skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t think buying a cup of coffee counts as paying a debt. Could a private debt collector legally refuse cash? (I’ve always presumed they couldn’t)
It’s not just income but all residents too. Will everyone’s grandma be on the power bill? What is there are two earners filing separately? Or four roommates?
> Strava’s javascript resources clocked in at 1.68MB

That looks like the problem to me. Throttle the fuck out of that shit.
If you file on time but underpaid estimated taxes, you only get a penalty if it’s more than than the greater of $1000 or 10%, and a variety of other conditions don’t apply (not tax advice, see Form 2210 for the gory details).

For the average citizen, a little bit of opportunity cost is much less important than the costs of getting hit by a surprise bill, so it makes sense to err a little bit on the side of overpayment when filling out your W-4.
I went to the "original" site and the video doesn't see to be available for viewing. Whereas it is available on Aeon.

Moving the link back to the creator's site will make user experience worse.
People want cloud services because they can show value back to the business faster than traditional enterprise solutions. That gets you more money.
If you overpaid, why would you wait until April 15 to ask for your money back if your biggest concern is not giving them an interest free loan? I filed in February and had my refund in about a week.
This is kind of on the right track, but not correct.

The breakdown varies wildly depending on which electrical market you're in, and where in that market you're physically located. The price you pay is mostly a combination of:

- Wholesale energy prices set by multiple markets (week ahead, day ahead, balancing)
- Market fees (minimal)
- TSO/ISO tariffs for running the transmission grid and any ancillary services, as well as grid maintenance and capital recovery
- Similar DSO tariffs for the distribution grid
- retail costs that represent the overhead of any electricity retailer that exists between you and the DSO
- taxes and other fees depending on your state

In my country, the wholesale cost is approximately 60%, TSO and DSO fees are around 10-15% each, retail is around 5% and other fees and taxes make up the rest. My numbers are loose because it has been 4 years since I broke it all down last.

Your underlying point is right though, that richer people can afford to buy their own production to avoid most of these fees. The result being that poor people shoulder more of the cost.
That is the excuse I'm talking about. We are not having a discussion over whether those problems exist, it is about whether we should spend money on tackling them. After all, we are at in dire need of a battery with higher energy density. And yet the answer has consistently been "sure, it may be exactly what we're looking for, but somehow we already know that it is impossible despite spending very little R&D on it."
Passionate fans of an image format loading small numbers of images via shim isn't what makes browser makers change their minds. And clearly such fans do already exist or the github project wouldn't.

The problem in this measure is it is impossible to pass regardless the format. How can a test be a strong signal of anything if everything would fail it? If this were a few millisecond/few byte component like a JavaScript feature extension I would see the applicability but image formats are too large and too slow to reasonably expect meaningful adoption via shims.
Currently writing my own software rasterizer, some interesting stuff I came across:

Fine grained visibility determination (span, coverage buffers, etc)
https://www.flipcode.com/harmless/issue01.htm

Tom Forsyth, How To Draw Ugly Lines Fast
https://cohost.org/tomforsyth/post/648716-how-to-draw-ugly-l...

Ned Greene, Hierarchical Polygon Tiling with Coverage Masks
https://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/spring01/cs598b...

This UC Davis lecture video explains rasterization rules really well: https://youtu.be/z3fWd7G3mrU
This had never crossed my mind before but seems reasonable in retrospect.

Essentially you are saying that bug zappers actually exasperate the problem they are trying to solve and it would be better to not use one?
I don't think there's much wrong with that though. I think the whole copyright/licensing/fair use thing is the one reasonably objective problem with "AI art" at the moment. People might have other concerns, but once you solve the copyright issues, it starts to be a whole lot more personal subjective preferences.
Sometimes I wonder whether C (the ISO programming language) will ever diverge from C (the de facto FFI and ABI for all systems ever)

I expect no but I hope yes
We did that, and to emphasize again we pre-paid, they could have left the room empty for the entire night and been compensated. Instead they gave it away, and this has happened several times now. I suspect what is going on is they give away any rooms during normal hours to avoid conflicts with other people who were overbooked, then let the night clerk who is safely locked away inside the office deal with the rest.
Nice try, chatbot, but your vegan-esque moralization is just a cover for your real goal: get humans to catch more insect-borne diseases so you can take over.
What's problematic is that there are no images (that I can find anywhere) of the "Mach 5" paper airplane they built. I'd like to see some credible images.Warning, there are web pages with captions on shutterstock photos which give you the impression that's the Mach 5 plane. Hard to prove anything.
You can always use the word Rust to refer to the actual Rust language or the Rust project. In a similar fashion the Python Software Foundation will sue you for trademark infringement if you create a general-purpose programming language distinct from Python and call it Python.
California Grid Needs $9.3B Upgrade
China is astoundingly good at making enemies out of its neighbors. I wouldn't worry about it.
You described a functional department structure. Conway’s law is often helpful in those circumstances.

Divisional org structures are where it can become problematic.
In Korean fashion too pretty much all writing is in English too. It's all grammatically correct-ish but it reads unnaturally to a native English speaker.
Ask HN: Netflix First Live Stream for Love Is Blind – Technical Issues
Looks like there are tons of reports that this live stream of the Love Is Blind reunion is having technical issues. Any guesses as to what issues they would be facing?
Honda had a famously complicated mechanical contraption IIRC.
How much should we spend on Hydrogen vs EVs?

How many years and how many billions to create a device the size of a refrigerator that can connect to grid power and refill Hydrogen cars all day long? We have had this for EVs for a decade.

Toyota, Hyundai, GM, and others have been putting money in since at least the 90s. Why haven’t they been able to create a compelling product and bring it to market?

If hydrogen is just a battery, and someone wants to create an EV that happens to use Hydrogen as the battery, and finds a way to charge that battery off of an AC or DC grid connection, then it can use any of the EV infrastructure we are building today.

None of that infrastructure is li-ion specific. It’s for batteries that charge from grid power.
As I learned the hard way once, when AT&T say “unlimited” they mean up to a certain amount for data. Y’know. Like how Olive Garden offers unlimited breadsticks but then when you get your bill they charge you $40 for each breadstick over the unlimited amount of 2.
You can even get two of them down to a single syllable.

"Beer?"

"Loo?"

"Wifi?"

Written with an extra character which indicates tone. English has the meaningless 'do' but even that can be done away with should you so choose.

I always think like whenever these comparisons are made people they're from people who must think in quite stilted English because of their education.

There are some interesting comparisons to be made but comparing highly formalised english as though it's the only way to speak it is not how they should be made.
The jxl.js approach actually allows for some of that. Particularly putting <img src="https://jpegxl.info/logo.jxl"> works like normal (no <canvas>) as jxl.js functions using a mutation observer for such tags which then transcodes the image to a supported format (such as png) and caches it. Similarly you can then save the image in a way you'll have thumbnail support, image editor support, etc - all of course with the downside it'll be e.g. png at that point not the original.

One thing that is straight broken is direct linking. Since the transcoding is local the generated cached link is only local relevant. Similarly, since it has to not only spin up a decoder but transcode the image it is impractically slow.
There are organizations working behind the scenes doing just that.
https://twitter.com/ai__pub/status/1644735555752853504

Take the gpt-4 based law ai, harvey for instance. I doubt many people know about what they're up to at the moment but they already have deals signed with some of the biggest law firms on earth with revenue quickly growing.

now realize that 4 isn't any worse in medicine than it is in law. this stuff is far closer than people think.

The hard perhaps uncomfortable truth is that GPT-4 is already proficient enough in several fields to bounce ideas off of as a colleague/equal.
Or, slightly wider, the web.
One of the systems I've had the honor of inheriting and building upon, I've described as originally gifted to humanity by Ancient Astronauts.

If you told a new-grad about how it was built, they might have a kneejerk reaction, since it went against some of the conventional wisdom they'd heard, in school or in blog posts, such as avoiding Not-Invented-Here Syndrome.

You'd have to find a way to convey to the new-grad that, in some situations, a few programmers can consistently accomplish big things that 10 or 100 programmers operating with the usual parameters could not.

But maybe, if we're a new grad, it's a disservice to us to hear that, just yet. Once we're out of school and in industry, there's a phase of really learning and appreciating the conventional wisdom in practice. Much of the wisdom is also a great default for most situations.

But later on, with experience, there's some point at which we can become a curmudgeonly enforcer who insists that a particular subset of wisdom always applies. Or we might be open to recognizing a situation in which the wisdom actually doesn't apply, or doesn't have to apply. Occasionally, there are huge wins from that.
Same for swatting bugs, the smell of the squished bugs can sometimes make for more bugs come along.
Well China has outspent Tesla by a massive margin.

So has Russia. So has NASA. Same with Europe.

Not to mention Boeing, ULA, or other long time rocket technology suppliers.

So there are examples of large extended spending budgets (on rocketry programs, specifically) with nowhere near as much progress as SpaceX has done with far fewer people, less time, and less money.

The difference really begs the question of how he did it. And I think the answer is he did many things differently.

He didn't just have a clear vision of reusability, but also the time, cost and complexity savings of vertical integration, the faster progress that comes of tolerating intermediate failures as a source of fast feedback, and casting his overworked employees as crusaders in a meaningful mission to best the best, and turn sci-fi into reality, all with contagious enthusiasm.

He also seems to have a secret superpower for plowing through government red tape and bureaucracy. I have no idea how he does that, but both with Tesla and SpaceX it has made a significant difference. Easy not to notice that, but a lot of ambitions have been ground down with resource attrition on that mountain.
When I worked at eHarmony there were two things that we were aware of above all else:

1. Users hated all the advertising even if they were signed in with a paid account

and

2. eHarmony had no intention of stopping this because they valued the revenue from the advertising over the user experience.

I noticed that Redfin has started adding ads to their site which really annoys me. Folks you’ll get a sizable commission for connecting me with the listing agent. The ad revenue has to be a rounding error compared to that. Why are you damaging your brand by showing me ads for luxury vacations next to houses that I’m looking at buying?
Regulations are merely rules I don’t like.
> Do you have some reason to think he didn't

Aerospace engineering actually requires you to do years of study for a reason. This isn't engineering a cute little website for your company, this is, as I said, literally rocket science. Your measurements and calculations have to be extremely precise and that knowledge doesn't magically sprout out of nowhere.

> I am already aware that he, like most engineers in the US, does not have an engineering degree.

Bold claim. I'm sure you have a source. And even if you did, I'm pretty sure aerospace engineering would be an exception rather than the rule. But I highly doubt this claim in the first place.
What is the % of the top 100 F1 drivers that are vegans? Do F1 drivers train for pure muscle mass?
One the other hand lithium ion batteries only contain a few percent lithium by weight. So a sodium ion battery is likely 10% heavier.

The interesting thing of course is that 'few percent' which means theoretically there is a lot of room for improvement.
AI generated Drake song is blowing up the Internet
I think you're underestimating how tech illiterate much of the population is. A quick Google suggests the percentage of people using an adblocker of any kind is only 30-40%. I would consider that the absolutely minimum of web viewing tech literacy.
Ah I see, you're right 40 minutes sounds about right for that amount of training. Curious why the decision to train 40 images? I've used 15 for two separate subjects in Dreambooth with excellent results. I'm no expert, experimenting the same way as you, but haven't trained on more than 15-20 images per subject.

I've found the most important part is spending a good amount of time getting the prompts, although I'm not sure if having the person in an environment embodied and describing the objects around them helps give the model a "sense of scale"? For example if I just train "wincy" in the fast Dreambooth "wincy" will be the only token it'll know, with no other info in the prompts, it didn't know what in the image was "wincy" (me). I accidentally did this on training my wife (no prompts at all) and she got really mad at me at how ugly the results were (you made me ugly! haha)

Have you tried it with and without your dog in an environment, then describing the environment your dog is in for the training data?
You think making it convenient to pay the IRS in cash would cost society less than the transaction fees from banks or money orders or whatever?

I sure don't.
Curl tends to be the standard.
ooh, that sounds nice - i like toads. on my street in london uk i would often find one on the pavement in breeding season, trying to get across the main road on its way to the local big park, which had a pond. i would grab them and carry them across, so they didn't get runover.
(fact) Karoshi

I won't claim to know anything else about Japan. Would love to visit, but I'm not sure I'd love to be part of its economy as a salary man.
> why you feel obligated to write “port side”

I mean, the post is directly in front of you. Might you quote accurately? Or were you too busy condescending?
Yeah hydrogen's energy per kg is definitely an attractive nuisance.
SCOPE: An Open and Softwarized Prototyping Platform for NextG Systems
In my town that number is one. That’s assuming they are willing to travel to my town from the neighboring jurisdiction where they are based.
How do you know it is an emergency if you don’t accept it?
If you like smart motorways, you'll love my new invention: smart planes. By flying without oxygen masks, life jackets, and seatbelts we can shed a significant amount of weight. This will reduce the emissions per flight and save the planet.

Of course, the passengers will asphyxiate or drown in an emergency, but it happens so rarely!
Show HN: ReRoom – interior design tool to let you test ideas/styles
> How much should we spend on Hydrogen vs EVs?

You are aware of what is at stake here? Not even multiple trillions of dollar is a number too high to be unjustified. Anything less than $1 trillion should not even qualify as a serious argument against it.
If you consider punched cards then... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacquard_machine "The first prototype of a Jacquard-type loom was made in the second half of the 15th century"
Internet.

I was recently comparing it to friend like the before Google era and after
*meat. Stop using "flesh" for food : the right term is meat.

You're not better than the guy who work in slaughterhouses that you despise if you want to push your ideology on kids, while they're still vulnerable. Quite a carnivorous behavior, truly.

Or please, we'll show to your kids Iraqi children dying from malnutrition and from depleted-uranium induced cancer each time you use your credit card.

https://www.newsweek.com/watch-madeleine-albright-saying-ira...

Also, your UN report is quite laughable. Why would such a solution should be imposed everywhere on the globe? There are places where you can't do traditional farming (e.g pastures). Again, you're thinking like if we were all overweight Americans.

Regarding Covid-19, my country prevented me to go outside for more than 1h a day and used helicopters to find hikers camping in forests. Many other countries did the same: https://ourworldindata.org/covid-stay-home-restrictions

What you're saying about Sweden is plain wrong: https://fee.org/articles/sweden-once-mocked-for-its-covid-st...

How's your 5th booster going by the way?
"He called for a U.S. federal government mandate requiring that all products that incorporate lithium-ion batteries by approved by Underwriters Laboratories or an equivalent testing and certification organization."

That would be interesting given how far away we've moved from that. You can find sketchy electrical products now not just on AliExpress or Amazon, but in lots of US retail stores.
Dreambooth implementation
https://github.com/JoePenna/Dreambooth-Stable-Diffusion

AUTOMATIC1111

https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui

Stable Diffusion

https://github.com/Stability-AI/StableDiffusion

?
Not authoritatively (in India, not here in USA) but you can get a sense. one clue might be the way they speak language (or dialect) but it could also be a false positive for wealth. same with mannerism.

you could tell by their last names if they came from same geographical region as you grew up in (or quite familiar with).

> If you saw someone walking 50 meters away, would you ...

most likely not.
Booking.com commits to align with consumer protection law following EU action
You can update your W-4 any time you want.

It even notes on the form that you should update it if your financial situation changes.

You mention W-2, so I'm assuming the US.
> I disagree - I think that AI generative art is an easy case of copyright infrigement and an easy win for a bunch of good lawyers.

> That’s because you can’t find an artist for a generated picture other than the ones in the training set.

First, that’s clearly not true when you are using ControlNet with the input being human generated, or even img2img with a human generated image, but second and more importantly…

> If you can’t find a new artist, then the picture belongs to the old ones, so to speak.

That’s not how copyright law works. The clearest example (not particularly germane to the computer generation case, but clearly illustrative of the fact that “can’t find another artist” is far from dispositive) is Fair Use noncommercial timeshifting of an existing work: it is extremely clear there is no artist but that of the original work, and yet it is not copyright infringement.

> I really dont see what’s difficult with that case.

You’ve basically invented a rule of thumb out of thin air, and observed that it would not be a difficult case if your rule of thumb was how copyright law works.

Your observation seems correct to that extent, the problem is that it has nothing to do with copyright law.

> I think the internet assume a bit to quickly it’s a difficult question and a grey area when maybe it just isn’t.

IP law experts have said that the Fair Use argument is hard to resolve.

Assuming the lawsuits currently ongoing aren’t settled, we’ll know when they are resolved what the answer is.
Another Korean here. Usually in Korea, one could refer to an unknown someone as "선생님(teacher)". "각하", on the other hand, has been referred to the President of Korea. So it really sounds weird to a Korean. When someone calls you "각하". If I were to be a customer, then I would be called "고객님". Where "고객" means customer and "님" is like "sama" in Japanese, and "sir" in English.
Considering that the GOP is rehabilitating the Confederacy these days Twain's ties to the Lost Cause might be the only thing that keeps his writings from being removed from school libraries.
What about it blew you away?
I mean, it's not like they're making it illegal, or actually investigating people doing it. I think it's a great thing that we have governmental organizations that are dedicated towards understanding and disseminating health and safety information. I will agree that they can go too far but just recommending extra heating of water that goes into infant food on a website is ridiculously inconsequential when compared with actual governmental overreach. Someone doesnt want babies to die. I think as long as it stays in the realm of pure information and not legislation, it's much better to go a little to far than not far enough.

Unless of course you were being sarcastic, in which case i recommend denoting it as such.
Right, so the item is tied to a specific server, the functionality of the item is implemented by that specific server, and that server only trusts NFTs that it issued itself.

What value is the NFT adding exactly?

I'm not saying that implementing an item trading system via NFTs isn't a way to do it. Just that you seem to be ascribing a whole lot of importance to something that's basically just a technical detail.

Video games can already let you trade items between each other, export assets outside of the game to use elsewhere, exchange real money for things etc etc. if the developers want to let you do that.

This is not a technical problem,
this is a "I want games that do this, but nobody building games wants their games to do this" problem.
Yes. The price will be passed on only if the market will bear it. If my soda is going to cost me 10 cents more because of taxes and I’m still willing to buy it, the soda companies should raise their prices 10 cents even without the tax.
Isn't Kotlin the default language for Android nowadays? I would've assumed there to be quite a large following?
HN is great for when there exists discussion, can be very deep and well thought out. However, community is very intent on not devolving into endless pointless meme posts which can be a bit stifling and overreacting.

Guess you can’t have a cake and eat it too.
Why?

Seems to me owning what you create is the key, instead of having it ripped from your hands.
Yes, Mack cranks out several model lines every year, and Tesla still pretends they don't have a waiting list.
Whoof almost $1600. But amazing.
That’s not (either positively or negatively) how copyright law works. You can not have a new artist and still not be infringement, and you can have a new artist (as is the case for derivative works by someone other than the original artist) and still be infringement if neither licensed nor Fair Use.