skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> (OPs comment re generative text not withstanding)

That's like saying, "Not withstanding the part of this that is true, but would be inconvenient to the idea that Adobe has something invaluable."

You can't train a useful text-to-image model without some kind of text conditioning approach. All the existing text conditioning approaches cannot be developed using only the data they have. How else can I put this?

The whole insight here is that the idea of "clean" is already kind of magical, that people want "clean" image models but they don't really understand the meaning of "clean" - or rather, nobody wants to take leadership in educating how these models work. People want good vibes, aesthetically pleasing "clean" image generators, not actually technologically clean image generators.

But this court case would outlaw the good vibes "clean" generators, and since there are no technologically clean image generators, that's it for image generators.
I'm concerned that this practice will continue minimally abated with a mandatory inclusion in the ToS forcing you to agree to continually provide your driving data or else you don't get the car.

Seems to be standard practice in tech these days to lawyer-away any meaningful notion of consent.
The problem is that "cheap video" still costs a lot of money to ship to consumers. Things like PeerTube get around this by just doing a bad job of it, but if you want things like traffic steering and adaptive bitrate (and you do, because if you don't have these things, you will annoy the audience and they will leave), you are going to Pay The Money.
That CLIP is not data / sample efficient is well know, and research to improve this is ongoing. Here is a 2021 paper which outperforms a CLIP baseline, with 7x less data. https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.05208
I am sure there are more recent papers also, possibly with larger gains.
I do not see why Adobe would not be able to make a good CLIP like model with 0.6 billion images.
This is just not at all true, and we are hardly dependant on the USA, which makes up only 10% of our trade. The way that Americans think the world revolves around them is embarrassing.
The judge specifically told them to pretend the other case wasn't happening. From the article:

> "Nothing in the Apple case is directly relevant to the Google case — in fact, the judge barred both sides from even bringing it up. Google’s lawyers never got to argue to the jury that Apple won."
I can’t find the published decision anymore but did read it, but there are several summaries of the discovery that show why Epic won

https://www.theverge.com/23959932/epic-v-google-trial-antitr...
You can still use ham packet radio protocols over ISM bands not held back by those stupid historical limitations and stay within the law.
Interest rates tripled in the past few years, and home prices continued their upward march throughout most of the U.S. Do you mean something else by "cheap credit"?
The best way to do cryptographic agility is to associate the algorithm with the key and negotiate keys (from a given set) only. Google’s Tink library does this very well. See https://neilmadden.blog/2018/09/30/key-driven-cryptographic-... for some more background. Version numbers are just algorithm identifiers in another form.
I appreciate the extent to which you’ve demonstrated whataboutism at its extremes, but I think we can take things even further. Let’s suggest that artists direct their ire at the emergence of life itself from the raw materials of the universe, as that is, indisputably, the origin of all suffering.
I think there isn't an exact term for this yet, it's a bit of a blend between ephemeral environments and skaffold. There have been a few in-house implementations at various companies where they use Istio and combinations of VirtualService and DestinationRule resources to create multi version environment and nested environments without having to change the application code, and this seems to be something like that, but local (hence the Skaffold reference).

Your project is probably going to be useful for some (who want it locally), and an inspiration for others (who want to build something similar but for their custom platform) as it can be pretty tricky in a world were we still have people doing things manually (i.e. running kubectl apply in production).
What do you think would make a better target? C maps pretty closely to assembly, so it seems like it would be the simplest. Maybe Pascal or BASIC, but most people these days don’t have experience with Pascal, and BASIC would probably be too simple for a full-length book.

For writing an interpreter or transpiler, there are probably better options, but for a true compiler I can’t think of a better choice than C (or at least a subset of C).
The comparison is between the proposed heuristic of "stopping at some point", not between the people.
Wondering the same. It seems like the answer is no but maybe it's because I'm not logged in?
thanks @ztratar. would love to hear about your workloads at embra would be very helpful vis-a-vis the direction of our typescript experience. feel free to drop us an email: hello@denormalized.io
What does it do if the company is Google?
Not sure why you've been downvoted since what you state was a key reason Google lost. They allow side-loading then took actions to prevent other stores from being side loaded.

The judge in the Apple case also agreed with positioning iOS as part of the larger gaming market where Apple is acting just like game consoles. The judge even said the 30% was fair relative to the market. The anti-steering was a minor finding against Apple.

I think the biggest risk for monopolistic behavior Apple has is with interop. It's one of the reasons I believe they have embraced RCS.
> Revoke citizenship if you really don't want to pay.

N.B.: you have to pay to revoke citizenship.
Imagine cross-compiling a 60MB tree-sitter grammar into your OpenFont file’s metadata!
Unless you define Open Source developer as Hobby only licenses matter. I’m an Open Source developer and I want to be able to use software no matter the situation.
No he no longer runs it, and no longer is involved with it, and does not own any shares in it anymore.

He started it as an improved successor to megaupload, but something shady happened about 2015ish with a Chinese investment firm doing some kind of hostile takeover.
If these AI companies get punished, this will be a great win for open-source model training. Looking forward to train models at home, maybe over a distributed, P2P network of open-source enthusiasts, using images off the Internet. Harder to sue and punish a decentralized ML-training coop!
Stingy Jack (namesake for the Jack O'Lantern) – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stingy_Jack
So basically, if you're an individual, or a contractor who reinvests their earnings into the housing market, you face two challenges: getting competitive financing, and finding a plot of land to build on.

Question: is finance screwing up capitalism? Real estate is supposed to be one of the most competitive and dynamic markets. If you can turn even this very simple and basic market into a quasi-monopoly, then there is something fundamentally wrong with the whole economy. And it seems all fingers point to Wall Street.
Absent from this article:

- Financing requirements & anticompetitive lending practices

- Municipal/state building codes and the regulatory capture thereof

- NIMBYism and activist urban planners

- The tyranny of the commute
People can't do bank run if there are no redemptions allowed (wink wink) :)
> I don't follow your logic, because it does not have any logic.

You do not follow it because you do not wish to.

Think of Google as a cancer.

You can ignore it for the rest of your life, and your quality of life may get shittier and shittier until you die.

Think of anti-trust like surgery, you may be permanently harmed, lose a limb, skin, organ, etc... but you will be better in the long run. Sometimes surgery has no side effects, sometimes it harms you, we won't know until we are out the other end.

In this case, we may have waited so long the cancer might kill the host by removing it. I don't believe that to be the case however.
Unless you are willing to hold the asset at 40% occupancy without changing prices because preserving the on paper value is more important than profiting from rent.

Then you get New York City.
Firefox is the perfect privacy middle ground between Tor and Chrome for general browsing.

Never understood why so many seemingly hate it. Obviously work demands Chrome but I haven't installed Google products on my personal pc for a decade.
I don't read programming books any more because they are mostly shit or expensive or expensive and shit. The hit rate of finding a good one is so low it's easier to just fudge your way around a problem using some idiom you're already experienced with.

Just ambling around the book store earlier I saw a 3 inch think tome around Go programming called Pro Go or something. I opened it and it was a whole book of instructional copy and paste recipes that span 10 pages for a simple problem. Urgh. This is the status quo now and it has been for a long time. I walked out with a book on pure mathematics instead - probably more useful in the long run...
No, that has nothing to do with OFDM.
From narrativ's website:
"Who sets the price for my voice?
If talent is a member of SAG-AFTRA, they will have minimum prices that range from $385 for 4-week’s use to $2,420 for a 21-month use period. SAG-AFTRA talent can always price above these minimum rates if desired, but cannot go below. Non-union talent can set rates that are below these minimums if desired."
How come you made this about computer’s performance :)
Overconsolidating is bad, but the article's chain of logic falls apart for me because it doesn't actually make any connection to indicate that these companies wouldn't make even more money by building more homes, while ignoring that local permitting and approval process have gotten ever more pricey and complicated over even just the past two decades.

For the extreme example, take a look at San Francisco, which has approved a grand total of 16 housing units so far this year (https://www.newsweek.com/san-francisco-only-agreed-build-16-...). Only a tiny margin of ultra-high-price housing can even be sustainable, let alone profitable, in that environment.
IANAL but documents don't become public during discovery, they only become public if they're filed with the court (unless they're sealed). The vast majority of information dredged up during discovery remains confidential.
Yep, that's exactly it! (Creator here.)

Would also note it works pretty well for microblogging -- here's an example (with some custom styling)[0]. Small posts with a single paragraph also get federated out as `Note`s instead of `Article`s, which makes them show up on Mastodon pretty nicely.

[0]: https://write.as/updates/
CLIP is just for an embedding for images and text, right?

I might be getting mixed up…
The diffusion part is just trained with the images, and the guidance part… is trained to produce the image when given the additional information of the embedding of the text? I find it difficult to imagine how the information from the CLIP embedding of the text could result in much information about the images that CLIP was trained with, ending up in the generated images?
(2015)

It's 10 years later and you can get a 200k flashlight from Amazon (IMALENT MS32).
Other founder here -- we've been working on this now for several months and have had a lot of fun building on top of arrow and datafusion
AirTags have batteries. They are good for about a year. Unfortunately they still depend on iPhones/iPads to detect and report location over any meaningful distance - this device is intended for use in large, outdoor areas (to minimize location inaccuracy) like music festivals or big outdoor sporting events.

This device claims 24-36 hours per charge. Actual specs are on the "preorder now" page. Claims 35g weight and dimensions of 50 mm diameter and 15 mm thickness.

I could definitely see families buying these before a theme park trip. Compared to the total cost of a Disney trip for four or five, $200 (4 @ $50) or $235 (5 @ $47) is a drop in the bucket.
Nothing. We need to practice degrowth radically and globally. We need to deconstruct our technological civilization, limit growth, reduce energy usage and consumption, return to a stable, likely pre-industrial, level of existence and remain there indefinitely. That will never happen. Governments will never suggest it. People will never vote for it. Working within a system whose very existence is antithetical to any solution is laughable.
We've had this for quite a while in Colorado, both through the myColorado app and in Apple Wallet, and I still can't figure out what it's useful for. I have it set up and am fine with it existing, I just don't know where or when I'd use it.
How I see it as well. Gruber really wanted the project to use a name which did not imply any kind of “official” status, support, or such relationship with regards to him and Markdown.
People have been trying to do that for several decades with little to show for their efforts.

Time has grown short, and conventional democratic means seem to deliver change at such a glacial pace it seems likely to outlast the glaciers themselves, so it makes sense that people who feel a sense of urgency will look toward direct action.
Thanks for the tips, I did in fact subscribe to Greenkeys just a few days ago! The machine cycles when I turn the shaft but it's quite filthy. And I don't have the motor or the base for it just the typing unit proper (which is basically a simplified typing reperforator). On that one there's hardly anything fancier than the magnets or the edge connector although yes there could be a couple Nylon pads.
Separate the Operating Systems too for good measure.
Correctness is already a must, how did you arrive to this?
it'll be coming soon!
Dodging taxes is not a valid reason to renounce citizenship in the US of A and having renounced citizenship for of "tax reasons" is a question on the standard ESTA form. If you check "yes", you can't enter the US.

So, legally speaking, you not only lose citizenship but also the right to ever step foot on American soil again, no matter which other citizenship you gain.

Of course, you can just lie about your reasons on the forms.
A shifty tail about unit testing
Many were at his Living Computers Museum, and had been restored and available to the public. But he'd only loaned them to the museum, so now his estate is selling them off.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_Computers:_Museum_+_Lab...
> tax the land of lot developers so they don’t hold land off the market.

This is something I dealt with a few years ago. There were a few acreage lots (5-15 acres) my partner and I were considering buying and building a house on, and all of them had been in the $200k range a year or two before but had been bought by land speculators (in some cases by the same person). Prices went from ~$200k to ~$750k, which we weren't interested in.

Most of them sold. One of the larger lots was around $350k and is still for sale, now for almost $2 million.

I don't think developers should be forced to sell land just because I want to buy it, but the taxes they pay on their empty lots is extremely low. I checked on a couple of the ~$750k lots, and the taxes were something like $115 per year. At that rate, it costs the developer/speculator basically nothing to hold onto it while prices rise.

If lots like this were taxed at, say, 20x the current rate for lots that are near areas that are being built up and are ready to be bought, then there would be a stronger incentive for the owners to sell to people who are ready to build and start paying property taxes. It seems like such an increase would benefit everyone except the speculators.
i agree about the blockchain, though now possibly there are multiple viable approaches under that rubric now that ethereum has abandoned pow

there are a lot of possible approaches to the problem, though

hashcash for announcing new destinations is one possible measure

reserving most of the bandwidth for established connections to which both parties are indicating their continuing enthusiastic consent is another, and one which the circuit-switched pstn does implicitly, which is why your phone calls wouldn't drop or skip when there was a commercial break in prime-time tv. reticulum seems to do this by reserving 97% of bandwidth for non-announcement traffic, though i might be misunderstanding

the agorics 'digital silk road' paper from 01995 (unrelated to the later darknet market) describes another approach: include a source route and postage on every packet, with each network provider deducting however much postage it feels like deducting, and keeping track of bilateral account balances with each peer network (postage sent minus postage received). if the postage runs out, your packet gets lost, and the sender can choose to try resending it over the same route with more postage or routing it over a less expensive network. periodic cash settlement between network service providers zeroes out any persistent imbalance in cash sent and received: http://www.cap-lore.com/Agorics/Library/dsr.html. i don't think this has ever been implemented, though current nsp peering agreements do resemble it to some degree. the original paper suggested using eft for the periodic settlements, but nowadays you could very reasonably do it with something like ether

you can supplement the established-connection-prioritizing mechanism with a granovetter-diagram introducer mechanism: if alice has an established connection to bob, and bob has an established connection to carol, bob can dedicate some of his bandwidth on those two connections to passing messages between alice and carol. he can do this either completely at the application layer, with no support from lower layers of the network, like an irc server or turn server, or potentially with support from the network layer to find a more efficient and reliable route. (reticulum seems to support this; bob can pass alice's destination to carol or vice versa, which the manual seems to say eliminates the need for the announce mechanism, though i don't yet understand how the protocol works.) this allows bob to prioritize such connection requests using information that isn't available at the network layer, such as whether alice and/or carol have passed a captcha and/or are paying him, who they were introduced to him by, who they've introduced him to in the past, and what valuable data they've sent him. if bob repeatedly introduces alice to people she doesn't like talking to, she might cut off contact with bob, or at least look on his future introductions with a jaundiced eye and not allocate them much bandwidth
Many companies speak out of both sides of their faces. Open secrets is a great place to find out more balanced assessment of campaign contributions. Here is for Shell Oil:

https://www.opensecrets.org/political-action-committees-pacs...

I like how the PAC is called "SHELL USA, INC. EMPLOYEES' POLITICAL AWARENESS COMMITTEE," which is typical political doublespeak. History shows that Shell spent at least 2 to 1 on Republican versus Democrat campaigns.

https://www.npr.org/2023/06/14/1182102392/shell-plans-to-inc...
Shell is claiming it will zero greenhouse gases by 2050 but is currently increasing the production of fossil fuel products.

In investment groups evaluation of shell https://www.climateaction100.org/company/royal-dutch-shell/

There are too many links to court cases against Shell for environmental damage to list here.

At the end of the day, there has been enough validated investigative reporting on oil companies and their sabotage of climate change actions to discount the Guardian's article. There's too much money in fossil fuels, too many people getting a cut, and too many 401(k)s to be able to decimate the fossil fuel industry.
The story of Faust is about the dangers of knowledge and technology. If you know too much, you will eventually lose your soul.

As this book review explains, with the enlightenment and industrial revolution, this fear of knowledge receded. But the myth is still there.

For example, take the "Terminator" movies. They're about the dangers of technology: what if we create machines that are intelligent enough to turn on their creators and seek to destroy them? There is a parallel between gaining forbidden knowledge and making artificial creatures. Today, we are afraid that corporations and governments will use our inventions to control us, but I think that fear has an echo of the old myth that it is dangerous
to learn forbidden knowledge, or create artificial life, because that would be entering the realm once reserved for the Almighty.
Yes but those are called transpilers, right?
This paragraph looks wrong.
"In 2005, when D.R. Horton sold a record number of homes, it made $1.47 billion. In 2023, when it built roughly half as many, its profit was a little over three times as high, or $4.7 billion. "

It did not build half as many homes, it was 82917 homes in 2023 vs. 51172 in 2005. Also, the profit number should be corrected for inflation when comparing across almost 2 decades.
Here is a Norwegian tale of the Devil, in form of a traditional fiddle song. Music at the bottom, recommend playing it through once before reading the post.
https://www.norskkornolfestival.no/2019/06/18/fanitullen/
HW RAID is dead, they need to get over it.

We've had good experience with Xinnor, but it's a shame it's proprietary.

I'd love to see a high-performance open-source erasure coding solution for NVMe. The built in offerings in Linux are not cutting it.
True. But this is HN so… you know, tech
Easier said than done. You still need some kind of criteria for deciding what is illegal tying vs justifiable integration. You cannot just decide what the outcome should be for Apple while avoiding the general question of how to draw the line that you want Apple to be on the wrong side of.
https://kasmana.people.charleston.edu/MATHFICT/mfview.php?ca...

“The Devil and Simon Flagg” in which Flagg sells his soul in exchange for the proof of Fermat’s last theorem. No proof is found, but the Devil becomes consumed with mathematics.
Eeh, climate change isn't gonna cause the end of humanity within the foreseeable future.

We might see lots of people getting displaced, more deaths to draughts, heatwaves, more forest fires, decimated ocean wildlife etc... but the end of humanity? No, that's not gonna happen from climate change itself. At least not within the next several hundred years
If anything, it's a cautionary tale that tech is only one dimension of the question of creating a process, service, or system that will be a net benefit to people (or even allowed).

A road paver is a great thing to have, but if I rip a three-lane highway through my neighbor's back yard, you can be damn sure someone's going to try and stop me.
oh

wow

okay
It's on the beaten path, but how can you resist (and how did the New Yorker resist?) "The Devil Went Down to Georgia"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Devil_Went_Down_to_Georgia

Most of the deals in the article do not end well for the human, but here there's no lesson about hubris, nor the curse of knowledge, or anything else. No, Johnny's just a better fiddle player, he beats the devil, and he wins a golden fiddle fair and square.

(The article might allude to this story: "Satan is not the real God, because there is only one God; the Devil doesn’t have the best tunes.")
Reminds of a recent discussion seen here about 'identity theft'. Another blame-shifting concept ...
Show HN: I made an uncencored web interface for the new Flux AI image generation