

I'm asking because I'm running SD locally but my GPU is not good enough to train new checkpoints and while I get the time to work on improve I wanted to use this API in order to generate some models for an illustration book I am working on.
Anxious Ethereum Stakers Question When They'll Be Able to Access Funds
Yes, and yes. This is ridiculously bad advice when you just want a cable to put in your bag to charge your phone with when you're out.
Why does knowing what the Q key on an old apple keyboard have anything to do with someone's aptitude for web design?
Awesome work & thank you for the replies!
This is proving that NYT and most MSM aren't trustworthy, and hence my question. If you still trust the NYT for other kinds of news, then it means you have Gell-Mann amnesia.

https://www.epsilontheory.com/gell-mann-amnesia/
a. Yes, but you can easily put up solar+batteries such that the cost of retail energy to the consumer is entirely transmission line rental, at which point disruption is worth whatever the cost of line rental is minus the capital cost of grid construction.

> It’s possible to sell power to the utility for a reasonable price per MWh. But one can’t easily sell to the utility’s customers.

You might not be able to sell energy directly to them, but you can sell/lease energy generation to them which is essentially the same thing. You won't be able to charge the line rental that makes up the majority of the retail cost post installation of solar, but you can start with some fraction of the difference between they save with the solar system, which is probably at a better price point than wholesale cost of electricity.
USB-C to 3.5mm adapters solve the issue; attach one to the end of your headphones and forget about it.
Thread safety in Rails is a total pain in the ass. So many libraries out there are not thread safe. I have worked with many large rails codebases and there always are gems that somehow work their way in with major threading issues. I think its a legitimate strategy to run rails apps single threaded and multi process. Not necessarily for all apps or workloads of course.
Good on him. He completely figured out YouTube's model and now is expanding to other industries. I can easily see him at 10+ billion in another 10 years.
Ruby Object Mapper – Alternative to ActiveRecord and DataMapper
Do people ever catch up on their bookmark backlog? I don't think it really matters.
I keep hearing about structural issues in fintechs and all of this FTX, Pipe, Evolve news is not helping.
I went in to that one really confident because of my knack for bikeshedding. Unfortunately for me I forgot I've been doing my work with my browser screen zoomed out because I've been working on a 13in macbook
As per usual Ken is being pretty disingenuous here, even ignoring the hyperbole about needing a 175MP digital sensor to 'capture the same information'.

Velvia 50 might resolve 160 lines/mm (I'm not sure if this is line pairs/mm or lines/mm) but that's at a contrast ratio of 1000:1, for a contrast ratio of 1.6:1 (more typical for normal shooting conditions) you're down to 80 lines/mm which is 22.1 MP, and that's for just the film stock under optimal conditions. When you factor in real life shooting conditions like the lens MTF charts, the aperture you were shooting at, whether you were shooting on a stable tripod, dust, grain, noise, etc, that number only goes down.

Conventional wisdom has been that you can get good results scanning colour film at 6-12MP, and this tracks with the results people got when they started comparing the first DSLRs to 35mm film - something like the full frame 11MP Canon EOS-1DS from 20 years ago with a mere 25 line pairs/mm (including losses from the Bayer and AA filters) compares favourably(*) to medium format film, with 6-8MP DX format DSLRs from the same era comparing favourably to 35mm. B&W film can be scanned at a higher resolution but still, 87MP is a theoretical maximum not a practical one.

https://luminous-landscape.com/shootout/
How are they planning to handle security? The rest of the thread mentions they intend to use these in very remote regions (northern Canada and such). While that makes a lot of sense practically, doesn't it make security kind of tricky? I get that they'd be carefully remotely monitored, but it seems like a realistic possibility that a team of people could break in (the renders show these in shipping containers surrounded by a simple double layer of barbed wire fencing), steal the radioactive material, and escape before security arrives.

I get that we store actual nuclear bombs in unmanned remote sites (missile silos), but those are operated by the literal military and secure underground. These would realistically be operated by private companies, and are just shipping containers sitting on the surface.
Here is an idea to consider: what if some of the “friends” were actually “gig providers” that could offer their services at your destination, such as a special tour, a dining experience, a history lesson, a security provider, a translator, etc. by “inserting” them into a potential spot in the itinerary?

Just a suggestion that I’m throwing out there. That could make this a bit more sticky and possibly less work for the travelers.

Good luck.
> I care about the environment insomuch as it's upon what our very lives depend as opposed to the environment in and of itself.

I mean, sure, but that’s largely what got us into this mess.
Be 64-Bit to Ride This Ferry
That works for some processes (making aluminum and more recently steel) but I'm not aware of any electrically heated processes for making concrete. Cheap, clean electricity could unlock a lot of things though.
One place I’m sure I read it was in the first couple chapters of Joe Henrich’s The WEIRDest People in the World — hopefully he cites sources there. I can’t look up my notes just now but if I get a chance and find more I’ll post.
I dislike how they call their model open source even though there are restrictions on how you can use the model. The ability to use code however you want and not have to worry about if all the code you are using is compatible with your use case is a key part of open source.
While I could probably have done the first part myself, the moment the author went and updated the min API level to avoid the nagging pop up, I was seriously impressed and decided this was submission-worthy
God, this is such a farce. Can't wait to get rid of those goblins and feel again a return to the boring old reality. Bolsonaro and his cronies will hopefully land in jail someday and stay there.
Especially once headcanon is established.
I'm also frustrated at a language in closed beta being perpetually compared to a language that is open source and in production. It's a complete apples to oranges comparison. By being in closed beta, there is no way of verifying anything said about Jai. Instead you have to take the word of people in the Jai community, which is a very biased source to say the least.
For some reason, every thing is a video game to me, so I'm always trying to "pathfind" different routes, and calculate... for the lack of better word, weights each road has at different times of the day. Makes it pretty quick to remember them. Regardless of where or how I am, I'm mentally always aware of what approximate direction North is.
That’s great, but you can get that without getting blue parents. I have a small sample of red parents but a large sample of blue parents in my circle and they don’t answer unknown numbers. I realize this is anecdotal.
Stable diffusion is able to draw images of bears wearing spacesuits and penguins playing golf. I don't think it actually needs that kind of input to generate it. It's clearly able to generalize outside of the training set. So... Seems it should be possible to generate that kind of data without people being harmed.

That being said, this is a question for sociologists/psychologists IMO. Would giving people with these kinds of tendencies that kind of material make them more or less likely to cause harm? Is there a way to answer that question without harming anybody?

In the mean time, stay away from 4chan.
Great time to reinstall the plugin that lets my media player scrobble to last.fm ;)

A bit of a shame that MyMedia for Alexa (local music streaming for Alexa) doesn’t support it, but at least that’s only for the kitchen anyway.
"That said, D definitely has some advantages over C++, like more powerful metaprogramming, no need for headers, no uninitialized values and more. But unfortunately, these upsides are outweighed by the downsides."

Yes, after working with D for far too long, I have decided to delete it off my computer and I'm going back to C++, where a class is still a first-class 'type', and a 'value' type at that (at least by default).

In D, a class is a reference type only and worse, the D language has no means of declaring, let alone enforcing at compile time, a perimeter around such a type, within the so called 'D module'. The entire D module is within the perimeter of your class type, at all times!
I'm not a designer but have done some web dev here and there over the years based on sketch files designers send me and whatnot.

I got the color, radius, border, and font questions correct.

The opacity, delay, and aspect ratio ones are slightly pointless since they are rarely any particular exact value (except for the square one).

The questions I think are completely irrelevant are the AI images and the Google logo ones.

EDIT: also worth pointing out none of these skills matter when I can just grep the CSS and inspect the computed values for checking consistency across all browsers. Judging by eye is not really all that helpful.
You can download the model weights and run them offline. At least, you could in v1.4. I assume this is still possible on v2.0?
Um, actually question twelve is wrong. Those use two different typefaces. The iOS keyboard is SF Pro, but hardware keyboards are SF Compact. SF Compact is less round, you should be able to see the difference if you compare the O and D in the screenshot.

I noticed that, but still only got 9/12.
Yakuza 3 reviewed by Yakuza (2010)
I don't know who's getting that message from participation trophies, but I certainly understood winning and losing when I played organized sports as a kid.
> Impressive isn't it!

>> Yeah! Don't they make a trillion dollars a year? How is it so crappy?
Artemis 1 Launch From Onboard the Rocket
You could probably already get people to pay for a subscription to generate images. Wouldn't be surprised if someone is already working on it.
Fun test for your technical eye/knowledge, horrible title.

None of these questions represent a barrier to being a competent web designer.
I’m a product designer and I totally bombed this. Never in my career have I been required to know exact hex codes (especially of pure blue - which I have never used thankfully), or exact border radii.

This quiz misses the idea that humans perceive the same values differently in different contexts. A button with 5px border radius might not feel “round” enough in a UI where everything else is very “round”. Or if you have two colours of the same hex value, except that one is surrounded by white pixels, and the other is surrounded by black ones, then it is unlikely that the colour will be perceived the same way in both cases (see the Checkerboard illusion). Identifying fonts immediately by just looking at them (which I can do well) has been a neat party trick, but has never found utility in my work.

A designer’s strength is not knowing these values by rote, but having the sensitivity to understand the tools at our disposal (including knowing how human perception works) and using them to create something functional and beautiful.

This “test” does not evaluate any of that.
These are not for cities and the "danger" of nuclear power is overstated.
Right, but the model weights are arguably not the "source code", and the license gives the users fewer rights than open source licenses do.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Open_Source_Definition
And longevity. I have my note books from 20 years ago on the same shelf as my notebooks from last year. Apart from pictures (I had a digital camera in the mid nineties) The number of files that have survived the transition between a dozen computers is not that high.
Previously discussed some years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11553533
So we're digging our heels in that no one could ever be faster than Bolt.

> Well, Bolt himself was born into a poor family

Sure, but what about the really fast kid who was shot in Somalia or the other one who lost a leg to an unexploded antipersonnel mine. Or as innocuous as the really fast kid who didn't like the pressure of competition.

What about the people who were simply born earlier? Technology showed up in the 2 years that's making people even faster. Those throughout history were not given the same opportunity, but if they were, could they have been faster that Bolt? Possible.

Your skepticism requires that everyone be given an equal chance which simply isn't grounded in reality.
> Writing a training loop for CLIP manually wound up with me banging against all sorts of strange roadblocks and missing bits of documentation, and I still don't have it working.

There is working training code for openCLIP https://github.com/mlfoundations/open_clip

But training multi-modal text-to-image models is still a _very_ new thing, in terms of the software world. Given that, my experience has been that it's never been easier to get to work on this stuff from the software POV. The hardware is the tricky bit (and preventing bandwidth issues on distributed systems).

That isn't to say that there isn't code out there for training. Just that you're going to run into issues and learning how to solve those issues as you encounter them is going to be a highly valuable skill soon.

edit:

I'm seeing in a sibling comment that you're hoping to train your own model from scratch on a single GPU. Currently, at least, scaling laws for transformers [0] mean that the only models that perform much of anything at all need a lot of parameters. The bigger the better - as far as we can tell.

Very simply - researchers start by making a model big enough to fill a single GPU. Then, they replicate the model across hundreds/thousands of GPU's, but feed each on a different set of the data. Model updates are then synchronized, hopefully taking advantage of some sort of pipelining to avoid bottlenecks. This is referred to as data-parallel.

[0] https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/scaling-laws
McDonald’s and Walmart beef suppliers criticised for ‘reckless’ antibiotics use
This logic is faulty for one reason: it's not a casino with randomly distributed chances. The number of FANG employees is low compared to the entire population, yet some of the students are almost guaranteed to make it there, because of their apparent smarts and mindset, while others have about zero chances. So it's a lottery, but the tickets aren't sold to everyone. The same is true for startup founders: some of them are obviously going to make it one day, while others don't even need to apply.
Ask HN: Does the blockchain improve any parts of the existing tech stack by 10x?
I've been thinking about this a lot lately. The blockchain is fundamentally architectural innovation. And to me, the core value is in finding ways to improve existing software systems using this new distributed architecture.

Think of products like https://fleek.co/

A few ideas that fascinate me:
1. Better database for specific industries (financial data?) - Core value is not relying on third-party servers by using IPFS.
2. Better authentication (the in-browser wallet auth is smooth!)
3. Potentially a better way to host critical code functions on smart contracts w/ Oracles (since someone can break your hosted code, but code on a contract is hard to modify and break.)

I wonder what other devs think.
I'm totally down. I'm a verse developer.
The supreme irony, of course, being that Socrates never wrote anything down and we only know of him because his student Plato (and others) did write things down.

And Socrates’ views on writing weren’t unique to him; many of that era felt the same. Socrates was a man of his time in this respect.
There is an irony in the world's richest man being a penny pincher with those less well-off than himself.
The easiest way to combat this is to put your model behind an API and filter queries (midjourney, OpenAI) or just not make it available (Google). The tradeoff is that you're paying for everyone's compute.

I guess SD is betting on saving $ on compute being more important in this space than the ability to gatekeep certain queries. And the tradeoff is that you need to do nsfw filtering in your released model.

It will be interesting to see who's right in 2 years.