skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stable diffusion (or any likelihood-based generative model) is a learned compression algorithm. It is not the "container of compressed bytes". You can use a trained generative model to compress images, by combining it with some kind of entropy coding / arithmetic coding.

In this sense, stable diffusion is more analogous to the JPEG algorithm than it is to a specific collection of JPEG files. As it stands, the originals trainng data is not stored, even in a compressed way.
You aren't violating basic physics and thermodynamics being what they are please explain simply where the additional energy comes from?
"The researchers had expected that mice eating the whole foods-based diet would have a survival advantage when calorie restricted. But this is not what they observed. Diet composition did not affect health and lifespans. However, the periods of fasting did."
On Windows in my experience it's at least a factor of 10. I worked on a script recently that reads ~20000 files a few kb each and extracts some info to generate a web page. I sped it up enormously just by putting the file contents into SQLite tables.
Yet B has to pay taxes for it.

The government will say "Oh, there is $100 more on your books! You have to pay us $25.".

If that $100 in the books is not money, what is it?
https://oll.libertyfund.org/title/white-the-theory-of-free-b... has a good historic overview. (George Selgin has a lot of good stuff in general.)

Central banks were mostly a power grab by governments. They don't really help with assets bubbles, just the opposite.

See also https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/serials/files/cato... for something more US specific.
To be brutally honest, the problem sounds like a you problem.

You have a business, but no way to receive a sms. You had an empty account, you lost it? You used an email account you hardly check. Amazon isn’t this massive company because they are closing accounts with servers, that’s google cloud.

Now you spent a whole $30 when your ready again open a new account.

Your an edge case, and not doing any favors to make your life easier.
What's wrong with something being pretty?
I'm not sure per capita is a great metric here. Metrobank gives an 'average' of 200kwh/month that I feel is a mean. I would wager the median is lower, still.

The point not being to throw stones, but to say what sounds like little power to Americans could actually do good for a lot more households than it sounds like.

https://www.metrobank.com.ph/articles/learn/how-to-save-on-e...
I don't agree. Instead of being between two people, think of the transaction as being between a person and society. Since society offers a lot of different things, you can sell your pigs to society for a token which you can later use to redeem goods and services later. In this sense money is a debt - or an IOU - from society to the holder.
> (2) is a silly definition for most discussions

This is commercial bank money. (The first is central bank money.) The latter is the only definition appropriate for most discussions. Nobody says Apple has no money because they don't have an account at the Federal Reserve.
Can you elaborate why would it be simpler to backup terabytes of files instead of just one?
Art school grad. First of all it takes a lot of practice to be able to reach the level of simplicity and clarity of the illustrations in that article. In many ways this is harder than drawing in a very realistic manner. Saying that:

1. Do exercises from books. Doesn't matter what but things like - how to shade a cube, using negative space, draw 50 horses etc. Also do restriction exercises. Draw in a continuous line, use cross hatching or other patterns for shading, paint in black and white etc. These are all about getting comfortable with the process of drawing and putting pencil to paper.

2. Still life. Draw what is around you then draw what is in what is around you (reflections, shadows, colours). Try drawing your own reflection in a spoon.

3. Life classes. Humans are attuned to the human form by evolution, so drawing humans accurately is uniquely hard. You will also learn to draw fast as in a traditional life class poses usually go from very short dynamic poses (30 seconds - 1 min of someone standing on 1 leg) to short (2-3 mins), to 10 minute poses, finishing with a 30 min-hour pose.

4. Doodle! Keep a note pad with you at all times and doodle in bursts while waiting for tests to run, on the tube, in meetings. After not very long you'll be able to do other things while you doodle.

5. Don't use a computer for drawing until you can draw IRL. Making mistakes and being comfortable with not undoing them is important. Often the process of exploring or covering up mistakes spurs creativity and getting the tool out of the way and concentrating on the process is important.

6. Copy great works, even if you don't like them. Investigate the techniques used, the composition, the materials. See if you can find good day and bad day examples of a masters work and work out what separates them. It will also make you feel better when you realise that even the most valorized ot artists sometimes produce rubbish.

7. Change it up! Don't do the above in order, do a bit of each whenever you can. If you plateau do things like draw with your weak hand for a week, or try inverting what you draw when you draw it, or draw things in incongruous positions or situations. Create a baby's mobile of weird objects, hang it above you and draw them from below. That sort of thing.

8. Share your work and ask for feedback. If you can, do this in IRL so when someone says "I don't like this aspect" you can dig in and work out what they don't like. The internet does not facilitate this kind of discussion as so many comments are drive by / trolling.
Eliminating those huge tractors injects a huge amount of inefficiency into your harvest operation.
Even after depersonalizing my YouTube account as much as possible, it still recommends software engineering videos to me. These recommendations are not excellent, but they are good. I also watched a lot of videos about gaming before I purged my account. I still see many of those in my recommendations.

The algorithm becomes much better at giving you content you would watch as it has more data to work with. But surprisingly, even when it is SUPPOSED TO have no data, it still has enough to recommend some content in my general area of interest.

About 1/3rd of my YouTube home page seems weakly targeted to me. But the weakness of this targeting is enough to disinterest me. For example, even if YouTube understands gaming is important to me, it doesn't understand that it is important to me as a games industry professional. So it recommends Mario mods in GTA:IV rather than documentaries, analysis videos, and videos about industry trends.

I would still consider these "good recommendations" (or perhaps "informed recommendations" is more appropriate). Just not good enough for me to be engaged with the platform.
> Central banks weren't really invented to prevent catastrophes. They don't really help with that

The Fed was [1]. And it empirically does.

> Banks (and especially their customers) are perfectly capable of regulating themselves

Free banking, and more recently crypto, prove the opposite.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_190
It has crossed my mind to take such a loan, spend it on waygu and Château Lafite and that euthanasia place (Dignitas?) in Switzerland. Cheat the bank and the pain of dying. But then again, I am curious to see how things turn out, and that I won't know until my computation is complete.
a) I also have the same. Ironically this is on Google, and I really think they don't fix it on purpose.

b) Agree with this one.
Creating a loan out of thin air satisfies double entry accounting. You don't need to attract other deposits for that.

When a bank makes a loan they already create a corresponding pair of asset and liability on their balance sheet.
Italic, 50%: Tap on the calendar's year to select another
Object stores typically do optimizations where they store small files using a different strategy than large ones, maybe directly in the metadata database.
Agreed, but this post seems to indicate that the author created neither the text nor the associated images. Supplementing one or the other seems like a perfectly acceptable use case, but if a self acclaimed "author" is neither capable of story or visuals then I would argue they have no business being an author in the first place.
> They are not in the business of deciding what is good for the economy overall, nor should they be.

> This idea you have about what is a 'productive investment' or not is fairy interventionist.

So, banks do not give a damn about what's good for the economy (while having enormous power to drive economies), but you believe interventionsim is bad anyway?

Also, if you don't know what a productive asset is, you just need to read a little bit: it's not hard to know.
This is a super critical hack, looks really bad for CircleCI. But I don't see any negative news much elsewhere. They will move on.

Also, maybe that localised build system running on an old server for each team seem to be not a bad idea to reduce the blast radius when eventually a hack happens. These providers are supposed to be the gatekeepers and experts who one leaves the tedious and critical work to. If they are just being a leaky cauldron, maybe not bad to cook in my old pot at home.
The article concludes with “the state of the art is depressing,” but doesn’t mention any of the work of the XP/TDD community, which addresses the problems the author mentioned. I don’t think the state of the art is depressing at all; what’s depressing is that the state of the art isn’t widely known.
In the long run and averaged among many individuals that may be true but in the short run and on an individual basis allowing banks to regulate themselves is a sure fire way for some people to unfairly lose a lot of their accumulated worth.
Lots of small files (particularly in a single directory) is a known failure mode of many OS filesystems. I remember putting a million files into MogileFS and finding that filesystem operations basically did not complete in any reasonable length of time.
There are similar reddit threads complaining about its inability to do basic math:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/103bw12/chat_gpt_g...

And various discussions elsewhere about its inability to do word problems:

https://ai.stackexchange.com/questions/38220/why-is-chatgpt-...
I test CSS on Safari a lot. It works exactly the same as Chrome for 99.9% of daily cases unless someone is doing very edgy quirks.

It indeed has some bugs about autocompletion and messing up CSS in dev tools, needing a site reload, but nothing super major.
Well shucks, nothing at all.
So that means yes but also they've gone past that optimization?
And in ancient times people were living on the land, they didn't had even your log cabin and so on. Your point is not valid. Because we talk current times. Nowadays you go back to living deliberately, especially when you can afford New York, to a farm without anything modern then you're definitely raising your child without best chances in life. I'd call that child endangerment. Your kid will not have the best education you can definitely provide, and it's starting with a handicap in life. So yeah, your point comparing 60's with today is moot.
In 2017 you didnt have io uring yet. Though that doesn't explain it for windows and android.
"When someone buys a building to lease out flats, is that not productive?"

That is simply Joe's $10M building leasing out flats has now become Sally's $12M building leasing out flats. Unless Sally makes productive investments in renovations and so on, there is a net zero gain to GDP but there is asset price inflation as a result of the bank's credit creation. If the bank instead loaned $12M to Sally to build a new identical building, there would be twice as many flats available for renters, the local builders would have work for several months, and the building materials manufacturers would make sales. Joe may have to sell his old building for $9.5M instead, but he may have slightly better rents as the local economy added jobs. And the bank, in the end, should even earn a higher rate of interest from Sally.

"it's the fault of those speculators for the speculating, not the banks."
Both the speculators and banks respond to financial incentives and must work within the laws.

"This idea you have about what is a 'productive investment' or not is fairy interventionist."
Is it any any more interventionist than regulating the bank so that they can't make loans to borrowers who can't pay? Or that they cannot finance new coal plants? Or that they must report all transactions over $600?

It is inevitable that banks will eventually only loan for productive purposes. If we still have a working banking system in 50 years, that is how it will work.
> All economy is fragile because it is based on perception.

Not really, it’s based on laws, specifically taxation.
It seems like your link misses a digit.

Yes, they used that specific panic as an excuse for starting the Fed. But that's a bit like saying WWI was caused by some specific crisis (like the assassination of Franz Ferdinand). Those happened all the time, but typically didn't lead to a war.

Btw, that panic was long over by the time the Fed was established.

In any case, empirically the US had more and worse recessions and crises after the Fed was created than before. See https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/serials/files/cato... and https://www.fte.org/wp-content/uploads/WhiteSelginLastrapesF... and
Yes, sorry about that. It should be this one: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/remote-worker-ordered-to-repay-...
The thing that never worked for me in school was messaging like "drugs will kill you". Well yes that's true. But drugs are way more insidious than this. In my experience they are subtle in how they mess with your mind and over all well being. They take away my drive for natural highs, and natural highs are usually good things. For example exercise, accomplishments and learning. The come downs destroy free time. But worst is they seem to reset my happiness level to lower. Small things that should bring joy no longer do. Thankfully those effects have been temporary for me. I'm glad my drug use is over. I was only ever a weekend partier. Still managed to complete a degree and hold down a job. But I'm done with drugs for good.
> the "failure boundary" of a panic is the entire process.

This is trivially falsifiable by panicking yourself and immediately recovering. Neither failure domain nor failure boundary need to align with the entire process.
“Anyone can create money, the trouble is getting it accepted” - Minsky
> I cannot remember ever using or having something installed in CL

I get you, of course. There are not a lot of user-facing, open-source software. When there is, they tend to be big and not CLI utilities like ripgrep, and not well advertised. A few ideas: pgloader (from python to CL), pgchart, OpenMusic, Opus Modus, the Scorecloud app, CEPL to play with graphics, regex-coach for windows, the Lem editor, Maxima, Axiom, Sucle (Minecraft clone), PTC's Creo Elements multi-million lines 3D CAD software with a free version, StumpWM…

but also you are ignoring all the big historical projects (some still in activity like Maxima).

Try https://ballish.margaine.com/ for a fast code search.
No. The arbitrary definition of 'money' being used by the article is the UK's M4 (https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/statistics/details/further-d...). This basically includes bank accounts along with any cash held outside banks. Since Alice isn't a bank, her IOUs don't count.
Even if it is bypassing the file system, S3 is itself essentially a file system. It has all the usual features of paths, permissions, and so on. I assume it can't completely escape the same issues.
But Charles will say he can’t take a debt as
payment unless it is done through a party his bank trusts

Charles just takes an "Bob owes you $50" as payment. Just like Bob took an "Alice owes you $100" from Alice.

When you hire a web designer to build a new website for you, they will get to work and boom you owe them $X. The webdesigner will not say "I don't accept your IOU. They will say, "Ok, I'll get to work. You will owe me $X".
Wow, that is actually an amazing performance curiousity adding parallelism to the mix. I guess this would depend on the M.2 spec?
The man who first discovered plastic in the ocean in 1971 [video]
How? Electrical equipment moving on rails seems more efficient than driving diesel tractors around on tires on dirt.
I missed the bit about using 8 of them to run it! Wow that’s a lot of GPU horsepower to do this. More efficient to just use a vtuber style pipeline using unreal engine and the metahumans or other avatars… only need one good GOU for that.
My point is if you can choose, then choose the best for your kids. Also humanity exists solely because of reproduction and reproduction means kids. So yeah, you're not fully a member of society until you raise kids, yours or adopted it doesn't matter. The ultimate contribution to humanity is to be a parent.
What the hell? He didn't force Her, he just convinced her.

it was her choice to have a kid, how is that non-consensual?

I convinced my friend to buy a Galaxy instead of an iPhone, is that now considered coercive and manipulative, even though he thinks its the right choice?
Modern logistics systems are so efficient transportation costs are a rounding error for bulk commodities. How's the energy grid looking in Sudan these days?
That a database is faster than a nominal file system has been known for quite a while. It can't quite replace them though. Microsoft tried really hard to have database for their root filesystem, investing a lot of time and effort but ultimately it fizzled, why? Important edge cases (like swap) that databases do really poorly.

That said, if you're using a file system abstraction for complex and compound documents using a database is a really stellar way to go. In part because it doesn't have the "chunking" problem where allocation blocks are used for both data and metadata in file systems so you pick a size that is least bad for both, versus one "optimum" size for disk io's to keep the disk channel bandwidth highly utilized and the naming/chunking part as records inside that.

I wrote a YAML <=> SQLite tool so that apps could use an efficient API to get at component types but the file could be "exported" to pure text. And it worked well in non-UTF string applications. (this was fine for the app which was orchestrating back end processes) At some point it would be interesting to move it to UTF-8 to see how that worked out.
>I don’t even know where to start if that is where we are at.

I have been thinking about this a bit, i believe the pandemic (and this conversation) has been a great example for the general limits of distributed sensemaking and how it breaks down at communicating (and capsuling) all the relevant aspects and perspectives to a topic or statement.

I think in the end everyone has their map of the problem and we are failing (due to the limited bandwith of speech and text among others) at comparing why they differ where. Be it incomplete data, overlooking important perspectives or simply cognitive biases/ ego induced (not wanting to be wrong, tribalism...) errors.

Would you agree?
People say that Warren Buffet has lots of money, but I wouldn't call shares money either.

EDIT: I'd say that in common parlence bank accounts are called 'money' because they're a claim on money (1) that the bank has to pay out on demand. But if you're calculating an aggregate then you shouldn't include both the claim and the thing it's a claim on.
Windows struggles horrendously with lots of small files. If you tried the same task on Linux you’d see a large jump in performance. I don’t know if Linux small file access could match SQLite but it would be a lot closer.
In practice in eg the 19th century, the very lightly regulated banking of Scotland and Canada was much safer than the US's and England's more heavily regulated banking sector.

In the 20th century it got even worse, with (effectively government backed) deposit insurance becoming popular: it removed most of the incentives customers had for regulating the safety of their banks.
Female workforce participation is very high in developing countries with high birth rates [0], though mostly unskilled labor. Instead, birth rates correlate with GDP per Capita mostly.

In poorer countries women have children because they can't afford not to. In rich countries women have no children because they can't "afford to." Be that opportunity cost, e.g. working part time to take care of / deprioritizing your career for your child, or actual cost as in paying for childcare.

[0] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SL.TLF.CACT.FE.ZS?most_...
> Do you think the average members of the public are gonna start Googling stuff on Bing anytime soon?

They are already, by accident. And a large amount of them doesn't even realize it's a different page...
It’s been a while since I bothered looking at anything made by nVidia, I didn’t like their business practices and to be honest… Living in the Mac ecosystem for 90% of my work/life means I followed the paltry AMD rocM stuff ardently and was so happy when Apple made an effort up front to get the M1 and M2 chips supported by the major ML frameworks.
Barracuda VPN on Linux permanently and silently changes resolv.conf
I work occasionally, as an IT contractor.

I recently completed a contract for a large German company, who will remain nameless. Nice bunch, nothing wrong with them, and I would not want to embarrass them.

Said company provides to its remote staff a VPN, Barracuda VPN, and the VPN is available for Linux, which in my case means a Debian package.

I installed, never needed it, six months later contract complete uninstalled.

A few months after this, I stumbled across the fact that my resolv.conf had been altered, to that given below, and not reverted by uninstallation;

nameserver [German company DNS IP #1]
nameserver [German company DNS IP #2]
nameserver 127.0.0.1
nameserver ::1
search [an IP name from German company]

The VPN installer had prepended its DNS to resolve.conf

I may be wrong, but I understand resolv.conf uses servers in the order they are given, and uses only the first three servers.

(The final line, "search", causes any DNS IP name lookup which fails to be retried with the given IP name appended.)

These behaviours occur whether or not the VPN is active, and where resolv.conf was not reverted by uninstallation, continue occurring after the VPN is uninstalled.

I contacted Barracuda about this matter, explaining and questioning what had happened.

The initial reply was prompt, and asked for a serial number.

I replied I had never been given a serial number, just the package, and I had left the company concerned some months before (and of course, had only noticed this problem afterwards, as it is a silent and unexpected change).

There was no reply, but since then, I've received automated emails telling me I have a ticket, and that it is awaiting a serial number (to which I have replied, to no effect or response).

Barracuda have a second email address, for security issues. Email to this address has gone unanswered.
Yeah I got absolutely crushed by this when trying to migrate a Windows Server 2016 machine to unRAID, whose filesystem is absolutely horrible when dealing with thousands of smaller files. Wiped out a month of work for NAS-related activities; we're back on Windows again.
Harvesting won't use what? Are you proposing we, as a species, revert to harvesting the equivalent of a few hundred million acres of cultivated land by hand?
The only fair way is that whenever you make regulations to protect workers, those regulations need to apply to workers from any country whose goods are imported or are competitive.
I remember discovering Brainfuck... and then discovering Malbolge [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malbolge
Pihole doesn’t block YouTube adds.