skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly, gross salary.

It's true you can't really compare directly like that, but just as an example let's normalize the data on the point of vacation/holidays.
EU:
52 wk / yr * 5 day / wk = 260 days / yr
35 holiday / yr = 225 working / yr
260 / 225 * 65 = 75.1k per year normalized

vs USA:
10 holiday / yr = 250 days / yr
260 / 250 * 160 = 166.4k per year normalized

Here we can see how even when considering something like holiday: the difference is still not even remotely close.

You're absolutely right about the 'peace of mind' aspect. This is something that I really love and will definitely miss... But let's not fool ourselves. For example it's common knowledge in Germany that the state retirement will only cover about 50% the cost of living. Not sure about the situation in France, but this means I still need to do a huge amount of self-saving and investing just to live at the bare minimum.

In the end I completely hear your argument and can understand it.... It's just everything in life is pretty gray and situational.

Note: if anything I have said is wrong, definitely let me know! Nobody is perfect!
hence ebikes.
Are bikes and self-driving cars mutually exclusive?
6 hours of running downstairs and showing the lab manager how to use the autoclave again, 6 hours of answering older coworkers questions about excel, 6 hours of her boss walking into her office and saying “hey, did you see what they said on Fox News last night?”, six hours of chasing crackheads out of the parking lot while they drive to break into her car, six hours of searching for who stole her lunch or almond milk. It all adds up.

But if it makes you feel better to place the blame on her, please go right ahead.
> Stable Diffusion (and similar tools) fall in this last category of truly disruptive technologies.

I really don't see it. What tools like SD, DALL-E etc do is essentially similar to what Google Image Search does, except that the results are presented differently - instead of showing you the results it has indexed in some order, it picks features from the results it has trained on with some priority, and presents a kind of amalgam view of the entire collection at once.

The only significant advantage compared to Google Image Search is that AI-generated art is getting around copyright, allowing you to publish it legally under your own name. This makes it very similar to Uber, which got around taxi regulations that were impeding market access.

Essentially, if we ignore copyright, there are relatively few illustration problem you could have where DALL-E/SD/... would help more than searching for an existing image. Branding is an obvious one, where the need for unique-ness is not only legal, but also practical. The other is that DALL-E/SD/etc can also sometimes produce combinations of unrelated images, thought that is offset by just how bad their results are in other places where there is plenty of existing art to choose from (especially anything involving images of humans).
Do you know that crypto is normally completely traceable?

So if I for instance withdraw 100 million from an exchange, in a completely legal manner, and then visit a store or webshop to buy something with the same funds, then the store now knows that I have 100 million dollars?

Mixing can be used for self protection.
That's a very nice way to put it. He took a donation from Bin Laden's family, namely from Osama's half brother, Bakr Bin Laden.
Smokey’s New Hot Vapourizing Engine Creates Heat in Detroit (1983)
OFAC's attacks on privacy are sociopathically irresponsible, and unlike Tornado Cash the federal government has actual monsters with weapons terrorizing the countryside.
Reprint of June 1984 Hot Rod magazine article on same:
https://gafiero.akroncdnr.com/docs/SmokeyYunick.pdf
Being able to understand other people is a big item on that list. That makes you able to understand the needs and perspectives of your teammates, other teams, the organization at large, and most importantly, your user/customer base.

A larger view of things, considerable foresight are second, but close companion. They tie into being able to understand people and things. They give you the ability to avoid things that would be problems in the long run. And allow you to build stuff that will last.

I'd say that everything else trails behind. Technologies come and go. Fads come and go. Anything can be sorted out as long as you can build things for the purpose at hand without straying outside the scope and build them in a way that will last.
Wow, as others said I can’t tell if you are serious or not. By this line of reasoning there is also the following.
It’s optimal for me right now to :
- answer that phone call in the subway.
- Steal that item.
- Play loud music at 2am.
- fart in the elevator.
And so on

It’s called antisocial behaviour.
Support ebikes and change infrastructure to make biking safe. People will gradually prefer to ride bikes vs to ride, starting with the most cougareous and fit, but slowly, most people will join.

Few young girls were riding bikes in Paris a few years ago and now, it's exploding thanks to ebikes and better infrastructure (simply separate bikes from pedestrians and cars and give bike priority over cars).
I would say that people who regularly invest in top end hardware don't care as much about power bills. Otherwise power efficient chips is the norm (laptops, phones, etc).
July 4th occurs worldwide.
This is so true. Am in logistics so can't speak to other verticals but every-single-implementation has something unique to it. Either they're on a version we haven't tested on, or they only support some date/time formats, or they have custom codes, whatever.
Years and breadth/depth of experience is far from everything, but it's also far from nothing.

I'd sort of expect the CxOs at most major companies to be ~25-40 years into their career. I'd therefore expect them to look a lot like the white collar workforce new entrants looked in 1982-1997.
I've done this to heat the small room I use as an office, its far more efficient than the shit electric radiator in there.

Rented house so can't do much about the absolutely useless heating setup.
>This is _complete_ nonsense. I'm going to guess that you are an American living somewhere with probably quite wide and straight roads.

I'd wager it's more likely he drives hazardously slow so the extra couple seconds viewing distance don't help him personally or there's always street lighting where he drives.

Edit: based on his commentary elsewhere it's almost certainly the former.
Nice to know tricks for /sd-webui/

- activate advanced: create prompt matrix and use

@a painting of a (forest|desert|swamp|island|plains) painted by (claude monet|greg rutkowski|thomas kinkade)

- add different relative weights for words in a prompt:

watercolor :0.5 painting :0.2 by picasso :0.3

- Generate much larger images with your limited vram by using optimized versions of attention.py and model.py

https://github.com/sd-webui/stable-diffusion-webui/discussio...

- Generate "Loab the AI haunting woman" if you can (Try using textual inversion with negatively weighted prompts)

https://www.cnet.com/science/what-is-loab-the-haunting-ai-ar...
The point is that bicycling is not realistic outside of very, very dense cities. Most places that reasonable people call "cities" would not qualify. Even in Europe and Japan, which have world-class public transit, only a handful of cities have useful subways or usable bicycle infrastructure. Everywhere else, people drive cars.

People who are advocating for bicycles as a primary form of transit are using a hyper-narrow definition of "urban," in which most cities would not be considered urban, and that is deceptive and wrong.
> The competition at the time was also cutting edge at the time

I don't deny that, but just the feature gap was a lot less compared to what it is now.

We're talking about a time where video games were made by teams of 5 people, not 500.

If the cutting edge technology is using a rock on a stick and you're using a rock, it's easier to catch up than if you're using a rock and they already have tree cutters working on nuclear energy.
And commerce delivery is what the company my brother worked for does. This kind of trike: https://www.bicycleretailer.com/industry-news/2018/01/10/rad... can handle about 700lbs. You can add powered trailers if you need more in a single delivery, and since they're cheaper than vans to buy and operate, sending two or taking two trips is an option.

For probably 70-90% of commercial logistics within a city these will work fine. For the other 10-30%, yeah - we'll still need some vans and trucks around.

Some serious rethinking of our needs and expectations around transportation is absolutely required if we're going to cut this climate emergency off at the pass. Businesses can still run fine if their deliveries come twice a day instead of once.
My first thought was "build your own [X] and never use it", which I've always found to be a good exercise until you learn to navigate large codebases and systems and then you can learn from the existing rather than make your own mistakes.
I didn't take the idea that this was shared as an outrage piece as much as a point of interest; it's a key point along this journey and worth noting with or without judgement.
I grew up going to this mall during it's peak in the 70's and early 80's, and I think it's done a fascinating job of adapting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BegXB3d6cqk

The indoor swap meet is what used to be a JC Penny's. The dead Sears is now a trade school - the mix of stores in there is fascinating and I think the key - focus on unique and local stores. Leave the chains to the strip malls.
Gp calls out certain declarations of disruption to be hot air, then argues the point.

Gp then proceeds to declare «Stable Diffusion» to be Capital D disruptive, bemoans the unfortunate destiny of the world’s now disrupted artists but, curiously, does in fact not argue the point.
First and foremost, I believe most of the issues can be addressed using a markup language like Markdown or similar. Accessibility clients can be updated to accommodate such formatting as part of the standard.

Second, hard wraps should not be mandatory and in fact discouraged. If someone wants 72 columns then there email client should be the one setting that, not the message itself.
When I was a kid in the US, the mall was the #1 place to hang out. We could see a movie, grab some food, and browse some clothing stores, and our parents knew where to find us.

I suppose this is less of an advantage with cell phones these days, and teenagers don't really have much disposable income.
Yeah, that's what I'm wondering. They might also just be being conservative with the number of minutes, in case people upload massive bitrate videos.

Genuine question - what would they gain by making the storage low for the amount of video? I can't figure it out.
I don't doubt that your prediction is entirely true, but I'd say a more likely cause is that the majority of people realise (correctly) that this sort of article will result in absolutely no useful or edifying discussion whatsoever. We'll be treated to a thread of absolutely valueless commentary that achieves nothing apart from angering a lot of people, and I'd imagine that articles like this will continue to flagged to death until such time as HN demonstrates that it's able to sustain adult conversations about controversial issues, particularly where they touch on topics like DEI.
It depends on the bitrate. Let's assume 10 mbps for five cameras. That'd be 16.4 TB for a month's footage.

Depending on the application, you could lower the bitrate significantly during times of low motion or low detail (such as at night). You could also drop the framerate.

I've found that when the scene is static, without panning, and no wind blowing leaves on trees, you can compress really well. I have a Wyze outdoor cam looking at the front yard that does 1080p at a little less than 1 mbps.
Even text email clients can organize messages into threads, which arguably is much clearer than a long HTML email with nested, multi-colored replies.
It depends what we're after. Almost all of the code in LoC percent terms might be open-source, which helps people who want to launch derivative browsers or learn from the code. But on the other hand, almost all of the Chrome instances running today are proprietary builds with mystery special sauce added (I'm guessing desktop Linux users are the only significant userbase to run vanilla Chromium), which doesn't help us on privacy, neutrality, etc...
> Yes, we definitely are. But I am not so sure that is a bad thing?

Well, it is the basis of anti-trust law and pro-competition law, that the legal system supports competition and opposes anti-competitive effects.
What good is privacy if a single corporation has your health data, finance information, contact lists, shopping habits, address, friends and family, movies, music etc etc etc and then want so sell ad space targeted at you?

It's hardly any different than what Google or Facebook do except it's even more encompassing.
> If Apple didn't give a shit about user privacy and wanted to sell all your data, they would have done so a long time ago.

They already do "sell", in a very similar way as Google and Facebook does - look at their app store ads for example. Only real difference between Google/FB and Apple is that they process data on device, not on their servers. Sure, it's a huge technical difference, but not that much in terms of business and end users.

Google and Facebook don't sell your data directly, as it's bad business - you want to sell access to customers as a subscription to get big bucks. They have all the initiative to protect data they gather on their servers. Same as Apple has to do that on devices.

There're details to it, but just moving where you process user data isn't that much of a difference to end users - you're still a corporation selling other people ability to show me ads for cribs, when you discover that I'm expecting a baby.
Tree.fm: Listen to a Random Forest
The probability of dying from a car as a pedestrian in 2020 is 0.2% and that includes people committing suicide by car. Dying in a traffic accident with another car is 1.1%. If you're playing the odds in poker, you worry about the latter more than the former.
Completely false, idle and low load power consumption has little to do with TDP. Case in point: Ryzen
It sounds great but I'm actually interested in official manuals, not independent books.
I like the questions, esp. this one:

> If new cognition is needed, is it possible from the brain scale-up I mentioned before? Or is it like an aleph0 to aleph1 transition? I suspect there is a Turing completeness to cognition - in that there are some base laws which makes access to all math possible.

There is indirect evidence from multiple studies of ML models and animal intelligence pointing in the direction of "scaling up is good for intelligence, if your system isn't limited by global connectivity too much".

If you want to know more, see https://www.gwern.net/Scaling-hypothesis and Haier's The Neuroscience of Intelligence.
Waco and Ruby ridge were effectively the same. The end result of their actions was "How would you execute a warrant against El Chapo" and both forced the feds to act in such a way.

There's an initial crime (sex with 12yr old for David Koresh, and selling illegal weaponry to white supremacist criminal orgs for Randy Weaver).

Then they don't engage the legal system normally by hiring a lawyer and fighting the charges -- they hide in a hole hoping to be forgotten about.

When the feds inevitably try to serve a warrant, in both cases they respond in a hostile manner and kill a LEO.

At this point you can basically be expected to be treated like a drug lord -- you're facing charges and responding to warrants by killing officers. So you get besieged like a drug lord.

The main difference for Ruby Ridge is that the government took a bunch of decisions (procedural mistakes, over-eager sniper and rules of engagement) that made them unsympathetic.

But even with this, it's a little absurd to come out and defend the Weavers for playing very stupid games and winning stupid prizes. You kill a law enforcement office in a hostile manner, don't expect to be treated with courtesy.

There's hundreds of cases where LEOs are recklessly killing innocents in manners that should get them lambasted, but Ruby Ridge ain't it.
Jakt transpiles to C++
It's too early to say that definitively, imo.

As a counterexample to the DAO hack, the parity multi-sig hack of 2017 resulted in over $160M worth of ether being frozen on-chain. There were calls to hard fork Ethereum to return it, but the hard fork was never tenable. That was barely a year after the DAO hack and fork.

Personally, I believe there is a zero chance that a hard fork based on Tornado Cash becomes viable. It's not nearly a big enough issue for enough users to care (and exchanges, and wallet software companies, and stakers). Why would the 90% of users who don't use Tornado Cash risk helping the other 10% perform some fork, knowing that the fork would add fuel to the mutability argument and set more precedent for mutability?
May I ask if you're under 45?
Just realized everyone's gonna have to turn their power targets down when running a LAN party. I gave my brother my old 2080ti, something would coil whine when he played Battlefield. We turned the card's power target down until the whine went away. We found at 35%, the whine stopped, and the performance difference was not easily discernable with a basic FPS counter just flying around a MP game.

Opportunity for software that dynamically adjusts CPU and GPU power targets in the middle of various games, learns the game's power/performance profile and whether it's CPU/GPU bottlenecked, and optimizes perf/watt while maintaining a given FPS target?
This is an extremely shallow and dismissive take, IMO. As someone who has recruited engineers, I can tell you there's a serious diversity problem with the candidate pool itself. At the C-level, it only gets worse. It takes years to even get to the C-suite, which means that white men inherently have a head start, and that it's one of the last places you'd expect to see the effects of diversity initiatives.

That isn't to say there aren't companies that have Chief Diversity Officers who aren't taken seriously, but that's a completely different story.
Plenty of fat or elderly people can ride bikes, especially e-assist bikes. More people can ride bikes than can drive cars… 82M people don’t have drivers licenses in America.

In fact, it’s much more devastating for elderly people in America who can no longer drive due to poor eyesight when the only mode of transportation in a city is by car.

It wouldn’t take much investment (compared to pricy car infrastructure) to make many American cities bike friendly.
Yes, you are right. Bikes make sense only in dense urban areas or if you're relatively close to commerce or work. That's still a big minority of people, but getting onto bikes and out of cars is great where it's a possibility.
This is also a really fun resource, especially the Verilog book and the in-browser IDE:

https://8bitworkshop.com/
There is an old saying "If you want something done right, you have to do it yourself"

I take that to heart. Including what I put in my body. I have little to no faith in modern food. And so I grow my own. I know where it came from and what went into it. And yes, I have had my soil tested.

Rely on modern food at your own peril. You are what you eat, as they say.
The internet never fails to astonish me. Its explicitly a product to facilitate child porn.

It should be shut down.
Microsoft Teams.
What they are doing is using anti-competitive practices, that go against the purpose of anti-trust laws and pro-competition laws.
It can be proven they're not agnostic by doing the bad data test (malware, supposed (not real) child porn). If it gets removed, that's a sign of moderation. And all big, previously known torrent or DHT hosters remove such. Combine it with the fact an %x is illegal content (e.g. copyright infringement) which does not get removed and you have a case.
> We should go back to the roots, forget about competing, focus on what's the best not for the end users but on what's fun for the FOSS developers, and bring back the hobby on open source projects.

I prefer Blender's approach of heavily prioritizing users over developers [0]. It's been a huge success.

[0] https://youtu.be/qJEWOTZnFeg?t=1612
No. It's a shared space.
I don't disagree, but saying my job isn't to write code is like saying a surgeon's job is not to fix people up, or a bricklayer's job is not to lay brick.

Anyone's job can be described as "solving a business problem" or "adding value", but that's not usually the best way to describe it unless you're in a room full of MBAs. (And even a bricklayer's job goes beyond "merely laying bricks".)

IMO, it goes (or should go) without saying that my work output is valuable, and that I do what I do for a reason, and that "writing code" does not encapsulate everything there is to know about the job.
Distributed Postgres goes full open source with Citus: why, what and how
Many state department of transportation groups in the US have camera on roadways all alone their respective state online. They're usually fairly low res, probably to reduce costs and data as they only need to check traffic flow, but they're often public. Check your states DOT website and look for traffic, there could be a treasure trove of cameras.
> Also, bikes (especially individual bikes) are not very compatible with many types of disabilities. We really should keep accessibility in mind when working on Urban areas.

That’s what accessibility-oriented public transit is for. The goal isn’t to replace all transit with bikes; it’s to reduce the dependence on cars by leveraging bikes more to make safer, healthier urban environments.
> I recommend going and collecting some data, Mr. Epistemologist.

My overriding point is that “collecting some data” in this industry is fundamentally faulty.

It’s not that we have zero anecdotes or data. It’s that we can’t know if the little data we have is truly representative of the wider data set.

> You probably know more of those people than you think...

Of course that is likely. That just reinforces my point that there is more that we _don’t_ know about statistics in the industry than we _do_ know.

> That's >x10 right off the bat out of the people I actually know. So that's the bottom estimate.

You haven’t proven that your sample is random, so you have no basis for calling this the floor.

> Is x100 high? Maybe, but not off by an order of magnitude.

How do you know it’s not off by a magnitude?

My whole point with epistemology is that this entire data set is shrouded. We can’t know if our estimates are accurate or not.

Your methodology is clearly not accurate. I don’t have any confidence that mine would be any better. But at least I’m intellectually honest enough to know what I don’t know.
The solution is to let people choose what to produce and what to buy. Best way to ensure they care about the environment is allowing them to take home more than $5000 a month. Best way to get them to produce eco-friendly technologies, is to reduce barriers to entry; Like IP law, which is mostly gamed by big corporations to exclude competition.
Dang that's crazy to think about, this isn't my domain but just made be think about some (older) airplanes ejecting the crew downwards through a hatch to prevent ejection injuries. Don't think that is relevant here, though
Yeah, I flagged it (which killed it) in anticipation of the shit storm I expect to see in the comments an hour or 2 from now.
They only use QT to display onto the screen and get user inputs (also for network requests but that's subject to change)