skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you have a complicated enough project, Davinci will happy eat all the hardware you can throw at it (well, up to 3-4 GPUs at least). Puget Systems of course wants to recommend you buy the most expensive thing they can convince you to buy from them.

DaVinci's own hardware requirements listing are considerably tamer. For Mac users, they want 8GB ram minimum and a Metal or OpenCL GPU. Reportedly it works really well on entry level M1 Mac Minis. 2 versions ago worked pretty well on my 2012 Mac Mini with 16GB RAM, and supposedly newer versions run better. I've also run it on Windows with Intel graphics and it worked (not great but it worked), and on a Windows PC with an 2014 mid range GPU works extremely well for HD projects.

It isn't hard to picture them being able to tune it down to use less RAM, especially considering that that removed Fusion from the iPad version which is the most RAM intensive part of the program.

I'm not sure how well I will like using it from touch, but since the basic version for iPadOS will be free, I'll be tempted to try it on my iPad Air.
But then consider that you need about 8x the electricity to pull that off; which you pay for at the pump and suddenly that 30-40 minute charging break sounds pretty sweet. Especially when considering your drivers are required to take such long breaks every 4-5 hours. Private drivers get irrational and emotional about this stuff. But most commercial transport is cost driven. 8x is a great argument. Ammonia doesn't stand a chance.

As for the grid, a lot of charging infrastructure relies on batteries and some local production via renewables. That evens out the load on the grid and helps balance things.
Yeah, I guess my main gripe is that if absolutely every job did it, I would just hunker down and study LC for a month and then apply. With my recent interviews it's been a mixed bag, enough that it doesn't feel worth it.
- It is annoying to have it per table and not database
- No alter table (to convert existing tables)
- No backward support (maybe through connection string or something)
How Ukraine’s power system is coping in the face of Russian strikes
It's actually a native color picker

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/in...
Keep in mind that the last link points to a letter that's (allegedly) only from one member of the House of Representatives.

What people need to understand is that the bar for worryingness shouldn't be "government looking into it".

Governments look into things all the time, and in such a diverse environment as the U.S legislative branch, we cannot just pack every opinion of every member into a single "government" momolith. That is why, in fact, we even have legislative systems with different representatives from different parties at all. This isn't an undesirable effect, this is how it's supposed to work, and in a good way.
if that was true, why do people keep sending files to themselves via email, whatsapp and telegram?
There is a continuum in this solution space: on demand mini busses / collective taxis with various policies
As far as I've been able to read, those sites aren't in the final assembly in Shi's papers - just in the primers. And even more worrying than the false discovery rate are all of the missing genomes they should be comparing. I fear they've left them off because they punch big ole holes in the theory... e.g.

https://twitter.com/zhihuachen/status/1583258714340892672
Are you saying the "use" of sniffer dogs, or that sniffer dogs are unable to accurately determine individual scents ?
I vote for a trashy talk show full of HN crowd. Optionally with everyone on polygraphs.
Someone here put it very well to watch out how the masses would try to censor AI-produced content into oblivion in their futile pursuit of trying to shoot the messenger.
Might have to apply a layer of analysis over it. From what I understand the scan is a 3D maps of point densities, so it may or may not obvious what the separate components are.

If a device was made up of components that all had very different densities, maybe one could analyze the points and determine components and do a “explode” animation.
No, we don't need any help.
C++ offers safer constructs but they have their own sharp edges and you have to actually use them to get their benefits. In security critical software these can still be enough to cause significant problems.
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Fun classics for star lovers:

- The three body problem

- The hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy
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The thing about inflation and higher interest rates is that only successful businesses that actually have inflation adjusted revenue streams benefit. Not any random company.
> I'm really tired of anti-car advocates that have just a single idea: Make people too miserable to use a car, and maybe then there will be less cars.

Agreed. Trying to drive change by making others miserable is hardly ever a winning strategy.

Instead, we need to make it easy, convenient and fun to both get around without a car and to reduce how far one needs to go in day to day situations (i.e. have lots of small shops near housing).

That will make many people prefer to not use cars (most people don't actually love driving) and those who want to drive can still do whatever they like but it'll be a much smaller population.
Mmmhm. Go look in the docs for std::span and see how long it takes to find "The behavior is undefined if idx is out of range" or similar. For example: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/container/span/operator_at
It could also be studied and altered in a lab, and then escape.
Which is the reason why I choose iOS: I trust Apple to implement the integrations in the WebView for best battery life. To get new OS features in the browser right away. Would Google Chrome implement picture-in-picture on the iPhone if they were running their own engine?

I use Firefox on iOS for the password and tab sync integration, and am supper happy that it’s using the WebKit framework. I care about the iOS experience more than some video codec support.
I wouldn't call JSON a reinvented wheel. It has different tradeoffs, and so fills a real niche that XML couldn't.

However, we, the engineering community tend to fall in this hammer-nail mindset. Where we know and like JSON, and then start applying it outside of its fitting niche.

We start using it for configuration (only to find out it's lack of features such as not allowing comments makes it fully unusable).

We invent stuff like symlinks, linked data, schemas, JSLT, etc. rather than moving to a much more appropriate format, we change the inappropriate format into an abomination.
Guys I'm going to release an invention called the car, but my security team needs to make sure it's safe and won't be abused by drunk drivers. Next I plan to release an invention called the gun, but please hold your horses, because it could be abused. I need to double check and make sure it's safe to release this piece of equipment.
Not many know this but the “walled garden” built around the Apple ecosystem is actually functional as a séance ring keeping the soul of Steve Jobs at peace so it doesn’t rise up from the grave to turn us all into fruitarians.
This is what happens when people/legislators choose to not see further than their own noses.

Many products benefit pedophiles in one way or another. Mobile phones, computers, video editing software, cars (vans?).

"But that's ridiculous, of course we can't prohibit cars
just because they can be used by criminals."

Exactly.
Address sanitizer is not precise and can miss certain classes of bugs that Valgrind would catch.
I was merely stating what I felt was a relevant fact.
Why would you assume the private sector is corruption free? It seems not playing fair is a fundamental rule of the business game.
Wouldn't those be inefficient? Isn't it better to force absolutely everyone to bigger units thus taking care of unit economies in emissions. Like full-sized busses going every 20 minutes to hour just so they will fill up.
I really want to be kind but all I see in this article is some corpo speech.
Why read into it so deeply? Elon either clowns around or deliberately issues statements that leverage his social reach and have a direct financial impact for his benefit, and it is very difficult to determine which is which. Either way, reality rarely goes exactly as he predicts.
I guess if your test machine always has a lot of contiguous* free memory or you never test it with a large enough file. Otherwise, it's impossible to ignore. One large download, and it wouldn't just be slow, it'd not work at all.

* Which is usually much harder than just free mem. I recall macOS always being able to give a huge chunk of memory, I guess by rearranging on the fly, but it's very slow if you ask for a lot. And Linux just says no.
> No-one ever gets sued.

... Yet.
I'm just running a dnsmasq and using that to alias machines / workloads. For my network I needed to make sure a route to the dnsmasq IP is advertised by a subnet router and then I told tailscale to "override local dns" and make all tailscale clients use that dnsmasq IP as their DNS server.

I have a mix of bare machines and load-balanced workloads behind an nginx-ingress, all with names specified in the dnsmasq config, and because everything on the tailnet resolves names through dnsmasq (and routes through tailscale), everything works beautifully.

I'm still looking forward to this caddy integration, though.
Ask HN: Over the shoulder Code-Review in remote settings
I am trying to set up some good code review practices in my team. I have some positional power, so I can experiment a little with not-so-much resistance.

We already have lints, type-checking and some specs in place. But no manual reviews, yet.

While we were in-office we could do simple over the shoulder code reviews and exchange valuable feedback fast without any official process.

Since now my team is remote (although in the same timezone), what changes can we start making in our team to introduce code review practices to make the code quality better and avoid the common mistakes?
Just last week I bought ~2500lb of lumber to bring home (rebuilding a fence). If I had to park two blocks away and carry that by hand I'd be in a world of hurt.
> The hole isn't a material surface, nor is there mass within

Are you saying a black hole is considered to have no mass at all? That it is literally considered a hole?

Where would matter "go" when it falls in? Would it be emitted in its entirety (and no loss) as Hawking radiation?

I thought the enormous gravity defines it to be a black hole where not even light can escape, but there is still "matter".
You could replace "devops" in your first paragraph with "developers" and it would still make sense. Everybody is out there grabbing stuff from GitHub and shoving it into their projects. Most technical folks today don't really know how a computer works, they poke at it until it does what they want and call it a day.

And I would say that your specific example is a failing of that team, not "DevOps" as a whole.
s/planned/uses/
A simple notebook demonstrating prompt-based music generation
You can make child pornography with a can of paint and your hand. What a totally laughable farce and excuse. People are making (notice the tense) REAMS of pornography with AI just as they have with literally every technology that has ever been invented to produce creative works.
The actual answer is in the article: porn won't say no. Everything else escalates from there.
Fallback Font Generator
Android is platform used by multiple OEMs, Apple is only one.
It doesn't need to be contiguous on any modern operating system I'm aware of. You just need 4gb of free contiguous address space, which virtually every 64-bit application will have.
We see all sorts of automation behind the counter, without considering them "robots".

Many bars will have a tap where you place a cup and click a button and it will be filled. Every Starbucks I've been to in the last year has had a fully automated coffee machine. The barista places a cup and pushes a button. The same for filling any sort of cup and fastfood chains. It's either the customers job or the clerk pushes a button and leave it to fill by itself.

I think this furthers your point: The people behind the counter aren't there to make your orders. They are there to take and deliver the orders with some amount of human touch.
>Snap at $10

When was that true? Snap currently makes about $3 per user. You can't be talking about US users, because there are only 330 million people in the US.
The difference is a) the FTC was way more lax in enforcing anti-monopoly laws than back in the day, b) Microsoft was a monopolist, c) downloading software from the internet hasn't been as much of a thing back then, so obtaining internet explorer replacements was more complicated, so preinstalling something was going to influence pepole's descisions way more than now where installing an app is just one visit to the app store app away. Only years later with improved internet speeds for everyone we got the ability to install chrome with a simple download. Lastly, d), you also have to consider that Chrome and Chromium based engines basically have a monopoly right now. So I'm not sure what the government stepping in will bring to users: Right now it's more that Safari is the only non-Chrome browser that most web devs care about.

Re b: Apple has never been a monopolist so they never got into that situation. This allowed them to have such opinionated choices that would have never worked for Microsoft. However, this might be changing. Recent statistics show that they have extreme market shares in the teenager demographic. If those kids grow up and keep buying iPhones, Apple will become one, in the US market at least, and this means they will have to change.
Jesus. Tesla advertising mentality has taken a dive. From “We want to push EVs to economies of scale” in ‘09, vs now: “yeah, only this one gigantic factory we built is capable of producing these super garden variety colors. scratches back of head But at least I convinced everybody else to pay for Twitter?”
If you read the wikipedia page (1), there are 37 sub sections under history. Almost every one is a total failure, both from an international and a purely US-interests view. Some of the biggest threats to US interests today (Iran, Pakistan, North Korea) and biggest embarrassments (Cuba) are the direct result of the CIA bungling.

Few other institutions could survive even 1 such farce. One has to wonder, if the CIA continues because no one has noticed such incompetence. Or if there is some more sinister reason...

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Intelligence_Agency
There are other requirements on effective monopolies. But the US executive branch has decided not to bother enforcing most of them. Used to be, using monopoly power to drive other companies out of business or out of a market was an abuse of that power. Now all the USDoJ will enforce is charging excessive prices.

Reiterating, being a monopoly in the US is not illegal, but it having chosen to have a monopoly makes you subject to extra fairness laws. These laws should be enforced as written, but no recent administration has been willing to step up, and Americans are the poorer for it.
Sounds like you would enjoy the Three Body Problem, if you haven't already read it (which I expect you have).
Google released three different video codecs in the span of 6 years, and expected everyone to jump and support them, even in hardware.

Now that's abusing market position.

Timeline:

VP8: 2010

VP9: 2013

Google: we're going to slow down the release of new codecs to once every 18 months

VP10 became AV1: 2015

For some reason they've stopped, but I wouldn't put it past them to continue with fire and motion again.
Will Rust Take over Data Engineering?
First book was great. Lost my ability to keep track of names as a non-Chinese speaker on the second one, for some reason.
Adventure motorcycle riders have been adding auxiliary lightning kits for a long time, for example, this BMW R1250: https://imgur.com/a/H0nYGIx.

The point being, according to studies, is that drivers gave auxiliary lighting equipped motorcycles a greater margin before pulling out on them. There are other studies which indicate that cars pull out on bikes as the driver perceives the motorcycle as a small thing, ergo it is far away and also less of a threat. A big triangle of three lights is much more dominant, it features in the view of the driver and is less likely to be ignored in a "micro glance".
I just bought a used 3060 for $250, definitely nowhere near $2000.
Yep! I think the main issue is that digital surveillance is new and abstract, and somehow the kind of privacy issues we have intuitions about – such as cameras in bedrooms and bathrooms – don't map naturally to the digital space, at least not intuitively, so people underestimate the level of detail it means. And then there are som novel nuances in the digital world, like metadata collection and automated analysis, that are essentially infeasible irl because not even stasi had the workforce to process that amount of data.
Companies will do everything to make the User Agent work against the user wherever the incentives of both parties don't align. So this will not work.
Mine is pretty accurate but they were vague enough to be applicable for a lot of engineers in their 30s :p
I got the recommendation for an ergonomic vertical mouse from anker… that I already own. And don’t use because meh.

Anyway, the supposed personality analysis is not so good in my opinion.
The Bullwhip Effect knows no mercy.
How amazing would it be if it were as bright as in the photo though? We'd probably take it for granted, but at the same time, maybe not always. I'll sometimes marvel at the moon when you can really see its details and three-dimensionality, and that's just a moon. I expect being able to look up and see a whole galaxy with your naked eyes like that would be a pretty incredible experience.
Has your organisation tried sending a letter from your General Counsel to the General Counsel of LinkedIn?

There's a strong case for arguing the content negatively affects the brand value, etc., of your organisation and in some circumstances could be considered libel.
Fun fact: Giga Berlin is located some 8 kilometres southeast of the Berlin state boundary. (But I guess the Berlin kool-aid sells better than naming it Giga Grünheide, Brandenburg).
> Wait, "it takes two" implies some consent of both parties.

Yes. In this case, both parties consent to threatening each other with their nuclear arsenals. They consent to gradually raising the stakes in this poker game, and eventually calling each other's bluff. It may very well turn out that one of the two is bluffing. Or it may not. I really don't care all that much to find out which.

> If someone is accosted we don't say they--as a victim--share half the fault.

> ... trespassing and destruction justified?

> ... a blank check to annex neighbors?

We are speaking different languages here. You are talking the language of ethics and apportioning the blame. I am talking the language of survival, which I think the article in the title post talks as well.

If - following your metaphor — you live next door to a neighbor who has hired a bodyguard, and in the moment of intrusion the bodyguard and the intruder start firing at each other from a rocket launcher, explode a cistern full of gas, and as a result the intruder dies, the bodyguard dies, your neighbor dies, and you die — would you particularly care in those last terrifying moments whether it was the intruder's fault, the bodyguard's fault, or your neighbor's fault? I know I wouldn't.

> Said another way, does Putin having nukes constitute a blank check to annex neighbors?

Both no and yes, depending on which way you turn the question. It doesn't give him the right to do so, but it sure gives him the means.
> LLMs have the unfortunate limitation of being both powerful and lending themselves to centralized control choke-points

It was hard to accomplish, but you can finetune SD on your computer. They are working on instruction-tuning LLMs as well. In general ML models are not closed boxes inaccessible to us - they can be finetuned, reprompted, you can even average two versions to get a mix of two models. In the last 2 years lots of papers were written on finetuning and prompting, all of them geared towards low resource AI adaptation to new tasks.
> Microsoft's OS dominance through Windows is probably why Windows Phone is so successful, right?

Google software and Android literally pushed Windows Phone out of existence, yes.
Exactly, that cat is out of the bag. Right now the hard part is not using the models but creating the models. It requires a significant commitment in resources and there are only a handful of companies with those resources. And you need some skilled people to babysit the software and the algorithms.

However, that will inevitably spread to include more and more companies and will also start happening outside the US. All the research around this is being published and there's a lot of open source code that facilitates this. So, it's just a matter of people optimizing and improving that and hardware getting cheaper.

I expect that once that market is big enough, you'll see cloud providers step up with provisioning infrastructure for this stuff. It will still be expensive to use but it won't have a lot of limitations.

AI driven porn is basically the obvious use-case where there are some big companies with lots of money operating in that space and plenty of incentive to make this happen. Morally that might actually be preferable to exploiting people as is their current way of operating. The likes of OpenAI won't be able to do much to stop that.
It's called science fiction for a reason ;)
>supposed to
"supposed to" is doing a lot of work there. People routinely get railroaded in criminal trials because they are too poor to afford good defense or for even sillier reasons like the prosecutor is better looking or more charismatic than the defense attorney.
I think the most important part is this comment:

https://danieljeffries.substack.com/p/why-the-future-of-open...

The people that he discredits as "leak the model in order to draw some quick press to themselves" are the researchers that are named in the Stable Diffusion paper. Yes, Stability.AI gave them lots of money. But no, they are not leaking the model, they are publishing their own work. It's university researchers, after all. And Stability.AI does NOT own the model.
How many of those "actual HTML standards" in the past 10 years are actual standards and not "whatever Google scribbled on a napkin and pretended it was a standard"?
Code like that in C++ would probably be over-optimized and would skip boundary checks, exposing it to the same problem.
Problem is, it's Apple. I mean lets be frank, is 15B even 10% of Apple's revenue?

Maybe it is? Maybe it's even more than 10%?

But I doubt it.

I mean forget revenue, I bet you could lob 15B off their profit from last year and they'd still be more profitable than they'd ever been.

If you want to hurt big companies like banks, oil companies, healthcare behemoths so on and so forth, you have to hit them where it hurts. You can't be trimming around the edges and expect changes in behavior.
It seems that people who were born blind dream in visual images[1]. So certainly Mary had experienced colors in her dreams.

[1] https://www.wtamu.edu/~cbaird/sq/2020/02/11/do-blind-people-...
Reminds me of recent Snowden's blogpost: https://edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/americas-open-wound