skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The hardest problem the Stable Diffusion community has dealt with in terms of quality has been in the video space, largely in relation to the consistency between frames. It's probably the most commonly discussed problem for example on r/stablediffusion. Temporal consistency is the popular term for that.

So this example was posted an hour ago, and it's jumping all over the place frame to frame (somewhat weak temporal consistency). The author appears to have used pretty straight-forward text2img + Animatediff:

https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/180no09/on...

Fixing that frame to frame jitter related to animation is probably the most in-demand thing around Stable Diffusion right now.

Animatediff motion painting made a splash the other day:

https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/17xnqn7/ro...

It's definitely an exciting time around SD + animation. You can see how close it is to reaching the next level of generation.
Haha. There should be an alternate caption:

"The only people who do not want your privacy must have something to rule over you."
Judgements based on lifestyle, value for money, politics or any other similar factors are obviously going to be very subjective, but it is absurd to make the argument that anywhere outside of the Bay Area is better for starting or growing your tech career. Silicon Valley is still where all the top tech companies of every size and scale are hiring, it's where all the top talent is concentrated, it's where the majority of startups are popping up, it's where all the VCs are, it's where most of the tech networking happens. There is a reason OpenAI and Anthropic are only hiring in-office in San Francisco.
Ah yes tell the HN commentator to do what took an entire company several years and millions of dollars.
Is there a good reason to require `var`, `set`, and `call` keywords? BASIC doesn’t have those. From my (admittedly dim) memories starting programming as a kid, those keywords would have been an unnecessary complication.

For example in LOGO, you’d just write

forward 10
left 90

In comparison,

call paint.forward(10)
call paint.left(90)

seems excessive and noisy.
Zero chance private github repos make it into openai training data, can you imagine the shitshow if GPT-4 started regurgitating your org's internal codebase?
I have a slightly older iPhone, and the "Optimized battery charging" setting only kicks in maybe 10% of the time for me. I don't love your proposal of mislabeling the percentages, but I really wish there were a way to make my iPhone only charge up to 80% and then stop.
Fixes for Cities: Skylines II
Air quality is measured: https://tfl.gov.uk/corporate/about-tfl/improving-air-quality...
Hey Charlie, love this. I would rename 'call' to 'make', or perhaps 'do', but this concept likes really neat.

Will give this a whirl with my girls, who are a little bit younger than your target market, and will flick you through any useful feedback.
> Instead of an ad-blocker, try a YT premium subscription

Why is YouTube Premium $14/m? I find it hard to back into the economics based on either comparisons with Netflix, Hulu, etc or based on the amount YouTube have to pay creators per viewer per month for a typical amount of engagement.
The issue is always that creators themselves don't upload their videos to those 3rd parties. That forces you to come back to Youtube one way or another.

As for a lot of things there is a big network effect at play here.
Market what?
One year.

All of Hollywood falls.
Mind Blowing Mass Games in Pyongyang, North Korea [video]
Thank you!
Taking a quick look the source code you are linking here I realize you first need to record the audio (again it was a quick look).
I am thinking in an human-computer interaction more like the apple remote controller provides you to tell Apple TV applications the command (Most likely a search keyword). You know, no "middle-man", just the audio sent by the user and engine inference to act upon the received data.
You are taking the file from google. Google has a system in place to gate that file with an ad view(s). You are circumventing that system. It costs google money to send you that file. It cost the creators money to generate that file. You are compensating neither and instead talking about how the file is yours once you circumvent compensation for it.

Please, you cannot be this dense.
South Bay petty crime and homelessness has unfortunately arisen but that is a real alarmist way to speak about the most mundane stretch of suburban sprawl outside of LA County.
> With WASM-GC, .NET won't need to ship a garbage collector and WASM-based stuff won't need to copy between WASM and JS for DOM manipulations.

Does this mean the JS-interop performance penalty goes away?
Why does it matter? Not trying to dismiss, but truly, what would it mean to you if you could somehow verify the "simulation"?

If it would mean something drastic to you, I would be very curious to hear your preexisting existential beliefs/commitments.

People say this sometimes and its kind of slowly revealed to me that its just a new kind of geocentrism: its not just a simulation people have in mind, but one where earth/humans are centered, and the rest of the universe is just for the benefit of "our" part of the simulation.

Which is a fine theory I guess, but is also just essentially wanting God to exist with extra steps!
The benefit of Dagger is that your builders are fully containerized, you can run CI locally, and you get to do all of that using your favorite language.

You could achieve those goals independently using things like Make + Docker + keeping CI dumb, but that is a lot of plumbing and still has edge cases. For example, Makefiles often use utilities like sed, curl, etc., which behave differently on macOS versus Linux. It also requires a lot of discipline to keep CI from growing, and you need to learn the Make syntax, which, while useful, can be a bit of an investment, especially as you get to the more advanced features/syntax.

This shines when you can write your pipelines in the same language as your app. Often, teams might have only 1-2 people who _really_ understand Bash/Make, but the rest of the team understands the language they use daily (Go, TypeScript, etc.)

Dagger lets you leverage your knowledge of more common languages to write your CI pipeline, and additionally, these builds are containerized and can all be run locally.

I have used Dagger a couple of times and liked it. One competitor in the space is Earthly [0], which has a Makefile/Dockerfile syntax. I've had good experiences with Earthly, but Dagger is a better pick for medium/large projects.

[0]: https://earthly.dev/
They can't switch to renewable energy fast enough to keep up with their energy needs. Those coal plants will be shut down as soon as possible. It would help if other countries moved more production out of China.
To illustrate your point, an easily accessible example of this is how the second hand on clocks appears to freeze for longer than a second when you quickly glance at it. The brain is predicting/interpolating what it expects to see, creating the illusion of a delay.

https://www.popsci.com/how-time-seems-to-stop/
I know about product placement and certainly don't care for it. It isn't intrusive to me as I can just ignore it while getting the information I want. Additionally, it is clearly not the same.

I cannot ignore an individual talking about NordVPN for 3 minutes.
I went from pretty sedentary to training everyday - the thing that helped me set the habit was a pre-workout at lunch. Aside from the extra energy, I think Huberman mentions this but something about the pleasurable effects of the caffeine causes you to build up an association with the activity.
Temporal consistency is improving, but “close to being solved” is very optimistic.
Definitely a big first for benchmarks. After that hyper personalized content/media generated on-demand
Like I say, if that was the solution it would have worked already. We have several iterations of CSS at this stage each solving the problems of the previous but if you want to develop a layout that people can actually use you still need to support the old browsers and you have to get the vast community of web developers who are “happy enough” with CSS to get on board and learn your toy alternative. If you want something more advanced there are plenty of well established macro languages atop CSS that you can use , much as you don’t need to know assembler to write modern applications
Intentionally misleading by omission, the source Bloomberg article says Shear will resign if the board doesn't say why Altman was fired: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-21/altman-op...
There’s a big difference when you run the marketplace where those deals are being brokered and set the pricing for discounts and deals.

When you run the marketplace and make sweetheart deals, you change the terms of everyone else in the market. But if you don’t tell everyone in the category about your marketplace changes, they become disadvantaged and yet they would never suspect a thing if you don’t tell them.

So it’s less like a cheaper input widget for a scale operation and more like the terms and conditions change but just for yourself or one customer that nobody else even knows is happening.
“We use an advanced control system that stabilizes the naturally unstable boat in just about any condition. Sensors around the perimeter of our boats measure wave height and feed this information to our Flight Controller. Height, roll and pitch data are as well. The Flight Controller is then able to adjust the position at up to 100 times per second, in order to achieve stability.”

That’s from Candela’a own webpage, and the following older article mentions:

“Many of them have worked at aerospace and technology companies such as Eurocopter, Saab Gripen, and Volvo.”

https://www.torqeedo.com/en/news-and-press/blog/blog-2020-12...

I think Candela is basically what happens when you take Swedish engineering tradition, combine it with skills attained from building advanced fighter jets and the challenge of making electric boats have a reasonable range at all.

Some added bonuses you get: Barely any wake, so you can run fast without disrupting others or the wildlife / nature.
Network effect is another cause for consolidation in the case of the current tech giants.
> but these are arguments for reform, not for scorched earth

We're never going to "reform" this system. We're up against trillion dollar industries with unlimited lobbying power, governments bold enough to ignore the constitutional rights of their own citizens.
When we're talking about fixing outlier issues in society, efficiency is sometimes counterproductive to the goal of addressing problems that exist at the fringes of society. Universality is sometimes better at addressing the problems at the extremes.

For example, some restaurants may be really efficient at providing a meal for $5, but the people who need a soup kitchen the most don't have $5.
No, Claude really DO refuse to do most benign shit. For example - I am preparing for driving exams in German, a language I am not fluent in. So I asked Claude to help me with questions the examiner might ask on the exam (what should be tire pressure and so on). GPT-4 worked perfectly! Claude had an absolute meltdown because "I don't feel comfortable pretending to be a driving examiner because I am not really an examiner, I am Claude, created by Anthropic to be helpful, harmless and HONEST". You are probably safe with code generation, but any step left or right and you get "I am Claude"
(disclaimer: worked in the sim industry for 25 years, still active in terms of physics-based rendering).

First off, there are zero technical proofs that we are in a sim, just a number of philosophical arguments.

In practical terms, we cannot yet simulate a single human cell at the molecular level, given the massive number of interactions that occur every microsecond. Simulating our entire universe is not technically possible within the lifetime of our universe, according to our current understanding of computation and physics. You either have to assume that ‘the sim’ is very narrowly focussed in scope and fidelity, and / or that the outer universe that hosts ‘the sim’ has laws of physics that are essentially magic from our perspective. In which case the simulation hypothesis is essentially a religious argument, where the creator typed 'let there be light' into his computer. If there isn't such a creator, the sim hypothesis 'merely' suggests that our universe, at its lowest levels, looks somewhat computational, which is an entirely different argument.
Little coding projects, image manipulation with python libraries, LAMP (with sqlite) to catalog and serve music on the local network, analyzing my own text- blog contents, social media posts- looking for patterns- basically treating myself as an experiment and trying suck data out of my detritus for possible writing projects. Oh, also listening to shortwave radio and making simple multitrack audio recordings of my musical ideas.

It beats doing what you are talking about- dead scrolling random internet stuff just to "burn hours" (I've heard that before but still, what a sad sentiment).
Same! I created numerous games with early GameMaker as a pre-teen. I even managed to use it for making various useful little programs, like an interactive calculator to show my Dad’s company that the bandwidth required for multiple security cameras would eat up all the bandwidth available on the relatively slow internet connections. It definitely had an enormous positive effect on my career in software.
They don't have to be board members to fight. The 51% shareholders are clearly wronged here in my view if MSFT just hires all of OpenAI staff AND takes the existing models and trade secrets.
I will never understand why people care or pretend to care about this. "Oh no, someone queried my sleep data to report aggregated metrics! How horrible." Even the more "invasive" forms of this stuff seem completely untroubling to me. If I sleep too little I'll start seeing ads for melatonin or warm milk or something? Good, I want to see offers that are tailored to what I actually experience. How is this supposed to be bad?
Brilliant. I particularly liked the first comment (Anonymous Coward):

> Wray meant:

> Of course, we have probable cause.

> We always have probable cause for everything we do–well, mostly anyway.

> Well, I mean, we could maybe get probable cause, but it’s too complicated and it takes too long.

> You see, by the time we find an excuse that might double for probable cause, so much time will have passed, that we will all have died of old age.

> And that’s assuming we can really find an excuse in the first place.
It was very early in the pilot process, and I was trying to board an international flight. There was little or no signage, and the TSA staffer told me I could not opt out when I asked. Not a great experience. Since Senator Markey has been harping on this it has improved.
Dogs sickened by mystery respiratory illness: States affected, symptoms
Does Google not understand that there's a finite number of phone numbers and that they get reused? Or do they just not care?
You so realise that cash and gold are used by those groups as first choice?
> Your cellphone maker shouldn't be eating into Hollywood's business.

Where and how is the line drawn? Should a cellphone maker be eating into map maker’s business? Laptop maker’s business? Camera maker’s business? A secretary’s business?
One of my favorite use-cases for Kagi is to block Quora from all of my search results.
Even though I find the step somewhat logical, it is unexpected as I dismissed it a few days ago.

Logical, because as far as I understand the conflict @openai, it is/was about conquering the market with cool products vs. advancing research for the greater good. So one option would have been to split the company into a product organization and a research organization. The only problem is that Microsoft is the product organization in this construct already (they bring the services to the masses via Bing).

Unexpected, because I didn't expect someone like Sam Altman to join the corporate world.

Looking forward I am very excited to see where this leads...
There are many countries in the world, and most of them allow citizens to leave. Why not emigrate if your government is oppressing you? The truth is that the costs of leaving are what attach people to governments and make their interactions not entirely voluntary. The same principle applies to companies.
My experience is that its mostly an impediment, see socializing here instead of thinking deeply.

But I've also used the internet to great effect when getting up to speed on a research topic because I had lots of access to high quality texts and tools (citation manager for tracking, spreadsheet for glossary of terms). Notably that didn't involve any communications, just searches.
I think cancel culture tends to be somewhat more grounded in sane principles of equality, but the mechanism does make it comparable to far-right mobs. Targets can't really defend themselves and things may escalate into real life. I don't think it's a great loss to discourage cancel culture along with far-right equivalents. A more measured style of discussion is adequate to call out people for being unreasonable or hateful.
First thing you should ask is who are you communicating this information to and what do they need to know and if applicable visa versa? Could be you tomorrow morning, you in six months time or some eldritch reporting structure and so on. All the artifacts you produce (or get someone else to produce and maintain) are a result of focusing on that as they’re tools to communicate rather than things that must exist.

In particular making big lists is a curse because they will never ever remain current, tend to grow much bigger and swallow time as you groom them in to other smaller lists you intend to do something with but find have suddenly become their own intractably large lists.

Much better to have a coarse plan and add detail as you get to it and be happy to delete things as well as add them. Then make sure you’re regularly revisiting the plan to make sure it still makes sense.
> I roll my eyes whenever the HN-types complain about CSS or frontend development being a hellhole. Mostly the comments I see seem ignorant or impatient ("Why doesn't this thing work without be bothering to learn it?")

I’d also argue that outsiders looking into all the complexity are ignoring the complexity within their own specialization: https://bower.sh/front-end-complexity

It’s hypocritical thinking.
Cough cough Reddit.
>You call a number and a cab turns up and you pay by the meter or an agreed upon price. How did it work then?

Badly. I was scammed multiple times in different countries (I travel a lot), including my own. And there's a lot of uncertainty and stress involved (no guarantee you share a language with your driver, in case they need to ask any questions). And I hate talking over the phone.

As long as that's an option I'm staying with Uber.
I dont think I agree.

Typically electric companies pay for the grid infrastructure and operation currently. Electricity producers like solar plants out in the desert is not paying to maintain the poles to your house.
how would you define an asset that has zero intrinsic value other than the value people have already committed to it? house of cards?
If this format is recent, how does Mozilla (which is considerably older) and fit into this?
Ironically, the most recent survey in the special unhoused enforcement zone near me found that the number of people living on the streets was almost identical to the number of empty beds at the shelter.
Oh, strange non-sequitur then.

I don't know what you mean specifically by "front end stack", so I asked (unanswered) clarifying questions.

> Why are you curious about vocabulary and categorization

Because the frontend/backend lines are blurring, and I want to define our terms before discussion.
> operate public services

Therein lies the rub. I'd be tempted to challenge the hell out of that.
Sort of related, a game I play (From the Depths) has an electric hydrofoil ship called the Candela in it... except its a Battleship with armed with large lasers and missiles.
Doesn't a non profit board (or any firm) not have an (strictly legal) obligation to investors?

https://hbr.org/2010/04/the-myth-of-shareholder-capitalism
They have sensors that detects waves and adjusts the hydrofoils to avoid crashing into the water.

If one would like to use hype words I guess one could call them AI-driven hydrofoils or something
Yeah I just prefer fresh air (even knowing that newer cars with in-cabin air filters probably have cleaner air than outside). If I'm sitting in city traffic and not moving much, I do use the AC more.
Solar panels could be on the boat itself, but I am assuming solar won't be able to do much recharging while the engine is in use anyway. OTOH, very few boats are used, or moved, every day.

I imagine a boat would have a hefty battery pack anyway, to power a stove, fridge, air conditioning, plus essential bridge equipment.
Fun fact, that is why PR uses 160 Wh/Kg as its current "best in class". The Northvolt release is a bit cagey on what they actually have today for sale but it seems like they are going into production so that is a good thing. "Whole house" energy store (think PowerWall types of products) are getting good traction and grid scale batteries have changed some folks minds about what is "good enough" (you don't care if it is maximally dense if you can spread it out over an acre or three). So I would expect them to push for this sort of application first.

The current market need for large local battery store for EV chargers is apparently one of the limiting factors in deploying new chargers, delivering spot excess demand can be provided by either onsite diesel generators (like some rest areas in California are doing now) or a battery bank. The latter is preferable for energy efficiency and maintenance reasons.
OCR then GOOG xlate gives me "and your laughter is refreshing" for the second arabic snippet, failing at the OCR stage for the first.

Maybe someone here can read them both, properly?
According to non-contradicted statements from Satya, they have full, exclusive, irrevocable licenses to the IP.
You wish there was something like this for adult programmers?

Blythe Omnis 7 in ... (checks CV/resume) ...1996 (and earlier), a 'RAD' platform/solution that worked across Windows and Macintosh... (I landed the job because I was the ONLY candidate who had even heard of this software, because I read a short article in a magazine once...)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnis_Studio

Clicking to program with drop-down lists (and popups) just wasn't all that well thought out. So - you would see your program as a listing. When you tried to edit a line, it would popup a modal dialog box, where you could edit... just that one line... Intellisense/code-completion were of course non-existent... ahahahahaha (laughs maniacally)

Man, I think my PTSD is kicking in, I need a drink/smoke or something.
Are you working on all that?
Not to mention, if performance with YouTube is slow, there's no clue for users that Firefox is the problem. There's no banner telling you "for faster YouTube performance use Chrome". And it's extremely unlikely that your average user is going to try to compare with Chrome, or even the thought occurs to them. They probably think their ISP just got worse or something.

If this were an actual mechanism to try to get users to switch, it would be an idiotic one.
The US Government won't quit Elon Musk
Has OpenAI just joined the club too? What is the score?
> I need to develop and test everything twice.

That’s…literally the downside of frontend/backend separation of concerns…
And I repeat - MSFT is up over 50% since investing $10B in OpenAI. That happened this year. This is the most important thing on their plate.

Of the slate of $1-3T tech companies the question of "where can we go from here?"... this is where, and the winners will be the first $10T enterprises.