skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The implication is that rather than replacing physical work we don’t enjoy, market forces will drive AI to replace the mental work we find most satisfying: gaining knowledge and using it creatively. We could end up with an economy in which software writes the novels and people drive the taxis."
I don't think this is a correct characterization.

Another content creator is getting takedown requests for vanilla gameplay [0]. PointCrow also mentions takedown requests for other videos that have nothing to do with the modded multiplayer video. Nintendo has terms for this type of content, allowing usage that they're now issuing takedown requests for [1].

Maybe the bounty for the mod, or maybe it's just mods in general, that got Nintendo's attention but they're trampling over the creators other work, which looks like a bullying tactic.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSZYpDk9Xm8&t=163s

[1] https://www.nintendo.co.jp/networkservice_guideline/en/index...
It's perfect just the way it is! It's so great that you keep updating the relevant parts!) :)
I'm not the guy who came up with this style! I just vacuum up catboxes and do a lot of tests/repros. I'm not at my main computer so I can't give you exact gen parameters, but the cliff notes version is:

- DPM++ 2M K or DPM++ SDE K w/ a high eta are the best samplers in general, the former was used here
- search seed space at whatever res is reasonable (512x704) before upscaling
- once you have a good seed hiresfix with ultrasharp or remarci @ 0.5-0.6 denoise (i prefer the former, ymmv)
- do a second diffusion pass in i2i on top of the hires, but with a simpler prompt focusing on high quality e.x. "gorgeous anime wallpaper, beautiful colors, impeccable lineart"
- for the second pass (this will be taking you from ~1k x 1.5k to 2.5k x 4k) you're gonna run out of VRAM if you're trying to diffuse traditionally so use the Tiled Diffusion addon with Tiled VAE enabled as well to conserve vram. DDIM seems to work best here though I've gotten good results with the two samplers above as well.
- using a style finetune helps a lot, Cardos Anime was used here
- when in doubt, search Civit.ai or huggingface, there are tons of great models/LoRAs and textual inversions out there and if you have anything specific in mind having some form of finetune helps a ton

Obviously you're going to need to know how to prompt as well which is definitely not something I can explain in a single post, just like any kind of art you just have to practice a bunch to gain an intuition for it.

P.S. I've recently started a patreon, if any of you'd like to support my work on this stuff. I'm a big believer in sharing all my knowledge, so most of it will come out for free eventually, but I gotta eat. [0]

[0] https://www.patreon.com/thot_experiment
not op, but it's like gpt4 with 90 percent less hallucinations, at least as far as I've seen.
What's exactly going on? As a user who never used SwiftKey and only know that it's a mobile 3rd party keyboard, I'm kind of lost what's the issue about. ELI5?
Sorry, I meant the album. Europe Endless, the opening tune, features a prominent four to the floor.
I was trying to find the full list of the languages where QuickPath (Swipe) is supported. Here it is:

https://www.apple.com/ios/feature-availability/#quicktype-ke...

Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Vietnamese.
No, a trick is a shortcut with respect to the more tedious method. By definition anything that works also formally works, otherwise it wouldn't.... work.
My guess, based on dealing with DMCA notices in other contexts, is that Nintendo doesn't decide at all. They hire a third party who scours the internet for stuff that might be infringing and that third party uses automated tools to fire off complaints and notices without anyone at Nintendo even being aware of any one particular instance at all until after it starts generating bad press. Youtube gets the notices and, without anyone at youtube ever being aware of any particular instance either, Google's automated system is what actually takes down a video. It's all automated systems sending notices and automated systems carrying out take downs, with companies who are routinely careless about sending DMCA notices on one end, and on the other end you have one of the richest corporations on the planet who still can't be bothered to pay a human to double check before they ruin someone's livelihood, or even to help clean up after their automation screws up.
Batteries are emphatically not a dead end, there are many more chemistries than Lithium Ion and the life spans are approaching 6000 cycles for the best kinds which is a 20 year lifespan. Yes, they are expensive, so is everything else connected to the power grid. The cost of storing a KWh and retrieving it has been steadily dropping over the past two decades making this now a feasible method to store energy at grid scale. Even so, like everything else, it is an optimization problem, you don't want to overdesign your battery storage because the safe assumption seems to be that future tech will be even better so pacing the roll-out of such tech is a prudent approach.
>what’s the opposite of anachronistic?

Newfangled?
It's been my experience that not much satisfying happens on Microsoft web-based support forums anyway.
most of post on twitter is botted anyway.
Regular patents also have really low bar.

I think this is because you have experience with software, so you see pretty much all software patents should have never been granted, but same goes for things like hardware.

I would partially blame the VC culture for this, when they state as a requirement for funding that product needs to be patented. So engineers try to patent whatever they can and as it seems these patents don't go through any scrutiny and are approved as they go.
It does not need much to add the "follow with one click" to your browser. This code works for me:

let your_instance="masto.ai";

document.location=(
"https://"
+ your_instance
+ "/authorize_interaction?uri="
+ encodeURIComponent(document.location)
)

You can make it a bookmarklet or a chrome extension to have it at your fingertips. (Set your_instance to the Fediverse server you use first)

You can use my bookmarklet editor to turn it into a bookmarklet:

https://www.gibney.org/bookmarklet_editor
It's an interesting extension, will give it a go.

I've been booking a few hotels for this year as I have a bunch of trips aligned and booking is really fucking annoying. All those urgency prompts don't make me book faster or anything, they never did. And after a lot of bookings I tend to not even see them, my eyes already blur them out. I search for what I'm looking for and I book it.
The other problem is the 3.5 watt draw, or 600ma at idle, of the PI4B.

If you used a PI Zero with an ethernet expansion board this goes down to 100ma at idle. 6x less. You still get 1ghz cpu and 512mb of ram. I could even run django and postgres on that.

Certainly you don't need gigabytes of ram to run the blog. :)
When developers talk about a "clean way" I immediately think of an over-engineered and over-abstracted piece of crap that will be so complicated to understand that the next team will rewrite from scratch.

YMMV.
They definitely must follow Japanese law for their Japanese customers. That doesn't mean Japanese law applies to all of their customers worldwide, though.
Arm v7 was a Wild West, but with v8, Arm tried to standardize a lot. The Arm Trusted Firmware is the reference boot firmware implementation for v8+ CPUs: https://github.com/ARM-software/arm-trusted-firmware.

I'd think most of the referece documents can be discovered from that code base.

Relatedly, from the perspective of hands-on programming, the System Programmer's guide is the manual to start with: https://developer.arm.com/documentation/den0024/a/.
I appreciate it, I'm trying to be a great artist here so this isn't really my work, it's 90% stolen from anons on 4chan. ;) I post on twitter[0] a reasonable bit but SD art isn't a big focus for me. I also recently started a patreon which is another post in this thread if you're interested in supporting.

[0] https://twitter.com/thot_exper1ment
I have to laugh yet kind of admire such a silly suggestion :)

A commonly first claimed Jungle track is Lennie De Ice, We Are I.E. recorded 89 released 91. Sampling the Amen Break was common in breakbeat / rave but it became Jungle when it got that dub bassline.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAtuQR-w-Jw
But who reviews the source code? Could you submit broken code? Code hastily written by ChatGPT?
Thanks for sharing. I think of it like a messy divorce or a business deal gone wrong. Sure some issues may be clear cut but most of the time you're never going to get the full story without listening to both sides. And even then you're not guaranteed the truth.
> There are no electronic devices. Smokey prefers to avoid them. So, his engines run with simple carburetor and breaker points. Yet, the system fully meets all emission standards. Consequently, manufacturers could eliminate all those expensive, ridiculous converters and air pumps.

Oh please let's get back to this!
I consider myself somewhat plugged into social media (Twitter, Insta, Tiktok, etc). But I admit I didn't know what Fediverse was and though it was some kind of government project, maybe for contractors to share documents relating to grants.

Still don't understand the connection between "Fed" and "Mastodon". I think a Mastodon-based social network should be called "Tuskverse" or "Pachyverse" or "Stompverse"
Recently saw a nice replica of Duchamp's work 'Bottle Rack' from 1959.
Readymade, but maybe a bit expensive.
For the price they asked, I could do it myself in a blacksmithing class and have more fun.
If you watch the video, Nintendo offers terms governing use of their games in videos, and his videos were compliant with the terms.
For arXiv there's https://ar5iv.labs.arxiv.org

Currently HTML is available for sources up to March 2023, and you need to manually replace the X in the URL with a 5.
I gave WebLLM a spin. This is a promising start, but it's struggling with code (using vicuna-7b-v0):

Write a Turbo Pascal program that says hello world.

```sql
program helloWorld;

begin
write('H');
write('e');
write('l');
write('l');
writeln;
end.
```
Seems like tons of Mastodon advocates are the ones always pitching it as an alternative to Twitter. Every time that happens, I'll just get the numbers out since you brought up the total number or registered users which is irrelevant to active users:

Twitter: 220M+ DAU over 17 years.

Mastodon: ~50,000 DAU (1.4M MAU) over 7 years.

What matters in social networks is scale and it still means more users and there is already evidence that Mastodon not only was and is still struggling to scale, but eventually needed to re-centralize to handle their scalability issues, ie. using Cloudflare. Most of the instances there, are hosted by enthusiasts and hobbyists which intermittently struggle with more users.

If an instance is too small, it will easily be at risk of getting attacked and overloaded with users, with the instance falling over and having to close signups. If its too large, they become more centralized and to incentivise federation they have to close signups. Either way, centralization is inevitable.

It's already bad enough for normal users to 'choose an instance' if their can't register on a closed one or if a rouge admin bans you or an entire instance over something silly. Thus, It is quite clear to me, that for normal users who are not techies or geeks, Mastodon is not a viable alternative or even remotely to replace Twitter or even a recommendation.
Are these more or less a plug in replacement for lead acid, likely to work with our existing charge controller?
The Raspberry 2 (original ARMv7 not underclocked Raspberry 3 ARMv8) is the best low power server. 1W idle and 2W 100% (6x more perf. than Raspberry 1 = Zero with Eth.).

They saturate the SD card SPI almost to the byte/second.

32-bit is enough forever, specially when you only have 1GB, but I'm staying on 32-bit on my 8GB RPi 4 too, because 4GB per process is enough when you also need the OS to have ample RAM.

If you are lucky enough to have some ARMv7 RPi 2 and/or Rpi 4 8GB, they will be priceless for eternity.
Live by the sword, Die by the sword.
300->500 threshold strikes me as a relatively minor change akin to inflation, this seems unlikely to be the primary driver.

My impression is that a lot of people are struggling to make ends meet, and stealing from a walmart employed by careless slackers is always a more attractive option than from your neighbor or straight up armed mugging/robberies. I highly doubt the $500 felony threshold is what's green-lighting them vs $300.
13:00 UTC even

Coverage starts at 12:15 UTC
> None of this alters the fact that they are shutting down their safe and well maintained nukes, and as a consequence will burn a lot more coal and buy a lot more gas.

That's not a fact, it's simply false.

Renewable energy will be expanded, as it has in the past. We have currently around 50% renewable energy for electricity.

> which everyone knows is a basket case of corrupt special interests

that's very shallow, given the complexity of energy policy
> So is puff. Am I to give up actual puff the magic dragon and sugar puffs? Being English I like the occasional puff on a fag aswell, there's a double entendre for every one there.

I never told him he had to change it. I was simply checking if he was aware it was an anti-gay slur (in some countries), in case he wasn't – and indeed he said he wasn't. Now he is aware that it is, it is his decision how to respond. He's said he's going to change the name. If he'd decided the opposite, to keep the name – it wouldn't be my place to criticise his decision. If someone else felt it was theirs, that would be between him and them, not me.

And, personally, I've never heard ''puff'' been used as an anti-gay slur, but I've heard ''poof'' been used that way many times. But sure, when you tell me it has been, I believe you.

If someone insisted that ''Puff the Magic Dragon's'' name be changed because ''puff'' is a slur, I'd think that was silly. But there's a big difference between a 50 year old song, which exists in many people's childhood memories (it does in mine), and a pre-alpha open source project which very few have heard of, where if there'd ever be a good time to change its name, it would be now.
After six years, I left the Venture Capital path which I detested. Although I still work on weekends and into the late night as a freelancer/advisor, I now take pleasure in my work because I know it holds greater significance.

This leads to the inevitable question: what holds greater significance for me? The outcome or the prestige that comes with the job.
I hate it when my browser ignores the protocol part of a link. Then again, gopher and ftp have already become broken in firefox, I guess it's only a matter of time before it's entirely unusable.
Can someone recommend a brand of solar panels or a retailer, preferably in europe?
I played with it a bit more just now and I'm very close! For anyone who stumbles on this thread in the future I found that in Resolve if I disable automatic color management, and set the output color space to "ST2084 500 nit", then the gamma seems to match Quicktime exactly (though I'm not a professional). It's still clearly going over 500 nits in the viewer, so I guess that's some sort of baseline that matches the "default 500 nits but go over for HDR" that Macs do.

The colors are still just a bit off and I think that might be something about how Quicktime and Resolve are interpreting the Sony HLG3 colors which don't exactly match the standards. I might try some of the normalization products offered here[0] later when I get time.

[0] https://xtremestuff.net/sony-and-hybrid-log-gamma-hlg/
Definitely, people can start by staying offline and not complaining about people complaining
This is pretty scary if true. Imagine you would like to influence an individual’s opinion in a very specific way. At present the only way to do this is to write articles in the general vicinity of your cause. However, with an accurate forecast of public opinion, it’s possible to tune the input content such that the output is most closely aligned with the public opinion we are trying to generate. That is, given a history of K previous articles, it’s possible to show a K+1 article that influences an individual’s opinion most closely towards the target.

We may soon be moving into a new political era with propaganda tools so powerful that most historians will be convinced that representative democracy was a historical anomaly of our technological timeline, not an “End of History” inevitability that many either implicitly or explicitly believe it to be.
> The same shit happens when driving.

In a broader sense, it never fails to amaze me that a kilo and a half of goopy cells that evolved to work out where the plants that won't kill you and where to trap rabbits in the next valley are - things that are, generally speaking, not much further than you can see - can visualise every step and turn of a journey of hundreds of miles, while being shoved through space at roughly 20 times normal walking speed, and do this for many different journeys *including ones we have not taken yet* but which happen to be in roughly the same direction as where we were a last week.

Where I'm sitting it is a four hour drive to even get to England and yet I can clearly visualise where I'd go if I was driving around Bradford, another couple of hours further south. For that matter, it's not much more effort to visualise driving right to the south coast of England, working out where to get the ferry at Dover, and then how to drive right to Geneva from Dunkirk, and drive around there too.

How do we do this with a brain that evolved to cope with a couple of miles of hills and forest? Is it because I can drive a car at 60mph and therefore cover twenty times the distance I can walk in roughly the same time, so it all just scales naturally?

It's crazy, isn't it?

You'll be thinking about this next time you drive.
What is "disrespectful to people with adhd" is fucking with our med supply in order to prevent the horrific scenario of someone studying for a math test past their bedtime. Like, surely you see that right?

I want to move on with my life, instead I need to play games every couple weeks filling my prescribed meds because people are resentful that their peers back in college might have studied longer for a test? Are you fucking kidding me.
For me, all the image URL's end up in a slash. Open in new tab, cut the slash, the image loads.
192.168.134.0/24
There's a science fiction story wherein our protagonist's experiment goes awry and he starts shrinking without end. After disappearing from our world, he soon reappears in the sky over one of the Great Lakes, and lands in it, only to continue shrinking.
Dev Tips to Improve Your Largest Contentful Paint (LCP)
I wanted to be a little more diplomatic.
as a technology risk and compliance manager who is embroiled in a big disaster recovery/business continuity/ISO 22301 project at the moment, reading this headline made parts of me turn to dust and drop off.
Tbh the non-bomb version kind of seems reasonable? I found myself secretly wishing for nuclear-powered EUV lithography.
> I've observed it in rural Nova Scotia, the Netherlands, and the Peruvian rainforest

You found streetlights in the Peruvian rainforest?
Every free college country sends less of their people through college than the US. Is that the outcome we want? Fewer educated?
We've been there before: I remember the proliferation of Flash sites back in the day. Our local legal firm had their entire site written in Flash, for what was basically brochureware plus a contact form. Presumably some lawyer's nephew wanted to practice their Flash skills, or they were taken for a ride by a contractor.
For those thinking about replicating this: Victron is really popular because it's extendable and the management interface is reasonably open, but the zoo of required devices makes the costs explode quickly.

Maybe look at Deye instead. I'm running a 12kW unit (they're available smaller) with a 48V battery. The software is in poorly translated to English, firmware updates are made by the manufacturer remote on request and it has no shadow management (meaning it might end up on a local maximum in the MPPT, not the global maximum) - but the unit cost me about 3000€ with 10yr warranty instead of the >7000€ for an equivalent zoo of Victron parts.

Of course it can do black starts from PV or battery, and act as a UPS on a secondary output. Pulling data locally can be done using a RS485 modbus interface; so I open my firewall only for firmware updates.

The 3.6kW single phase unit (SG05LP1) can be had for less than 1300€. A 5kW three phase unit is only a little bit more expensive, but I'd worry about standby consumption in low power scenarios with only a few modules (mine hogs 80W, but a three phase Victron setup does so as well). These are string inverters, so you need more modules for them to reach their start up voltage, and then some more to put them into the MPPT zone. The 1 phase starts at 125V and the MPPT tracker works with 150-425V, the 3 phase units 160V & 200-650V respectively. When I browsed the market there were other offerings from other brands with 90V start up; but be careful to get a unit that's legal to connect to the grid IF you want to have grid fall back (here in Germany, Victron and Deye are legal - at least the parts I looked at. But you will always need a electrician with a concession to register them with the grid company. Some people don't care and just setup their systems though).

Important: The voltages depend on the chosen PV module; mine are in the 40V per module ballpark, but iirc I might maybe have seen up to 60V? So for the 3.6kW unit you'd want at least 3 or 4 modules.
That and ChatGPT got yer Rightin' an 'Rithmatic covered. Watcha gonna do 'bout yer Readin'? Then we ain't need no schoolin'
Video game companies seem to have this weird urge to hurt any fan created content any way they can. I don't understand why anyone would put effort into Nintendo games by the way their business practices are just incompatible with how internet entertainment works. It's simply a terrible company to be a fan of.

It's quite comedic how they build some of the most hackable consoles while at the same time pretending that any kind of emulation will get you the death sentence. A real bummer, because many of their devices are quite good handheld emulation machines for old games that no reasonable person will ever pay for again and the comparatively low specs of their hardware make games excellently playable on other platforms.
I was wondering why nobody combines LLMs with well-known symbolic AI like CYC[1]. Or, perhaps I'm wrong and plenty of companies are working on it.

[1] https://cyc.com/
I mean, the timeline looks more like he saw something similar to something he made get much more popular, and then started shifting facts about his own story to match the more popular product.
It's worth a trip to get to Gibraltar (duty-free booze!) and walk to the south end and check out Africa.
One of my hobbies is 3D art. I love 3D sculpting, but hate texturing and rigging. This is why I'd like the AI to do the unpleasant parts.
I'm on Android and I've been swyping on my keyboards since 2011 and SwiftKey since 2018. It seems to understand the movements of my fingers better than the other keyboards I have on my devices. The currently installed alternative is Samsung's keyboard. I probably never installed Google's one.

If I were tapping keys with two hands, which I sometimes end up doing (single handed)... no idea which keyboard would be better.