skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anecdotally, it runs twice as fast and with 20% lower VRAM use on my machines than it did when I first experimented with it in the first week after release. I no longer need to hyper-optimize memory use (as a layman!) and patch that optimized model into web-frontends that don't come with it to get it to run on a 4gb card, there are flags now that make it "Just Work"™. Down from 90s/512²img -> ~35s. Exited to try it out on some AMD APU's when I've got time to see if that can outperform my dedicated but ancient 4gb card.
There definitely is an offline mode for Google Docs [1]. And since it uses Operational Transform (OT) [2] instead of CRDT, theoretically they could be customizing the handling of a coming back online event.

IMO CRDT seems to be the "easy way" to make the output look consistent, but when it comes to interactions that may have semantics, then one may want to go the OT route. My impression is that CRDT is better suited for distributed computing applications.

[1] https://support.google.com/docs/answer/6388102?hl=en&co=GENI...

[2] https://drive.googleblog.com/2010/09/whats-different-about-n...
Wow, Docusign has 7400 employees on only $622M in gross revenue?

For comparison, consider Cisco, a company most people think of as a bloated dinosaur... it has ~75000 employees on a gross revenue of $51.557B for FY22.

So roughly 10x the employees, but 83x the gross revenue. And this is Cisco, hardly a tech darling at this point.

What the hell do 7400 people do at Docusign?
That’s going to be most of them, as most are drug addicts. And no I don’t have any stats for you, frankly just walk around SF or Portland, it’s obvious.
I've run thousands of prompts with DALL-E 2, thousands with Midjourney, and probably hundreds with Stable Diffusion.

My (very qualitative) feeling is that DALL-E 2 is good with composition and realism (e.g. generating photographs — you'll still get artefacts but it's less likely to look "computer graphics-y"), and is quite forgiving (you will usually end up with an image that makes sense).

Midjourney had a recent update and can now produce beautiful images with far more detail and realism than DALL-E 2 in some cases, especially for human and animal faces, but excels more on the computer art side of things. (Midjourney now has a community showcase gallery: https://www.midjourney.com/showcase/)

Stable Diffusion is a bit less forgiving than both, in my experience. Some people are able to create stunning images, but you have to invest more time into figuring out what works best.

I'm currently looking into taking images generated with DALL-E 2, then using them as a starting point for Stable Diffusion to add detail. It works partciualrly well for cartoon-style images.

For example:

- Original DALL-E 2 image of a horse in a city: https://i.imgur.com/CaNHHR7.jpeg

- That image used as a starting point for Stable Diffusion: https://i.imgur.com/EW1iKOO.png and https://i.imgur.com/VOQ35Oz.png

You can see it significantly cleans up the artefacts the original DALL-E 2 image had. (Note: the original DALL-E 2 image is 1024 pixels square, but Stable Diffusion generated a 512 square output.)
Not a ton of savings, tbh. You have to eat out every meal, deal with your shit getting stolen, lost sleep, probably lowered social status leading to less desirable jobs. Being poor is expensive.
On the ground in a city determined to kill people with its liberal drug policies I can say this housing-first does NOT save junkies. Its main benefit is to provide people who do not know the conditions and the costs a way to attack those of us who do. Read the wiki page - their examples are primarily before 2010 when the opioid crisis really kicked in and many of the examples are about alcohol addiction - not hard drugs.

You can't give a junkie anything you don't want them to trade for drugs. If you give them an apartment they'll sell the plumbing fixtures and everything else. They'll also go back to sleeping outside, right next to where they procure their fentanyl, because nothing but acquiring and using matters.

Vancouver and SF also both insist you can't give someone a dingy basement suite (like many of their residents actually pay for and live in) but you have to give them a bright cheery condo in an expensive area. All done seemingly to avoid ever having enough money to house more than a few people. Housing first isn't actually being tried, in a way that taxpayers or foreign drug-policy experts would expect.

It's more about the careers of the literal thousands of people, poverty pimps, who "manage" the problem every day, and the power it gives them in city council to make sweeping decisions for the city. The number of lives lost positively correlates with dollars spent because the money goes to feel-good nonsense and bandaids, and actually counter-productive measures like fentanyl vending machines which have been proven to increase, not replace, street crime.
> * why anyone would *

Just to give you some context as a counterexample, I often need to read 10-50 pages of dense, size 10, double column scientific PDFs with many graphs and figures. These documents, which are typically either A4 or letter size, look abysmal at nearly any scale <90%. Color is also regularly required to parse many graphs properly.

I use my Kindle exclusively for reading documents which are primarily lightly-formatted text (e.g. novels, textbooks, etc) but it's atrocious for PDFs. When needed, I switch to an iPad Pro that I use exclusively for reading (and annotating) these PDFs, which is likewise horrible for reading "regular" text.
You should see how much money BigTech is earning being paid to spread disinformation during Brazil elections.
The Chinese government, whose cash piles are even larger, has been unsuccessfully trying to do that for decades (i.e., produce semiconductors on the Chinese mainland high-end enough to go into a notebook computer that can compete on the global market).
Ya, China's Zero COVID policy has reversed this trend for sure. It isn't just getting lockdown that people are worried about, but the inability to freely travel without a long quarantine at the end of the trip.
It's nuts that Tandy still exists: https://tandyleather.com
One time I was doing research on some really cheap data centers in basically 3rd world countries. Just out of curiosity to see how cheap it could really get.

One of the companies had a picture of one of their "datacenters." It was something like 10 racks in a moldy unfinished basement with visible water on the floor of what I'm guessing was a residential building. Maybe they had mopped the floor for the picture?

I thought it was strange they would put that picture on their site and not some GCI or something. I guess at least you know they are not lying about being a real place?
Russia has good geopolitical reasons for invading Ukraine. The failure of NS2 is arguably also a contributing factor for going on this path.
Plenty of leaks out there that aren't a part of some strategy, sometimes it is just a leak.
Yeah, you can't just change from one fingerprint to another - you either have to erase your fingerprint (such that you look identical to someone else), or generate random ones and cycle through them. The anti-web-tracking people have been wrestling with this one for a bit.
I'm not asking for their beliefs, just an example.
Personalization is the missing part of content curation
Something about SF is a draw for homeless people.

According to a 2019 survey [0], only 70% of people were living in SF prior to being homeless, and of those 70%, approximately half had lived in SF for less than ten years.

To me, that's staggering if 30% of the homeless population was already homeless before they moved to SF, and if another 30% became homeless within 10 years of moving to SF.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness_in_the_San_Franci...
This is a reference to the film Brazil[0], which centers on a labyrinthine bureaucracy

[0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088846/
I don't understand. If your income is that high and you're saving 25% after 30 years you should have more than enough to retire?

What rate are you modeling your investment returns at?
Yep, I've been to the Norman Rockwell museum and read through his books. There's a great image of him posing for the native american falling off the cliff in the lower left (https://www.flickr.com/photos/80651083@N00/3638416661)
I'm not asking for your beliefs, just an example.
In my experience, DALL·E has generated much better images, but people have varying opinions. Stable Diffusion is more configurable, so you might be able to tinker with it to get what you want more whereas DALL·E just works pretty decently.
There are trivial ways to strip the DRM though. And I always do that regardless if the DRM is native for my device.

If that wasn't an option I'd never buy a single ebook.
I participated in multiple sla penalty payments requests on the customer side and never once we even discussed status page color
And why do the US and European governments care more about how scared Taiwan is than the security of their access to high-end semiconductors?
Denis Davydov
I remember when Amun-Ra personally attacked me the first time. What with the calendar and the clock, oye nothings ever enough for the schmuck. He'd have my legs for their ability to atrophy my arm strength if he'd have his way, making me look like a Glukkon
I mean that's the status quo right now so we might as well formalize it and reduce the side effects.
See also https://www.instructables.com/Turners-Cube-Manual-Machine/
Cancel culture has nothing to do with the govt. Half the govt was against masks and lockdowns.
Not just boosted posts but astroturfed ads as well. If Kim Kardashian shares a story about some senatorial candidate punting puppies (that she was paid under the table for), then will that be punished as well? I fear that Facebook is just moving the problem from paid ads to astroturfed ads.
That's been part of my anti-censorship arguments for a very long time. There's no technological reason why your phone calls can't be monitored and controlled just like any other medium, such as Facebook, Youtube or Twitter.
I used emscripten to make physics and math software written in Fortran available to my JavaScript program. I would've used wasm, but it was in poor shape back when I wrote the software. There are a lot of things besides games and graphics written in C/C++ that can be used in JavaScript as a result of emscripten and wasm.
> frankly just walk around SF or Portland

Have you considered that you only notice the addicts and mentally ill? Because they don't give a shit about being seen as homeless. Everyone else is probably trying to keep up appearances by hanging out in libraries or coffee shops during the day.
Probably for their AI team. No, their NFT team. Uhhhh I meant their metaverse team.
Brazil is Amazon's internal build system. Not sure what GP is talking about here.
I think this comment is a good example of why such an AI would be nigh impossible to implement, at least in a way to be meaningful. When I read this comment, at a high level it's very original like something GPT-3 could create. But this comment has meaning that GPT-3 gibberish wouldn't. Basically I think I'm implying that such an AI would effectively be AGI.
That was maybe true in the first months of the war. Western audiences have not been asked about the actions taken by heads of state and NATO for months. I dont think anyone believes that ukraine is going to retake its full territory, nor that they should. There will be growing skepticism during the winter
Ah. Looks like I took the question fairly literally and didn’t think about the MITM part. No idea about that.
Cisco will probably buy Penpot and maintain it the same way after how Zoom bought Keybase. Microsoft will just buy Lunacy instead [0].

[0] https://icons8.com/lunacy
Quite a few commenters note (correctly) that non-salary compensation is a big part of tech compensation. This law isn't for you. This law is for "normal" jobs. Teachers, admin assistants, truck drivers, nurses, logistics people, etc. These are jobs that are almost entirely salary or an hourly wage for which pay transparency is incredibly useful in stopping people getting taken advantage of.

To show you how this matters a lot of remote jobs were previously advertised as "not available to residents of Colorado". Why? Because Colorado had a similar pay transparency requirement. California is a much bigger fish so it's going to be much harder to do this. If you have Oregon, Washington, New York and the Northeast follow suit it'll become a de facto norm in non-disclosing states.

I fully support empowering workers.
My experience is that with prompts that fit into OpenAI's limiting content policy DALL-E text2img results are usually much better. And I use SD like 95% of the time, so it's not the case that I would be more used to DALL-E.
Cynically I'd say it's because high-end semiconductors aren't as important to national security as people think they are.
This is pretty neat! Can also you use DALL-E mini/Craiyon to help with prompts or that going to be way off?
Satoshi here we come
> Honest question: what is a real world use case for writing PHP or Python programs on a tiny laptop with a 7" display that wouldn't be better served by a 13" laptop

A computer you can take everywhere when you need to squeeze in extra computer-time into any unplanned free moment opportunistically (e.g. Leetcode practice, dissertation crunch), or being on call and only need ssh & chat access 24/7.

I carried a high-DPI 7" tablet with a keyboard case to good effect. It was less of a physical burden than lugging around a 13-incher, and was inconspicuous when outdoors or places I may have felt unsafe carrying a laptop
I really want one of these, but not for $400-ish. I think the sweetspot for me would be around $150-ish. Fully understand if it's not achievable.
And I didn't mean to reply so aggressively, but I don't think they're relevant. Pick one of the common heresies and assume I'm suffering from it.
Dr. Malcolm Betruger: Amazing things will happen here soon, you just wait.

Took a while but he was right.
Just curious - what did you not like about svelte?
> And I live and work in/near San Francisco and it's plenty a shit show depending on neighborhood

I mean, you can stop right there. Our cities should not be like that. We need to have higher standards than that.
Modern horizontal hiragana and katakana are not complex or huge scripts, there are several dozen base characters (of one or two different widths) and two or so accent marks. There might be no spaces, you break lines whenever they run out without considering word boundaries. I expect anything capable of dealing with Latin should be able to handle this, and it hardly deserves the name of "shaping".

(Adding kanji into the mix somewhat complicates matters, as there are so many potential characters you cannot just blindly cache the rasterization of every one of them and never throw any away, but that's also not the degree of complexity you get from Arabic and such.)
/proc predates plan9, plan9 just made it hierarchical

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procfs#History
I think it's something you have to experience to understand. I wound up unexpectedly fired from a job when I didn't have much money. I rented a tiny room like you and hated it.

So I bought a shitty car and slept in the forest. The car finally broke down. I wound up homeless. I found out I really loved the forest and spending my time outdoors. I loved to spend months at a time in tents, coming into town to do day labor. Really it's a life I dream of nearly daily now that I have responsibilities to my family that keep me chained to a desk 5 days a week, and to a child during the weekends.

Only once you've been homeless you realize the problems of the homeless are typically the reason why they became homeless - drugs/addiction, mental illness, criminal record, lack of skills for employment. I had none of those problems really, so to me it was just a new adventure, except I could go practically anywhere I wanted and just enjoy travelling. I knew how to live outdoors and can easily adapt a tarp for inclement weather so for me it was just fun, for real! But I know it isn't that way for someone who doesn't want that life. I could always just pick up a day of day labor, and after a couple weeks of that afford to rent another room -- many people have personal problems that keep them from doing that.
Same with Fly.io, SQLite, Hetzner, etc. Hackernews is a pretty effective way to advertise to developers.
If you think that the elan school and where it got its teachings were genuinely psychiatric best practice at the time those projects were created, then you know nothing of the field of psychology.
I always had issues with this particular counter, because it assumes that you cannot create a sufficiently good back door-creating AI/heuristic machine that can also fit in the unused spaces in our systems and binaries without being noticed. That’s a big ‘if’, looking ahead into the deep future especially that our knowledge of autonomous agents and storage keeps growing.
NATO Says Sabotage Behind Destruction of Natural Gas Pipelines
I'm in the same boat as you.

I'm not sure exactly what, "whether they have all the critical technologies needed to run a country and its economy", means.

When I think "critical technologies" I think of a lot of what SilverBirch was bringing up.

When I think of, critical technologies [...] to run a country and its economy, I think of things like: EMS, traffic lights, the stock market, electricity, etc.

Similarly, saying something like "economy" could either mean, "businesses specific to Britain", or, "the 'economic climate' of Britain, which is influenced by a global market".

Example:

Can a technology firm start up in Britain? Absolutely. They might even do well, depending on how they're run.

Can a technology firm start up in Britain and immediately sustain the current economy that British Citizens are currently accustomed to? That's a bit of a taller order.

It's hard to get a feel for exactly what is meant by how the statement was worded. Any country can compete, but without the global resources provided by businesses that exist across the world, any local-only upstart is going to struggle to be competitive in any part of any market.
Having worked in a couple of those so called advanced economies, I would say the following are the main reasons:

1) subcontractor scheduling. A plumber needs to wait for the tiler to finish and the tiler needs to wait for the dryliner to finish. Multiple companies with multiple sites and multiple builders have to organise between themselves for this to happen. There are almost always delays

2) Poor management. Construction, is still often a boys club,where connections may matter more than skills, which leads to absolute planks running some sites.

3) short-termism amongst builders. Very few take their work super seriously, try to ensure it's done well, etc. More often than not, it's 'crew it, I ain't gonna live here' logic.

4) external factors: building in cities add lots of pressure on material delivery times, some major job planning, allowed noise hours and etc. In short, nobody likes a building site next door.

5) Reinventing wheel. Apart from high end, first time ever, engineering projects, majority of building are copy paste kind of thing. Principles are well known, however somehow almost each building ends up with a ton of idiotic little problems that compound very quickly.

I used to work in construction some years ago.
Because sex sells, except for the upside down world of politics, where anti-sex sells.
I've heard this discussed before on HN, but is there a single patent? Or is it more like a collection of patents over the course of decades?
They seem to find new weeks of feature launches to make every year! I love it. They've given me a nice alternative to AWS/GCP for the types of development projects I work on and it's so developer friendly. Client friendly too when all these things generally amount to better performing sites.
California is a pretty huge talent pool to ignore, especially with Colorado already passing a similar law and many other states moving similar bills through legislature.
Before people post platitudes about Meta and censorship, know that this is in line with what many democracies around the world do in with media blackouts a few days before elections. It has generally worked out pretty well actually feels like balanced policy.
TTM revenues are $2.3 billion with $1.2 billion sales costs and $450m Research and Development. Both figures are too high for a company whose growth has come down to the ~30% range.

On selling it smells like attempting to sell huge, broad "solutions" that cover 20 different departments to try to get so stuck into an enterprise that they will never churn. This will cause very expensive and slow sales cycles. It can only be justified if these solutions are actually getting DocuSign in a place where they are uniquely positioned to upsell into all of these different functions down the road, taking into account that Microsoft is probably building crappier but cheaper versions of the same offerings.

On R&D it sounds like they're either 1) way too inefficient or 2) supporting a ton of integration for the huge solutions that need 500 different connectors into every legacy app ever written. Again, this could make sense, but requires them to attain a Microsoftish level of integration into company workflows that ensures that the customer is a permanent golden goose.
How to freeze your work number (copied from reddit):

Create an account using one of your employers (old or new, it doesn't matter). If you have problems with this step, then skip to step 2 and ask the CSR for help with this.

Call the customer service at 866-222-5880 (FYI, it helps to call early in the morning when most people are asleep)
Choose option 2 for "Report a problem..."

Tell the customer service rep (CSR) that you want to freeze your SSN on TWN. Verbally verify that this will keep 3rd parties from accessing the info. At this point, the CSR may try to direct you to the online form, but you need to be firm and say that you want to complete the process over the phone. If they still try to direct you to the online form, say that you will not be satisfied until the process is completed over the phone. I know this can be uncomfortable for some folks to challenge someone like this, but it's the easiest way.

At this point, the CSR will ask for personal information including your account name (created in step 1) SSN, DOB, address, email

The rep will send you a one-time code using the method of your choice (phone, text, email, mail). I chose text message. Tell them the code verbally over the phone
Congrats. Your SSN is now frozen on TWN, preventing 3rd parties from access without your authority. You will receive a confirmation email
Optional

8) If your CSR was friendly and helpful, ask to speak with their manager and give them a little praise. Pull a reverse-Karen

I prefer this method because it prevents you from having to mail or email any documents and you get instant confirmation and a case number to review your status. The whole process took like 10 minutes over the phone.
Not one mention of Jurassic Park, which I believe is the reference the title of the article is making!
You know people who can't afford rent in one of the most expensive cities in the world to rent in? Shocked - shocked I tell you! If only there were a solution...
Toyota already makes cars that work really well and the company as a whole is undervalued (less than 1/3 of what TSLA is valued at). The point is for Apple to get into a huge market and make a ton of money with a best-in-class product. And no, self-driving is not already here.
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