skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If img2img works in Midjourney the same way it does in Stable Diffusion, probably not. Img2img doesn’t put “guard rails” to keep everything where you intend it to be and will bleed over and make changes to the image. Civitai.com has some really great models I’ve been using to get some really incredible outputs lately. Generally takes me 1-1/2 hours to get something exactly how I want it, aside from things the model just absolutely doesn’t understand (getting a dragon to breathe fire or try making a woman have tusks like an orc, even with an image showing what it looks like the AI has no concept of what the heck I’m talking about)
I wonder if the death of CodeJam hints the end of LC-style interviews.
One hopes the Google/Oracle relationship is such that Google would sell Android to any company except Oracle.
Tinkerer/hobbyist here, play with all sorts of things, and find myself searching a lot. After interacting with this for half an hour, would probably reach into my wallet if a paid option was reasonably priced. Shortens the time I take to find the exact syntax I need, and I found the summaries very useful.

Helped me approach a simple oracle oci terraform script intro (I mainly used linode), pointed me in right direction for changing authoritative servers on porkbun using curl, and also some stuff on combining htmx and tailwindcss.

Will use this! Cheers to the makers.
Someone let the lawyers drive this and didn’t check their work would be my guess. Expect backpedaling since this is too much.
a few of them were (3)

out of 18 or so

you can see on the linked page on google's own bugtracker that they're still unfixed
Well crystals are used for the pizeoelectric effect and involved in a lot of modern technology in relation to the EMF spectrum. So, there's at least "ammo for justification" even if that's all it takes for placebo's to be activated (Shepherd: I don't care what you believe in, just believe in something!)
Arr you sure? We don’t use that exact term in Sweden but there’s similar room for legal use of copyrighted works e.g. in political satire.
those notches are so damn ugly, and apple is supposed to make pretty things? the world has gone mad
Office, Box Office and Bazaar: All About a Billion Razorpay Transactions in FY23
This reminds me of the Apple adverts that get posted on HN whenever they have a new product.

Why is that "ok", and this isn't?
It's not the same issue. I was talking to GPT about the strings 2 * 2 * x and 4 * x, not the multiplied-out versions.
sorry, when I said mobile data I actually meant "all cellular communications", which is far more broad

for some reason Android allows carriers to hide the VoLTE and Wifi calling toggles in the UI

meaning the only fix is to turn cellular connectivity off completely
Ah yes, that does make a big difference, most people here don't have cars (109 cars per 1000 people in HK compared to 831 cars per 1000 people in the US) so everything here is designed around walking/public transportation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invidious

> Invidious is a free and open-source alternative frontend to YouTube. It is available as a Docker container, or from the GitHub master branch. It is intended to be used as a lightweight and "privacy-respecting" alternative to the official YouTube website.

There are multiple online mirrors, some with web download that even works on iOS.

https://gonzoknows.com/posts/Yattee/ & https://apps.apple.com/us/app/yattee/id1595136629

> Yattee is an advanced video and audio player that can be used to play local and remote files and media links. It is available on the Apple App Store and is marketed as such. However, its core purpose is to function as an ad-free and sponsor-free YouTube app, allowing users to watch and subscribe to any YouTube channel. Due to the strict terms of service of the Apple App Store, Yattee cannot advertise this aspect of its functionality.
The amount of strawmans and insults you have thrown should have been your wake-up call.

As far as I am concerned, you are just another hypocrite, no different to the people in the list and this conversation is not worth it.

Again, read up on contractualism.
Google earth on mobile lets you load up local KML files, which I don't think normal maps does
> but I could see them selling it.

IMO they are aiming to replace Android with Fuchsia. Because they have full control of Fuchsia, and so-so control of Android. They don't need to sell Android. They can just let it die on its own in AOSP which is already nonviable without Google's services.
Yep, plenty of dev going on in Germany.
laptop stockholm syndrome? :)
Other companies kill projects when they’ve clearly failed and basically nobody is using. Google will kill things that are moderately successful and people are dependent on, but they aren’t a blockbuster success that makes a difference compared to their ad revenue.

But mostly we’ve just never forgiven them for killing Google Reader. And we never will.
Tesla margins are going to plummet with their price cuts. Enjoy the last week of being able to use that argument
Has humanity ever voluntarily slowed down the development of an exciting new technology?
Would you say social security isn’t a part of FDR’s legacy because it passed through the hands of every president over the last 80+ years? Many have reviled it in that time but haven’t been able to dismantle it. It’s harder to build than destroy. The fact that it wasn’t until Obama we reversed coverage for mental health shows how enduring Reagan’s legacy is in mental health. But I would agree every president since carries a guilt for not driving redress, similarly every congress whose really at fault.

I don’t hold it was a utopia. But if you want to see something worse than Bridgewater, look at the streets and see humans rotting in front of your eyes in the depths of untreated, yet easily treated, mental illness. It’s certainly morally convenient to do nothing, and morally wrong to try and get it wrong - but I think trying and failing in some cases and succeeding in others is better than failing in all cases by default. My father and great uncle were both clinical psychologists in the public mental health system, and there were many institutions that were high quality and served a population we let simply decompose on our streets now. If we traded a non utopia, we traded it for a total dystopia.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOWDNBu9DkU

Saw saw this video the other day. Check out the drone around 13:55 regarding noise and rotor design. The whole video is worth a watch though.

The company is zipline which is mentioned in a comment above.
io_uring is really amazing work. I've followed it's development on Twitter. I am in awe of Jens Axboe, I find him very easy to talk to and his work really amazing. If you don't know he's also the man behind the fio disk benchmark utility.

Any linux/unix wizards here have any inkling of if or when or how likely it would be for common parts of tools or subsystems etc of the unix/linux stack that we use to integrate io_uring and move away from older async frameworks?
> I am so bad at iterating over dataframes! It always feels horrible and slow. While doing this though, I discovered that using df.to_dict('records') and then iterating over the resulting dictionary is almost 100x faster than using the pandas built-in iteration tools like df.itertuples() or df.iterrows()!

That's really surprising to hear, any context on why this is? Very fun read BTW, my friends and I have joked about making something similar for our DMs (nicknamed MattGPT) and giving "them" topics to discuss + observing what they come up with.
I really do wonder what needs to change in our system to align the incentives of the police with the incentives of the public. I'm not saying that traffic violations shouldn't be enforced, but it seems very strange to me there's such a focus on traffic - installing speed cameras everywhere, red light cameras, yellow box cameras, moving police vans. Given the seriousness of most driving offences it seems weird there's so much focus on it compared to their just total apathy towards any other kind of crime. Do 50mph in a 40mph area? Oh they'll catch you, they're going to spend millions putting average speed cameras right across the country. Someone breaks into your house and steals your 50k car? Oh they're not even going to investigate and you'll get the speeding ticket for the speed the thief was doing once they'd nicked it which you'll have to appeal. It's just so weird. I guess it's partly just "Here's the one type of crime that is revenue positive and trivial to solve".
Probably "The Eric Schmidt" would be that third person
So is the expectation for every single cloud-connected item or online product that the servers remain online ad vitam aeternam so that future archeologists can still use the item when it's rediscovered and restored in 10,000 years?

You just have the wrong expectation for online products.
They have insanely expensive multi-year contracts with quite a few huge companies (and probably government agencies, too). You don't just shut GCP down.
My Gameboy still works, my OnHubs are essentially bricked (unless you don’t need access to unimportant features like making changes to the Wi-Fi network settings and add nodes to the mesh network [1])

[1] https://support.google.com/googlenest/answer/11257354?hl=en
Google search is in great perils because of lack of quality search results.
I have done this too. How did you get the bot to use your MJ credits? I found that the bot still uses the credits of each person who invokes the command.
AFAIK, Red Hat is working collaboratively with General Motors [0]. There is one article [1] on their blog regarding the containers in cars. I haven't found many technical information in it, but maybe you will find anything pleasing your eye.

[0]: https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-and-g...

[1]: https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/running-containers-cars
wait, how is this comment already in the article?
Amazon and Microsoft would have graveyeards just as large, if compiled via the same criteria. You know all that shit Google gets about chat apps? Microsoft has also launched and killed more than a dozen of them. Jeff Bezos used to brag about how many failed products they launched and killed.

So it comes back to the question that ed_mercer had: why is there such a double standard? Why does somebody obsessively maintain that site, and why does a large part of the HN audience love spamming "when will Google cancel search lol" into any discussion about Google, when Amazon putting two bullets into the neck of yet another product goes unnoticed?
That's a great example. Another one is the question, whether gender dysphoria results from mental illness, or the other way around. The orthodoxy will say that the discrimination that trans people face is the reason for the prevalence of mental illness among them. We won't find out anytime soon, since it's a belief that is held sacred among the very people studying the topic, and at the same time there's a push to treat children with hormones when they get funny ideas (see Tavistock Clinic scandal). Thinking back when I grew up and my sister kept crying saying she wanted to be a boy – mainly because she wanted to fit in with her three brothers – it's a terrifying thought what could have happened had she been born a decade later.

Social studies aren't out to find truth. They're out to confirm their beliefs, basically working to justify their own jobs.
Cannabis social clubs: Germany lays out plans for legalisation of weed
Bill Gates foundation is also sponsoring GMOs in Africa. These include lab designed mosquitos that can be introduced in the existing population to eradicate mosquitos.
For the sake of testing, I just downloaded youtube-dl from Github [1]. I then tried to run the program, but it failed with:

/usr/bin/env: ‘python’: No such file or directory

Okay, the script can't deal with "python" vs "python3", whatever - I'll change the script's first line and move on. Next attempt:

$ youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pV8WFvSNYE
[youtube] 5pV8WFvSNYE: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Unable to extract uploader id; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug. Make sure you are using the latest version; type youtube-dl -U to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.

I knew I would get this error because I got it two weeks ago already. And considering that the version number is `2021.12.17` that looks suspiciously close to a dead project, or at least for a project whose very description is "download videos from youtube.com or other video platforms".

Edit: I went through the repo and found that this bug has been reported two months ago [2]. I understand that the project is not dead in the sense that they are still looking at bugs, but if a major feature is not working for two months now then I think it's reasonable for people's faith in the project's future to be shaken.

[1] https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl#installation

[2] https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/31530
Tangent: school “ratings” are part of the grift. Yes, there are bad schools, but you hit diminishing returns far sooner than expensive schools want you to believe.
They were saying on the all-in podcast that Google is under lots of political pressure from all sides and that makes it difficult for them to launch controversial tech like LLMs. Bard feels very hobbled and, for example, refuses to answer any medical questions.
They've alienated contributors, had toxic feedback to community patches and have in general done everything they can to become irrelevant.

These days yt-dlp covers my needs instead, and unlike youtube-dl, they the seem to be accepting patches, making yt-dlp work (and keep working) on more sites and services than youtube-dl does.

There's no (technical) reason for anyone to rely on youtube-dl any longer.
Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early experiments with GPT-4: https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.12712

I was like you, I thought GPT 3 was "a neat trick but mostly useless" because the error rate was too high, and the utility was too low due to the limited reasoning ability. I figured it would be a good basis for a next-gen image generator or voice transcriber, but that's about it.

I've been playing around with GPT 4 and now I'm actually paying for it. I'm still learning its strengths and weakness, but I've seen it do things that are simply mind blowing.

The worst output I've seen has been for it to simply echo back the input with no or minimal changes.

Conversely, I've seen it do "creative writing" that I personally struggle with. When writing (fan) fiction I have a bad habit of "telling instead of showing" and using lots of words that end with -ly. This is considered poor style, but I'm not a professional author. I simply asked Chat GPT 4 to fix a paragraph at a time, and presto: my random ramblings suddenly read like a proper novel!
The Return-to-Office Whisperers
Thanks for the recommendations.

This Quandl company has a terrible website. They don't say what they offer and how much it costs, all is behind either creating an account or talking to their sales department. I don't understand how they suppossedly have 400K users.
I agree that most companies don’t do work sample hiring well. But most companies don’t do any technical filters well. They’ll waste your time with dumb whiteboarding, or leet code or god forbid personality tests.

To me it’s a strong signal if a company has a work sample test because it shows they have at least one part of their process that has a chance to be a good filter. It’s an even stronger signal if they’ve replaced the majority of their pipeline with it.

I won’t say I won’t accept a job that didn’t do a work sample component but it would definitely jade my thinking against the firm. And I’ve certainly told companies I wouldn’t continue with their hiring process after hearing what it entails.
Lindows was released on august 2001 (in case you like to have your memories properly ordered)
Hopefully it's free for now to gather users, at which point they'll introduce a paywall. If it keeps working as well as it is so far, and remains private and free from ads, I really would not mind paying for this service.

Especially as it keeps the company motives aligned with the users', i.e. providing good search results rather than showing as many ads as possible.
> Katie supposedly spilled coffee on a Stanford varsity football player who assaulted a friend of hers (he got to play out the season, and was never disciplined). Stanford knew that Katie was struggling after she was brought into Stanford’s byzantine and draconian student discipline process. On the last day, or actually the evening of the last day Katie could be disciplined, Stanford sent an email to her saying they were placing her diploma on hold three months short of graduation, and proceeding to a disciplinary hearing. Her parents claim she could have lost her student status, her membership on the soccer team, her captainship of the team and other benefits of a Stanford degree.

This really doesn't make sense. It's difficult to believe that spilling coffee on someone else resulted in a formal disciplinary action.
For $400k a year I’d be okay with it yeah
> The ANN index IVF implemented in pgvector has very poor performance, with only around 50% recall.

My understanding is that this mostly due to the default settings that pgvector uses (nprobes = 3) and not due to the usage of IVF. The recall would improve significantly with better defaults. This of course would also increase the latency of vector searches, but that is the trade-off of using IVF instead of HNSW (worse latency at high recall, but much lower storage/memory costs).
The i3 had it's fuel capacity artificially limited in the US due to some rule necessary to get subsidies.

But I think the same pressure will apply, if they make it too big then it'll look like a regulation workaround.
Never if money could be made.
The of the widescreen fixes for the Unreal games was the addition of a dll file in the game folder.
Which product on this list do you think was "moderately successful" and had "people depend on it"?
I’m thinking about doing this as well. Sometimes SQLite is a better tool for the job. For example, there’s a lot of software that uses a database as their file format. SQLite is ideal for this.

To answer the person’s question, there are easy ways and hard ways with all the trade offs you would expect. The easy way is to use an ODBC connector. That makes it easier to change the DB engine but it’s going to hurt performance. Chances are though that the performance will still be good enough for applications like database-as-file-format.
Sci-hub is still up even though corps have been trying to shut that down for years.
Hah, I remember disassembling a motorcycle for the first time and in the process figuring out that the throttle cable just opens a valve that I had just taken the airbox off of, I was mind blown!

To anyone that's looking to get into wrenching on your own stuff, I can definitely recommend getting started on a motorcycle if you have space, money or time constraints. It's a lot more accessible initially.
Nuclear power, but that’s largely because it threatened an industry so powerful it literally defines the geopolitical order and is the entire basis of multiple world economies (fossil fuels). That’s what it took and the slowdown really wasn’t that profound, a couple decades maybe.

It was also possible to slow down nuclear because it’s so capital intensive. A gaming desktop or very high end laptop is enough to do meaningful work on AI, and to get to scale requires a tiny fraction of the cost of even thinking about breaking ground on anything nuclear.
About how much higher do you think it is if you followed the curve?
I once read that the Outsider (as defined by Colin Wilson) lives their live in the pursuit of truth. I think that may partially explain why such a tactic is so ineffective for those people. They are concerned with what they think is the truth behind the words above what the words makes them feel, when the latter is supposed to be more important to the speaker of the words. The words are a tool to get someone to clean up their act, get off the couch and get employed again, and after they're said they've served their purpose they're forgotten about. The Outsider seeks that obvious admittance that never comes

I can understand the purpose of self-help statements like "if it frightens you then do it." The point is for the consumer of the help to do things they wouldn't. But I'm tempted to say "I'm frightened of punching people out of the blue, vividly imagine myself doing so out in public every day and have to constantly repress my urge to do so." The author says "thats not what I meant." Then I'd say "then say what you mean." But the point has been lost in a mishmash of semantics. And in the end I'm still frightened of punching people

Im in the habit of peeling back the ulterior motives behind such tactics. Its more concerned with what the people are trying to get me to do if they're making a subjective statement more than the content of the statement. I call that kind of act 'positive gaslighting'. The term gaslighting is almost a universally negative connotation but nobody really talks about the flip side, when you have to look to faith instead of working with truth to feel better. Honestly Id let myself be stoned to death than accept such words uncritically just because it makes me "feel better". I have to twist them into a narrative that makes sense with my worldview

(The irony is that blackpilled incel culture is just another tribe that you can't cross with the wrong words ("maybe I have a chance") or youll get decapitated, I want to remain outside of any tribe for the rest of my life if it kills me)
Every month or two, I have a need to login to Discord for something like MJ. Discord's whole login sequence is more painful than any other website ever created. It has multiple borderline-crazy CAPTCHA challenges and still makes you verify by email and/or phone. This is on the same browser and device I logged into a month or two ago.

I don't get anything like this from other services on the same device.
The 3D-printed box in Texas where humans will prepare for Mars
This exists: https://killedbymicrosoft.info/

But if you search for "killed by Amazon", you get back news articles about people actually dying in its warehouses.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/oct/17/amazon-wa...
Cloudflare's DDoS threat report for 2023 Q1
In my case, as in the lion's, there was nothing to learn. I stretch as I blink, as I breathe - as I feel, as needed, naturally.
Missing Grasshopper, Google's gamified interactive Javascript teaching project.
It's pretty cool.
That is why they are getting grilled and not taken to court.
It is not compatible with a lot of stuff. Can't subscribe to youtube premium family. Can't use android automotive. Can't use this that etc. I switched to my old basic google account for google services and probably move my domains away from gsuite at this point.
Beyond the serious dependability questions Google raises, I feel bad for the millions of units of OnHub, Nest, Stadia, and other hardware that are still perfectly functional, but rendered obsolete because of what amounts to high level, corporate financial decisions.

Any company engaging in mass market IoT sales should be compelled, for the sake of consumer confidence and protection, of an "exit plan" to allow fully localized control of these devices -- independent of an upstream server or system.
Hormone blockers suppress the expression of estrogen and testosterone, I was very clearly referring to hormone replacement therapy.

Moral of the story is, people aren't lying just because you refuse to read the words written literally on the screen.