skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So I’m no expert, but I’m not sure I agree. For one thing, a Dreamlifter is 235 feet long. They’d have to add nearly 100 feet to that before it fit a 300-foot blade. I think that makes it a completely different airplane.

Also I wonder about density — turbine blades are really light, and this Radias seems not to have a huge wingspan. Perhaps it’s optimized specifically for long, low-density cargo. That’s not the market that Boeing or Airbus are going for with their craft.
But by doing this (Tor etc), you've also potentially identified yourself as a person of interest who warrants further scrutiny. It begs the question: what are you trying to hide.
Well RIP Stability AI.

I love their models and I love how they have changed the entire open source AI ecosystem for the better, but the writing was always on the wall for them given how unprofitable they are.

I don't think much of the AI startup scene or socials groups like e/acc would have existed if it weren't for the tech that they just gave away for free.

Its interesting how Stability AI and their VC funding have done a much better job of acting effectively as a non-profit charity (because they don't have profits. lol) to speed up AI development and open source their results as compared to other companies that were supposed to have been doing that from the beginning.

They really were the true ActuallyOpenAI.

Related to this, if you are an aspiring person who wants to improve the world, tricking a bunch of VC investors to fund your tech and then giving away the results to everyone free of charge is the single best way to do it.
Isn't that what they already do? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.
USSR !== Russian Empire.

Anyway...

Vertical writings are fading out not because someone's political will, but because of their impracticability in modern era.

First commercial typewriter appeared in US in 1874 and it effectively set the end for any non-LTR writing system.

In that respect, can we attach USA to that imperial club that killed TTB writing systems?
It also seems like the company just isn't doing very well, it looks like there have been constant problems since Stable Diffusion was released - not enough funding, people leaving, etc. Which I don't get - you create a massive new piece of software that is a huge leap forward and you can't just get more funding? There have to be big structural issues at Stability.
Glassdoor is dox'ing people so...
Gene Zelazny's timeless books:

Charts: https://archive.org/details/sayitwithcharts00zela/mode/2up

Presentations: https://archive.org/details/sayitwithpresent00zela
Deviki (Devin Clone)
JNI Marshalling Performance: Single Round Trip
Exactly. What we really need is a public, open list of all tracker companies that anyone can contribute to (like adblock lists). What we do with that list is up to us and our governments.
I actually talked about this with Gavin (who was running the project back then) in 2013. It wasn't a priority, and it almost certainly never will be.

Vitalik, on the other hand, has always made quantum resistance a priority, and the account abstraction model and pluggable signature schemes are just now starting to take off. Basically, you can deploy a smart contract to hold your assets, and part of the smart contract is that to move assets from the contract, you need to sign a message with something other than the typical ecdsa signatures. There are some wallets today that you can even send funds with passkey signatures, which will use the keys sitting in hardware on modern phones.
ECC memory still isn't standard on consumer PCs, I don't think — although all DDR5 memory includes some error correction, manufacturers suggest it's not as robust (https://www.corsair.com/us/en/explorer/diy-builder/memory/is...).
It’s that weird grip recruiters have on the pipeline once again. I was applying for a mobile client role and was told I didn’t have “AI ML experience” so I was disqualified… for a mobile client role. I guarantee you the hiring manager doesn’t care about that.
Twitter is not primarily right wing group think. There is plenty of discussion of both sides on there.

The problem is that most modern algorithms tend to recommend most stuff that you engage in, so if you continuously comment against conservative viewpoints, you are doing to get more conservative stuff in your feed.

Hackernews is by far the best because it tends to self govern with downvoting/flagging baseless comments. People definitely have a bias, but you can post disagreement on things and actually have good discussion, whereas on Reddit you basically just get downvoted and people just tell you are wrong without any sort of justification.
They laid off another ~45,000 since the start of 2024 as far as I know. Likely the dumbest thing that these incumbent companies can do - they laid off entire EPDs, professionals who have a working history with each other, close links etc. Ie, in a way, they laid off entire startups that will immediately turn into their competitors and eat their lunch. And its already happening:

https://www.wired.com/story/tech-layoffs-are-feeding-a-new-s...

This is the dumbest thing about the destructiveness of capitalism: In its quest for ever-increasing profits, it even destroys its own business for short term profit.
There was this great chart that I wish I could find which kind of explained it well for me.

Things we consume have gotten cheaper - flights, electronics.

Things related to wealth - assets but also things like education have all gotten more expensive.

So we all get to live a more "experiential" life but good luck passing anything on, if you care about those kinds of things...

EDIT here we go - similar (if not the same) chart:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/08/17/the-s...
"It’s kind of baffling that after decades of wifi and captive portals, we still don’t have any kind of standard for the network to properly signal the fact “you’ll need to visit <url> in a browser” to a device.
"

We do, actually, and have for decades.

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

Back in ~2010 I wrote a simply python script that parses out the WISPR data that you get, and submits data to the place specified by the XML.

It works on 90+% of hotspots i've ever encountered.
I get that it is sarcasm, but disagree with the implication that the OP was suggesting complete surrender.

If you don't like it, walk away, seems reasonable to me. We don't own these corporate web sites and can only vote with our eyeballs (so to speak).
The underlying reason is that current AI businesses and models are failing to capture any significant economic value. We're going to get there, but it will take some more work. It won't be decades, but a few more years would be helpful
I don't understand how either of these are remotely constitutional. They sure aren't what is in the spirit.

They asked for information about a video watched 30k times. Supposing every person watched that video 10 times AND supposing the target was one of the viewers (it really isn't clear that this is true), that's 2999 people who have had their rights violated to search for one. I believe Blackstone has something to say about this[0]. Literally 30x Blackstone's ratio, who heavily influenced the founding fathers.

I don't think any of this appears legitimate.

Edit: Ops
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackstone%27s_ratio
Exploring the Potential of a US Cyber Force
A friendly note to anyone going into it with no other info: Guns, Germs, and Steel reached the status of having its own wikipedia entry [0] and is very widely known, with enough controversy to fuel endless debates on historical subreddits. Enjoy your read and be prepared when you'll want to share your thoughts.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guns,_Germs,_and_Steel
Went through the process, not thrilled with the disclaimer I received with the confirmation that my account was deleted:

> Please note, however, that despite your request to delete data, we reserve the right to keep any information in our archives that we deem necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, enforce our agreements, and exercise the right of freedom of expression and information. We will also keep a record of your request for legal and compliance purposes.
Solving these issues won't make you much money, and anyone that gets close will invite more heat than the center of the sun. Better to divest. Keep an email and phone for essential services like banking but avoid all other activity.
Looks great, thank you kindly!
> core technical debt

These are us programmers' trappings. The users don't give two sh*ts about that. They care whether what they use is easy and it works. And Wordpress is both of them.

None of the 'better coded' competitors have been able to eat into its market share ever - demonstrates the gigantic gap between what programmers think to be important and what users think to be important.
This account is the Illuminati.
Crypto currencies are an experiment in the "denationalization of money" which was a book written by Hayek - of course he wrote this before cyrpto currencies were even a thing.

I would avoid just picking out BTC (which being stable in supply is prone to hoarding as digital gold and not really used as a means of commerce) and look at what other crypto has to offer as well, such as Ethereum which has a dynamic supply limit that is tied to its usage - in times of high usage such as today, it actually becomes deflationary. As usage slows, it becomes inflationary again which in theory should promote network usage.

We are essentially in an ongoing experiment of the denationalization of money and I personally think it will be fascinating how it will play out in the next couple decades.
First, to certify a new aircraft takes 5-9 years (source below).

https://www.faa.gov/aircraft/air_cert/airworthiness_certific...

Lets say they are really good and they are ready to test fly in 3 years to meet that 5 year goal (which I'll tell you right now is not happening), they still need engines. 3 years to design, develop, and build a clean sheet engine. It took GE and Safran (CFM) 10 years between the announcement of the LEAP and its certification:

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

So no, it is quite unlikely that a company with no experience in commercial jet engines (Florida Turbines, subsidiary of Kratos) will be able to field the equivalent of a modern day concord engine in 3 years. I would say the main reason people think it could be is successful PR from new startups.
If you don't change the UI, nobody notices (2009)
This is false. You have to pay cap gains on anything against the dollar when buying with alt currencies.

I'm aware. What I was saying is that the US Government doesn't care about whether or not you're using USD for your transactions, so long as you pay the appropriate taxes in USD.

This intentionally kills the use of anything other than the dollar for transactions.

So what other policy would you prefer the federal government to have? It's pretty much the only good solution.

The record keeping for this sort of nonsense presents a massive and impractical to fight burden.

It's honestly hilarious that a few IRS regulations are all it took to fundamentally break cryptocurrency. Yeah sure, if you jump through dozens of loops and practice air-tight opsec, you can get away from paying taxes. But at that point it's basically a small group of people exchanging digital beanie babies and pretending they're valuable.
If the open source software interacts with the data brokers as you, then how would it do that without giving up even more of your personal information? Services like Optery also lose the ability to remove your information from a data broker if you have a direct account with them. So you better hope that open source maintainer doesn't lose interest after a while, since if they do, you'll be permanently doomed to logging into hundreds of broker sites each year to refresh your opt-out.
You can avoid this with Google by using a virtual WebAuthN device (ironically via Chrome devtools), and then you will unlock the ability to enroll in MFA with a QR code for an OTP URL.
This makes no sense to my eye.

It's like making a startup to make delivery vans or stretch limos.

There isn't enough economy of scale.

The economically efficient approach would be to do what the military and other manufacturers would do. What Boeing has been doing to the 737 for decades.

Leverage an existing airframe, stretch it, re-engineer what's needed.

Building a bespoke plane, a bespoke plane manufacturer, and all that goes with it is a tall order. Why not fly fed ex packages too? It's just not really specific, or big enough of a market, no?
You won't dare post anything actually transgressive.
Previous controversy involving the CEO (2023): https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrickcai/2023/06/04/stable-di...

“ In reality, Mostaque has a bachelor’s degree, not a master’s degree from Oxford. The hedge fund’s banner year was followed by one so poor that it shut down months later. The U.N. hasn’t worked with him for years. And while Stable Diffusion was the main reason for his own startup Stability AI’s ascent to prominence, its source code was written by a different group of researchers. “Stability, as far as I know, did not even know about this thing when we created it,” Björn Ommer, the professor who led the research, told Forbes. “They jumped on this wagon only later on.” “

“ “What he is good at is taking other people’s work and putting his name on it, or doing stuff that you can’t check if it’s true.”
Ludwig Von Mises is laughing, he was so right. It's not even funny.
It's not "entitled" to be against things that negatively impact oneself and don't provide any benefit. I think skepticism of expansion in the name of progress or to make it easier for companies to make profits without contributing back to the communities they negatively affect with their growth is reasonable. Particularly in Chicago, where capital investment in infrastructure at the expense of the communities they displace has a history of entrenching social and political problems (for example, Lake Shore Drive cutting off the lakefront, the Eisenhower, Edens, and Kennedy expressways demolishing communities and segregating what's left). Building things up is not always a net good.

Twenty years ago, they decided to bulldoze a community to relieve ORD's growing traffic instead of investing in the Peotene airport. And now, there is nowhere left for ORD to grow. There's nowhere for Midway to grow. If we've accepted that Chicago is a hub for air traffic, it needs to go somewhere that can handle it - and the choices are the south suburban project (for which the land is already secured, and there's political support from the state, feds, and local government), or the Dupage airport. There's less money and interest involved in the latter. The other choices are Rockford, Gary, and Milwaukee - all of which have stagnated as passenger and cargo destinations.

Expanding ORD is a political fight between DuPage and Cook county, and the only city that's truly in favor of it is Chicago and Cook County - because they're not impacted by it, and they get the gate fees and sales taxes at the terminals. Meanwhile, Will County is inviting the development, and they need it! The south suburbs have stagnated for decades, and could use the investment. The western suburbs and near west side don't need more air traffic. Particularly when the growth the airlines want is not to ferry more passengers into the area, but to move them through to other destinations, and to handle more cargo.

And it's not just "entitled" suburbanites that are against expansion at O'Hare. United and American have said they want the expansion of Terminal 2 and the O'Hare 21 project halted because the increased gate fees that fund it are making it uneconomical to use ORD as a hub. When even the market rejects expansion, we need to look to alternatives - and the south suburban airport is the best candidate, particularly for cargo.

What I'm saying is that this isn't rampant pork barrel spending, or "coddling" people who have no idea what they're talking about. It's our elected government listening to what their constituents want without caving to industry demands, or the tax priorities of a singular community. Keep in mind, half of the population of metroland Chicago isn't in the city. They have voices that should be heard too.
That hive of scum and freemium makes those plugins keep existing. Like in the rest of open source world, anything that cannot fund itself eventually disappears. You install a free plugin, it works great and you are happy - for a few years. Then one day you find out that the maintainer cant continue maintaining the plugin anymore because of work/personal life getting busy, and voila - you have to find another plugin again.

Its much better to have that 'hive of scum and freemium' and pay some money to those plugins than having to look for another plugin to build your site on every few years.
Anyone thinking I was serious is a canary in the privacy coal mine.

That being said, I suspect it was just an unfortunate use of words (current / right leaders) that might lead some people to think I was being politically tribal. (nothing could be further from the truth)
Really sad to see. Emad pivoting to posting crypto nonsense on twitter made me think the writing is on the wall for Stability, but I still didn't expect it so soon. I expect they'll pivot to closed models and then fade away.
"In conversations with the user in early January, undercover agents sent links of YouTube tutorials for mapping via drones and augmented reality software, then asked Google for information on who had viewed the videos, which collectively have been watched over 30,000 times."

Huh? Why? Is this because some country doesn't like people having good mapping technology? Israel and China object to precision mapping, but the US historically has not.
AI businesses/models are capturing economic value: the problem is that costs are increasing much faster than revenue.
Yes... if we breed robot cats for thousands of years.
The second one seems a lot more narrow and more legitimate
I was thinking more in general terms of how every possible art or endeavor has been hijacked by political corruption in one form or another and we’re just still rolling with it, with zero recourse through speaking out.

Though perhaps we haven’t exhausted all the first amendment options yet as we’re all still pretty cozy and can’t be bothered yet to try and unravel it all.

Unfortunately with that approach, by the time it becomes urgent enough to rouse us, it will be too late in many respects.
In the sprite of ad-block lists, I suggest we create an open list of all known companies that people can easily add to. Information about these shady-ass orgs should be divorced from enforcement against them.
The problem is deliberate lock in

Ok, so maybe it means no app store, but general rx/tx between an Android & Apple Watch is far from a difficult task, if Apple wanted that.

They don't and that is the problem
No, Stability isn't getting 99.99% of the money people are making from Stable Diffusion. Their (lack of a) business model is the problem.
Exactly. By changing the composition all the time of the CPI you're underreporting inflation. We all know about shrinkflation being common as well but shitflation is the worst one of them all because now you can't even spend a few more cents for the quality your favourite products have been turned into shit by means of substituting ingredients, worse customer service, tricks like subscription seat-heaters and so on.
One of example of many is dairy products. The common yoghurt brands in my locale have started taking all the fat out of their so-called yoghurt, adding thickening agents and in a very small font labelling it 'low-fat'. Well that's not really yoghurt which is milk+culture is it? I can see why Germany has their beer purity law maybe a yoghurt purity law is in order too.
Because of the possibility that the leaders will change - or change their opinions - in the future, the only safe course of action is to express no opinion whatsoever.
Wait you're telling me you can't make the next trillion dollar industry by incinerating capital while making no money?
3D animation of Conway's Game of Life using time as the z-axis
And inflation is a result of an increasing money supply, which if it were not the case the poor would be absolutely subjugated.
And that's why these social media networks ruined the internet. Companies like Facebook forced "real identities". Now suffer everyone for giving in.
> Also an interesting case: Automattic seems like a company that's set up to resist enshittification. But all those theme and plugin authors with profit motives are not, which has about the same effect as if Automattic was ruining the platform for short term profits.

What??!? Automattic took VC money. Not those small time plugin and theme authors who are trying to make a living by doing open source. When those smaller plugin and theme authors want to exit the business, they sell their businesses to people who are inside the WP space instead of investment funds or VCs. They keep things inside the ecosystem.

Whereas the 'not enshittifying' Automattic is trying to get money out of its entire ecosystem by doing a lot of shady things - from flooding google with plugin listing links that go to wordpress.com instead of wordpress.org so that those who want to use plugins will have to buy the $300/year Automattic hosting plan instead of being able to download the plugin from wordpress.org and use it at a $5 dollar hosting that they could get from anywhere. All the Automattic plugins are full of popups for upsells and upsold features too.

Its amazing how people have a lot of grand-standing opinions without accompanying levels of information.
I think one part that’s missing from this narrative that’s otherwise solid is that the Clinton administration raised taxes while simultaneously expanding globalization (NAFTA, expanded ties with China).

Nowadays, we’d be raising taxes while globalization is contracting. On-shoring is inflationary, because the same goods as before cost more.

Raising taxes in an inflationary environment is scarier than raising taxes in a deflationary environment.
'Just kidding' refers to what's above it. Sorry for the confusion; it wasn't intended but I can understand it.
I think the idea of implanting proprietary software in someone's brain is terrible, but this is really heartwarming and very worth watching the whole way through:

I think I lost it at his monkey-banana-smoothie joke. (Background: when they are training monkeys, banana smoothie can sometimes be used as a reward.)
I thought (still do) OP was being sarcastic too and I was just playing into it.
> Really sad to see. Emad pivoting to posting crypto nonsense on twitter made me think the writing is on the wall for Stability

Open-source AI is a race to zero that makes little money and Stability was facing lawsuits (especially with Getty) which are mounting into the millions and the company was already burning tens of millions.

Despite being the actual "Open AI", Stability cannot afford to sustain itself doing so.