skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think you read their comment.
Lots of outages around the globe [1], that's why!

[1] https://www.thousandeyes.com/outages/
What's the best way to use SD (3 or 2) online? I can't run it on my PC and I want to do some experiments to generate assets for a POC videogame I'm working on. I pay MidJOurney and I woulnd't mind pay something like 5 or 10 dollars per month to experiment with SD, but I can't find anything.
>> all sorts of edge to giant GPU deployment.

Soon the GPU and its associated memory will be on different cards, as once happened with CPUs. The day of the GPU with ram slots is fast approaching. We will soon plug terabytes of ram into our 4090s, then plug a half-dozen 4090s into a raspberry PI to create a Cronenberg rendering monster. Can it generate movies faster than Pixar can write them? Sure. Can it play Factorio? Heck no.
With emphasis on the "semi-". They are very good at following prompts, and so overplaying the "random" part is dishonest. When you ask it for something, and it follows your instructions except for injecting a bunch of biases for the things you haven't specified, it matters what those biases are.
Being in a big city is supposed to come with opportunities. If people don't take those opportunities and then get priced out, whose fault is that?
So they had weak passwords? Or were their accounts recovered/reset via SMS which is prevalent but not 2nd factor login.
I really hope this is a sad joke vs how you normally experience life.
Are you suggesting immigrants, especially ones that immigrate and follow the byzantine naturalization process, and build a life here, many times working the most undesirable jobs for low pay, do not shape the America that exists today?
Hasn't rusted through?
It is absolutely wild to me that people think of their employers as anything but an adversary. They're not our friends and they're not looking out for what's best for us, either.
I wonder if an outage like this costs them any money at all. They probably save on data transfer and other operating costs.
> laws or enforcement

No no no, see, we have those. But we only use them to make sure that our for-profit prison complex stays massively profitable and the people in power retain that power.
The Anglosphere/commonwealth move as one under the heel of the U.S. There's no point speaking of them as independent entities that "happen to agree"
Extratorrent (Movies,Games,etc.)
Download movies,games,and loads more for free.
Consider the impact of the two scenarios below:

1. A mass-distributed LLM (hosted by google or openai or whoever) that's been neutered and twisted into political correctness in a haphazard series of kneejerk meetings of small groups of people who are terrified big investors will walk away or that some powerful political group will denounce them. Effectively they create an enormous bias of falsity and incorrectness, for billons of people to use and embed the results throughout all their intellectual output.

2. Some wacko with an expensive Nvidia GPU makes deepfake porn of a popular politician. Or goodness forbid, of some weird kink where if this was actually a scene filmed with real people, there would be serious ethical issues.

Which scenario do you think is more dangerous, long term, and in terms of broad impact on society in general?
Fair point -- it's dramatically reduced though.
From using _all_ other image editors, you mean.

And that is the problem. People who have learned tools from what is now an established, multi-editor, digital medium, find they can't do what they wish to do.

I suspect very few even try to make this jump anymore.

GIMP still requires artists to think about and develop their workflow in the sequence that works best for GIMP.

Waving them away like this is a mind trick that the GIMP community should simply ban outright; it's devastating.

(Unless you mean this satirically and it's just gone over my head)
Old media corporations have never used Youtube well. But people aren't "replacing TV with youtube" by watching that old media content on Youtube; rather they're not watching that old sort of content at all and now watch the new style of media, mostly done by individual "creators" or a few new-media saavy corps. The remaining audience for old media corps, NBC/etc, are nursing home residents or soon to be.
Ran across some .re2c generated functions in some software I was reverse engineering recently. It probably speaks more to the compiler/source used but the generated code was incredibly verbose (400 odd nested error handling branches).

On the upside, it generated functions too long to decompile, so that’s a handy feature I guess?
"The norm?"

The problem with this analysis is that it prioritizes physical locations and comfortable people over, well, pain?

I get that its weird, but it appears as if "society/culture" whatnot has a lot of trouble paying attention to pain unless expressed through fun art.

So what people are perhaps subconsciously lamenting is the possibility of really changing things for a lot of people because our focus is at an interesting place being bulldozed by "the rich." Again.
There is probably a hidden bias in play, in that people who suffer from CFS are overwhelmed with daily tasks and are unable to engage in advocacy in promoting research.
You mean heroes?
What specific cases are being prevented by safety controls that you think should be allowed?
Fully agree with that updated statement.
It's fascinating, and in the past this moment would be captured by a artists interpretation of the absurd. But now we just let AI do it for us.
Do you mean optical telescopes? I would have thought they used earth based radar plus star tracking onboard to figure out where they are in orbit, but I don't know.
I changed the printf line of code to this (printf("%2x", integer);) to make it a pseudorandom number generator and made a post about it https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39462913 (10 Lines of code 3.4 bits of noise per byte weak pseudo random number generator)

I compiled it, ran ./vitalixprng &> output.txt and then ran Detect It Easy's entropy measuring tool on output.txt to give me around 3.41 bits of randomness per 8 bits.

It outputs 2 hex characters (hex character = half byte = 4 bits) per clock cycle.

It gives out pseudorandom output that looks like this:

28595827262617506937569201755869372950673748294758392
> Not sure what other graphical media includes.

I'd want a model that can draw website designs and other UIs well. So I give it a list of things in the UI, and I get back a bunch of UI design examples with those elements.
Kind of weird that there's been almost no coverage of this event this morning. CNBC has barely mentioned it. All 3 carriers having a major outage seems like it should be major news.
Women die because they're not allowed to abort nonviable fetuses that would also likely kill them. Seems very unsafe, I wouldn't want to be a woman there.
No, as an American, you own them. NASA just administrates them for you. If you're a space faring private company, you contract out the various parts of the mission. You didn't build a rocket, you hired SpaceX. You didn't build the relay network, you licensed access time. You don't build a space observation platform, you license time to use them.
Are you seriously claiming that the actual systemic racism in our society is discrimination against white people? I just struggle to imagine someone holding this belief in good faith.
Ah yes, a few servers are down and the entire internet is broken!
I've never found terminals in IDE's to be useful.

I run i3 and typically will just open a terminal in a new workspace/monitor and use alt+whatever to flip back and forth between the terminal and the IDE. Terminals in IDE's always try to display the minimum number of lines they can get away with.
My ATT Phone is in SOS mode. However, ATT's outages status reports:

> All clear! No outages to report.
> We didn’t find any outages in your area. Still having issues?

https://www.att.com/outages/
Yeah, they are really antagonistic to women, there are strict anti-abortion laws that even include travel bans

https://www.texastribune.org/2023/12/13/abortion-travel-ban-...
> I don’t understand what you’re referring to about configuration. Do you mean setting for networking, peripherals and reg edits to get rid of those darn folders for ‘games’ and ‘videos’?

Basically everything, including ones that you mentioned. Networking, for example, have these options (link below)

https://search.nixos.org/options?channel=23.11&from=0&size=5...

peripherals are typically managed by “home-manager”

Registry in this context is specific to Windows so I don’t know. Environment variables are configurable.

Dual-booting requires partitioning so I personally don’t really like it.
>Why does google dislike white people?

Because it is currently in fashion to do so.

>What does this have to do with corporate greed?

It has to do with a lot of things, but specifically greed-related the very fastest way to lose money or damage your brand is to offend someone that has access to large social reach. So better for them to err on the side of safety.
Related articles & discussions:

Part 1

Drowning in code: The ever-growing problem of ever-growing codebases

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39356574

Part 2

Forgetting the history of Unix is coding us into a corner

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39396685
We have a strong emphasis on the retrieval half of RAG. A big part of the value of Danswer is in connecting to sources like Notion, Linear, GitLabs, etc. We do incremental updates to keep data fresh, pull in metadata, etc. We also have features to manage access to documents in Danswer like RBAC.

Basically, (as I understand it) OpenWebUI is more like a ChatGPT frontend and we're more like a unified search with an emphasis on LLMs.
Buying a tow truck is no different than buying a truck just about anywhere. Or one can simply buy a regular truck and bolt on a towing attachment to make their own tow truck.

e.g. https://liftandtow.com/

One can also purchase, rent, or steal a trailer and attach it to a vehicle. There are several types of trailer which can haul a car, which are all widely available to the public.
Would you have been surprised if you did find that plastic mulch is actually shredded plastic? I wouldn't have been. That's the prevalence and abuse of plastic.

In USA, open farm lands are literally covered by huge sheets of plastic.
He didn't say "our society", he said "modern corporate culture in the US"
https://archive.is/rjJ8p
Got it. Good luck with all that I guess! Hope you find your sorcerer.
Pastoralism is brain rot, we should not romanticize "small farms". The romanticization of farming probably has a lot to do with bad agricultural policy. (In the US we can blame the senate, but what about in Europe?)

Also, are there any agricultural billionaires? I kind of doubt it: usually they are rich but not that rich.
Aria Everyday Activities Dataset by Meta
I think that's it! I've been wondering why Bash sometimes deletes most of my history for ages. My .bashrc sets up an EXIT trap that git-commits my history, so I just looked at the commits that remove lines and found that 7 out of 8 of those commits change the size of the history file to about 1000 lines. Since my history file contains timestamps, that matches the 500-command default of HISTSIZE, so the truncation mechanism you described seems to be what's happening.

A few days ago I actually made my history file append-only to prevent truncation.
I'm not the person you replied to, but I assume they meant something like "as a non space agency". Ie how are they tracking the lander? How are they sending and receiving telemetry? What resources did they use for mission planning and site selection?

Perhaps they've built their own comms system for example - maybe even a multi-site one that enables continuous contact - or maybe they're using NASA/ESA/JAXA assets. It would be interesting to know.

I'm not aware of any commercial providers for lunar communications.
This is wonderful.

There's a market for a pre-built set like this, with preplanned mazes to produce popular children's songs.
They aren't trying to earn your subscription. The model is lack of choice, so you're forced into someone's shitty ecosystem.

I'm with you. Arrrrgggg, matey.
For me it's simple. I don't accept working through pay cuts and raises aren't enough to overcome inflation thus I get pay cuts. You bet your ass I'm jumping ship.
Lol this works. That's wild.
More discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39451861
How can there be a cloud cover at FL300 so large that the plane cant navigate out of it?
800m is good for mobile, 8b for graphics cards.

Bigger than that is also possible, not saturated yet but need more GPUs.
Show HN: Monazita, F# library for working with PostgreSQL
I'm happy to share an F# library to interact with a postgresql database in a railway oriented programming style[3] and writing SQL queries. It is available at

https://gitlab.com/monazita/monazita/

with documentation at

https://monazita.gitlab.io/monazita/

It was developed for a web application [1] requiring the use of specific SQL queries (using the table_func[2] plugin for crosstab queries) which prevented the use of more traditional ORM-style libraries.

As I was also using the development of that application to dive into functional programming, I decided to try a fully functional approach[4].

It proved itself a very useful approach, to the point I thought it was worth to share it as a Nuget library [6].

I particularly like the fact that I can

* write normal sql with parameter substitutions using printf placeholders. If you don't want to write SQL, this library is clearly not for you :-)

* define the queries and data manipulations without worrying about the connection to the database. This allowed me to define all queries and data manipulations in a library [5] where I'm not concerned about handling connection issues, which is done in the app code using that library.

The library is released under the LGPL license, and is published as an alpha stage project because it still needs some cleanup after its extraction from the web app it originated from.
But I'm following the "release early, release often" approach here, also to gauge interest.

This library only supports postgresql for the moment, but in the mid-term I'd like to support other databases, starting with sqlite.

0: https://monazita.gitlab.io/monazita/

1: http://www.myowndb.com

2: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/tablefunc.html

3: https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/rop/

4: https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/posts/elevated-world-6/#re...

5: https://gitlab.com/myowndb/myowndb/-/tree/master/lib This library defines all data retrieval, insertions, updates, transformations, etc without ever handling a database connection.

6: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Monazita
You're just making this up aren't you?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIMP#History

The application subsequently formed part of the GNU software collection

And it's part of the list of "GNU Software" on this page: https://www.gnu.org/software/software.html (And no, that's not a list of all GPL-licensed software, it's a list of GNU software).

You're correct that it's not "maintained directly by the FSF", that's not how GNU operates, but I feel that GNU and the FSF has a responsibility for the health of the projects which are part of the GNU project.
This wouldn't be as silly a counter argument if there weren't already unrestricted models out there.

Unfortunately, this is a very silly argument. I'm so glad that people like you weren't around when they invented the personal computer.
If you see breakage it could be because of this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39464924
Anyone knows which AI could be used to generate UI design elements ? (such as "generate a real estate app widget list") as well as the kind of prompts one would use to obtain good results ?

I'm only now investigating using AI to increase velocity in my projects, and the field is moving so fast, i'm a bit outdated.
It's really not much work, and it removes another source of dependency/build bloat. Also, if you care about speed, hand-rolling your lexer will always be the fastest (and even naive implementations can rival/outcompete generators).
Anyone tried to translate the example given in the TFA manuscript excerpt image?

There are way too many dots in the text.
40% is taken by managers forwarding e-mails among themselves and generating unnecessary meetings.

Or, how Gemini would say...

40% is taken by A DIVERSE SET of managers forwarding e-mails among themselves and generating unnecessary meetings.
I guess pleasing everyone with a small sample of result images all integrating the same biases would be next to impossible.

On the other hand, it’s probably trivial at this point to generate a sample that endorses different well known biases as a default result, isn’t it? And stating it explicitly in the interface is probably not requiring that much complexity, doesn’t it?

I think the major benefit of current AI technologies is to showcase how horribly biased the source works are.
A dedicated Windows laptop is the cleanest way to manage Windows.

Run it in its own silo and use the magic of networking for interfacing with your preferred OS.

Architecturally:

Windows <---> Network Protocols <---> Your Preferred OS

Basically, use the ubiquitous API's rather than trying to write your own. The API's are built into each OS to solve the exact problem.

Also, hardware is a useful abstraction. Two laptops make it easier to partition the dimensions of your daily life. And there is nothing magical bout them. Computers are cattle not pets.

Good luck.
He also invented the Sharpie marker, after other traders kept erasing his fibonacci plots on the whiteboard
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One that is widely know but people never seem to think about is "America".

Named after the sort of person we would probably not name anything after nowadays, and, ironically, doing so would be most outrageous in the places named after him.
But why? Why has the FSF neglected GNU, why has the FSF neglected themselves by not ensuring they have the funding necessary to manage a project of the scale and importance of GNU?
Programming thought experiment: stuck in a room with a PC without an OS
Common Lisp doesn't have a top level lexical scope, which seems to be what you're looking for here.

Putting something like VAR everywhere now causes issues because it's not a form that returns a value. Also, there's no place to hang declare forms on it. And if it's executed conditionally, what does that mean? The var is declared on one branch but not the other?
Why would it matter when the fine is a pittance?
Aha that's just an inline footnote, we support both in Supernotes. So you can quickly write ^[Name of Reference] (that will auto assign it the number 1 once rendered) rather than [^1] ... [1]: Name of Reference.

Footnotes aren't part of the original Markdown specification (https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/)
Google dislikes getting bad PR.

Modern western tech society will criticize (mostly correctly) a lack of diversity in basically any aspect of a company or technology. This often is expressed in shorthand as there being too many white cis men.

Don't forget google's fancy doors didn't work as well for black people at once point. Lots of bad PR.
The stereotype of a human in general would not be white in any case.

And the stereotype the person asking would expect will heavily depend on where they're from.

Before you ask for stereotypes: Whose stereotypes? Across which population? And why does those stereotypes make sense?

I think Google fucked up thoroughly here, but they did so trying to correct for biases also gets things really wrong for a large part of the world.
It's just annoying, and by no means unique to YT. Companies forcing changes upon users, it's going to be adversarial - especially for people who do use it a lot.

People do watch shorts, of course. I can see it can be a good fit on phones, even if it isn't for me. I can also see not wanting to shaft creators who put effort into shorts.

Where it falls down is the heavy-handed, passive-aggressive thing of "ok, we'll hide shorts for 30" (in this view only though). My UI criticism is more that for "normal" videos, you'd use home and subscriptions the most, right? So sandwiching stuff between that just feels like they're trying to make you mis-tap on purpose. Maybe Google engineers don't use bumpy public transport? (Or other one-handed scenarios.)

Possibly, this is all a projection of the main worry - especially for paying users: If they are willing to degrade the long-form video experience, or at least show little consideration, what does the future of that look like?
Isn't it that the person can control a pointer on a screen. A mouse is a physical object.
Kwitcherbellyachin' (1996)
Is there a Guassian splat model that works without the "Structure from Motion" step to extract the point cloud? That feels a bit unsatisfying to me.
My wife has a Samsung Z fold 3 and she has service. I have an iPhone with eSIM in the same house and do not.
I wonder how much an outage like this would end up costing them. Maybe it would even be net positive as some of their operating costs like data transfer would be down.
https://eclipse.aas.org/eye-safety/viewers-filters

And buy direct, don't use Amazon because of the counterfeit risks.
Middle Tennessee only getting SOS on iPhone (AT&T).
So, what's the tribal political consensus on how many Asian women were present in the German army in 1943?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39465250
Could you list the concrete "safety checks" that you think prevents real-world harm? What particular image that you think a random human will ask the AI to generate, which then leads to concrete harm in the real world?
It doesn't strike you as hypocritical that they all talk about safety while continuing to push out tech that's upending multiple industries as we speak? It's tough for me to see it as anything other than lip service.

I'd be on your side if any of them actually chose to keep their technology in the lab instead of tossing it out into the world and gobbling up investment dollars as fast as they could.
I'm agreeing with you that there is so much effort that goes into software beyond just the code. Just going from "something I can use" to "something everyone can use" has been a huge deal with my little Spotify-to-YTMusic app. I wrote it in an evening and transferred all my music. Since then I've probably put in 30 hours refining it, fixing it for other use cases, and supporting people trying to use it.

I am, thankfully, in a position where I can do that in my spare time.
Ones where the incumbent gets 43% and is unwilling to step down?
I wonder how many choose Techstars because they were not accepted into YC