skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know, what I saw in there (particularly with the haunted house) was a far broader POTENTIAL RANGE of outputs. I get that they were cheesier outputs, but it seems to me that those outputs were just as capable of coming from the other 'AIs'… if you let them.

It's like each of these has a hidden giant pile of negative prompts, or additional positive prompts, that greatly narrow down the range of output. There are contexts where the Dall-E 'spoopy haunted house ooooo!' imagery would be exactly right… like 'show me halloweeny stock art'.

That haunted house prompt didn't explicitly SAY 'oh, also make it look like it's a photo out of a movie and make it look fantastic'. But something in the more 'competitive' AIs knew to go for that. So if you wanted to go for the spoopy cheesey 'collective unconscious' imagery, would you have to force the more sophisticated AIs to go against their hidden requirements?

Mind you if you added 'halloween postcard from out of a cheesey old store' and suddenly the other ones were doing that vibe six times better, I'd immediately concede they were in fact that much smarter. I've seen that before, too, in different Stable Diffusion models. I'm just saying that the consistency of output in the 'smarter' ones can also represent a thumb on the scale.

They've got to compete by looking sophisticated, so the 'Greg Rutkowskification' effect will kick in: you show off by picking a flashy style to depict rather than going for something equally valid, but less commercial.
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/packages/apps/Mess...
Siemens NX uses it for the CAM post-processor customization.
Dumb you're getting downvoted, because the charging infrastructure is bad. I was "EV curious" and recently rented a Kia EV with a 250 mile range for a trip to Northern California. I had two purposes - drive to/from San Francisco and Sacramento. Drive all around the Sacramento metro area. I figured California, probably having the best EV infrastructure, would make the experience a good one. I was wrong.

1) Half the stations we attempted to charge at were broken for various reasons. Sometimes it was the payment system. Sometimes it was charging as a whole. sometimes the CCS side was broken, sometimes the Tesla side was broken. Sometimes the screen was broken. The point is these are not-simple machines with massive amounts of electricity going through them. Many things break.

1/1 Davis
2/4 Davis
1/2 El Dorado Hills
0/3 Palo Alto
1/1 Palo Alto

2) Vendors. All terrible. All except one municipal L2 required you to download their app. Thankfully all allowed guest charging, but if I was evil, I'd require users to register. Good chance they're desperate, and good chance you're the only charger in the area.

The experience didn't put me off on EVs, and I'm still considering getting one because I can charge at home. Relying on infrastructure, though, is a terrible idea.
You might have been thinking of AppGet which got killed by Microsoft's WinGet
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23331287
Saudi Arabia isn't shipping the water around the world, they are growing water-intensive agricultural products in arizona, and shipping those products. Which is kind of wild, but less wild then how I parsed your comment before noticing what the "(effectively)" was doing.
Well you see if they acknowledged nix then they wouldn't be able to claim to be the first.
This is something I’m considering. I can go live with a single PayPal business account since initial users will be limited to a very small pool of testers. I can have PayPal Commerce Platform working via Sandbox account and ready to go and can do something similar for Stripe Connect. But I need to pick what gets my attention ruthlessly, especially so early, and I’d like to have one reliable partner early on so I can focus on the product.
> To achieve ACI, Suleyman says AI bots should pass a new Turing test in which it receives a $100,000 seed investment and has to turn it into $1 million. As part of the test, the bot must research an e-commerce business idea, develop a plan for the product, find a manufacturer, and then sell the item.

I agree that we need a better test/definition of AGI, but this is pretty silly. There are already dumb "e-commerce" bots which probably turn a small profit spamming and drop shipping garbage.
I didn’t describe “doing things to help other people” in general, but particular pathologies disguised as those.

There are many pathologies that pose as “doing good things” — and I think it’s interesting that you didn’t respond to my particular examples, but a strawman.
This was posted in 8 June. With big name brokers in the US making a move into the crypto market today, is it fair to say this guy has no idea what he is talking about?

+ https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-20/crypto-ex...
Procurement Destroys Armies
Nice! Would you mind sharing which stable diff you used / where you obtained from?
devbox is a similar idea, but is more approachable for those who don't know nix.
Federation Developer Sandbox Guidelines
I draw the line at not having a private shower and toilet. Yeah, a lot of van dwellers utilize gyms for this, but I don't want to tie my basic hygiene to external sources.
That's the dream, but in my experience there are some thorns, and some things that just suck. Mostly these come from Windows, like a dev station using the wrong line endings, filesystem watchers not working if the project isn't on WSL storage, file permissions getting mucked up, etc. However, what is a pain in the butt is adding dependencies. Do you attach a shell and run npm in the container or try to do it on the host system. Do it in the container, and you'll have to make sure those changes make it's way back out, and that you rebuild the container the next time you launch it. Do it on the host, and you could run into cross platform issues if a package isn't supported on Windows, and you'll have to rebuild the container.

However, once you're aware of this, honestly it's not that big of a deal. Docker rebuilds are pretty fast nowadays, and you can use tools like just to make the DX a little easier by adding macros to run stuff in a container.

End of the day though, folks are all gonna have their own way of working, and I think dev containers could have an advantage for peeps doing remote development. It would be nice to have a system where our developers could dial in to a container with everything they need from anywhere they want to work.
If you had inequality without poverty, eg a true basic income or a standard of living "floor" that provided for all basic needs, a grueling low wage job would not be an attractive alternative for a great many people.

When you look at capitalism globally it depends on a tremendous number of people who are paid much less than the value their labor produces, straightforwardly because the alternative is misery and plausible death. The real threat of penury provides the coercive force that gets work done at rates that capital owners are able to take as profit.

And like yes there is varying tolerance of different forms and degrees of deprivation, and maybe there is some balanced "sweet spot" where you can keep people sad enough, and provide a well paid-enough minimum wage where grim poverty is gone but owners can still accrue profits.

But if that's even possible which I'm not convinced about, we are deep in a local maximum and not climbing out of it. The accumulation of capital provides its own feedback loop for optimizing the value extracted from peoples' labor. The existence of poverty is a highly efficient pressure mechanism in that cycle. There's no incentive from the top to remove it and make the machine less effective at its purpose, generating profit.
Personally I've found that joy cometh before a fall. Literally. My worst rollerblading accidents were when I was feeling joy (those hand guards do not protect against broken fingers). As such joy is not an emotion I actively cultivate, and when it happens I take it as reason to be wary.
Like being famous for being famous!
You comment this as many major central banks are conducting trial / rollout plans for CBDC. I prefer the decentralized side of cryptocurrency where the rules, censorship, and supply is transparent and limited.
When I hear about a raise, especially this large, my initial thoughts are, "great! they must be doing something right", then I remember all those startups that raised mega rounds and ended up selling me as a customer down the river, either by the way of selling to someone like Google and writing an "amazing journey" blog post or just lock me in and jack up prices (I'm looking at you Customer.io).

That's why I always look for profitable companies that have built a business around solid foundations rather than raising external capital in round B, C, D all the way to Z.

If you want to see how those companies *really* were doing, look at their stock prices after they go public. Very few go up or even stay flat. Most of them crash right after the stock handcuffs come off and the investors have passed the bucket to the general public. I even have an anti-portfolio of public companies with investors who wouldn't shut up for a minute about how amazing they are doing, when they were private companies. All of them have done considerably worse than the market average or any basket of tech companies, even excluding the big five.
Should we only listen to people who love Crypto?
I had the exact same problem with Render, but I wouldn't expect them to handle this situation because I'm guessing it's kind of an edge case? I ended up using a DigitalOcean Droplet + CapRover to do this, and then wrote a giant article detailing all my steps in case that's useful: https://alldjango.com/articles/serve-multiple-django-sites-f....
FWIIW that is the experience of using an EA station with a car that came with a CCS plug.
> When your country gets invaded, you don't grab your abacas, you grab your gun.

The confederacy was not being invaded when they chose to start the war.
That it’s unacceptable for a rich company to have poor working conditions does not imply it is acceptable for a failing company to have poor working conditions.
Kind of strange to me that they didn't test any prompts with people in them. In my experience that tends to show the limitations of various models pretty quickly.
Roblox is adding content for its growing adult user base
There is a lot of salt regarding exclusives.

Darkest Dungeon 2 was exclusive to Epic during the beta period and people were _furious_ on Steam.

Metro: Last Light had preorders on Steam and then went Epic exclusive a few days before release, having sold hundreds of copies on Steam. Steam spanked them and they honored the preorders, but didn't sell new copies until the exclusive was done. This is the reason I never bought the game, even though I love the series and bought the books based on the first game.

I am also against exclusives because I find them anti-user. I don't think Steam ever did exclusives (there are games that are only released on Steam, but not because of any exclusive deals, but because the developer simply never released them anywhere else).
I think I broke something. Made a table named pics, attached 2 random images and now clicking the table shows just the row numbers. Everything else is blank, no rows visible, just the indexes.
EDX is non-custodial and open ONLY to institutional investors.

The SEC's enforcement on Crypto Platforms is specifically aimed at separating the Broker Function from Exchanges.
After years of trying Duckduckgo and then always going back to Google, it was this 2022 interview with the Kagi founder https://dkb.blog/p/kagi-interview that I read a few months ago that got me to try Kagi. I was shocked that they thought people would pay $10/month for a search engine. Then I thought, "if Google lets us search for free, how much must it be worth for them?" Over the last few years I've started trying to pay for things that I use, and financially supporting developers working on products I like. That's when I decided to try Kagi.

And yes, I have used Google only a dozen or so times in the last few months since I went all-in on Kagi on all my devices. The search results are very good.
> mobilizing popular anger as a political force.

> Obviously this is dangerous to those in power

This is a disgusting falsehood and I genuinely think you need to be ashamed of yourself for saying things like this. This "popular anger" is regularly directed against the most powerless in society. Look at the demonisation of LGBT+, ethnic minorities, refugees, Jews and traveller communities to name just a few.

To hold any notion that this "only a danger to those in power," you'd have to completely ignore huge swathes of recorded history. You'd also have to completely ignore the actual examples I gave of populists like Nigel Farage. The man who right now makes his career out of demonising refugees drowning in the English Channel.
The number one facilitator of crime/gambling is USD, might want to check your facts.
Would muditaOS qualify?
I and family was expose to very large amounts of benzene from a gas leak over the course of three months. It was a rental house came with that smell, and they kept making excuses as to why it had a weird smell.

It’s taken about five years to get something resembling normal health.

Intelligence of all family members dropped like crazy. Blood started clotting a lot. Nerve pain and inflammation were the norm.

Doctors didn’t know what effect those chemicals would have so refused to sign any paperwork saying it was cause of all health problems. So lawyers wouldn’t take the case.

Only in the past year can me and my oldest daughter start having normal conversations like we used to.
All three of these are horrible, and running Stable Diffusion locally produces incredibly better results as seen in this comment section.
In this scenario, the three men harassing this family are China's best?
Other uses include local crimes and national crimes. They don't have to be global...

Oh, and gambling/speculating of course.
> The number of reserved keywords is not a bad thing.

I'm not saying reserved keywords are bad. I'm saying there's much more to learn about Java to learn programming, Go is limited with its' keywords and 'features', which often results in more LoC, but makes it super easy to get going, run into general programming problems like using a variable instead of a reference to it, etc.

In Java, you spend much more time learning the features of the language itself, even simple things like (s)Strings are not easy to understand, then add classes, inheritance, UTF-16, adding other libraries, build tools, JUnit and many, many other things that are given to you with Go.
This isn't bias, its truth. Sometimes, when one is entrenched, it is difficult to see the difference.
You invented and answered your own false premise. You set it up by proclaiming fiat the closest counterpart, and then proclaimed that fiat isn't treated like a security. You're the one saying it's closest to fiat, not the regulators. The regulators consider it to be more like an asset class and not fiat money like USD. They have been very clear about that.

> Did somebody have to register the Brazilian Real with the SEC for it to be exchangeable in the US? No.

There is in fact a considerable regulatory system in place as it pertains to exchanging currency, currency laws, and so on.
Joe's Kansas City BBQ.
Compared to competitors, yes.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/12/study-amazon-workers-suffer-...
That is a brilliantly worded comment.
Go to https://lemmy.world

The .ml instance doesn't want new users. World is becoming a "main instance", but nobody thinks this will last. Anyway, if you want to move, go there.
> Stereotypically college-educated

This seems unlikely, as we all know that the more education a person receives, the more informed they are, the more capable of rational assessment of the world around them.
Turns out that he isn't attacking the mechanics or underlying offerings (security vs commodity) as you seem to imply.

He does not like the lack of regulation around the (decentralized, unregulated) distribution and prefers the broker-dealers regulation and clearinghouse oversight.
It would, however, be extremely funny if they took advantage of Reddit’s current travails, dug out the Digg v3 code (not sure if the same entity that owns Digg.com actually owns it) and rose from the ashes.

Or more realistically, just stood up a Lenny instance.
> How much of the previous disruptions came with actual improvements to the user experience? Or at least something novel?

There was a major "conscious shift" of society to get everyone on the social media boat with a lot of promise and it changed everything. Now we're all on the boat and our lives have not gotten magically better. The new hope is split up two different ways

1. New technologies really do have something magic that will let us have our cake and eat it too -- the benefits of a centralized medium without centralized control

2. "new" technologies are really just a sneaky way of fragmenting the larger system and moving back to something smaller and simpler.

My theory is, on the whole, that we're afraid to admit that we're sick of the big centralized networks and need to dress up that fact by pretending that the real feature of new networks is actually something technical.

edit: See also Bitcoin

Last chance to evacuate Reddit before it is recycled.
> My understanding is that a Nissan Leaf is much much worse than a Bolt for road trips...

As a Nissan Leaf owner, yes. Because of CHADeMO (that is going to be a big problem in a few years, as existing stations fail and don't get replaced) and because of the passively cooled battery pack. I can do one DC fast charging no problem without much change in battery temps (CA weather). 2 or 3 in the same day? Might get toasty.

That said, all EVs have issues during winter(Tesla included, their EPA ranges are way overstated). It's just that, for a Tesla, it's easier to find a supercharger.

The consumption difference due to speed affects all cars, no matter their drivetrain. For ICE, that burns a hole in your pocket as it causes you to stop at gas stations more often.
They're basically cut-rate mobile homes on truck chassis.

This vid is a great illustration of both how easy it is to get into an accident, and how much damage even a glancing blow does: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuRtNajq-Yo
Well Redis started off being written in TCL.

https://gist.github.com/antirez/6ca04dd191bdb82aad9fb241013e...

And of course Antirez has a soft-spot for TCL:

http://antirez.com/articoli/tclmisunderstood.html

Which inspired me to create a (trivial) TCL interpreter in golang. Not perfect, but almost as good as picol:

https://github.com/skx/critical
I've lived in a few different countries and settled in the US. You're right about the pay in America, and it's at a scale beyond what most people (whether inside or outside of America) realize; take for example the state of Mississippi, who many Americans deride as being a "literal third world country", which actually turns out to have a comparable median disposable household income to an economic powerhouse like Germany.

> much of American life is getting much much worse

This sentiment is real and shared by many people, but keep in mind that many of the things that may be getting worse off in this country are becoming even worse in other countries. In fact, the easiest way to feel better about life here may be just to stop reading the news, in the same way that you're not plugged into the news cycle of, say, Denmark.

There's a lot to see in California and Texas outside of whichever cities you may have lived in, and a lot more to see in the rest of the US outside of those states. I invite you to explore more of it before writing it off.
For some people crypto is the only way to keep their wealth away from the hands of faulty and corrupt governments.
It's a crime if you or I do it. It's a blessing of quantitative easing when the rulers - our lords and saviors - do it.
> If anyone else remembers this incident and can link to a source that'd be great for my sanity.

This incident was Casey Muratori raising an issue about Windows Terminal performance:

https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/10362

https://twitter.com/cmuratori/status/1522471966929653761

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateEnd=1687287343&dateRange=custom&...
Apple is the number one headphone maker in the world
Not the person you are replying to but DDG is just as bad as Google at returning and prioritizing blogspam results. “Recipe for oatmilk” returns a slew of 2500 word articles that start with “What is Oatmilk” and “How is Oatmilk Different from Milk”. I just want to know the ratios. A search engine they can do that for me would be great.

Another example “XYZ-brand motorcycle boots after crash”. I want to know how well they survive an actual crash and the brand is popular enough that I bet there are plenty of images out there. Yet all I get is a bunch of promo images of brand new boots.

Give me a search engine that’ll actually return results I want!
Until you find a girlfriend from China, or a close friend, or a co-worker or even just an acquaintance that they just happen to tie to you. Now they have their reason.
Perhaps look at some of what paul khuong has written about umash; it is dense, but good, and includes good references.
Crying about 'whataboutism' is usually a sign of a mentally-stunted person.

There are so many awful things going on in the world that you must provide a convincing reason for telling me, "Look over here... China is doing X!" If I can say, "USA also does X," or "USA does similar thing Y," then I think it's fairly clear you need a convincing argument to try and make me care about this instance of China doing it.

Same thing applies when Democrats do X or Republicans do X. It applies across the board, but this is with the caveat that I mostly do not care about things that happen in the news, and I require sound reasoning for why I am supposed to care. If I point out [I don't care because] X happens all the time, and your only response is "whataboutism," then all you're doing is attempting to make me look stupid on the internet, another thing I don't care about. I walk away feeling like I still don't care. You walk away feeling like you somehow proved me wrong because (China | USA | Democrats | Republicans) are still bad because whataboutism somehow makes me wrong.

Basically, anyone who sincerely argues "whataboutism" on the internet should probably have their keyboard taken away.
Negative comments don't indicate bias. There are many alternative explanations. If I say 'Charles Manson murdered several people', that doesn't indicate bias. If I say it's raining, that's not bias against the weather.
Dont worry bro, there are thousands of posts on the net where people talk about how great it is.
That is the plan for PostgreSQL.
Why didnt this person include Stable Diffusion?
What exactly is going on where you need such long zoom meetings?

8 hours is insane, do you compensate people for this time?
Differential transceivers and high speed circuit design is not cheap before economy of scale kicks in for that particular unit, but the mention of throughput was not as much to denote the link as much as to denote the speed at which content must render, scan out and decode...
I don't want to be that guy but I think you are thinking of Doom Metal / Black Metal.
> Really not a fan of that policy for MANY reasons. I've also refused to join it to our domain as that ALLOWS REMOTE DEVICE WIPE OF MY PERSONAL PHONE. Amazes me that so many consent to that.

What MDM are they using? AFAIK Android and Apple both offer work-profile functionality and the MDM solution could be limited to the work profile.
Then why make reference to it?

Why not just say, "Having unsafe working conditions for employees is unacceptable. Period." ?

It's just the same old typical Bernie Sanders sh*t, I guess...
Crypto has been around over a decade now and transactions for illegal goods and services is the only use for it that ever got traction.
as long as you're ok with the risk of severe weather