skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "trick" being discussed is the dissolve (aka cross-fade). The article covers this form of scene transition solely from a story telling and aesthetic viewpoint but the technical craft of dissolves is also interesting because there are many different types. Simple dissolves have a constant linear velocity to the alpha blend but in S-curve dissolves the velocity changes with parameters sometimes called ease-in and ease-out. In sophisticated editing software these curves can be controlled with various types of splines. Although the rate is changing, even relatively short S-curve dissolves often feel subjectively smoother to viewers than linear dissolves because more of the duration is dedicated to the beginning and ending phases which tend to be more visually subtle.

In addition to varying velocity dynamics there are many other interesting and useful types of dissolves such as alpha blended wipes, luma fades, strobes, holds, black/white dips, flash fades and a variety of temporal effects. How an editor chooses to deploy these tools can either make them feature elements or merely subtle tonal flavors.

In the early days of non-linear video editing tools there was more development put into creative transitions but recently editing tools tend to offer only a few dozen canned transitions. This requires editors to use separate visual effects software to achieve more sophisticated or subtle transitions. This inconvenience is one reason such effects are less common outside high-end productions although another driver is that the insufficient bandwidth often dedicated to streaming compression tends to degrade any type of visually subtle transition into a macro-block mess. This is especially unfortunate now that higher dynamic range, bit depths and frame rates are widely available to visual story tellers.
For real, that comment made me sad. Whenever I see the web in someone else's computer without adblockers I wonder how they didn't get off the internet altogether.
just a small webapp - https://uplowder.com/

I need to transfer photos of receipts/invoices (taken with my phone) to accounting software on my laptop. Google Pictures/Drive is too cumbersome

1. open url on laptop

2. scan QR code with phone

3. choose files/take a picture of receipt on phone

4. appears on laptop

Files are E2E encrypted, as I used it as an excuse to play around with the JavaScript "SubtleCrypto" API
If you invest a lot of money into very expensive Nvidia training hardware you certainly want to run them as close to 24/7 as possible.

Dispatchable load usually means oversizing the dispatchable consumer to get the same overall output. This is already uneconomical for even particularly energy intensive industries (e.g. aluminum smelting). I would assume server hardware is a lot more capital intensive than that.
They're going to corner the https://www.dictionary.com/browse/masochist market.
It has been like that right from the start. It amazes me that you put up with it for a whooping 12 years before deciding you've had enough.
Very underrated book indeed. I still want to get a physical copy someday, it's truly influential. Thank you for the words, I'm glad you're enjoying it.
I've been driving an M3 since 2020 and have put 40k miles on it, mostly over road trips throughout California and the western half of the US.

Phantom braking has always been a bit of an issue -- when I first got the car, I just wouldn't use cruise control in heavy traffic, but felt ok using it once out of a city. In the past year or so, it's been so bad I'm scared to use it at all, and I've filed multiple complaints with the NHTSA. I'll be driving on I-80 through Nevada or Utah and every ~10 minutes the car will slam on its brakes. This is dry, consistently lit, consistent colors, minimal bridges casting shadows, etc.

I wish there was a way to make my cruise control "dumb"/non-adaptive just to stop the random abrupt braking in the middle of nowhere.
If you'd like to learn about WW2, I cannot over recommend this YT channel. Fantastic quality and production.

https://youtube.com/@WorldWarTwo
Asking these to GPT3.5 has been an utterly frustrating experience, lol. I guess gemini is at this level of intelligence right now, not GPT4... rigged demos notwithstanding;)
One thing that blew my mind about the U.S. is that there is a federal minimum wage, but employers in professions where where workers receive tips are exempt for as long as the combined income from tips and wages meet the minimum wage threshold. They aren't actually tips, but a subsidy for the employer, who then only has to cover the difference.

Of course, under such circumstances, the employers have every reason to incentivize a "tipping" culture in every industry. It's no surprise to me you see evidence of an increasingly generalized idea of what a tip is. One of my favorite examples is that of asking for tips before a service has even been rendered. That's reasonably called a bribe, not a tip.
Same way you still dial a phone or roll up a window.
Web pages can have insecure JavaScript even if the sandbox isn't escaped. Sandbox escape isn't the only possible vulnerability in sandboxed applications. This is basic stuff that I know you already agree with so I don't understand why you keep pressing it.

"Why would you blame WASM" is the right question. As I have said in LITERALLY every single comment so far, blaming WASM instead of the alleged hype people is where pjmlp is wrong. He's not wrong in the assertion that insecure programs may remain insecure when run in the WASM sandbox. But you refuse to listen. This conversation is like talking to a much less polite ChatGPT.
My experience with this conflict has been that people have had to specifically demonstrate that there are more than two sides to this. Support for the Palestinian people or being against large-scale bombing does not mean one supports Hamas.

Take a look at how CNN vs BBC vs The Guardian categorize the conflict. CNN and NBC News describes it as the "Israel-Hamas War" (Reuters similarly uses "Israel and Hamas at war") while the BBC and Guardian list it as the "Israel-Gaza war" (and I'm pretty sure the Guardian previously used the same terminology as CNN).

https://www.theguardian.com/world/israel-hamas-war

https://www.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news/israel-hamas-war-ga...

https://www.reuters.com/world/israel-hamas/

https://www.bbc.com/news/topics/c2vdnvdg6xxt

https://www.nbcnews.com/Israel-Hamas-war-Gaza-Strip-conflict
He has demonstrably lied about his education, lies about his family background and keeps getting caught making statements that sound plausible if you know a little about the field but nonsensical if you are an actual domain expert (e.g. nearly everything he said about software development re Twitter).

I think he's a good generalist because he (like many autistics) finds it easy to drill into domains he finds interesting and keep up with discussions at a fairly advanced level but when you do that it's important to be aware that having binged expert sources on a subject for a month straight doesn't make you an expert in the field the same way a conversational crash course over a weekend doesn't make you a fluent speaker in a new language even if you know how to order a pizza and get a general idea of what people say to you.

I've actually experienced this misattribution of expertise myself: just because I've read several Wikipedia articles and binged some video essays on a given subject I've had people assume I'm an expert when I tell them about it - except I know that my "expertise" would collapse as soon as I were to talk to an actual expert. I think this is why a lot of people suffer from imposter syndrome: because they're literally faking it by having a good generalist knowledge without realising most people in the field also lack sophisticated underpinnings.
Looks cool and I was looking for something exactly like this. Unfortunately, I can't seem to run it on my machine. When I start the Desktop app it says that it's not supported on my Mac. Is it because I'm still on a Mac with an Intel CPU?
Einstein Tessellation
> but does he seriously expect other people to believe he was naive enough to think Google would continue to store his data forever after they withdrew the unlimited service he was using?

I doubt he expected Google to store his data forever, and I don’t see anything indicating that this is what he expects. Forever is a straw man.

It would be reasonable to expect some kind of migration / off-boarding plan, and it’s Google’s responsibility to facilitate that after pulling the plug on services they previously committed to providing.
I like to tip based on the local minumum wage (or on the higher end if the service was exceptional, my own wage) and how long I have sat at the table for.

So if the minimum wage was $10/hour and I have sat at the table for 45 minutes, then the tip is $7.50. I don't feel i should be paying the servers wages directly, but at least this seems like a fair rate to me for doing the portion of that hours work.
Same applies to Azure, they also have their issues, but not Google bad.
I challenge you to go to any restaurant that has "unlimited refills", back up a tanker trunk and fill your truck. I don't think any court would enforce "unlimited" for that situation. I'm not sure this storage one is all that different
It's still a hard problem as radar/lidar have similar object identification issues as cameras. (I've made production products with both lidar and cameras and the situations were both fail is non-zero).

The problems are both false-positive and false-negative and no matter what you do, you'll see some of both. (Yes, a problem people have, too.)

Oh, and don't forget cars are operating in an adversarial environment. Obstacles will appear w/out giving you time to stop.
The way it's written up made it seem like it was a cloud based browser with a separate client app on the user's OS.

The first time I read about this, I didn't get the point. It seems to mostly be about aesthetics and maybe some noise suppression. I still don't see why I should run this over Firefox.
You've endarkened us
Newagg are probably more concerned about the knock on their reputation and future sales than actually caring what the hackers did.
> The FCC cited among its reasons SpaceX's failure to successfully launch its Starship rocket, saying "the uncertain nature of Starship's future launches could impact Starlink's ability to meet" its obligations.

The X beatings will continue until the tweeting improves.
>> : "SpaceX continues to put more satellites into orbit every month, which should translate to even faster and more reliable service."

NB.

Should =/= does

"Should" is doing a LOT of work in that sentence.

If Starlink dosen't meet requirements today, they can improve and meet them in the future. Meanwhile, this seems like more of an effort to unfairly pre-empt funds going to other competitors.
Everytime I see one of those silly concrete extruding robots with claims that it will somehow replace some portion of residential construction I just shake my head.
Feminism is a wide umbrella of ideologies, many that contradict with each other. A TERF may call a sex-positive liberal feminist anti-feminist and vice versa.
The things you list as criticism are exactly the reason places implement design systems. You're clearly an east coast school of thought person who takes pride in building the "right thing." But people who implement design systems are taking the worse is better approach on purpose. They see it as better to be clunky and contort functionality into the existing components and ship than spend time doing something custom.
> You literally just described every defining feature of California roads.

Eh… it has to be egregious.

I live in California, and I only have problems on two spots between Bakersfield and Barstow. The rest are literal construction sites with unmarked lanes.

Other than that, I have no issues 99% of the time I use AP when driving in NorCal in the Bay Area and surrounding areas (Napa/Sonoma to the north, Sacramento to the east, and SLO to the south). I use AP a lot, so I feel confident stating how reliable it is in these areas.

If someone finds that it doesn’t work for them in one of these areas, I’d almost guarantee that it’s in a specific spot for a specific reason.
export CC="zig cc -target aarch64-linux-musl"
the unlimited plan was phased 7 months ago [0] so got few notices, with the final one 7 days before termination. so the guy with 250tb of data neglected that for half a year and now is surprised.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35937436
Video creators can also move to other platforms, or make other platforms that are subscribe only. It only takes a very small percentage of channels currently on YouTube to make for a high quality streaming platform that covers the interests and needs of a large part of potential subscribers.
> Any beginner should be able to understand this
Was thinking more along the lines of non-beginner stuff.
> I think it's completely reasonable to say he has 7 days to download it.

7 days to download 200TB+ does not seem reasonable.
You reminded me of how much hatred I had for Google binding all their products language (including Workspaces) to my account language, with no chance to be changed (even if I updated the account settings).

How can they be so unaware of the fact that people will often prefer english because that's the language with most tutorials/guides/resources and makes interoperability in cross-country remote companies simpler?

Don't they want to sell cloud products to global companies?

How am I supposed to help or receive help from my coworkers?

I have lost days and days trying to set Google Sheets in English and I have been stuck with the Italian version no matter how many changes I did to my Sheets or Google account settings.

There's a 5000+ comments/upvotes discussion on their forums and they simply don't give two damns, I don't think humans even see those threads.

Didn't feel so stressed using a software since programming in Liferay professionally or trying to figure out Autodesk products a decade ago for hobby 3d modelling..
"I haven't tried Whisper"

I haven't tried the hardware/software/framework/... of the article, but I have an opinion on this exact topic.
I did. I use the term free but it should "incredibly low cost". I accept the blame for my inaccuracy but my position doesn't change. 20$/month for unlimited data that works out to about 0.07$/TB for storage thats pretty damn close to free in my books.

How much would a TB cost on S3?
> Relying on a cloud account, free or otherwise, to store the only copy of your life's work is asking for disaster.

They didn't. All their equipment was taken in an FBI raid. They only backed it up to the cloud, never intended for the cloud to be the only copy.
But most design systems fail to actually solve those problems too, and consume a fuckton of time and energy in doing so
Is there a reason for this? Any advantages, disadvantages, etc.?
You talk about loopholes three times in this comment.

> Because they are using 237 Tb in an unlimited service from Google

Google's a trillion dollar company. A popular saying amongst Googlers is "I don't know how to count that low". They're used to big numbers.

I work at a much smaller company. We are not a trillion dollar company. Even we, when offering an unlimited service, ask ourselves: "What happens if someone takes us up on this offer?"

It's not a loophole, it's what he paid for.

It's fine to stop offering an unlimited service. We did! My only beef with Google's conduct here is the 7 days of notice prior to deletion.

I've followed Mike Masnick's reporting in other cases. He seems like an even-handed, fair journalist. I trust that he's not hiding the ball, nor letting the other journalist mislead him about the situation.
FWIW, Gemini Pro is equivalent to GPT 3.5, so expected
Assuming that the read only state was permanent would be naive. Assuming that they would give him 60 days notice again before actually deleting his data isn't, except insofar as Google is a terrible company and he clearly didn't realize that.
>but you're not paying Google to host your data.

ok but a farmer that throws their cows down a ditch is arguably much worse than one that milks them.
> We want to make an API that does SBOM->EOL alerts for eg

You could consider making more expensive features paid options? Definitely tradeoffs there but it is an option, especially for business-useful features
"And my main point is that poverty and privilege are largely accidental. You don’t choose to be born into an income bracket, a country pile, a housing estate, a double barrelled name or a damp tenement bedsit. But ignorance is a choice. And choosing to use your privileges to patronise people whose lives are entirely beyond your experience and comprehension, is a choice."
Wow, Google has really become the IBM of 2005s. All flashy demos, 'call sales' to try anything.
> We had a referral bonus program that was explained to us like this:

> - $2,000 for a white or Asian - $3,000 for a black - $5,000 for an Indian

Why the extra bonus for Indians? There's no representation problem for Indians in technology, so it seems outright discriminatory without even the diversity whitewash. Was it an India-based/Indian-owned company or something?
The FBI took all their hardware in a raid.
Judges Given the OK to Use ChatGPT in Legal Rulings
Edit: Regarding the last point, AI chatbots sometimes already do get into a seemingly infinite loop, outputting the same token sequence over and over, and only being stopped by the controlling software, so that wasn’t really a good argument.
Ingredients located at [0], full recipe at [1]. If true, it's interesting. I don't have these oils on hand but seemingly they wouldn't be too difficult to procure.

According to the This American Life episode [2] where they made a batch, the taste testers were able to detect real Coke 28 out of 30 times. So maybe it's not a perfect match! Still, it's cool.

0: https://github.com/cognitom/OpenCola/blob/master/recipe.mark...

1: https://cube-cola.org/index.php?route=information/informatio...

2: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/427/original-recipe
Oh! I love it!

I like the way yours says each word with two different voices, and that you provide your own voices.

Mine is a quick hack, and uses the browser's TTS voices, which vary in quality.
As noted in the article,

> "Earlier this year, the FBI raided his house and seized all of his electronic devices after he had obtained and published some leaked video footage from Fox News. As we noted, this seemed like a pretty big 1st Amendment issue. Burke is also facing bogus CFAA charges because he was able to access the footage by using publicly accessible URLs to obtain the content."

Even if Burke had built a box, the maid service and beer would be the most helpful (but would not solve his actual issue).
you're ignoring over-provisioning which generally is ~10x
Very enjoyable. Tree levels are very difficult. Still fun.
> So as soon as a company gets hacked once, all of their security measures get recategorized as security theater?

Failing to secure user data and then overcompensate on user side is a security theatre. It's like having complicated lock on a cardboard box.
I was specific, the Van Plant was razed. In the 1970s. My uncles lost their job because of it. I was present during some rather heated discussions when they came home. The Van Plant was a sperate building.

Clearly the rest of the Lordstown Assembly building is there for everyone to see driving on Interstate 80/Ohio Turnpike, which I do frequently.

I don't know what Wiki you are quoting but it is out of date. The plant structure was most recently part of Foxcon, clearly seen on the sign when driving by the building. The recent bankruptcy of Loardtowwn Motors and them suing Foxcon will lead to a sign change once again.

Loardstown Motors was frequently in the local news here mostly for not getting things done (to be polite).
FCC reminds US mobile carriers that customer data needs to be protected
They offered it for 10 years and then probably realized that people were taking advantage of the position and then tried to phase it out. Most likely with a lot of warning beforehand.

I have a tough time believe that they didn't give any warning and then kicked them off the service.
Yup, there was another poll that spurred bad reporting, with regards to the US and acceptability of using violence against people with different political beliefs, had it in the range of 30% for both sides iirc

Turns out the poll was really bad, with one of the contributions being people who essentially troll the pollsters for the lulz
What the heck is going on with this page, it gets struck in some kind of high speed reload loop on my phone (iOS Safari)
We need more competition [1] in orbital launch and orbital internet. Backing SpaceX alone when they have the lead will not lead to a good outcome.

I'd imagine that there are also concerns about the close ties Musk has to the Russians and how he's tried to insert himself into the Ukrainian conflict on numerous occasions.

[1] Not the largess of traditional government contractors Lockheed and Boeing, but the plethora of startups entering into this space.
As a side note, I figure I wouldn't mind web ads if they were non-animated black and white. Some super forward thinking ad agency should do this and set a trend!! ;)
> The trains also had a GSM telemetry unit that was broadcasting lock conditions, and in some cases appeared to be able to lock the train remotely.

In what universe this is not sabotage?
Am I the only one who prefers the final covers over the drafts, in pretty much all the cases?

I think the finals have better typography and composition and are generally clearer than the drafts.
This is a pixel diffusion model that doesn't use latent space encoding, hence the memory requirements. Besides, good prompt understanding requires large transformers for text encoding, usually far larger than the image generation part. DF IF is using T5.

You can use Harrlogos XL to produce text with SDXL, although it's mostly limited to short captions and logos. The other way (controlnets) is more involved. (and is actually useful)
On a 1-10 scale of "difficulty to workout", I'm an 8 or 9. Most of my problems are psychological, motivational, ADHD/executive function related. Buying home gym equipment would do absolutely nothing for me because I would just stare at it and procrastinate.

I just started doing personal training, which is terribly expensive but it's one of the only things that motivates me to go. The other thing that helps is being around other people who are exercising, and in a brightly-lit space.

Finally, I wanted to share that doing personal training, we spend 70% of the time doing calisthenic-type exercises that require basically no equipment at all. So if someone has the motivation, do your squats, stair-steps, stretches, running, and maybe all you need to buy is a set or 2 of free weights (by "set" I mean literally two weights of specific values, not a set of all possible weights). Other cheap and small accessories are rubber bands that go around your legs, a mat so you can crawl on the floor and not get dirty, plastic frisbee-like plates so you can do leg stretches on the carpet. I know this is all "no shit" type information for people who work out a lot, I just want to share that for someone who wants to exercise for cheap, you do NOT need a towering multi-gym set to get started. There's TONS of exercises you can do right now if you just have the motivation.
Probably got a really good deal on it.
1 employee - 10 000 acres - 100 000 people fed

We can have free unlimited food for everyone today

maybe not free unlimited saffron, but flour(s), legumes and nuts, potatoes could be distributed for free (subject to some rationing, 5000Kcal per person per day). This is not utopian, this is technical possible right now.