skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Can you elaborate on “properly tweaked”?

In a nutshell:

1. Use a good checkpoint. Vanilla stable diffusion is relatively bad. There are plenty of good ones on civitai. Here's mine: https://civitai.com/models/94176

2. Use a good negative prompt with good textual inversions. (e.g. "ng_deepnegative_v1_75t", "verybadimagenegative_v1.3", etc.; you can download those from civitai too) Even if you have a good checkpoint this is essential to get good results.

3. Use a better sampling method instead of the default one. (e.g. I like to use "DPM++ SDE Karras")

There are more tricks to get even better output (e.g. controlnet is amazing), but these are the basics.
WestWorld: "Where nothing can possibly go worng"....
What was his contribution to the project? Given the information you give us, he may be the creator of copilot. He may not have made the product, but might be his father, the one who did the crucial original work with most added value, even if it's only 5% of the work.
>if you ever want to convert your project to something commercial, I would still consider raspberry pi and beaglebone instead based on software maturity and community support and their ecosystem at large.

Seconding this for the Beaglebone Black (including the Industrial variant). FreeBSD support and onboard Ethernet set it apart from some alternatives.
Ask HN: Why would you pay for this free tiny app?
As an indie hacker, I launched this app a year ago:

https://umbrellatoday.app

The primary function of the app is to send rain alerts via email to users before they leave their locations. Without almost zero effort, I managed to attract close to 1000 users, send out 90,000 notifications across +190 locations and 51 timezones.

Now I am wondering if it makes any sense to pursue this indie project further, and to try to consider monetising it, and perhaps as well expanding the user base.

I know that the product can be improved significantly (e.g. an app with push notifications instead of email) - its a serious MVP. But before jumping ship, I would like to think of the potential direction to take, and thats why your help would be appreciated.

What would be some ideas on how to achieve this? Or which approach to take? Even better: under which conditions would you pay for a solution like this?
next pivot? they ain't never made money off of ads son. datamining and consensus building were always an aim.
Hey, I'm not going to argue with you... but it WAS fn weird... and a part of my life's dialogue.

Can I write you a book on growing up in a family that built California?

You know why there are so many places and streets named 'Folsom' <-- my great-great-uncle

I know a lot of shit.

My great grandfather was ticketed MANY times when they were first installing street lights in SF to "NO MACHINE IS GOING TO TELL ME WHAT TO DO"

(I kinda inherited that)
Ironically, the one place that desal pumping would be almost free is the Imperial Valley, which is below sea level, though across a roughly 80-meter col (7 km horizontal) from Laguna de Salada. But they have among the oldest Colorado river rights — to fully 20% of the theoretically available flow — and couldn't afford the electricity, requiring some Rube Goldberg finance to make the whole scheme work out.
FTC Says Genetic Testing Company 1Health Failed to Protect Privacy of DNA Data
> I've never seen it used this way. What I've seen is the term being used to describe leftist authoritarianism, usually by other leftists.

These are not exclusive! My point was that it's used broadly, and is thus not inherently pejorative -- I've leftists use it both pejoratively and non-pejoratively.
While I don't doubt that the judge is both inexperienced and bias, it does seem to me that this is a case they've been preparing for years already. And it seems fairly open-and-shut: both the facts and the law are eminently clear.

I've never understood why federal trials always take so long. Since I'm not a lawyer, that failure to understand is mine, not the court system's. But I don't think TFA demonstrated how speed is an advantage for the accused in this case.
It's somewhat complicated in the US.

There are big both technical-focused, primarily liberal arts, and broader programs that "everyone" has heard of. There are also big state schools that may let you take "rocks for jocks" but actually have some pretty good faculty and programs if you seek them out.

There are also a lot of regionalisms. In a given state, a lot of hiring managers probably went to one of those big state schools. In any case, if you're in the Boston area say, someone hiring for a technical role is far more likely to have gone to one of the engineering schools in the area than Stanford or Berkeley. And, while I'm pretty sure I'd have gotten the position anyway (for various reasons), the fact that I went to the same school as my original hiring manager probably helped seal the deal.
There's no hostility here, just realism about what one-time pads represent in cryptography.
> Seems like it’s happening without government intervention

The federal government has definitely "intervened" by incentivizing interoperability through a $7.5B carrot[1] for interoperable charging networks.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36408329
I also know people happy with their OLEDs, but if you use your OLED at anything less than 100% brightness throughout the day, the only reasonable explanation is that your living room is much darker than mine. Which is fine, it makes it easier for you to enjoy your TV so good for you - but if someone crazy if they suggested that an iPhone never needed more than 30% screen brightness (which if the scales match would be brighter than your TV setting), I'm sure everyone would agree that they were wrong, even if it is sometimes enough.

For reference, I have my QN95A on max brightness (with auto-dim to not be killed at night), and it's not quite as bright as I want, but bright enough to be comfortable - and I don't think I'm being unreasonable. I do have windows both left and right and can look straight at the sun from my couch position twice a day (sometimes both ways due to neighboring reflections), and for WAF reasons my curtains are the thin kind.
latka is crap seo bloatsite. google should ban them.

rauchg disclosed their revenue trends recently https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1667995063216148480 i learned later that this interview was done in nov 2022
Microsoft also has the advantage of operating in a state with a (relatively) low cost of living when compared to Silicon Valley and no state tax. Engineers there are very happy despite the pay cut.
Looks interesting, though I would definitely need Android/iOS clients before considering it.

We migrated our small, private slack group to discord when slack changed their retention policy, though it's become less active since then.

I think a lot of the members use slack already, but are not inclined to deal with discord. Maybe a different app would be better, or maybe it's "slack or nothing" for some of those folks.

What I really want is slack to just have a reasonable pricing plan for small, low activity groups, like Linen has. So props for that!
I'm sure it does bring money, that's kind of the point of profit and taxes, but I think they are saying the drought is caused by government as a way to (I suppose) innoculate the locals and workers against water related regulations which would reduce their profits.

Or maybe they believe it, who knows.
I wonder how many people even care that git is involved. I know my personal choice of GitHub has absolutely nothing to do with git. I would use it just as well if it had a different source control system. Indeed I used to use Mercurial and only switched because that's what GitHub demanded. I wasn't out looking for a git host.
> > Of course it's even better to not block at all...

> Out of curiosity, is that something you ever want/hope to achieve in PostgreSQL? Many high-performance systems use this model, but switching a synchronous system in plain C to it sounds uncomfortably exciting, both in terms of the delta and the additional complexity of maintaining the result. To me it seems like a much riskier change than the process->thread one discussed here that Tom Lane already stated will be a disaster.

Depends on how you define it. In a lot of scenarios you can avoid blocking by scheduling IO in a smart way - and I think we can quite far towards that for a lot of workloads and the wins are substantial. But that obviously cannot alone guarantee that you never block.

I think we can get quite far avoiding blocking, but I don't think we're going to a complete asynchronous model in the foreseeable future. But it seems more feasible to incrementally make common blocking locations support asynchronicity. E.g. when a query scans multiple partitions, switch to processing a different partition while waiting for IO.

> Is having a large number of rings (as when supporting a large number of incoming connections) practical? I'm thinking of each ring being a significant reserved block of RAM, but maybe in this scenario that's not really true. A smallish ring for a smallish number of IOs for the query is enough.

It depends on the kernel version etc. The amount of memory isn't huge but initially it was affected by RLIMIT_MEMLOCK... That's one reason why the AIO patchset has a smaller number of io_uring "instances" than the allowed connections. The other reason is that we need to be able to complete IOs that other backends started (otherwise there would be deadlocks), which in turn requires having the file descriptor for each ring available in all processes... Which wouldn't be fun with a high max_connections.

> Speaking of large number of incoming connections, would/could the process->thread be a step toward having a thread per active query rather than per (potentially idle) connection?

Yes. Moving to threads really mainly would be to make subsequent improvements more realistic...

> That'd be a nice operational improvement if it meant folks no longer needed a pooler [1] to get decent performance. All else being equal, fewer moving parts is more pleasant...

You'd likely often still want a pooler on the "application server" side, to avoid TCP / SSL connection establishment overhead. But that can be a quite simple implementation.
I'm a Georgetown alum. Georgetown alumni do the same thing with international relations that CMU alumni do with CS where we like to pretend that because there's a really good IR graduate program that we undergrads were somehow special because of that.

Also, as with CMU, there are definitely more people who are interested in the topic, and a subset of them really are quite talented, but the talent density just isn't as high as at HYPS/MIT/Caltech, and as you noted, the talented people aren't as well-rounded (because if they were, they would've gotten into HYPS/MIT/Caltech).
The difference is that the US picks a couple of high profile scapegoats and makes their life hell, but everyone else is untouched.

The US will harass you, but publicly and legally. If you're a media person, you won't get access to the money-making Americans corps. They'll cancel your visa, and harass anyone with your namesake at a border crossing.

The harassment from the CCP is continuous and affects a large number of people. Just because 1 side does bad things, doesn't mean they can't moralize the bigger culprit.

( I do find comments on the morals of war to be a bit rich coming from Americans)
Some subreddits are now protesting Reddit by posting porn to hit at ad revenue
I had heard the same things. And then I actually rented a Model 3 for a week (twice actually). Aside from panel gaps (the Trunk lid was slightly misaligned on one of the cars I rented), I think the whole “Tesla is bad at cars” is promulgated by people who have never actually sat in a Tesla.
Their is still correct…
Public transit is like Costco's rotisserie chicken. Costco takes a loss on the chicken because it gets people in the door spending on higher margin products. Local governments should take a loss on public transit because it enriches the economy around it by connecting workers with employers, and shoppers of all ages and levels of mobility/independence with business.
New report: Generative AI threatens consumer rights
Nothing, the issue is who is buying and implementing it.
Direct link: https://umbrellatoday.app
Sure, although Tesla is in this market as well, with solar panels, battery packs, and wall chargers.
Great starting point! These diagrams notably miss a LLM firewall layer, which is critical in practice to safe LLM adoption. Source: We work with thousands of users for logicloop.com/ai
> I can tell I’ve taken it too far when I catch myself talking someone’s ear off at a gathering. They didn’t sign up for this, and here I am drinking them in like I’ve dunked my head neck deep into a pool at an oasis. Guess I was thirsty after all.

I would encourage you to challenge this belief. I'm not saying this is true of you, but I used to feel this way when I was insecure and overly worried about what others thought and felt. These days, I'm myself. I'm honest. I'm vulnerable (where appropriate). I'm also compassionate, and not being one of those "calls them hows I sees them" people.

I imagine people like hearing you talk more than you realize. Sometimes they enjoy it but don't necessarily know how to respond, which is about them and not you. This is especially true if it's someone who's chosen to spend time around you and didn't just randomly meet you.

I encourage people to be themselves (while being kind) and quit worrying. You'll attract the right people in life if you're authentic. You'll never attract the right people being someone else.
Looks like I can't see the tweet? Also, this lines up with Latka's figures as well, $24 million in 2022, and even with $50 million in 2023, that's still quite low for a $2.5 billion valuation, and that's if they don't raise further, thereby increasing their valuation.
>You load a model and have 6 sliders instead of one… it’s not exactly “fine tuning”.

Ok...? Read what i wrote carefully. Your 6 sliders won't produce better images than midjourney for your prompt on the base SD model.
> 6. Solar does not power the A/C. To power the A/C you need 10+ residential solar panels and a $2000 inverter on a 48 volt system. There are ways to have a 48 volt battery and down-regulate to 12v for the rest of your RV. People that run A/C off solar have "special ways" to have that many residential panels, typically involving fold outs and trailers.

I have not found this to be true. I run a Cruise N Comfort 12v AC and it works great (most it uses is about 60amps at 12v which I run off my solar panels). See my post here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36408382
> Myspace let you style your profile with CSS and embed stuff.

Which resulted in most pages being a horrific travesty in terms of readability.
I would not want my children to be like me. Not because of my imperfections or whatever the article is trying to say. Even if I were a perfect model human the same would hold. Simply, the world has already had its opportunity to experience me. It doesn't need to try again.
Concept that comes from RPG's, or any sufficiently complex optimization problem where you have a limited number of total points to spend so you "min"-imize the least helpful stats and "max"-imize the most helpful. For a fighter character, you'd obviously max out strength, as well as constitution and dexterity. You'd minimize intelligence, charisma, and wisdom - not because they’re not helpful but because you only have a limited number of points to spend. In the context of:

> The trick to effective min-maxing in social contexts is to make sure people can't tell you're min-maxing.

It means that, while in interview situations there is an expectation that you say "I did this", in social situations you might get more benefit from seeming to be more humble and appear to withhold your accomplishments, perhaps doing it in a way where someone else fills the gaps for you, or it entices the other parties into doing a bit of digging on their own and perhaps find some well-placed bios online that look like they weren't written by you / at your behest which do your bragging for you.

This avoids the situation where someone will say: "I work on Copilot now, and I can say this guy is totally full of himself." as other people respond "huh. yeah. that makes sense."
Sandy Munro has a conflict of interest he doesn't always highlight when reporting on Tesla-related issues.
Wow, was the US really that far behind? Or is it possible you are misremembering a bit? Here in europe I was already regularely texting way back in 1998 on my trusty Alcatel.
How is that obvious? Isn't it more likely that the author forgot to account for the terminating zero?
As someone who has spent hours playing with it in Photoshop (Beta) Firefly is actually pretty damned cool!
World status doesn’t mater as this is North America only. Volkswagen doesn’t have a chance and tbh, I doubt they care that much.

They certainly didn’t care enough to make electrify America good.
Fast-charging CCS is the Micro-USB 3.0 of car chargers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_hardware#Connectors
The game engine of Blender faced limited support due to its requirement for games to adhere to Blender's license (GPL) when generating platform binaries. Although there were workarounds available, such as externalizing blend files or using the binary as a loader, these solutions were not practical for most commercial games. It would have posed a significant challenge, particularly if developers intended to port their games to platforms that did not permit such restrictions. Consequently, this limitation likely deterred widespread adoption of the feature, with its usage being primarily limited to prototyping purposes.
Thanks. We have mobile clients in the roadmap! There is a big refactor that we would need to do before getting there :)
They have, writ large. i.e. United Fruit, Pinkertons, etc.
This blog post is way more complex than it needs to be, a lot of what most people are doing with llms right now boils down to using vector databases to provide the "best" info/examples to your prompt. This is a slick marketing page but im not sure what they think they're providing beyond that.
In your mind, what would be fair compensation?
> What would be the best learning site/resource for arriving at understanding how to integrate and manipulate SD with precision like that?

Honestly? Probably YouTube tutorials.
Sound carries very efficiently in water.

https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/sound01/backgrou...

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2005/02/secrets-whales-long...

The sub should have had an acoustic transponder that broadcast telemetry which could also be used to locate it.
I guess it depends a bit on the site. I can't imagine prefacing my search with site:twitter.com
Those things are useless as far as I've read. Feeling of security but walk a bit faster/slower and the results change enough.
2023 slang for “optmizing”, comes from: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimax
You've lost me pal. The discussion was about whether or not subs can be moderated without API access.
What a compute-centric framework says about AGI takeoff speeds
Farms that stop surviving winter due to it being warmer? Please point to these farms, and the underwater houses whilst you're at it.
I would think they'd find it equally distasteful to rubber-stamp the opposite authorities.

It would be justifiable to say "I don't know the shape of the world and it doesn't matter to me." It probably doesn't matter to them. If they fly in an airplane, the pilot will take care of it. If they don't understand why it's winter when they get to the other hemisphere, it doesn't matter if they can just pack right anyway.

But instead they're picking a contrarian argument and not validating it themselves. That's just appealing to a different authority -- and an authority who is not only wrong, but readily disproven with only trivial effort. That seems like it's undercutting whatever epistemological taste they might claim.
See https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2031509/ which seems to indicate administration is hazardous to your health
I know what i'm talking about lol. I tuned a custom SD model that's downloaded thousands of times a month. I'm speaking from experience more than anything.
Don't know why some SD users get so defensive.
Blockchains are unnecessary in a world with trusted entities and functional legal frameworks. In places that require a blockchain, you're still going to be at the whim of whomever has a monopoly on force. Sure, your key passphrase may be in your head. You'll end up getting beat with a rubber hose. It was never your crypto so long as someone has the guns (wrt "Not your keys, not your crypto").

https://xkcd.com/538/

> A massive decoupling from US economy. I wonder what people call US economy if they call crypto pyramid scheme. Sitting on trillions and trillions of debt, printing money according to their will completely ignoring the effect of their childish actions on the global economy

US Treasuries would like a word (they are the safest financial asset in the world, "full faith and credit"). There is no safer capital market than the US. Sure, there will be some de-dollarization, but that won't fix a rapidly aging China, a "teetering near the cliff" Russia, a Central and South America that is slow steady state, etc. And Africa? Very young still but a hard sell for investing.

> Sitting on trillions and trillions of debt, printing money according to their will completely ignoring the effect of their childish actions on the global economy

Debt backed by future productivity, but also debt that can also always take a haircut during legal proceedings. Laws and courts > smart contracts, broadly speaking.
Capitalists (business owners) make all the money. Workers get stiffed. This is the nature of capitalism and it isn't fair.
> That’s according to legal documents obtained by The New Republic. According to the court documents, in a 2018 case, OceanGate employee David Lochridge, a submersible pilot, voiced concerns about the safety of the sub. According to a press release, Lochridge was director of marine operations at the time, “responsible for the safety of all crew and clients.”

In this case, being fired was an ideal outcome.
I wonder how many actuations per character it can take.

The precision of the Selectric II must help with longevity, but the crazy-powerful feel when using one makes me wonder how much force is hitting the ribbon, page, and platen.
Maybe, but he is in the comments here defending himself. I wouldn’t be surprised if this was something where all the heavy lifting was done by a couple people. That’s often the case. If it’s true, really doesn’t make me want to work at a huge company like that.
Thank you for the in-depth response! Just to clarify my understanding, do you mean you want to encapsulate data structures within the same package (i.e. files in the same directory)? If so, I'm not clear why you can't break those up into a different package.
yea, none of that stuff really matters though. The magic of the MIT type schools is that students are expected to go into entrepreneurial roles, found companies etc in a way that is not the norm at schools like CMU. The peer set at MIT will have better network for fundraising because more people do it, and the network allows the participants to have an edge in success through fair (they get feedback from friends who have done the process before and give suggestions on what to do) and unfair (their wealthy investor buddy can give them warm intros to VCs) means.
I was definitely getting ESR vibes when reading the Twitter thread, and was not surprised to see my suspicions confirmed here.
I just noticed you advertise a real-time sync with slack/discord, so that just may handle my use-case. Is there a mailing list I could join to be notified when there's mobile clients?