skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>But no, MJ is not much better if you know how to use SD, although if what you did with SD was just put a prompt in a huggingface space, I can understand why you say that.

I'm the person behind these - https://huggingface.co/ogkalu
I think it's safe to say i know something about SD's capabilities.

>I am arguing that they are better than any comics made with MJ, not that they are simply impressive, that's really the entire point.

Sure that's why i'm asking you to link these comics that are supposedly better than anything Midjourney has ever produced. With a claim like that, i'm sure you understand wanting to see results.

>You can go look them up on Pixiv if you want, they host some; I am not linking them for obvious reasons (to say they are NSFW is putting it mildly).

So you can't link anything that isn't NSFW on pixiv? Lol, that just solidifies my point. Frankly if the best you can come up with is pseudo porn(or maybe not pseudo lol) on pixiv (i don't imagine any readers of that will care about the things i'm looking for) then that's not a very good look.
Banning hate speech is not censorship.
H1-B should be only allowed in circumstances where foreigners are paid the same wage as their American counterparts, and the employer should have to front a sizeable fee to bring them in to disincentivize replacing American workers and incentivize training Americans instead.

It's absurd that every other nation is allowed to prioritize the employment of their own people but the US should just bring foreigners in to do the job for less. H1-B is a total scam as it stands.
Any high COL will have expensive trades people. Maybe when demand quiets down or more people start chasing money in the trades will prices come down, but it is $800K ATM because that's what it takes to get on the list.

I was quoted $150K for a full kitchen renovation in Seattle. Ugh.
No. In few cases where there is time sensitivity, it's not an issue.

I'm using it to help me with a library integration, for example. I noticed it was recommending deprecated methods. So I copy/pasted the latest source code, asked it to update itself, and voilá.

It's super smart and learns literally in a second. Just drop recent information at it and ask what you need.
I'm a part time jazz bassist. I play in a so called "big band," so most of what we play is scored like orchestral music, albeit with improvisational portions.

I think "designed by power users for power users" nails it. Another way of putting it, is that there's a symbiosis between writers and players, if both are skilled in the same notation system, whatever it is. If you can read, you can find work. If you can write in standard notation, you can find people to play it. This creates a huge dis-incentive to explore new notations, except as an academic exercise.
That is one AI CEO out of 10,000. Just because OpenAI may not be interested in a larger model in the short term doesn't mean nobody else won't pursue it.
You need to read the Terms of Service for OpenAI and ChatGPT [video]
> From where does government derive the authority to make demands on whom you serve?

... from we the people. Same legal process that passed the other laws those years and nothing in the Constitution countermanding it.

For what it's worth, you will find that most of the equality laws you're concerned about don't apply to private unincorporated businesses. They do, generally, scale with the impact of corporation has on the society around it.

> The exercise of this liberty harms no one else.

I assume the "else" here is necessary because it clearly harms the person who is being denied the ability to buy a meal purely because they have the wrong skin tone for this town.

Would you agree that is a harm and if so, by what right do we stand by and let that harm perpetuate?

(Note: "they could just go somewhere else" is a non-starter because we lived through that, and a separate but equal was not good enough).
Neither would the proposed model license. Just like the kernel's GPL stops at the userspace boundary, the proposed license would only cover the model definition and weights.
Seems like you're going to have to fight for that kind of society where having a middle class life affords you free time.
You'd just start a partnership or corporation, assign shares, receive stakes from people, and go in using that entity on an office space.
> Application acceptance is sorted by total-comp

Trump implemented this but the courts rolled it back because of a technicality. The secretary of the department hadn't yet been confirmed by Congress, or something.
Code generation, I wonder the difference in output given order of operations with training and fine tuning. What if the model was trained on the documentation and the code base for Python as an example.

Then fine tuning came from training on actual python code on GitHub.

At the model understands the python documentation and the implementation standard library/interpreter. Then is there a reduction of data needed for code generation therefore reducing the size of the data set used for code generation?
I mean, if I could make money by announcing a limited run of any product. I would definitely keep announcing them.

Certainly seems easier than building out a Truck with all of the promised capabilities.
Given all the AI apps we're seeing this days, this is a very relevant consideration.
When you open the bottles, it's just beer vapor.
Valid GS1 QR codes are still required to include a Human Readable Interpretation right next to the code preferably below it, in similar fashion to UPC/EAN. See https://www.gs1.org/docs/barcodes/HRI_Implementation_Guide.p...
I was messing around with an I2C controlled lithium battery charger on a raspi last night (long irrelevant story) and found out it does NOT support "fast charge" (probably not enough thermal monitoring?) but it does support larger capacity batteries that coincidentally permit higher currents. So the short version is I can charge a battery twice as fast by lying to the charge controller that it's twice as large. On average, probably 99% of people can get away with that, the problem is 1% set the battery on fire or otherwise burn out the battery.

No matter how smart you make the controller you can't outsmart the user; to the battery charge controller, a 1 aH battery being treated as a 2 aH battery behaves like a 2 aH battery that's at 50% capacity due to age or whatever issues.

I would imagine, as long as I can keep it cool, I could install a 50 mAH micro battery and tell the charge controller its a 2 aH battery and it would charge very fast indeed. Perhaps only once, but it would be very fast. I suppose the worst case scenario is some kind of virus/cyberattack reprograms the FW to believe the battery is either 65536 mAH or 1 mAH, either way the battery would appear "dead" to end users.

Another common problem is marketing and mgmt may be a LITTLE over optimistic about a feature; imagine if your IoT cigar humidor (made up idea; probably does exist LOL) has a hardware barometric sensor on the I2C. I2C is famous for dodgy hardware being able to 'jam' the bus. Ah no problem nobody needs a baro on a humidor anyway, we'll just delete it from the marketing materials and remove it from the firmware, no need to e-cycle otherwise good first batch of boards. Well if someone uploads custom firmware and the baro is polled every hour and it randomly jams the I2C once every hundred polls, "must be a thermal issue the CPU crashes" nobody might ever understand the problem. I mean, its gotta be a hardware bug worthy of a return, everyone knows if the code compiles and passes unit tests and works for a couple minutes, it must be good, right? But if the I2C protocol is interrupted due to a wifi interrupt in the middle of whatever it crashes the whole bus so randomly every couple weeks it locks up.

Some big expenses are not brick fails but "it burst into flames while on an aircraft" or "everyone knows the hardware locks up randomly every couple weeks" causing all kinds of crazy bad PR.

Then there's interference with marketing models. Well, technically the hardware for rev1 and rev2 are the same, its just rev2 has more features because we eradicated bugs, so please pay us again, don't just download new FW.
you seem to have projected your own problems onto the Montañez story

No, I haven't. You seem to be -- like many other people here -- determined to believe that I am "on his side" because I don't agree with your conclusions. I've stated repeatedly that the interviews were decades after the fact, I don't feel it's possible to know exactly what happened and I just know too much about how human bias influences conclusions in spite of all the evidence.

Truth often has little to do with what groups of people agree is the correct narrative.

That absolutely does not mean "I am totally on his side and it's the other 20 people who are liars, I'm sure of it!"

I don't intend to comment further. This whole thing just seems bizarre to me.
Twitter is a madhouse, but as for HN, the closest I've seen anyone come to that here is claiming that the difference in underlying structure can/does lead to emergence of the same phenomena.
Any time I use a Google product, I know I'm in a bubble.
I think the problem is that it will likely be viewed as less destructive and used in cases where they would not have does a pit maneuver.

Like a taser, in theory it is great to have a LESS lethal option than a gun, but if it is used in cases where they never would have used a gun, you might argue it was a net loss. Arguably, police should probably not use a taser if they do not feel threatened. But on the flipside if they feel threatened, they absolutely should be shooting them with real bullets, so the taser certainty has cost police officers their lives when they thought it would be a good enough deterrent and it turned out not to be.

Also, you can only have so much gear.
Sounds like you are purposely making your life worse by using something like Linux. Don't blame the machine when it is running poorly tested software that likely did not consider UX.

Have you tried using a Mac full time? It lacks the ad-bloatware of Windows 11 while still retaining some POSIX compatibility.
The delta is added to the CAC calculation. Probably it is for a limited time in the fine print.
had $30*
Do you have a college degree or 10 years professional experience? Congratulations, after finding a job you can move here. And on top of that your visa is not tied to your employer so there’s no visa risk if you find a better job on the spot ([0])

There’s some immigration stuff that’s tougher, but based off everything I’ve heard from dealing with Anglo countries or the EU, most people on this website would have zero problems dealing with immigration.

[0] technically the high skilled professional visa is employer-associated but people doing these jobs can easily pay to navigate the subtleties in any job change
It is not optional in most of these cases.
While I have many reasons that Google made the Internet worse (AMP, censoring search, forcing localized search results, privacy, etc.) I don't think the hidden content is their fault but rather that of publishers.

Publishers blamed Google for declining revenue since they had to make their content openly accessible and therefore free in order to be visible to users on search. The EU tried to make Facebook and Google pay publishers to account for this. I think allowing paywalled content was a compromise to prevent this legislation from passing.

That being said, I agree with the publishers especially since hypocritically Google and Facebook strictly don't allow scraping of their services and litigate those who do.

Google could easily fix this by putting a symbol or label on paywall-related content so you know not to click it.
When you say “goes to zero”, does this mean they really trend to zero or a way of saying that declining population means the demand keeps decreasing?

I’m trying to figure out if it’s a population thing or a short-lived construction thing.
> The vast majority of PC owners never update their BIOS at all.

I wonder if this is true now that Windows will do it automatically. I have been more than once surprised to see a computer updating its firmware after a Windows reboot.
If anything, not buying a BMW or VW saves you from plenty of headaches. These days buying asian means you get higher quality, but perhaps less bling, and more value (unless replacing cars as often as phones is your thing). More standard options tho and a slightly better pricing.
Not to say encode time does not matter. But it doesn't matter _that_ much. Companies like netflix will encode once, stream millions of times. Comparatively the encode time is a rounding error.

Will matter a lot for things like personal recordings on phones and video calls though. It is possible to get high speed AV1 encodes on phones but I don't know if the quality is acceptable.
Well, the first Playstation sold about 100 million units; the NES about 60 million. Of course they had longer to sell those units, this is offset by the lower population, lower cost, and a smaller market (less Chinese people were able to afford a NES or even Playstation 1). Even the Dreamcast sold about 9 million units, which wasn't enough to keep Sega afloat. To get to numbers of the same magnitude we need to get to the Sega CD with about 2.2 million units sold, and that's widely considered to be a huge failure.
The worst part about tantalums is their tendency to catch fire if you look at them wrong.
Fans of "Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons" might wish to check out "Let's Read: A Linguistic Approach" [0]. It uses a similar phonics approach but uses basic pattern matching to teach kids in a much simpler format. Be sure to check out the reviews for the original and newer edition.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0814311156?psc=1
Ill admit I don't know a ton about India's constitution. Do they have freedom of speech? How is it phrased?
> I’d expect that it’s not the pornographic bit, but the labelled as obscene bit that’s the sticking point.

Obsecenity is a legal category, and not all pornography is obscenity. OTOH, “labelled as obscene” may not actually be obscenity, and the list of the actual books banned under the law that this defunding is a retaliation for a lawsuit against seems to largely be books that are neither obscene nor pornographic.
They take all paths weighted by resistance.
Welcome to this can of worms.

CC-BY-SA content needs attribution too, but I don’t see the(se) model(s) in the current state being able to do so.

I imagine we’re gonna see the IBM PC bios/Unix/ReactOS “tainted code” arguments again in court, this time is not the human who is more-or-less knowingly responsible for sneaking in copyrighted code.
>Yes, state censorship can be abused. But promoting misinformation is a known threat to Democracy today. Right now.

State Censorship is being abused today right now. State Censorship is also a threat to Democracy. It's giving the most powerful institutions the tools to attack Democracy.

Who gets to decide what is mis/mal/dis information? The government? We as human beings are constantly weighing up information and evaluating details to inform our actions. Why do you think they have better tools to decide this for you?
Who are these individuals in Government that have worked out all the truths of the world and why do you buy into them deciding this? Has anyone here worked for Government?

All the worlds information isn't easily summed up into Scientific truths that can be instantly fact checked by Government and everything else. This power your giving the government to decide what information you can see and not. Doesn't empower you the citizen to make good decisions. It allows government to sway your information to guide the outcome they want. Which is known as Public Policy, and they have decided that Public Policy is no longer up for debate for the plebs.
Maybe the ad wasn't effective? Just a quote and a really small URL
would love to see some analysis here for solutions at a protocol level (W3C ActivityPub, Bluesky pbllc AT protocol, nostr etc) as a way to prevent nation-states from imposing this kind of control over a specific service.
It would be great if this can be done on 3090s. Used 3090 usually costs $500-1000 to buy.
Maybe people thought the billboard ads were crappy.
There should be a rule where advocates for countries that suppress all criticism and knowledge of their own bad behaviour, are allowed to talk about the behaviour of anyone else, particularly those countries that do allow free speech.
In particular edge cases this might become a DDOS vector.

Say you have a large following on Mastodon, which means lots of people follow you from lots of other instances. In that case, when you boost ("retweet") content from a small instance, your boost will federate across many servers. Next, as it appears on everyone's timeline in their own instance, it will fetch the post preview details (of the boosted toot) from the unfortunate small instance.

At times this has created such a traffic surge that servers go down, not to mention the hosting bill being affected. To combat this effect, Mastodon software has a random fetch delay for preview images. Still just as much traffic, just not all at once. The user experience price to pay is that previews may not initially show up.

I wonder if this Medium embed plays by the "pacing" rules of Mastodon or just launches an all-out attack. Meaning, a high profile Medium writer can cause huge spikes in traffic.
You mean the 2040 Roadster
In a small Japanese rural buffer. What sort of comparison is that.
One powerful way to insulate against this is to instill critical thinking skills: "don't believe everything you read or think" as a tenet of public life.
I'm sure they'll use ChatGPT to come up with solutions.

Spammers will, too, and since OpenAI has access to what they're asking and can easily flag their questions, they can feed misleading guidance to spammers.
That is a good point that I didn't touch on in my comment. Although, oddly, a lot more software used to work that way before the internet. Console video games in particular went from "there might be different versions of the cartridge ROM or disc but you won't ever know" to "download the day one patch if you want the game to work and download the next two patches if you want it to work well" practically overnight once they got internet connectivity.

Maybe the real distinction today should be between internet-connected systems and non-internet-connected systems.
It would be interesting to see someone like Tromp explore binary FOL the way he's explored binary lambda calculus*. There are good reasons for going the FOL direction since functions are degenerate relations. While it is true that functional languages based on, for example, lambda or SK calculus, can naturally support "and parallelism" (eg x^2 in parallel with y^2 in x^2+y^2), getting "or parallelism" requires expression of independent processes (e.g.indeterminacy), some of which may not terminate. For example, operating systems need "or parallelism".

*I'm not at all comfortable with Tromp's abandoning SK for lambda calculus in his search for a principled choice of UTM for Algorithmic Information Theory. His justification seems to be that lambda is "more expressive" than sk, but that begs the question: To express _what_?
The reactions that brought a lot of people to Mastodon are one step in the right direction, but the slowly expanding pool of support is going to be a whole other problem for Twitter.

There is no denying that Mastodon and the fediverse still has a long long way to go, but I'm always heartened by these additions.
Colleges scramble to prepare for possible end of affirmative action
Would pay $25,000 to avoid living there.

"
Q:Mom, dad, why do we live in the middle of nowhere?
A:Dad likes to work on houses...
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Leery
In my experience the biggest challenge isn’t just identifying that pacing is important (because the author’s section on Pace is a complete gold mine of wisdom) - it’s having your direct manager and/or the company culture support that.

He correctly states that you should ‘change your situation’ (your job) if you’re not allowed to pace appropriately - but there’s a real tangible risk to getting recruited if your resume paints you to look like a mercenary who leaves every year.

Again, it just feels fuzzy and not black and white. Really great read though!
I've been programming professionally for 45 years now (55 atm).
Started writing invoicing systems on heathkits and database systems for real estate on C-64..then Cobol/PL1,C,Perl,Python..
oh - and I don't have any degree at all.

I'm quite optimistic I'll be able to work another 5+ years, if I choose to..
but this is about public libraries, not school libraries. also, the linked video is from Alaska, not Missouri.
You usually can't take existing firmware and run it on a new CPU, because the new CPU requires different bringup code anyway. Take a look at https://github.com/coreboot/coreboot/tree/master/src/soc/int... to get some idea of how many different implementations there are for modern Intel alone (there's a bunch more for the pre-SoC style Intels). If you already have to port your firmware to a new CPU, you can deal with the CPU starting in a different mode - it is entirely an implementation detail that can be handled in the firmware.
> AWS doesn't even have a way to report a bug... what "on top of the list" are you talking about? Who else is on that list?

You gotta love these assertions at the top of a post that flag people who confidently are saying they have no idea what they're talking about.

You can report bugs via your solution architect, via support, or via the Re:Post bug report tool.

> AWS support is atrocious, unless you cozy up to them somehow to get special treatment. If you are a "regular" customer, you get zilch. AWS offers best performance for the best price, that and they are the largest service provider is what makes them succeed. They don't need to spend anything on support -- it's not cost effective.

Even basic support is great, I've had most of my issues fixed within 8 hours. If you pay for business or enterprise support you'll have a dedicated person you deal with. Try comparing that to GCP...

> My personal experience: we provided a service through AWS marketplace related to storage. So, we are not your "regular" customer, had to pay them some for accreditation... and here's the thing: it's probably something about how we create EBS snapshots, but about every thousand or so snapshots creation stalls. Doesn't fail, doesn't succeed, just hangs forever. There's nobody to talk to in AWS about this. People who "certified" us (what a joke...) cannot do anything about this problem.

If you were a solution partner you would have had a partner solution architect who would take point on this problem for you. This sounds like your organisation didn't accurately share access to this resource with the right people.

> And there's more stuff like that. Sometimes some resources won't delete first 1-2-3 times you try. Some other resources are created, but don't work once in a blue moon. And all you can do about it is just curse and try again.

I've been AWS facing for 11 years and I can count on one hand the times this has happened. Did you file a support ticket?

Source: Work in an AWS consultancy, before that was running tech for a startup on AWS
https://youtu.be/lcN5K0KhOSA?t=754
"How to distinguish a good Ukrainian from a bad one?
Bad Ukrainians, by the way I'm one of them, are now at the front line, lie constantly in some shit, mud or in this case now snow and the most important distinguishing feature of bad Ukrainian, he speaks Russian. But good Ukrainians are tens or hundred of kilometers away from the front line somewhere warm in apartment conditions and speak Ukrainian, real patriots!"
This doesn’t make any sense to me. Why wouldn’t a really poor family buy it when it’s really close to zero then, especially if it’s a perfectly habitable house.