skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is how most emails at the exec/c-suite level read. Admittedly kind of annoying, but a lingo develops and shorthand is used all over. There have been many in-person conversations with the people included in this email so they have all this built up context and shared language. To you, it sounds cryptic, but the recipients understood exactly what Satya meant here.
I don’t think I’d say Midjourney is “leaps and bounds” above SDXL. It’s better overall, but SDXL closed the gap a significant amount.
Haha I'm happy to hear, thank you!
Why not live somewhere even cheaper? Do your research from a nice hut on the beach in Thailand for example.
In my (West Coast US) circles the word ‘Liberal Democrat’ is taken to mean an economically right wing but socially left wing. To my immigrant ears I’ve always taken it to be a right wing term. Democrats also come in the conservative flavor, where they are not only economically right wing but also crony capitalists. Joe Manchin is an example of a conservative democrat while Gavin Newsom is an example of a liberal democrat (Joe Biden is somewhere between them).

In my circles we consider both liberal democrats and conservative democrats to be bad (though conservative democrats are significantly worse; and any kind of republicans are infinitely worse). We also have progressive democrats which we—most of the time—consider good.
What you're describing is clearly eugenics, just a benign form.
> Another former employee confirmed that staffers at the company would make jokes comparing Upside to Theranos.

that's taking it a little far... their goal is providing an ethical food source, not revolutionizing human diagnoses

can't wait for meat-less meat tech to get through its paces and take the time to mature. humans took hundreds of years to figure out how to herd cattle; what's another few years to make it in a lab?
I do this in Chicago ... Every time I could shop at Jewel or Mariano's I instead cross the border into Aldi and get similar stuff with less choices for 30% off!
Growth, plus reliability by reducing the SPOF.

We are beginning to hit the limits of what we can do with the current single-writer database in this hardware.

As well, the size of the data is larger than I’d like for a single MariaDB cluster. That makes operations like setting up new replicas take a long time. Being able to operate on smaller shards will help a lot at parallelizing some of that work.
The key phrase here is internal use. Think authentication between two micro services, not HTTPS for someblog.com.

The third party in this case is just a file: the internal CA key.

Try to think of this in the following terms: the issued certs are just signed tokens, nothing more. They’re also conveniently a public-private key pair, but that’s not the point.

The point is that if you used a 1kb random password for service to service auth and someone tried to sell you a $400/mo service to generate them, you’d laugh in their face and then have security escort them from the building.

Sprinkle a tiny bit of cryptography on top and suddenly people think $4,800 annually is a bargain for 1kb passwords.

I can buy a decent used car for that kind of money.
Trying to mess with any part of the metabolism is going to have consequences.

You can even take a more direct route and make the body just burn more energy. Works perfectly well, technically doesn't have any side effects, though you have to take into account that burning energy results in heat.

And in all cases homeostasis is just going to attempt to return to normal as soon as possible. You need to somehow break the loop of your body wanting more energy to maintain its weight. This is a lot trickier because the checks and balances are everywhere and affect everything.
D Billions Is Creating a YouTube Kids’ Entertainment Empire in Kyrgyzstan
My thoughts exactly. I did some guesstimates last month, the experimentation and playing I've done with my 3090 so far would have cost somewhere around $7k on the metered OPC options.
> especially not when there are other much better and more modern tools. (which Java is demonstrably playing catch-up with)

Which modern tools do you have in mind here?

Java does indeed playing catch up with new features. That's inevitable for a language came out 30 years ago. OTOTH many other languages are still behind Java in terms of the runtime environment and the ecosystem. You should pick what works for you, not to go with the trend.

> The best talent don't even want to consider working with Java if they can help it.

I think you seriously overestimate how talent those devs are if language is the deciding factor of what they choose to work on.
I can generate perfectly realistic “photographs” on SDXL.

You certainly don’t want to use the word ‘realistic,’ because real photos aren’t described that way. Just do “photo of blah blah,” or “blah blah, photo.”
XDNA is not an FPGA just because it comes from Xilinx.
I think the key to their strategy is the line "more fragmented set of device stores/platform is better for us."

Nadella is acknowledging that being an app means the platform hosting the app has a lot of leverage. Apple could potentially prevent Microsoft from releasing an update on any of the apps they publish on the App Store. Apple and Google essentially play a gatekeeping role between many Microsoft Users and Microsoft itself. This is big for Microsoft because they have a huge install base on Android/iPhone/iPad, and have some exposure to macOS. Teams without iPhone won't work. This is a topic Microsoft is specifically sensitive too because of it's history.

Nadella is saying it's worth investing in less popular devices in hopes that they become a bigger competition again iPhone and Android. In fact, Nadella is hoping Meta takes a small but meaningful portion of the market.
In the field I work there's the practice in Spanish language publishers of publishing a print run of a certain amount of copies, and then let it fall out of print with no reprints whatsoever. And no e-book formats. Want to purchase a copy? Sorry, no luck. Not even print-on-demand for ya.

Or, you want to read your ebook in Linux, but the publisher puts DRM on it with a stupid Digital Editions which forces you to install hostile software with a crappy UI on Windows for the privilege of reading what you have already purchased.

I'd say go libgen, go ahead!!

For such cases, libgen is a godsend.
That bothers me a bunch but not less than using "ask" as a replacement for "request" and "learning" for "lesson".
True that. Peace down here is unbelievable, but I just miss playing Counter-Strike so much... hahaha I know...
Interesting - I don't think I'd heard Not California before.

An oddity that has become increasingly popular over nearly 20 years (breaking records for stream counts and singles chart tenure) is the Killers' Mr. Brightside, which only has one (repeated) verse. Which probably makes it a good singalong anthem.

It also starts with a nice (if short) guitar riff/hook.
Thanks, I thought about museums, there's a "Computer Museum" in Boston that I went to decades ago. But I doubt I have anything unique, or worth their time, really. Been looking for specific groups to get an idea of the actual values, some prices I've seen on ebay are 3x the others, for apparently the same items.
Photoshop’s generative infill and expand are on an entirely different level from what Stable Diffusion can do right now. The fact that you can select an area, give it no prompt, and have it usually perfectly fill it in one of the 3 variations it gives you is magical.
California sues 5 major oil co's for campaign of deception about climate change
Ask HN: Are there any unsolved problems with vector databases
I just noticed a YC post regarding a company starting another vector db. I would have thought all problems have been solved by now. What’s remaining?
It's not like they don't have a history of colluding to keep power from employees.

It's very suspicious that this "time of cost cutting" just so happened to coincide with increased office spending.
Not really. Software first enterprises do. But most enterprises that have a non-software focus generally prefer languages that have been around for a while and are known by lots of people.
I thought Zig's community was decentralized.
> If one of the black holes goes active, and if the jet is pointed at us, what might be the effect?

For stellar mass black holes, I don't think jets would have a significant effect this far away. The jets that travel really long distances are associated with supermassive black holes (billions of solar masses) powering quasars.
> thermals

Apple has been consistently terrible at cooling design, the only reason m1/m2 systems don't have thermal issues is because they sidestepped the problem entirely by building a very thermally efficient chip.
The stuff that they’ve added in 2023 alone is absolutely huge, as a photographer. The new Photoshop Remove tool along with the generative stuff has saved me hours upon hours of work. I’ve fixed images in seconds that would have taken 10 or 20 minutes before.
> This is how most emails at the exec/c-suite level read

I've been reading @TechEmails for years and I've never seen any email as incomprehensible as this one.
A way to cheat on this is to have the intro technically be a separate song. Playing the album you get an extended intro, but you can just play the "main" song.

The start of Judas Priest's "Screaming for Vengeance" album does this with "The Hellion" blending in to "Electric Eye". "Electric Eye" also has one of the greatest riff/hooks in metal starting off right at the beginning of the song.
Which has no equivalent tools to what’s being discussed.
> It's amazing seeing the ML FPGA come out on a CPU.

I don't know what "on a CPU" means here but the AIEngine tiles aren't FPGA-like or reconfigurable logic - I don't know where you got that idea. As the diagrams show they are VLIW with vector instructions. They (the fabric, not AIE tiles) do have fully programmable DMA engines but I don't know how much is exposed to third-party devs.

> it's potential bridge for AMD to make their FPGA in general used & adopted.

This isn't happening and won't ever happen because absolutely no one wants to "program" reconfigurable logic.

> yosys or openxla

These two things are so far apart that I have no clue what you're suggesting here regarding synthesis.
It rapidly points to different places on the sensor, allowing one sensor readout to contain multiple images from different times.
While "treat blue collar workers better" sounds like a nice goal in itself...I fail to see how that would do anything at all to address the problem which the article is about.

In other news - treating your oxen wonderfully will not transmute a wooden moldboard into an iron plow.
I don't recall what the document was but in real estate, a defect can also negatively impact neighbors or future owners. If the defect was the responsibility of the previous owner and not having the disclosure at the time of the closing means you no longer have legal standing to pursue remedy and you don't get around to fixing it, it may get grandfathered in and now it's potentially a permanent situation.

I think TFA is a case where the OP messed up. He shouldn't have lied to appease his boss and it seems he wasn't clear about that at the time.

He didn't seem to feel he was lying. He told his boss X then did as he was told. And I think this sort of mental disconnect is common and, among other things, leads to problematic choices for how to relate online.

In his mind, while filling out the papers, what he said was part of this larger conversation and his boss knew what he really believed to be true. The problem is that putting it in writing means other people can read it and they aren't part of this larger conversation.

I was clear that signing the papers could come back to bite me but based on the banker's remark inferred he wasn't concerned and he felt rescheduling was a bigger problem. Odds are good the item showed up soon after and was added to the file and said the "right" thing, so didn't create problems.

I still think what I said elsewhere: OP should probably be planning his exit. But I do also understand why some people have sympathy for his boss and feel like playing devil's advocate here.
Yep it's via bluetooth
I’m not putting myself anywhere on his level - want to make that clear - but I was specifically referring to clarity.

I work with execs at our company a lot and am often in their email chains - agree on the lingo and shorthand for stuff, but it’s usually clear. You’d be surprised at how candid people are and how much cussing there can be lol. But I was specifically referring to the clarity of the message.

Either way it’s just an opinion and as I said, I think I was just idealizing too much and expected something else.
The enshittification of everything! https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/enshittification

A few days back there was a discussion on HN, The Tyranny of the Marginal User[1]. This applies to products. Products are made worse, advertised as great deals using all kinds of psychological tricks (Eg: discounting tricks in Austria discussed today in HN.), influencers, wellness peddlers, bloggers, podcasters, etc. Everyone, everywhere, everything, all the time is about buying stuff! See Temu, how it gamified shopping, bringing in game app store pressure tactics to shopping.

People complain all the time about how things are costly or getting costlier or shrinkflation, but it doesn't stop anyone from buying, which leads me to think most people have too much money and have zero discretion on what to buy. A while back, people used to back away from buying stuff which they thought wasn't a great deal. But something has changed in the past few years, anybody can make any garbage and people will buy it! Think about cars: most everyone bought cars a few thousand below MSRP, but now undiscerning people have proven to manufacturers and dealers that they will buy whatever crap car is made at 50% markup. There is no selection pressure on manufacturers to make good stuff.

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37509507

[2]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37532973
Replacing function call with network call does not really solve any org issues. There is pretty much 0 difference if teams are shipping "modules" for a monolith vs a microservice outside of much simplified CI/CD setup in case of monolith. You can gain some scaling efficiencies from scaling services independently but it's a minor advantage for most projects.
Maybe it's just me, but I find myself having zero patience for introductions that set me up with a story. I just glanced over the first two paragraphs, rolled my eyes, and started reading at the third.
I agree. There’s a certain freedom in the speakers working correctly, you know?
If I've learned anything in the past decade it's that CEOs aren't any better at predicting the future than you or I.

In fact a lot of business strategy seems to be making 5 year plans from last quarters data and assuming last quarter will repeat for five years. Look at all the aggressive hiring. Look at all the aggressive layoffs.
Not having the problem in the first place is the best way to solve it. We are discussing finished products. My M2 air lasts a million hours and doesn't get hot. My XPS lasts 4 or 5 and burns the top of my legs.

I'm not sure yours is the criticism you think it is.

Ultimately, heat is waste, and the less of it you generate, the better. When I said "thermals" I meant chip design, not cooling system design. This is obviously one of the huge benefits of their vertical integration.
Some weird stuff is going on. I always check the Yosemite webcams, so first:

$ ping pixelcaster.com
ping: cannot resolve pixelcaster.com: Unknown host

$ ping pixelcaster.com
PING pixelcaster.com (34.208.45.100): 56 data bytes
(webserver doesn't ping)

At least, it's resolved.
And now, the webcams are back online.

Do visit them!
https://pixelcaster.com/yosemite/webcams/ahwahnee2.jpg

https://pixelcaster.com/yosemite/webcams/sentinel.jpg?201922...

https://pixelcaster.com/yosemite/webcams/yosfalls-t.jpg

https://pixelcaster.com/yosemite/webcams/turtleback.jpg

The Half Dome (from Ahwahnee) and High Sierra (from Sentinel Dome) as well as the El Capitan one (from turtleback) seem to have been upgraded. I get star photos at night from El Cap.

Webcams are courtesy of Yosemite Conservancy, https://yosemite.org

Apologies if this is a bit off-topic.
When DNS fails, I worry.
Gym Class VR (YC W22) Is Hiring a Lead Back End Engineer
I see the sentiment a lot, but its not really that simple.

- The majority of BGS players plays without the unnofficial patch, much less other mods to fix the game.

- In exchange for all that I feel you got masterful worldbuilding and some gem side quests to discover, but I think that factor is diminishing over time. The writing in Starfield, in particular, is really bad, and it doesn't seem like the little gems are sprinkled with enough frequency to make up for it. And there is no excuse of "this was a rushed lemon MMO side project" like 76, Starfield is supposed to be BGS at their best.

- This kind of exchange is not unique anymore, as BGS is no longer the only giga action RPG on the block. You could say the same thing about ME Andromeda and Asscreed Odyssey, for instance, but I feel the filler/reward ratio is much higher in those games.
todd mcfarlane and mark millar got rich going into business for themselves, rather than working for DC and Marvel.
To make things worse these companies are still doing layoffs in various hidden and underhanded ways. From what I figure they're doing "employee refreshes", i.e. getting rid of more experienced Covid hires with high salaries in favor of less experienced post-Covid hires with lower compensation.

For at least a few big companies, it's both big and scummy.
Paperback predates that tool (though to be fair, it still has to have a nice GUI interface made for it, and to be honest I have been working on it off more than on). Also, I suspect they don't support reconstructing lost shards or adding new shards after sharing (this is trivial to do from the maths but very few tools seem to have this pretty important feature). I talk about this in the LCA talk I did on paperback[1]. There are also some attacks against SSS that require workarounds and it seems to me they don't have any protections against them (in paperback's case, there are several measures to defend against forged shards -- one of which is that all shards are signed with an Ed25519 key whose private half is in the sharded secret).

That being said, the underlying cryptography is quite old and there aren't too many new ways you can spin it -- the goal of paperback was to make it possible for paper backups to be done in a way that non-technical folks can understand the properties. How well it currently lives up to that goal is a different question, of course.

I mainly wrote paperback because the existing SSS systems I could find at the time were all either very primitive, had serious security issues (I found two or three serious cryptographic vulnerabilities in the handful of existing tools at the time -- and I'm not a cryptographer by any stretch of the imagination), or were not usable as a paper backups system. There are more around now and it's possible I wouldn't have bothered with paperback if they'd existed back then.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GI9rKdM9rB8&t=1368
Sam Bankman-Fried’s elite parents enabled his crypto empire
PKI can provide non-repudiation while signed tokens and API keys cannot. There's a big difference transmitting a bearer token vs establishing a TLS connection.
Archived: https://archive.ph/kvDrF
From Wikipedia:

> 1,750,000 frames per second at a resolution of 1280 x 32

It’s just a slit! This is wild it’s even possible.
That's a stretch and regardless, what influenced the ideas of liberalism is a non-sequitur.

No one has the right to use violence against someone for being gay or transgender. Whether being gay or transgender is immoral or not is a religious question and not something politics can adequately answer.
A chip that doesn't get hot sounds like pretty efficient cooling design to me.
Why not just grow mushrooms? Their cells are meaty, super high in protein, and they already exist / the “tech” has already been developed! There is an extremely large selection, some with additional health benefits.
> Go is simple. It's easy to understand, read, and maintain.

Matter of taste I guess, to me Go code looks ugly, it's too verbose with all that error handling every other line which hurts readability.
Also the docs are often so cryptic and unhelpful, one needs to rely on examples elsewhere. I do use it though, when I need something fast in a single binary.
Very glad we have eg CSIRO comparing how well various methods overcome that homeostasis and publishing their results.

Successful weight loss has been totally life-changing for me, and being able to access reliable info on what works long term was a key part of it.
The newest album by NǽnøcÿbbŒrg VbërrHolökäävsT is 44 hours long. I guess that the format is not the limit anymore.
Yeah, 90% of the time when I’m using my phone (e.g. right now), I’m at home, on my couch. I could be using my laptop or desktop which are both close within reach, but I like being able to read HN while my partner plays Zelda.

I’m not exactly the demographic of “only uses mobile” - I am very much a “pre-mobile internet user” (coding, games, music all required me to pick up some desktop skills) but can attest to the fact that I don’t hate the experience in a way that’s commensurate with how much I’d hate having a hot laptop on my stomach or sitting in some other room typing this out.
I opened an issue on this here: https://github.com/PRQL/prql/issues/3518
I had a former coworker reach out after he was let go by Paper. They've done 3 rounds of lay-offs, around 100 people each time since May 17. Bravo! talk about the wrong way to make cuts; everyone left must be freaking out.
The fishing simulator is pretty funny. I like the veiled commentary on graphics capabilities.
2-3 percent of the population has a mushroom allergy, myself included
Making a difficult problem irrelevant is pretty solid engineering.
They weight 10% less and our brain notices this.
I think nginx does that too; if you send it a hup signal, it will reload the config.
I thought GeForce now was a “bring your own library” service? I think they can auth with steam directly and you can play most games available on the steam store.
Hey, I was just wondering if there's any timeline on when the caddy-l4 module be compatible with Caddyfile?

I know I can write it in JSON, but IMO the greatest appeal of Caddy is its simple and easy-to-read Caddyfile!
No thank you. There is limited time in the day and go fills my needs.

Go, Rust, Ruby. These three cover all cases.
> This would be crazy in a video game. Walking through a bush and dragging the plant with you.

But game physics can handle stuff like that, there's no need for GenAI.
>> Pricing: Generative Fill, Generative Expand, Text to Image, Generative Recolor: 1 credit*

>> *For standard images of up to 2000 x 2000 pixels.

>> We plan to offer higher-resolution images, ..., in the future. The number of generative credits consumed for those features may be greater.

When you think that a pretty common DSLR or mirrorless camera these days shoots a 40-50mp image, a 2000 x 2000 pixel baseline for 1 credit is pretty small.
A financial transaction tax is a terrible idea.

I own a 100 shares of Apple. Tim Cook goes on CNBC and says he’s all in on printers. So I want to sell my Apple shares and buy Microsoft, where Satya Nadella is pushing Cloud and AI.

I’m being a smart investor, moving a small bit of capital allocation intelligently.

Taxing this decision discourages making it—even if only marginally—and makes capital markets dumber and less efficient.
Not really accurate, he’s a far better CEO, compared to Tim Cook, Jassy and especially compared to Sundar Pichai who for all intents and purposes is running Alphabet down into the ground. He made Microsoft relevant again using strategy (as opposed to autopilot like Appple).