skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing I didn't share on my community post here https://community.penpot.app/t/penpot-our-time-has-come/1563 was how tough was to find the right VC for us. The conversations started back in Nov 2021 and we received a ton of calls from excited (yet misaligned) VCs. Being used to enjoy total freedom as an employee-owned consultancy company we would quickly turned down most of them because we did see this path that you're describing crisp clear in front of us.

I think what is key for us here is that we, as a company, don't actually own the whole thing. That our open source license and a strong community lead us to a very successful business without having to revert to traditional playbooks. TBH, my biggest concern right now is not trying to convince you that you have to trust us, that would insult your intelligence. No, my biggest concern is how to create an open source community with both designers AND developers (I touch upon this here https://community.penpot.app/t/not-all-communities-are-creat...). This is my personal dream and it has been since I sent $15 to the Free Blender Campaign in 2002 while still a Physics undergraduate. For all these years I thought someone else would create something like Penpot but it kept not happening and some us got a bit nervous, I guess. Thanks for your thoughtful post!
I'll go ahead and say the vast majority of docusign workers are white collar. Other than building maintenance and sales they have no ground game that would require low skill labor.
It doesn't demonetize, it gives the advertisers control over their target audience on a per campaign basis. So depending on what I'm advertising I may or may not want to exclude different types of content from displaying my advertising.

We don't consider it censorship if I want to market to people only in Iowa. It doesn't mean I'm demonetizing people who have content for and about Nebraska. I can also choose not to run my ads on certain apps or websites on a one-off basis.
For what it's worth, CF remains quite good even if you don't use something like Workers, Zaraz, etc. The only real thing that you should be looking at is replacing Page Rules with the newer systems[0-2], however, afaik there is no official deprecation nor sunset date for Page Rules.

0: https://blog.cloudflare.com/dynamic-redirect-rules/

1: https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-cache-rules/

2: https://blog.cloudflare.com/configuration-rules/
> I'm surprised they're both used, from that description it sounds like one would fall by the wayside, like cursive has in North America.

In practice, there are no less than 4 separate scripts that are used in Japanese: hiragana, katakana, kanji, and romaji, and some mix of all 4 can appear in the same sentence.

It's not so much analogous to cursive, which is a different "style" of writing the same "thing" – katakana and hiragana developed at different times for different groups and came to play different roles, and there are (usually) semantic implications to which are used.
>Why is it that the TS100 gets recommended so often?

Because it's a good iron. So is the TS80p.

Pine64 has the Pinecil, a TS100-compatible improved replacement that is RISC-V based.
That's why I said "right now", since I feel that most people have moved from the one you linked to AUTOMATIC's fork by now. hlky's fork (the one you linked) was by far the most popular one until a couple of weeks ago, but some problems with the main developer's attitude and a never-ending migration from Gradio to Streamlit filled with issues made it lose its popularity.

AUTOMATIC has the attention of most devs nowadays. When you see any new ideas come up, they usually appear in AUTOMATIC's fork first.
Here I wanted to illustrate the game Waffle[0], first attempt with Dalle was pretty good, not true for SD:

https://labs.openai.com/s/rCzJwauuiaIj1Pd3IyJGaHS3

Here I wanted an illustration of a nuclear plant in a japanese landscape, first attempt with Dalle produced multiple good results. I tried SD and MJ (back when MJ didn't use SD) as well, had trouble even with multiple attempts:

https://labs.openai.com/s/FxhxtMFe3kFS8msV8vekRAJ3

There are others, but anyway I think my examples are not important since it will be always easy to cherry pick prompts that yield the best results in model X.

In my experience SD is good at producing (especially non-photo-realistic) art that looks pretty and DALL-E is better at following a specific prompt when I know what exactly I want.

Of course I recognise your experience might (and probably does) differ.

[0] - https://wafflegame.net/
> well the problem with the article is basically that they left out a lot of important detail,

The problem with your comment is that you insisted that they gave you enough detail to definitively determine that they were either lying or mistaken.

> There is no way this figure is accurate.
Can confirm this, it's political. It's always great seeing the "rationality" for not doing the right thing. After the 3 outages last December, I can remember a certain person in a certain global outage slack channel laughing at customers who weren't "resilient" enough to withstand the outage. Then AWS focused a resiliency campaign to document all those customers risks, as if AWS's own poorly designed system wasn't the cause for peoples inability to fail over. Glad I'm out of that place, it's super toxic these days.
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So what? Is he actually right, or is he wrong? A good argument delivered badly is still a good argument.
Now, I too would appreciate feedback from people downvoting!
Isn't this just a case of over-fitting? Recent LeCun has perhaps been over-fitted to Marcus's past writing. Maybe some augmentation (with new ideas) will resolve the issue?
I've heard it is used at AWS. I've seen it personally used in crypto on the Cardano blockchain. Leslie Lamport gave a talk at my old workplace and mentioned several big companies in tech and finance that use it but I'm not sure if that is public info.
I hit a paywall. http://archive.today/U6BUV

> [...] whether they have all the critical technologies needed to run a country and its economy.

That's what he seems to mean by "technologically sovereign": apparently, it comes down to being able to build computers from sand and copper ore. Well, if you define "sovereign" that way, then of course the UK can never be sovereign. Napoleon called us a nation of shopkeepers; we've been dependent on trade for 400 years.

Maybe he's just having a go at the new Tory leadership, which has some odd notions about being completely independent of any one else on principle. But if that's it, it doesn't come across in the article.
How I hope it works is that the "PDF mark-up" can be exported as a PDF. This would allow me to insert papers/reports, comment on them and then send them back to students. What I can't do is upload these documents to the cloud - so I hope this is addressed.

In terms of cost, I was hoping for something maybe $200. At $400 it's getting close to a relatively good tablet or even a usable laptop.
It’s too late I personally don’t give a fuck about DALLE when there’s better alternatives easily available now, they missed the boat. The brand is tarnished IMO.
> This provides some efficiency for workers, because there are companies out there who hide ranges and then low-ball really hard

There is an element of psychological warfare introduced by having companies provide hard numbers for what they are willing to pay, especially for industries where employees are less empowered than in tech. By making companies provide salary ranges, you're convincing most employees to not suggest pay that is outside of that boundary. People have a bias towards making choices that appear agreeable, even if it means choosing something like less pay. It's very profitable to convince employees suppress their own pay.
Have you tried medication? It was a life changer for me.

I literally cannot do my job without it.
Is there any way an individual can file a human rights lawsuit against the EU for those cookie banners?
I'm not talking about predicting stock prices. I'm talking about looking backwards.

You said staying at a job for longer than 3 years is committing yourself to wage depression. That's not always true. If you have been at a company for 3 years and were given a 4-year grant at a $10 stock price, but today the stock price is $50, it's unlikely you'll find better compensation by leaving and should probably just stay for year #4.
Thanks for the long comment, there's a few insightful parts, and a few parts i wanted to reply to:

> R2 is actually a CDN. So is S3. Yes, I'm aware, the vending companies also sell different products called CDNs. Nonetheless, R2 and S3 (unlike B2) are CDNs. You can make distributed hits to it across the planet to addresses you don't control. You can hit it directly from the web, and it will serve to you from a local node you never knew anything about. Its goals are speed and locality. You can look up programmers debating whether to use CloudFront or S3 as their CDN based on time to invalidate vs actual speed and cost control.

S3 does not serve you from a local node (by my understanding of 'local'), it always goes to the source AWS region. It can take advantage of availability zones but it is still regional. It is missing the "D" part of "CDN". Perhaps this argument is just semantics, but the conventionally held understanding of "CDN" is that it's much much more widely geo-distributed. Otherwise you're right that they both provide a storage function.

> Wasabi has been around since 2015. B2 isn't really the same kind of thing as R2 or S3.

B2 added an S3-compatible API, so they're now directly comparable.

Other recent entrants in this market are IDrive e2 (4 USD/mo/TB) and Storj (4 USD/mo/TB). It's definitely a competitive market aside from the anti-competitive pressures that keep people using S3 anyway, such as zero-rated transfer within an AWS region to your other AWS resources.

Storj is the closest competitive object-store to a CDN in that it is possible to get data from the nearest geolocated node, although you'll (A) have to use the non-S3-compatible version of their API to do it, and (B) tolerate a certain degree of crypto-adjacency,
Thanks! That was the work of Juan de la Cruz, one of the Penpot UI designers!
$600k is an order of magnitude less than what it cost to train GPT-3 or DALL-E 2.

When that figure came out, the popular talking point was how cheap Stable Diffusion cost to make and how easily a well-funded competitor could create their own custom variant.
There are situations where that kind of art is useful though. People have pointed out that it could work just fine for art for card games like Magic. Probably a lot of board games too.
>An easy example of DALL-E superiority is its ability to combine two different concepts together.

This is a con for some prompts. As an example, I asked for a painting of an elephant and a dog drinking tea together. The result was a dog with an elephant nose next to a teapot.

A similar misfire was the word 'porcupine' which drew pigs, I guess because porc is in it? Anyway, it's idea-blending is a little too aggressive.
I doubt it - GPT-3 is also restricted for users in Ukraine.
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Why not legislate that the vendor must provide a refund in these cases?
This made me think of one of the top posts yesterday:

> Someone is pretending to be me
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32996953

It would be trivial to create a deepfake model to represent the author in interviews and meetings. If your picture is available online, anyone could pretend to be you. Pretty scary.
I wonder what the difference between "customer success" and "customer operations" is here.
> It's time to retire the concept of creating new programming languages to "fix" old ones.

Is LITERALLY the ONLY way to fix a language. No amount of lipstick can fix C/C++, precisely because is an established language (that amounts for any lang in the moment is settled AND widespread).

But C/C++ is unique in a particular way: Their users are the MOST stubborns of all!

And Rust is the first time the arguments for start new things on C/C++ because reasons are not very very small...
I was on the waiting list for a long, long time. The waiting and their "safety" features left a bad taste. Now I can't even be bothered.

Thanks Stable Diffusion!
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Wow! I thought it was a typo for "bizarre"... but now I know
Could any of you clarify to me why do we have "Edge" domain rather than a specific region?
i wrote this piece a while back on how Cloudflare is eating the cloud from "outside in" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28903982
Eng team of 1,500 then, revenue of $1.4m per head
>It's not the thermostat but the power output that matters

If you have the power without the thermostat, you will reach unsafe temperatures and burn what you're not supposed to burn.

PID controllers make a huge difference.
WTF, Microsoft?

You need to specify that you are using Visual C++ Redistributable? That's wild. I thought MS Store should take care of such dependency and install it automatically.
I tried it out a month or 5 ago. And my main concern was in performance. Haven't tried it again since. Might be a good time now to give it another spin.
Where's the guests list though?
The economy today is more competitive than it's ever been. Hiring lots of unneeded employees is one of the easiest ways to obliterate your entire profit margin -- you'll go out of business and your competitors will eat your lunch.

So no, there is absolutely no truth whatsoever to your statement. Of course companies make mistakes and overhire sometimes, just like they make mistakes and underhire sometimes. Nobody can estimate future headcount needs perfectly without a crystal ball.

But the idea that companies are just hiring extra people "because they can" in order to "build empires" and "have reports" is one of the most nonsensical things I've ever heard. And I say this having worked at multiple large companies.
It's a front light technically. Still, the device is self lit or not.
Stable Diffusion is this: https://github.com/CompVis/stable-diffusion

It doesn't have a fancy product website because it's not really a product, it's 'just' the model. Developers can use it to build a product. The Stability.ai people themselves built one called Dream Studio (https://dreamstudio.ai), but there are also some free and open source frontends you can run on your own hardware if you have a GPU.

I guess your confusion comes from the fact that people tend to talk about "Stable diffusion" and not "Dream Studio" or one of the many frontends available for it.
Maybe give this a scan, to understand the impact it had had on AWS as of 2015: https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/tla/amazon-excerpt.html
Why is he in one of the most expensive cities living on the streets when he has enough money to rent for a year?

I have lived in circumstances that I did not prefer but made decisions for safer/stable alternatives only because my survival instinct was stronger than my need to establish my need for freedom. I try to be empathetic but I can’t wrap my head around this kind of logic.
R2 is not globally distributed and neither is S3. All of my S3 buckets are in US-East. See here:
https://community.cloudflare.com/t/cloudflare-r2-doesnt-dist...

R2 is not a CDN. S3 is not a CDN. Both are object stores. They store objects with some redundancy in a local area. CDNs are globally distributed. Object stores usually aren't. You can use an object store for backups and for holding webpages, but that doesn't make them backup services or webservers either. Using only S3 (without deduplication or compression) for backups is ridiculously expensive, and using it as a webserver limits you to a static site.

In terms of the costs, if you are small, the free tiers (and cloud platforms in general) are great. If you are at the point where you are paying $5-10k/month, you are almost certainly overpaying by using cloud services.

Also, you don't even need an object store for a small app. You can use a server with a hard drive if you have a lot of data to store (plus backups and a redundant server in another place for HA). Put a CDN in front of it - a real CDN - and don't worry about it. Pay the monthly cost for the CDN. Also pay for your backups.

It's fine if you want to pay AWS so that you can focus on things other than efficiency. Most SaaS companies make that trade. But you are paying for it.
I think we are trying to take on GitHub Actions' compute side yeah — you'd want to either self-host your own BuildKit or use something like Depot for two major reasons:

1. Several of BuildKit's caching features either require or work best with a local disk. For instance things like `RUN --mount=type=cache` need a persistent disk, which Actions doesn't provide. You can also hit bottlenecks with saving and loading tarball cache from Actions (e.g. cache-from / cache-to) where it takes longer to download and unpack the tarballs compared to omitting the cache. Having a persistent disk makes all this "instant".

2. If you need to build images for ARM CPUs, QEMU in GitHub Actions is really slow. And if you want to build multi-platform images natively (e.g. --platform linux/amd64,linux/arm64), BuildKit needs a simultaneous connection to two native builders. Depot automates all that (it will launch two VMs at once and connect them to the build).

GitHub Actions today also only offers 2 CPUs for the build - they're launching a beta of larger machine sizes currently.
who knew that had a name! i always just called that Jimmy Legs
Yeah, the home page is terrible. They have bigger plans, but for now, it's another machine learning image generation tool. An easy way to try it out is to get an account at http://dreamstudio.ai/.
Y’know…it was clear that the original commenter was telling a story. If you didn’t want to read it, you could’ve stopped. Nobody was making you. :) There are plenty of other comments, and I found this one fascinating; myself.

Maybe it’s just that some of us still have patience - and don’t need things condensed into sound bites or summations for our convenience.
I've invested a fair amount of time into learning TLA+, have bought Hillel Wayne's book (Practical TLA+), and found his stuff super valuable. However, if I could do it again, I would have started in the following order:

- 1. Watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4Yp3j_jk8Q

- 2. Watch all of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p54W-XOIEF8&list=PLWAv2Etpa7...

- 3. Work through examples on https://learntla.com

I'm normally not a huge fan of YouTube over books / web sites, but in this case the best content comes from Lamport himself, and he's presented it as a YouTube Course. Also, the costume changes are hilarious.
What is it with all these comments that think contractual obligations have any weight in a geopolitical dispute like this?
Oh, 100% agree. I read your comment in the wrong context from an above comment. As a non-T1D person I can only guess how shit being low or high feels. So listening to T1D people describe how it feels is very useful for me as a T1D parent.
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He's a fool who hurls criticisms, gets repeatedly disproven, and doesn't actually execute on anything. It's obvious why le cun's words carry more weight; he and his labs get shit done; he speaks from experience, not sophistry.

In other words, Gary Marcus has managed to match some linguistic sub-patterns between two articles, but has not proved he is intelligent.
MIT graduates cannot power a light bulb with a battery. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIhk9eKOLzQ
I think there is also certain amount location specific regulatory and marketing work.
Funny, Tucker Carlson is still being broadcasted to millions of americans most nights. Where is this supposed "cancellation" of people who are critical of the war in Ukraine?

If what you're speaking about is free people exercising their freedom to associate (or not!) with you, everyone has a right to not associate with someone they don't like, barring very specific exceptions, and people may not like you for your opinion, meaning an opinion you have can lead to you being ostracized. For example, if my employer were to hire someone who used to be a local head of the KKK, I would likely be up in arms about that. Lot's of very conservative workplaces often feel the same about other things. Think about what happens when people who work for hobby lobby get upset about their employer's policies.

This isn't "cancel culture", it's literally humans being humans the same way we've done for 100,000 years. Hell, even monkeys make outgroups.
Free speech is only in reference to government restrictions not private platforms
The problem is that once you accept VC funding you are no longer doing it for the customers but for the shareholders.

It doesn't matter what your end goal is, their end goal is to 10x or more their investment, full stop.

Whatever you do that gets in the way of that will result in you being removed.

So congrats on the funding I guess?
I have a SuperNote that is a decent PDF viewer and notetaker.

https://goodereader.com/blog/reviews/supernote-a5x-digital-n...
Stable Diffusion is an image generation model that's been released to the public at large. If you have a decent GPU, you can run the model yourself. (Even without a decent GPU technically you can still do it, though it's much slower)
customer success is probably the long term, proactive activities: keep the customer happy, manage renewals, be proactive.

customer operations is probably the short term customer interactions: support tickets, integration support, help desk, etc.
I agree. I have switched cloud environments at work in the past, and it required a lot of efforts. However we switched towards standard Kubernetes to have more flexibility in the future.

Also sometimes you don't want to minimise the cost but use the best services or reduce the risks. Let's say I go full on Azure, but after a year or two GCP offers a much better product for my use case. I will have to ignore it because it's too expensive to switch. Or if I go full on GCP/Firebase but suddenly the pricing model changes and it becomes overpriced. I will have to eat the cost for some time.

However, if I'm careful to avoid vendor lock-ins from the start, it will probably cost a bit more on average, but the maximum cost is much lower and I don't risk being stuck with a bad service.

In practice I will for example avoid to write code specific to the proprietary Azure Blob Storage API, but use an S3 compatible object storage instead. I will also rather have an abstraction layer than using AWS SQS or GCP pub/sub directly.
Sure, some people can find it useful but IMHO that's not a product, at least a good one. Consider how much more universally useful are other products like Photoshop or Blender.

I think a major problem is reproducibility and output controllability. Rolling the dice multiple time and using some of the outputs is not good enough for most applications.

Maybe this can be solved at some point but it's not at this moment. The advantage of Stable Diffusion is that it can be possible for someone to implement it, with OpenAI this feature doesn't exist and its not useful until they implement it.