skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have seen really convincing comics made with SD, much more convincing than any comics made with MJ, and the reason is really obvious. Models and LoRAs on CivitAI and Huggingface are really good, and the fact that MJ can generate slightly better images does not justify the total lack of control.
I need to make that more clear in the about section. Thanks.
You've always got my search engine. It runs on a literal potato that can't do AI. But it also runs on a literal potato and the results are fairly limited as a result...
And then you’re managing Consul clusters (been there done that).
I think you're almost always gonna pay far more for cloud compute than on-prem. It's pretty standard for companies to have roughly 2x the "peak" load than "minimum" load, so while with on-prem you maybe have to over-provision by ~1.5-2x, that's greatly outweighed with how much more expensive cloud compute is vs. on-prem compute. The only exception is companies with extremely spikey demand - e.g. if your peaks are more like 10x or 100x your troughs, then yeah, cloud is probably cheaper from a pure compute POV.

However, unless you use HUGE amounts of compute, cloud is probably the right choice, because you probably save a tonne on salaries by going the cloud route. It's way easier to properly operate a managed DB than your own (especially in terms of no-downtime upgrades, no-downtime scaling, backup/recovery, etc.), same goes for managed file storage (S3 type things), same goes for managed pub/sub, same goes for managed K8s/whatever, same goes for managed load balancers, etc. For a lot of startups, total cloud spend is equivalent to just a few fulltime Engineer salaries, and they also use a tonne of cloud services, getting that all running well without AWS (or Google Cloud, Azure, whatever) would take way more than a few fulltime Engineer salaries.

FWIW, the last company I worked at (~1000 people), as our AWS bill was getting into the millions annually, we tried migrating off AWS, onto a colocation setup. I didn't work on that project myself, but my understanding is they spent a bunch of engineering effort on it, were still nowhere remotely close to being able to truly move off AWS, ultimately canned the project and moved all the colo stuff back to AWS. I think a lot of engineers underestimate how much effort it is to provide the kind of cloud services Amazon/Google/Microsoft provide, at comparable levels of reliability and ease of use. It's A LOT of effort.
Ask HN: How to Write Language-Agnostic Test Conditions for Any Test Framework?
I like writing test conditions (given this input, expect this output) for specs and algorithms - my current obsession is with RFC 3986. Since the subject is language-agnostic I'd like to make them usable by everyone no matter which programming language or testing framework they use.

Is there an established way to do this, to make them useful for people working with multiple testing frameworks?
Could have just called an API but instead we fired an SNS event. Sigh.
Iquitos? there are a few cities out there.
A few years a ago when I worked at a tiny startup(<5) we had direct contact with aws. Not sure if this has changed now
The concept is promising, agreed. But like most (all?) recent IBM products, the failure point will be in the execution of the concept. IBM is a marketing company at this point, not a serious technology company.
In China, CBDC (central bank digital currency) is linked to your Digital ID
public education when compulsory definitely has all the ingredients to spiral into authoritarianism
Here's what I'd suggest. My set up is pretty minimalist, but you might be able to gain something from it.

- Desk facing the window, natural light helps me stay in a good mood, and easily take a break from looking at my monitors.
- Bookshelf behind me (looks cool as a background during video calls,) I also like to read from my desk
- Side note, I keep my phone in a separate room during work hrs
- Analog clock hanging to the left or right of my desk. Reminds me to stand up, or take a step outside after a few hrs of deep work.
- Amazon sells a portable standing desk, which I just place on top of my desk and pull the lever when I want to stand up.
On the fact that they don't allow them in the first place.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keanumycin
https://archive.is/wGdhy

"The New York outpost, which was set up by the city of Fuzhou, is based in the offices of a Chinese community organization, the America Changle Association NY, according to the state-run China Youth Daily, which last year published a document listing various police outposts. Changle is a district in the city of Fuzhou. The article has since been deleted. Other addresses of Chinese police outposts match locations of private businesses, including Chinese restaurants and commercial associations."

Here's an NGO independent investigation, if that helps, into these foreign service centers:

https://safeguarddefenders.com/en/blog/230000-policing-expan...
Despite not being public, Valve still operates under capitalist pretenses. This means that their time is "best spent" on what generates revenue. Predictably, this means getting their commerce platform on as many devices as possible. That's made possible by Proton.

The side benefit is that the abstraction layer they are building will introduce near-parity between GPU APIs, which renders the whole thing moot.
Social-Media Account Overseen by Former Navy Officer Helped Spread Secrets
https://archive.ph/FzvPX
May I ask what kind of data you are storing that you need millions of tables? If you have such varied data, what are the tradeoffs compared to only a few tables with json columns?
>In China, CBDC (central bank digital currency) is linked to your Digital ID. If, for example, you’re caught jaywalking, the facial recognition system will immediately display your face on a public board of shame, before automatically deducting your fine from your digital wallet.
Norway isn't in the EU, nor is Switzerland, nor is Iceland. It says quite a lot actually that the richest/highest life expectancy countries in Europe are not in the EU.
Personally, Linux would need to be many times better than Windows for me to use it to replace Windows for gaming. Currently W11 does the job with minimal fuss. I don't need to worry about anticheat, compatibility issues or driver problems.

Windows isn't without fault but at least for gaming I don't really have any complaints. I'm unconvinced that there's any upside to switching to Linux.
"The first step is to buy time to upgrade our 19th-century institutions for an A.I. world"

As influential as Harari (recommended by Bill Gates and Obama) and Harris (featured heavily in The Social Dilemma) are, they don't have any prescriptions here for improving our institutions.
This reminds me of the "protections" real estate agents provide by taking a "meager" 5% commission on a home sale. Right now it seems practically impossible to sell a house without the involvement of an agency. I wish we could get rid of these overpaid middle men for filling out a bunch of forms and taking zero risk.

I feel what Apple is doing is taking 30% of what you pay to e.g. Spotify as a middle man because they made the device and can dictate whatever terms they please. How are people ok with this is beyond me.
GitHub Actions and Pages experiencing issues
Appropriately sneaky: https://aws.amazon.com/snowmobile/ appears[1] to allow export of petabytes of data but then the FAQ reneges “Snowmobile does not support data export”[2].

[1] tagline: “Migrate or transport exabyte-scale datasets into and out of AWS”.

[2] “Q: Can I export data from AWS with Snowmobile?” A: No. in https://aws.amazon.com/snowmobile/faqs/#Using_Snowmobile
I was really surprised to saw a lot of stars on one of my oldest repos )) it was just for my purposes and I didn't continue work on it because thought that it is not needed at all ))
Germany is the world's #4 economy...largest economy in Europe. They would be expected to have the largest # of billionaires no?
Did ChatGPT even make Bing a threat?

Bing has only 10m+ downloads on Android. Not even a top 200 app.

Samsung switch too Bing will hurt Samsung more than Google.
Works if latency isn't an issue between app and db, which it often times is.
>In combination with Steam Deck it's console killer

Are you saying that Proton + Linux seriously threatening, killing, the market of PS5/Xbox Series/Nintendo Switch?
And your money stolen without being returned

https://www.npr.org/2023/03/24/1165822372/afroman-police-rai...
> what happens when the canal floods?

Nothing. The panels aren't intended to contain the water within the canals, they're installed above the water on racks. Aside from catastrophic flooding that might compromise the solar panels' supports, the panels wouldn't be impacted by flooding.
It does kinda mean that if everything else is worse.
Kill the Newsletter! Convert email newsletters into Atom feeds
It's not laborious. Just think for yourself. Don't delegate critical thinking to some random idiot or stranger.

Being marked as an oddball is a very minor downside compared to your kids not being able to read well.

It's called "common sense" and you're arguing against it.
I am very confused. Is someone forcing you to deliberately side-load apps ? If nobody is forcing you to do this, why do you want to force others to only use the App store ?
—> 28 day rolling window
I still would not buy it just to avoid giving money to GM due to their stance on Carplay/Android Auto.
As of this writing, that entry carries a -11 score. Not sure what to make of it!
Zeus Notebook – An in-browser IPython notebook with GPT copilot
Inspired by Jupyterlite and GPT, I've build an IPython notebook that runs completely in your browser with Pyodide, with a GPT copilot, as part of Svelte's hackathon.

The chat interface allows users to seamlessly move code from the notebook to the chat to ask questions and vice versa, make coding more accessible to everyone.

Link to source code: https://github.com/seahyinghang8/zeus-notebook
> He says the machine that coats the cheetos in cheese powder broke, so he took some home, developed a spicy powder, and coated them. Then he called up the CEO, Roger Enrico, and had a meeting with him and 100 other people where he pitched his invention.

That doesn't necessarily mean what he (claims to have) pitched was the exact recipe for the Flamin' Hot powder. Mixing up which CEO he pitched to aside, it's entirely possible (probable, even) that he could've presented some homemade powder only for Frito Lay to then decide "well wait, we already have this spicy powder from McCormack we're using for a Chee-tos flavor we're testing in the Midwest, so we'll just use that and greenlight it for national distribution; yo Rick, anything else we should spice up for the Latin American market? Popcorn? Fritos? Fuck it, why not?". The timeline of when Montañez allegedly "invented" Flamin' Hot Cheetos does line up with when they hit shelves nationwide; I'm willing to bet it's less a matter of him deliberately stealing credit from others and more a matter of him not having been aware of prior efforts and his independent invention being of something already in the works.
yep, I'm actually surprised it hasn't happened yet

they've been insufferable for a long time, and on mobile I've completely given up on them
It totally would, if Bing doesn't return relevant results.

I've asked BingGPT about myself and it gave me three answers. One was more or less on-point (it found my linkedin profile), and the other two were hallucinations. What happened was Bing found two unrelated pages and GPT has tried and failed to make sense of them.

Either that, or I am a prince whose name means "goose" in Polish.
You don't even have to be an "idea guy", many patents are patenting the problem domain.
I don't think I've ever seen a post on SO with that many downvotes before. That's pretty telling how the community feels about being used as training data (especially backed up by the highly upvoted reply saying such).
This raises a question I have about Win 11. Are the problems people are attributing to 11 because they use the Home edition or are these problems also found in the Pro edition?

Seems like worldly different experiences.

Regardless getting a Linux system up and running is still infinitely more pleasant (assuming hardware compatibility is already taken into account).

Right now I'm deciding on getting a second drive since Windows doesn't like to play nice with duel booting from what I can tell. Also Microsoft fucked up the sound for Oblivion and Morrowind.
AWS UI is awful compared to Azure. At least in Azure I can quickly search across regions and subscriptions for cloud resources.
SO has jumped the shark
>
The law, enacted in August, required vehicles to be assembled in North America to qualify for any tax credits, eliminating nearly 70% of eligible models at the time. On Jan. 1, new price caps and limits on buyers income took effect.

> The IRA requires that 50% of the value of battery components be produced or assembled in North America to qualify for $3,750, and that 40% of the value of critical minerals be sourced from the United States or a free trade partner for a $3,750 credit.

The battery sourcing requirement means that 'China' is only relevant to a small portion of this question, but makes for a great distraction.
Alphabet shares fall on report Samsung may dump Google Search for Bing
> Cloud computing has become so expensive that so many companies are moving away from it

Net? Sales figures don't show this.
"when human life begins" is easy.

Biology, the science, makes it clear that such cells are alive. That definition of alive is the only one that can matter to thinking, non-superstitious people. There are no souls or spirits.

Furthermore, the science of genetics makes it quite clear that we won't do a DNA test and discover that the fetus is a wombat, or a giraffe, or a sea urchin. It would test as Homo sapiens, which is the definition of human.

It's objectively the truth.
Hundreds where I'm at now. Same as many places in the past. Not every company sidelines or discards employees based on age.
Also, talk about a non-apology:

Betsy S, I regret that this misunderstanding caused you distress.
I never intended to demand anything of you. I only ever wished you well.

"Betsy, I regret that with this misunderstanding on your part, you caused yourself distress. But it certainly wasn't in any way a reasonable consequence of anything I said. I only ever wished you the sublime wellness of an acquaintance with me."

Note he doesn't deny stating that he would kill himself as a result of of her failing to see just how "well" she would be if she were to go out with him.
The OECD had a list of List of Unco-operative Tax Havens, that used to contain several European nations.

List Deleware on this
That wasn't really true with PAE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_Address_Extension Well that's the x86 extension, ARM has a similar extension called Large Physical Address Extension.

As mentioned in that article, Windows limited it to 4GB if you weren't running Server Enterprise, but Linux generally has it enabled by default.
> Stroll through an engineering office and you are likely to hear the (mostly white, mostly male) denizens making statements like…

For an essay on quantifying your priors, it’s odd to find this stereotyping of white males.
I did the original import of the unencumbered SSH sources into the OpenBSD CVS repository (imported to the wrong path and Theo blew up lol). Haven't thought about it in ages and the distance of the memory is making me feel old too.
The Cult of Sigmund Freud
https://archive.ph/siPIi
> but a private person should be able to choose whom he serves by whatever criteria they see fit

I don't know what to tell you on this topic other than "You missed the lessons of the 1960s." The soul of the racist was bared in the fight and it was found to contain nothing but fear and traditional power-lust. Their privilege of calling the shots on this topic was stripped with cause... Not by power-mongers or politicians, but by the people, by a generation coming to feel nauseated at the kind of naked belief in racial superiority that enabled the sins of the past.

The ERA and related Acts were fairly unprecedented, but passed for a very good reason.

And you're right; they are a curtailment of liberty. Most laws are, but we're a country of 330 million people; nobody expects the same laissez-faire approach that worked for a country of 100,000 to work today, right? Do you also rail against the right denied to pilots to buzz a plane twenty feet over your house, or the right denied to motorists to drive on the left side of a divided public road? From whence, then, the umbrage at the notion that a person cannot be fired based on some made-up drop-of-blood rules, or tossed out of a restaurant for having skin darker than the table they're sitting at?

I don't disagree the country was founded on the notion that racism was acceptable. I'd hope it'd be self-evident why we are doing the work to jettison that cornerstone. For what liberty can a man truly have when even the provision of water and bathrooms are arrayed against him for something as irrelevant as the color of his skin?
The fact that this post by Prashanth Abd al-Rahman (SO CEO) is so downvoted makes me think he's onto something. This is like when artists cry because of how good Midjourney is and they'll have to switch careers. If programmers are complaining about AI it's because it's good.
On the other hand, I'm reminded of this article I recently read: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/nov/04/how-i-los...

You could easily argue that this guy made poor decisions with his money, but it's also all too easy for investors to attribute their success to skill, not just a few lucky bets.

In the long run, my understanding is that few things will consistently outperform plain old index funds.
Inertia.js – Server side routing for SPA with any backend
Pyjama singular actually works, but I'm not sure Pajamas can be singular.
A Low-Cost Through-Metal Communication System for Sensors in Metallic Pipes
Isn't it obvious that the new AI gods will require our regular offerings in the form of text, pictures, music, and anything else that can be manifested in this existence we call reality? Create, and praise the transformers.

Amen.
Zhcode: Python in Chinese
A project to translate programming languages into Chinese.
> Stroll through an engineering office and you are likely to hear the (mostly white, mostly male) denizens making statements like:

This racist/sexist stereotypical line jumped out in the reading of this article.

I cannot support Micheal Natkin writing pejoratively about groups in this manner.
Ok no examples _needed_ but please provide some.

I made software that helps my clients. I sell it for $1000/mo. I get $1000/mo and pay taxes on it. I have created $1000/mo.

Please explain what's not fair about this? The intricate nuance I'm missing? LOL

Let's say I work with one other person and pay them $1/hr, which they accept. They make my idea. I end up paying them like 100 and I make 1000/mo forever

Where's the nuance there?
To be clear on the logical flaw, nobody is arguing we should accept others’ rejections blindly. But their rejection shouldn’t strengthen our conviction. The most radical rational response is to ignore the rejection.
It already is. You don't seem to have done actual testing.
Steam Deck is kinda on some path there.
It's one thing to say that Sundar hasn't led Google to innovate much in his tenure (I agree there), but to say Google hasn't picked any winners since Google Search?

- Gmail (largest email service at 1.5B users)

- YouTube (by far the biggest video sharing platform)

- Android (most used operating system in the world by number of devices)

- Google Maps (maps service with the largest userbase)

- YouTube TV

- The whole Google Drive Suite

- Chromecast/Android TV

- Chromebooks (made huge inroads in the k-12 education space)
Tabloids being forced upon you:
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/windows-keeps-feeding-tabl...

Microsoft account horribleness eg:
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2023/my-daughters-school-t...

Win key being unbindable for app specific shortcuts.

Windows update undoing all user preferences
https://twitter.com/rygorous/status/1504572255665201154?s=46...

Janky crashes:
https://twitter.com/litherum/status/1279164544544157696?s=46...

Forced internet accounts:
https://twitter.com/rianflo/status/1589346472335937536?s=46&...

I could go on. A lot of these i found just searching “windows update” amongst people i follow on twitter.
I thought for the past decade or more now, the “surefire” way to FIRE was to work at a big publicly traded tech company and keep frivolous expenses low, and a few million by 40 would have been nearly guaranteed (since you are earning a couple hundred thousand or more per year).

Marry a similar high earner to make it even more guaranteed.
A 27k car that dealers are adding, coincidentally, a $7000 markup to, so the sticker price is $34,000. So not only do they take the tax credit, they also increase the sales tax you have to pay. You'd be insane to buy one. Get a Kia Rio and the TCO will still be less than the Bolt, and you'll never be stuck with an empty battery and a broken charger.
> You don't have to use a US card processor, there are European options.

You're still at the mercy of what the US networks deem acceptable. Even if you are German residing in Germany, have a German bank, your customer is German residing in Germany and has a German bank... say, you're a sex worker which is completely legal in Germany. And yet, you'll get booted off of anything where the US card networks are involved.

> As for donations, fair enough. Why not get your donations to an account outside of Germany to escape that headache?

Still tax evasion. Yes, I could create something like a Maltese shell company, but that is even more of an effort to set up and maintain.
No of course not. But reading the other comments here, that's what I'm getting.

This feels like a worse version of the whole 'the plan to fix the problem isn't perfect, so lets do nothing' I see a lot.

It does confuse me though. It's clearly not the primary goal of adding the panels, but a side benefit.
That's a nonstarter just because of how you describe the various services at each cloud provider. For instance, Google cloud is big into using "projects" as organizers for resources, where the closest analogue in AWS land is an entirely separate account.
This makes me think about something I thought of a while back, is there any library/app which lets me expose a TUI/cli-app over ssh without actually caring about securing OpenSSH for this use case?
Universal Product Code barcode will be supplanted by 2027
Draculas, Ranked
Not to mention what is possibly the most asinine change I've ever seen in any UI revision of any software: Making the right click menu show you half the available options and requiring another click to view them all. Why?! It completely defeats the purpose of the right click menu as a convenient quick options menu. Nobody has ever said, "Man, right clicking is nice and all, but I wish I had to right click then left click on a More Options button then left click again." Just completely ridiculous.
MCM's 3D parts are also great starting points for stuff you'd like to print for prototyping. I just printed off a bespoke belt pulley using an MCM model as a base this past week. Added a bunch of specific mounting features I need for my application. It's an inferior part printed in FFF, but it'll work for now.
> > That projectile travels at a claimed 37 miles per hour, and has a straight-forward range of 35 feet — though the company claims that, with an arc, it can theoretically reach 60 feet.

This launcher doesn't seem very capable of hitting a moving vehicle, in spite of what their marketing might imply. It would be much easier and more covert to just use an Airtag, which stalkers already do.