skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There can't be any compromise here. I think it's evil to jail people for words. The example you cited should result in a social media suspension.

Terms like "stochastic terrorism" are just linguistic tricks to fool the population into voluntarily relinquishing their civil rights.
But why is this the prevalent, default AI style across many models? Is it in the training data or is it some bias from the algorithm?

This must have some concrete answer and not just "it is the way it is"
You would think. Sadly there are plenty of people who make it their mission to circumvent whatever guardrails you can come up with.
CDNs make $$ convincing you it is.
My impression has been that in the recent years US judges have become political activists (and make rulings accordingly) rather than impartial arbiters of law, particularly in jurisdictions with significant political bias.
Back then people probably didn't even all have the same sorts of stories about their myths straight. And while we think today we are so enlightened having little faith in these things, we are more in line with these people than we might admit, the common thread being herd mentality. Consider yourself, are you an atheist because you sat down one day and came up with your own philosophy about it? Or are you an atheist because there are millions of westerners today who are also atheists and its an existing off the shelf philosophy that is easy to adopt, and you happened to fall into it? Maybe you did work it out yourself, but for many people their sensibilities and beliefs tend to fall into discrete categories already present to a good degree in a society, versus being truly novel concepts unique to them.
Is there any technique to reapply high frequency info to make stuff look realistic?
I've never heard anything to confirm this, but I've always assumed that this was a reference to the history of Ball Aerospace, with its improbable origin and evolution from a company that made glass jars and lids for grandma's rhubarb preserves.
Cisco cuts jobs, 7% of workforce, as it shifts focus to AI, cybersecurity
They need a clear ML/AI distinction on their website. E.g. why both options have a menu at the top, but the chart is only for ML (and according to the blog post it is actually now showing AI results).
Mermaid is great for simple stuff. If you want a more advanced approach where you can even have multiple levels. Lool at c4. The best way to do c4 without paying a dime I think is https://likec4.dev/

But again, for simple stuff, mermaid! It's also natively supported in a lot of markdown renderers, like gitlab
I would take the physical job any day over the leadership type manager roles if pay was the same. Way less stress and conflict. I volunteered for a sports club for the last decade plus, was president for half that. Did amazing things, hired tens of coaches etc. I have way more fun now that I've passed the torch and just help out at events. I got PTSD and burnout one particularly bad season while prez.
VB6 was not very flexible in many ways but you could get an application going in no time.

GAMBAS is the spiritual successor.
Official government login system is secured by Let's Encrypt?
I'm going to be honest: I was playing Rome II as this article came up. I didn't play Rome II right at launch, but bought it a couple years on. I play it with mods (DEI). I previously played Shogun 2 (and associated expansions) and Rome: Total War

Overall, I quite like Rome II. And for all of the (valid) criticisms which can be levied at the incomplete state, I am glad many features such as first person command of naval and emplaced artillery ultimately made it in. Due to a modding community, such features become more complete, adding dimensions to amphibious battles which were initially missing. While I do acknowledge these are in many ways labors of love by game devs (or hobbyists) I do hope that ambitiousness in features isn't ultimately abandoned in game development.

I wish there was a "refund point" way of purchasing games: purchase a partially complete game, upon successful delivery of a feature (amphibious landing, nav succes, etc.) it becomes non-refundable. I feel like this may smooth over these issues, but I ultimately know very little about the domain. At least looking 10 years back, I can say I'm happy with Rome II with mods.
Might be the first time I've actually understood CSS grid. The numbering really helped!

Great article! Will be referencing it often.
Not happening here, Kurtrand.
DALL-E's style is intentional to prevent misuse of fake but near-undetectable highly realistic images.
If you like the structured nature of deals with Other beings and the intersection of that with magic, you might really enjoy the Pact web serial and its sequel Pale by Wildbow.

They contain an exceptionally intricate and well thought through magic system in a modern "hidden world" setting.

My favorite part is how litigious it all is. Power is gained, lost, and traded through deals practitioners make with Other beings, and these are mired in details and exploitation of nuanced language and such. It even features diabolist lawyers!

https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/
No, it's not. If they're planning a rug pull, they very much care that you took effort to integrate their free offering into your infrastructure, because they care that you're sitting firmly on the rug before they can pull it.
Hardly fair when most commands don't work and you can't copy paste...
Bearblog does support themes. You can add custom CSS in your dashboard.

https://docs.bearblog.dev/styling/
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41243931
Techie told 'Bill Gates' Excel is rubbish – and the Microsoft boss had it fixed
Whilst I fully agree - you have to remember a line employee has limited incentive to take said risks as there's little to gain and a lot to lose.
Is NPR really that bad as Fox seems from outside of America?
Finally In Xsight
Fair enough. Replace "Dow Jones" with "Bancrofts" in my original comment. I was referring to the corresponding ownership change.
For those who like to read these sorts of posts through a case study lens, it's likely of interest to take a look at Mick Gordon's statement[0] on Doom Eternal.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33532078
Japan's searing summer heat is warping railway tracks more often
I googled and didn't. So citation needed.
> Example: if Chrome was separated from Google, they won't have as much of an incentive to push back against adblockers

I think your example is completely wrong. Chrome has no source of funding. If separated from Google, they will have a massively magnified incentive to cater to the whims of advertisers because they would be completely subservient to them for funding.

My understanding is that Chrome provides value to Google through intangible means like brand association and thus Chrome does not have to 100% justify its existence by enabling ads for Google, meaning that it has some funding to just be a good browser for consumers.
Dall-E at least seems to have adopted the cartoonish style just to avoid lawsuits

You can get realistic images with Midjourney and Flux with minimal prompt tuning. Adding “posted on snapchat” or “security camera footage” to the prompt will often produce mostly realistic looking images
Thousands are housed as L.A. County makes progress on Skid Row
Honestly I remember playing Rome 2 and not thinking that it was that bad. I played it for a while and thought it was really entertaining. I don't remember it being particularly buggy at launch, but being 14 I probably wasn't all that discerning.

But in any case it and Attila didn't quite grab my imagination like Rome 1 and Barbarian Invasion did, and I'm not sure why - the later two were better graphically, more realistic, had more features, but even when I've been working on my own game I still feel indebted to Rome 1. It definitely wasn't childhood nostalgia because I only played Rome 1 the year before Rome 2 came out.

Maybe it's that the lower-fidelity graphics give you more room to imagine, or every settlement being able to be upgraded to the maximum, or the lack of a region system making the world feel bigger.
The same reason that after Jobs died, it was decided that iPhones should be large enough to fit in people's pockets. Because: many engineers in tech wear cargo shorts.
I wonder what impact it will have on America's ability to operate over the next few decades. Will a lack of intelligent communicators find themselves unable to coordinate complex business? Even the simplest of enterprises at scale are quite complex.
Is it easy? Are you aware of any good tutorial content on this? I have libraries of images I'd like to feed into generative models. Think gritty, noisy stuff. I'm just not aware of how to do it.
I just edited my post and added a link to https://midlibrary.io/styles, which might give you some ideas.
Not sure how a gov org can be proud of delegating its infra to another country’s clouds service and write a post on it.
Graeco roman beliefs had historical grounding too. Mt. Olympus is a real place. The pillars of Hades were real. Cities were founded by gods and they existed right in front of people. Offerings would be made and outcomes would happen.

What was really so disruptive about christianity was the aspect of proselytization. That was new with christianity that wasn't really an aspect of judaism. And with proselytization came a need for formal organization of the faith, which served as a useful tool for government to maintain a mandate of power and quell divergent beliefs as heathen or even worthy of crusade, in contrast to synecratic greco-roman paganism.
What I don't understand is why tech companies don't believe that they can enforce a high-performance culture without return-to-office. With or without remote work, the way we evaluate one's performance has not changed, right? Then, why can't we enforce the same expectation of engineers and teams? We break down a project into milestones, and we hold teams accountable to delivering the milestones on time and on budget. The process is orthogonal to return-to-office vs WFH. If a company can't enforce the same standard just because its teams work remotely, would it say a lot about the incompetency of the company's leadership?
I heard that doordash ran a cluster serving >1M qps, there maybe still a setup at square/block where the team originated from
That is a good question. My guess is that their training data was a mix of photorealistic images and historical paintings, and thus the outcome is the cartoony style that looks somewhat realistic but not overly so.

There’s also the possibility that they avoid being too realistic for fear of deepfake scares WRT the underlying tech. And so if you want images that look realistic without being believably “real”, you’ll get something like the default aesthetic of Midjourney.
Agree with this. Just use Pydantic.
I don't think the point is how common it is, it's about a organizational model.

Linux and Postgres are not reliant on any one commercial entity being successful for their continued existence. Even many of the maintainers are not reliant: if the company/foundation Linus Torvalds is working for at the moment has to close down, someone else will pay him to keep working on Linux. And even if he couldn't personally work on Linux anymore, there are enough other people in a similar position that Linux won't die.

I'm sure there are many much smaller and more obscure projects in a similar boat, especially in academia. If the code is not dependent on a single entity for maintenance, both in terms of someone knowing it and in terms of someone paying for it, then it will naturally thrive for a very long time.
Snowden is a Russian operative, he isn't a real activist either
It's industry standard procedure to tune your model to output a consistent distinct style, to prevent malicious actors from abusing it and presenting fabricated (but very convincing) images as real.
How is there this much money in Bridgewater, VA, which is apparently a college town near JMU?
To be clear, tests when done well are incredible.

Very little in this industry is done well. Tests are one of those things.
Thanks for making me aware of X-Accel-Redirect!

The write-up discusses X-Accel-Redirect's functionality in the context of qbix. For me, the two were rather hard to tease apart in that context. So for others who feel that way, I would recommend starting with Grant Horwood's introduction to X-Accel-Redirect at

https://gbh.fruitbat.io/2024/05/12/nginx-serving-private-fil...
Yes I meant $NATIVE_LANGUAGE_OF_VIEWER, and that example didn't help me I'm afraid, I'm quite a dense one! I appreciated you checking if I meant written ASL captions. :) The example of dubs left me confused because dubs brings in an extra sense that isn't applicable in the ASL case. There, in either case, we're watching someone who isn't the character. I can't square that with the existential fervor the woman in OP felt
Snowden fled for Russia whom he protected in his selective leaking. Now he spouts off their official propaganda.
> There is a choice between very few phone manufacturers, and even less mobile operating systems.

I don't think that the manufacturer assertion is true at all. You can go to any random online store and get dozens of brands and manufacturers. It just so happens that popular demand focuses only on a hand full of manufacturers who are outcompeting everyone in the free market.

Take a look even to Android's market share. You have four manufacturers with double digit market shares, and a couple of dozen entriee. Is that what you call a monopoly?

https://www.appbrain.com/stats/top-manufacturers

The OS comment is even more badfling.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_mobile_operating...
Wow, I missed that one!
It’s been so long since I’ve even thought about it, I forgot how to spell it.
A Reminder of Precedents in Subsidizing Newspapers (2010)
This reminds me of a fun thing I hacked up at a game shop. We were implementing some new feature involving a probability distribution and were somewhat stumped on how to make sure it worked right.

Eventually I setup something simple to exercise most of these functions, as well as most other balancing code, plot their results and send the results to the balancing team a week or so. For example, using D2 terms, it would run 1M item drops at different magic find levels and plot the resulting item level distribution, graph the implemented level -> hp/mana/... curves and such.

That little thing caught so many implementation issues at first and we'd regularly have balancing poke us because someone "optimized" some code in there.
Wouldn't the compiler optimize (x-y)!=0 to x!=y? Seems like a good optimisation to me and one probably in accordance to the C standard.

It would also make it impossible to have a decent non-zero check for

if ((x-y)!=0) progress((x-t)/(x-y));
> The author does get into it more here: https://thefinancebuff.com/best-vanguard-money-market-fund-y...

Interesting, the linked article says this:

> Vanguard Federal Money Market Fund (VMFXX) is the settlement fund in a Vanguard brokerage account. You don’t have to do anything extra to buy or sell this fund. It requires no minimum investment. Any cash you transfer into your Vanguard brokerage account will automatically land in this fund.

I didn't know that. It definitely has better returns than most savings accounts. Instead of parking money in a savings account you could just leave it there until you decide whether to invest it or transfer it out to do something else with it.
Oh I see. You're just spouting nonsense and hand-waving with stats that doesn't exist.
Ah, my mistake. "Meta AI" can generate both text and images, but apparently text prompts are handled by Llama 3.1 while image prompts are handled by Emu. I initially struggled to find the name of the image generation model.
Somehow I came to think of 'Like a rolling stone'..Dylan I believe.
> none of the major banks in the US

Literally all you have to do is just stop using shitty megabanks. It isn’t even hard.
Because it's the way it is.

"It" isn't AI here. It is human mind. As an old aritst said, monkey likes shiny things.
pronounced "biz-ass?"
Glad to see the use of SLURM

The number of times I see people trying to reinvent the HPC wheel astounds me
Yeah, but money market funds pay 5.2% or whatever.
Probably Hetzner
Who cares. Either this is a GPT copy-paste or yet another employee finally realising they have zero power over their employer.

Either way, the author should consider going back to academia if they are unable to handle the reality and brutishness of the industry that Google is in. They won’t change and money talks.

This memo can be summarized as the last of the Zero Interest Rate Phenomenon (ZIRP) ideas.

This is 2024, and memos like this are an indicator that we need another market correction.
We already have no shortage of machines powerful enough to turn on us. A steel rake lying hidden in the grass for example. Everyone knows the apparent danger with these things, yet this tool has managed to infect our very ethos to the point where its potentially operator-harming design has remained unchallenged for 100 years, perhaps longer. I trust there will still be people getting smacked in the face with rakes in 100 and 1000 years from now at this rate.
I haven't been able to grasp either grid or flexbox. The last layout strategy I was decent at was floats. This article made me feel confident to use a css grid next time I am designing a layout. Well made! Thank you.
I still do wonder also in the light of Julian Assange why in the age oft the Internet one always need to worried about extradiction. Why cannot New Zealand handle the crimes or maybe Germany where he is citizen. Also in the age of the internet a remote trial should even be possible and if the US is keen on it they can pay for the prison in New Zealand. Not saying I like him or what he did. But this always seems so political.
This is a fun one:

> As far as I know, the only significant example of a “human face” gameplay feature that made it into battles was the cinematic mode that allowed players to control an individual unit from a close third person perspective. This was similar to the unit camera that existed in previous Total War games, but arguably worse because it forced the camera very close to the unit, reducing players’ tactical awareness.

> During testing it became clear that no-one was using this feature, and design leads were unhappy that a feature they had spent a lot of time on was being ignored by players. They then announced that a combat bonus would be given to units while in this camera mode in order to encourage its use, which prompted controversy with programmers arguing that the camera mode should not influence the outcome of the battle.

> Eventually design leadership settled on the following compromise: The user interface would tell players that it gave a combat bonus, but the combat bonus wouldn’t actually be applied. They wanted to explicitly lie to players in order to trick them into using an unpopular feature so that they could save face. I honestly don’t know whether a combat bonus was applied in the end, it’s possible that the button is still lying to this day.
> Why pay a fund even 5 basis points simply to build a ladder that you can build yourself?

Convenience is easily worth it.
Yeah as folks said below - Rails provides data to alpine, and alpine manages state based on initial value. But you can do regular XHR requests from alpine too, since it has regular functions which you can call
Try reading some material on deep learning; try out open source ai libs like detectron2 on cloud gpu servers. (ie colab).
Learn some python, including env set up.
Not even close. Fox has admitted in court that their programming is not journalism. NPR definitely swings left, don't get me wrong, but Fox is completely unhinged. Their own lawyers argued no reasonable person would beleive them. They're just not comparable in any rational sense.
You can make those numbers show up natively in Firefox too using the developer tools. (Not sure about chrome)
San Jose State converted a hotel into student housing in nine months
You let "hold teams accountable" do a lot of lifting.

I think whats happening is that non-technical leaders can't assess why projects aren't being delivered. No engineer is going to say "sorry I wasn't really working that hard, thats why we missed". Instead there will be some rationale as to why the project couldn't ship on time - not enough resources, incomplete spec, tech debt, whatever. Non-technical leaders want to be able to remove one variable from the equation - the cause being the team didn't put in the effort. With return to office, they can see with their own eyes if people are putting in the "time".
It's time for Satslink. I'm so done with "smart" phones.
Indeed, the difference does appear to be in how AMD does the throttling.

From the linked numberworld blog:

> Thus on Zen4 and Zen5, there is no drawback to "sprinkling" small amounts of AVX512 into otherwise scalar code. They will not throttle the way that Intel does.

This is exactly the use case I'm talking about - relatively small chunks of avx512-using code spread throughout the codebase. Larger chunks of work tend to be worth passing over to the GPU already.
CNCF is a project of the Linux Foundation - which has become absolutely massive: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/projects
Ally Savings right now is 4.2%. Their high-yield 6 month CD is 5%. Both are subject to state and federal income tax.

FDLXX 7-day yield is 4.93%. 99.5% exempt from state income tax.

The most recent 4-week treasury is 5.24%. Exempt from state income tax.

There is very very slightly more risk in the FDLXX MMF than a savings account.

I started using Fidelity as my primary "bank" years ago and haven't looked back.
I suppose because a large part of these models is recognition-probability, the shine is sort of an approximation of what is likely lighting. It isn't just the lighting that you expect but the culmination of thousands of similar yet slightly different. If you where to take a thousand photo's of someone with all manner of light angles, maybe it would look like this. Just a wild guess though.
Brit here so not exactly answering your question but I set things up so that the money is in the right place a few days before.

i.e. for simplification, try to get all bills to come out on the 1st, then make sure that $20k hits the account on the 25th. For the rest of the month it can be empty.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41258049
Huh, do you know why? Significant outflows?
I understood it as "it pings the HQ once a week".
I don't know, Kim Dotcom's Wikipedia page reads like the one of sociopath criminal that masquerades as a fighter of the people against "the man". But the dude has done some real illegal shit, beyond "just" illegal file sharing. Some examples, but go read his Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Dotcom

> Schmitz was arrested in March 1994 for selling stolen phone numbers and held in custody for a month. He was arrested again in 1998 on more hacking charges and convicted of 11 counts of computer fraud and 10 counts of data espionage. He was given a two-year suspended sentence; the judge of the case described Schmitz's actions as "youthful foolishness".

> In 2001, Schmitz bought €375,000 worth of shares of the nearly bankrupt company Letsbuyit.com and subsequently announced his intention to invest €50 million in the company.The announcement caused the share value of Letsbuyit.com to jump,resulting in a €1.5 million profit for Schmitz.

Also, that he used many of these things to enrich himself and live a lavish lifestyle does not exactly make him more likeable to me.