skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry, I can't resist the urge to repost this classic comment on a thread about new battery technology:

Dear battery technology claimant,

Thank you for your submission of proposed new revolutionary battery technology. Your new technology claims to be superior to existing lithium-ion technology and is just around the corner from taking over the world. Unfortunately your technology will likely fail, because:

[ ] it is impractical to manufacture at scale.

[ ] it will be too expensive for users.

[ ] it suffers from too few recharge cycles.

[ ] it is incapable of delivering current at sufficient levels.

[ ] it lacks thermal stability at low or high temperatures.

[ ] it lacks the energy density to make it sufficiently portable.

[ ] it has too short of a lifetime.

[ ] its charge rate is too slow.

[ ] its materials are too toxic.

[ ] it is too likely to catch fire or explode.

[ ] it is too minimal of a step forward for anybody to care.

[ ] this was already done 20 years ago and didn't work then.

[ ] by this time it ships li-ion advances will match it.

[ ] your claims are lies.
Right, billionaire family charities are almost uniformly horrible, including this one.
If regulation is found to be necessary, here are some options

- government could treat open ai like an electricity utility, with regulated profits

- open ai could be forced to come up with compensation schemes for the human source images. The more the weights get used, the higher the payout

- the users of the system could be licensed to ensure proper use and that royalties are paid to the source creators. We issue driving licenses, gun licenses, factory permits etc. Licenses are for potentially dangerous activities and powers. This could be one of those.

- special taxation class for industries like this that are more parasitic and less egalitarian than small businesses or manufacturing

- outright ban on using copyrighted work in ai training

- outright ban on what can be considered an existential technology. This has been the case for some of the most important technologies in the last 100 years including nuclear weapons.
In China, the government is more powerful than capital. No matter where their money comes from, Tencent is at its heart a Chinese company, with all the shenanigans that entails.
Awesome, there is another project out there that does it with CPU https://github.com/marcoppasini/musika maybe mix the both, ie take initial output of musika, convert to spectrogram and feed it to riffusion to get more variation...
Absolutely - a very portable one, but modern Macs would absolutely qualify (and blow those classics out of the water in both computing power and low electricity consumption.
We’re still talking about the guy who paid almost double what Twitter was worth right?
> the West messed up having such broad fair use protections since it seems people really have no respect for any creative effort

That is based on the fallacy that derivative creativity is somehow lesser than so-called “original” creativity.
what's the most difficult art project you've produced?

Comparing these is very "apples and oranges", but I think you'd better have a strong background in both if you're gonna try.
Same earlier, but I can now get it to work very intermittently, with the error "Uh oh! Servers are behind, scaling up..."
Wouldn’t that say more about the client than the competitor?
The missing element in blockchain adoption is "incentive".

How do you "incentivize" others to participate and support your decentralized solution?

If one organization foots the bill and provides all the incentive, it's not really "decentralized" and other approaches are cheaper, faster and easier to implement --- i.e. a central database with API access.

Crypto solves this problem by automated money minting/printing.

In my opinion, IBM has lost credibility by not realizing all this before jumping the blockchain shark.
Well said!

When you want to argue with someone for they joy of arguing; because vigorous discourse is enjoyable for itself, then trivial things like "vi vs. emacs" are great subjects for debate.

It seems that some never appreciated the "joy of argument" motivations and assumed that holy wars were a valid means of personal expression and useful for community building.
Or both. One can certainly despise a particular player playing a horrible game.
If you are nuts enough that you want to shoot that person's plane, motivation is there to click on a link you can find in a minute of searching on Google
Make Unreal Tournament great again!
I believe that you can copyright the image, it's the monkey that can't copyright it.
Uber Eats will use sidewalk robots to make food deliveries in Miami (USA)
Microphone/headphone combos with a single TRRS jack are fundamentally going to be poor, because the microphone line isn’t balanced. Microphone signals are very low level and pickup noise easily.
What legal remedy exactly do you propose here?
Just generate a pip-tools lock file that includes ipython on both macos and Linux and you'll see differences. Only on macos does ipython depend on "appnope".
And/or a threat to his or the CCP's power, which is their first and foremost concern.

thinkmcfly might as well ask why WWI started when it predictably going to impoverish the major combatants. Saw a factoid some time ago that world trade did not return to the prewar level until a long time after WWII.

We could also Goodwin this and ask why did Hitler take the fatal step of seizing half of Poland. There age is also a possible motivation, he was 50 in the pre-antibiotic and much of modern medicine era.
Sorry, I could have phrased that better. Bound and validated by their container. Since an int has natural boundaries while a string could easily overflow a varchar, it's much easier to assume that less validation is needed. But maintaining consistent numeric containers across serialization boundaries is often just as likely to overflow or have encoding difficulties as strings. My assertion is developers don't trust strings and validate them by default more often than integers or numbers.
The title is truncated. The full title is:

"Z-Wave Alliance Announces Z-Wave Source Code Project is Complete, Now Open and Widely Available to Members"

The three last words are the key.

I was getting excited as well, but looks like Z-Wave is still going to a closed group thing.
The term charitable is used in its generally accepted legal sense and includes relief of the poor, the distressed, or the underprivileged; advancement of religion; advancement of education or science; erection or maintenance of public buildings, monuments, or works; lessening the burdens of government; lessening neighborhood tensions; eliminating prejudice and discrimination; defending human and civil rights secured by law; and combating community deterioration and juvenile delinquency.

Easy to see how a charity could line up with what Musk is interested in and/or his companies are doing.

Advancement of space travel, advancing rocket science, reducing rocket launch cost for government, communications connectivity for people, electric vehicles and batteries, self-driving cars, reducing government costs for tunnels and transport infrastructure, relief for conservatives who were distressed about being banned from Twitter, advancing the Gospel of Musk, etc.

EDIT: http://www.muskfoundation.org/ yep, looks about right.
Just a wild guess, but...

The migration of water to the dark side changes the center of mass for the planet, right? Might that be enough, especially if there are any other bodies around to throw in some chaos, to pull the ice back into the warmer region?
There was a period where that kind of kit was usefully usable as (effectively) an X terminal -- you could put Linux on it, and it had a good quality CRT that you would otherwise have to pay a fair amount for. I did that in the late 90s and early 2000s with a SPARCstation 2 starting when I was in university. (I actually submitted a floating-point-emulation patch to the Linux kernel because otherwise the X server had a habit of crashing when it encountered a denormal number...) However, a couple of things made them fall out of that "vintage but still useful" bracket:

- they fell off the bottom of the "supported by Linux distros" list, so you were running something that wasn't getting security or bug fix updates any more

- LCD monitors got better and cheaper, so running a big 19 or 21 inch trinitron CRT was no longer the best available graphics experience

- at least for me personally, my disposable income for buying nice monitors went up ;-)

Machines in the "are you running a private museum collection" category are less exciting. My SS2 ended up in in the skip when I had to do a house move, I think.
FT article references https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/water-splitting-device-s..., which is free and references the actual paper at https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05379-5

or the DOI https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-05379-5
> Putting control into the hands of large central parties generally does not go well.

Then why are you are in favor of a Chrome monopoly (the obvious externality here)?
You (and everyone else) seem to be making the classic "mistake" of looking at an early version and not appreciating that things improve. Ten years ago, AI-generated art was at 50%. 2 years ago, 80%. Now it's at 95% and winning competitions.

I have no idea if the AI that's getting code 80% right today will get it 95% right in two years, but given current progress, I wouldn't bet against it. I don't think there's any fundamental reason it can't produce better code than I can, at least not at the "write a function that does X" level.

Whole systems are a way harder problem that I wouldn't even think of making guesses about.
I wouldn't say so, I had to purchase the min qty. of 200 for a screw set I could only find on there that was available in reasonable time.

I made use of 4 and have 196 left over
Also one for the file marked "Projects Called Butterly": https://uk.saputo.com/brands/butters-spreads-oils/utterly-bu...
link? is literally the first line and the first link in the post above

> Worth remembering this is public information: https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=a835af
API security startup FireTail raises $5M
Humans imagine by mostly by interpolating things they’ve seen before. Add in some randomness and you get novel output (creativity).
It's amazing how many coordinated attacks there are against Elon Musk. He's clearly changing minds in ways that many media people don't like. Losing control of the narrative must feel existential.
I read the article:

"If you have a GPU powerful enough to generate stable diffusion results in under five seconds, you can run the experience locally using our test flask server."

Curious what sort of GPU the author was using or what some of the min requirements might be?
If you pay $20 for a game on sale and it works for half a decade and has multiplayer and updates throughout, is it really necessary to complain about it...?
Not necessarily. Plenty of rich peoples’ charities are incredibly inefficient at their stated purpose, good for their owners, and legal.

Consider an imaginary tobacco tycoon’s charity that promotes cigarette use. It would be 100% legal.
Setting your root font size to 14px is the problem. Fix that. Use em/rem units and don’t override the user’s chosen font size.
When people talk about taxing billionaires this is where we should focus. Stop the tax deductions and they will start paying their fair share.
Cell degradation was tested at 1V - so conveniently right around 1,000wh/kg.
And the file you download is the file you need. You don't have to mess about with zip files containing one file.
No, the appeal of the artist is the artist. The art does offer a means to connect with the artist. It does not follow that the art may not offer its own appeal besides.
Other author here! This got a posted a little earlier than we intended so we didn't have our GPUs scaled up yet. Please hang on and try throughout the day!

Meanwhile, please read our about page http://riffusion.com/about

It’s all open source and the code lives at https://github.com/hmartiro/riffusion-app --> if you have a GPU you can run it yourself

This has been our hobby project for the past few months. Seeing the incredible results of stable diffusion, we were curious if we could fine tune the model to output spectrograms and then convert to audio clips. The answer to that was a resounding yes, and we became addicted to generating music from text prompts. There are existing works for generating audio or MIDI from text, but none as simple or general as fine tuning the image-based model. Taking it a step further, we made an interactive experience for generating looping audio from text prompts in real time. To do this we built a web app where you type in prompts like a jukebox, and audio clips are generated on the fly. To make the audio loop and transition smoothly, we implemented a pipeline that does img2img conditioning combined with latent space interpolation.
>Commercial engine manufacturers are also an oligopoly so they also have very little incentive to innovate like aircraft manufacturers.

Commercial airlines and military customers are so competitive that they will use single digit percentage gains in efficiency or performance to switch suppliers.

So turbofan manufacturers spend more on R&D that almost every other non-biotech sector.

Pratt & Whitney Canada, a subsidiary of US-based Pratt & Whitney (3rd largest turbofan manufacturer) routinely tops the list of the largest R&D spenders in Canada. No. 5 last year: https://researchinfosource.com/top-100-corporate-rd-spenders...

Rolls-Royce (the second-largest turbofan manufacturer, not the car maker) was No. 4 in the UK in 2019 (page 29): https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN04...

General Electric doesn't break down their R&D spending by sector but they're always in the to 50 or so US spenders on research and development and they have to compete with the massive pharmaceutical and software (which is, understandably, mainly R&D) industries in the US to get on the list.
ChatGPT has been great for DevOps. So much of DevOps is trying to figure the best approach to a solution and ChatGPT has been an amazing partner to bounce ideas off of, or to get recommendations.
I started to go down the rabbit hole of commissioned fan art. To say that that is a quagmire is an understatement. :(
I'm not looking at this from the microscopic perspective of animal suffering. Biodiversity alone is a pretty good signal for the health of our ecosystem. Yes, I'm quite glad humans have designed generally safer and happier means of existence for ourselves than the perils of the rest of the animal (and other lifeforms) kingdoms, but this does not make us immune from some harsh realities of nature. If we are careful, we should preserve our status without ushering in a complete collapse of those around us.
lol what? if you claim it to be a moral imperative. Moral based upon what?
For Every Buck a Billionaire Gives to Charity, You Chip in Up to 74 Cents
Interesting political philosophy, but little that speaks to the pursuit of science. Universities may be bureaucratic, but those bureaucracies have almost nothing to do with scientific agendas. Likewise, grant review panels work hard to find innovative, not consensus, proposals. Again, the main thing the management does is demand more external funding, it does not set scientific direction. And, of course, Facebook, Microsoft, etc is not science- at best it is engineering.
Peer review is not the reason academic research has turned into a garbage fire - it's because of the corporatization of the university and the transition from the open research model to the patent-seeking profit-generating research model.

The latter has its place, certainly, but before the 1980s that place was industry-funded private research institutions, the most famous and well-known being Bell Labs. These institutions were funded by groups of corporations who in return got first dibs on their patentable work, and the researchers and engineers in turn got good salaries and didn't have any teaching responsibilities.

After Bayh-Dole passed in the 1980s, universities were allowed to grant exclusive licenses to their patentable research to private entities, and this resulted in the rise of the corporate univesity model - people running around hiding their data until they got the patent, people fudging results to make their novel drug look good so their startup would be bought by some pharma corporation, administrations being overrun by pharmaceutical executives who only cared about universities generating a steady stream of patents, and forget about quality-of-teaching.

It's been a complete disaster, and not only that, the private research world has largely been defunded as corporations realized that, with the aid of politicians, they could just outsource basic R&D to universities, using grad students as cheap underpaid lab labor on projects where they're little more than glorified lab techs, and not really doing any original research.

In addition, the whole system is increasingly authoritarian and censorship is rife - any academic who calls for the elimination of exclusive licensing and the adoption of open-source drug discovery will soon find themselves without a job. It's similar in many ways to the Lysenko era in Soviet science, just run by corporate authoritarians instead of Stalinists. Avoid if possible.
There’s something to be said about publishing blog posts as Jupyter notebooks straight to your GitHub. A strong argument won’t need decoration.
Does not having a local copy of a vulnerability database count as an indicator of a potentially compromised system?
I used to use XFCE as a desktop of choice, but switched to Plasma/KDE instead as XFCE didn't have great HiDPI support. Maybe I should try it out again.
Cool! Please do. Would love to get veterans together first and foremost. Not to mention millions of angry, battle tested insurgency/counterinsurgency experts are prob not what the world wants pointed in the wrong direction… haha. Actually getting the worlds military veterans together would be one hell of an idea. “No, sorry guys, the veterans all got together over beer, a little weed for those who partake, a lot of bbq, and a blew a few things up just for kicks and we decided that the politicians are full of shit on this one. The war is canceled.” hahaha

Would love to hear your thoughts on nuclear fusion too.
mcmaster, rockauto, digikey, ...

don't tell anyone, they'll "modernise" them and fuck it all up.
Minor OBS tangent: as of macOS Ventura, OBS is now an extremely good screen recorder for macOS with much less UI jank: previously there were a few issues such as not being able to capture application sound or not showing the mouse, but now everything works well.

Incidentially if this WebRTC support takes off, it may be a great tool for high-quality peer-to-peer desktop streaming.
Incredible stuff, Seth & Hayk. I've been thinking nonstop about new things to build using Stable Diffusion and this is the first one that really took my breath away.
I would have liked to see a section discussing what the long strategy looks like before presenting the short strategy. I imagine it's just the inverse of the short strategy? What if you apply different rebalancing rules to the long strategy?
I was in the same boat. I wanted to switch a few years ago actually, but EF core was missing core features I took for granted in Sqlalchemy.

As for the reasons:

- Static typing and C# projects makes code organization and refactoring dead easy.

- Modern C# doesn’t require that much boilerplate, and has features that allows a developer to speed up development, like Python.

- EF Core covers everything I need from SqlAlchemy/Alembic.

- LINQ is an awesome way to work with collections. Type safe DB queries comes handy both when developing and refactoring.

- ASP.NET covers everything I need from flask/Fastapi.

- More speed and lower resource usage is nice.

- Being able to use an IDE with it’s full power is nice.

My main reason to switch was static typing, and my only requirement was a good ORM comparable to SqlAlchemy. The rest is just bonus.
It's an API to access the HW decoders and encoders on the GPU or on some other hardware.
It's simply left in the sea and washed away by the current. Presumably that results in a local salinification, which might limit the safe scale.
> 1. it is not permanent, it disappears and never remember anything

What is it supposed to remember? Last path you opened? Seems to work fine for me in Firefox at least. First I tried uploading a image to imgur from my Downloads directory, then next time I wanted to select a picture it opened into the Downloads directory. Then I uploaded a image from my Pictures directory and next time it opened, it opened directly to the Pictures directory. Is this not what you mean?

> 2. it doesn't respect the paths (can't navigate)

Not sure what this means, if you type in /tmp and then Enter it'll navigate to /tmp just as you expect it to. If you're in /tmp/directory it shows "$DriveName / tmp / directory" and clicking on any of them navigates to the right place.

> 3. i don't want to play a keyboard shortcuts game

Why do you want to have a path bar that you type into then if you don't want to use the keyboard? Just manually double-click your way to success instead of using the keyboard, nothing is stopping you. Either use the keyboard, or don't. Both approaches work.
z-wave is kind of competing with zigbee for low power mid-range wireless standard for smart home or smart building since like 20 years ago? then we have low power bluetooth and low-power wifi joined the party.

z-wave was proprietary which did not help its deployments, but still I recall it was the most deployed low power wireless devices for IoT. I worked on zigbee and never liked it. I wish z-wave was more open back in time.

Did not track what's going on these days for low power mid-range wireless, general feeling is that zigbee did not take off, zwave is used as before(you license it and put it to your sensors), and more and more are using low-power wifi and even bluetooth instead.
Others have have covered most of these, but I'll chime in to agree:

1. Break down required activities into emotionally manageable tasks. (Sometimes this necessitates rendering it down to a level where it seems trivial.)

2. Cut deals with yourself. Permit yourself to procrastinate on one thing, but only if you work on this other priority task. (This works well within a task even, if you have done #1.)

3. Build momentum by completiing easier things first. (This is especially effective if you find satisfaction in checking items off a todo list.)
But does it give real and useful answers or is making pleasant imaginary arguments?
Raspberry Pi availability improves, “unlimited supplies” expected by H2 2023
Same. If you follow articles like this you’ll be constantly wondering what happened to “x”.

(“Graphene can do everything except get out of the lab”)
https://feaneron.com/2022/12/14/the-burial-of-the-filechoose...
Well, some hosting costs also go down over time. If the backend server doesn't need a GPU and is just there to facilitate matchmaking for example, what used to be very difficult and required dedicated companies (like Gamespy) can now just be trivially and cheaply/freely rolled into Steamworks or similar matchmaking APIs.

Ongoing patches and updates are another story though, especially if new Windowses or DirectX versions have breaking changes.
> Rather than copying and pasting sections of previous training code, AlphaCode came up with clever snippets without copying large chunks of code or logic in its “reading material.”

Gave me a good chuckle lol
UK airports to scrap restrictions on liquids and electronics