skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hesitated posting this, because I don't want to be too negative, but: ugh. ChromeOS is just more Google adware/tracking-ware, locking people into the Google ecosystem, and (by default, at least) creating a more locked-down environment than a general-purpose OS would have (not quite iOS or even Android, but still not with the flexibility of a "mainstream" OS). I feel like Framework could be spending their time doing much better things. Granted, if they believe that this will be a big boost to their bottom line / margins / sustainability, then I'm in favor of it on the grounds of helping make sure Framework is a successful company.

My hope was that this is just running on the standard Framework laptop hardware, but it looks like it required a bit of a mainboard redesign, as well as a different input cover and keyboard. Extra hardware like that just makes their offering more difficult for a customer to navigate and understand, not to mention the added support and manufacturing burden on the company's side.
> The trick with Wasabi is that you are generally expected to not retrieve more than you’ve input in the same month, no?

No. It's basically one download of all your data in 1 month [1].

> For example, if you store 100 TB with Wasabi and download (egress) 100 TB or less within a monthly billing cycle, then your storage use case is a good fit for our policy. If your monthly downloads exceed 100 TB, then your use case is not a good fit.

In my experience it's an excellent fit for backups if you run disaster recovery tests quarterly on each set and have enough sets to run on a rotating, monthly schedule. You're only downloading about 25% per month at that point.

1. https://wasabi.com/paygo-pricing-faq/#free-egress-policy
Uhh...about a decade too late, there...
If you count the GPU component and memory bandwidth, the Apple M2 is slightly weaker on paper for 16-bit inference than the NVIDIA A2, if you manage to use the whole chip efficiently. The A16 is then slightly weaker than the M2.

Sure, the Whisper Tiny model is probably going to be fast enough, but from my preliminary results I'm not sure it will be any better than other models that are much much faster at this power class.

Whisper Large looks pretty cool, but it seems much harder to run in any meaningful realtime fashion. It's likely pretty useful for batch transcription though.

Even if you hit a realtime factor of 1x, the model can leverage up to 30 seconds of future audio context. So at 1x, if you speak for 10 seconds, you'll potentially need to wait another 10 seconds to use the result. This kind of latency is generally unsatisfying.
If Fox news helds a viewer call-in poll on whether or not we should glass Iran, they could probably get at least a 30% positive response rate.

It would tell me a lot about how successful pro-war propaganda is among it's viewership, but very little about what is likely to be done by the department of state.
You have hedge funds like Tiger Global who are now leading/investing in early stage rounds. Anyone with capital can now play “VC”.
Chicken/egg. Populations that share poverty traits practice collectivism to survive. But collectivism is a local maximum that prevents stronger traits from capturing benefit, and thus inhibits them from taking hold.

In the long run, non-collectivist populations develop an advantage through hard times and environments. Collectivist populations subsist, and nothing more.
Yes. I like to think of the AGPL as modifying the distribution part of the GPL to include direct network access by users. The "viral" part is the same between the two and is still linking code into a single program. AGPL libraries aren't very common, so it doesn't come up often.
salawat (above) does a pretty good job of stating the case
> Where it really digs is when you are 1.5 weeks into writing an in depth project plan, meeting with other engineers, coordinating cross teams, researching, reviewing code etc. you better have a good explanation why your delivery over time graph has a big flat spot.

That's 95% of what I do in my company. I guess by Meta's standards I'm not working?
Ran it on Juicy by The Notorious B.I.G and results were considerably worse than my mix of prog-rock and british invasion music I had tried before, though at least some of that is due to the number of proper-nouns in that song.

It took about 1000 CPU-minutes for this 5 minute song on my Ryzen 2700 with 12 OpenMP threads (about 100 minutes wall-clock).
Alas no. And I haven't been able to tickle it again in the right way to get those images out.

The invocation of that run is still in my scroll back:

(venv) shagie@MacM1 stable-diffusion % python scripts/txt2img.py --prompt "wolf with bling walking down a street" --n_samples 6 --n_iter 1 --plms
Global seed set to 42
Loading model from models/ldm/stable-diffusion-v1/model.ckpt
Global Step: 470000
LatentDiffusion: Running in eps-prediction mode
DiffusionWrapper has 859.52 M params.
making attention of type 'vanilla' with 512 in_channels
Working with z of shape (1, 4, 32, 32) = 4096 dimensions.
making attention of type 'vanilla' with 512 in_channels

That's the only spot I see the seed mentioned and then it goes on with lots of other logging but nothing seed related that would indicate a way to reproduce it.

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(late edit) you can fairly accurately (so far 1 image out of 20) get that image out with the prompt "Rick Astley Never Gonna Give You Up"
If nothing else, the ability to exist for more than ${radius of black hole, in light-seconds} seconds is necessary in order for evolution to work.
> The ones that stood up are spending 15 years in a jail system known for torture and rape of men

Aren't the russian armed forces are also known for torturing and raping their own conscripts and soldiers? With reports from captured soldiers on how russian officers are systematically killing wounded soldiers?
I like what Ruby on Rails 7 has done with Hotwire and Stimulus. All html is rendered server side. If you need client side interactions, you can mount lightweight components using plain JavaScript.
How much GPU ram did it use?
The comment I replied to was explicitly inviting speculation and long-term ideas.
> Setting "noErrorTruncation": true, as proposed in the previous answer, does not work for this question as asked.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62508909/vs-code-how-to-...
> Hence Lavrov constantly crowing about the hypocrisy of "the west." It's not that they think what the US empire has done is immoral. It's that they (and by they I don't mean the Russian people, but instead a select cadre at the top) want the same thing for themselves.

Yes. What Lavrov doesn't understand is that the West isn't an empire, it's a series of states with similar cultures and political and economic systems, that voluntarily choose to work together. But Russia doesn't seem to realise that there are other ways of getting people to do what you want than brutality and threats.
Sounds pretty reasonable to me. If you don't like it that our company allows freely talking about anything, you can leave to find a coddling safe space you are seeking.
Microsoft focuses entirely on MVP (minimum viable product) and they expand their use-cases to include more features at a minimal amount of effort.

Polish and use-ability don't matter when they can sell anything if it has XYZ feature.

If you look at the teams roadmap it's more and more features.
Star Citizen has officially reached half a billion in funding
as a manager what do you say there to the report
Can't even copy and paste code etc

What a joke.
Imagine just saving every web page your computer ever browsers, forever.
> If the purpose of your site is to show content to a human, then anything on the page that isn't the content the human wants to see is bells and whistles.

Sure, but a) the purpose is rarely just to show content, one of the great strengths of the web is interactivity. b) often a lot of what's in the HTML (and especially the CSS) isn't the content the human wants to see.
housing affordability crises around IT hubs? (sure, the ultimate cause is fear of density, but the proximate cause was a lot of income concentrating in so relatively few people's hands in relatively small areas.)

notice that the real problem is the supply-demand inequality, not that real wages went up for a sector. (and to have a crisis it's almost always necessary for some other conditions to be present to make this one particular imbalance a very significant one that then drives other markets, eg. in case of housing that condition is the artificially very limited supply.)

the COVID stimulus checks were big, but not that big individually compared to the US economy, sectors, regions. people who needed it spent it, who did not put it into meme stocks, or bought something, inflating the price of luxury stuff like high end GPUs. that's most of it. (around 2020 July)

what put the whole economy into a freefall was ~1M excess dead and the rising energy prices giving a big speedup to the already falling supply-side dominos.
This is a good excuse to reinforce a basic point about quantum physics: regardless of pop explanations of things like the Copenhagen interpretation, consciousness clearly cannot possibly be essential to the phenomena it describes.

Quantum effects structure, explain, and influence ubiquitous and ancient parts of our world, like the periodic table and DNA. Things that have existed for billions of years without any conscious being observing them.
Or put the simpler way: salt makes the icewater colder than 0C, and cream needs to be about 0F to freeze.

The ions from the salt get in the way of water molecules aligning to crystallize into ice. When salted ice melts, the water can't refreeze as readily because the saline isn't pure water anymore and because the freezing point is colder. As more ice melts, more heat is absorbed, bringing the temperature down even lower. (https://www.thoughtco.com/how-cold-does-ice-get-with-salt-40...)
No, I left Dropbox 5 years ago.

But it might be easy to add? https://github.com/dropbox/dropbox-sdk-js/blob/main/src/drop...

Make sure to always set the URL parameter "reject_cors_preflight=true", which will make sure you're not inadvertently triggering pre-flight requests.
Buy a replacement! ;-)
My main workstation up until 2005 or something was probably less computing power than the smartphone you use today.
These types of tests tend to be unfair to actual web apps, since they only really account for first-time-use.

Twitter is slow in this experiment because it has to load a bunch of JavaScript up front. But that's not the case in practical use! Twitter uses service workers and HTTP cache headers (e.g. `expires`) to make sure that most non-first-time-users aren't actually loading most things every time. Client-side rendering isn't the thing that's slow here, it's mostly the re-downloading of the rendering code every time when that's not realistic.
>> The rate has a huge impact on the monthly payment required to service a loan

Which means people with 2% mortgage rates aren't going to be likely to sell their houses and buy another one at 7%. Which puts upward pressure on house prices due to fewer houses on the market. You have both demand and supply effects.

In the past in the US, nominal house prices haven't gone down during periods of rising interest rates. Maybe it will be different this time, maybe it won't.
...not to mention its environmental impact.

Docker requires to pull a 1GB image to run a 1MB binary.

Increases of 100x to 1000x are pretty common and moving data around is quite harmful.
>in the final years of the Queen's life, her accent reverted to be more similar to the way she spoke in her youth.

Not surprising at all. The trick here is to realise three things:

1) People change quite a bit the way that they speak, when they're paying attention to their own speech; that's called "monitored speech".

2) For most individuals, non-monitored speech is rather consistent over the years. The way that you spoke in your early childhood will likely be the same as you speak in your old age; disregarding changes caused by physiology (as vocal folds , everything else will be rather subtle.

3) As you get older, you learn the amazing art of not giving enough of a fuck about irrelevant shit; such as monitoring your own speech. And your public image is pretty much set on stone, too, so there's less of a reason to monitor it.

Elizabeth II's non-monitored "default" was that distinctive upper class accent, as expected from someone who was literally raised as a princess. However that accent might be slightly undesirable when you're a queen, as it creates a distance between you and the population, so she slowly "mainstreamised" it under monitored speech. However, as she got older, she stopped monitoring her own speech so much, so she reverted back to her default.
The difference between what this transparency report provides and what a money market fund provides (cusip level detail on everything it holds) is not evidence it’s fabricating numbers but it’s certainly alarming.

If you had a fund that provided that report instead of their normal reports it would have investors headed for the hills (independent of the regulatory requirements).
I am not a zoom user, but I do use the "write on someone else's screen" feature quite often in slack when screen-sharing, and what you're describing in teams sounds like utter crap.
It wasn’t framed as an opinion. And even if it was, I’m saying I think it is wrong and I want to know why I should change my mind.

The fact is that CloudFlare distinguishes abuse (DDoS at IP layers 3 and 4) completely separately from bot detection. And it allows user controls to domain owners to allow some bots like Google Search Crawler.

So my statement stands: I want to see a citation of evidence that CloudFlare doesn’t have the ability to distinguish abuse.
Most of the usage I've seen or even tried myself is like "Sonic the hedgehog doing a kickflip". It kind of makes it obvious in my opinion that yeah, this is pretty much not right. Even worse I'm seeing things like "Sonic the hedgehog artstation in the style of (artist xyz)". Is it just ripping artists images from art station without explicit permission?
copyright doesn't apply. Nothing was copied.

The AI was trained in the same way you trained your brain when you look at something. Nothing is copied. Nothing immoral was done. No law was broken.
When I went down a conversational thread with GPT-3 the bot took on the persona of a young man studying therapy in university. I asked the bot what inspired it to peruse therapy and it said “a traumatic event in my past” inspired it to help others. I asked what this traumatic event was and it said he (it) tried to kill himself…

It did get me wondering if gpt3 somehow had access to like therapy transcripts or something… alternatively though - I’m sure there have been like a million Reddit threads that trained it to say something like that.
Kudos! you guys tweaked the sales pitch in a single day!
Segregation is the easiest path here, similar to how centralization is simpler than a peer-to-peer system. But it's just an incentive among the many, so there's no reason to reach that extreme. For example with GDPR, some American news sites just flat-out deny serving the pages to European IPs, but not all of them - many show a different presentation (like NPR), or otherwise tailor the website to make it compliant.
> If Russia throws badly trained, led, equipped and supplied troops into battle, their losses are likely to be horrendous and their morale rock bottom.

Russia's strategy seems taken straight out of Zapp Brannigan's Art of War, where they are banking on Ukraine's arms supplies to eventually run out after spending them all wiping out wave after wave of Russia's "badly trained, led, equipped and supplied troops" until there's no resistance left.

Starting from day 1, Russia has been sending unwitting and unequiped conscripts through the Ukraine frontlines until they draw contact.
I wonder how many of these complaints are due to Teams itself or if it's due to the crappy "corporate" builds deployed to the PCs? My guess is that it's more due to the crappy corporate builds since I've seen so many of them that don't have up-to-date drivers (or have missing drivers), and many of them have multiple competing security scanning software, along with over-strict policies and restrictions that affect Teams.
ML tending to make weird mistakes rather than subtle ones that make sense in context like human transcribers is likely to make them easier to spot.

And there are humans in the loop too, and an enormous amount of redundancy in the questions and answer, so even plausible false transcriptions will get picked up on if they matter. Nobody gets sent to jail simply because the transcription process - human or machine - accidentally substitutes "I did it" in place of "I didn't" midway through a two hour interview.
When I think “reliability” I think “does it perform the act consistently?”

Consistently slow is still reliability.
Anecdotally I tend to agree with the author. But this really isn't a great way of comparing cloud services.

The fundamental problem with cloud reliability is that it depends on a lot of stuff that's out of your control, that you have no visibility into. I have had services running happily on AWS with no errors, and the next month without changing anything they fail all the time.

Why? Well, we look into it and it turns out AWS changed something behind the scenes. There's a different underlying hardware behind the instance, or some resource started being in high demand because of some other customers.

So, I completely believe that at the time of this test, this particular API was performing a lot better on AWS than on GCP. But I wouldn't count on it still performing this way a month later. Cloud services aren't like a piece of dedicated hardware where you test it one month, and then the next month it behaves roughly the same. They are changing a lot of stuff that you can't see.
Pretty much, yeah. The entire idea of capitalism was completely different from previous systems like feudalism. There you were loyal to a lordship and did what was needed and they provided for you. You consumed in the outputs and this is largely how you were compensated.

The idea of capitalism is that you trade your labor/expertise/skills for a wage. You don’t own the means of production and you don’t own the outputs of them. Your labor is sold on the market and you are free to bargain and negotiate and step away.

So yea, there’s no reason at all to be loyal. It’s a beautiful system that way. It’s liberty and freedom to do as you choose. To decide if you value personal time or working for money.
>> it seems that mortgages have generally been less expensive than rent?

This is very location-dependent. In some cities it is true, it some it isn't, in some it depends on the segment of the market.
> Yes, spinning up machines on GCP is incredibly fast and has always been. AWS is decent.

FWIW this article is saying the opposite--it's AWS that beats GCP in startup speed.
The funniest part of Kiwifarms is that they look and act like the people they make fun of.
Like any of your great grand parents would be absolutely scared of actual you and stuff you do on a daily basis, at first.
If trends continue, there will be 10 billion Amish in 100 years.
It’s Teams. On a intel Mac with no management software, it is a shitty, buggy mess.
A better metaphor would be copying and then claiming that you created the original art. Studying can explain but does not replace the subject of study. Producing a painting based in previous paintings can create further problems.

In art is very common that some author review their own work and made several paintings of the same subject. Artists made several attempts to conquer a panting, they draw studios or use different mediums. Photographers reproduce one portrait 20 years later to see how the subject changed. If you insert an IA image in the middle and copyright it, then any posterior painting on the same subject, even by the original author, would became derivative of the IA image that replaced it. This could even go so far as excluding the artists to review their most successful works.
It seems entirely fair to me, but the term "reliability" has a few different angles. This time it's not about working or not working, but the ability to auto-scale by invoking resources on the spot, which can be a very real requirement.
We aren't heading to extinction just on account of birthrates, it's the transition phase with a large number of elderly dependents and a small number of workers that is going to be the real problem.
It's not the service that's unavailable. The resource isn't available. The service is running just fine.
There is risk, but it is not as risky as an investment where you sink and swim together.

With a conventional loan, if your borrower sinks, they still owe you the money. Lender would have collateral to possess. There is still an outstanding amount of debt that needs to be paid.

Insurance is not permitted under Islamic finance as it falls under transactions that have excessive uncertainty. There is no guarantee what the outcome is for an insurance transaction. It is like gambling, you make a bet with the insurance company such that you pay $xxx a month. If the contracted event happens (or never occurs), there is a financial winner and a loser. If in total I pay less premiums than the cost of the event, I "win". If I pay more in total for an event, I stand to make a loss and the insurance company benefits.

Interest seeks to empower people who have money by making them more and more richer. It exacerbates price of essentials such that the only way to acquire is through a usurious loan. House price are in the hundreds of thousands because people have been "temporarily" handed have hundreds of thousands. If interest loans didn't exist, then houses would be at prices which people can afford through their salary.
I used to work at a Fortune 50 company and found stack ranking...kinda fair. I used to be a high performer, made real ROI impacts, helped others and had a strong sense of initiative. I'd come out with a better raise, stock options and had opportunities to take on more responsibility.

It was more honest and straightforward than what silicon valley and Big Tech pretends to do. It is all ranking in some ways. Everything is. If you remove the facade, fundamentally you have a limited resource and you want to reward people that make the company successful. I don't see anything wrong with that. Doing anything else is wrong and unfair IMO.
This happens because of how Microsoft approaches product development and design. On many product teams, PMs end up doing not only the product design decisions but even designs much of the products themselves.

This works for them because it focuses product cycles on releasing what "matters" to the customer, but it ends up cutting craft and quality. This makes their products poor to use, but is also what drives revenue into their hands.

They don't really need to be the best or the fastest. They just have to have decent products that aren't the worst (I prefer Teams over Webex), and glom those products together into an affordable package.

For better or worse, Microsoft product suites are like the Olive Garden of the product world.

edit: whoa, got more comments than I thought. For disclosure, I did a brief stint as a PM intern there way back in the day. Wanted to join as a UX designer intern, but got shoe-horned into the PM role
There's nothing intrinsically wrong with debt. It just needs to be handled (regulated) appropriately -- no easy task, to be sure -- but consider that debt is traditionally what has enabled people with good ideas to make big bets that paid off for both them and their employees. Most small businesses (most of Americans work for small business) are founded on debt.
Historians of science have too many big pictures, not too few (2016)
Downsides of Inadequate OSS Processes/Licenses in Standards Organizations