skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think correcting in private makes sense if also paired with a no-blame oriented retro after the fact for everyone to know what happened and to brainstorm about preventative measure in the future.
You appear to have missed the bit about clinical need again. It’s in your quote.
It’s a points system, with something like 2 out of the 100 points relating to ethnicity, per the links.
> I hated the location though

This is a really good point. There are lots of companies that I wouldn't work for because of their location (I'm not willing to be in SV or SF, for instance). With many of them, if I could work remotely for them, then I'd consider it.
The dictionary definition of "corrupt" is "Marked by immorality and perversion; depraved". The generally accepted definition when applied to politicians is that they use their power and influence to some unfair advantage. Enriching yourself at the expense of your constituents qualifies. Doing legal things that are required under our current system to get elected doesn't.

Words are only useful insofar as they allow you to draw distinctions between different concepts. Your definition (and it is yours -- you may not have invented the word, but you did advance one particular definition) isn't useful because it applies necessarily to all U.S. politicians since Citizens United. On your definition, calling a politician "corrupt" adds no more information than calling them "human".
If you aren’t fully utilizing gpu memory, can you use time slicing? Or MIG for A100?

Orthogonal solution but could help.
Agreed. If my manager was like what I described, not liking praise given because it was out of scope of their routine, and was immediately upset - I’d be gone too. However, if it’s something that happens over and over again and eventually your manager says “Hey, it’s great your helping others, let’s document that so you can get back to the departments initiatives”. I’d have more respect.
Your second example is a good one and I agree is a more effective approach to communicating.

But GP was right. There's a huge difference between your first example:

> “I really liked how you tackled this, have you thought about this approach?”

and the second:

> “Thank you for the effort…”

The first is most likely a lie, otherwise you wouldn't be offering an alternative suggestion! If somebody said that to me I'd feel extremely patronized and would consider that person very disingenuous.
Given the multiple perf/$ boost of ARM on cloud hosts (e.g. AWS Graviton), that hardware compatibility can be put to work for recurring monthly profitability at the expense of helping OSS ecosystem learn that ARM exists.

https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/08/amazon_arm_servers/
> They've simply listened to a "security consultant" parrot a few points about foreign traffic being mostly fraud/DDoS

Well, realistically, in the context of municipal public transit, what does foreign network traffic consist of, mostly?
> it’s worth noting what they’ve accomplished in getting to a place where they can afford to worry about that as one of their primary concerns

It's probably also worth noting the long history of military dictatorships, murderous suppression of worker rights, massive ongoing corruption (including a literal cult controlling the government until 2016) and the highest suicide rate in the world. Reducing the story to just economies is truly narrow minded.
> Please don't post shallow dismissals
How to Take over a Small Country in 10 Easy Steps
If a bunch of Swedes were dumped in Somalia, the locals would tell them to go fuck themselves and go back to their own country.

I don't think the problem here is what you're thinking but not saying. I think the problem is that suckers get took, to be crass. And to continue in that spirit, no self respecting nation of people would spread their buttcheeks and let the whole world have a go. It seems to me the Swedish have outlived their lifespan as a nation. I suppose it's the natural order of things, meek, defenseless tribes and nations don't last very long.
"It's impressive how much time you were able to waste while only accomplishing X", but said a lot more politely.
seems like NK will overwhelm SK by paraphrased Yasser Arafat words:
the strongest weapon that the Palestinians have is the womb of Palestinian mothers
I came to post the same thing.
They are probably shy.
Well, now you have.

Censoring speech can be used to oppose any viewpoint, and thereby strengthen the political power of its opposite. This censorship can be moral, as in the taboos that http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html points out. Or it can be legal, as in the the current Florida censorship of liberal points of view in schools.

Therefore targeted censorship can be seen as a tool to help achieve a political aim. Any aim. Including the aim of electing liberal politicians, to further a liberal agenda. As happened circa 2020 with social media censorship.

That's the trouble with freedom of speech. It always sounds like a good idea, but it is darned inconvenient when you have a bit of power and want to accomplish something.
The future of computing is that all code running on a device is one of the two S's: Signed or Sandboxed.

To do otherwise presents unnecessary risk.
https://easynews.com/
Vault is under the BSL now too: https://github.com/hashicorp/vault/blob/main/LICENSE
It can't; it's pure fantasy.
Just in case it's not clear I am by no means claiming domain expertise, merely stating that what I was taught and my understanding was similar to the initial comment I replied to hence the caveats and soft language. My statement should not be read as contradicting an ID expert or claiming that the author of the article is incorrect.

> In our HIV patients we see more more cryptococcal meningitis than CNS toxoplasmosis. Crypto is typically not going to have any significant radiologic abnormality unlike toxo in which imaging plays a large role in diagnosis. So I'm guessing, being a radiologist, you've got a sampling bias that favors toxo.

Agree crypto is much more subtle on imaging than either HIV encephalitis or toxo, the most common finding we see is dilated PVS which is nonspecific (particularly without priors). I only mentioned my anecdotal experience as it corresponds with what's taught to us but I agree it's highly susceptible to bias and I don't consider it evidence.

For example on StatDx (UpToDate for radiologists):

>[Cryptococcus is the] most common fungal infection in AIDS patients

>3rd most common [CNS] infection seen in AIDS patients (HIV > toxoplasmosis > Cryptococcus)

This could very well be out of date/incorrect, they don't give in-text citations like UpToDate so I'm not sure where these specific statements are coming from.

Do you have a reference handy? If so I can submit it as feedback on the article to get it updated/reviewed.
The DSN stations can receive from multiple spacecraft at the same time, but can only transmit to one. If you look at the DSN status station and click on the details sometimes you will see them in "MSPA (Multiple Spacecraft Per Antenna) mode". Looks like they can do 4 at the same time [0]. You will typically see this for Mars spacecraft where there are multiple within the beamwidth of the antenna.

It also looks like they have proposed some options to provide additional downlink by doing raw recording of the intermediate frequency with a high bandwidth receiver and doing the demodulation with additional processing to get telemetry/data for more spacecraft [1]. So they could support getting more data, but not necessarily "realtime" data.

[0] https://deepspace.jpl.nasa.gov/dsndocs/810-005/206/206D.pdf

[1] https://ipnpr.jpl.nasa.gov/progress_report/42-200/200B.pdf
No, I can see how discussing china could mean human rights, but in this case I was referring to China's flagrant IP violations.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/06/20/1075088/chinese-...
The reality is that effective LLMs, combined with some kind of knowledge retrieval, are coming close to becoming the idealized individual tutor. This is also a daily reminder that studies show that individual tutoring is objectively the best way to educate people:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom%27s_2_sigma_problem
Wouldn't this make your Great Grand Parents between 120 and 150 years old (presuming the ability to talk about one's youth starts age ~10)?
I haven't seen a correlation between the quality of an engineer and their preference for or against remote work. The two best engineers I've ever met have both been working remotely for over 20 years.
I’ve seen things…

Unfortunately the only way to win at office politics is to either not play, or play to win. Pick. If you find yourself in an organization where upper management is vying for control playing politics and alliances, I think it might be time to reach out to your network.
>What do you call viable?

Something that might happen Aka Reasonably competitive with alternatives.

It’s physically possible to build infrastructure allowing 100’s of GW of solar electricity to move from Africa to South America across a single grid. But, there’s noway that is actually going to happen as it would be a horrific waste of resources vs local storage even ignoring political problems etc.

The same thing is true of Nuclear. There’s no way you’re going to see anything close to a 100% nuclear grid when adding hydro, batteries, wind, and or solar would drastically lower costs.

However, once you accept people aren’t going to do something that stupid you need to consider what mix of generation and storage is cheapest and how far from that we’re willing to go. That same logic is why nobody is every going to build days worth of battery storage, it’s simply cheaper to have extra capacity that mostly sits unused than extra storage.
Someone tell this to the US Census Bureau please. They send you threatening letters demanding you fill out a survey ("Your response is REQUIRED by law"), but then block every non-US ISP from accessing it. I wrote my congresswoman, the US Digital Service (it was a hail mary) and Kevin Deardorff (the "chief" of the particular survey I have to take), and no one cares about the millions of Americans abroad.

I could probably sign up for a VPN service and take it, but then again, they could be blocking VPN services too.
I see these cool or potentially cool projects posted once a week here without screenshots or even documentation sometimes. I too do not understand.
The openbsd situation is even worse. over there the driver is bigger than the rest of the kernel.

Don't get me wrong I use the driver every day and AMD is definitely one of the good guys for making an open source driver and them who ported it are absolute heros. However.... Sometimes I wish AMD had tied down the isa to their cards a little better. Narrowed the interface if you would. because as it is the driver is so big because there is this combinatorial explosion of generated header files.

https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/watc
say Latchford now goes to occupied parts of Ukraine and buys up all their atifacts from the Russian regime and sells them around in order to preserve them

not only would he symbolically support the Russian regime by uprooting Ukrainian cultural heritage from the area, but he'd also support it financially by buying the stuff in the first place
Let me know how well that works with EV charging infrastructure in China.
Maybe they caught on with all the youngsters who call software and AI stuff "tech" instead of technology, and make a clear distinction between the two.
See, the mistake you're making is reading "free speech absolutist" literally. Read it like you're Winston in 1984, instead.
Show HN: TurboScribe – Unlimited audio/video transcription with Whisper
I’m Leif and I wanted to share the new product I’ve been working on recently, TurboScribe (https://turboscribe.ai).

It’s pretty simple: unlimited Whisper transcription (starting at $10 per month). It supports large-v2, small, and base models. And yeah, it really is unlimited. The most active users have transcribed 1k+ hours using Whisper large-v2 (in other words, you can transcribe all 30 x 24 x 60 = 43200 minutes of your life every month if you want!).

When I started building this a few months ago, I got connected with some initial users with higher volume transcription needs (i.e. hundreds/thousands of hours) and offered it for free. This helped me build out the transcription engine and iterate on it until it was beefy enough / efficient enough / fast enough to handle that level of load (they were also really impressed with the quality of Whisper transcription – so was I when I first started toying with it earlier this year!). Initially I wasn’t sure if I could get things efficient enough to be able to offer an “unlimited” service (especially one that could support people with higher-volume transcription needs), but it turns out that this actually is possible, which was cool.

Long story short: I’ve been really pleased with how it’s gone so far and so I’m excited to start sharing TurboScribe more broadly now. It’s transcribed over 17k hours so far (and less than half of that is my own personal testing :P), which I guess isn’t so big in the grand scheme of the internet, but I’m excited to see where this goes.

On a personal note, this has been the most fun I’ve had working on something over the past couple years and I’m excited to continue shipping more. Some things in the queue: improved file/folder management, transcript editing tools, and an API.

Tech details: It’s all Clojure/ClojureScript, with a Postgres database underneath. HTMX (I could write many love songs about HTMX) made the more dynamic UIs a breeze to build (live transcription progress, lazy loading, multi-step forms). Another Clojure program manages the transcription engine (heavy use of Clojure core.async) to allocate transcription jobs to a pool of GPU machines running Whisper, retry in the event of occasional failures, etc. Cloudflare R2 has been great, especially when it comes to handling large uploads – it’s awesome to be able to transfer large files to a transcription machine without huge data transfer costs. I could go on but not ashamed to say I’m building on the shoulders of giants. :)

There’s a free tier (4 uploads daily, up to 30 minutes each) and I would love for y’all to try it out. Happy to answer any questions (emails also welcome leif@turboscribe.ai) and otherwise thanks for checking it out!
RIP Seattle.
So you're saying we're allowing ourselves to be victimized by it via laziness ?

That's certainly true, if that is what you mean.

I guess the part I didn't speak about was: some people value independent thought more than others, and I think for those that do, the Things Come to You paradigm is even more frustrating.

My concern is that children are growing up in the Come to You dynamic. Flip side: they can generate content and release it in the wild, something that couldn't be done even in the 90's prior to IG, TikTok, YouTube, etc.
Disagree. Mastodon isn't so much a Twitter alternative as a Tumblr alternative with Twitter-like UX. And its value proposition is much the same as Tumblr: curate a collection of interesting discussions and memes from across the network, and in the process find people who like the same kinds of things and build connections with them.

It's not about "number go up" in the same way Twitter or Instagram is because there's no algorithm to give it a feedback loop.

Both Twitter/Instagram and Tumblr/Mastodon are about getting community/attention from strangers by posting what you want and letting them come to you (as opposed to Reddit or forums where you join existing discussions). But the Twitter/Instagram model relies on an algorithm so it only benefits those who are already famous or who invest in gaming the system, whereas Tumblr/Mastodon make it easy for everyone to find their community of a few dozen mutuals without being buried by the algorithm.
I believe people should take care to add "men and women at" before talking about companies. Companies and corporations are abstractions. There are real people taking these actions.

- "Men and women at IBM promised to back off facial recognition, then signed a $70M contract for it"

- "Men and women would sell equipment for total surveillance and oppression"

etc.

The reason I think this is important is that there's actually a very small number of people relative to the general population that are capable of producing this technology. It's easy to be angry at the suits, or at the broad abstraction "IBM" for enabling this, but the fact of the matter is that there are spineless cowards out there getting up every morning to go and build facial recognition software. They deserve the ire of thinking people. No matter what the era is, there will be sociopaths running large organizations looking to control everyone, but these days there's a huge coterie of nerds getting paid handsomely to help.
Is it this channel?

https://www.youtube.com/@adultliteracyandenglishlang

Here is the reading/writing playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9RaD1SLwSoZhMNz7pqRw...

I like her pacing (not fast, not too slow) and the way she presents herself. It seems like a high quality course, even if the audio and video quality are not perfect. I wonder how we could bring more awareness to this great work and others like it.
You get in your car to drive to the store, but it demands you makes several public posts about how great the car is before letting you go to the store or exit the car.

Original lore: http://ibgwww.colorado.edu/~lessem/psyc5112/usail/library/hu...
I've messed around with emulators in the past. To be honest the tweaking and fiddling with things drove me mad. It was 100 times easier to just switch on a dedicated device and dive into a game.

Then again I'm not buying the latest games or consoles, I've got some other ones that I dive into every now and then for a distraction.
I think OP is saying they talked about their youth when OP was a kid, not that they are still alive now.
Yes! And No!

Yes: US will continue being an economic powerhouse, and a very rare geopolitical entity that can source all of it’s inputs and can grow it’s own food. I would definitely think about really hard moving my family to US if our kids were 10 years younger mainly because I’ve realised how it geopolitically speaking outclasses anyplace else on earth.

No: Please do better research. Civilian population in North Europe will do quite well compared to planetary alternatives.

Yes: But safety wise US still wins if one is worried of foreign invasion.
This is how that would come across to most people, yes.

Praise should never be a time to display your intellectual superiority.
Sad and kind of surprising given that Romania's economy looks good on paper. Maybe the per capita GNP is increasing because people are emigrating, therefore capital per capita is increasing.

I consider corruption and quality of services "easy" problems if your economy is growing and your democracy is improving, you just need time. The richer you are, the less likely are you to accept bribes.

City design can be a harder problem depending on the specifics
but ultimately still solvable with time.

Population decline due to emigration seems like the biggest problem but maybe it will naturally self-correct, I don't have a clear opinion on this. I live in the Czech Republic and I have to say we're lucky we evaded the emigration curse that's affecting most ex-Eastern Bloc countries.

Emigrate where?
It is done specifically for power: denounce, denounce, denounce, until the power is granted to the denouncer. Not once is a viable solution offered.
In my area, their EV charging network has built several sites in the last few years. They are all terrible due to severe limits on peak amps (200A, IIRC).

TBH, it is pretty surprising, considering that they should clearly be seeing the opportunity.
Show HN: I spent weeks building an app for training SDXL LoRAs (in-browser)
So SDXL is a pretty cool diffusion model recently released by stability AI (https://huggingface.co/stabilityai/stable-diffusion-xl-base-...). It's common to train Low-Rank Adaptations (LoRAs) of this base model to generate art that has lower variance and elements that come from outside of the base model's training set (ex: your face, logos, etc.).

The problem is that the "easiest" ways of making these LoRAs is through the CLI, github script webUIs, or docker images on compute providers like Runpod. If your machine doesn't have a GPU with enough vRAM/power, then you pretty much have to pay to run the training script on some cloud compute.

It's a pretty terrible experience for non-technical people (even programmers like me lol).

So I built this app that lets you train regular + SDXL LoRAs in the browser, save them, share them, generate art with them, and configure them.

Let me know what you think :)
And leases, something very people know is that Van Moof has a great corporate leasing program. All big tech offer eBike commuting options paying Van Moof Leases.

I think it is genius, the bikes are expensive to buy, but $100 a month lease including maintenance is very popular among Big tech (especially if your company pays for it).

https://support.vanmoof.com/en/support/solutions/articles/44...
Took CS61AL (Lab version) about a decade ago. Even knowing how to program and working in industry for several years it was not easy. I think my class was one of the last to use Scheme before they switched towards Python and was entirely taught with SICP Book.
Probably the biggest difference between sort of traditional programming courses and CS61AL is you have to essentially understand and do recursion day one. It sort of blew my mind compared to the way I learned because generally you do simple statement programs, then functions, then for, while, do while, etc. Then finally around maybe chapter 10 in a traditional book you get to recursion. CS61AL, SICP, and its lots are great, but they very quickly touch on discrete math and calculus concepts and how they relate to programming/CS. Ditto for first-class functions and Lambda's, all introduced very soon in CS61A.
Great course though, was a serious challenge from something I thought I would skate through. Definitely made me a better programmer.
So, then, who are the right people for the kind of financial questions that require experience but don't need an ongoing relationship? (For example, someone who has an existing IRA but would like to convert it as to later take advantage of backdoor Roth conversions - it's a complex modeling exercise that's probably simple for an expert but hard to get right for someone who will need to do it precisely once in their life.