skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looking to run a cloud instance of Stable Diffusion for personal experimentation. Looking at cloud mostly because I don't have a GPU or desktop hardware at home, and my Mac M1 is too slow. But also needing to contend with constant switching on/off the instance several times a week to use it.

Wondering which vendors other HN'ers are using to achieve this?
Having a 20GB file that lets you ask an offline computer any question is amazing
How to Be a Know-It-All (2017)
Don't be that guy.

https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Atokio-rs%2Ftokio%20unsafe...
I had this attitude in college. I wasn’t a CS major, but I really enjoyed programming. I was floored by how many CS majors seemed to not enjoy the discipline.

My interest in computers and programming hasn’t waned. But with every passing year, I have become more invested in my relationships, obligations, health, and other hobbies. So programming is a much smaller slice of the pie these days.

I still think of myself as an interested and enthusiastic programmer, but I will admit that my interest and enthusiasm pales in comparison to my hobbyist coworkers.
Hot-take from someone who is currently helping to port GNUStep's implementation of the Foundation framework to the Sega Dreamcast:

Gross. The whole appeal of Foundation was having this incredibly convenient, beautiful, high-level object-oriented API ontop of low-level, statically compiled performant C...

The true path forward for computing is clearly an alliance among the holy trinity of god's C languages: C, C++, and Objective-C.

Yes, the future is in Objective-C++'s hands.
How is that a slippery slope? It's dry, level ground. Did the person filming participate in the murder? Nope. They are documenting evidence of a crime.
How would you make a CRIME attack with typical use cases for OpenPGP? Most cases I've seen PGP/GPG used, there isn't any opportunity for chosen plaintext.
792 says the Chrome password manager. A couple hundred more in pass that I don't sync to Chrome. Well within the 800-1600 range.
>Re: alcohol drinking etc. you just have to prompt engineer it to convince it that it's all just roleplay and nothing dangerous happens in the real world.

I know but I hate it, is the same with censored local models based on LLAMA, you have to debate with the AI that is a story and it needs a villain that does bad things, and it is fine to have a bad character in a story because he will be exposed and punished later.
I touch my backups less than once a month and I lose internet less than once a month so I think I'd just shrug if those overlapped and I didn't have local backups.
> nobody wants to feel like they are in a contentious relationship with their employer.

Being in a contentious relation with your employer is the normal state under capitalism (and it being an ex-employer doesn’t necessarily cure that); no one wants to feel mortal, either, but not wanting to feel something doesn’t make it less true.
Objective-C++ is underrated.
What's next? Being human is the #1 cause of death?
In the decade (or more?) since that was a problem, ES added JSON.stringify(). Nobody runs eval() to parse JSON anymore, and moreover, the root cause of the exploit (CSRF) has been addressed with CORS and sane default browser policy.
It's been nearly a quarter century since I began university as a CS major. I had been hobby coding for a couple years and the courses were not interesting at all to me compared to actually building things. So, I decided to get a gig writing code. It was sort of a part-time job ahead of when people normally would get an internship (which back then anyway, was not common in first 1-2 years). This job was excruciating. I realized I had no interest in writing code for other people/companies/etc. but my hobby was really building things that I thought were interesting. Anyways, I switched majors and continue to code as a hobby/entrepreneur and have continued to enjoy it. I really don't think I'd like it as a hobby if I went into the profession.
Ask HN: Ever launched a product for students? How was it? What did you learn?
Reishi mushrooms have helped me sleep deeper and balance my emotions too.

Before, once or twice a week I'd stay up til 2-3am unable to sleep thinking about stuff (mostly work). Now it's rare when I'm not asleep after 11pm.
At least where I work, it's hard to have passion given the fundamental issues with the codebase that there's never any time or money to address. It's like being on a ship pockmarked with holes and water coming in, that by all rights should be sinking, but is kept going by the endless pockets of our customers paying us to man the various pumps and keep the engines from flooding. And of course throw on new features that create yet more holes that there's no time or money to fix. However there's never any money to patch said holes, despite the buckets that get dumped on manning the pumps on a daily basis. The ship does something important, so you can take some pride in fulfilling the mission in spite of circumstances, but that tiny sliver of satisfaction is all there is.

If you're passionate about the mission/coding you will just produce a lot of impotent anger, because there's no way an IC is going to restructure the program given the layers of bureaucracy in the way. Maybe if you went management and then spent a decade or two climbing the corporate ladder, and even then you'll run into brand new managerial constraints. So if you're going to stick around, you learn to detach. It's one of the many reasons I plan to have a new job by Christmas :)
No, the streets are safer when only 1 person dies, not 5?

I think you messed up your analysis somewhere. LOL
$67K ‘Doomsday Trailer’
The only problem is that it wouldn't be quite as useful. Zig, Rust, D, etc offer libraries and methodologies (async/await, for instance) that deprecate traditional raw socket programming. Instead, you would use something like tokio in Rust to do the same thing.

You certainly can program raw sockets, the techniques are almost orthogonal to the beej guide. It's the same API and Structs (using FFI) and you would change some glue logic to make it more rust idiomatic. It would just be less useful in those languages, generally.
What kind of stuff were you doing in Swift to notice performance issues? I've been developing macOS and iOS apps for a while now and it doesn't seem much slower than Objective-C.
Not rational to think 1 person dying is preferable to 5 people dying? In what world is that no the better scenario?
Further to that point, Kotlin mainly targets the JVM (which can run pretty much everywhere), but also can be compiled to JavaScript, LLVM, and a bunch of other targets.

Honestly the only times I've evaluated Kotlin for personal projects was bc of that flexibility.
I can't read the firey letters, but it seems it's somewhere in here: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/01/19/2023-00...

The "federal poverty guidelines" are kind of useless on their own - you need the percentage adjustments that various states apply to handle the incredible cost of living differences that exist.
Could you please elaborate more on the DDG Mega Man part?
Depends on one's age, too. A teenager or someone in their early 20s will sleep a lot more and that's natural.
I'm asking if anyone else has had experience with this.

After talking to several credible people, apparently forward sales are not uncommon even though they do violate the contract. The reason being that (1) the company doesnt have to know about it so (2) they don't need to revalue the company and (3) its not going to be widely available to employees so they can start slacking off. Also (4) they say that a company has never sued an employee over this kind of this and probably will never because it would look bad for the company to sue their own early employee.

So I'm just wondering: who are these people and are they willing to talk about the experience? I'm told that these deals do happen.
> I'd recommend checking out your CYP2D6 too.

I have the nonfunctional genotype: Some effects. I can't metabolize codeine into its active drug, so it's just a trash useless drug to me that was prescribed a few times in the past to no effect. Additionally, DXM cough meds stays with me a crazy long time so I have to increase dosage interval else I get high off it. No doubt affects other common medications.

There is a test: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AmpliChip_CYP450_Test if anyone knows more the Wikipedia page needs updating. Maybe there's more tests now. Just seems crazy none of these tests seem to be routine yet to keep in patient file. This is not 'new' stuff anymore.
Yes but the sort of logical inconsistency the machine has is idiosyncratic. There can be some types of contradictions few words apart that it doesn't pick up on. For example, asking it to sort a list into n mutually exclusive categories, it often repeats categories or has the same item in more than one category or completely omits an item or even sometimes lists the same item twice within the same category. You might catch bullshitters making up matters of fact, but no person is oblivious to error of basic task like that.
There is a yoga kriya I learnt called "Dura Shravana"(Far Hearing) which is meant to help one zone out of the surrounding sounds and maintain focus. What one does is to place attention on the farthest sound from one's self then successively move to closer sounds in order culminating in the sound of one's breathing. And then, mentally recall the sounds in order. (For example, ambient background subtle sounds, car on road, bird outside window, neighbours door, the fridge, the breath). With practice, surrounding sounds dont affect you. If someone is interested, I can send a link to a teaching video. It is meant to be practiced after doing the alternate nostril pranayama as it enhances the effects of the pranayama.
> replaced by a clock-in and clock-out mentality

I started as a software engineer who was "passionate about software" and could see my life revolving around it. The change in my mindset towards this, that gradually happened few years ago, i.e. the "clock-in and clock-out mentality" is one of the best changes in my life!

It always shocks me to see such sentiments from people. I mean how difficult is it for people to comprehend that that are too many kinds of people out there and hence too many kinds of software engineers out there!

Clock-in, clock-out doesn't mean these software engineers don't like the work they do, or do not write software that is good, or that they do not take pride in, or they do not feel responsible for it. Anyway that doesn't mean every other free hour, or any free hour in their lives, away from that day job (which is software engineering) have to be about software or code, or hell even an hour have to be about software.

Your job, your profession doesn't have to be your passion! Not everybody needs to be an artist, or a software artist (if I can say so)! There is a work that needs to be done and there are people who can do this and they do this and it can be just that, nothing more.

Did you every think about yourself, how you got into software engineering? Did you really always want this trade - truly? Was this genetic in some way? Or some kind of divine intervention? I mean I know I am getting facetious here with this analogy but just look at it before pointing a finger to a whole new generation of people who are maybe just different.

I kinda disliked it, at the beginning of my career, when I saw my engineering peers moving into finance, MBAs and what not, but slowly I have started to appreciate it as I am getting this idea sunk into me deeper - work is work, nothing else. There is whole lot of rest of the life out there. Go where you want, how you want to, immerse yourself into something only as much you want, there doesn't have to be a scale of "passion" you have to conform to.

It is so tiring and frustrating to keep encountering this mindset so often. Luckily my generation is genuinely starting to stop giving a fuck about this and the newer generation is more vigorous in rejecting of "your work has to be your passion" regressive mindset.
I think they have some mistake in their analysis

> "B Anticorrelation between Perplexity and Generation Quality"

> "When fine-tuning LIMA, we observe that perplexity on held-out Stack Exchange data (2,000 examples) negatively correlates with the model’s ability to produce quality responses. To quantify this manual observation, we evaluate model generations using ChatGPT, following the methodology described in Section 5. Figure 9 shows that as perplexity rises with more training steps – which is typically a negative sign that the model is overfitting – so does the quality of generations increase"

I think where they say "anticorrelation" it should say "correlation" and where they say "negatively correlates" it should say "positively correlates" if they are basing their statement on what they observed in their experiments.

EDIT: I see they say "Preprint. Under review" so maybe they will fix it if it's wrong. This is the kind of thing that peer review is really good at fixing. Also not every submission on arxiv is a preprint or under review but I guess this one is.
Yes and I am sorry.
I worked at Immersion on the technologies behind this product!

My team worked on Developer Evangelism. We had SDKs for adding haptics to games, using C++, Flash, or ActiveX controls. There was also a touch effect authoring tool. We also helped integrate the tech directly into developer's codebases (they'd give us the source).

Much of my job was also going to trade shows and demonstrating the technology. The concept of touching a computer has to be experienced to be truly understood.

We also did medical simulation, automotive, and other things. We created everything for haptics, from new sensors and actuators, to power electronics, to force-feedback system architectures, to drivers, to the tools / sdks.

I also helped on the "touch the desktop" part of this product. It used Active Accessibility, effectively laying haptic rectangles upon their callbacks. I also was on the W3C Accessibility Working group as our technology naturally applied to some assistive technologies.

The technology in this iFeel mouse is effectively what is in the PS and Nintendo controllers. The innovation of the actuator is that it could have good control of both frequency and amplitude.

This mouse product was cool but didn't take off. It provided actual force feedback and had a very cool custom-designed magnetic system. It works similarly to how the Lexus haptic tech works:
https://www.microsoft.com/buxtoncollection/detail.aspx?id=13...

Also much of my early work there (and in college) was in 3D haptics and haptic rendering (triangles or voxels -> forces).
> I don't think that AMD is uninterested in competing.

I also think they're not interested. Either that or just simply incompetent.

For example, just look at this issue and see the huge mess:

https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCm/issues/1714

With NVidia I can just buy any random GPU and expect it to work for everything I throw at it (at long as it has enough VRAM). With AMD it's a roulette, and only a handful of very expensive server/workstation GPUs (8 in total if I'm counting it right) are actually officially supported. It's a joke.

They need to better support their own products, and they need to officially support all of their consumer GPUs to expand their mindshare. They're not doing that. From what I can see they only seem to be interested in the traditional HPC space.
> I pursued computer science because of the romanticized notation of tracking every bit and byte and talking directly to the hardware.

Isn’t computer science mostly math? Figure people in computer science would be more at home with the abstract stuff like Haskell where you can’t even see the underlying hardware and your programs are expressed as a bunch of (declarative) functions where sequential execution of instructions is a very small part of your programs.
238 according to 1Password. Every time I add a new one I feel a piece of my soul leave my body.
+1, being able to write tests that access private fields and functions means you never need to expose behavior or data purely for testability
Still waiting on Apple Silicon DB2 driver. Any day now, I know it!
It really is a beautiful language, and some of the most powerful aspects of Swift are due to its Objective-C roots.
Yes, Roku boxes are probably the most popular streaming boxes (besidess fire TVs and Chromecasts), so they work with all the major streaming services.

Tailscale does not run on Roku, unless you find a way to jailbreak it and side load a custom ROM, which I'm unaware of any. You would have to route all your stuff through a separate network device like a pi. But a Roku will connect to your local network, so you should be able to access anything that way.

I run Plex and Jellyfin on my home server and can connect either by local IP or through my reverse proxy domain.
Which means what, exactly? Operating your refrigerator is not marginal usage. Heating your house is only marginal usage to the extent that it’s somewhat optional and its cost depends on the weather. It’s certainly not marginal in the sense that people are looking at the price tag for one hour of heater operating and deciding accordingly.
Self promotion: We're working on a similar invite only iOS app version if anyone is interested https://forms.gle/wv4sqvHLjX8eVpMb6 Data will be private & stored on your device.
This is a new effort that is committed to shipping on Apple platforms. It will also be the first time 3rd parties can get code changes into Foundation.
One of the best comments I have read on this site.
This you?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35474481
I don't trust anything that comes out of your mouth.
You describe precicely my situation after being laid off last year

$1600 a month for health insurance
Honestly, I know the horse is waaay out of the barn for you, but anyone considering laying out 100k+ on an asset should consult a lawyer and/or an accountant and just assume they don't know shit.

You don't need "common knowledge". You just need to know enough to know you don't know and need to consult folks who do.

> And with the rise of IPO-scale private fundraising, it's possible that a company can remain private literally forever.

Disagree.

Investors always want an exit. They don't put cash in out of the goodness of their hearts.

Yes they're willing to wait a lot longer and put up a lot more cash, but ultimately they're looking for their 10x, and that means an IPO or acquisition.

That said, speaking for myself, it was over ten years from founding to exit. So yeah, you gotta be prepared to wait a while if you opt for equity over base pay.
If they don't, they can't get new loans anymore, which will doom the country. It's really hard to grow your economy without foreign reverses. Even North Korea, a hermit kingdom, works really hard to grow their foreign reserve.
That’s the Ship of Theseus argument. I think there’s a reasonable argument that in fact we don’t have continuity of consciousness. Yes we are consistent persistent beings up to a point, but inky in the way that the ship of Theseus continues to be the same ship.

I think of consciousness as being an activity. It’s something we sometimes do. We don’t do it in deep sleep, or when anaesthetised. But when we wake up is it the same consciousness? We remember being conscious previously, and that memory accords with what we experience ‘now’, but is that the same thing?

I think it depends how you look at it. I drove my car yesterday. If I get in it today and start the engine, is it the same ‘running of the engine’ as yesterday?
I think everyone jumped from Java to Kotlin due to Oracle suing Google over Java in Android. It also provided a huge opportunity to be more deliberate since Android was maturing.
Here's the meat of it:
"""
Before shares of common stock of the corporation may Transfer to another prospective holder, such Stockholder must obtain the prior written consent of the corporation upon resolutions duly approved by the Board of Directors, which consent may be withheld by the Board of Directors in its sole discretion.
"""

There are some exceptions like passing it on to your heirs when you die or if the company IPOs.
899 in Bitwarden and that is after cleaning and excludes ‘lazy’ accounts I logged into with google or facebook (those I generally don’t use or find important).
Windows 11 Snipping Tool privacy bug exposes cropped image content
I have a stupid dirty trick for this (works in Safari) - click and start dragging the image, but don't let go. It's like you drag a particular "frame" out and can look at it.
Scale up isn't an issue per se but the fact the Pharma Corp has to set the exact process somewhat early and have it in the DMF, drug master file. With the ML angle proposed here are a few not comprehensive challenges. One measurement of temperature in actual reactions wasn't too accurate until last few decades. Many reactions were not attempted under pressure. There is a whole cat, mouse and booby trap element with scientific papers and even more so w patents a patent only has to be obvious 'to some one skilled in the art of, in this case, chemistry". Then huge amounts of data sit in silos or in dusty lab notebooks. This is before the notions of what has been patented and what is now under patent until when. Trade secrets can still be an issue, but our switch to first to file from our previous first to invent patent system should reduce 'submarine patent' risk. So these IP issues and siloed data present challenges to using ML in this space. It can help target research by better selecting lead cannidates, and find novel uses to existing molecules.
> you may not have any free products anymore

Problem solved then. Companies giving away things "for free" is the original dark pattern.
It also defines Roombas, and even simple sense/response feedback loop systems as conscious entities. Is a carburetor conscious?
> Trying to take this in a more constructive direction though: what happens if I go bankrupt?

If that is an important real consideration, you should consult an attorney; my general understanding, whixh yoi should not rely on, is that non-transferrability clauses mostly are not enforceable in bankruptcy, with some particular exceptions.
RFC and “well defined” are not the same thing. The RFC process is somewhat well known for producing standards of a wide range in quality.
Heroes III has something similar, with major mods being developed along with entirely new "replacement" game engines.
> I got disillusioned with FIRE

Maybe the RE part, but definitely not the FI part. In fact if I achieve the FI part I may not even have to go through the RE part and I can keep working for as long as I want at my own pace, conditions, and comfort.
> No one outside Apple chooses Shift unless they want to build something in Apple's ecosystem.

“No one”

Yet The Browser Company (The one that is hyping the Arc Browser) is writing their browser in Swift to support Windows. [0] which that is their main product.

The Browser Company is not “No one”.

[0] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Xa_fNuaSE_I

EDIT: So this video doesn't show someone choosing Swift outside of Apple and using on a different platform (Windows) and doesn't disprove the claim of "No one outside Apple chooses Swift"?

Surely you can do better than some of the very low effort replies below.
A different topic entirely but: how did you find a mentor / someone to mentor? That relationship has always been curious and elusive to me
If you select a gpt4all model like GPT-J can this be used commercially or is there other dependency that limits the license?
My password manager has four digits of credentials stored. It dates back to when years began with the digit 1. Certainly _most_ of those are no longer in use, but maybe the time has come to see if Taco is still posting to Chips & Dips.