skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This looks interesting, but honestly, for a tool that can create infinite amount of images it's odd that you only have 1 low res logo example on the right side side (which seems to come from your other project). It's not enough to tell what the capabilities of the tool are, and it's not enough to get me to pay for it. I would suggest either a free-trial (even if it's super short) or provide more examples with different type of logos.

FYI: all links on the bottom of your page lead to a 404. (Contact us Terms & Conditions Refund Policy Blog)
In some countries you can, but that assumes that your employer is willing to negotiate with the union instead. In Denmark how it normally works is that unions are specific for a given profession and a single union negotiate on behalf the employees in that profession, regardless of them being a member or not. If the majority of the employees where to go to another union, the employers could switch to negotiating with that union instead.

For some professions people just negotiate their own salary, that is true of software developers for instance. Nurses on the other hand have their salary negotiated by the nurses union. It really depends on the type of work and how uniform it is or how poorly the employers behave.

The US unions seems, from the outside, pretty immature and amateurishly run. They are to small, to narrow in focus, to expensive and poorly organization.
There is surprisingly still a lot of short-ish .ai urls available by the way, unlike io, the transition from io is still not complete.
So tell me why China and India aren't installing more nuclear power plants than they currently do.

In the US electricity production accounts for ~25% of greenhouse gas emissions. Nuclear may be able to help with some of the other ~75% as well, but certainly not nearly all of it. https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/sources-greenhouse-gas-emis...
Maybe that's okay? If you look at regular multiplication, it seems vulnerable to choice of "basis" as well. For example:

6 x 6 = 36

But if we choose 2 as basis, rather than 1, then we have

3 x 3 = 9
(aka 3(2) x 3(2) = 9(2))

But 9(2) != 36

So even regular multiplication isn't invariant under chosen "basis"
So now YouTube/Twitter/Facebook all enters this subscription or ads era.

Maybe by raising the entrance fee, could boost the quality.
> Fortunately, these regulations don't seem too extreme. I hope it stays at this point and doesn't escalate to regulations that severely impact the development of AI technology.

The details matter. The parts being publicized refer to using AI assistance to do things that are already illegal. But what else is being restricted?

The weapons issue is becoming real. The difference between crappy Hamas unguided missiles that just hit something at random and a computer vision guided Javelin that can take out tanks is in the guidance package. The guidance package is simpler than a smartphone and could be made out of smartphone parts. Is that being discussed?
I think you meant "big" rather than "hot"? It's decay rate is low enough that it doesn't even melt itself when not cooled (and it melts at room temperature). Adding precision here, a 'thin layer' would not melt itself, you could probably keep a 10+kg chunk liquid. But the low efficiency means you need a lot of surface area between the Cs137 and the silicon lattice, so it one could calculate the number of sq meters of "battery" surface you would need to power a device and then see if you could topologically fold that into a relatively small area. Cs137 also can produce a small amount of gamma radiation which you'd want to shield against so the whole thing might end up in a lead box. (not great for making it light :-))

It would be a fun engineering challenge and a good use of nuclear waste but difficult to sell politically because the association with "nuclear." And yes, it isn't actually practical at this level. Looking at where folks are looking at this seriously it seems to be more of a spacecraft thing (long duration probes far from the Sun kind of thing)
Funny I got interested in nearest-neighbor search for this kind of vectors in the early 2000s and there were a lot of papers on the subject that were depressing (had to make a tradeoff that wasn't really attractive) compared to the literature on low-dimensional indexes. Back then I had 250,000 or so vectors and a full scan wasn't that bad.

In the 2010s I worked on a dense vector search engine for patents and we had maybe 10 million vectors and still used a scan, I mean, you couldn't ask for a more memory hierarchy and SIMD friendly algorithm.

Today I am looking at 1M (larger) vectors and the full scan is still possible but I am using FAISS because it is a bird in the hand and I decided I can live with the tradeoff.
Quartex? THG?
Inflation is running at over 20% since Jan 2020.

I'm not sure how you measure metro-level inflation, but NYC got noticeably much more expensive post-pandemic, especially housing/rents but also food/entertainment/uber. A renovated studio apartment in a decent area is $4k in some neighborhoods now, and over $5k for a 1 bedroom apartment.
There are a handful of court decisions. One in Austria for a newspaper that said accept ads/data collection or buy a subscription which was, at least initially, ruled acceptable per gdpr. And I think there's been some challenges; I haven't paid attention over the last 6 months.
The protocol can do it, but libsctp (used by browsers) was not coalescing ACKs. I'm not sure if it has been fixed yet.
> Huge numbers of people are going to die regardless at this point

It would already be happening and we would have noticed.
Companies have been trying to off-shore work since the 90s, or possibly even earlier. I used to constantly hear "don't study software engineering, all the jobs are going to India" 25+ years ago. Some companies did succeed in doing it, but most ended up paying 80% of the costs for 10% of the quality, and abandoned the experiment. Remote work changes nothing in that regard.
Humans Rational and Irrational Buying Behavior Is Mirrored in Monkeys
I remember being pretty stoked after getting a flat screen CRT. Oh how things have changed
Choosing between Phuket and Mauritius ATM, I'd love to find a likeminded community. Most nomads are (understandably) childless.
Isn't this just tantamount to admitting that we are not going to be able to control AI?
> If it is intended to "send a message", anonymity is usually the opposite of what the bomber wants.

Well, coffeebeqn did speak of terrorism with a "terrifying degree of anonymity"

In the IRA case they would generally make an anonymous phone call where the organisation claimed responsibility, but the actual individuals have long since fled the scene.
I didn't mean to misrepresent your post. It looks like throughout this thread, my original question became distorted from a larger scope to just puberty blockers taken at an early age.

Anyway, aside from effects on bone density, I did find this:

> One of the disadvantages in adolescent girls who have been treated with GnRH analogues at an early age is the possibility of insufficient skin for penile inversion vaginoplasty.
> How Young Is Too Young: Ethical Concerns in Genital Surgery of the Transgender MTF Adolescent

I could be misunderstanding this, but it sounds like there could be lasting effects on penis growth. Wouldn't that make sense, since your body would be getting estrogen during a time where it'd normally be developing in a way where it'd otherwise would be receiving testosterone?
Interestingly enough, that list doesn't include misleading ads. That probably explains some of the ads that are designed to prey on less computer savvy users like "download PDF" button ads that are served by Google's display network.
[In the US] Discussing one's suffering in a work setting with colleagues seems like an overall 'bad idea'. Serious disease? Looks like your position is no longer required... Mental health issue? We'll escort you out of the building, don't make us call the police. Etc.

Which sucks. It isn't how it should be, but one is taking a significant risk to reveal suffering which could lead to greater suffering.

> Or they may conclude that this isn't the kind of relationship, or the kind of company, where we talk about such things.
> So find the courage to take the initiative.

Asking if someone is doing okay should be the extent that someone outside of the medical or legal professions should be asking. Probing beyond that may be considered very unwelcome to the sufferer.

I respect the author's ideas, but until there is a societal shift in how we see ourselves and our relationship with employers, with additional protections from the government from our employers, I don't see delving into external issues as to being beneficial in a work setting.

My suffering won't end until I do, and I've learned a lot from doing so. I would love to share those experiences.

But it won't happen without significant anonymity I don't believe I can achieve.
>There needs to be a "software engineers union" or "Programmers Union"

I honestly hate the idea of that. If you don't like Meta or Google, you don't have to work there. I know lots of people that don't like the "defense" industry because it contributes to building weapons, so they refuse to work at those companies.

What recourse does an employee/member have if the union publicly supports setting up (mock) guillotines?

https://files.illinoispolicy.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/...

What if you don't agree with their conduct or policies? You can't just go get another job if there's only one or two.
Terrible way to present this data.
There’s a few that would be neat:

* maybe possible already, but it’s not immediately clear how to change the bitrate of the encoder dynamically when doing VBR/CBR (seems like you can only do it with per-frame quantization params which isn’t very friendly)

* being able to specify the reference frame to use for encoding p frames

* being able to generate slices efficiently / display them easily. For example, Oculus Link encodes 1/n of the video in parallel encoders and decodes similarly. This way your encoding time only contributes 1/n frame encode/decode worth of latency because the rest is amortized with tx+decode of other slices. I suspect the biggest requirement here is to be able to cheaply and easily get N VideoFrames OR be able to cheaply split a VideoFrame into horizontal or vertical slices.
What story about home made nuclear devices would be complete without a mention of David Hahn, aka the "Nuclear Boy Scout" who built a homemade neutron source at the age of seventeen out of smoke detectors. He did not achieve fusion, but he did get the attention of the FBI, the NRC, and the EPA. He didn't have anywhere near enough to make a dirty bomb, nor did he ever consider making a bomb in the first place*.

Why do I bring up David Hahn if he never achieved fusion and wasn't a terrorist? Because of how far he got as a seventeen year old. A fourty year old with a FAANG salary with the ideological bent of Theodore Kaczynski could do stupid amounts of damage. First would be to not try and build a nuclear fusion device. The difficult of building one doesn't seem so important if you're a sociopath when trying to be being a terrorist if every sociopath can go out and buy a gun and head to the local mall. There were two major such incidents in the past weeks, with 12 more mass shootings from Friday to Sunday over this past Halloween weekend**. Instead of worrying about the far-fetched,
we would do better addressing something that killed 18 people in Maine and 19 in Texas, and 11 more across the country.

* https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/building-a-better-breed...

** https://www.npr.org/2023/10/29/1209340362/mass-shootings-hal...
> Ads on Instagram and FB are not very annoying. Almost nobody will pay to get rid of them.

I am not sure what people think is annoying but 90% of my Instagram is ads and weird suggestions. There is barely any legitimate use case other than promoting my own bullshit to other bots.
UFCS is a breaking change, of the worst kind
What's a good place to learn about all the networking jargon in this article?

Also, a nitpicky point: As a community it would be nice to stop thinking of 'links to wikipedia pages, mdn docs, or github issues' as useful or pertinent forms of citations or footnotes. If I'm immersed in an article and I come across a term I don't know like 'SCTP', do you think a link to some dense proposal standard webpage is appropriate in this context for providing the background info I need?

Of course academia is guilty of this too. Canonical citations don't tell the reader much else beyond 'I know what I'm talking about' and 'if you want to know more spend 30 minutes reading this other article'

But since we're web based here I think we can do better. Tooltips that expand into a helpful paragraph about e.g. SCTP would be a start.
Too many contractors can’t get concrete right. I see so many new builds with cracks and spall damage. So many basement or garage slabs with a few big cracks in them. Stick frame is more fool proof for sure
What if I don't want "solidarity" with inept coworkers, or fixed wages, or corrupt leaders? I think Amazon drivers and warehouse workers need unionization. They have been actively exploited for many years now and still don't have a voice. We live in paradise compared to them.
The current moq-pub implementation only requires valid fMP4 (a la CMAF) to be provided over stdin. I haven't tested, but I imagine you can do the same with gstreamer.

Separately, I've been working on a wrapper library for moq-rs that I've been calling 'libmoq'. The intent there is to provide a C FFI that non-Rust code can link against. The first integration target for libmoq is ffmpeg. (I have a few bugs to work out before I clean up and shout about that code, but it does mostly work already.)

I gave a presentation about some of this work last week at Demuxed, but the VoDs probably won't be available on YouTube until Decemberish.

Also, I understand the gstreamer project has better support for Rust so I'll be looking at that soon, too.
In America the risk is forced on you as there's very few social safety nets and legal protections. So hell yeah, you'd better be showing me the money or I'm walking. If you're an American and don't have that mindset then you're just stupid. There's no security in America. Hell, we can't even go out for an evening without getting shot!
Now extrapolate this out and realize that 25-50% of our global tech economy is basically waste.
There's nothing risky about developing ARM cores. Well, other than the fact that doing it wrong is very costly. Millions of them ship every year, and there have been many third-party designs, shipped in millions of units, by many different companies, for years and years and years at this point; it was actually the primary way they (ARM) did business for a long time, until ARM realized that focusing on designing better cores than their customers was a great way to make money, as increasing design complexity put them in an overall better position to do it versus third parties. The Qualcomm/ARM dispute at its core has nothing to do with the ISA, it's fundamentally an IP dispute, concerning an existing agreement after a buyout and market pivot. These kinds of disputes aren't new.

The risky thing is "violating license agreements." Licensing a RISC-V core from a company under specific terms, getting bought out, and then changing trajectory of your product with that IP in a way that might violate the terms could result in the company coming after you. Put more simply, "violating the terms of a license agreement means you could get sued." This isn't strange. It's a complete non-story.

The other real risk is one that exists in any processor design, that it costs tens of millions of dollars to develop validated, high-end, high-performance and energy efficient processors, no matter the ISA, and tooling them is an entirely different matter. These risks mean the vast majority of Production-Ready designs come from corporations that need to ship high volume, high margin products, based on projected returns. There's relatively little actually "open" about the processors from SiFive, Ventana, Rivos, etc, other than the fact they adhere to a specific version of a ratified software standard, a PDF you can download. If you come at it from a software point of view, all of the "ingredients" are basically proprietary. You aren't getting masks, RTL files, DV tools, bringup tools, or any capability to validate any of those are what you expect. You cannot reasonably modify and reproduce them -- a single wafer on a modern process can take months to actually pattern before the packaging process even begins. And they aren't going to give it to you, because that's their competitive advantage and the reason you buy their cores, instead of their competitors cores.

The whole bellowing about "proprietary ISAs" or "ARM vs RISC-V" on places like this is mostly totally misinformed upvote farming, and has no bearing on how reality actually works.
Did you ever think you weren't?
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-07/climate-c... | https://archive.ph/S07av

https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/climate-cha...

https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicators/climate-change-indica...

https://www.who.int/europe/news/item/07-11-2022-statement---...

https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/05/1136897

https://www.v-20.org/new-health-data-shows-unabated-climate-...

I am not worried if you don't believe. It doesn't matter if you do. Doesn't matter if I do for that matter. It only matters if people who have big levers do.
Why strike when you can sabotage? Can't they accept crypto anonymously and use those funds to publicize their demands while crippling the company from within?

EDIT: the sabotage may already be happening... the NYT iPad seems extremely slow and buggy.
> if somebody tells you, "you're among the most privileged class of workers making a lot of money, you don't need a union," then kindly tell them to go fuck themselves.

We are though. And I don't want some asshole union giving it up for us. I can fend for myself.
I got to eat one, some years ago. It was quite unpleasant.

As one member of our group remarked, "The more you chew it, the bigger it gets."
Threads Software Limited gives Meta 30 days to stop using the name Threads
I saw this (https://is-it-over.jevakallio.partykit.dev/) website and chuckled seeing all of the mouse pointers from around the world clicking a single toggle back and forth.

I love these "dumb" apps so much. I made a San Francisco version and check it from time to time, I really gotta know whether SF is back: https://is-sf-back.cconeill.partykit.dev/
Directly from the ! icon next to the mentioned stream:

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This is most acutely felt in acquisitions where those responsible for deciding what to build and buy have very limited understanding of software development. The failed rollout of healthcare.gov is the billboard for this problem.

There's an effort to train civilian acquisition professionals on how to buy and build better software, but they are pretty quickly hired by contractors or the commercial sector since their new skillset fetches a larger salary than what the government can pay (even with promotion).

I agree there needs to be a special schedule. I do think an overhaul of the civilian service is worth exploring.
Do you have a source for AWS employing 15K H1B holders? That's an insane number!
Or how it's a bad sector to be in.

Edit: I'm sure the editorial staff at The Register are brainstorming a headline at this very moment.
Linux 6.6 Changelog
You're talking to the wrong person. I'm not spreading doom and gloom while leaving a good option off the table, as you put it
In that story the wolves ultimately did come, and the sheep were lost (along with the boy). Maybe if the town had invested in having two watchers, or in fences and barns, they never would have lost their herd.
AI is just a hype. It cannot ask questions.
I've been wanting this exact product for years. Decades now. I don't need power or towing. Nor do I need to transport anyone else but me and one other. But I do want a long truck bed -- 6 foot!
It almost reads like a snapdragon x marketing flyer. Is this page a legitimate? Reading through the article and scanning a few benchmarks I see that it’s still behind most of today’s chips but is in “striking distance”. What does that even mean? The chip is going to become sentient and attack the m2/amd/intel chips and get its performance revenge?
Great memories of spending all my time on IRC and hunting for Photoshop when it was just a desktop app. Untold hours spent in college while procrastinating for my next exam.
And the next time your is down and their is up, are you suddenly going to arrive at the opposite conclusion?

Without numbers, I don't see how you can make any decent conclusion at all.
They couldn't use Rockchip or Allwinner or Texas Instruments chips? Sure there is some work they would have to do all over again getting the drivers working and reliable, but in the long run the partnership could be far better for the company.
> But if you're trying to apply the math, if you're studying linear algebra because it's useful rather than for its own sake, then you don't need proofs. To follow the same analogy, it's like learning enough English to be conversational and get around America, without knowing what an "appositive" is.

Sure, but then you're not studying math, you're studying applications of math or perhaps you're even studying some other subject like engineering which is built on top of applications of math.

To add an extra analogy to the pile, its like learning to drive a car vs learning how to build a car. Sure, its completely valid to learn how to drive a car without knowing how to build one, but no one says they're learning automotive engineering when they're studying for their driving test. Its a different subject.
If you have enough money saved or a fixed income you are welcome to try. That's the short version of the visa situation.

I think it's about 25k you need to have as a single person to get a working visa but don't quote me on that.
> Ah. So what we have here is, regardless of whether you agree it's true or not, a political agenda masquerading as a personality test. It's purpose is to argue Peterson's vocal political belief that the gender pay gap is not an issue, because women are biologically better at being nurses instead of engineers. His proof? Just look at those Scandinavians, they have completely solved sexism (citation needed) and still see this gap

I'm not sure it's a political belief per se so much as a refutation of the implicit assumption that the gender pay gap is entirely the result of sexism and more likely the result of other factors, not least of which are the traits and proclivities of either sex.

I'm not prepared to debate whether or not his argument on the topic is legitimate, but it is something that he has elaborated on and supported with some data.
For the second link in your previous comment, only 4 accounts posted the same link 5 times total, and only one of the accounts looks suspicious enough to be a bot, the others have join dates of 2011, 2012, etc., and not too suspicious posting histories.

Did you actually take a close look? If you did, why did you pick one of the least convincing examples?
Yep, website is not polished yet. Definitely should add more pictures, agree

I can also add like ~5 free images to new accounts when they sign up. Adding more might get pricey for me.

Thanks for your thoughts