skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Something that blew my mind after I spent a few years learning art is that: everyone makes bad art.. even the best artists. For every good painting an artist produces, there are several that have been trashed or painted over. Sketchbooks are often encouraged in the artist community in order to allow ourselves to do bad art that doesn't have to see the light of day.

And finally, when a customer buys a piece of art, they're not just paying for that piece but also for the time that the artist spent finding themselves :)
Still pretty expensive IMO.

I'm building a GPU accelerated signal processing web-app, and I'm currently planning to deploy it on a $180 Nvidia Jetson.
Performances are a little bit low, but mostly enough to make the app usable.

I tried to find GPU instances for < $50/month, but couldn't find any. The only alternative would have been to rent Apple M1 instances at Scaleway, but it's still way more expensive (€80/month) than hosting my 10 watts Jetson at home.

Does anybody know cheaper GPU instances? I don't need much computing power, about 0.5Tflops to 1TFlops
IANAC (I am not a chemist, and certainly not an organic chemist <shudder>) but I know that contamination by former dry cleaning sites (almost always near built up areas, in small parades of shops, often near schools, gardens, etc) is a very serious problem. In the past, such businesses frequently dumped waste into drains, soak-always, pits, or in fact anywhere other than paying to have it treated properly. Probably the only other thing I’m aware of that you might possibly encounter is the site of a former leather tannery, although these were not generally sited near houses due to the overpowering smell and obvious unsightlyness.
I'm not QT or any other gui toolkit is well suited for this. Every widget is custom and many require high framerate / low latency.

It's probably best to treat it like a video game and just render everything every frame. Only use gui events to affect the underlying data model, don't trigger any gui updates or rendering from them. In this light you're looking for fast software or OpenGL rendering as the key feature in the toolkit, but you still want menus and toolbars.
How does this relate to the great leap forward?
I don't think he's arguing that thre be some kind of mass mobilization towards agriculture (as opposed to metals smelting or the like)
How does a "paper wallet" work? I thought a wallet in order to work had to interact with other wallets?
I thought Minsky happened in the US Virgin Islands, where it was legal (but now isn’t, thankfully).

My issue is that “sketchy” isn’t enough to block a speaker from presenting on a subject where they have expertise. If MLK was alive today, would be be blocked for the “sketchy” behavior of cheating on his wife? Not that I have expertise enough to be invited to speak anywhere, but would I be blocked for the “sketchy” behavior of defending MLK?

This all seems like bikeshedding and is decreasing our intellectual growth that comes from sharing ideas about free software and developing from them.
This isn’t about a person learning, however. This is about developing an algorithm through the inclusion of GPL licensed code, that might — and has — verbatim emitted that code. Those seem materially different to me.
That is a good point. People like that are generally measuring the wrong things when comparing themselves to others. Being 10x better at dependency injection is of no value to many businesses and can lead to unexpected firing if you don't understand that. No that I agree with how every business prioritizes metrics, just that it can happen that one team member is capable of doing 60% of a team's work in some situations.

I was referring to metrics that are valued by the business.
I follow Julia Cameron's morning pages idea.

https://juliacameronlive.com/basic-tools/morning-pages/

It is hard to list all the benefits, but I have found this method to be one that works for me. I hope it helps you.
Evolution is just a fancy way of saying stochastic gradient descent of dna in the biosphere. A SGD routine can clearly move “faster” or “slower”, as can be measured by values like “preserved mutations per century”. Whether the “direction” is the same is up for debate (it almost certainly isn’t), but to claim there’s no “speed” metric that can be associated with Evolution is just absurdist head-burying.
Twitter earlier fought similar ban in Turkey and won. Wikipedia did too.
Why you should still read the docs
Apple previews Live Speech, Personal Voice, and more new accessibility features
I was thinking the same thing. Silverlight? Silverlight??

I just ended a job with a guy who going on about how he was a Flash hotshot back in Y2K days, lamenting "Steve Jobs for killing it." Like, dude, everyone with two neurons to rub together told you it was a fundamentally terrible idea, doomed from the start. Gawd.

I also fell for a few of his picks — Angular was a rough blow — but what a list of lousy bets.
Show HN: poetry.tips ChatGPT-powered poem generator
Built this last week, a small project wrapping ChatGPT so that tech-illiterate people can easily generate poems using AI.
Impersonation on Twitter is out of control
I’m assuming your paychecks didn’t bounce over those 20 years so who cares?
> “This isn’t idiomatic. Please rewrite this code without the class keyword”. I’ve seen people people make a face like I just had their child expelled from kindergarten.

Lol true

Don't forget all the getters and setters merely updating/reading a variable

Python says "explicit is better than implicit" but Java goes too far with it, and in the most verbose/inflexible ways possible
University funding varies wildly in the UK and it mostly correlates with ranking, at least the 'higher-up' universities generally have more disposal income to give to researchers. Unfortunately, it's a vicious circle because it's the difference between "you can go to this conference" or "we'll pay the article fee" and "we have no money, sorry". Allowing researchers those sorts of freedoms means you tend to get better researchers who can pump out more research with higher visibility.

Oxford University owns pretty much the entire historic town centre, so they're sitting on a lot of assets that aren't obviously visible (beyond the colleges).

UK universities have generally very good staff benefits. 30-35 days of leave is not uncommon, on top of public holidays and the usual academia "if nobody notices" flexitime attitude. Pay is probably a little better than the US when you compare cost of living. The US has notoriously poor PhD and Postdoc salaries and several big universities have had strike action against them. Don't confuse US institutional endowment with what trickles down to researchers.

The US does have per-diem though, which is a fantastic source of beer money when traveling. UK universities are almost always penny-pinchers for staff expenses.
Yep. For small projects, why is it so hard to have a "deploy to server" button next to "run locally" in my IDE?
Feels like a calculated move to bump credit scores and get people to spend money.
Google and Facebook certainly don't care about you
Yes, reddit should honestly just be blacklisted from HN
Any workers council, and union, I onow woupd slap managers backsidesnfrom here to Mars and bavknforbthat. Before, during and after suing said employer to death. With basically a guaranteed win at any labour court.

Since everybody knows that, only the most sketchy employers consider something along these lines. Again one ofnthe reasons I am really happy with my job and the country I have it in.
> purely cultural

oh, I got one to admit he was "intimidated" by Java.

Note: there is a subset of developers who have either hit one of Java/JVMs limitations, or, subscribe as a matter of professional judgement and taste to a school of programming (say FP) that is not a good fit to Java and JVM's orientation (classes, OOP). This subset is an informed subset and their feedback is reasonable and at times has helped Java/JVM move forward.
I'm frequently told on HN that Big Tech would willingly, flagrantly violate GDPR like its nothing. Even if the upside of collecting that info was minimal and the downside was 4% of global revenue.

I guess if they can do that, then what's a small lie about private repos between friends.
Oi mate you got a loicense for that matrix multiplication?
Interesting. Too bad the images are so small and can't be enlarged.
Yes, 0x008 makes a valid point regarding this topic. Data center GPUs and RTX Series use different technologies and optimizations for different purposes.

Our intention is not to discourage anyone from purchasing their own GPUs. We offer our GPU cloud services as an alternative for those who may not have the resources or prefer the convenience and flexibility of renting GPUs on-demand. We apologize if the discussion took a different direction, and we appreciate your understanding.
Who is to say that brains aren't just regression based function approximators?
That’s why cyanide is allowed in adult fruit and smoothie drinks without safety thresholds while it was only recently banned via pressure for children’s products. Setting a maximum amount of cyanide cuts into profits so there’s a lobby against it.
It depends on the code. You can’t copyright something functional like a for-loop. What you can copyright is the larger expressive, and arbitrary, structure of that code.

Copyright is not meant for utilitarian purposes. For that there are patents. The non-utilitarian, artistically expressive aspect of software is in how code is organized. You know, the rather arbitrary decisions that spawn hours of bike-shedding.

Copilot is most useful when it makes no creative decisions and instead follows the style and design patterns already established in the code base.
The actual test will happen once microsoft’s source code gets leaked and we start training our models against them. Until then we will keep hearing how using our work for free is good and that copyright is out of fashion. As soon as the tables are turned so will this narrative go away.
> every single one of billions of trades, someone is always wrong... every person I have spoken to in finance clams up immediately when I mention anything remotely quantitative. It's not just because I'm being boring, they know they are playing a game of poker that is never not-on.

No serious financial professional would expect their strategy or any strategy in existence to be 100% correct. A strategy that is correct 51% of the time is more than good enough. You diversify and hedge, and build up an uncorrelated portfolio. Suppose you've honed in on alpha strategy. You probably don't even want to optimize and fit in further, with past data. Instead, you find a beta strategy that is uncorrelated and run those two together. With the amount of capital firms the likes of Citadel are working with, it's impossible to trade in a single product, and so scaling up, in the case of an MM, is to trade everything all at once.

This is also repeated in the article. "[CitSec CEO] diversifies the firm’s earnings so it can better stomach an occasional loss in any part of its business"

> current strategies are not information problems that need new science, they are work problems that piece together solved ones, and whose efficiencies come from competency in related domains

Applied math is not about pushing mathematical theory, necessarily. Then there is a difference between theory and practice, and there is a difference between practice and sizing trades with this scale of AUM. Academics can talk and write papers about LLMs or CRDTs, but they aren't going to be the ones who will be affective at bringing it to market.
How many Argentinian supermarkets use Bitcoin Lighting network for payment processing?
Gaussian blur is "easy", you can decompose it into a vertical and horizontal component and parallelize and vectorize most of the task.

But that's a special case. If you have to actually fill the buffer the traditional way, it takes an eternity.

Which is why I'm so disappointed by Gtk's decision to say "just draw at 6K at 2x if you want 4K at 1.5x, scaling is cheap". Because it's definitely not.
Watching Peacock's "Mrs. Davis" makes me think of this movie. Albeit, it is very whimsical take on the aftermath of an AI taking over the world with main character being a nun.

Would love to see a more up to date remake of "Colossus" that strives for a decent level of realism.
I started doing the same thing out of impatience.

Recent example: I have a side project with Typescript on the backend and frontend which also uses an Audio Worklet, so it loads a JS file at runtime to be run in a separate process, isolated from anything else.

I also have a class which I need to use in all three mentioned pieces.

Three years ago I would spend hours trying to figure out how to make this work with the build system so as to not have duplicated code and maybe eventually arrive at a mostly working solution before the e.g. frontend framework maintainers update their build system version which may or may not break something.

This time I just copied the damn file everywhere - the Audio Worklet got the compiled JS output pasted at the start. It's a class, it works and I have maybe one idea what changes I could make there in the future at which point I'm just going to copy everything again.
Imagine this headline

A widely known basketball team wins NBA finals

Clickbait?
This is a very important effort: if SciPy accepts this modern Fortran codebase, then I think the tide for Fortran will change.

My own focus is to compile all of SciPy with LFortran, we can already fully compile the Minpack package, here is our recent status update: https://lfortran.org/blog/2023/05/lfortran-breakthrough-now-...

And we have funding to compile all of SciPy. If anyone here is interested to help out, please get in touch with me. Once LFortran can compile SciPy, it will greatly help with maintenance, such as on Windows, WASM, Python wrappers, even modernization later on.
Its 100% all made up not real ...

> Heres the tool.

Ok so it is real, but they have nobody actually working on it.

> Heres the employees working on it.

Ok so it is real, and they have a team, but it is illegal.

> Most of it is mandated by the regulators, and they have a pretty big legal team (dont make me post their linkedin profiles to prove that a bank has a legal department).

Ok so it is real, and they have a team, it is legal, but ...
The taxi industry is a famous example of regulatory capture and its harms.
If you want to really experience this work and why it is seminal, skip the movie and read the book. So much of the man vs machine nuance is left out of the movie.

It was certainly an impactful and memorable book for me. One reason was that my father and I both read it and discussed it. I think it was in '82.
I dont want to be a corporate shill, but I do see it from the banks side to a degree. They have a trillion regulations and laws they have to follow and more than 100k employees. Surely you have to turn to automation to meet your legal responsibilities.
That was a decade ago, alot had changed
Funny enough I never got too caught up with perfect code at a job. Although it needs to be good enough to pass code review but that tends to mean not a complete pile of shit and works without obvious bugs. It might mean more tests than an indie hacker is used to though.
This is so stupid its exactly what you would expect in congress.

If this was to go through, of course OpenAI and co will be the primary lobbiests to ensure they get to define the filters for such a license.

Also how would you even enforce this. It's absolute nonsense and is a clear indicator that these larger companies realize there is no 'gatekeeping' these AI's, that the democratization of models has demonstrated incredible gains over their own.

Edit : Image during the early days of the internet you needed a license to start a website.

In the later days you needed a license to start a social media site.

Nonsense.
I'll admit I haven't read the full thing, but I have and like Practical Electronics for Inventors, Fourth Edition
Why Rust? (Qdrant Vector Database)
I agree, it's not that Jira is good but the alternatives were worse
Of course clickbait because you need to click to get the name.
True! Fun fact: Reaper uses its own UI framework. Parts of it are open source: https://www.cockos.com/wdl/
I know there are reasons why Android works like this, but you may not be aware you've been replying to a post where I listed what I missed about Android compared to a regular Linux distro.

Android is highly opinionated to work as a platform for apps on touchscreen devices, but those opinions do add a lot of restrictions compared to other things built on Linux.
Python was by Guido who's now Microsoft employee
No it wasn’t - you’re putting words in my mouth to justify a poor comparison.

All I said was that we should change the standards around farming to stop providing legal support to mega farms (eg the current government policy that’s failing) and allow the natural outcome of more labor intensive farming to happen — which through shifting the incentives and existing legal framework, would have people shift back into farming.

The person I was responding to said more labor intensive farming would be bad — I pointed out that the market effect of that change would actually be positive in several ways.

Comparing a change to the legal framework which leads to a change in market dynamics that’s positive isn’t anything like the Great Leap Forward.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Arguments_for_the_Elimina...
As a long-held Curtis fanatic, what I found amazing was that I imagined his narration the whole time.
I'm pretty sure there is a spellchecker ran before the tokenisation

also it is often wrong with spelling stuff out like that, especially with rarer or more interesting tokens
Aw, the old 'all work is equivalent to sexual exploitation' hypothesis.
Chess-but-you-can-make-your-opponent-undo-a-move-by-chopping-off-your-finger sounds like something out of an Iain M. Banks novel.
Probably because just using higher resolution is easier if it's available. Taking advantage of the physical structure of a pixel seems weird to me.
I don't understand this - If you don't enjoy the experience of drinking coffee, and just want the caffeine, then why not just take a caffeine pill?
As of now there is only MIPS.

https://virtuallyfun.com/2021/11/10/revisiting-windows-nt-4-...

The OpenGL is more 1.0 than 1.1... so it makes for interesting ports. I need to touch on that one too. so much to do..
“Has an agenda to make money”implies an evidence based assumption of knowledge of likely motives, and that she did not divest her stake before taking a governance role.

She did divest preemptively, as described elsewhere in this thread.
No but we can take the code offline and call it a day. Once we are “freed up” we wont be able to support the software that feed ai models.
Well the Red Sea Coast has plenty of small plants, just no forests, large grasslands, etc... due to local climate.

It's probably unlikely for a verdant grassland to pop up next to the Qatta depression, but a lot of small plants I can believe.
We all predictably knew that AI regulations were coming and O̶p̶e̶n̶AI.com’s moat was getting erased very quickly by open source AI models. So what does O̶p̶e̶n̶AI.com do?

Runs to congress to attempt to use and suggest new regulations against open source AI models to wipe them out and brand them non-compliant or un-licensed and unsafe for general use and using AI safety as a scapegoat again.

After that, to secretly push a pseudo-open source AI model that is compliant but limited compared to the closed models in an attempt to eliminate the majority of open source AI companies who can’t get such licenses.

So a clever tactic to create new regulations that benefit them (O̶p̶e̶n̶AI.com) more over everyone else, meaning less transparency, more hurdles for actual open AI research and additional bureaucracy. Also don't forget that Altman is also selling his Worldcoin dystopian crypto snake oil project as the 'antidote' to verify against everything getting faked by AI. [0] He his hedged in either way.

So congratulations to everyone here for supporting these gangsters at O̶p̶e̶n̶AI.com for pushing for regulatory capture.

[0] https://worldcoin.org/blog/engineering/humanness-in-the-age-...
> because there was something to gain

Or there was something to lose if remain in the current status quo.

> diplomats did the talking and they are usually disconnected from the goons on the ground doing that singing

Sorry?

>> [...] Goebbels' propaganda created what became one of the Nazi Party's central martyr-figures of their movement. He officially declared Wessel's march, renamed as the "Horst-Wessel-Lied" ("Horst Wessel Song"), to be the Nazi Party anthem [...] The "Horst Wessel Song" was sung by the SA at the funeral, and was thereafter extensively used at party functions, as well as sung by the SA during street parades.

Were the Soviet diplomats deaf?

> because it just says the Nazis think about the spirits of their comrades who were killed by the Rotfront

:rolleyes: Some people pertain the idea what the Soviets were totally clueless about how evil Nazis were[0] or what the Soviets were totally on board with Nazis in their evilness[1]. Sometimes both at the same time.

This song is a clear evidence what both the nazis and the communists were a 'natural enemies', what there is no fucking way the Soviets didn't knew that (see [1] again) and what if you find them working together then for the reasons you should look not at them but for their environment.

[0] rare, but I've seen those folks

[1] this is the default, especially if the history knowledge ends with a parroted response about Molotov-Ribbentrop
For me it made sense when thinking about DC. It misses a couple important paradigm shifts for AC though, like resistors sometimes being used to set the ratio of voltage to current, rather than resisting anything. Gets even trickier at higher frequencies, since you have to start imagining the pipes all being made from soft material or something to model the capacitance and inductance of the wires. But how do you model the EM fields being at right angles to eachother? Also I just can't make the cross coupling of wires work in the hydraulic version. Hydraulics are contained to their pipes, their is no field surrounding them. Ditto with explaining something like a transformer. Not to mention the importance, in practice, of the right hand rule, for which I have found no good hydraulic explanation.

If you have hydraulic explanations for these, please do share.
The surveillance system described does absolutely nothing to counter the most common workflow of MNPI-driven insider trading conducted by investment banking employees, e.g.:

- Investment banker is working on a deal to sell CorpCo to BuyCo at a price of $30/share. CorpCo is currently trading at $20/share

- Investment banker tells his college buddy about the deal, whether because he wants a cut of the insider trading profits or because he's just trying to throw him a bone

- College buddy gets someone he thinks he can't be linked to - e.g., his bookie's brother-in-law - to buy a lot of out-of-the-money call options on CorpCo on his behalf

- The deal closes and the call options return a ton of cash

- The SEC catches and prosecutes everyone involved because the random purchase of out-of-the-money call options was a huge red flag

None of this is addressed by invasive software that constantly takes audio and video of you when you are working.

Also, I'm pretty sure that the Pentagon does not have a keylogging / face tracking program similar to the one described.