skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't studied diffusion methods in great detail, but my simplistic ELI5 understanding goes something like: during training you gradually add noise to an image, step by step, and then the model learns how to remove the noise at each step. Adding noise to an image is, of course, very easy to do.

But for this approach adding "noise" would be much less straightforward, wouldn't it? You'd have to have some way to work out how to take "Berlin is the capital city of Germany with ..." down to an empty string in a way that marginally removes detail. For some passages this could be rather difficult to do. I feel like gathering training data would be a huge trial here.
> And why are we acting like this is a new phenomenon? It's been going on since at least the 1940's

Exactly what has been going on since the 40s though? The Roswell Incident in 1947 was a balloon. There was no evidenced advanced propulsion technology, neither from aliens or the government. It was just a balloon that got blown up into an massive bizarre cultural phenomena of people whispering rumors about alien spacecraft.

The recent infamous Navy videos also show mundane technology, contrary to popular claims. Mick West has shown that mundane explanations exist for everything shown to the public so far. There's no good evidence for any 'exotic' technology, either from the government or from space. The government doesn't have stuff like antigrav craft, but there's no good evidence for such craft existing in the first place.
That feeling completely disappeared with workspaces in Vivaldi (though for me the discomfort started with maybe around twice as many, vertical layout with more smaller tab height helped)
Obscenities change with language. That’s why every language has them.

Even programming language have them. For instance, Basic has GOTO.

/j
for those researching this topic, I keep a list of these UUID/GUID implementations!

https://github.com/swyxio/brain/blob/master/R%20-%20Dev%20No...
The US is by far the most favourable place to be a highly paid professional but I do worry about whether it is the best place to raise a family.

The level of violence here is just so much higher than other countries. Even living in San Francisco where the murder rate is half that of the US it is still double that of Europe and Canada. There was a gun battle at our local play park a couple of weeks back.

The house price / wage ratio in Canada is shockingly bad though.
In case that was directed at me: charging for the game limits the number of people who will play it, and the biggest “payout” for me was seeing people play my game and talk about it (and show me tricks I didn’t know existed). Coupled with the fact that I would have realistically grossed less than $4k (for hundreds of hours of work), trying to earn money would have probably made it less worth it.
Classified, but inferrable from the size of launch vehicles and basic optical properties. Still incredibly impressive.
Is that what they mean by "used as the primary key in a database while ensuring good locality"/"database locality"? That read/write access will hit fewer disk pages?
That's a long way to argue against anecdote in favor of evidence, but the fact is that as you can see from this whole thread... people are short on evidence. People are offering anecdotes, conspiracy theories, and the old "isn't it obvious" line.

Anecdote is sufficient to dismiss that.
"It's aliens" is just about the least plausible explanation other than "god did it". I'm pretty sure several other sci-fi bullshit explanations are more likely than "aliens are real, have tech we couldn't dream of that relies on our model of reality being totally broken, give enough of a shit about us to visit but not enough to do anything else, and are extremely hard to detect except, for no good reason, in this one specific way that, coincidentally, often turns out to for-sure not be space aliens, but one of several other things".
Midjourney and Adobe Stock
I think it's much more likely that there's nothing to this, rather than it being part of a secret ongoing conspiracy to manipulate the public.
Hi Evan, I enjoyed this blog post a lot. I released my first indie game this February, after working on it since graduating college. It has made 3x my normal job's salary -- I'm still torn about whether to make a sequel and go full time, or stick with my usual 9 to 5. Let me know if you have any good tips!

I think gamedev was also a very big escape for me since middle school, and your post reminded me a lot of those dark times.

I also agree that games are an art, I went from drawing -> modeling -> rendering -> programming, so it was easier for me to reach those conclusions.

Making a game to show off your cleverness is definitely not the best motivation, but I have found that it can improve the game's "experience" if you can harness that feeling. Straddling the line between personal interest, feasibility, and market value is maybe the most important thing to get right as a solo developer in my opinion. I could see developers who got lucky with their obsessions getting absolutely devastated with their lack of hits afterwards (something I'm afraid of doing myself!).

The comment about the twitter gamedev scene being driven by terminally online people is very accurate, although I still admire some of the more educational/resource oriented ones for their sheer willpower.
Actually the dimensions are by definition the same as the fundamental units, i.e. the units that are chosen freely, independently of all other units.

A dimensional formula of a quantity just writes its unit as a function of the fundamental units.

In any equality of physical quantities, in the two sides not only the dimensionless numeric values must be equal, but also the units must be equal, which is usually expressed by saying that the dimensions must be the same, and it is verified by writing in both sides the dimensional formulae, i.e. the units of both sides as functions of the fundamental units.

A dimensionless quantity is a ratio of two quantities that are measured by the same unit, so that the units simplify during the division.

There may be different but related dimensionless quantities, which are differentiated by different definitions of those quantities, but a dimensionless quantity cannot have different units.

This is just meaningless mumbo-jumbo that has been sadly introduced in the documents of the International System of Units, in 1995, after a shameful vote of the delegates, who have voted automatically, without thinking or discussing, a vote equivalent with establishing by vote that 2 + 2 = 5.
Suggesting lifestyle change as a cure for obesity presupposes that obese people simply lack the knowledge of what must be done.

The real struggle is in the doing.

Many tout "listen to your body" as a solution, or "think about how junk food makes you feel" as one of the go-to solutions in "lifestyle change".

For the first time in my life I was able to adhere to this advice, because I'm on semaglutide.

My body now actually is telling me that too much junk food feels bad.

Before now, it actually felt VERY VERY GOOD to eat nearly unlimited junk food.

There is something going on in my body that prevents the proper signaling of "too much food feels bad", and this medicine corrects that for me and countless others.
Well to nitpick, that's because the two are kinda the same. Testing is part of design and vise versa in these types of systems. But otherwise I agree with the points you've made (seems we've been responding in parallel lol)
All entertaining to speculate, but it's classic human-centered thinking to suppose that aliens would be regularly appearing a few thousand feet or so from us, but never ever anywhere in the rest of the billions of miles of our solar system and everywhere else in between here and wherever they came from (in addition to their conveniently never appearing within clear view of regular citizens' phones or cameras and never clearly interacting with our physical world in any way)
But you are still billing by the hour. 8 hours in a day. Do work for 4 clients or work for 8 clients and get the same amount of money?

There are a few law firms that are heavily automated. But they are mostly larger, class action, pay per result, type law firms vs your standard law firm.
This isn't how law firms see things. Can they do more in less time? Yes. But can they double their rates so that they're making more money? No.

And while they could hypothetically get more clients, this aspect of the business is based on relationships (and is a burden for senior partners). Partners know that if associates are more efficient, there's a chance they would lose money, and a chance they could win more new clients and add those in too. But at the end of the day, that just puts them roughly where they were before — with fully-occupied associates, and a book of business that is the same size. For partners, it's all risk and no reward.
Since this is an out of pocket test not covered by medicaid/medicare, I don't know if the value based care argument is that relevant. I know what you're saying though.

The value we provide: If people want to know, they can now know.

I also think not making the test accessible also has downsides.
Agreed, I meant that as part of uncorrelation. You don't align with or against the dogma, so your beliefs might overlap in some placed and not others.

I forgot to mention a third form of "not being dogmatic" which is closer to my own idiomatic understanding of the phrase. Rather than focusing on your consumption or reaction to prevailing dogma, it is also a useful not to try to be a source of dogma. Don't consider your own beliefs to be "facts" and don't try to become an authority who promotes or evangelizes a new prevailing dogma...
Going even further, just 50 years ago, "games" meant activities such as tag, dodgeball etc.
There’s other policy failures with cars like parking minimums and single family zoning, as well of lack of requirements that roads be pedestrian friendly.
These are risks that the OWASP defined as the most critical vulnerabilities which can be found in your web application, and that are most likely to be exploited by attackers and to have the most severe impact on your business.
Click to learn more about how open-appsec, a machine learning-based open source WAF, can cover each of these risks.
* remote work for US firms is an option. I've done it as a PR in Canada.

* free healthcare, but only if you're in the CAN 51% of the year; they track this now

* strong immigrant cultures, esp. in areas like Vancouver or Brampton

* 5 years to citizenship, and then able to get NAFTA TN visas to the US, but still have a Canadian fall-back

* reasonable flights to warm parts of the US, without having to live in Sheriff Joe's AZ or Meatball Ron's Floridian Dystopia

* winters can be rough but 1st world means they're tolerable, and that's a downside that can be worked around
I think they're being too restrictive on recursion. They're excluding it based on not being able to prove it will terminate--but you can do that with a time-to-die counter.
Did you even bother looking at the website source before writing this?
I don't want to overstate the case. Again, the cases of intense vomiting have been very infrequent and - perhaps more to the point - it's possible that I could avoid those with corresponding changes to my diet, whether it's content, timing, etc.

That said, even on days when there's no outright vomiting, I do experience moderately frequent nausea, which is rather annoying. Since I am diabetic, I've chosen to simply accept the side effects as being acceptable in service of the "greater good". But yeah, consider talking to you doctor and just see what he/she has to say. Maybe a smaller dose could help you with your weight, while not leading to the nausea / vomiting / etc. I'll note that I didn't start getting that stuff until my doc upped my dose from .25mg / week to 1mg / week. YMMV.
What makes it worth saying is that I was actually trying to give helpful feedback to those in your position. Here's the first paragraph again:

>You should know that this type of argument is likely to hurt your own position when delivered to a moderate middle. You're basically telling people to ignore what they see and hear around them, and to believe that not only is the end coming - it has already come and we are living in a dystopia.

And based on how much traction your movement is getting, a lot of people either agree with me or don't think it's enough of a problem to actually do anything about it.

You're welcome to continue being frustrated and shouting in the ether that we're just ignorant and don't know any better despite our personal experiences. Or maybe you can revisit the core pillars of your rhetoric and find more convincing arguments to advance your movement.

And btw, I'm not white and the people with my skin color were enslaved to build railroads and placed in internment camps during WWII. So I think I have a pretty good grasp as to what's at stake.
I personally take ozempic and have also prescribed it to ~150+ patients for diabetes. I've maybe had to stop it in ~8 patients for tolerability issues.

We unfortunately usually dont get to hear many chiming in to say that they tolerated it just fine. I do (2mg/week), down 45lbs.

Being heavy is really bad for you. Don't be so quick to write it off d/t the possibility of vomiting.
They're permanent as long as you keep taking them, like blood pressure medicines or statins.
I once read a book that proposed a "new" trigonometry that iirc worked with the hypotenuse squared and maybe the sin^2 of an angle as it's base quantities, and the author showed how easy it was to do stuff. This feels about the same. Not wrong, but not really useful once you've learned the usual way to do it, not easier to learn, and you'll be forever confused if it's all you learn.
European Commission misleading about privacy guarantees of Digital Euro?
The concept of less than a third of lawyers using legal databases kind of beggars belief. Lexis and West, to say nothing of newer upstarts, were pretty much totally widespread in my view. How much the situation is different in the UK though, I don't have any idea.
The article doesn't fully answer its title, especially the "discoverable."
>They're paid to solve problems in lawspace, not in the real world.

Crime, family law, wills, industrial espionage, bankruptcy, insurance disputes, personal injury…

Shame there aren't any lawyers who help folks out with the real world situations.
Uh... I think you're assuming all your readers have the same precise understanding of "actually dangerous" that you do.

Is walking "actually dangerous"? Is cycling? Is driving? Is swimming? Is hang gliding? Different people will give different answers to these questions and I've even kept them all to the domain of transportation!

Once you get to the realm of all chemistry things get very murky. E.g. Is sugar dangerous?

In practice we're evolved creatures full of hacks that work well enough to mostly not die before we've had kids, I would be very surprised if there was a single substance we consume (both intentionally and not) that doesn't damage something.
The partners won't make more money because their associates will be billing the same number of hours. They'll just be doing so for more clients, which doesn't really do the partners any good (aside from making them feel more powerful because they have lots of clients).
Stanisław Barzowski on the jsonnet Language [audio]
Helping developers build and publish Progressive Web Applications (PWAs)
The transformer model used in the VQGAN paper has nothing to do with the autoencoder, it has been used to predict the quantized tokens. So no, you don't need to slide a window with the unet, you can directly predict images with different aspect ratios and resolutions like with SD.
This wouldn't even be the first time the CIA has done something like this: https://web.archive.org/web/20230611032246/https://www.nytim...
Car mechanics figured this out years ago with standard “book rates” for hours. Swap the starter in 1 instead of 2 hours? Pocket the diff. This even covers things like “already had the engine pulled out but still billed 2hrs for starter”.
"There was a study that indicated that PFAS pollution affects the metabolism in some people during the night. Normally you still burn calories while you sleep, but for some elevated PFAS levels causes their bodies to basically stop burning calories during the night."

I would be interested in reading that study...
> People want to imagine that the simple use of carbon fiber here was the sole mistake

Some people might characterize it as likely being the decisive mistake, but I’ve yet to hear anyone describe that as the sole mistake, there being so many obvious failures.

> Carbon fiber pressure vessels have a long history.

But does deliberately playing with the service life of carbon fiber for pressure vessels have a long history?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/06/23/titanic-subm...

This submersible involves a field where there is a lot of hard-won experience of how to do things safely, but where much of that experience was overtly viewed by the firm as “waste”.
If I charge a fixed rate per hour then the number of clients is irrelevant no? 8 hours of work a day pays the same amount, regardless of how many people it serves.
If I were in charge of digital literacy for the next generation, I would make "understanding version control" one of those basic things. I lost so many hours of papers, programming assignments, etc over time because the non-VCS version of iterating on a "draft" of a document for the non-educated is "Copy of copy of copy of paper-final draft (4).docx".
I didn't get the "type-safe" part. How would it work in Go?

Let's say I have structs:

type User struct {
ID TypeID
}

type Post struct {
ID TypeID
}

How can I ensure the correct type is used in each of the structs?
I'm guessing same to why everyone else does that: they want to abstract away the platform. To some people platform intricacies are uninteresting comparing to the problem they are solving, so their abstractions aim to express their problem domain, and hide everything else.

For example for apps you may like to deal with abstractions that can express navigation and pages. They are the same across web, iOS, Android. Unlike Activity, Fragment, View (is that still a thing, I stopped doing android 10 years ago lol) and some slightly different set of abstrations over iOS.
OVH founder on the new Synfonium ecosystem of which Qwant will be part
Tweet translated from French by Google Translate:

Following the POC of (new) Qwant and your feedback, with Miro, my brother, and the Caisse des Dépôts, we decided to finalize the creation of Synfonium which will now buy 100% of Qwant and 100% fe Shadow. Synfonium is 75% owned by Jezby Venture & Deep Code and 25% by CDC. The closing will take place this summer.

At the start of the school year, we will come back to the strategic details of what we are going to build for you, but also how we want to integrate the entire EU tech ecosystem into the adventure. You will find the search engine, free services, the collaborative suite, the social login, but also the services of our tech partners.

One of Synfonium's roles is to create the critical mass of B2C & B2B users and customers who will be able to use all these free and paid services. Today SaaS tech companies work in their own corner. Tomorrow we want to co-build this platform with the ecosystem to make all this European tech visible and find users and then customers.

The path is long, complex and expensive, but there is a real expectation to have this platform in the Cloud SaaS EU which respects our values and our European laws. I don't know if we're going to succeed all or part of it or nothing at all, but instead of saying that it's impossible, that it's lost in advance, that we don't have enough means, we, we will try.

I'm counting on you to help us build this platform, as the tech partner, being the user and why not one day as a customer. “Being part of the Synfonium ecosystem” is how we will measure the success of the project.

If you approve, feel free to RT.

Thanks in advance, and now to work :)
If applications were only slow the first time I wouldn't have any issue with it. But we all know that's not the case.

The difference you show depends on the internet connection, on slow wifi I've seen this delay go over 0.7s in the past. But again, just the first time, which is a problem for developers who recompile their code frequently but for the end user experience that's not as relevant.
FWIW, Canada did something fairly similar with laws / incentives regarding filming whereas California became outright hostile towards the movie industry. That is why so many shows and movies are now filmed (believe it or not) in Canada and not in the US.

https://reviewed.usatoday.com/canada/streaming/features/best...

https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?locations=Canada

The US is losing out on a lot of tax revenue because of poor policies disincentivizing an entire industry.
You sure thats Ozempic? Sounds like Trulicity based on the dose.
I highly doubt that. If the pair of things being compared was self titled tech "elites" and used car salespeople; there is a small (non zero but maybe zero if you rounding to the nearest number) chance they meant used car salesmen.
Past macOS versions get some security fixes for undocumented time. There were vulnerabilities not patched in past versions. I don't remember examples unfortunately.
Those waterproof jackets from REI that magically shed water droplets... for 9 months until the coating wears off and your jacket is just soggy
It's this line of short-term thinking that has brought us to population collapse we are just starting to see.
Of course not all lawyers are the same. There are some that really do get tech. Or more like the niche they specialize in, because the days of being a polymath are over, the tech world is way too large and complex these days to know it all.

That said, I thought exactly the same reading the article. If he thinks he's already one of the more tech savvy ones, that only proves the point of the article he's criticizing.
> Trump is Trump, I wouldn't use him as an example personally.

He's a perfect example of how not everyone cares about getting caught lying.

> And he doesn't describe seeing distant lights in the sky, but a flying saucer hovering over him and aiming a light on him- what could he be misidentifying?

Shit, it could've been a realistic dream; I've had dreams I was certain were real. Or, more mundanely, maybe it was a helicopter with a searchlight.

https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2013/07/30/206946740/m...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kopp%E2%80%93Etchells_effect
Canada does have an issue with brain drain. It's kinda funny how the US has awful K-12 education but world-class university and post-grad opportunities, so immigrants come here once they're almost ready to be productive.

H-1B and other immigration paths make sense if the goal is to collect the most tax money. But the country has to (at least somewhat) work by the will of its people. Even many immigrants who have gained citizenship are opposed to easing the immigration policy.
> The negative impacts on Reddit’s daily traffic and average time spent have improved, according to more recent statistics, indicating that the initial downturn was temporary. Similarweb’s data shows that on June 23, the platform saw 8.37 minutes of average time spent on the platform and close to 55 million visits.

The real story buried below the headline, which is purposely misleading of course.
I guess you'd also be giving someone extended life though right, so I guess that's for them to decide
When are they going to recover the bodies, does anyone know?
Link is in my profile.

I didn’t think the specific game was super relevant to the story, so I decided to leave it out. I also wanted to avoid the HN trope of “cool story! I’m working on this thing that’s only tangentially related: …” :)