skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which is still pretty ridiculous on the face of it. Software beyond school assignments and toys are always a collaborative effort where extroversion, openness, and neuroticism are benefits to getting stuff done

Based on his software opinions, I'd guess he was let go for performance issues more than anything. It's unlikely that he could write code that another person could agree with, work with, or read, and that if somebody asked about his code, he'd be unable to talk about it.
I feel like the Internet where forums thrived is very different from the present Internet. Forums won't make a comeback because they're much harder to make money or clout from, and the owners get to assume all the risk of hosting content, dealing with deplatforming by payment processors, and trying to find people to advertise.

Regardless of how you feel about them, Kiwifarms is what would happen to any forum that got too successful without the approval of a major player: a constant barrage of being removed from hosting providers, DDOS mitigation platforms and domain registrars.

Forums still exist because they're passion projects to very niche communities with very stubborn people. I treasure those communities but that's kind of incompatible with mainstream Internet and consumption habits.
Speed is impressive, but it doesn't seem to know what a pappenheimer rapier is. Keep getting a guy with weird bladed staff.
This kind jaded, reductive answer reeks of sour grapes. I've seen so many adopt a transactional mentality as a sort of defense mechanism against the indifference of the universe, and in the process they unintentionally blind themselves to numerous daily examples of people just trying to do the right thing. Sure the world has problems, but if we can't see both the good and the bad then we become embittered and small, hateful to ourselves and those around us.
It's an extremely obscure feature for which the device lacks the hardware to do it properly (no VBUS switching), which is almost certainly untested. If I were designing a mass-market product, I would disable it too.

They got the BIOS from a 3rd party vendor, disabling it by default and hiding the setting was probably the easiest way to prevent anyone from accidentally trying to use it.
> Then I asked Gemini to stop doing that / tried specifying racial backgrounds... Gemini refused.

When I played with it, I was getting some really strange results. Almost like it generated an image full of Caucasian people and then tried to adjust the contrast of some of the characters to give them darker skin. The while people looked quite photorealistic, but the black people looked like it was someone's first day with Photoshop.

To which I told it "Don't worry about diversity" and it complied. The new images it produced looked much more natural.
> First, labor laws isn’t the answer to technology.

Laws have always been created to deal with new technologies and their fallout. Labour laws are no different.

You should read about the musicians strike of 1942 [1]. When the record player was invented some people thought 'why pay a singer for more than one performance if technology allows you to record them and sell infinite copies'? No one would try that today with Taylor Swift for example.

[1] https://jacobin.com/2022/03/1940s-musicians-strike-american-...
Now I really want to work there
A Distributed File System in Go Cut Average Metadata Memory Usage to 100 Bytes
Twitter is in the "Wile-E-Coyote just ran off the cliff" phase where his legs are still running on air. Companies like that have tremendous momentum, but an airplane can only glide so far after you turn off the engine.
(Otherwise known as pathological lies). To do as the saying says, and "know thyself" is difficult. People are prone to be overly harsh or generous when evaluating themselves.
It could have the exact opposite effect.

If movie-quality content is easy to generate, then what is left to separate the good from the bad?

Probably story, characters, originality, etc.

Generative models could, across the board, commoditize the aesthetic leaving only substance as a discernible trait.

This could be positive for the world in both encouraging people to create things of substance and consume things of substance.

When instagram pictures are so easily made perfect, why bother posting? Or watching? What credit do you get for looking the way you do?

When shallow political arguments are made in a comment, why not just assume they are computer generated?

We could become blind to vapid content like we are blind to billboard ads.
Yeah it can't do pixelart or any other thing that I tried. But yey speed.
As decade-plus Redditor with such an invite: If I had the opportunity to buy Reddit stock five years ago, I might have taken it. But not today.

Reddit has aggressively moved further and further away from a product I would actually want to use myself or recommended to my friends, and many of those changes involve inconveniencing existing users and communities, in order to trap and extract value from them.

In other words, it doesn't look like a growth opportunity anymore, and instead a company making unsustainable short-term decisions... Which reminds me of what happened to rival Digg, where its focus on being "a collection of cool stuff you can put ads next to" collapsed when they cannibalized the not-so-secondary community behind it.
Personally I doubt it and I don't think they'd care if they did.
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Spatial prompt adherence is a general missing piece is SDXL (or previous versions of the SD). Hoping that the SD will get it into a good shape as your examples!

Test the example on Stable Cascade as well (latest open-weight stability model), and yeah, even that is not great at it https://fal.ai/models/stable-cascade?share=eab44060-690b-497....
Been loving Lunar Lander ever since I played it in the 1980's. That is a very faithful version. I always loved how ti zoomed in when you got close to the terrain. (And that large throttle you used to control the thrust.)

As a kid it was like impossible for me to play. Now it is just ... challenging.

My voxel tribute: https://mooncraft2000.com
i'm interested to hear which electrical components and chemical processes you're thinking of?
Yes they are extremely good with free replacements/repairs after getting sued with a class action. Such a great company
aha, yeah, i think you would've had to invent fdpic then, and add support for the new abi to your compiler
This is the same for me. My case was internal transferring from a engineering division with solid background to a newly created division of a different domain. Things turned out to be very different from what I had previous imagined.

At least now I know that, at the end of the day, burnout can only be fixed by other means.
They can probably drop the entire gpu line and focus on ai chips to best use the capacity
I hate to ask the obvious question, but maybe your job title is wrong?
Clarification to the title: the spacecraft was developed by a private company, but it was publicly funded by way of NASA, as part of their Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program: https://www.nasa.gov/commercial-lunar-payload-services/
I know the implication here is "too much JavaScript" but we also need to talk about how much of this is purely tracking junk.
Sure is! We've got a bright and oh so plentiful road ahead, pending we can avoid blowing up the planet.
Someone somewhere had a QA list of things to check/correlate, and one of them was - failure after 49 days.
>but the meat of the story is just empty

I assume you've never seen a Tyler Perry 'Madea' movie before
> But a person can only have one head

Not so: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polycephaly
ability to remap hardware keyboard keys and key combinations ala Blink would be great
I mean these days people even pay big bucks to get spied on by China thanks to Microsoft selling out US citizens to the CCP.

People should get their pitch forks ready.
My understanding is there were more than 500 indigenous tribes in what became the US.

Someone on Twitter once talked about that -- that a tribe is a nation state, not an ethnicity -- and posted a photo of a White man who had been granted tribal membership of some tribe a long time ago.

I would have included links to that but I have idea how to find it.
Addendum to the above: For what it’s worth, the best experience I’ve had with a company that had a hardware screw up is Nintendo.

Fill out form, print their shipping label, pop into box, Joy-cons are back 2 weeks later without paying a penny. They’ve also repaired things that clearly aren’t stick drift - like broken shoulder buttons, torn joystick caps, and one I sent in that was completely unresponsive.
It's odd that he's winding back on soundstages .. I suspect this is on hold while they reconsider the soundstage tech stack.

The other comments are correct about fully generative imaging from AI .. having that fluid and tight to a directors vision is still some way down the road.

As mentioned in article what will change is being able to generate fully digital sets with AI assistance, character makeup and "look" to tie onto a real actor, background non player AI extras, etc.

This sees a AV media future with a lot more work in giant green rooms and AI production .. and the $800 m is most likely "on hold" while the big picture is revaluated - fewer carpentry shops, more server farms.
Can anyone here estimate what it costs OpenAI to generate, say, a 5 second video using Sora?
This describes much of Hollywood's output for at least the last 10 years, probably a lot longer. You'd expect removing or lowering the barriers to entry & the cost would result in an explosion of content - there will be a curation problem, but the quality of storytelling will not automatically be worse than the current state.
My AirPods Pro have the same issue if noise cancellation/pass through is on. It’s a known issue, also weren’t covered .

Apple used to be known for covering things, but that changed over the past 10 years.
Horrible decisions to kill 3rd party apps instead of buying them and having Apollo dev redesign the junky Reddit app.
There is a simple but undeniable element of genius to the idea of, instrumenting the number of validations triggered. I would hazard a guess that 90+% of teams would focus on an "order success rate" type of metric and call it a day, instead of a "# of times bad data was handled" metric, which is exactly how you escape this trap of good work going unnoticed.

Thanks for sharing! Shamelessly stealing and applying this concept at work next week!
cool, still don't use it since they fucked all the third party apps.
Prompt Fighter!
Task interface is for human though, when LLM goes wrong, you can intervene. But I agree, it will be less critical moving forward.
You're right, I skimmed and realized my error when I came back to it. My fault.
What does piracy have to do with generative AI? I don’t understand your analogy.
This is from the Phind extension for VS Code:

> Use the input box at the bottom to ask questions. Phind will automatically use your codebase to answer

I don't know why I can't get GitHub Copilot Chat extension to do this. It always replies it can't answer questions about the codebase and that I should ask it to do something.

Is that even possible? I've tried @workspace but I didn't work. I must be doing something wrong.
Contrary to the example set by the loudest voices in tech, "intelligent" and "reasonable" are not mutually exclusive.
pixel art is a particularly hard thing for these models to do, especially without further fine tunes or loras. but I'm pretty sure you should be able to get that quality with one of nerijs's loras [0]. But for now, i'd do some prompt templating and try some variations of this: 'pixel-art picture of a cat. low-res, blocky, pixel art style, 8-bit graphics'

[0]: https://huggingface.co/nerijs/pixel-art-xl
Useful generative AI is only possible by the same collection of copyrighted material previously deemed illegal. I imagine a model trained solely on material explicitly marked for AI use would be significantly worse.
There are ways around this. You could use a negative prompt of "empty, two-dimensional" to generate a story with more depth.
> 2. The lack of a visible dip does not mean the internals are healthy. Often layoffs are accompanied with an expectation to "do more with less", which generally means the conditions going south for remaining workers.

I've always wondered: If the layoff is happening because the company over-hired and the roles are no longer needed, then why do existing employees need to step up and do those roles that the company just said are no longer needed?
I think this is the difference with Tim Cook’s Apple. I had good luck with Apple support many years ago where there was an obvious defect. The people at the Apple Store seemed empowered to do the right thing. These days it feels more like the math formula in Fight Club.
This reinforces my impression that Google is at least one year behind. Stunning images, 3D, video while Gemini had to be partially halted this morning.

People always say Google is "behind", I don't believe they're behind in a capabilities sense, which IMO is what the parent is implying. They've decided to make a PC product, which I wouldn't say is inferior to anything else if you're the kind of person who is into PC culture.

There might be some difficult internal politics to work through, but there is no way Google is hamstrung forever by this.

Go calm my friend.
Convolutions are bad at long range spatial dependencies? What makes you say that - any chance you have a reference?
Does anyone know anything about the possible video of the landing from EagleCam? I would love to see some video of the moon that is not 1960s quality.
And here I was wondering why this service was called pee-hind!
Well good thing is you don’t need to on Apple. Just get the free trial and cancel immediately?
> Is the amount of delta-v needed to changes orbit and inclination really so high that it's easier and cheaper to send stuff from Earth rather than make use of what's there?

Yes.

The ISS has a less the optimal orbital inclination (51.6 degrees) purely due to Russian involvement. To meaningfully change that would take a lot of delta v. From Texas, Florida, or French Guiana, the US and EU would really have benefited from a more flat inclination.

It also orbits at 400 km. In the grand scheme of things, that's pretty low. The amount of delta v to change this is much less (but significant because the total mass of the iss is 400,000kg), but who wants to do this for a 30 year old space station that you're also going to to pay to maintain?

You'd also have to have something you'd want to do with the the thing, which nobody really has show that they have. It also apparently smells lol.

It will end up in the middle of the Pacific.
It's just a case of a pattern definition including references to itself, which are then linked to its definition before use. In the same way function definitions often contain reference themselves, which are linked to complete the definition.

uint64_t alignBitsLeft(uint64_t x) {
return ((x >> 63) == 1)) ? x : alignBitsLeft(x << 1);
}

The pattern "alignBitLeft(uint64_t)" definition starts in line 1, but is not completed until line 3. Yet line 2 references that pattern, before the definition is complete.

This works, because of a linking step at definition completion, where the "alignBitsLeft" reference gets linked to the now complete "alignBitsLeft" definition.

Similarly for:

> loop Body is { Body; loop Body }

The "loop Body" definition beings, including a reference to itself. Once the whole definition has been built up, the "loop Body" reference gets linked back to the "loop Body" definition. Ready for use.

--

Another way to look at this is memoization (at compile or run time). When you evaluate the second line of this:

n is 1;
loop { print n; n is n + 1; }

You get this:

{ print n; n is n + 1; loop { print n; n is n + 1; }}

If we cache that definition before evaluating it, when we get to the embedded loop clause, we don't need to compute it again. We have already computed that exact loop pattern before and can reuse the result (over and over).
Efficiency or reliability: pick one.
These are optional things that you choose, and you can even write yourself. The default feeds are "posts of accounts you follow," just like Mastodon, so it's a positive because it's extra possibility on top.

As a meaningful example: someone (not BlueSky themselves, I don't believe) published a "Quiet Posters" feed. I have subscribed to that. Now, in addition to "Following," and "For You," I have a "Quiet Posters" feed. This exclusively shows posts by people who don't post very often. Since subscribing to it, I have seen a lot more content from the folks who aren't as chatty as the people who fill up my timeline. That's very nice.
And how often one of our five TV stations would be "Experiencing Technical Difficulties... Please Stand By".
I am a Civil Engineering student with basically no coding experience. I took a coding class once in Middle School lol. I have recently found motivation to learn. I am interesting in creating an application that can facilitate uploading multiple posts to multiple social media platforms. Going onto each platform to upload your videos is too time consuming. Whether that be an Instagram post of a photo, video (short-form or long-form). Not just limited to Instagram though. This should include tik-toks, you tube shorts, and Facebook reels. I understand I will have to apply for the API's of these platforms in order for the app to interact with them. I also bought a book on python if I go that route. A guy on Fiver said he could do it for me on Microsoft PowerApps for $3,000+ and three months time. I have experience with WordPress and am wondering if it's possible to do this with plug-ins lol. My question really is, what do you guys with experience think? Point me in the right direction so I can put all my eggs in one basket so to speak and get this thing rolling. Thanks for the help! I provided a spec that goes into a little bit more detail. Should I try and do it with microsoft power apps? Is it even possible to do
YOU CAN DO THIS?

Oh my goodness ….
It doesn't make the API deal with Google for $60m sound so good if it won't even pay a third of the CEO's salary...
"done well" is really hard to define, and its also very hard to attribute back to one thing when you do have success.

Did you get the sale with the customer because you invested in DEI? Or because you made something they want by accident?

Customers can also talk in different languages, and as a result of historic oppression, minorities tend to be able to code shift. Assuming your potential customers are unable to become customers because of their limitations might not be right
> typical city Democrat

I mean, if you compare them to people who live in bigger cities and only the people who belong to the left-er party, then yeah maybe. It's like saying a group isn't socially conservative because they're not as socially conservative as rural Republicans.
What do you define as "broad"? I'm not going to claim BlueSky is mega popular, but to put a number on it, hit 5 million users today. That's not huge, but it's also not small.
It uses a lot of copyrighted content without permission.
As I was watching it, I was thinking that if I were responsible for planning the scripts, I would have been kicking myself for not recording one for an ambiguous circumstance, or incomplete success. As it was it was a little disjointed.
Pour one out for Phabricator.
It's "private" unless you ask where the funding came from.
“int currentTimeMs” - whoa, I wish the compiler stop me there.
I got there in 2016, so I'm bemused: there's a whole other layer that happened before. And Google Wallet changed to Google Pay which changed to Android Pay which changed to Google Pay and Google Wallet which is now changing to Google Wallet. The more things change...

You're right, it wasn't just a Google credit card, I was referring specifically to this[^1], in 2020: Apple Card was announced as 'Apple is your bank'. (the article in my previous comment is the sunsetting of this rumor)

[^1] https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/17/21225276/google-apple-car...
The Scandinavian and Sami were coming from the lighter skinned European populations and so didn't need as much change to become even lighter skinned.

The populations for North America were from an asian branch of the human migrations and so started with darker skins. The larger change to skin tone combined with less pressure (from diet) and the "it isn't that viable to shift to a less melanistic skin tone".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleo-Indians https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peopling_of_the_Americas and https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Early_migrations_mer...

This compares to a relatively more recent (12000 years - twice the age of the pyramids rather than four times the age of the pyramids for 25000 years ago) migration from Europe into Scandinavia ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_Stone_Age ).

> The Nordic Stone Age refers to the Stone Age of Scandinavia. During the Weichselian glaciation (115,000 – 11,700 years ago), almost all of Scandinavia was buried beneath a thick permanent ice cover, thus, the Stone Age came rather late to this region. As the climate slowly warmed up by the end of the ice age, nomadic hunters from central Europe sporadically visited the region. However, it was not until around 12,000 BCE that permanent, but nomadic, habitation in the region took root.

> Around 11,400 BCE, the Bromme culture emerged in Southern Scandinavia. This was a more rapidly warming era providing opportunity for other substantial hunting game animals than the ubiquitous reindeer. As former hunter-gather cultures, the Bromme culture was still largely dependent on reindeer and lived a nomadic life, but their camps diversified significantly and they were the first people to settle Southern Scandinavia (and the Southern Baltic area) on a permanent, yet still nomadic, basis.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_Q-M242

The population that migrated to North America 25000 years ago may have been darker skinned than the European branch of human migration where a lighter skin tone developed. This, combined with later genetic isolation (note we're talking about two continents - but this is isolated compared to the possible movement of genes within Europe and Scandinavia 12000 years ago and more recently) fixed the darker skin, and the adaptation for vitamin D in the Inuit population because of the lighter skin wasn't genetically advantageous and was a greater genetic distance from the population compared to the Scandinavian migrations which was followed by the Holocene climatic optimum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_climatic_optimum with even more warming of Northern Europe resulting in a lighter skin tone being an easier genetic path for greater vitamin D during the summer months.

... And all of that is a just so story that I'd love to go and be a grad student working on the genetic diversity of early human migrations now to find out if it actually worked that way or if I'm just making things up.
limewire teens were pioneers too
Vice website is shutting down
I think it’s been on the back burner since he got his new hobby of complaining about generative AI being too woke.
I work there… no it’s not…
Ask me and you can save $2 :-) but can you imagine every pair that doesn't break while still having Applecare coverage - that $300-800 is just straight profit.
I heard they did it for $3.50