skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Defined-benefit plans do not work.

Or at least they were generally oriented towards multi-decade employment with the government or a large manufacturing company. There were pension fund protections put in place over time and I won't personally regret having a modest payout from a long-ago employer whose pension fund has made it through a couple acquisitions.

But defined benefit pensions are another case of tying important benefits to an employer which people shouldn't generally favor, especially today. It's nice having a small lottery ticket I was probably only vaguely aware of at the time but it's not really good policy.
First off, whatever way you think you have in your 20s is wrong and misguided.
You need small wins to gain confindence.
It's almost September, think of a reasonable goal you can accomplish by the end of the year. Start to think of a harder goal your can accomplish by the end of 2024. If it's money, then finding religion about personal finances in your 20's will set you up better than most in your later years.
Well Nvidia holds like 90% of the GPU marketshare, so any reply mentioning a competitor would have this property.
Tell me you haven't worked in an Enterprise environment without telling me
Every computer power supply I've seen in the last 10 years or so is basically rated for input as something like '100-250v, 50-60hz. That way they work on virtually any power grid anywhere in the world, it's just a matter of having the right female IEC to male <local whatever> power cable.
As someone who also worked within the arcane limitations of analog video, at both the broadcast and prosumer levels, today's UHD video standards and colorspaces can be incredible when correctly applied in a maximal high-end workflow such as native 4k 10-bit HDR.

Yet when I look at today's typical "top quality" live broadcast content such as the 4K Super Bowl as delivered by mass consumer distribution such as Comcast Xfinity (via their latest high-end decoder box), it's a visual mess compared to what the signal chain should be capable of delivering.

Even though I have top notch viewing gear properly configured and calibrated (with local video processing 'enhancements' disabled), it looks terrible. Unfortunately, due to the layers of compression, conversion and DRM slathered on the signal before I receive it, it's extremely difficult to analyze what's going wrong. All I can determine is that it is a video feed being decompressed into a 4K-resolution, 4:2:2, 60fps frame buffer. However, examining still frame sequences reveals extensive motion, color and resolution artifacts.

The net effect conveys a sense of "sharpness" in the frequency domain at first glance but on critical viewing over time it's a weird kind of digital abomination of macro-blocked chroma splotches, lagged temporal artifacts and bizarre over-saturation of primary hues. While some pre-compressed streamed film content looks quite good when delivered via a streaming service willing to devote sufficient encoding time and delivery bitrate, it's still hit and miss. Live broadcast content, especially high-motion sports, is almost always a mess. We've come so far in standards and specifications yet still have so far to go in the actual delivered result to most households.
I am intrigued, delighted, incredibly supportive of this measure, and finally, laughing my ass off.
i don't know if it helps but i wondered what chatgpt would say:

Dear WhatsApp Privacy Operations,

Thank you for your prompt response. I am writing to formally object to the processing of my personal information by WhatsApp based on my rights under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

What information processing you are objecting to:
I object to the processing of my personal data, including but not limited to my contact list, messages, location data, device information, and any other data that WhatsApp collects for purposes that are not essential to the provision of the service. Specifically, I am concerned about the processing of my data for targeted advertising, data sharing with third-party entities, and any other processing activities that are based on WhatsApp's legitimate interest rather than my explicit consent.

How WhatsApp’s processing of this information impacts you:
The processing of my personal data by WhatsApp impacts my fundamental rights and freedoms, including my right to privacy. I am concerned about the potential misuse of my data, the risk of data breaches, and the sharing of my data with entities that I have not provided consent to. The aggregation and analysis of my data for profiling and targeted advertising purposes infringe upon my right to a private life and can lead to unwanted and intrusive advertisements. Furthermore, the sharing of my data with third-party entities without my explicit knowledge or consent compromises my trust in the platform and my ability to control how my personal information is used.

Any additional information you believe will help us review your objection (optional):
I understand that WhatsApp may have business reasons for processing user data, but as a user, I believe that my right to privacy and control over my personal data should be paramount. I urge WhatsApp to consider the concerns of its users and to prioritize transparency and user control in its data processing activities.
I hope that my objection will be taken into consideration, and I look forward to hearing from you regarding the steps WhatsApp will take to address my concerns.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Sincerely,

[Your Name]
[Your WhatsApp Phone Number]
Ask HN: Which cloud services for Automatic1111 StableDiffusion?
I am looking for a comprehensive list of cloud-based solutions to run Stable Diffusion + plugins in the cloud as an API.

Some known services (not sure if they have an API):

rundiffusion.com
happydiffusion.com
FairPlay™ sounds as of it was taken straight from Scientology.
Pensions if a person gets them which is rare (in the US) is typically tied to their company or the government if they were employed by the government.
No, that isn’t the point.

The point is that a model can do everything, not that it is the most cost effective or best way to do everything.

There are tradeoffs with all tech, and there always will be.
There's a thing called "corporate VPN" and the way it works is that due to IP rights they share people working on projects, but each of them has a bunch of laptops for external corporations.

If VW and CARIAD work on a project, the guy at VW has a laptop from CARIAD inside the VW network; and vice versa.

Most of them even don't have Citrix VMs because they are hopelessly too slow to work with.
Yeah definitely is speculative, but I worked in many NLP research teams in FAANG. Worked on large scale ML systems that support systems you have heard of. All of the work we did is now obsolete (except for cost), and the scientists skill sets were completely eroded.
Communication through bidding is fascinating. Any type of collusion during any kind of auction is fascinating.
This is my beef with naively applied DDD, separation of concerns, and design patterns.

Usually what happens is the 'clean' code ideal comes first, and then the implementation is squeezed into it. This then informs the organisation (or architecture) of the rest of the codebase and your software design has become a matter of putting pegs into the right-shaped holes.

I have never found that kind of highly abstracted code easier to work with than some simple procedural alternative that is easy to delete and easy to refactor, so long as effort was put into writing it well.

Of course, the patterns have a purpose and do help when used nicely - a lot of code you write will fall into some of those patterns even without you explicitly mentioning it. It's just...doing it for the sake of it is a problem.
If you read the links: they discovered that using this flag broke EVERY installation of FRR on the internet. They let the developers know. And then said they were going to test again in a week.

Does any sane person think that 1 week is enough time to both notify every user of FRR in the WORLD, as well as ensure they have upgraded their installations for a "bug" that only is triggered by someone using experimental flags meant for testing purposes only?

Mind you, these researchers didn't test ANYTHING in a lab environment first "because it's a lot of work to test all the open source BGP implementations in the wild". AKA: I'm lazy.
Capitalism has only been the dominant mode of production for approximately 2 centuries, and people made all the same excuses for feudalism yet here we are.
A Deep Dive into Weaviate's Fusion Algorithms for Hybrid Search
He's also wrong thinking that malware is more possible on Windows than other OSes, rather than that Windows is a more popular target because it's the most popular OS in the world.
Important caveat with Firefox: You can run your own Firefox Account server (see https://mozilla-services.readthedocs.io/en/latest/howtos/run...) and then e.g. connect to it over a VPN to mitigate a lot of this.
So instead of auding MPL once (or never because MPL doesn't have a habit of broken output) I should audit the output of this LLM for every query because it does have a habit of hallucinating?
Crissy Field
I'll just leave this here, it's a fascinating bit of citizen science:

http://achemicalhunger.com/
The SEC's position seems eminently reasonable to me. It's not the government's job to give free legal consultation for how to skirt the law. I could call up my local district attorney and ask him to explain the nuanced minutiae of the law as he understands it so that I can skirt around that in some clever way, but I expect he would refuse to answer my questions and rightfully so. If I want that kind of advice, I have to hire my own lawyer.

Cryptobros can't seriously expect anything different, so these complaints are just political theater to prod lawmakers into acting (e.g. explicitly legalizing their schemes.)
al, not ai.

albama.
I can't speak about Google at all, but this line:
if you’re not in the room when decisions are made you don’t know how the company works

Is great and true, thank you.
???

Ketamine is only ever recommended as a last ditch treatment in most situations as it comes with it a pretty high risk of psychotic issues. Which is the reason it is only really used on children - for some unknown reason they have much lower risk.

But more importantly, you seem to be ignoring the fact that ketamine is intentionally being abused as a recreational drug exactly for it's psychotic effects. I think the link between abusing a drug for its psychotic effects and... uh... psychotic actions would be pretty direct.
This comment is exactly what I'm talking about!

First off - nobody uses Bootstrap anymore, and frontend is way more than just CSS. Just from the comment I can infer that you probably know very little about frontend, yet have the confidence to disparage frontend as a "solved problem". Your comment is a perfect example of the lack of respect towards frontend.

Let me ask you, what in software engineering isn't already a solved problem?

I'm glad you used that wording, because it seems that the most optimal way to work in this industry is to work on those problems that aren't considered already solved. I think that very very few of the problems that engineers work on haven't already been solved. But perhaps that's one lens to look at things in order to decide what kind of work has the highest ROI in working on. Clearly from a tech career perspective it's not frontend.
You replied to my original post, did you not [0]? The post where I, as stated above, also included the words, "all by themselves or with a small group of people," no? The post where I explicitly did not "[discuss] all of the work being done by a single person" that denies work also being done by groups. You were the one who omitted the "with a small group of people" part and started talking only about a "single person hollywood replacement dream."

I think you're just arguing semantics at this point, as to me, it doesn't really matter if it's a single person or a small team making stuff, my greater point was that it will be a lot cheaper than a full-blown Hollywood production and will usher in a new sort of industry like YouTubers today, as ubiquitous phone cameras have, only now these creators will also make photorealistic productions rather than just filming themselves doing things.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37310759
Okay then what happens when those people reach the retirement age and have no retirement benefits left? They either die (not so fast), or become a burden for social services (in countries with those), or get into crime (of some kind). Maybe I am missing something, but I only see drawbacks for society and for the individual.
Hi, this is Max - one of the founders of Langfuse and super excited to show Langfuse to HN today.
Thanks a lot for the suggestion. I had not heard of Tinybird but it seems like a great product. It could be valuable to use their materialized views to calculate aggregates for our analytics UI.
We will need to discuss whether we can use them as they are not open source.
However, for anyone reading this, they use Clickhouse under the hood and have created a knowledge base (https://github.com/tinybirdco/clickhouse_knowledge_base). I will browse it to learn more.
https://caniuse.com/css-lch-lab is probably a better resource for support, and it notes that the main layout engines all supported it earlier this year, and gives an estimated global support rate of ~85%.
The SEC chief is Gary Gensler who used to teach a Cryptocurrency course at Harvard...
Pretty smart idea, wonder why other driving schools don't offer this as an optional service.
> they're not in a position to execute some exquisitely bullshit market segmentation strategy

nevertheless that is exactly what they spent the last decade trying, with ROCm not even officially supporting the consumer-card variants of the handful of radeon pro cards that actually got support. AMD's GPGPU software support was almost entirely segmented to the CDNA cards for the HPC market until literally a month ago, and still completely ignores any sort of binary compatibility story (they really want you to distribute as source and compile in-situ, which really makes it a non-starter for end-user software or commercial distribution).
Ruby Outperforms C: Breaking the Catch-22
This is one of those situations where I really have to wonder if running SD via a cloud solution for personal use is truly cheaper. Granted, I don't really use cloud-services that I don't host myself, but I have a hard time believing that, over time, this would a more cost-effective endeavor then just investing in the hardware.
Already doable. The gotcha is that it is slow AF. Even if it’s 90%/10% split the subjective experience tanks hard so usually makes sense to pick something that fits into your vram
Wouldn't the wrench attack in this instance just make you type your password to your broker, sell the ETF, and then transfer the money to some third party bank account?
UK air traffic control: inquiry into whether French error caused failure
100% agree. Coupling between systems and teams is very expensive and should be done as deliberately as possible.
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It's context dependent. If I'm filming a movie and want to get a scene where a car is spewing smoke, and the FD runs up while I'm filming to put it out, that is troublesome to me.

It seems like this might be the case here where some minuscule portion of the botnet base is security research firms / etc. who have a reason to have the botnet software installed and don't want it deleted; in fact, it may even affect their livelihood to delete it.
let us read this together

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/leaded-gas-poison-...
You can replace McDonalds with "eating out" because you don't need to go crazy with supersizing and milkshakes to eat past your calorie budget in a single meal.

When we eat out, we easily eat 1000+ calories. That's over half the daily calorie budget of a 5'5 woman. Yet it's just one of the meals people eat in a day.

People like to come up with a bunch of reasons for why we eat too much or why the food we eat is somehow making us fatter than it might otherwise but we gloss over how trivial it is to overeat caloric dense foods even if "obesogens" and microplastics never existed.
This is probably a decent enough intro to get a general "feel": https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/ruby/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37290356
There's an aspect of "not seeing what others are seeing" here.

> I think “the wrong abstraction” is a confused way of referring to poorly-de-duplicated code. Here’s why. [...]

> So instead of “duplication is cheaper than the wrong abstraction”, I would say “duplication is cheaper than confusing code littered with conditional logic”. But I actually wouldn’t say that, because I don’t believe duplication is cheaper. I think it’s usually much more expensive.

It seems the author is considering 'cost' to be the mechanical effort of managing the sync/desync of the DRY code. What it's not considering is that distinct intents can incidentally use the same implementation at the moment. This is when it's not a good idea to DRY because there they are not meant to stay in sync.
There are probably tons of memos to public officials saying "we need funding to shore up the system", which were of course ignored.
What kinds of mistakes are harmless at 120V @ 100A vs 400V @ 30A?
This would indeed help raise the living standards of people who are currently starving, which I would support.

But there is another very well documented phenomenon (citing your answer to a sibling comment): people's consumption of natural resources, emission of pollutants and overall ecological footprint drastically increases with rising wealth.

This more than makes up for any leveling in population growth. And I want to make clear that I am not against more wealth for people who are starving.

Because another topic is that wealth is not evenly distributed, and mostly fuels excesses and further environmental destruction when inequality is high.

Many people cite statistics claiming that the per-capita emissions (just an exemplary quantity, there's more to the environment than CO2 emissions of course) would be falling in rich western countries over the last years or even decades.

AFAIK, even for "model countries" with low population density and comparatively good environmental legislation, such as Denmark, these numbers are based on basically lying with statistics.

Prime example being the outsourcing of all environmental damage while keeping the gains in the country.

Introductory reading (that's where I took the Denmark example from):
https://eeb.org/library/decoupling-debunked/
Matches Microsoft pricing for Copilot, smart.
Flip side of the flip side is bad because when you fix the bug in "abstraction" or de-duplicated piece of code: how do you know you did not break something you don't know.

Duplication is easier because once you fix that single place - you are 100% sure you fixed that place and you did not break 10 other places. Maybe you know "by writing unit tests", but when you write unit tests, when you find out you broke something.

Funny story time: had an add/edit popup in system because they looked the same so dev just made it "single thing". Something like 3 months dev1 fixed something -> qa2 found a bug X -> dev2 fixed something -> qa1 found a bug Y -> dev3 fixed something -> qa 3 again found bug X. When I got into code base I noticed that ping-pong because somehow I was only sane person to check git history and I split things up. Something like that happened multiple times in my career
Every comment in this thread is mentioning a different angle of advantage/disadvantage between the two. I've given up on determining the winner, but that's ok, I'm just learning a lot about home power distribution.
When you move from one minor rev of python to the next, some language feature changes (either syntax or semantics or features no longer work.)

For instance... if you use async io in 2.x, the debugger stops working. Between 2.3, 2.5 and 2.7, the syntax of package variable scoping changed and then the semantics changed from package to class variables.

If you used a feature like package variables in your code in 2.3, that code would not work in 2.5. If you fixed it in 2.5, the semantics changed so that if you defined a package variable according to the 2.5 syntax, but it was defined within a class, it became a class variable.

This is just an example.
Did you tell them about your issue and did they respond?
I would recomment javafx. My opinion is biased, but there is a high probability it will be around and supported in the next 20 years, just like java Swing.
I see you have no experience with actually dealing with regulatory law and how stupid and vague it can get
> This is due to poor management. Strong management makes employees feel secure and not-surveillanced.

Maybe that’s true, but having trustworthy async workloads is dependent on having really good planning methodology (eg sizing tickets fairly accurately with 2 week sprint planning)

In my experience this is very difficult. The moment you start working on a more novel feature/project, ticket sizing gets wacky. When ticket sizing is wacky, you get the dreaded gray area: we planned this thing to take 3 days. It took me 1 day because the team didn’t understand how small the ticket was during ticket grooming. Do I take days off or create new work for myself? Am I responsible for post hoc fixing planning failures? If so, am I not just emulating the “spend 40 hours working” mindset via points? If not, am I not taking advantage of the teams planning mistake?