skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My takeaway from generative art as a former illustrator and now data scientist is never has it been more obvious why artistic skill and taste are necessary for making images, while at the same time never have those things been more irrelevant because of the audience for the work.
Funny what people can obsess about, I couldn't care less.
I should have said ''attempting to save''.
Agreed. But sometimes, especially if you know about your problem domain, it feels like asking "how do a I keep water out of my basement" and all the answers are "simply rebuild your house at the top of the hill."
If we're going to fix issues with domains I would like to find a way to ban domain parking and "premium" domain prices sold by registrars.

I'm fine with an individual holding a handful of unused domains, but the legislation should eliminate anyone holding domains as their primary source of income.
Does ICANN have a position on whether domain name prices should be high (e.g. to discourage squatting), or low (e.g. to avoid being a rent/tax)? Because the price seems entirely driven by whatever ICANN wants it to be (by virtue of assigning the monopoly to Verisign, with an ICANN-defined cap on price rises), rather than any market mechanism.

For example, if a startup approaches ICANN saying they can manage the .com registry while charging only $1 per domain per year, is that attractive to ICANN?
> Of course, the problem isn't really the rich. There aren't enough of them to strain the assistance budget even if they do all take the free lunch. The problem is the people who are richer than the ones who are eligible, but aren't actually rich. There are a lot more of them

Welcome to the squeezed middle. Don't make enough to be truly comfortable but too much to be eligible for government assistance.

> and the money to give them all free things may just not exist.

Though if we had a functional legislature we could make this money exist simply by bumping the tax rate in the relevant income bands so that the extra expenditure is covered by the higher taxes.
Cannot tell if this is sarcasm or not...
Haven't been on 'the apps' in a good while, but it was my belief that they all work a bit like this, no? The algorithm sizes you up, you get put in a bucket, and you are matched with those who are in an equivalent bucket. Bucket hopping is then made available at a cost.
That's on the registry, not the registrar. Point your anger at whoever owns that TLD.
Wish I could give you an npm package for that, but best I can do is a process:
[0] keep a log / journal
[1] make a change
[2] observe the result
[3] iterate

[0] is to raise awareness and detect cause and effect. Keep it minimalist. I once went overboard with a whole spreadsheet. Plain text turned out better. What to track? Inputs (food, media, activities) and outputs (physical and psychological state).
[1] Try eating better, exercise, changing media exposure, time outside. If you go down the supplement rabbit hole, start with simple things like magnesium. Attach new, better habits to your existing routine.
[2] Watch out for delayed reactions. For instance, what I ate 48 hours ago has significance.
[3] while(true)

Random bonus: if there is something that negatively affects you, seek out its polar positive opposite. I'm very easy bothered by sounds. Leaf blowers shall die. But this also means sounds have a strong positive leverage on my mental state:
https://youtu.be/gKdFbdrk-58
I see plenty of cats and rats around western cities.

The cats tear through the local bird population, rather than the rats
Off-topic, but have you tried a CGRP Inhibitor? That's a newish class of drugs specifically developed for migraine. Aimovig has been game changing for me.

https://www.webmd.com/migraines-headaches/cgrp-inhibitors-fo...
I'd extend this "X developers are mostly self-taught" onto all of computer development. They say, "Every developer Of a Certain Age's first programming language was BASIC" and my experience of (eventually) getting a CS degree is that there is the expectation of students to already know how to do the thing that they are trying to teach; a certain level of "self taught" is expected.
To that end, I can see how in The Age of Teh Internets that the standard of self taught has moved of from BASIC to HTML/CSS/JS (or Unity or whatever sparked the young mind's attention).
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What I'm not certain of is that "self taught" means that work will be duplicated because the self taught developer doesn't know the technology that exists. I think that someone who is extremely online will very likely be more abreast of what technologies exist. I think that a formal education is better at establishing what the fundamentals underlying a programing method or paradigm... but not necessarily at exposing new programmers to what the state-of-the-art is.
> Does this all actually mean they are bringing the KBI in on the investigation against the newspaper?

Police conducted the raid. The Marion County Attorney withdrew the search warrant on the basis of "'insufficient evidence'...to establish a 'legally sufficient nexus between this alleged crime and the places searched and the items seized'" [1].

Said attorney's brother, with his wife, "owns Marion’s Historic Elgin Hotel, where the restaurant Chef’s Plate at Parlour 1886 is located. The hotel’s liquor license is currently held by [the wife], but is only valid through Aug. 28. Newell owns Chef’s Plate and is seeking her own liquor license" [2]. (Newell is the proximate cause of this mess.)

At face value, this looks like a conflicted party asking a third party to take over a tainted investigation.

[1] https://www.kansascity.com/news/state/kansas/article27830017...

[2] https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article2...
Not costing lives. But saving lifetimes across a population.
I certainly wish Windows would do something about these endless boot and even worse shutdown times.

Even worse, I want to go home, not wait 30 minutes for updates to install.
I’ve read that they also attack reptiles in a way that exploits a reptilian weakness, which is their greatly reduced (relative to mammals) capacity for dealing with lactic acid buildup. They goad snakes, etc into repeated dramatic movements which causes their muscles to quickly saturate with lactic acid, greatly reducing their mobility.
Highlights from Git 2.42
We started this thread with:

sambleckley> producing a specific image with generative AI is sometimes almost impossible

justrealist> Who could possibly think this will be the case six months from now?

me> I'd bet on this being true six months from now

I thought you disagreed with me on this, but it sounds like maybe not?
Oh hello! This was a years-long process. Appreciate the call out.
> I didn't spot in the article, how many `wrong` images were there? From a quick skim of the code it looks like maybe 6 per keyword with 13 keywords, so not many at all. ~100 is surprisingly little feedback to steer the model this well.

Correct: 6 CFG values * 13 keywords = 78 images. Some of them aren't as useful though; apparently "random text" results in old-school SMS applications sometimes!

LoRAs only need 4-5 images to work well, although that was for older/smaller Stable Diffusion which is why I used more images and trained the LoRA a bit longer for SDXL. The Ugly Sonic LoRA in comparison used about 14 images and I suspect it overfit.
Author here! As noted in another reply, I'm using a custom justification tool I built almost a decade ago called unjustifiable.

The way it goes about it very silly; you can read more about it at https://sambleckley.com/writing/text-justification.html
"The most lucrative field will be robotics, where AI control systems facilitate physical manufacturing and all aspects of physical labour." -- why? Since you are talking about AI alignment this statement seems to imply that you think people will "let AI loose" on robots, i.e., let robots decide what to do and, by virtue of having alignment, hope that it will do something useful for humans. That by itself is absolutely murderous and insane for the foreseeable future, because even 99.99% alignment may still result in lethal events if you actually let that AI freely control the robots behavior. So I actually tend to completely disagree with your above statement, not even though I'm working in robotics, but BECAUSE I'm working in robotics. I understand the reasoning, but I think what you've got wrong is the timing: AI alignment will not be beneficial in robotics for a much longer time than it will be useful in much less dangerous applications.
> I started with Turbo Pascal 3, Moved to 4, 4.5, 5, 6 then Delphi. Somewhere in there moved to "C" and then "C++".

I never understand why people use "C" as opposed to C.

Does anyone use "Pascal" as opposed to Pascal?
Expulsion from the United States Congress (Both House and Senate)
> Huh? Come on, now. It's far more realistic than a wizard learning to cast spells, FFS.

That's the problem. People can suspend disbelief when the wizard casts a spell, they can't when the guy with the mundane gun does something they "know" is impossible.
Why is this not a fun fact? Guess I shouldn't let you know where petroleum jelly comes from...
If I understand correctly what you said:

If I tell you that one kid is male, you think that the probability that there is one male and one female is 2/3.

If I tell you that one kid is female, you think that the probability that there is one male and one female is 2/3. (Right?)

If I don't tell you anything - beyond the fact that I have two kids - what's the probability that there is one male and one female?
I'd think that eventually we'd have a large enough cohort of folks that know web dev well since the barrier is so low, but I think most people try to get out of frontend development asap.
> Overall I think this is a net win, especially because I don't think this needs to be the end of the road for human illustrators, but this will force them to adapt and bring more sensitivity to the needs of their clients.

The advantages of AI that you crow over simply can’t be met by any human professional artist. A human can’t do hundreds of revisions profitably. There’s increased “sensitivity” and then there’s needing to read the client’s mind.

If you think this isn’t a death knell for human illustrators in this particular market, you’re deluding yourself.
I’ve often thought in life that I’ve learned most of what I know by seeing examples of what not to do. If for no other reason than that there are many more people running around without a clue than truly wise individuals making well-reasoned decisions. At least that’s how it’s seemed IME; I’m sure in reality people are just doing the best they could and making decisions in the moment, but they often seem to be thinking in the extremely short term (and then sometimes, still wrong even for that).
imo: inflammatory conditions often lead to fatigue and discomfort which makes physical activities less appealing and sedentary activities more appealing. Social media is already very accessible and highly 'rewarding' so the incentive to use it is very strong.

(super meta: I am tired and uncomfortable and am spending stupid amounts of time reading reddit/HN)
Trust people when they report there's a problem, but don't trust them with the solution.

Otherwise we would get faster horses instead of cars.
Maybe not astronomically. That's not a big number in a modern economy. You only have to help out maybe one industry and it's worth that much.

And AI already can do that. E.g. help reading a sales effort; help qualify an investor; help target a pitch. Doing just an adequate job at these things can make agents more productive, sooner. Do it for car sales or real estate agents or financial services, that's money in the bank.
I definitely fell into this category. None of my messages ever seemed to go through. I tried everything to fix it. The only thing that worked was getting a new phone, new number, and never connecting to my wifi. I have no idea what I did to get my account into that state but it really sucks. It damages your self esteem, but this is modern dating I guess. Talking to people in real life is quite a bit better.
Cloudflare pricing:

.com (9.15)

.net (9.95)

.org (10.11)

.xyz (9.33)
Wasting people's time. That's a good enough reason.
I'm not going through the effort to upgrade my 250GB system SSD because a random podcast app can't figure out how to distribute a binary without shipping half an OS. Most people aren't going to upgrade their storage at all.

We're talking about Linux users here, not your run-of-the-mill generic end user. If you download an AppImage, you're most likely an advanced computer user. Maybe you don't download media yourself, but you'll probably have huge node_modules/cargo/venv/maven directories slowly clogging up your drive.

AppImages aren't easy to use (you can't double click them like on Windows and they all have to provide a mechanisms of their own to register a shortcut in the system menu), their startup time is affected by the compression tying all the files together, the security is no better than any other application (worse, in fact, because when I update my system's openssl client I'll still need to wait for every AppImage program to publish a security update with the patches included, which usually takes months or longer). I don't know about RAM usage, but the duplicate libraries being loaded by the executables will cause at least a few megabytes of unnecessary RAM usage.

AppImage is mostly there to help the developer spread the software. The benefit for the user is "at least there's something I can run, I guess".
Here in the US, nurses were pretty prone to believing in snake oil for covid. They're the same people who have always been prone to MLMs so....
Do you agree with the following?

> I tell you I have two children and that (at least) one of them is a boy, and ask you what you think is the probability that I have one boy and one girl.

2/3

> I tell you I have two children and that (at least) one of them is a girl, and ask you what you think is the probability that I have one boy and one girl.

2/3

If you don’t, why not?

If you do, what’s your answer to the following question?

> I tell you I have two children and that I’ve just sent you an email with the sex of (at least) one of them, and ask you what you think is the probability that I have one boy and one girl.
I like this because opening the dev tools has a high chance of changing innerHeight :)
Hi, author here.

You are right in the index being the easy-mode. Over the years there have been lots of implementations trying to add an index like that to the gzip metadata itself or as a sidecar file, with bgzip probably being the most known one. None of them really did stick, hence the necessity for some generic multi-threaded decompressor. A probably incomplete list of such implementations can be found in this issue: https://github.com/mxmlnkn/rapidgzip/issues/8

The index makes it so easy that I can simply delegate decompression to zlib. And since paper publication I've actually improved upon this by delegating to ISA-l / igzip instead, which is twice as fast. This is already in the 0.8.0 release.

As derived from table 1, the false positive rate is 1 Tbit / 202 = 5 Gbit or 625 MB for deflate blocks with dynamic Huffman code. For non-compressed blocks, the false positive rate is roughly one per 500 KB, however non-compressed blocks can basically be memcpied or skipped over and then the next deflate header can be checked without much latency. On the other hand, for dynamic blocks, the whole block needs to be decompressed first to find the next one. So the much higher false positive rate for non-compressed blocks doesn't introduce that much overhead. Furthermore, you need to consider that the block finder is basically only applied to the first ~0-128 KiB or so data of each 4 MiB large block (until it finds a valid one). So, in terms of real input archive size, the effective false positive rate is smaller by a factor of 32.

I have some profiling built into rapidgzip, which is printed with -v, e.g., rapidgzip -v -d -o /dev/null 20xsilesia.tar.gz :

Time spent in block finder : 0.227751 s
Time spent decoding : 20.4015 s
Time spent allocating and copying : 2.71328 s
Time spent applying the last window : 1.39377 s
Replaced marker bytes : 1 GiB 497 MiB 311 KiB 503 B

The block finder adds about 1% overhead and the marker replacement about 7% overhead. It probably would be nice to add a statistic for the false positive rate to the -v output.
Agreed, the site would benefit from clearly answering, "what is this and why should I care?". I poked around for a minute (most people will give it 10 seconds) and my impression is that it's sort of a digital lonely hearts club, or a global party line.
Not sure if the author will read this but, I think there's a typo on that page towards the end:

"it's a much difference picture."
should be
"it's a much differeNT picture."
Teams now prompts for work location
I noticed recently that Teams now asks for my work location, am I remote or in the office. I'm a permanent remote worker, never in the office. This feels kinda Orwellian to me. You know if they're asking that the information is being compiled somewhere for someone to monitor.
Okay but I don't want to talk about loneliness to feel less lonely. Thus, the front page is really off-putting and somewhat depressing. Doesn't really make me want to use the app much.
It's so comical watching a country that claims to be first world struggling with this.

My shit country has solved this _ages_ ago:

Every citizen has an id.

The IDs are issued by each state, but they are all functionally the same. You will have no trouble voting with an out-of-state ID.

That ID is free and relatively easy to get.

Every citizen has an assigned place (building, room and ballot box) to vote, and it's usually close to their residence (you are expected to update when you move, it's also very easy).

Each ballot holds no more than 600 votes, average is around 300. Lines are uncommon, it usually took me like 5 minutes to vote.

Voting takes place on a Sunday, and most cities make public transit free of charge.
I find things like this to be a shady business practice. Not antitrust level shady, but still. For customers it's a win, but it kills competition long-term, turning the mid-term wins into a long-term loss.
Quick feedback on the landing page. try to make it more clear as to what problem is this solving instead of being abstract.
I would avoid putting an interactive widget at the top of your page. Pretty much ask yourself: "How many seconds does it take my visitors to guess what exactly this does" if initially that is 10 seconds and you manage to redudce it to 5 its a huge improvement. goodluck.
Why do you use a HDD? Of course, I ask in jest, but I'm also a bit curious.
Coming from the patching experience on various Linux distros (and even Windows), I really want to know what Apple is doing under the hood with macOS updates. Their point updates are multiple gigabytes and often take 20-40 minutes to install. My Arch system updates itself in a couple minutes (even if I haven't updated for a month) and there's no "unusable" phase of the upgrade process, other than a normal reboot for kernel updates.
225 is about the low end of taking lifting seriously as a hobby. Hes right, you can get to those lifts without much structure. just eating right, and being consistent for a couple years will get you there without trying to optimize beginner programs.

Your view of what can be done in the gym is distorted by the gym you are in.
maybe they needed "balanced DRM outcomes" ?

I was there and I do not agree with your summary of the situation. I doubt that anyone knows now except a few C-level and their attorneys.
Which is great and fast - until you want/need to upgrade the OS. Security hole, too bad, that is baked into ROM and can't be fixed...
> forcing someone to switch careers or to sell their business for life

It looks like a felony DUI in Kansas means you're on your third or fourth DUI [1].

[1] https://www.duikc.com/felony-dui-dwi-in-kansas-missouri
Bullshit. Don't fucking drink and drive. It's not hard for most people. If you can't handle alcohol, how can you be expected to be a bartender? You really think having such a deep-seated problem with alcohol that you are willing to commit murder over it is somehow unrelated to employment as a bartender!? If someone was caught firing guns randomly into buildings, do you think that would be unrelated to their employment in a gun store?
> Able to fall a multiple of its jump height

My understanding is that it's higher than their terminal velocity, which makes any height fairly low risk. They can be expected to survive falling out of an airplane, for example.
A good approach would be the opposite - provide as many math classes as kids (or their parents) want, so if something is amiss, it could be repeated or re-taught differently. Make the environment where private schools don't make sense.

Expensive though.
>Would that potentially be a situation which “running your own” doesn’t make sense?

Look into datalake architectures. RDBMS based data warehousing is obviously not economical at the petabyte scale. But storing all that data in S3 with Delta Lake/Iceberg format and querying with Spark changes things entirely. You only pay for object storage, and S3 read costs are trivial.
If you had read the article, you'd know the answer to your question:

> Rule breakers often make new accounts after an outright ban, so the subtle yet frustrating shadowban can be a better way to curb misbehavior.
> And now this person is suing because what?

It sounds like this doctor in particular was running a pill mill catering to the conspiracy crowd.

I suppose we'll find out what role America’s Frontline Doctors played in all of this soon enough.
The problem with all dating apps is the monetization. If you're truly successful on the app then you're no longer a customer.

I really don't know the solution to this problem but until someone solves it all dating apps will devolve into dark patterns.
Not long ago I was watching the air field waiting for a flight and happened to see my own flight abort a landing due to what appeared to be fairly reckless antics by SAR helicopter crews in training.

I watched the loaded passenger jet swerve, climb and go to full throttle on a landing approach to avoid a helicopter ascending into the approach.

It was a very close call and I was shocked at how routinely the situation was treated by everyone involved.

The flight delay was half an hour.

It was not reported in the news, but I was able to find official documentation of the incident.

A few weeks later one of the helicopter crews wrecked there.

That made it to the news, but I'm still a bit in disbelief that the ostensibly safety regulatory apparatus is this dysfunctional.

It's only pure chance that the recklessness of the helicopters operating there only got themselves killed.

I don't understand why the maneuvers were allowed at all at a passenger airport, nevermind with a passenger jet on final approach, or why they were allowed to continue after near misses until a fatal crash occurred.

The ultimate outcome was entirely preventable, but the regulators were completely asleep at the wheel.
A felony DUI conviction isn't a joke, people die all the time from others drunk driving and it's totally reasonable to prevent someone who can't manage their liquor from having access to an enormous quantity of wholesale liquor.

These things can typically be plead down to a lesser charge if its a first offense etc., so if it stuck as a felony conviction, there must've been serious circumstances (I'm speculating here, we don't know the details of the conviction).
You and I will forget about it, but news outlets tend to not forget about police raids like this.
How is this possible? Is it super new?
I just remember something from basic math. Exponential curve < linear for small values.

That said a lot of time I have small arrays of objects. Instead of keeping them sorted I just grind through them to find the next largest value. That tends to be hard to get wrong.