skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quantum dots, which can be manufactured with today's lab equipment from the elements on our periodic table, are a good example of why it's likely that the revolutionary materials of the future will also likely be something we can make with sufficiently clever application of today's tech.

The stress in a pressure vessel goes as Pr/t, so for P=365 GPa and t= 10e-5m, the effective tensile strength of the surface would either have to be thousands of times higher than carbon fibre or else the total size of the superconducting particle would need to be microscopic. I'm not sure that a material with such stored energy wouldn't rearrange itself in short order to relieve that stress.

Of course better materials than 50 years ago are not necessary for the Apollo missions, which took place 50 years ago. But there's also a materials reason why they didn't have quadcopter drones. We do still use most of the same structural materials today as back then, although materials science is one of the major limiting factors for rockets (especially reusable rockets) and metals that can survive high temperature oxidizing environments are a big step since then. And some of our most amazing materials, especially polymers, either were developed for or found their first applications in the Apollo program.

For the internet, one of the greatest materials science revolutions in that period was the improvement in optical fibers, where losses dropped by something like 13 orders of magnitude. This was not initially even suspected to be possible.

A good deal of semiconductor advances are arguably materials advances, and today silicon carbide power electronics are leading the way. Your smartphone has a flatscreen with a colour display thanks to the blue LED, another materials breakthrough of recent decades, which meant we could do away with bulky fluorescent backlights.

It's not at all clear that we would have AlphaZero without the advanced materials driving today's semiconductor, magnetic, and optical materials, which enabled data storage and compute power to be cheaply available. Without this, it may have been only possible in the same sense that Da Vinci could design but not manufacture a helicopter in renaissance Italy.
No, they edited their comment after I requested it without indicating that they did so, which makes me look dumb.
The answer is given in the slides; Potential for use in global logistics supply chains of LH2 storage and transfer.
There’s dozens and dozens of pharma companies, each with their own specialities in drug manufacturing. Some of them are going to lose billions.
I agree.

>Careful law abiding engineers bend over backwards to avoid its use

..do they really? It never occurred to me but maybe I don't qualify as careful and law abiding.
You asked for any evidence, and I provided it. I am not in the slightest bit interested in chasing your moving goal posts.

Then you employ the tu quoque fallacy, which I am not inclined to entertain. You elegantly complete your rant with straw man and ad hominem fallacies.

I tell ya what... how about you believe whatever the hell you want and leave me out of it? Appreciated, friend.
It's just a game they play among themselves, 10 points for every million dollars. Nothing really wrong with it, I'm sure lots would play the same way.

Really the problem is in government for failing to do its job of protecting the public.
Ah, gotcha. Would there be a backup plan for a dead battery (other than walking)?
It's a word we put before our title to get more money...
Similar path on the database programming front.

After Turbo Pascal 5.5, Clipper 5 became my second OOP language actually, a couple of months before I finally got hold of Turbo C++ 1.0.

Also learned DBase III Plus, followed by Summer '87 before Clipper 5.

It was great, I got some money during high school doing Clipper based CRUD applications, super easy.

I still remember how hard it was to get my head around SQL and even Access, given what I thought a DB should look like.
> They have invested a lot in production capacity and they are on track to match Tesla in production volume in a few years.

Are they? Because that's not what the actual numbers tell me. But that is what they are claiming. And its what GM claims as well (with far less credibility of course). Its just the trendy thing to say.

The underlying assumption is that Tesla will slow down, but that hasn't been happening.

VW thanks to Diselgate is in a good position with EV, to be sure.
This particular private company wants to get out of being forced into a role of content moderator for a fifth of the Internet. This is an infinite time sink with no good outcomes for them.

More importantly, this seems to have no good outcomes for us, the viewers. I also don't want Twitter mobs and DDoS-ers to have a say in what I can and can't read.
Well, if you’re going to be customizing software, do you want there to be a layer of software you cannot know about or touch?
To be fair, German universities are really bad at software engineering. CS in Germany is highly theoretical.
That's fucking funny. I would be so amused if that happened to me. But then the second guy called you clueless/crazy, so I guess it depends on how the perpetrators executes the prank.
Certainly. But they sure as hell aren’t vegan after the crop is sprayed with animal fat.
Just imagine how fans of Solaris and ZFS feel.
Siri doesn't seem to have a problem just calling letters by their name. It would be nice if there was a setting to choose between the Talon alphabet, NATO phonetic alphabet, and regional standard letter names.
You might have the n_samples (aka batch size) set to a number greater than 1? That basically multiplies the amount of VRAM you’re using.

I can generate a 512x512 on my 10gb 3080 no problem (or three 384x384 at a time)
As an Australian I agreed with your comment, but the link you shared indicate that petroleum actually is a larger export for us

> The top exports of Australia are Iron Ore ($79.6B), Coal Briquettes ($36.4B), Petroleum Gas ($26.8B), Gold ($17.7B), and Frozen Bovine Meat ($4B)
The issue that arises with "thats illegal, CF should ban them", is that they need to pick some jurisdiction, and become an executing power in that. A lot of wacky things are illegal in some less free countries - if a website clearly breaks a saudi arabian law they care about a lot, does that count? What about a german law that is very important to germans?

Does CF have to be an executive force in keeping the law of the US regarding non-US customers, or should the laws of the country the customer is in count instead, ...

You see the issue. The solution is that CF should remain as neutral as they can without breaking the law in their country themselves.
So get back to us when you've written it and your computationally simulated brain is talking to us.
Okay, so we managed to add cruft to the code without making it significantly worse. Now is this a change you would actually prefer as an improvement if someone asked you to review the original version?

It may be worth observing Gouvernathor does not exactly write "factored-out" code like this either:
https://github.com/Gouvernathor/renpy-ParliamentDiagram/blob...
And C# as well
Its always funny when Hackers think their obscure tastes are universal.
Making Computer CHIPS Act More Like Brain Cells
Classes and functional programming in MS-DOS.

Sometimes I dive into old programming stuff I used to do, mostly forgotten and then get amazed how I was doing OOP, functional programming, memory safe systems programming, some form of automatic memory management, AOT compiled languages (statically linked) and now it seems everyone is kind of rediscovering what we were doing almost 40 years ago.
I was active quite a lot in that scene a few years ago. The dude who threw eggs at drachenlord was someone from cnw. The dude who broke into his house was from cnw. BasedGod was from cnw too (he’s fortunately in jail today).

But yes, the userbase of cnw and pr0gramm is overlapping. But pr0gramm is at least „only“ allowing bullying. Not the hard stuff such as actual murder, trading narcotics and your grandma’s credit card number + ID. And yes, cnw is way more ruthless than 1337crew ever was.

Anyway, I wanted to point at this because cloudflare said they took KF down because they felt like legal enforcement wasn’t moving fast enough. CNW destroyed lots of lifes too and it isn’t a secret that a few of cnw‘s users are well connected to rocker gangs which pull of murder for hire.
If you're interested in protecting yourself, don't buy Samsung.
employment for me is what gives me the right to holidays, employer contributions to insurance, overtime pay and protection against unlawful termination.

this is why i consider any remote employment a contract:

you have to pay all taxes yourself, there are no employer contributions (you just have to negotiate a higher salary).

you have no legal means to force the remote company to follow local employment laws, other than an international contract dispute.

it is possible that some countries make it easier to treat a remote job as employment by simplifying taxes or easier access to unemployment benefits, compared to a truly self-employed person.

it may be that czechia offers that. given that it is part of the EU it would actually be interesting to know if other countries offer that as well, or if it is even based on some EU wide regulation.

there may also be specific treaties between countries that support this.
In case anyone is confused by the clashing repos, here is how I was able to easily run this updated code.

Clone the original SD repo, which is what this code was built off of, and follow all the installation instructions:

https://github.com/CompVis/stable-diffusion

In that repo, replace the file ldm/modules/attention.py with this file:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/neonsecret/stable-diffusio...

Now run a new prompt with a larger image. Note that the original model was trained on 512x512 and may lead to repetition especially if you try to increase both dimensions (this is mentioned in the SD readme) so just run with one dimension increased.

For example try the following example:

python scripts/txt2img.py --prompt "a person gardening, by claude monet" --ddim_steps 50 --seed 12000 --scale 9 --n_iter=1 --n_samples=1 --H=512 --W=1024 --skip_grid

I confirmed that if I run that command with the original attention.py, it fails due to lack of memory. With the new attention.py, it succeeds.

That said, this still uses 13GB of ram on my system.

I suppose you can check out the full repo with the updated code, which seems to have other changes, if you want to give that a try.

https://github.com/neonsecret/stable-diffusion/

I have already been using the original SD repo so I found benefit by just changing attention.py
If you ask for someone with 10 years of Ada experience, it also means you're not looking for those domain experts who work in C or C++.
> they are a tiny minority and elections proved it.

This can only be true if you discount people from territories Ukraine does not control but still claims.
Nice enough article, but I don't know where the author found such a poor definition for the word "ceremony".
A ceremony ain't just going through motions, it is going through motions to reconnect with elders, identity, re-confirm to all the position of some in the local structure of power, show symbolic values.
As such, that word is the most precise one in the Faux-Agile lingo, and clearly shows the purposes have nothing to do with delivering better software faster...
Apple, or a Google Pixel with a custom ROM if you're technical enough. I couldn't otherwise recommend an Android smartphone in good conscience.
I think it's tempting to think that higher day rates equate to longer hours and a less cordial and more stressful work environment, but this hasn't been my personal experience as my day rates have grown over the years. I think this is a combination of:

* Your rates themselves are a signalling mechanism to clients of the level of expertise and professionalism you will bring -- how closely would you scrutinise the work of a plumber who quoted £100/hour compared to one asking for minimum wage?

* You are filtering for clients that believe "quality comes at a price", a belief they likely apply in other areas as well. So you're more likely working with competant people who enjoy generous benefits, with managers who care about providing a pleasant working environment for their direct reports.
D20 is an open standard for a certain genre of tabletop role playing games, of which Dungeons and Dragons™ is an implementation. But D&D itself is an abstract concept, with two implementations: the open-game-licensed online “D20 SRD”, and the proprietary set of WotC-published core books.
We simultaneusly act annoyed that Visa/Mastercard act as gatekeepers, and demand Cloudflare should become the new moral police
What's unproven? The site is there for everyone to read, cmon. But yes, let's block the other stuff too, 100% agree.
So much easier with small teams. Scaling to say 1500 people is hard. Then you need some kind of hierarchy and explicitly architecture. My biggest problem with agile is that people think it replaces architecture with ad-hoc decisions. Threading in design work as spikes and regular stories needs about the same discipline as "processes".
I've built something similar along these lines. It's an app that uses your camera to track hand movement. As you move your hand through the air your cursor moves as well and to click you need to show a simple hand gesture.

My experience with eye trackers was similar. The clicking thing is partially solvable with eye tracker + foot pedal combination, but the biggest turn off with eye tracker was poor support for wider monitors or multiple monitor setup. Eye trackers also require you to be in a certain distance from it which was affecting my posture.

These were some of the reasons why I've built Cursorly https://cursorly.app/
It's still in the early stage but I'd love to hear some feedback. There is a free trial for a few days, but let me know if you want to extended it, I'd be happy to do so.
Like Rust, you keep the truly non-idempotent actions minimal, isolated, and well understood. Then you wrap everything around those models and state changes with idempotent behavior.

As a trivial instance, you can guard a non-idempotent email send event with a database table and idempotency key. When you attempt to send the same message twice, you'll see that you have already done so.

With diligent engineering, this type of thinking can scale to non-trivial active-active concurrent writes and more.
More fires mean more business, but that’s kinda irrellevant to the goal of the fire department, which is to prevent burned out houses.

If the police never does anything about the firestarters for hire, it’s a bit hard to see how that would be the fire departments fault (and certaily not something they should solve by not fighting fires any more).
I see a pattern that everything requiring international collaboration is very very slow to fix. From tax havens to climate change. Because you can hide out in another country or blame another country and so on.
You can use a generator expression:

all_matches = (
(r, c)
for r, row in enumerate(table.rows)
for c, cell in enumerate(row)
if search_query.matches(cell.value)
)
found = next(all_matches, None)
if found:
logger.log("Found cell: {}".format(found))
return found

It is lazy, so it stops as soon as the first match is found.
After it emerged that ISPs were 'cheating' at speedtest.net with local test servers, fast.com was a huge relief.

But then: https://speed.cloudflare.com/ has emerged which also appears to be cheat free and shows lots more detail.
And you save some more RAM too!
> Rust is in part designed to look familiar to C programmers.

Rust may be accompanied by a design statement like that somewhere, but it actually does no such thing.
I strongly believe abuse claims should be handled by the actual hosting providers behind CloudFlare.
They're unreliable and some of them are quite offensive as well (BMW X6 types). If you don't want too much software, buy an Italian car. It's unreliable as well but it still limps with a shot sensor. And some of them are quite beautiful too. Otherwise I'd go for Japanese cars.
It’d probably only be something that’d be relevant to worry about in e.g. technical documentation that ships with a commercial product. That’s the sort of use-case where I’d be worrying about what IP (including trademarks) are being referenced.
> It's a great argument against the scale that cloudformation has, and regulation would help.

Agreed. It's very annoying that such services like ddos protection have an ever-growing scaling advantage (because the sizes of ddos attacks grow).

> If you can't figure out that one of your clients is doing this bad things, you shouldn't have so many clients

What kinds of entities would you extend this to? I would guess you wouldn't day the same thing about hardware stores (which sell dangerous tools).
I’m sure you’re great at parties. A number of people have explained how easy this is to turn off (I did it myself in minutes without outside help by literally commenting out a line of code and changing a variable name). Getting offended at everything doesn’t solve anything and just makes half the US think we’re all snowflakes.
> doxing

Doxxing isn't illegal.

> harassing people with threats of violence

How do you know that A: the person whose name I won't say isn't lying, because that person's a professional victim. And B: if that person isn't lying, that those threats came from Kiwi Farms users.
Add Turbo Basic, Turbo Pascal, Turbo C, Turbo C++, QuickBasic to it.

During highschool for the computing classes I had a high density floppy (whopping 1.4 MB!) with a custom installation of MS-DOS 3.3, TP, Q editor, TASM and maybe a few other utilities. Basically the minimum for a quick coding session on the computer lab.
He’s right you know. Let’s not forget all the evidence of CP reported [0] [1] [2] that Twitter has failed to remove and they seem to have a problem taking it down and hosting it and allowing this CP content to spread is illegal.

No outrage here of course, even when the fact is that it is all true.

[0] https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/6/30/india-twitter-kashm...

[1] https://www.courthousenews.com/judge-rules-twitter-can-be-su...

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-20/twitter-f...
a) I don't think you get to define words for us all
The nice thing about Nextcloud is that nearly everything is a module and can be disabled, stripping it down considerably to be not much more than a private file sync server.
Being proxies isn't the problem. Most things are.

What is a problem is the unwillingness to admit a proxy is downright bad, and the reluctance to investigate the efficiency of a proxy.

Most of recruiting is individuals stubbornly ignoring research and insisting they know better despite doing nothing that could pinpoint the reason for their success. Not always the recruiters either.
What about the bizarre lack of Markdown viewers, though? It's infuriating.
CarPlay > Tesla UI >> traditional manufacturer UI
It’s like the US military explaining their actions during the Vietnam War - “we needed to destroy the city in order to save it”
Just do away with sprint commitments. Pull a new story off the backlog each time someone needs a task, and count how much you accomplished at the end of the sprint instead of guessing at the beginning.
A few completely random shell commands from 2017
So, for once, it actually was a hardware problem…
This doesn't generalize well. Add a statement or something in the loop and it clashes with this.
> or maybe it was their smart things app

Pretty sure it's the app. If the soundbar is a plain Bluetooth audio device it shouldn't even need any other software than what is already contained in the device you want to connect it to. They however could have replicated or moved some of its controls on the app so that you're encouraged (if not forced) to install it and surrender your personal data in the process.

I hate that practice; almost every device or service today wants to install an app because it brings their brand on the phone main screen and gives full access to users private data. Besides privacy concerns, it can't scale: 100 products or services done the traditional way were 100 addresses in a bookmarks file that used a few KBs combined and no CPU power at all except for the browser (that is, just one app), now they are 100 executables that waste orders of magnitude more storage and can slow a device like molasses even when not in use; all this in the name of sticking a logo on the main page of a phone and exfiltrating users personal data.
Outsystems would be an example, in regards to productivity, however their target market is the enterprise space.

Maybe Microsoft's PowerApps are more in line with that target market.
GM to Offer Franchise Buyouts to U.S. Buick Dealers
> And why isn't law enforcement stepping in?

Because 1) they have limited resources and must prioritise and 2) America law enforcement seems to have a distinct lean towards the transphobic / homophobic / white supremacist / right-wing, etc.

Just because something is not being actively policed does not mean it's not an actual crime (cf motorists running red lights for an easy example.)
It can be described. But its like describing sex, dreaming, music, the taste of delicious food or the feeling of grief.

Words are no substitute. The experience itself can't be expressed in language. Language can refer to it, but without a common reference point, language will always fall short.

> A fey creature full of animus and life, may be intense and full of subjective richness for you, we have seen this imagery before in pagan worship.

So? The imagery isn't the interesting part. The subjective richness is, and the imagery denuded of its subjective richness is just some boring pigments. I've seen that imagery before, but that didn't prepare me at all for my trip.

The imagery relates to the experience like a postcard relates to New York City.

If I had never felt pain before, do you think you could explain it to me? Do you think you could teach what the color blue looks like to someone who is colorblind? I don't think you can do it - but by all means, prove me wrong :)
You do realise that you can get server parts for a custom build? That is what I run for home use, it’s the most reliable machine I have personally owned.

And that even those workstations you think are reliable can and do have problems (I have first hand experience of that), like all computers. It’s the response time and contracts that I wanted to problems that I used to look for when buying workstations and that doesn’t always help when it comes to firmware issues.

There are plenty of data centres and companies that are running what you call custom builds. Look at Hetzner, backblaze, or even bigger companies that role their own.

$100k is a drop in the ocean for experience, that is like a typical week purchasing for some, and wouldn’t even cover the cost of some machines I have used.
I agree with your first point. But there’s somebody out there telling us that a true unit test has no mocks. Or something.

Unit tests do come in handy when building a maths library.l or similar. Not in terms of catching a regression, but to help build it in the first place. One of the few places where TDD might actually be helpful.
What makes electron bad? Just being curious - dont know much about it.
In poland people will not be sure if it's Jot Es or if they want to sound cool and say Dżej Es so it's nice and english. Big problem!
> Cloudflare is choosing between "platforming the bad guys" and "censoring free speech"

Talking about free speech and censoring in this cases is what people that are ok with the harassment do. Don't. They should just have a normal TOS like everyone else and apply it. The freedom of speech should not be invoked in this case.