skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Loads to do! I am working on it. I have a pot of money set aside from the sales and my plan is to hire a production company and rattle through it in one long shoot, rather than do one video at a time and then do all the production.
> Is the latest Midjourney now considered better than Stable Diffusion?

Its better in terms of having a no-user-configuration service available that gets you from zero to decent results with nothing more than prompting.

SD is better in available specialized customized models (finetuned checkpoints and the various kinds of mix-and-match auxiliary models and embeddings that can be used with them), not having banned topics because it is self-hostable, available tooling and UIs that expose tuning parameters and incorporate support for integrating techniques like guided generation with various types of ControlNet models, animation, inpainting, outpainting, prompting-by-region, etc., with image generation.
Makes NFTs look even more dumb ha ha when you can do this.
Living conditions in Germany have also worsened. Housing prices are as high as ever, the health system is still struggling (too few doctors in rural areas, high costs and decreasing service quality in hospitals) and of course the energy prices.

Not denying that the USA has issues but Germany is also on its way downhill.
It's not a list of minorities, it's also not a list of undesirables.

Listing the actions of individuals has no inherent morality. The morality of the actions is decided by the broader society.

You keep painting them as victims when the list is only outlining their actions. If you have done no harm, you have nothing to fear.
This would work great on the first Max Payne. Now if Havok was under a libre license... (or a Max Payne engine reimplementation a la re3/openrw).
This feels all fine and good until those humans advocate for your extermination to other humans who are more prone to violence than them
With a little bit of effort you can make it work. But I believe Racket has specific language definitions for some of these books so you can follow them more or less seamlessly.
For what it's worth, I found rq to be much nicer than celery but only used it in a relatively constrained fashion.
Is this more than usual?
Ouch, not a good look when people lose almost complete faith in your hardware products. Every one I know of has been shut down at this point. Why would I buy a Google Hardware ever? Especially considering how they treated the Onhub...

Stadia
Onhub
Glass
Bitcoin is an open source protocol. Open, neutral, accessible to everyone, decentralised, censorship resistant etc.

Every other crypto project is a product/service created by a company or "foundation". There's a business plan (i.e. pump and dump), CEO, marketing team, PR etc.

Think of it as the difference between TCP/IP as the base layer protocol for the Internet vs. all the dot com companies/services that have come and gone over the years... except many of those dot com companies actually provided useful services to people.

Bitcoin is more akin to TCP/IP, whereas crypto is more like those dot com companies, except crypto doesn't provide anything useful to anyone, except shitcoin founders who need retail investors to pump and dump on as exit liquidity.

That's the difference.
Even the "series of tubes" thing can easily explain this.

Should the water company be liable if say, some serial killer uses their tubes to drown his victims?

Should the electricity provider be liable for powering the computers that ran the servers?

These aren't new legal questions or anything - pretty common to come across them in law school. Ianal but I've taken some basic classes and even I've seen them!

The rulings, instead, are a consequence of the personal interest and personal ideology of the jurist. We need to collectively create something better then the assumed good faith enlightened monarchies that we call the court systems.

The results they produce seem to have chronic problems
>We really need some form of process to retire judges that clearly haven't kept up with the times and still think in terms of 'series of tubes'. It can't be the only solution to promote them to a different court and hope they'll do less damage.

Unfortunately it's a very thin line trying to do that the "right" way and having it look like a complete authoritarian purge
Fedora Python Classroom
"European fascism has had clear markers, three being white supremacy and Christian nationalism, and, of course, charismatic leadership".

Can't finish the article, completely wrong piece.

"White supremacy" is just not a concept in actual European fascism.

As to Christian nationalism being a marker of European fascism, how is it possible that it is the case when out of the 3 big fascist cases (Mussolini, Hitler, Franco) 2 were virulently anti-Church and anti Christianity in the Nietzschean sense?
So, who pays for this?

This seems to be extremely expensive and somebody is footing the bill — this immediately raises questions as to how sustainable this is. I'm worried that I can't find the "Pricing" link on the home page.

EDIT: I'm actually OK with paying, I'm just worried whenever I see a service with an expensive (GPT-4 is expensive) backend and no pricing. There is no way that can continue indefinitely.
Alternative link for posterity: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/144873.Healing_Back_Pain

Seems like an interesting book.
I'm great thanks! It's been an adventure and that's what life is about, eh?
They know how keep their court busy by handing out favourable judgments. Fuck "Fliegender Gerichtsstand".
I was confused about "robot-axis" for a solid two minutes before I realized the article is about "robo-taxis".
They only seem obvious to you because you are used to them.

Quite the opposite to you, Rust is obvious to me because I'm used to low-level programming and careful memory management, where JS is more than often very surprising.

Another example: I wrote a Lisp-like language in my company for mathematicians to develop constraint systems; now this purely functional, bastard Lisp feels like a second nature to them, whereas they could barely put three lines of Java together to save their lives.

Does not mean that I'm more or less right than you are; just that just like human languages, no PL or paradigms are ‶naturally obvious″, we are just more or less used to them.
Life is much easier when you turn arguments against things you don't like into straw-men. I can see what you'd do that.
Google didnt, thus Chrome started replacing sqlite with https://github.com/google/leveldb
Interestingly, the Lindows software was originally developed under contract by the Corel developers. The Corel developers became Xandros (another Linux distribution) and eventually won the non-payment lawsuit against Michael Robertson. Linspire (as it was then legally know as a result of a successful lawsuit by Microsoft) quickly went insolvent and was bought out by Xandros, who within a year stopped making payroll and the corporate principals slipped into the night.

As a Xandros employee I visited the Linspire office in San Diego, Ca;ifornia: it was a small industrial condo where the front half was an opulent personal office for Michael Robertson and the back half basically a closet where the other 4 to 6 employees worked.
According to the user guide [0], it's as simple as dragging the provided DLL into the game folder.
I'm going to try this out with one of my old favorites today, I doubt it'll be quite this easy.

[0] https://github.com/NVIDIAGameWorks/rtx-remix/wiki/runtime-us...
I'd go about it an alternative way rather than going after the judges: design a network resistant to censorship in the first place. If content can be taken down this easily then society has a problem.

Instead, just make a network where you can't just pull out a plug, or click a button to erase information just because somebody somewhere is upset.

But the typical web is just built for mass consumption and is easily manipulated.
Any benchmarks against regular MongoDB?
That's great, you keep saving the world one list of homosexuals at a time.
Yeah it's the same court that recently ordered Quad9 to block the DNS resolution of certain domains https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quad9#Sony_Music_injunction
It's not available in my country because OpenAI has opinions on foreign policy.
Of course I do this. Just don’t be surprised if people want to try be more expressive with MJ.
Pixel is doing better than ever though.
"I'm a journalist."

What now?
> Germany was especially vulnerable to the withdrawal of Russian natural gas supplies—the country used a disproportionate amount of natural gas for its heavy industry and gas-powered home heating systems, and in 2021, 55% of German natural gas consumption came from Russia

So much reliance on a potential enemy was a huge mistake. Germany should've foreseen that in the span of say 40 years it was likely there would be a major conflict with Russia.

All prediction markets were estimating at fairly high this possibility and the fact that Germany didn't realize this and course-corrected is surprising to say the least.
Given that Chromebooks are always on sale on German electronic stores until finally someone takes them away, I doubt it. They are pretty much an US phenomenon.

In any case, a flagship Chromebook running Crostini is hardly any different from GNU/Linux laptop, other than the fact that GNU/Linux is running on its own container.
The validating nodes "run" the code. And the majority of the nodes now won't process a tx to or from Tornado[0].

[0] https://www.trustnodes.com/2022/12/14/70-of-the-ethereum-net...
Surely the people working at Google understand how all these shutdowns look to outsiders, right? I have to imagine so… they’re smart people, and a ton of them lurk here on HN.

It’s interesting to me that they continue to spawn and nix products like this despite the reputation damage it causes.

Anyone wanna bet on if/when Bard gets axed?
Built by more immigrants? That is turtles all the way down.
I have never even heard of Google Jacquard, was it maybe advertised more in the US than in Europe?

It seems like an interesting concept, since hands-free control of your phone via speech is often too awkward to use in public imho.

Maybe it'll come back when the hardware is able to shrink even more, making it less conspicuous.
Will it run on Crysis?
Ask HN: What's the best platform to train for live coding tests?
HackerRank? LeetCode? Others?

I'd be curious to hear what worked best for you.
Like what? C++ and Rust can do everything C can.
A while ago youtube-dl broke and wasn't fixed. yt-dlp fixed the problem.

Granted, I haven't kept up on whether original youtube-dl eventually got around to getting its primary functionality to work. The several-month interregnum that definitely occurred seems like a good reason to consider it "dead".
> Are they expected to be able to justify their answers?

I hear this question a lot, and I think it's phrased wrong. There's certain problems that require accuracy, high quality, or confidence in reasoning. ChatGPT is ill suited for those problems. Other problems can tolerate poor accuracy, and ChatGPT will be suitable for those problems.

I wouldn't want my doctor using ChatGPT. But if a history game used ChatGPT to show historical quotes on a loading screen, I'd be OK if some were inaccurate or misattributed.

The expectation comes from the problem you're trying to solve. As we get a better understanding of ChatGPT limits our expectations will get better aligned.
obvious is too subjective here, what is not obvious in FP ? is it the terminology ? or the accumulated culture (monads and such) ? because FP at its core is pretty much very obvious. Functions from domain to domain, that's it.
IMO, ARM won not because it was measurably faster, but rather because there was an ARM based offering all over the spectrum of SoC needs. In the appliance/embedded market Atom was firmly in the high end and yet in pc-ish market Atom was very much low end.
I never use pip for the system site-packages, that's the job of the distro package manager.

As for pip install --user, I sometimes nuke the local repo so wouldn't be a robust solution given my workflow.
Sounds like an abstraction not far enough: if you want that single-color optimization, make it an image format that only allows 1x1. It would work whereever a reader for that image format exist, but code that's eager to take performance shortcuts would be free to add a little optimization. Same for the configuration UI, an "image or color picker" would be fully transparent to image picker only.

Bonus points if the specification of that image format allows itself the impertinence of annexing the file name: "if the file name starts with a hash sign and is followed by three or six hex digits, the color of the pixel is that color, contents of the file are considered a comment"
Isolation berween apps? Although not sure what that would buy over just having separate UIDs.
Really nice video! The person's hand with 2 thumbs at 0:47 can really tell it was created using Midjourney. It usually does fingers very wrong! lol
GCP on the chopping block if it doesn't start making gains on Azure by EOY?
I don't understand, what was Uberspace hosting? Was it just an informational webpage about youtube-dl with no downloadable binaries? The article says the downloads were hosted on GitHub which was linked to by the Uberspace site.
This is my main reason for not thinking that rust is good for games - a quick prototype / test / reject approach is important
Curious, did all your work necessitate subscribing to the $30 plan?
The bottom part has 5 digits, but the top part only has 4 (counting blank as digit 0). If both had 5 digits there would have been 5×5=25 positional digits.

So it’s kind of base 5, base 4, and base 20 at the same time.
Pixel phones seem to be an exception from that. Let's hope Google doesn't kill them too.
The internet is dying.
I believe the common explanation is corruption rather than a mistake.
Stadia was so predictable, obvious and was just too easy [0] and had no chance in surviving.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27039202
I bought this course a year or two back and I don't feel short changed whatsoever, I really enjoyed it and thought that something will have caused the projec to drop off as the passion and knowledge is there in all your content.

Thanks for the work you've done on it so far - and super excited to find out that the passion is still burning to make it even better.
The last official release was 2021.12.17.

The I can't believe it's not youtube-dl quasi unofficial fork yt-dlp has a most recent stable release 2023.03.04 (last month).

Of the two one is keeping up with the month by month twists and turns of websites altering their video embed methodologies to defeat CLI rippers .. and the other one isn't.
> I hate the way so much of programming is just fiddling knobs on some old systems.

actually, i believe it's quite the contrary: most of what we need nowadays it's already been invented and developed.

you can be incredibly successful as an engineer at many companies just by knowing what knobs are there and how to turn them properly.

and i think this is relevant because most people end up reinventing a square wheel that only does 10% of what the most used, widely spread, already-open-source wheel does.
I wrote it, and that’s not what it’s saying
Well, tastes in programming languages differ from person to person of course; you may as well ask what makes Ada better or worse than Pascal or Algol68 and Rust.

I personally am very fond of the strong support SBCL has for type checking, which is something I find many Lisp-inspired languages just don't seem to care about.

Every programming language has its strengths and weaknesses, S-expression based languages are no exception, though what I consider a weakness in a language someone else may consider a strength. Things that come to mind immediately are CL's case insensitivity (Ricardo Signes' talk A Million Billion Squiggly Characters touches on the problems with case insensitiveness), Clojure's decision to randomly use square brackets for expressions that have no need for them (this is one thing I know that other people are fans of), and Bel's streams operating on bits (as in 1/8th of a byte).

Though what got me to try CL in the first place was someone mentioning that SBCL is fast, and given that it is still a GCed language, it really is. With Scheme I was bouncing back and forth between Scheme and C because I was unsatisfied with the performance, but with CL I don't feel a need to use C as it is fast enough.
Animal Sex Determination Is Weirder Than You Think
Not sure which problem you refer to but it is an active repo that has worked well for the past few months atleast.
And this is why tech interviews are broken. The author not only believes this is an interview question, but a great one.
did they manage convince to samsung to fix the critical vulnerabilities that require you to turn off your mobile data yet?

otherwise you can be pwned by a phone call

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2023/03/multiple-inte...

phones from mid 2022 seem like abandonware already
So if the macroeconomic trends look bleak for the world, what's the microeconomic approach? Attempt to move to a location where there will be more economic growth? Have more kids? Buy gold?
You can do many small repairs and maintenance activities without much specialised tools and equipment, but to confidently disassemble and rebuild engines, fuel and exhaust systems, body parts, driveline components, etc., requires more than a few hours of videos.
I have similar feelings. I'd even go for the products, if they weren't a shitshow. And as long as I'm doing shitshows - I'll choose one where I don't feel disrespected all the time.
I do use python, when bash doesn't make sense. Perhaps in this case dealing with API's Python was the better choice...but, the parent comment just blanket bashed Bash, and so did you. ;)

I have no issue with bash, it's simple to use even for complex scripts.
That depends on what you are used to.

I was mostly used to C and Perl when I was young, and Python made a lot of sense.

I would not say that javascript was more obvious to me than rust was when I started to use them.

A lot of people seem to be hung up on borrow checker, but if you are used to low level C, you had to keep track of that with comments on functions and conventions anyway (and you had to keep it in your head).

The thing that I had to get used the most of in rust is using more functional style of programming, but since I liked python comprehensions and collections, It want such a long jump as it otherwise might be.
and this is why I wont use Google products. You can't trust them not to pull the plug.
I'm blocking pretty much all website advertising. I'm sure I'm being tracked but I can't see their personalised ads so whatever. Out of sight out of mind.
Legacy on Earth May Be a Plant
This is true - I can only speak about Europe but almost no young people have feasible access to either the space or tools to do any of this unless it's their career or they have family. I wish I could solve the space, tools, and money situation but I can at least help with knowledge.
They _are_ still hosting https://youtube-dl.org/, which does only link to / redirect to the downloads and repository on Github. While there are download links like https://youtube-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl.exe on the website, they simply return a 302 redirect to the latest artifact on Github, i.e., https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/releases/download/202....
Washington Post: Person behind leaked Pentagon documents worked on military base
Not much is known, but that seems a really really strange story of the kind: didn’t you think about the potential consequences?
I love these Google shutdown posts: whenever a headline like this comes up I wonder how many of those former Google products I've actually heard of.
Tell HN: Shopify checkout is potentially down (UK only?)
https://www.shopifystatus.com

Their status page currently shows green lights across the board, but I've had three UK clients on the phone in the last 15 minutes saying their site checkout is failing.

DownDetector shows a spike:

https://downdetector.co.uk/status/shopify/
> and the situation under a supposed "merger" (not that it will happen) can still get much worse

Well, hypothetically speaking (given we both acknowledge a US-Mexico merger is rather unlikely to ever actually happen): yes, it could be worse, maybe even “much worse”; but it could also be largely the same; it could even be better.

One way in which it could be largely the same: the remaining racism in the US is largely of the subtle/systemic kind rather than the blatant apartheid/Jim Crow kind, which makes the racism problems of the US and Latin America much more alike today, despite historically the former being drastically worse than the latter

One way it could be better: for all their limitations, American tribal governments actually have significantly more powers than their Mexican equivalents - federally-recognised US tribal governments are partially exempt from state jurisdiction, while all Mexico has is indigenous-controlled local governments with significantly less legal autonomy. So you could argue that the US shows greater (albeit still limited) respect for indigenous peoples’ rights to autonomy and self-governance, and if a merger of the US and Mexico happened, it might result in that US approach being adopted in Mexico too, resulting in improved rights of autonomy and self-governance for Mexico’s indigenous peoples
None of those had a photo of the tunnel entrance… why is there a rail tunnel that’s easily accessible to cars? Here in DC, the Metro is completely segregated from auto traffic. Is the SF rail running on streets?
This. Asking GPT is basically like asking Reddit or some other "non expert" commentary system that's basically a pool of existing high level information.

It works fine if you want to know how to change a generic wheel bearing on a trailer (wouldn't surprise me if it erroneously lectured you about using high temp grease for disc brakes along the way tho). It falls on its face in almost every case in which the generic "average google result" answer is not the correct answer or there is situational circumstances that make the generic answer inappropriate.

Sure you might get an "expert" answer on Reddit and GPT might scan over the "right" answer to your question in its computation but in most cases the generically correct but wrong in this instance answer is going to be more popular and more prolific and be what gets spit back at you and it'll be faster for you to just dig up the right answer yourself than coax the right answer out of whatever you're asking.
> Not sure which problem you refer to

It stopped being able to download videos from youtube. That's not the only functionality, but -- given the name of the software -- I'd say it should have been fixed. All the repo activity in the world won't balance out the inability to do the only thing you advertise that you can do.
I know you didn’t. But any such idea should be constructed game theoretically with 4chan on the other side. “Blind for humans” would destroy lives. And it doesn’t give people a chance at redemption in their career. I’ve had low points in my career I wouldn’t want to follow me any more than they do already. When you’ve done something for 40+ years you’ll have run the entire gamut of human experience, good, bad, and ugly. In these sorts of things only the ugly gets memorialized.
> If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.

And yet, actual shipbuilding operations look, and have historically looked, much more like the former than the latter.
How safe is Firebase?