skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Firecracker, Bottlerocket, starting to see a trend here

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/firecracker-lightweight-vir...
You're thinking of pictures as commodities when these models are providing personal services.
But that triggers the entropy detector.
Those curious about this life should watch the movie "Cam". It's an exaggerated view of this industry (or maybe close to truth)
Faith doesn't require evidence.
That lawsuit didn’t require unions, though. If anything, it’s a great example of how our industry can overcome these issues without unionization.

People tend to forget that unions represent the existing employees, not aspiring hires. This can actually work to the detriment of juniors and newcomers to the industry. It can also work to the detriment of teams where it becomes intensely difficult to fire people who are legitimately underperforming. The public school unions keeping bad teachers on the payroll but keeping them idle in empty rooms is a prime example. Police unions defending bad cops is another very relevant example. If you’re an aspiring teacher or police officer with motivation to do well, why should those union employees take a spot on the job that you could otherwise occupy and do better? Switching the rules of the game to favor seniority doesn’t benefit people who rank low on the seniority ladder.
Do you have a reference somewhere that says that? The Wikipedia entry for connectomics does not imply that and I've not read of anything that can get the weights out of neurons.
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Unemployment benefits only kick in for people who have lost their job through no fault of their own, though state laws probably vary here. If I quit because my boss is a jerk, or I’m not being paid enough, or many other reasons, I am not eligible for unemployment. My employer has a lot of power, since finding a new job can take a lot of time that I may not have given a full workday and other responsibilities.

The vast majority of people who receive unemployment had an unplanned job loss, which already puts them at a disadvantage both planning-wise and psychologically. If instead you KNOW that you will receive income when choosing to leave a job, you are more able to prepare for how it will affect your lifestyle.
Lots of government agencies post best-practices for simple stuff. Getting the basics right is important, both for government agencies and the general public. NASA publications aren't all cutting edge space technology either: https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/telescopes/en/
I've long been of the same opinion. There's nothing that would make me happier as a computer user. Delays in feedback are unacceptable.
In the US, the criminal "justice" system is _phenomenally_ expensive. According to EJI [1], it cost us $182 billion in 2017. There are ~2.3 million people in US prisons [2]. That's almost $80k/prisoner/year. That's a lot of social services.

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[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_St...
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Who can say? When all else fails I just remember that misclicks are a thing.

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So when I worked for the cable company straight out of uni and we would look up famous local people to see what packages they subscribed to, we should have all been fired? I guess technically, but that's pretty draconian. Are you also no mercy, hard on crime, 1-strike and you're out person, or more progressive in that area?
No, they never stopped the theater from screening the movie.

They simply never gave them permission to do so in the first place.
> Nice to see the registry is free for public images, but does anyone know where I can see pricing for private images?

This might be a good time to remind that GitLab offers free container registries for all projects for a few years now.
Something that hasn't changed to me is the mood. RE is still as gloomy and soul grabbing. The value is outside the pixel count.
I love a clear explanation by someone knowledgeable. :-)
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I think what you have done is similar to what is depicted in "The Goal" by Eliyahu M. Goldratt. The graphic novel depicts it in a more succinct manner.
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That is a refreshing perspective.
That chap tried to hit the USNS Mercy Hospital Ship with his cargo locomotive because he thought it was a human experimentation ship https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-military/2020/04/02/trai...

Would have been top news if it weren't for the fact that America was reeling from an explosion of cases in the COVID19 pandemic.
I think it's maybe a bit more subtle. In our industry there's what I call the "California Ideology" (after the classic essay: https://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/californian-ideo... which is a bit dated but still stands the test of time)

At one point this perspective was fairly counter cultural -- computing technology fused with Alvin Toffleresque third wavism, a tinge of libertarianism but without a suit and tie, some LSD, some cyberpunk, wear jeans to work, "change the world", etc. But that sheen is increasingly wearing off.

The reality under the surface dressing is we are part of an industry with deep military ties, and it doesn't matter if you wear jeans to work and get vegan treats in the cafe, there's nothing particularly radical about computing technology and while we're "changing the world" it's really not in any egalitarian or progressive way.

We're part of a semi-managerial class that is doing on the whole pretty damn well financially, but there's no reason to expect that to last forever.

A lot of us ran around saying "information wants to be free" in the 90s and so on, it looked a bit naive to me then, but now it just looks comical and sad.
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Curious how you can ethically justify this business. Literally selling BS.
Is this revenue driven by athletics separate from tuition fees? Because if it isn't, that only confirms the hypothesis.
I feel like even "soft real time" is too generous for Android.
Sigh. I wondered if someone would come in here and do that. The entire reason I did not paste it myself is because this paragraph has a much different effect on the reader after they have read the rest of the article and understand the backstory.

Edit: Thanks for all the upvotes. I'm glad some in the HN crowd appreciate quality over shortcuts and spoilers. (I was starting to get discouraged!)
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I don't understand why there isn't simply the option of making a lot more colleges. "High Quality, Low Cost, Pick 2" isn't how most markets work.
> The lack of value is the hardest thing to grasp.

Value is subjective. Just because you don't think it has a lot of value doesn't mean the people paying for it don't.

Plenty of people probably think plenty of the things you pay for don't have as much value as you place on them. In a market economy, it's naturally the people that (ceteris paribus) value a thing the most that end up buying it.
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You know why rich people are rich?

They don't spend all their money!

Yup, a bit glib but it gets to the essence...
So will pulling images via github actions from Github Container Registry within an organization count towards data transfer costs?

Today we are pulling from one repo's packages to another repo via a token when dealing with shared base images. Clunky, but also counts as a data transfer charge I believe. (maybe not if using a github token)

I'm not sure the account billing page clears things up for me:

https://docs.github.com/en/github/setting-up-and-managing-bi...
if he played age of empires as religiously as I did, he should have realized nothing beats the long bows of the Britons...
Here are some additional non-monetary costs I see in addition to those that are called out:

- Effect on good performers. If one person is not pulling enough weight, it's generally pretty evident to others and feels demotivating to do good work.

- Bad code and long term effects of maintaining it. In the short term, it will create a lot of code review burden. As much as we desire to be thorough in code reviews, bad code will slip through cracks and owning it long term is pain

- Attrition on the team

- Based on anecdotal evidence, low performers point fingers at other not so perfect things like peers not helping, things are complex etc. It raises the base level of negativity on the team. It spreads through 1:1s

- As a manager, you should covering their back and because of that, you won't scale as a manager

- Bad outlook for the team when they work on cross team / cross functional projects. It takes disproportionately more time to change that bad outlook perception. It comes into play during things like calibration, promo etc. Though you can trust that right decisions will be made based on each individual's impact, there is a burden on the manager to discuss at length.

(edit: formatting)
Which WW2 movies are those? I don't know of any that have cast minorities as Nazis or even depict mixed race combat units
Becoming a communist state is impossible. The leader of the socialist state won't let it happen. Power corrupts, why should we be putting more power in the hands of the state in hopes that one day it will relinquish it?
So the C. Elegans connectome was done in 1986, and we still haven't made a fully functional model of the c. elegans brain. I'm not sure that this bottom up approach (synapses -> model -> behavior) will work better than a top down approach that has been making a lot of progress in AI (behavior -> model)
It's enough that they wrote this piece, it may very well kill this system - the trick gets less profitable for drivers as more of them participate.

That, and being in the news will probably spur companies to combat this.
Not sure it was mentioned so far, but the reference to photon instead of electron at the end of the presentation could point to future photonic GPU ? https://www.anandtech.com/show/16010/hot-chips-2020-live-blo...
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You'll also save a lot of effort in future endeavors, IMO.
Remember, once you've switched to Julia, Python is still only a `using PyCall` and `pyimport` away!
Do you think that the various communication platforms that existed during the fast spread of, for example, 9/11 truther conspiracies were actively promoting them? More generally, I'm talking about the various conspiracies that spread like wildfire on line 10-15 years ago.

Note that I'm not directly disagreeing with you, but seeking your thoughts on the early spread of online disinformation.

My own (rather soft) opinion is that in an alternate universe where all of the online platforms somehow were born and grew while not injecting any 'tweaks' or 'promotions', there'd still be a tremendous amount of bullshit, similar to what we see today, though quite possibly to a smaller level.

The platforms definitely have played a direct role, but mostly I think it's people who are doing the heavy lifting. Our species has never had access to these kinds of communication tools, and I believe we are neurologically and psychologically ill-equipped to use them well.
That's how hardware-accelerated video decoding used to work in Windows XP days IIRC (before GPU-based desktop composition), the video player would be a blank black square and the GPU would be told to draw the video on those coordinates.

Because of how it was implemented, you could drag VLC around while the video was playing and the video would stay "behind" everything, with the VLC window acting as a "hole" through which you could see it. (So you could move the window to the left and see half a black square on the left, and the left-most half of the video on the right)

Nowadays with desktop composition AKA DWM, Windows just makes sure to black out DRM content from any frames/video it sends to an app requesting to capture the screen, making sure to send the video-including composed desktop only to the display. (And if you have some GPU recording software like NVIDIA ShadowPlay, it switches off when DRM content starts playing) You can see it in action with the Netflix UWP app. Of course, a bunch of DRM-respecting software -- like Netflix in Google Chrome -- doesn't really follow that spec and can still be screenshot/video captured like any app.
No matter what, $499 is still a better deal than $1200 for a somewhat similar card. You really don’t need benchmarks for that.
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Game graphics look sterile, too clean, sharp, plasticky. The real world is messier with less clear separation between objects, things blend together more, subtle shadows, surfaces are less uniform, there is more clutter, dirt, wrinkles, details.
Not really a question, more of a remark: both the destructive and non-destructive approaches result in the same thing:
a copy of 'you', not actually 'you'. (The same is true when you go to sleep, of course. Whoever wakes up isn't you either)

What you would need is a Ship of Theseus approach - preserving the consciousness stream while neuron after neuron is being replaced by a digital version, slowly, to convince the stream into thinking it's still the same. You can't just take a single scan; you have to keep scanning continuously and keep a running feedback stream between the (decreasing) wetbrain and the (increasing) bitbrain to ensure the illusion of continuity.

(But to be honest, I don't actually believe in consciousness or a Self. Whoever started writing this short comment wasn't 'me', and neither am I, nothing is)
I thought the same. I feel they should have called it something like "Joint Cybersecurity Advisory Protocol".
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It’s probably similar to health care in that the amount of money entering the system may be increasing, but the growing costs of bureaucracy are consuming all of it and more.
Well-informed, good-faith disagreement is possible on a range of topics, including this one.
>> My day job is primarily ML as well, so I might just go for the 3090. 24 GB of memory is a game changer for what I can do locally. I really just wish Nvidia would get its shit together with Linux drivers.

What is your ML dev environment like?
you’d rather buy something for $100 with free shipping vs $80 and $10 shipping?

that’s my point - it’s a psychological game that retailers exploit. it’s the same thing as listing something as $150 and having it on “sale” for $100 because it psychologically feels like you’re getting a great deal even if the retail price was always just $100.
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May the force be with you.
You're talking about union education as if it's equivalent to mathematics or something, like there is an absolute truth to be learned. Surely even the most pro-union people would acknowledge that not every implementation of a union is equivalent? And that some have caused harm?

I would say I'm union agnostic, I'm not against them but I have about the same amount of faith that a union will improve things in a given situation as that the government will. Both are supposed to be a representation of the people, run by the people, and both are often too bogged down by bureaucracy and power seeking to actually do anything constructive. Sure there are great historical examples of unions accomplishing great things, just are there are great historical examples of governments passing landmark laws, but neither of those guarantees that these institutions will do the right thing in any future scenario.

And to the extent that I am going to put trust in one of these institutions, I'd rather choose the government. I'd rather see, for instance, healthcare given as a right to every citizen, than healthcare given to employees in just one industry. And in fact, unions have been some of the strongest opponents of medicare for all initiatives in the US in recent years. They've already negotiated good healthcare benefits for their members and they don't want everyone else who's not a member to get it too. This kind of "us vs them" incentive system doesn't appeal to me. And more fundamentally, I strongly believe that a lot of basic things (again, like healthcare, or disability insurance, or the ability to invest in a retirement account) should be much less coupled to employment than they are today, and unions are a force in the opposite direction.
Theaters require a license to show a movie.

Disney does not generally grant licenses to theaters to show its films second-run (meaning after their initial box-office run) except as part of re-release initiated by Disney. They make extremely limited exceptions to this policy; the Rocky Horror Picture Show is basically the only film in the Disney/Fox vault that they allow to show second-run.

In this case, the theater announced they were going to show Black Panther without actually bothering to get the license ahead of time, and Disney did not make an exception to their policy.
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I don’t understand this desire to dismiss any criticism of unions as ignorance. This attitude that the only way someone might oppose unionization is because they’re too dumb to understand the concept is extremely condescending.

Take a look at the current situation with police unions defending bad cops, for example. The union is just doing its job in protecting the cops, right? But in reality, this can come at the expense of others who are adjacent to the unionized employees. It’s not a simple matter of employees versus their employer.
<strikethrough> “Simple redirector extension” sounds like a good generic tool that should exist to sed urls in a similar way to how ublockO & AdNauseum can block more than one type of content based on simple rules. One extension could use one rule to use the old version of Reddit, another to replace YouTube with Invidious, Twitter with Nitter… oh wait! </strikethrough>

I knew https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/privacy-redir... could do the last two plus something for Instagram, searched https://duckduckgo.com/?q=nitter+invidious+instagram and lo and behold, https://www.oldd.it/r/privacy/comments/hpy82f/redirect_twitt....

I’d be surprised if HTTPS Everywhere wasn’t whitelisted. And if it isn’t, TIL you can use it to fix Reddit.
Good callout. The GitLab.com registry has a "soft cap" of 10 GB, which seems like plenty of room for most projects, as long as you don't require a long history.
What does everyone think about the trend of using .io for registries? I've always considered gTLDs to be safer than ccTLDs.

Given the choice of something like llll.dev or llll.io for a private registry, would one be preferable?
Again, nonsense. It is obvious by inspection exactly where to draw the line, as it is obvious by inspection that it is a solution to the problem.

By contrast, that there are other solutions to the problem, and of 30 kinds, is interesting and non-obvious.

So, it remains a mystery what the classical problem they claimed to have solved actually was.
They must have found the perfect candidate!