skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Qdrant | Software Engineers (Rust), DevRel's, DevOps, VP Marketing | Berlin, Germany / Remote | Full-time | https://angel.co/company/qdrant

Qdrant (https://qdrant.tech) is an open-source vector similarity search engine. It deploys as an API service providing search for the nearest high-dimensional vectors. With Qdrant, embeddings or neural network encoders can be turned into full-fledged applications for matching, searching, recommending, and much more.

We are looking for engineers and marketers to develop the open core of the engine, build our cloud solution, and execute the go-to-market strategy. The company is incorporated in Berlin; the team is working remotely.
Would you like Mac OS to work like your average Windows antivirus which keeps bombarding you with notifications that FIFTY THREATS HAVE BEEN DETECTED! BE AFRAID! ?
The Lascaux Caves have been known for 80 years. Wouldn't that be the first and most obvious hypothesis to test? Why only now?
Reddit thread here : https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/103upr6/au...

update: Gitgud repo created here : https://gitgud.io/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui

(Gitgud seems to be really slow)

Further update : Account was suspended due to "TOS violations" : https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/103uwx1/au...
At this point it could be simply that enough bodies were thrown at k8s and related tooling that, though oceans of sweat, blood and tears, rough edges were filed down or at least marked as dangerous, and enough iterations of guides and tutorials were made that, finally, you can set up a production cluster with one week and one YouTube video and no human sacrifice.
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I am surprised it’s taking so long for big tech companies to roll this out. I suppose there’s too much money in audiobooks? Perhaps licensing issues? If anyone can get a “celebrity reads aloud” feature that would be Apple and that could be big.
They just used EE internally. "Extinguish" was added by the someone suing them and the media.
There are models in the Thinkpad P line that can be maxed out at 128GB.
Will we see this level of voice synthesis in the public domain? Maybe I am out of touch but I found those examples very impressive - more impressive than the jobs vs rogan demo a few months back.

But I am also saddened at a future where all this is locked up in corporate hands - obviously there is money needed and (licensed) data needed too which Apple can get at.

Honestly I would rather eschew the ethics of it and just consume any and all voice data (youtube, podcasts, existing audiobooks, radio) that has transcripts available, perhaps because I assume corpos are already doing this, if it means we can have a free and open data model that people can run at home, maybe that makes me evil.
My favourite script was from when I was playing Diablo 3 heavily (around 2015), but for a while I had been pressing my mouse hand too hard into my mouse pad which were causing some RSI issues.

I found a +-300 line script which allowed me to play with a controller (made by zarzare), I modified it for the different classes and it worked ridiculously well. It used basic trig to create a circle around the player's position and cast abilities in that direction. You could specify a short/long range so abilities could be cast either short or far, depending on the range of the ability.
Space based solar would also use microwaves to beam the energy to the moon.
Plenty of old Microsoft in the Xbox/gaming division, we just aren’t seeing it all yet.
you can check the code https://github.com/OurChatStory/OurChatStory-Web
> yet MS still pushed ahead with IE-specific language features

Yeah, they all did though.

I was doing frontend dev back then, if we can call it that, it was web development with some JS actually or DHTML for those who remember.

Scripting elements was very limited at the beginning, you couldn't access the entire DOM, only forms and images, if I remember correctly, and maybe the decoration of links, that's how the hover behaviour was born.

The story is quite more nuanced, there's also the fact that IE was actually a better browser than Netscape after the Netscape 4 fiasco (I was a paying customer of Netscape 3 gold and Netscape 4)

Netscape tried the non-standard layer element accessible through document.layers (all the layout was done with tables back then, so this looked like an improvement) but didn't catch up.

IE 4 had a lot more features, it introduced document.all to access the entire DOM by ID, documents.forms, document.images, document.all.tags() that allowed the access to all tags by tag name, it introduced innerHTML, outerHTML, innerText and outerText properties.

It's easy to understand why developers switched to IE, given also that Windows was the primary platform that users used to browse the web (do we still use the browse verb?) and IE4 was available on the Mac too. IE5 introduced the XMLHttpRequest object so AJAX was born (IE 5 on Mac was even more advanced than the one on Windows)

And yes, MS abused of their dominant position with IE6, but that doesn't invalidate the fact that they actually innovated in the field, before abusing of it.

EDIT: it wasn't called XmlHttpRequest on IE, you had to instantiate an Activex Object (COM component) the MSXML2.XMLHttp. Forefox came up with the XmlHttpRequest name later (XML was still going strong at the time). You could actually instantiate any Activex component available on the client machine from IE >= 5, even Word if you wanted to.

I remember developing intranets for Windows networks where we used Word automation from the browser using Activex.

To think about it now it was a terrible idea, but it looked like a miracle back then. You could instantiate the ADODB COM component and run queries from the browser to the SQL server.
AMD Claims New Laptop Chip Is 30% Faster Than M1 Pro
Nah it’s more complicated than that. The fed is saying that because it’s currently a populist view. However their will to actually cause widespread distress and a severe recession will be tested when the populist view shifts back which we are likely not far from.

If you look at this fed from 2018 on it’s readily apparent that everything they do is to appease the popular narrative. Economy needs rescuing from covid? Okay let’s take rates to zero and pump in liquidity until we’re told to stop.

Fast forward to end of 2021- okay stop stop stop! Inflation is getting out of control! Sure, no problem we will raise rates until you tell us to stop, just signal to us before each meeting exactly how much to do.

That sounds silly but does nobody find it at all odd that every fomc rate decision is entirely arbitrary whether they go 25, 50, 75 or more and yet cnbc predicts the exact rate decision every time? Believe this fed has a modicum of independence at your own peril.

Besides, the Fed’s actions don’t align- if they really wanted a recession why the gradual hikes from 25 when inflation was spiking? Why not a sudden move to say, 7%? It’s been almost a year since the first hike and over a year since they first announced they would be hiking and we’re still sub 5%. The rate hikes they’re doing are way overblown in terms of driving the economy into recession given the tailwind of liquidity we had. Most companies aren’t cutting back because their short term borrowing costs went up 100 bps in six months.
How do I draw a pair of buttocks? (2014)
Millenials and GenZ discovering cynicism. Such a great moment to be alive.
See, there's the problem. You called it almost certainly false, but what are the criteria of truth?

Science uses induction as a measure, meaning it presupposes that we have faith in the proposition that something will happen again because it has happened in the past. That would be akin to claiming to be immortal, because every time someone died, it wasn't you. With a little additional information, such as the recognition that you are an animal and that most animals seem to have not been immortal in the past, a good hypothesis would be that you will die, but how can you be sure that you're not the first immortal one? It might seem silly, but how can we be certain that the entirety of physics in the universe is not milliseconds from unraveling, that we're not a metaphorical barrel at the crest of a waterfall without knowing?

In epistemology, only logical truths are certain, anything else is an attempt to put a confidence rating on a proposition, be it through science or religion. Neither can reach 100%, but both can certainly be 0%. There aren't even objective measures for such confidence ratings, statistical modelling is the best we have.

The scientific method explicitly excludes unfalsifiable claims from its purview. If you have ever argued with a religious person, you will realize how easily deflected the argument is, that there is no evidence for divine inspiration. You could mention billions of recorded scientific findings that point toward a material world without supernatural events and still be rebuked by "So what? That doesn't mean it's untrue. You can't disprove that it happened that one time."

I'm not saying that science is a pointless endeavor, just that it can never be an objective measure of truth.
Do not upload plaintext personal-anything to a stranger's computer.

These things should be run locally, in your own system, after pulling the repo, verifying, and building it yourself.
Wow! I thought nothing would surprise me anymore about Adobe. But this is a new low even for them.

This is ripping off artists and accessing unauthorised content of your customers executed at the highest level. Boggles my mind how this is even legal anywhere especially in countries under EU? Like how this is an opt out and not an opt in?

Seems like Content Analysis is turned on by default for the whole creative cloud suite. And, to make it worse, you have to go their site, login to your account and then opt out? Oh boy, I smell a gigantic lawsuit waiting to happen.

tweets from artists:

https://twitter.com/CrownePrints/status/1610441583899418624?...

https://twitter.com/SamuelDeats/status/1610365369134333955?t...
Tracking breeding cycles is more likely about sustainability. This might have been the precursor to cattle farming.
> is now considered "chubby" or "curvy" if not normal by most Americans for whom that is normal.

This is why I hate the 'body positivity' movement as it is right now. It's great that this movement tries to make (especially young) people understand that you don't need to have a tiny cover model body to look good (an that it's unhealthy too). But what it's turned into is that obese people are becoming an example to others without any attention to health issues.

It's no longer allowed to advertise smoking pretty much anywhere, but glorifying (morbid) obesity on social media and TV is fine. Meanwhile, obesity is arguably as bad as or worse than smoking.
ah. so people will continue to use this because its the "industry standard" so they have the monopoly to fuck around people all the while these same people will not use/improve/suggest/fund open source alternatives in the classic chicken or egg problem...

i am so glad blender project is slowly being accepted. i have a friend who laughed at me 7-8 years ago when i recommended him blender. recently we were talking about some stuff and he brought up blender as in "this is something i should test". i see that as an absolute win...

hopefully there are many other softwares like kdenlive or darktable or inkscape or others that need blender-like movement so that they can be capable alternatives
What do you mean with "It just isn't documented in the way you are typically used to, coming from Python"? Is the difference that it's documented in various "unofficial" places rather than in a single official site like in Python?

I've had the same experience as the OP and still haven't figured out where to find proper Ruby documentation.
Yee-haw! Cowboys risk it all as they cling on for dear life at rodeo
> What tracker forces you to hand over personal info?

I've seen at least one which required you to connect using your real (non-VPN) IP address upon registration. They'd allow VPN usage after that though.
No, you were confused, as you said. About more than one thing, apparently.
It is impossible for one to ensure that the same code is running on the server.
No: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8826003/
a.k.a. resume-driven development
We do not - because it just codifies our misinformed populist views instead of actually solving the problem.

Sugar consumption is going down and it doesn't seem to have any impact.

Calorie equated studies show no difference between low fat or low carb diets.

It all boils down to excess calories.
this seems genuinely useful
The product is actually directed at authors, offering them to have an Audiobook produced which is "digitally narrated by Apple Books".

The Author still needs to hold the rights for Audiobook production, and he needs to license a third party to produce an Audiobook (no matter if human or "digitally" narrated).

I guess that's why this is aimed at "independent Authors", to circumvent negotiating Apple's rev.share and exclusivity for that production with established publishers...
Once you start counting time in lunar months it's an obvious move to divide the month in two halves, and then to do that again, and divide it into four.

I wonder how old the concept of a week actually is.
OP conflated digestion and metabolisis. Although macrophages 'digest' in that they break things they 'eat' into component parts, they do not use those parts for energy (metabolisis). This is the key novelty here, these virovores are metabolising the viruses (i.e.: using them as an energy source), rather than just breaking them down.
The "Helena" sample contains a pretty good test case of this system's ability to guess where emphasis and pauses go:

> I know Bill carried within him deep currents of spiritual yearning that he found easiest to express through the beauty he saw in all places wild.

(I checked in an online sample of the ebook: there is no punctuation in this sentence.)

Unfortunately the AI completely faceplants, placing an enormous pause right in the middle of the phrase "all places wild". It actually changes the meaning of the text, making it sound more like "...the beauty he saw in all places. Wild!"

I wonder if any of these AI speech synthesis tools come with an editing tool that you could use to tell it not to put the pause there.
Maybe checkout https://vickychijwani.me/blazing-fast-application-switching-.... Personally I use jumpapp which does more or less the same thing. https://github.com/mkropat/jumpapp.
If something stops being an economic transaction it moves out of GDP. So if ChatGPT reduces Google ad clicks then it doesn’t seem like it would increase it, even though it does increase customer surplus (stuff you get for free).
Probably because people mostly thought/talked about these images as aesthetic expression (or at least as signs of symbolic/notional thinking), not as something practical.
Hey. The DevOps role doesn't seem to be there on the website, even after clicking "see all roles". Angel.co lists 3 roles and join.com (linked at your site) just one.
I don't get it. Does HN have a weird crow-befriending fetish?
I was diagnosed with something a few years ago which if I didn't change my diet (no beef, pork, fried foods, no foods with preservatives, low to no salted foods, increase water intake to 3/4 a gallon a day & started eating fresh fruit)that in ten to 20 years id be stuck in bed too tired to do anything/ enjoy life.

For me that forced me to eat healthy daily and it has almost healed my affliction upon religiously following such a diet.
I love a lot of Marshall McLuhan but also a lot of what he says is very metaphorical and spiritual which doesn’t always make sense to me. He is sort of a weird guy that way. Smart but goes weird into unprovable allegories often.
Write a python function to compute the idiotsecant.

Sure! Here is a function that computes the idiotsecant of a number x:

def idiotsecant(x):
return 1/x

This function returns the reciprocal of x, which is also known as the reciprocal function or the multiplicative inverse of x. The reciprocal of a number x is defined as 1 divided by x.

For example, if we call the function with an argument of 2, it will return 0.5, because 1/2 is equal to 0.5.

I hope this helps! Let me know if you have any questions.
"Quiet quitting" is just derogatory term to say "not working unpaid overtime"
The data is no stored. Infact we don't even have a DB connected to the app lol. We do log some data points for product improvement but that is not persisted.
I don’t appreciate this being called “complete secrecy”. There’s literally API to find out when it happens! If it was just logged somewhere I might agree but this is just not true. Nobody says the system firewall runs in “complete secrecy” either even though it doesn’t warn you when it blocks connections.

I mean, in a perfect world all of this would be perfectly exposed to users and they would know every single action their computer takes. I don’t actually disagree that putting in some effort to better surface how XProtect works could be valuable. But the current situation is generally fine and the accusations that Apple is trying to hide this stuff from you do not seem well supported.
No, I remember netscape navigator was my main browser up until 2005 or so. I switched in maybe 2003.

Maybe I was just a hipster.
Exactly. Not touching that.
so you use their software and they can use YOUR IP because YOU gave THEM permission but god forbid you try to pirate THIER IP. then all bets are off and their lawyers will hound you...

i had a friend who was "Being audited" by "Adobe and autodesk" because he had been using a student account being a college student and a family member was running a business and he says "one google ad last year i had put my own name along with that family member". the point of the audit was "to assess if there was any violation of copyright and if they were using only licensed software in their machines" and failing which they would be liable to pay full amount of the software with back payments."

i told the friend to tell them to "fuck off".... that was last year,
Or warn the person (friend, coworker, family member) who sent it that they have a malware problem!
Same on a French keyboard, trying to type `^if {` will result in `îf {`
> makes me think that there aren't any conduits that have more data than can fit in memory on a single machine

Just because you can dedup a conduit doesn't mean you have to. We use conduits for streaming gigabytes-large files while staying within megabytes of memory use – ensuring that is one of the main selling points of libraries like conduit: https://github.com/snoyberg/conduit#readme
Heating the Room for Science
My little Xmas project: Using BOINC client, nvidia-smi and a little bit of Python to turn my PC into a space heater, putting "free" electricity to good use.
This was all done as part of Project MKULTRA at the behest of the CIA. They kept the program's real backing well hidden by enlisting institutions like universities and foreign governments and providing funding through them as fronts. It's probably a good bet some other money was sent Canada's way to reimburse them for these expenses.
> And you're isn't absolute enough.

My what? I was countering an absolutist position; I wasn't presenting my own.

And yes, animals can be made to starve to death as well, if you give them a bar to push that gives a dopamine hit. That doesn't mean we should shrug and say, "Well, it's inevitable that I'm going to die now, because I failed once" the first time we fail to refrain from getting such a hit.
> Its one job is to predict the next word in a body of text.

“Predicting the next word” and “writing” are the same thing; you’re just saying it writes answers in text. There’s nothing about that preventing it from reasoning, and its training goal was more than just “predict the next word” anyway.
This is a privacy nightmare. Maybe its a cool project to think for OP, but these are real chats of people and the whole idea of E2E encryption & private nature of information is defeated the moment one indulges in such a webapp. There is no guarantee how much PII is retained on the server.

Edit: Looking at all the green accounts praising the post, I think @dang should check if these involve a voting ring.
Why is self sovereignty in the Metaverse so important?
Self-sovereign identity is a central tenet of what Web 3.0 should look like. As Metaphysic’s co-founder Tom Graham stated to The Telegraph newspaper: “…individuals [must] own and control their own hyperreal likeness, meaning they also own and control the data involved in training and creating that likeness.” It is key to what Metaphysic is working towards with its platform Every Anyone. This allows users to create their own avatar but with data they will own...
You can't "scientifically prove" that I didn't write this comment under divine inspiration either. Making unfalsifiable claims is not hard.

I guess what you're saying is technically true, but adhering to an extremely strict interpretation of "science" doesn't strike me as terribly useful here. Science can't offer a definitive conclusive question for a lot of things in life, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have anything useful to say and can certainly inform on theological and moral matters.

For example, we can conduct scientific experiments to determine whether animals have emotions, what kind of emotions they have, if they can feel pain, and things like that. This doesn't directly answer any moral questions about how animals should be treated, but such science is invaluable if you want to try and answer these moral questions.

Philosophy without science is just a bunch of people talking shit.
Patents went from real innovation to Legalese BS and market protection in the past decades.

Also I suspect most innovation are being done outside of papers, especially when you have "reviewer 2" ready to be nitpicky at every minor detail, so you make it more bland and maybe skip one juicy part or another
Well, yes and no. In certain games you do gain an advantage this way over a classical opponent, it's called quantum pseudo-telepathy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_pseudo-telepathy. It sounds like quackery but it's a real thing.
What part are you disagreeing with?
I enjoyed "Two Scoops of Django": https://www.feldroy.com/books/two-scoops-of-django-3-x
[Citation needed]

For instance, Foucault's claim is that we have moved from sovereign power that takes life (and its proceeds) away to one which takes control of it in order to optimize production. With a backing of experts-diffused scientific norms rather than based on law.

And biology itself is of course also suspicious, having been corrupted by power.

(Note that it isn't that much of a big deal in the postmodernist view of science, where we consider that it cannot be taken as Truth, only as a good enough paradigm that could be falsified tomorrow.)
One big issue is that Google highly prefers outdated documentation pages. It's usually worth to check which version you landed on.
cool.I shared it with my peers.
No, rubber ducks are still the ultimate rubber ducks, because they don't talk back with industrial grade overconfident bullshit that misleads and confuses you.
We are a fully remote 10 people startup. Everyone is in a different country, mostly in Europe. The only option to make it work is to have everyone as a contractor, because setting up legal entities that can do employment around the globe is not feasible for SMEs.

Also there are some companies selling full employment and payroll option, reporting. They might work for large enterprises, but for us it is just easier to limit the talent pool for those who are willing to work as a contractor and pay then more for taking that risk. Global talent pool is larger than any local talent pool, so you find more staff, more talented staff and staff willing to go for more competitive compensation.
Would a hardware token have prevented this (noob question)?
Any one interested?