skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are like people at Google Research not embarrassed that none of this stuff ever makes it to real life?

Google AI internally needs a huge culture change, stop acting like academics making things for academics and start working like developers making products for customers.

I'd say in 10 years we'll be looking back and seeing the wasted potential but actually you can look back around 10 years and already see the wasted potential of all the things Google demoed or papered and never shipped.
Not _any_.
I can live in a house while it appreciates.

I can take dividends (in dollars) from certain stocks.

But not crypto (or non dividend stocks)

I’d argue that stocks without dividends are also a greater fool’s game.

But back to the original point, so you agree that crypto is a greater fools game, financially.
What I found funny, is that most pieces against EV who are based on facts instead really target SUVs and other road monstrosities.
> 64x64x4

I'm curious why 4? Is this just what works in practice, or do the 4 channels have known interpretations?
I suggest we clearly specify the class of problem we're trying to solve and come up with a principled solution that would make sense when applied consistently and universally to all problems in that class. I prefer this over coming up with knee-jerk moral panic patches (e.g. "censor generative models so they can't generate this particular thing I find distasteful") or with overly abstract and tangential problem-solutions (e.g. "just teach men not to be big jerks").

I think the central issue here is: what restrictions, if any, should be placed around creating and distributing a likeness of another person? Are we just looking to prohibit pornographic likenesses, or do you think the restrictions should be broader? What's the threshold rule you would apply? Should these rules be medium-specific, or should we also prohibit people from, say, painting a likeness of another person without their consent?

I guess in a US context you'd also have to consider whether it's constitutional to restrict freedom of expression, even the distasteful ones, in this manner.

Edit: Just saw your edit suggesting that I think "men are entitled to women's bodies" (whatever that means). I think I'll end my participation here, not interested in having a bad faith discussion.
If there is no way to tell, then reasonable doubt will become much more prevalent.
If the volume of novel images shot up 10x right after these tools started becoming accessible, that’d let you make a good guess that most of it’s not real.
>Berlin, Munich and other big cities

Sure, but rents and property prices in Zurich and Geneva aren't low at all either. Quite the contrary. My friend in Geneva is feeling super broke. Salaries are high only at the companies of the top of the food chain where it overpowers the insane CoL.

>Kurzgesagt: German CoL is catching up but salaries remain behind.

Ha, Austria laughs at this. Lower salaries than Germany with higher prices than Germany. Someone shout BINGO.
yes, you're right - my bad - post updated
None of those work at the the moment though. And I'd suggest the advantage of not destroying the biosphere outweigh being able to refuel quickly.
Do you capture all of your job code in a single image and reference execution paths on container startup per job? Or, are you building an image per job?
They (other than the cops investigating actual crimes against actual children) don't care about the children. They care about control. AI "CSAM" in particular (combined with deepfakes of adults made without the model's permission) is an emotional justification for more control in the form of draconian internet censorship and other preemptive measures.

Decades of megacorporation propaganda have paid off, and a fair portion of gen-z/y/x is hypervigilant about use without permission, even if the use is transformative and doesn't displace the original work. Their misguided concerns will play into the hands of the politicians seeking more control.

And it will do very little to prevent the spread of AI "CSAM"[1]. What are they going to do, regulate GPUs or any AI training software?

[1] Or any of the other concerns of today, like voice cloning or mimicry of personal likeness, like what just happened with Taylor Swift. The cat's out of the bag for images; OSS voice cloning is roughly at elevenlabs' quality, and it'll be surprising if there aren't, very soon, easy-to-use interfaces for voice cloning and tts.
I have luckily never encountered any of this stuff, real or fake, so I may be hopelessly naive about what's depicted, but... I can ask for a picture of naked Donald Trump wallowing in mud and such a picture will be constructed even though there are no photos of Donald Trump wallowing in mud (naked or otherwise). So I don't think the training set necessarily contains illegal images.
well that’s clearly flawed. i certainly don’t buy SF being safer than literally any rural area.
Yeah! Also the study video is a head on collision with a wood-post steel guardrail, and that is not at all a common angle to hit those at.

The F-150 or most any modern truck even a midsize with a couple passengers is over 5000.

Who funded the University of Nebraska to specifically test EVs in an improbable perpendicular collision with a guardrail? Why’s it promoted as news?
> send tiny amounts of data to update my position on a map

If you could clarify- is this data like mobile data/internet, or data in a literal sense? Because if you’re SMSing your GPS coordinates to a friend’s phone you could stick to only SMS.
> the country ended up in defacto anarchy for about a decade.

Kleptocracy, not anarchy.
Yes, but the issue is that people tend to have SUVs so have a blind spot to the criticism.
No idea. I am as much of an idiot as you are. But questions of this kind were supposed to detect candidates who were able to think.
Some ~12 years ago, I was debugging POS integration with a receipt printer and accidentally sent garbage postscript to the receipt printer, which printed it out verbatim.

Stopping it was impossible. Power cycling that printer had absolutely no effect. It wrote the unfinished print job to some kind of persistent memory, and by god it was going to finish it.

It went through something like 2 1/2 rolls of receipt paper (yes it dutifully awaited the new rolls and then just continued) and due to the thermal printing process it smelled very odd, and I had quite a few metres of raw Postscript afterwards to decorate a wall with.
It’s very obviously not going to be a meaningful legal distinction in terms of possession nor should it be when you think about it for more than 5 seconds.

It’s only particularly relevant in the context of terms of trying to identify the source of abuse and trying to stop or interrupt that.
> Who is Bukele or anyone to seize power from people in El Salvador and tell them what they must do?

He's the democratically elected president with 90% popular approval.

The power he seized used to reside in the hands of MS-13 and Barrio 18. Under the former rule of the maras:

- no freedom of speech: you break omertà, they kill you. The gangs even put up signs: "see, hear, and shut up"

- no freedom of movement: you enter the wrong neighborhood, they kill you

- no reproductive rights: they think you're pretty, they rape you

- no property rights: you have something they want, they take it from you

- no due process: you piss them off, they kill you

- no right to life: they feel like killing someone, they kill you

People used to live like slaves, every day was hell. Now they can work, go to school, play outside, visit relatives, etc without fear. Ask any Salvadoran, they will tell you that they feel more free than ever now. But for some reason all the "human rights defenders" want to force Salvadorans to return to the horrible past. Better that than admitting their ideology has failed: https://twitter.com/nayibbukele/status/1750681591200768160/
Weather should work for most places in the world:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URMQ0d286hY

Well, basically it all comes down to density and infrastructure if people will use other means of transportation. Bicycle accounts for 1/3 of all trips city wide.

Forcing people to active by either (partly) walking or cycling has great benefits for the public.
Right thought, but I suspect wrong reason.

You’ve been competing with “light” trucks on the roads for a couple decades that weigh the same or more than your average Tesla. Factor in that they have worse driver visibility, higher bumper height, and make up about 20% of the vehicles on the road and you have a much more concerning threat.
Not necessarily.

If the training data contained sexual images of consenting adults and legal images of children, many intelligent models could interpolate between the two.
Typestate – the new Design Pattern in Swift 5.9
> Israel declassified an intelligence dossier detailing how the U.N. Palestinian refugee agency has allegedly been compromised by Hamas.

This they have intel on. Other things... ah... they just didn't.
I'm just barely scratching the surface of quantum computing mostly out of curiosity after almost a decade of traditional software work. So I mostly have done things like qiskit tutorials, but other than reading about the theory I have yet to see a coherent explanation as to how the devices actually implement the theory.

Again. I'd love to be enlightened
Have you seen the spiked lug nuts truckers are using on their wheels now?

I love that Americans are going full
Mad Max on their vehicles choices and it won't be long until we all have these projecting spikes, front end people crushers and heavy as possible vehicles. This winter I started driving around with a 1/4 ton of gravel in the back of my F150 just to help counter other larger trucks. Reduces handling a little but if I do get in a crash the other f150 or smaller vehicle will be toast :)
Indeed, that’s probably the reason I was looking for.
10MWh?
> Can drawings be illegal?

Yes, very much so.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_status_of_fictional_po...

Wikipedia calls the US a legal grey area but it really isn't. It's just a long road to, "yep still illegal."
> But an alternative route to get on the Harvard ballot exists, at least in theory. So-called “petition” candidates have always been rare—but after several climate activists were elected in 2020, the rules were changed to make it even harder. Among other things, the number of petitions to get on the ballot was raised by a factor of fifteen, to more than three thousand.

This has been the case with many corporate boards as well in response to "activist investors"
> between your contemptuous attitude toward people whose preferences differ from your own

it would be great if everybody on HN felt the same, unfortunately this is quite commonplace. read threads on any EV post for instance.
Because the name Nigel goes to eleven.
What's new is that there seems to be a really strong force trying to tell us that "EV are bad" from many different actors when in fact it's "our transportation models are bad".

When Tesla seemed to be the only serious brand about EV, the panic was low in the ICE world but now that many brand have real EV and that many countries are setting up bans on ICE sales, they start to panic.

Every business (fuel transport, around the corner mechanic, schools, parts shop and I guess a lot more others) in the industry have to shift and some want the propaganda to help them stay alive during the shift.

If you're a teen wondering about his career, would you start a multi years studies about ICE now?
Thank you for taking the time to write such a clear and succinct readme.

I really liked the layout:

- Why
- How Lockbox helps
- Main benefits
- Drawbacks
- How to run
- Design philosophy

I wish more projects would follow this format :)
Not necessarily: the algorithms are perfectly capable to extrapolate, which makes the argument that the synthetic images "harm children" (as the article repeatedly tells) hard to defend.

To be clear, I find child sexual abuse appalling, but maybe synthetic images would keep some people "satisfied" and leave the real children alone?
That infrastructure is amortized over many years and so it is pretty cheap. Every time I look I discover the dense cities where you would think costs are lower end up having higher tax rates. Remember the original streetcar suburbs were built before electric, water/sewer and other services, they have all added that infrastructure over the years and replaced their roads many times.

Sure transit is cheaper than roads (and suburb costs don't count the cost of a car, while transit counts those costs), but roads are not that expensive over the lifetime.
Locals hate pylons. As do Tory MPs. I guess Octopus are just willing to push harder on the planning permission system.
Superhistory, Not Superintelligence (2021)
> Can drawings be illegal?

For sure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_status_of_fictional_porn...
> I'm sorry. I don't see the difference between a problem being imaginary and allegations of a problem being false. If you allege a problem exists, and it's imaginary, then your allegation is false.

The allegation here, as seen in the headline, isn't that there's enough pedophile activity on Facebook to rise to the level of being a problem somewhere.

It's just that there's more on Facebook than there is in most other places.
(USA)
Yes, if we all lived in city-centre 'WFH pods' eating bug paste we could get infrastructure costs and environmental impact way down! Then we could breed more humans, and 'growth' continues! (for some definitions of 'growth')

But while some (young) people are fine with super-dense urban living, not needing a car, and rarely leaving their city, many people place a very high value on space, peace+quiet, and the increased freedom to travel that cars offer.
> That's cool as a theory, but really isn't a commoditized market a more likely scenario in a capitalist global economy?

Zeihan’s thesis is that the global economy is no longer global because the US is no longer interested in being the world police patrolling the shipping lane. That is, “the end of globalization and Bretton Woods.”
It 100% is a security issue. If you think you can just trust people to "anonymize the data effectively" you are very mistaken.
That’s just not true.

I can purchase food and shelter directly with fiat. (There may be some areas where crypto can do that too, but it’s far from the norm)

That’s not a merchant “buying” my money with other representations of wealth, that’s me purchasing food and shelter. Framing it like that is a bad faith argument.

And yeah, I’d say stocks without dividends is also a greater fool’s game.
Doesn't neovim have a QT ui that you can run with instead of the terminal emulator?
ups I meant TSMC
Outlook has a shortcut Alt+S to send the current e-mail. In Polish "Hello" is "Cześć". When you acidentally have non-Polish locale enabled and write "Cześć" in Outlook - you send "Cze" as your whole e-mail.

"Cze" is a very informal greeting, sth like "Yo". There has been thousands of such e-mails in Polish companies sent to people who really shouldn't be greeted with "Yo" :) It happened to me too, and I'm still not sure how it happened. I think it might have been caused by windows update.

And in the past it was even worse - Windows installed both Polish-programmer and Polish-typist keyboard layouts by default and there was a very easy to hit accidentally shortcut to switch between them. If you hit it most of things still work but your "y" and "z" were swapped. So if you had "z" or "y" in your password - the next time you log in - you suddenly can't.

This caused countless problems for IT support all over the country :)
Hehehehehe, my code of conduct starts with "No USA cultural imperialism allowed" (https://codeberg.org/ltworf/international_code_of_conduct/sr...)

Some people loved it, some others told me I'll never find a job because I'm a bad person who can't work with others (I have a job).

edit: in case that wasn't clear, it still doesn't allow child porn…
It's barely a blip on the radar compared to the large trucking industry, whose tractor-trailers cause about 2500 times the wear and tear on road compared to a car[1].

[1] https://www.insidescience.org/news/how-much-damage-do-heavy-...
TSMC have delayed opening their US fab because apparently local talent was lacking, I think that suggests it cannot be done remotely.

> Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) was supposed to have its first Arizona chip factory operational by late 2024 but now has confirmed significant delays. Primarily due to a shortage of technical workers with critical expertise in the US, TSMC projects to finish construction instead by 2025.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/07/tsmc-delays-us-c...
I remember DSL fondly. It was a marvel then, and maybe now in retrospect even moreso -- that so much functionality could be packed into such a small footprint.

Conceptually the need still exists today, even if the whole landscape has changed in the meantime. I'll look forward to trying this out!
Trains are fine but cannot replace cars.
> So, people are not having sex and people are not having children. I’m not sure what that says.

Hey, there could be a connection here! Do we know where children come from?
Whoever said that in Germany people make enough are nuts.

Let's suppose you have 2 kids. If you get a rental contract in Berlin Today, in 2023. The ideal space according to the government and known research is 30m2 per person, you'd need an apartment with 120m2.

120m2 apartments are like 2500 euros per month, more than half of your salary post-taxes. Tenants typically ask for rents to be 30% of your income, you'd have trouble finding an apartment.

Here's why people also don't have kids in Germany, salaries are terrible.

I've been living here in Berlin for almost 10 years. And only after 8 years I could have a decent life here, even making definitely above the market salaries. And by decent I mean, better than my third-world country.

People won't be willing to move to Germany if they'll live in a shoebox and have no disposable income. They'd rather stay home where their parents, family and friends are, save money and speak their local language.

And without Immigrants, given that Germans in general don't want to reproduce because they can't afford having kids, the country's population size will start decaying.

This post-war mindset from a few people in Germany that people need to get paid just enough to buy Bread and live in a shared flat is what is sinking that country.
You can't escape social media just by not using it yourself. Put as many app controls as you want on your kids phone and some other kid will still make recordings of them and upload them to make fun of them, or worse. And if most kids are on social media and you aren't it can be isolating.

I'm not even criticizing your approach, just saying that you can't go home again.
Maybe at BMW or Google, but certainly not everyone in tech.
Unusual Reframings of Special Relativity
> My first instinct was to get a Honda Civic which was nicely in our budget and I loved driving when I was in college...But then I realized how much heavier cars have gotten,

I can't judge. It's mostly on me that my son's first car was a 1989 Cadillac Brougham. His daily driver now is a 1963 Dart but he's looking for another Brougham.
somewhat related; My unraid server has been crashing over the last few days so I'm looking at setting up a syslog server using a spare pi4, so i can at least see why it might be crashing.
never thought i'd need a supporting machine considering i don't have that many apps runnin, guess i do now though
Oh. My bad. How do markets work?
Fantastic to have another option with modern tools! great work that will be appreciated by many. Between this, Puppy, and Tiny Core Linux so much old hardware can be put to potential use. I’d also mention Finnix as an excellent rescue image solution. Any other awesome projects for limited hardware and Linux use that should be more well known?
I'm not sure I agree.

I have used a similar technique on a project without any unit tests.

You can still break down a feature into it's smallest parts without unit tests.
Modern progressive discourse argues that when the west exports their culture it is native-erasure and neo-colonialism(ie racist). So I think your argument is very much up for debate. Sometimes a part of someone's culture is trash. Sure the Mayans built cool temples, but they were also ultra violent.

It sure sounds a lot like you are defending pedos here...
Really cool! For the Gearman workers, did you load jobs dynamically? Or, would you have to re-deploy for new jobs/updated jobs?
Surely 10 kWh
>What is this comment trying to prove? Having read the article, I don’t see anything in your comment that makes “small criminal being preyed on by the big evil company” any less accurate.

What makes him "small" and the company "evil"? The guy has been involved with and profiting from piracy for a long time, including multiple arrests.
You shouldn’t worry about downvotes on HN, many here are biased and are looking for reconfirmation of their beliefs rather than discourse.
Typically a panel these days is going to be around 400W, so the 33 panels is likely somewhere around 13KWp. I am not sure which Needham (Boston?) they are referring to but in Boston would produce annually about 15 MW/h.

As to the battery the price gives us an idea of its size, $23,000 dollars. On the expensive side with a Tesla powerwall you get 13.5KW/h for about $9000, its possible to get about 2/3 that price with other systems. So somewhere in the region of 40-50KW/h of storage.

Hope that helps.
The emoji and meme industry has been hiding these stats for years. Facebook, X, TikTok, Apple, etc have the data you want but they won't give it to you.
Why stop there? I think we'd all agree that "mean words", either written or spoken, have immense power to "cause distress" and have driven many a person to suicide. We should ban those.
What determines a good investment? Who decides?
Accountability is needed in this era of "marketplaces". I don't care if it's thru better/clearer separation of first-party vs third-party sellers or thru letting the retailers like Amazon represent however they want but get dinged when something goes wrong; but right now it seems like there's absolutely nothing done. People are increasingly buying healthcare product online, or products that could be dangerous if they malfunction (appliances), and at the rate we're going it'll erase 50+ years of progress in electrical and fire safety as well as further erode our health and wellness (faulty covid tests or thermometers, poorly calibrated dosing tools, etc.)
Pictures of naked kids aren’t necessarily illegal, or we’d be sending nearly every parent to prison (to take one example).

Besides, if it worked like that, training on anything under copyright would have a similar effect. These models have a bigger problem if they get “tainted” by a tainted training source. (Fingers crossed they do! But I doubt it)
It is a steady drumbeat of 'think of the children'. I have a daughter I would personally love it if politicians and their ilk stopped thinking about children so hard ( and either found a better scapegoat or stop eroding right or neuter new tech ).

It is annoying and, frankly, it is keeping us from evolving as a species.
MMmm... Is there any specific reason this would result in a 1-1 mapping between the latent and the decoded image? Wouldn't just be a random distribution and everything out of the VAE would just be pure chaos?

Some background reading on generic VAE https://towardsdatascience.com/intuitively-understanding-var..., see "Optimizing using pure KL divergence loss".

Perhaps the SD 'VAE' uses a different architecture to a normal vae...
The Unix Heritage Wiki
>The curb weight of the most popular vehicle in the USA, the Ford F-150

It's worth noting that even though the "most popular vehicle" is a pickup truck, pickup trucks aren't the most popular type of car on the road, making up for less than 20% of vehicles.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/276506/change-in-us-car-...