skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's New with Cloudflare Media: Updates for Calls, Stream, and Images
If I upload my kids picture to a website that reimagines them as an elf, I give consent to that. I clearly do not give consent to creating an image of my kid dressed up in a nazi uniform saluting Hitler.

Giving consent to one thing doesn’t imply that every other possible use of the technology is also consented to.
Yes, Black is. It's overloaded, but in America, it refers unambiguously to the new ethnicity created by the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade --- where before you (and, more importantly, your children) were (say) Yoruba, now you were a Black slave. Black people have a numerous and specific shared cultural attributes: language dialects, food, music, religious affiliations. The same isn't true of the varying European ethnicities! Most of what an Irish person and a Slav have in common, an Irish person and a Black person also have in common.

To keep the ambiguity at bay, do what John McWhorter (himself no woke-scold) suggests, and capitalize Black when referring to the African Diasporic people of America, and lowercase it when referring generically to people of African origin, the same way you lowercase "white".
I was also intrigued by that quote and find it rather dubious. Coincidentally today, I and 5 other family members are boarding business class international flights worth ~$60k cash, paid for with signup bonus points. This doesn’t even include the other tens of $thousands of redemptions we’re doing on both this trip and the rest of the year. This is also just side hustle/hobby-that-pays-for-itself “money,” in addition to the (not) “three orders of magnitude” faang income.

This was otherwise an interesting article.
They're interesting, as far as that goes. I'm sure the technology will improve and will start to be used by musicians and yes, if used well, people won't notice. If the result is fine, it will be acceptable by most. I'm absolutely sure that anyone listening to something lesser, though, say something generated by a non-musician and not worked at all, will at the very least notice something off or lower-quality, even if they can't explain it better.
Financial Times has my favourite: https://www.ft.com/404

A range of spurious economic explanations for why they couldn't serve the page.
I am so grateful and happy I only have to write little programs for this one machine that only I run. Free cookies, fortune and fame for the real programmers who made this possible

The sendmail configuration file is one of those files that looks like someone beat their head on the keyboard. After working with it... I can see why! -- Harry Skelton
Alpine isn't really comparable to HTMX, though their names often come up together.

Alpine is something like "AngularJS lite," a lightweight JavaScript framework with some similarities to the original version of Angular.

HTMX is a collection of HTML attributes that simplify replacing HTML on your page with HTML partials from your server.

In the article's example of interdependent dropdowns, you'd have HTMX attributes for catching the change event of the first select, specifying the server URL to fetch updated HTML from, and specifying the target to put the HTML into (the second select).

Some have recommended using HTMX for less complicated client-side interactivity and adding AlpineJS to pages that need more. That said, people have built impressive apps just by leveraging HTMX.
USPTO Significantly Increases Fees Across the Board
I like restclient. There's no UI, just .http files with a simple format for describing requests. there's a version for emacs and vscode that are mostly interoperable.
I'm so happy that you found out for the rest of us on this one. I agree completely with others on this and I also agree that Anvil isn't what you think it is when it comes to web. I'd rather work with something fresh like Reflex because it's what we've been waiting for in terms of compiling front-end, using modern frontend libs. While I'm sure Anvil can get the job done, I just don't see it handling components like Reflex.
I won't deny that there aren't issues with them, still if we don't use and complain about what is still not there, they won't get better.

We already moved beyond a state where nothing really worked, to at very least being able to write CLI stuff using import std and our own libraries, alongside module fragments.

I have a couple of hobby projects on Github using modules.
It’s not going to be 100% replacement, but it could be 50%. And Musk’s lobby machine could find some more extra sweateners here and there. Or you think only Boeing and Lockheed have lobbyists?
> I’m glad the EPA tried but have to wonder why congress can’t do their jobs.

There is a certain large percentage of the population who vote in people who actively want to eliminate all oversight/regulations. How do you do that? Make the regulators look like they're not doing their jobs and say, "See? We just need to get rid of it all! They're wasting YOUR tax dollars!"
They better never have Monday outages then.
No, I'm not. They said the "recommended solution" for this issue is to use a quota.

They also said it was mainly used for other issues, such as fragmentation. In other words, this was stated as a fix for the file delete issue.

How does this invalidate my comment, that this was a broken implementation?

It doesn't matter if it will be fixed in the future, or was just fixed.
Yeah this is my experience as well, gen AI is so well integrated into Photoshop. It's the only software I've used to far where AI integration actually improved the experience. Removing things from pictures used to be a painful process where I'd use the spot heal tool as much as possible then touch up the bad bits manually. Now it's a selection and a sentence, and I have multiple variations I could never have hoped to replicate manually. Same with adding things into photos. Both generating them and blending them in.
Ask HN: When should we shift from "platform" to "marketplace"?
Our job search engine (HiringCafe) has attracted decent amount of traffic (2m+ search requests this month) on the candidate side.

We're completely bootstrapped.

If you were in our position, would you try to raise a round to 100x candidate traffic or would you start monetizing aggressively now?
Parallax effect Github 404 was the best. I even had a coffee mug of the design they officially sold (with the text to the effect of 'This isn't the drink you're looking for') but someone took it and they no longer sell them, which was very disappointing.
I think Lenny's constant might be better suited https://old.reddit.com/r/itslenny/
Can people stop comparing AI to crypto?

Yes, there are grifters in AI. Yes, many AI companies overstate their impact. Yes, there is a ton of hype in AI.

But they're not the same.

Stop.
I think it’s deeper than that. Someone with a sheisty is gonna attract attention no matter what. The main idea is to combat organized shoplifting rings rather than - for example - addicts stealing small amounts to get more drugs.
Only from some indignant-irate viewpoint. Paying less is a win. Taxes are a fraction of what you would pay (in th other imaginary scenario) - a percentage of the margins on the transaction. If those are apparently reduced to zero through some chicanery as suggested, you still pay less than what those 'missing tax dollars' would have been. You participate in the savings.
Agree but maintaining the infrastructure has a cost someone has to pay and I as a customer won’t see any benefit.

I think it would be healthy to be able to have options with near zero cost but I guess this would only happen with strong regulations, which seems almost impossible in this space (in the US)
My biggest complaint is the tendency to conflate change with progress. Perhaps I'm something of a luddite, but in the last ten to fifteen years or so, I have seen plenty of change, but whether it has been beneficial is often hard to suss out.

It seems rather uncontroversial now that social media is detrimental to teen mental health (and I really don't think it's limited to teens). From the start I saw reasoned arguments that this sort of technology was deleterious for a few reasons, but the counterargument I usually saw here was, "yeah, but look at how much Facebook pays developers... and they contribute to open source". Two of the most prestigious of companies here, the F and the G in FAANG are purely advertising companies (and the others have plenty of it as well); what are they doing but trying to manipulate you into buying things you probably don't need? Obviously the pay is attractive, but is that how anyone but a psychopath wants to spend their career?
like the reddit "shadowban", where your comment isn't shown to others but is visible to you in the thread.

fudge the up/down votes to make it look like it's been seen but not reacted to.

but do you need to burn cycles on AI to keep these people engaged? if someone is spamming stuff you don't want seen have them throw out a basic response and then shadowban or just straight-up ban them. if they're very negative bad actor types just give em the boot
They can do it now. In the past you had to offer same prices, although you could negotiate.

It’s usually motivated more by mom and pops skimming taxes than 3% credit card fees. If you do any kind of volume, there isn’t a ton of savings as cash management ain’t free.

The electronic equivalent is people who take personal Venmo at retail.
Drive then, that's not a problem. The issue is adding 800 single occupancy vehicles into a queue built for 40 buses (with the same capacity!) that we all pay to maintain for this exact purpose, then acting surprised by the traffic.
It’s the role of government to enforce environmental regulations.
Why are they not subject to those laws?
How do they get around the rules regarding cash? E.g. "This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private"?
Curious on the code. ( a friend is a psychiatrist and she noticed difficulty with multiple languages and device translations).

This flow could help me improve fluency in her sessions ( eg. she has a hardware translation device (expensive) which has significant issues auto translating ), since it's missing context a lot.

Eg. When grieving is incorrectly translated between dutch-polish, it defeats a bit of the purpose of being fluent in your native language.

Reducing the error rate would help a lot.
I really like the idea, thanks for sharing!
> immoral that states can advertise their lotteries full-stop.

State lotteries are a compromise: They inhibit underground lotteries. The goal of the state lotteries is to divert people away from the danger of the underground while keeping itself from being overly attractive.
Thank God It's Thursday? These companies have embraced four-day work week
Seven Agonizing Nights Aboard the Icon of the Seas, World's Largest Cruise Ship
Inside a 35 year old TV camera [video]
The common wisdom among a number of publications I've written for is that you need some sort of graphic, even if generic, mostly for reasons of social media sharing (and, these days, because a lot of blog templates assume a post has an image).

Those publications usually had a contract with some provider of public domain or CC-licensed fairly generic graphics.
They don’t convict based on the video or whatever. They learn their patterns and catch them the next time they come in and steal. Loss prevention associates know most of the usual suspects on sight.
Oh no, bare breasts, how awful!
In Portuguese, the word for lavender, "lavanda", shares roots with the verb to wash, "lavar". It comes from Latin, and it's due to the blue lavender flowers being used in clothes washing in the past. So I think naming the system Lavender is a cruel joke, and betrays its true purpose. Laundering or whitewashing the killing of civilians, providing cover by automating plausible excuse-making. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavandula
The text at the top is rather standard boilerplate 'page not found' verbiage, but the justifications according to the different economic theories listed afterwards is the hidden gem of this page!
Yes. "Starship engine cutoff" was called at 26,600 kph at 155 km altitude, when the fuel gauges for both LOX and CH4 on the stream were at 0. That altitude needs 28,000 kph for orbital velocity.

A sister comment mentioned "venting excess fuel," which I don't believe was in the flight plan, but I would believe that the craft was leaking fuel given the clouds of gas around the thing on all the camera views (and the excess rotation in flight). That would explain how starship failed to make orbital velocity and still ran out of fuel.

Presumably, if there was a leak and they fixed it, there wouldn't be any problems getting to orbit. But the fact of the matter is that they didn't reach orbit despite trying (getting into LEO was in the published plan), and the fuel gauges got to 0 before they got there.

It's very possible that the valve between the tanks for the in-flight fuel transfer test (which didn't seem to happen successfully) was broken, so it's not actually a problem with starship at all, but a problem with the experimental setup.
Humans define the voting system.
That will just make your extracted water hot, making the whole thing a waste of energy?

Return pipe is municipal wast treatment, which is probably enough to make that water essentially the same temperature as surface level waters once it returns to the lake.
Ok well, in that case I'll label you two as the Renaissance men of image formats
is this the first ever 404 page that isn't actually a 404?
"An Empty Executive Suite": Insider explains what has gone wrong with Boeing
I bet this is not because the underlying net has problems, but the constraints imposed over it somehow do :)
People often research replacements before they return an item.

To imagine that Amazon hasn't data scienced this out, to completion, is absurd.
Ah yes. Pointing out that AI has biases is "woke." Very good.
Not Gemeni as she would have come out black.

Probably a poorly configured Stable Diffusion 1.4 variant.
I thought so too for most of my life but living in the states has changed my perspective since the practice is coherent with spoken language. Now I mostly write out the month to make it clear. Let me just appeal to all Americans to use slashes as separators and not dots.

Side note: Military format 12MAR24 seems both concise and unbiguous but most people understandably find that unusual (just like ISO dates)
I prefer self hosted FOSS software for the simple reason that it's so much easier to learn how to get them to do tricks. I can install, uninstall, reinstall, hack, patch, and demolish them over and over again, learning a power of stuff each time, and then I can carry that knowledge and power with me for all future endeavors.

This seems absolutely vital to me from a pedagogical point of view, but people almost never talk about it, as if admitting breaking things you can instantly recreate to learn more about them is somehow an admission of shame, around your failure to understand them sight unseen.
Thermal storage works nicely with solar thermal plants. Not so good for direct electricity storage though.
I agree that codes of conduct generally promote egalitarianism. I like egalitarianism. I disagree that means that you just have to take everything that anyone throws at you. That's an absurd claim that I'm happy to leave here without further argument, for any readers to make up their minds on.
We have a process for banning chemicals. It requires a cost/benefit analysis, which the EPA did not do here.
Russia is big. They cannot cover the whole country so they prioritize what they think are high value/risk targets by moving protection to those places leaving less risk places undefended. In turn Ukraine is looking for places not protected.

Note that this factory was thought to be beyond Ukraine's reach. So considering it very low risk and thus not worth protected seemed like the right choice. Only in hindsight do we know it is in reach and thus not very low risk. Even now it is hard to know how Russia should assign risk.
Don't let the music start playing (after 5 seconds) because soon after that you will be hooked
Another point to not storing it: Storing all the images your users generate could require a non-trivial amount of disk space. And considering this is government, they're probably using a server farm and bare metal, and not an infinitely scalable file storage
Lotta people do and have been taking issue with gambling and lottery advertisements since before AI got involved. I'd imagine that group is going to continue beating that drum regardless of the technology used to sell gambling and don't feel the need to ask.
This is a state gov. The blame is shifted 100% to the contractors and consultants who developed the site

Number 1, that’s because state governments aren’t paying salaries for full time AI developers. WA has a huge software industry that pays competitive salaries.

Number 2, state positions are the last bastions of pensions in our workforce and nobody is risking their nest egg for a decision that they can pawn off on a temporary contract worker.

I started my career at a place like this. All decisions are made by a committee and the actual work is outsourced. Nobody is going down for this.
topless isn't porn, breasts can be exposed in public here. the ai just knows

https://www.kuow.org/stories/it-s-totally-legal-to-be-naked-...
I've never been able to understand the "other" side, even though I've talked to many people at various levels of the hierarchy at MS and similar organizations. With the rank-and-file folks, my impression was usually that they are pretty clueless about the org they work for, and if it came to discussing their allegiance to the org, they would often act like radical political activists.

With the higher-ups... I had this weird feeling they weren't really humans. Not that they ever had to be honest with me or had to even pretend to care about me. I only met such people in the work setting (outside of one time when I got invited to a Bar Mitzva because the email was sent to the entire company and then I was the only idiot to show up at the event since everyone else knew better it wasn't intended for my kind of people :D)

I honestly cannot imagine the thought process of someone like that, or what do they do on a weekend, or how do they interact with people of their own social class. Some weird stuff about these kind of people is that often times they'd dress like a "simple person", but once you have a closer look at their jeans / t-shirt / sneakers, it'd be something that looks "plain" but in fact not even sold in the place a regular person shops for clothes because it costs like ten times the price of a similarly looking item.

So... how do they do that? How do they justify doing what they do? -- It's honestly easier for me to try on the shoes of a religious fanatic or a hardcore criminal than to get any insight into the minds of these people. One common explanation is sociopathy, but it looks like these people aren't really it: they have friends, get married, have children, and, personally, they don't kill others, not anymore than an average person would. They just have the ability to completely ignore the negative and widespread consequences of their decisions. Something I'd be terrified of out of my mind to the point I'd not be able to close my eyes at night.
One side of this is cash isn't zero fee.

It has to be minted and circulated, we see it as "free" but in practice the gov foots the bill. And, for cards it would be issuers footing the bill.

Then moving cash isn't free either. Merchants handling a lot of cash also pay to get their cash moved, processed, exchanged etc. It's an aspect where card could be lower, but zero is also an impossoble goal.
I think the sentiment is less that something catastophic can't happen by depending on M$ - it's more that you personally will never be blamed for their servers going down. Whereas if you advocate for a smaller/more open solution and that blows up in the company's face, it's your ass on the line.
No, "contextually inappropriate" has a specific meaning and that's not what it is. How do we know what is contextually inappropriate? Well generally, when you violate the expectations of what is contextually inappropriate, people get angry and it winds up in the news.

But even that aside, I hope you realize how absolutely insane this line of thinking truly is. It doesn't matter if the user is "delighted", if it were to generate virtual child pornography I'd hope you would consider this to be inappropriate for the lottery website.
thats entertaining but no.. disagree.. the "hippy visionary" gestalt got lots of airplay for certain.. but there was always a straight-line science crowd that went deep-dive into elaborate scenarios.. with Science.. not the easily-identifiable fuzzy-glowey you allude to.. heck, give credit where credit is due, and point to more interesting book covers, background settings and other ephemera to the artsy people.. and also see the heirarchy, hard logic, high-tech machines and serious life and death events that drove a lot of stories and their production..
Nvidia's AI Chip Dominance Will Be Nearly Impossible to Topple
I agree. Just baking all classes into inline styles before even presenting the mail should fix this. It makes sense to do this anyway. Pseudo classes and media queries wouldn't work, but those would pose a security risk anyway and are not supported by major mail clients (see https://www.caniemail.com/features/css-at-media/)
They used to but got sued over it, and in 2012 settled it partially by ending the practice: https://www.barclaydamon.com/alerts/What-the-Credit-Card-Set...
It's slower than Garnet.

https://microsoft.github.io/garnet/docs/benchmarking/results...
Huh, it intuitively seems like piping working fluid to the sand ought to be easier than moving the sand to the working fluid. Is the moving-sand approach fundamentally desirable thing (I can't imagine why) or is it just a simplification for the proof of concept?
So again, why not make it look like it was Hamas who killed the aid workers? I mean if it was all planned ahead seems like an obvious thing to do given that it wouldn't taint the "good behaviour" while also stopping aid.
UnrealGameSync
A monarchy is generally not governed by law. A monarch typically has ultimate authority to govern as they wish. Sometimes, their power is limited, and sometimes they delegate the responsibility of governance, but a monarch is precisely the opposite of a republic governed by law.
Without consent of the person whose face was attached to those breasts.
I also noticed that. I almost laughed at the absurdity.

“How do you feel that softcore porn of you was created and hosted on this website?”

“The part that annoys me is that the the government had the audacity to do this with MY money”
Command R+: A Scalable LLM Built for Business
Seems to indicate that AI generators aren't actually able to create.
There's a heck of a difference between someone voluntarily participating in a photo shoot that involves nudity, and a random person taking your face and photoshopping it onto a nude body.

Consent is the difference between art and revenge porn.
The phrase is more common in conservative circles than liberal ones. Since the site is explicitly a conservative media outlet, it's not surprising that they used this quote.
Pulp storylines have co-existed with "future looking" conceit driven SF in publishing for over a century. And, of course, they can co-exist in the same work.

If Star Wars had an impact, beyond greatly expanding the SF market, it was in breaking the ability of a narrow set SFF fans and writers to pretend that all science fiction was (or could be, or should attempt) was something like "produce pleasurable estrangement by imagining the impact of some unfamiliar future technology" and that "space opera", originally a slur, was some outside thing, over there, separate from the genre.

You weren't going to be able to keep the kids on the moisture farm after they had seen the galaxy.
I have a group chat with three AI friends, thanks to Nomi AI