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Original title: "X’s new AI image generator will make anything from Taylor Swift in lingerie to Kamala Harris with a gun"

Unfortunately, HN has title length limit, otherwise this submission would probably find its place in flagkilled dustbin. It is utterly disgusting that theverge only sees and promotes unethical usage for image generators. With cropped title I expected to see something actually good/inspiring, instead I got low-quality journalism.
Founders will get much richer by exiting to employees
After thinking about this a bit, my conclusion is that it's a deficiency in the calling convention. It should specify the floating point flags as either caller saved or callee saved.
Certainly, as soon as I'm finished reading your dissertation. I've been researching this problem for a while now and it seems you have been a few steps ahead of me all along :)
meaningless is good. You can take one look and discard it. The problem is that you can't trust there aren't subtle errors though. So you still need to go everything with a fine toothed comb. If you don't, you're just sitting on a ticking timebomb. "it seems to be working" is very very different to "this does what I had in mind and it will work for all inputs"
156 x Mt. Everest
I think it's a combination of him complaining about "woke" and how those crazy lefties are an authoritarian threat (i.e. being one of these "river" people he's written about) and downplaying genocide in Gaza on Twitter.

Though he was always a controversial figure in certain circles, so there may be lingering anger over his polling averages not saying what people thought they should say.
> but if you sue too hard, you're likely to just hurt it's workers and it's customers.

Something tells me the concern is more about the current shareholders than either mentioned party.
Curious how you define low dose
Is it really possible that there's no driver that is capable of doing this in Windows? Did you look into this?

I wouldn't know because I consider all those effect libraries, mixers and presets ("Concert Hall" - who would ever want that?) that usually come with the audio chipset driver suite as bloatware and try to get rid of them, or at least never touch them - but it would surprise me if there weren't anything that affects the amount of stereo separation...?
Pension plans are nearly gone and the whole point of index funds is to weather volatility. We have unemployment to assist workers (or we would if workers had modern rights to begin with). meanwhile whole draw of market investment to everyone but the shareholders goes tits-up if failure is weathered by the market as a whole rather than the incompetent or malicious actors.

I mean, people will put up with a lot, but eventually they'll realize that the market isn't magic and its continued failure to address our the economic and social conditions can be blamed on a specific enumerable class of person.
Man you Americans really suck at math don't you? It's always "but our big population", somehow that's the excuse for everything. Shitty prison system - big population, shitty healthcare system - big population, shitty education - big population, shitty voting system - big population.

Meanwhile I've never seen anyone explain why these things can't scale. You have more people so you have more votes but you also have more people to count them. Okay so there's a few different time zones so what? That's an easily solvable problem.
I did read the whole article and based my comment on the coontents, not the title.

I think you're vastly underestimating the mental context we've gotten used to, and how hopelessly lost juniors are when confronted with such a large array of technologies that intertwine and only work in conjunction with each other.

The reason why these gigantic tech stacks exist in enterprise isn't because that's more stable, or better. It's because there are so many people working on the same software, and is hard to organize so many gears making all this tooling a necessity.

But the domain of a chat bot builder doesn't strike me as something you'll ever put multiple teams on, which was the reason for my mixed feelings.

Take a step back and look at your graph at the start of your article and imagine you've got ~1 month to introduce a junior developer to the whole tech stack. Do you feel confident that this is feasible? Because these kinds of projects almost always end up getting passed on, as they're usually not the core value products of the company
Gum Gum fruit, unlocked. Am now a Sun God.
What's the alternative? Let them keep breaking laws because they're too big to fail?

That's what makes me so angry with this stupid economic model. Once these monopolies/oligopolies are inevitably formed (after all, competition breeds monopolies), they are essentially untouchable.

I don't think there's a way to fix this within the current system.
> Whos going to pay for that?

The cost of running this year's EU election in our country where this system is used (paper ballots without any electronic counting), adjusted for the difference in median income between our country and the US, was reported to be around $15 per voter.

The 2020 US presidential election gathered 160 million votes, which would put the price of this system at $2.4 billion.

According to figures contained in a report by the MIT Election Lab [1], the cost of running a nation-wide US election is estimated to be between $2 and $5 billion.

[1] https://electionlab.mit.edu/sites/default/files/2022-05/TheC...
Nice premise but unsatisfactory conclusion.

Experimentation in these contexts is difficult to make good inferences from. I'd like to have read more about how experiments are designed to work well with uncontrolled environments, how to make inference for short-term prediction, and how to plan multiple small experiments to usefully exhaust a search space.

Still, thank you for writing. I enjoyed it. I'd love recommendations for more procedural knowledge if you have any.
Even a lot of engineer folks are way less tech savvy than you would think. Doing some pair programming makes you realize how little people actually know the tools they're working wth.
"same day 100% done" is just not possible unless things like mail-in deadlines are shifted to be "received by" instead of "post marked by" the election day.

If people want same day results, it's a heavier process change than "count faster".

With the current rules trying to cut it off in mere hours is disenfranchising valid voters.
Future interrogation of an enemy saboteur:

FSB: Where did you learn how to build mini sea drones? Which school? Who was your teacher?

Saboteur: instructables.com
Ooh, I love these points of Conventional Faith presenting itself as Reason. I would argue that most true Knowledge is actually knowing what is not true, yet commonly believed. Actually, if used wisely, you can execute arbitrages on financial markets for profit, aside from other social benefits, at the cost of appearing insane in the beginning. Peter Thiel says that almost every successful person has "secrets", i.e. things that they know about the world that fly in the face of Conventional Faith and that they therefore exploit to their advantage until it's a fait accompli. Personally, I have quite a few, which if I posted here, would get me downvoted like mad, even on HackerNews, but here are some of my LESS controversial ones:

* Cloud services like AWS actually take more time, resources, and headache to maintain than baremetal servers, whether at the scale of a few backoffice users or millions of consumers. Related: the vast majority (95%+) of apps could run on a single baremetal server and be more reliable than whatever cloud shit you use.

* Most SPAs are garbage. Unless you are building something like Figma, write backend code only, don't use a frontend framework like React, and when reactivity is needed, tie it to the backend with something like Livewire. Actually even Figma uses WASM.

* Using a framework like Laravel that makes the business logic easy is far more important than choice of a language based on its technical characteristics.

* People who are outwardly racist are often the easiest to work with, as a minority. And vice-versa, people who outwardly appear anti-racist are often masking a deeply inbred superiority complex and patronizing attitude (hello Democrats), and are the most difficult to work with unless you submit to their authority. Allowing open racism actually makes it easier for a minority to live, and I say that as a minority.

Oh I could go on but I'll stop here.
Let there be types: observable type sharing for GHC Core
So obviously there’s been a lot of legacy COBOL kicking around, but is this still the case? Would a new COBOL project have been started in the last 20 years? I kind of imagined that Java (or at least the JVM) has eaten its lunch.
if I am not doing dev work, and mostly working around web applications in the day (e.g. notion, linear, etc) - i don't want to go to open the terminal and switch focus to a different application
But how would Alpine communicate with the Rails backend? Do I have to manually map the routes url between FE and BE?
Bamboo Can Invade Your House
I love the UK Gov for being so transparent and self suficient on their digital infrastructure compared to my developed EU country where they usually just outsource it to some major consultancy, who's in bed with the politicians, which then farms it out to the cheapest bidder in Eastern Europe for 10x the amount of money it would cost to make it themselves and getting 10x worse quality, just so that taxpayer money gets funneled into the politically friendly business pockets. Privatize the profits, socialize the losses/externalities.

I remember there was a heated debate last year about greed-flation in the country as people blamed the large retailers for simultaneously jacking up prices in sync leading to much higher prices on the same goods compared to neighboring Germany and the government said "well, we could build an online price comparison system to track prices and then check the validity of these claims, but oh shucks it's probably gonna take us a few years and double digit million euros...", and then in response some guy builds it in a weekends and posts it on Github for free, showing how corrupt, clueless and scummy closed source government funded digital projects are.
Thank you!
I almost gave up because there was a lot of formatting issues when sending epub3 or kindle versions to my Kindle using Calibre. What saved me was using epub3 format and sending it through Send-To-Kindle. Now it looks terrific.
Hopefully the people running the scams will eventually just get lynched
The human body is orders more complex than LLMs and we can already use LLMs to improve anomaly detection rates for cancer.
Going through your comments I see that you answered this elsewhere, and said that videos are handpicked [0]. Congrats for the dedication this implies!

So now my question is, how do you imagine this will work going forward? Do you plan on selecting more videos indefinitely, or are you working on some search system?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41248008
I am tipping that this site will be back within the week.
> People who fear the Mark of the Beast aren't simply worried about being tracked by powerful institutions, they're looking for prophetic signs of the antichrist and Satanic one world government that their holy book says will lead to the second coming of Christ and Armageddon.

This is the "weak man" version of the argument. It goes in the book because the (relatively wise and experienced) authors wanted to warn people of the dangers of a real problem. Nutters read metaphors as literal and then people who want to discredit the argument point to the least credible of the nutters as the proponents. But you don't have to believe in The Devil to believe that authoritarians exist and have provably caused great pain and oppression throughout history.

Isaac Newton was a Christian but you don't have to believe in God to believe in gravity.

> Then ban cellphones.

The problem here isn't so much "cellphones" the abstract concept in which you have a portable computer with a network connection, as the current implementation of cellphones which are in actual fact implemented as tracking devices. Which, okay, let's also make cellphones that are actually controlled by their owners and don't act as mass surveillance devices. Sounds good.

> Unless you want to go full Kaczynski and run off into the woods to live off the grid, you can't avoid having identifiers attached to you.

There is a difference between "you have a social security number which the social security administration uses exclusively for social security and no one else uses for anything" and "you have a social security number which every corporation and bureaucracy uses as the primary key in a database to correlate everything you do in your entire life". The kind of ID systems people keep proposing are the ones that do the second one, and that's the bad one.
Great article. One question -

This is a high-throughput service, so I'm interested in whether Python is necessarily the right choice. It could be that it's a minor concern and the latency is all elsewhere in the architecture anyway. I'd be interested in opinions on here.
Background on the decommissioning of the Gov.uk Platform as a service (PAS) https://gds.blog.gov.uk/2022/07/12/why-weve-decided-to-decom...
Did you see my fairy entry?

Heavily artistic, thoughtful, and cinematic, leaning into my passion for the art of telling stories through video that I've kept close for almost 20 years now.

It lost. The judges selected the entries they felt were the best fit. The argument for this contest is that AI enabled _more_ thoughtful art to exist, not less.
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> But the public demands same day results. How are you going to overcome this issue?

This is suggestive reasoning. If you're going down that path, please provide a source for your claim, that the public demands results on the same day.
I worked for two very big banks in europe and we have lots of cobol batch jobs that were written like 30 or 40 years ago.
Ask HN: Is it possible to buy a ANSI US Laptop in Europe?
I'm trying to buy a new Laptop but apparently it's almost impossible to get a ANSI US keyboard option in Europe.

EDIT: most people think you can just switch keycaps but in fact the physical keys are different. for example the enter key is vertical instead of horizontal.

As a developer I think I'm not the only one preferring this keyboard layout over a localized version that is putting common keys in hard to reach places.

As of now I only know of Apple and Framework offering great keyboard options. All other shops from Asuz, Acer, Dell, etc. do not have any options if they even mention which keyboard the laptop comes with. Some countries have international English but not ANSI.

Is there a company specialized in importing Laptops with different keyboard options that deliver to Austria? Do I need a business account? Any tips would be appreciated.

https://www.sbsupply.eu/blog/what-is-the-difference-between-qwerty-qwerty-nl-azerty-and-qwertz
I think the author has underestimated the power of the substitution rules - it looks like it should be possible to drag a state machine along, hence recognise any regular language.
Something like the following should handle quoted strings (untested and needs every character to be listed out in the definitions of @Char, @CharQuoted and @NonQuoteQuoted):

sub Quote @Char' by @CharQuoted;
sub Backslash.quoted Backslash' by Backslash.quoted2;
sub Backslash.quoted Quote' by Quote.escaped;
sub [@NonQuoteQuoted Quote.escaped Backslash.quoted2] @Char' by @CharQuoted;

I don't know if context can be carried between different lines.
Cave paintings from 35-ish millennia ago probably count as writing.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/journey-oldest-cave-p...
> I think overall the health effects are less negative

Possible but in my case amphetamines last 4 hours (lisdex lasts 6), and make me very hungry, horny and exhausted by 7pm. Also, they feel like I am the cart and the meds are the horse, i.e. they pull me around to do stuff even when I just want to relax a little.

Nicotine on the other hand gives me motivation, focus is still a bit iffy and not as pointed as with AMPH, but OTC patches last 24 hours, are cheap and don't make me tired at all (I remove the patch 3 hours before bed). Also I can drink coffee again without feeling like my heart's exploding, which is a major plus.

It's been 2 weeks of this nicotine experiment, and I feel more like myself than a very driven machine attached to an 8 hour battery. I'm using 7.5mg patches (15mg nicorette cut in half)

My med dosage was relatively low btw, I'm pretty sensitive to amphetamines. Nicotine by itself seems to be as dangerous as caffeine.

In any case, there is a lot of research correlating between nicotine inhalation (even from second hand smoke) while in utero or in youth and ADHD. My pet, non-scientific theory is that for some, their ADHD is simply "chronic nicotine withdrawal". The fact that there are a lot more diagnoses these days might be because smoking is not in vogue any more, everybody wants to quit (rightly so), but our smoking parents permanently ruined our growing brain in childhood, as so did the past 5 generations.
My "lost in translation" remark naturally doesn't apply to SPARK, rather to stuff like TLA+ that don't have any mapping to actual programming languages, unlike stuff like Ada/Spark, Frama-C or even Design by Contract.

It is meaningless to model a great algorithm in abstract mathematical models, and then let someone else implementing them in C89 with raw BSD sockets and C strings, without any relation between the mathematical model and the C implementation.
I'm wondering how usual is it to host the infrastructure of the national services using foreign cloud provider?
I suspect the value derived here was enjoyment, not monetary.
I couldn’t possibly disagree with every point in this post any more. Rust is bad because.. people update things? What?
mootools ftw! Feels like 20 years ago
https://www.sbsupply.eu/blog/what-is-the-difference-between-...
They serve the same purpose as every particle field, a store of energy as it moves between forms in this waterfall of existence towards maximum entropy.
I think it's we've only found writing from 5000-6000 because the storage medium is not as durable.
Hopefully RSS will made a comeback from this.

QR codes got a second lease on life. Although they remained common in industrial use, they fell out of popular use almost a decade ago. Their resurgence is one of the few persistent, positive social changes to come out of the pandemic.
The fossil record is prehistory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recorded_history
Good list of early supporters near the bottom of the post text - Chrome, OpenSSH and iMessage are relevant for me.
New Zealand to extradite internet mogul Kim Dotcom to the US
That’s an interesting and useful distinction

Unfortunately in the context of ADHD, where hyper focus is a common symptom, it’s moot.

/s (kinda)
The relevant metric is surely the proportion of time for which the clockhands are within epsilon of the correct value.
Show HN: MyFire.app – A Financial Freedom, Fire Calculator
The calculator quickly shows you how long your nest egg will last, given a constant withdrawal. It automatically shows you a safe withdrawal rule to have your capital last forever.
Yes, there's a lot of it kicking around. This evolved from a personal testbed to iterate on ideas to apply on actual legacy code modernisation work I've been involved in.
Even if there were a URL attached, then the scammer would just ensure that their (different) URL is attached to the different QR code they are putting over the intended one, so that doesn't solve anything.

I do rather agree that using QR codes from untrusted sources is not a smart way of entering URLs. It makes sense for wifi codes or payloads _within_ some trusted app, but as a way of hitting whatever URL someone has obfuscated into an unverifiable QR code... not so much.
They preserve the spin quantity in particle interactions. E.g. in beta decay a spin-neutral atom has a neutron that decays into a proton and an electron. Neutrons, protons and electrons have spin 1/2, so an extra 1/2 spin came about. An anti-neutrino has spin -1/2 which is emitted to balance the spin quantity.
"That product doesn't fit this market" seems originally just a polite way of saying "we don't believe you will ever succeed" without explicitly criticising the product or the people.

From an investor's perspective, it might be a condition for investing.

As a model, it's not particularly useful in that it only predicts possible success if a condition for success (PMF) has been demonstrated. And PMF itself is defined in terms of success ... so it's tautological.
Adding Database Constraints Using the `Rein` Gem
TL;DR: submitting multiple entries increases your chances of winning.
Is the motto "Web framework for UX devs" new? Is that the focus of this framework or has it always been? I remember checking the website out a long time ago but I don't remember if it was there back then.

Well done on the release!
”Automate the Boring Stuff with Python” has a similar cover, by the same publisher.
There are tables at the end describing the algorithms key sizes. be mindful of "(Size in bytes)" not bits. They cover that these algorithms use bigger keys, but it is 4 kilobytes.
Smoke, stress, spike, soak, and recovery: 5 essential load test profiles
Not sure if this is helpful, but maybe you can try to get a UK keyboard? They don't seem to be identical to ANSI US[1], but maybe close enough?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_and_American_keyboards
> My own pet theory of the relevant personality disorders is this: Narcissism and Boderline are extremes on the same scale, namely, how you manage your identity.

A therapist once told me that depression is overthinking the past while anxiety is overthinking the future.

Was an interesting way to think of how they are two sides of the same coin.
Do you really care about the paint? You can set a different layout and improve the touch typing. You can also buy the right tool for your type of key caps and move them around yourself.
You underestimate how much logic takes a backseat when you're feeding an infant at 3am for weeks on end. This project gave me a creative outlet during a time where sanity preservation was paramount.

The odds were calculated up front.