skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>that seems to work almost entirely from imagination

I very much doubt that.

>Secondly, putting strangely much effort into a comment on Hacker News

Note sure what you are implying here, could you elaborate ? The reason I know about these images is because they've been posted, alongside many other similar examples, in discussions regarding AI art.

>I know this because there are too many mistakes with regards to proportion:

Have you ever used programs like Photoshop, Krita et al ? You can start painting directly over a photo, and then easily transform the proportions of all components in the image, and since you draw them in layers, they can be done without affecting eachother.

Here they are, side by side:

https://imgur.com/a/tIbBkk2
https://imgur.com/a/K1fEPtu

I have no doubt that he started painting these over the reference photos, and then used the 'warp tool' in his painting program of choice to alter the proportions, a very common technique.

And this is PERFECTLY FINE, the resulting artwork is transformative enough to be considered a new work of art, which is true for practically every piece of art I've seen generated by Stable Diffusion, the only one I've seen that I'm doubtful about is the 'bloodborne box art' one, which is THE example that is always brought up as it such an outlier.
Problem with my open-source startup: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kiW9qmNlJ9oQZM6r5o4_N54s...
Worth a read and I'm sure Rui would appreciate ways to resolve this.
Caught red handed
This was my thought too - possibly your success is just a new way for credit card fraudsters to check numbers or cash out.

Sad that stripe can cancel your business over it, but I also don't blame them.
I really think people should be cautious about upvoting this story as OP has not disclosed the nature of their business, likely for a reason.
European standards don't allow many of the worst techniques that are used routinely in US meat production.

And everything is difficult until you do it. And everything costs more until its done at scale.
Yup. I have inherited a custom pair of leather hiking boots that‘s at least 40 years old and I intend to use them for another 40.

Of course it’s pure luck that these boots fit me perfectly.
BofA had huge increases mostly through expansion of BofA credit cards for states' unemployment checks.

Now even that is shrinking due to competition (and fewer unemployment).
In fairness, this was just a proposal (from someone who clearly has more knowledge of engineering than law). They got feedback that this isn't how the AGPL works, and decided to go with a commercial license for the macOS version instead. Which is annoying for me, as I was hoping to use mold on macOS and the monthly subscription seems a bit steep for a linker, but it seems like a perfectly reasonable license.
I don't think cars led to a mass slaughter of horses. What happened was that fewer horses were bred and raised. Cars were expensive at first.
WHAT THE FUCK

I bought hundreds of CDs from 1990 through to about 2005, some of them on that list, and I never had a clue about this technique.

I knew about hidden tracks at the end after a silent gap - e.g. Nevermind had a hidden track after 10 minutes of silence at the end, was fun to schedule it on a CD jukebox in a bar...
If someone writes this much about an issue where they don't describe the product they are selling it is generally enough to know why they were cut-off.
I don't get it, why are Americans so brain-dead with paying with their credit card online directly?

Here in small country in EU, Czechia, we have several payment processing companies, which process debit cards payments online.(nobody use credit cards here, spending money you don't have, no thank you, rofl)

These are companies based in our country, you can call them, you have a written contract with them, so if something go sideways on their part, you have options to bring them to court or something.

And there're several of these companies, like 3 or more. All with proper audits and everything.

Nobody use paypal or stripe or some similar BS here, also we can send money directly from personal bank account to company bank-account, with no fee, so this is just another option.
Or even all banks integrate with eshop in a way, you can make a direct payment through bank API with callback, so order is instantly payed. Also no fee, of course.

I can't comprehend, why is American online market so backwards.
So This Is a Job?
Despite the arm processor in the cart it barely helps with the kernel and game code in most games. Typically they are older not so powerful Cortex M0 and it is largely tied up emulating the cartridge hardware. It can give modest gains when doing the kernel but most of the fancy graphic kernels are designed as they always have been - with a lot of deep human thought.
What is an audio CD and where do you stick it?
Unfortunately the answer is a lot of companies. Not big names, not ones that extol their own virtues, not the loudest voices. So, yeah, difficult to find but numerous.

Generally I’ve found them to be smallish companies with a track record of growth (“uninterrupted prosperity”) and a culture that values the holistic good (i.e. has buried the exclusive focus on shareholders) and comes from the top.
> a bad actor using your site as a testing ground for stolen cards

Happened to me when launching a new site. Quickly refunded all payments, but still had to pay the fees.
For variable fonts:

Is there a way to toggle and preview the available layout features?

Also, a toggle/preview for character variants (cvXX) would be nice
It's always useful. Not all programs work best as graphical interfaces. Quite often all that is needed is a text interface, and the easiest way to get one of those is with a terminal of some kind. In today's world, that 'terminal' is most likely to be a terminal-emulator running on a graphical Desktop.

I generally have four or five xterms in use on my average Desktop.

A curses-based text interface is a good substitute for some graphical programs where an addressable cursor is required. It's certainly faster and more light-weight.

Programming for text-based programs also should involve the use of various options given in the terminfo, but most of us are lazy and only cater for one or two main cases. (Hiding behind curses/ncurses as those libraries do the thinking for us.)
Um, an immutable journal means you can't delete bogus data. If, for example, a system chokes when it sees a 3-byte UTF-8 code point, and you accidentally insert such a thing in the journal, then you're hosed. The system can't come back up until the software is mad-panic patched. Or (again hypothetically) somebody fat-fingers an update, deletes ATL from the airport list, thus causing a crash when software sees now-orphaned NOTAMs.

Nor does distributed-consensus seem to apply in this case. For many datasets you want one source of truth (e.g. airport codes, approved abbreviations).

Crypto blockchains deal with very, very simplistic global states. Bitcoin, for example, has (a) 256 bits from the prior block, (b) a megabyte or so of transaction data. Every state machine update (mined block) totally replaces the prior state. And it crucially depends upon backtracking never being needed; for example, if a prior block's hash made it impossible for a new block to be created with enough zeroes in the hash (I don't think that's possible), then a global, manual fork would be needed.
Tenuous or not, I believe GCC explicitly has a licensing exception that states that compiler output is not considered a derivative work of the compiler, and thus must also be licensed under the GPL. So the GNU/FSF folks at least thought it was a concerning enough legal idea to explicitly account for it.

Not sure we can say that a linker is the same as a compiler in this sense, but if so, maybe it is indeed worrisome.
I suppose we can safely assume that the real number is much higher, but at least this one is more realistic than "37" which, until yesterday, was the official count.
I had a holiday job at the police forensics lab library in Auckland in the early 80s. This was one of the many documents that had been confiscated by police and carefully catalogued and stored away.
My understanding is one can build a Universal app on either platform. Debugging the Apple Silicon side does require an Apple Silicon Mac but a well-developed app with a constrained feature set might "just work." They could make a Universal build and offer it as a beta to those who wish to try.

I don't know where they're located but a refurbished Mac mini from Apple is $589. AWS EC2 M1 Mac instances are ~$16/day ($0.65/hour, 24-hour minimum).

https://www.apple.com/shop/product/FGNR3LL/A/refurbished-mac...

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/07/general-a...

https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/dedicated-hosts/pricing/#On-Deman...
20 years ago was still 21st century, if that helps you feel any better.
TUIs are great and underappreciated in my opinion.

Another thing I wish were used more is character-mode graphics such as line-drawing, semigraphics, and various unicode symbols; I also wish more terminal emulators supported inline images - often I don't want to start up a new app just to plot something.

Agreed about native look and feel, but I don't think GUIs are intrinsically huge and intractable. Consider the various immediate mode GUIs posted on HN (Nuklear, Imgui, etc.) as well as the original Mac toolbox, which fit in 64K of ROM.

Thanks for the reply and for the interesting projects and posts!
At least don't take selfies of yourself committing the crime and stream it to the 'gram.
Don't know why you're downvoted, this is pretty much the crux of the story. Someone has to eat chargebacks and fraud costs.

It isn't going to be your payment provider that does so.
Did GP claim to be on Apple Silicon? No? Stop assuming.

That aside, if GP did run an Apple Silicon machine, there's also the market to buy used, and buy lower-spec models like the base-spec Mac Mini or MacBook Air.

Once again, these aren't $3000 machines, and you don't know whether the machine they use was gifted, loaned, used, a work machine, etc. -- although the decided choice by their own admission, and their profile, suggests cost wasn't a factor for them.

Do you have a point, or are you just looking to argue? The response was in your incredulous "Yet you can afford to buy a Mac?" accusation to GP -- which is loaded with baseless assumptions. I reasonably pointed out any ways someone could own a Mac without significant or any cost to themselves. Nobody said anything about it being the most modern or powerful machine, all GP said was that they want to create FOSS apps for Mac, and didn't agree with paying the $99/yr Developer program fee for signing apps as an "authorised developer."
Read ECMA-48 and DEC VT documentation. That will cover the bulk of what you need to know to operate a TTY style terminal.

Terminfo is basically for smoothing over differences with terminal behaviors that aren't commonly used anymore. It only tells you there's a difference in capability. You still have to implement code to handle them which will never be invoked by anyone but a retro enthusiast plugging in obscure 70's hardware.
I mean…the answer is that their business model is risk management with a small side of payment processing.

Imagine if they didn’t have to fight fraudulent or illegal activity…

As a result, it’s easy to see how a culture of suspicion, self-protection, and user-hostility could develop even if no one at the organization wanted it that way.
> had you posted "can I reasonably build this business on Stripe" on HN, the whole thread would be people telling you "of course not"

Does this justify refunding money for services rendered and goods provided? Refusing to process further transactions when someone is found in violation of terms/policies is obvious, but straight up returning money? On top of that, does Stripe not know who they do business with? I would assume you get asked what you're selling and have a chat with someone who determines whether you're legit or not.

In a company I worked for, there was serious KYC from our payment provider before we were allowed to process customer funds.
I have never understood the claim that seatbelts are uncomfortable. Are y’all cinching them down so hard it cuts off blood flow? At any reasonable tension, it exerts no more pressure than one’s underpants.
:) I just see it as common curtesy to members of their own team. Then again, maybe I am just old school as a 49 year-old CTO.
Well, you already reached your own conclusions, but you see the reason why I focused on corporations is a) Pfizer making money is an extremely common critic regarding the COVID situation, at least around here, and b) the objection you were formulating was up to now unclear to me, so I unconsciously focused on the most common one. I never thought you were making a purely political statement, because in my mind, this problem has nothing political in it.

I'm not that left wing and most docs are not lefties at all. Honestly, I don't think the academic/medical arm of public health has a political agenda. We just don't care who is in charge, but it's frustrating to see people working against their best interest when you're spending 70+ hours a week attempting to improve a catastrophic situation. Regarding the lying, I fear you're attributing to malice what is in fact just ignorance. Academics were asked for recommendations, sent back their best guess about a very uncertain situation, and got backlash about everything they guessed wrong. I have to say that the american way of extremely polarized political opinions spreading to everything feels really alien to me.
Any sufficiently complex economic system has loopholes, can be gamed, can be subjectively perceived as unfair. This in itself should not disqualify it, since all systems are imperfect.

Perhaps this system does not have a built in mechanism for empathy… that’s a stronger argument against it in my view.

Tenure or background based systems are far less desirable - wouldn’t you agree?
Every time you do a JSR $XXXX it's doing dynamic allocation of sorts. The return address is kept on the stack. I honestly have never seen a game of any complexity that doesn't use subroutines (it saves ROM).
These things have reached the tipping point where they provide significant utility to a significant portion of the computer scientists working on making these things. Could be that the coming iterations of these new tools will make it increasingly easy to write the code for the next iterations of these tools.

I wonder if this is the first rumblings of the singularity.
I also make sure my new tab screen doesn't have sites like YouTube, Twitch, etc. I don't use any social media sites so they won't appear there, but if you do you should also keep them off of your new tab screen.
> What's the point of training bigger language models when you can't even serve (inference) them economically?

They're built to impress people and push the boundaries of can be done with ML. Economies, accessibility, scale - those things come later.
The Katadyn Pocket water filter will probably last you a lifetime with the (replaceable) 50.000L filter it comes with.
That lack of ideological consistency did annoy me; I feel like both the BLM riots and Jan 6 should have inspired brutal crackdowns.
> could be implemented as a distributed-consensus database.

Yes it can. That is not the question. The question is why do you think a bog standard, but correctly implemented and administered database could not handle the same?

Imagine the following: the task is to move two wheels of cheese 5 km from A to B. Your proposal is akin to someone comming and suggesting that a suborbital rocket can do the job. And you are right. It can. But so can a Toyota Corolla without breaking a sweat.

So tell me, why should we use a “hypothetical modern crypto-consensus solution” here, with all its complexity, instead of a well understood and bog standard and well implemented database?
Would you be mad if you weren't a world class guitarist after 4 months of practice? If you couldn't discuss politics in Cantonese after 3 months of classes?

React is hard, and if you don't know ES6 inside out, you'll never learn it. Slow down and have realistic expectations.
None of what you said made any sense. “Reducing the investment” in what. “Preserving the return” of what.
Did you try GHCi? The interactive REPL of GHC (Haskell)? I feel it's the best REPL I have tried. Certainly beats out Python and JS.
Does anyone remember vaguely what the post was about? (Edit - in case it changes again the body of the post is now just "I was advised to remove this post") It looks like tis been removed and there's a comment thread below where OP seems to be potentially denying and then admitting a link to a business that some other commenter are suggesting might be shady- very confusing to see a highly updated post on the front page that seems to have been nuked in this significant a way
Who said it was ok? There were numerous statements from Dems saying that protests are good, but violence isn't.

Jan 6 was a poor, but at least semi-organized attempt to overthrow the government and was directly encouraged by a Republican president.

They literally attacked Congress's security force and forced Congresspeople to vacate.

The dissimilarities are so obvious that I honestly don't know if you're being honest about your own political persuasion. I'm center-left and really hated and disagreed with the George Floyd protests and riots myself, and also generally dislike BLM as an organization.
The sprites can be replicated by adjusting NUSIZn for the player of interest: https://archive.org/details/Atari_2600_TIA_Technical_Manual/...

Looks like the tree branches could be two copies on the left, then two more on the right. Not much going on in that region so plenty of time.

EDIT: presumably this bit: https://github.com/johnidm/asm-atari-2600/blob/8b613f3c4bc80...
I think you're confusing shared_ptr with reference counting as a technique in general. Can you answer the questions I have above without talking about shared_ptr?

Stack overflow is not unique to a shared_ptr, but GC pointers don't have this problem

No one should ever have this problem. It is a ridiculous way to make a linked list in the first place.
I expect science to have a hypothesis which can be falsified. Otherwise it’s just opining on a topic. Otherwise we could just call this HN thread “research”.
I have actually recently picked up Atari 2600 homebrew development as a hobby.

My reasons are:

1. The hardware is simple enough that you can completely understand everything that is going on. And you absolutely need to understand it, if you want to make good games. Just a great feeling of power and control.

2. You need to use assembly. Even with 8-bit era computers you don't really need to use assembly. Sure, for performance but for many task even the dog-slow Basic of the C64 could get you far. Not many excuses to write substantial amounts of assembly these days, so I really enjoy the challenge.

3. You are forced towards radical simplicity but the hardware is still strong enough that you can make games people might want to play. Even in 2023.

There are great fantasy-consoles like the pico-8 these days but they don't scratch the same itch for me. I enjoy the historicity of programming for a real and very influential console.

Plus, the 6502 instructions set you learn used to be ubiquitous, giving you a head start if you want to program for the C64, NES, Apple ][ and many more systems.

I recommend using https://8bitworkshop.com/ as you can get an instant feedback loop when developing your game.

I haven't yet finished making a game but I am having great fun!
Turned out the author didn’t know that csv-mode exists.
Exactly my thought as well. Strongly considered to flag this. These vague complaints should stop. Either take your whining somewhere else (reddit?) or be very specific on ALL aspects.
Ask HN: Does Chrome Listen to the Videos?
Today I was watching the Lex Friedman podcast on Youtube with Hikaru Nakamura who mentions that hey plays Geometry Dash. A few seconds after, I paused the video and opened a new Chrome tab and typed "geo". Search suggestion in the address bar was Geometry dash.

Same thing when I was watching some tv show on CraveTV where they character said that an assailant used "wifi circuit breakers". Auto complete/suggestion for "wifi" in my address bar was "wifi circuit breakers"

I know search suggestions are enhanced by recency of something you were browsing but not entirely sure how this is possible based on contents of a video that is being played.

Now, I don't think Chrome can actually listen to audio, process it in real time and all that, but in both cases Youtube and CraveTV had/has subtitles in the video player which are just text files.

This comes off a bit tin foil hatty so I made a different account but not really sure how the auto complete for "wifi" and "geo" could literally be what I was looking for which is rare (at least in the case of wifi circuit breakers..)
Yes, it does. There are kinds of businesses that can be run in good faith, but not on Stripe, because it's impossible to distinguish in those kinds of businesses the good actors from the bad ones. Positively, not normatively, the fact is: that is the retailer's problem, not Stripe's.
Perhaps they just don’t remember accurately what business is theirs.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34384317
Some secondary school mates made this and spread it in the corridor. We heard the explosions as the head science teacher stamped through to detonate it all before the classes were allowed out.
This is a polemic, the chapter he refers to is actually a cogent argument: https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&d...

Basically he traces the origin of the "fallacy" back to "a hodgepodge of
borrowed working-class slang, middle-class prejudice, and archaic economic doctrine" from David Schloss in 1891, and shows it had nothing to do with the 8-hour day effort at the time. The "lump-of-labor fallacy" is essentially a strawman trotted out by opponents of lower hours as a rhetorical device, similar to how the waterfall model never existed before Agile came along as "the alternative". (See e.g. https://pragtob.wordpress.com/2012/03/02/why-waterfall-was-a...)

Then he uses Chapman's theory of hours and some estimates from Denison to show that most likely the 35 hour work week would result in lower unit labor costs, increased demand, and a net gain in productivity overall from the redistribution of working time.

Then he gets into a discussion of fixed costs, and basically says "the government can subsidize the transition by restructuring taxes".

I'm not saying his arguments are sound, although they don't seem obviously wrong, but the chapter is certainly a lot better than the original link, which just summarizes the strawman conclusion but not the evidence.
>happens after standup proper

This comment will get flagged and deleted shortly. However. Have you considered not using pretentious “grammar”.

The “puts pressure on people” piece is a huge alarm bell of poor people skills.

I’d quit shortly after interacting with you… proper.
Can you then install docker on that macos and run macos again within that docker?
I suppose the calculus might change when it’s between the earth getting smashed and the potential unintended consequences of cosmic bowling.
'bowling' is hardly a good analogy here, though. it's more like pea shooting at huge rocks, though in this case it turned out that the rock in question isn't held together particularly well.
Glad to hear. As crazy as it sounds, I believe that the biggest apology we can give to the planet's inhabitants is using our creations to shield Earth from a potentially catastrophic asteroid that could wipe out vast amounts of life.

Yes, this "repayment" to Earth's biosphere is dulled by the fact that we created weapons decades ago that could wipe out more life than a relatively small asteroid could, but developing and fine tuning these redirection methods is the least we could do to protect this planet's life.