skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think this is true at all. There are at least 5 talking points that are much more common and frankly more persuasive than the promise of self driving cars.

1. Special interest group capture has made building public transit impossibly expensive. Waymo's entire $30B valuation wouldn't even fix NYC's subway and finish the 2nd ave expansion.

2. American's don't like public transit because it involves being in confined space with other people, and a variety of cultural factors make that more unpleasant than it is in other countries. There is no culture of shame here so people on public transit are commonly extremely annoying and there's no law enforcement in many large cities so you just have to deal with it.

3. Most americans live in suburbia where robust public transit just isn't possible. It can be improved but mostly that just means commuter rail which still requires using a car for everything other than commuting, and usually people drive to the commuter rail station anyway.

4. We already have all the road infrustrure needed for transportation

5. Even in the best of circumstances public transit is more of a hassle than just driving directly from point a to point b
> Does SDXL use a different inference tech or something.

Its extremely similar, but not drop-in compatible, no.

Whats more, small changes make it compatible, but larger changes are needed for SDXL to work well.

Personally I find SDXL to be a huge upgrade, at the cost of performance, hence I am using Fooocus but keeping an eye on https://github.com/FizzleDorf/ComfyUI-AIT

As I have been preaching on HN, just don't use A1111 for SDXL.
> Ah wait no, you mean the new ones that virtually no one uses, right?

This is exactly the point. Virtually no-one is using them (well, except for Microsoft, and Google, and Adobe, and Github, and Reddit, and NordHealth, and a bunch of others), whereas they are far more future-proof than any of the much more popular frameworks.

It will all change with time, of course. Just like there is no reason now to depend on jQuery. If only I could restart our app again, I would never have chosen React for it. And it worries me when I think how we are going to migrate off of it.
With a mere moment's thought, one thinks of the obvious way to defeat this:

Simply rescale all images in a preprocessing step.

Since this defeat is so easy, and so obvious, either the authors are daft, or they are brilliant and have thought of a way to prevent it.

So, not wanting to waste much time on a paper from daft people, I did a quick skim of the paper. I don't see any mention of this defeat. No prevention of it, no assessment of it, not even any evidence of awareness of it.

Did I miss something?

I'd hate to see technically naive artist types (a mere subset of artist types, I acknowledge) being hoodwinked by such snake oil and paying money for such "tools."
> I guess when you're up against anti-vax fear mongering, you need to fight fire with fire.

That's completely unfair, in this case. The vaccine in question was associated with an increase in deaths in some subgroups (vs control), and overall low effectiveness in the phase 3 clinical trials.

A 13% decrease in mortality in this study is actually quite good given what was expected, but it is in no way "fear mongering" to question the safety/efficacy balance, even now. For example, you'd likely never administer this vaccine outside of high-risk populations. The fact that the safety signals "went away" in this trial is likely more indicative of the baseline risk of the population than any change in the vaccine itself.

Where is this line? Hard to say, but just for the sake of argument: anyone suggesting that we add this to mandatory vaccination schedules in the US would be a total lunatic. Should it be widely used outside of the worst parts of Africa, where malnutrition and preventable childhood illness are rampant? Again, hard to say.

Vaccines are not automatically good, and it isn't "anti-vax fear mongering" to question a particular vaccine. We have to test them, and see if the rewards are greater than the risks in the populations where we intend to use them.
That's retail for Christmas gifts.
We should promote more personal indexing, rather than algorithmic indexing
There are high quality original sources writing information today, just like there was before Web 2.0, when people would go on the internet to learn things and spend actual quality time reading blogs and personal content as well (which wasn't written for virality, but for expression).

However, while original sources (NASA, Reuters, bloggers, authors, scholarly journals) still write and publish (including to social media), the viral content makers, a second tier of people who write about what the original author wrote about, specializing themselves for social media, just write the grabbiest headline, and the most engaging (infuriating, polarizing, salacious) version of a piece of the original content, and when we go to our platforms, these are the content examples we see and read.

The original source's publications (posts) become almost invisible. The source becomes almost unknown as a source.

Engagement algorithms can't help this, because this is actually their purpose, which is anti-original content and -quality content.

We should design platforms and systems that allow people to index their own content again (as was the case before Web 2.0 when people manually put links to other websites, blogs, organizations, and articles on their own websites. This would make original and quality content writers become visible and indexed (even just in people's worldviews, not just indexed on the internet) and make viral content makers more invisible.

It wouldn't be total, because many people prefer the emotionality of viral content, but it would at least create an internet where there was more value available.
The separate environment thing ensures you get the exact versions of the libraries that are guaranteed to work with the tool, without risk of upgrading a library in a way that breaks something else.

I wonder if pipx and venv could grow functionality based around symlinks that allowed installations using the exact same package version to avoid having two copies of the files?

A compression based file system hack might provide a better result though, since it could optimize differences between two dependency versions with only minor changes.
> sustain that for 20-30 min per day

By contrast, HIIT research suggests you really only need to hit max heart rate and VO2max for < 4 minutes 3x a week for effectively all the benefit.

The "interval" idea is 4 sprints of 30 - 45 seconds to go into max heart rate band, each with a 30 - 15 sec recovery to let heart drop a touch, then hit the next one. You are not doing aerobic exercise, you are pushing into anaerobic.

They also suggest a warmup and cooldown of at least a couple minutes, so put that together and you're looking at 8 minutes 3x a week.

The problem is that the first I in HIIT is much too much Intensity for some. Fitness clubs had to get rid of or gate HIIT machines because guests would vomit. If you're doing it right, you will be anaerobic, many people don't tolerate that without working up to it, and people hate working up to things.

Supposedly -- though less research on this -- the same routine will "upshift" metabolism so after 6+ weeks of accommodation, your 24 hr calorie burn from these 8 mins 3x a week is greater than if doing traditional hour long fitness routines every day, and that upshift can last 6 - 9 most after cessation of the routine.
ES modules have a problem: do they import the source code or the "binary" (minified code). As long as you're writing demos where the source code is the executable, it's fine. This is great for browser demos.

But when you start using Typescript or npm modules that export minified code, or there's a CDN involved, finding the original source for a function gets increasingly difficult, the type definitions are in a different file, and breakpoints don't work. It's almost like debugging a binary.

Compiled languages like Go do a better job of making sure you can actually read the source code, because imports always import source code.
You might not be seeing it here in these comments, but there are definitely workplaces where you are scoffed at if make a request like taking the afternoon off to go see your child play soccer.

These places thrive on people forgoing any personal life in order to line someone else's pockets.
That sounds like a lot of work for something that can be worked around trivially. Add a small amount of random noise to the images and you’re done. Most people are probably doing this already for data augmentation purposes.
>You see, the reason you pay so much money on your tax income...

Or is it because government spending has gotten so wasteful? It's interesting to think about how much government used to accomplish with less, or even no, income tax in the past.
Hey Folks,

Apart from building one myself, I've noticed many organizations building config-management systems internally since they need to manage secrets/config with features like versioning, rollbacks, etc, on their cloud.

Thought AWS and GCP has KMS, it doesn't fit the orgs with multiple service and environments requirement. I will be adding multi cloud support and critical features of secrets management workflow. I would love to hear your thoughts.
The bond collapse could get worse, if interest rates continue to climb. The bond market (if I understand correctly) doesn't think it will, projecting that rates will drop after 1 to 2 years. If they're wrong, then bond prices will not collapse, they will move to the level implied by the interest rates.

Stock prices should reflect the present value of expected future earnings, with a risk premium. "Present value" takes into account expected interest rates. Stocks were high because, in a zero interest environment, future earnings were not discounted (other than for risk). The question now is, is that coming back, or is it gone for good? If it's gone for good, stock prices should fall to reflect that. That won't be a "collapse", exactly, but it will be a correction.
The 'lost decade' issues only have previously applied if you dump all your money in at a specific timeframe, then never contribute anything else. Or, alternatively, if you pull out a large amount of money after the downturn.

Traditional 'set and forget' 401k funding would imply you continue to contribute throughout the period (i.e., dollar-cost-averaging). By putting money in during the downturn, those dollars earn outsized rewards when the market inevitably bounces back. It essentially cancels out the money lost.
uh, what about the opportunity cost of rebuilding something that's already been built?
FOAF(Friend of a Friend) Vocabulary Specification (2004)
I've gone into the back country for days at a time, usually in places without cell service. I love the "just being bored". It's such a good mental reset.

But last year I took a trip to a remote island. The ferry dropped us off and said "we'll be back in 3 days". The island had no services or cell phone signal. There were other people, but other than at night in the campground, we didn't see anybody.

As the ferry sailed off after saying "we'll be back in 3 days"... there's a feeling of isolation that sets in that you don't get, even in the remote backcountry.
> AI will affect all aspects of life in 10 years

This is good peak of inflated expectations material [1]. LLMs will wholly transform some industries. Others will be virtually unchanged.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gartner_hype_cycle
Nishinomiya's 1.3 meters tall "Manbow Tunnel"
This kind of article is clearly targeted to people who do no exercise at all, and is aimed at motivating them to just walk, which most people consider to be easy and not a “real” exercise. The point is that walking, even though it’s easy, still has useful benefits. You’re not the target audience for this.
Actually pretty honest and probably relatable to many. It's interesting to see the shift from the "if you build it, they will come" to the highly refined startup culture now.

It was inevitable and now there's a bunch of startups around finding someone who has found PMF but not yet executed to capture the market and then copying them with the hope of out-executing them.

A few YC companies even clone your website to chase the same market.

It's total shark time out here.
Could you create a new language using embeddings? A perfect Esperanto
>At some point that's going to hurt you in terms of the sharpness of your knowledge and what you can demo/talk about on your successful projects when interviewing.

I don't think this is a real problem IMO. If you learned it in the first place, you can learn it again after slacking off for a bit. You might need a few months for the focused effort, which is honestly not a cost but probably what we in the industry call a sabbatical.

It may add some risk to getting a job if your life is suddenly turned upside down after slacking and you need a job right this instant. That slacking might fail you some interviews, but not all of them. Even in this situation, there are financial options and temp jobs to get by with.

I don't think anyone should ever be convinced that if you stop practicing something that your ability disappears completely. I'd put some faith into the idea that you can relearn it just as well or better when the need arises.
Yes, we can (eventually) electrify almost everything
Poll: What % of your salary are bonuses?
Let's ignore 1-time bonuses like sign-on bonuses. What % of your salary are bonuses, typically for you?
1-5%
5-10%
20-30%
30-40%
40-50%
50-60%
more than 60%
A so-called hermit monk may achieve complete solitude, but even most monks will spend some time trading something they have of value with other monks (and possibly beyond).

That's all work is. A state of: I can do something for you, and you can do something for me, and we see ourselves as both being better off for it. Sometimes practical constraints means something cannot be delivered immediately, so a party may promise to deliver it later. That is all money and accounting is – a record of the promises made.

We're social creatures. I expect most do truly do see life as being empty if they cannot grow with other people. Protestantism may have taken notice of that, but it didn't invent it.
ROFL, I remember that in the early 80s. Me and brother.

I wonder when our institutional/civilizational memory of this will fade entirely with childhood vaccination...
Towards one man game devs being able to execute their vision, to middle class families being able to afford custom bespoke art, artists being able to greatly accelerate their workflows, etc.

You know, technological progress. We don't stop it when it affects accountants, delivery drivers, programmers, etc. Art should be no different.
This is a primary reason I live in a real city, of the sort of which are common everywhere but the USA.
Veritasium has made a video defending their use of clickbait. They claim that the content is good enough that it justifies of misleading titles, and the titles are necessary to draw viewers.
> I find that some people will perceive themselves to be exploited and orient their life around avoiding it, regardless of the situation...

Right it works both ways; some people will be blind to being exploited. It really makes me doubt that I have anything even remotely close to an objective view of things that are close to me.
Does gRPC /ProtoBuf have support for web browsers? I don't know of a situation where I'd encounter those in a web application.
I think this is great advice, but saying that PL design is done already isn't really true. Its not as hard to make a new kind of PL as you might think, but it is of course hard to make it useful.

Just combining the right features and forgoing the wrong ones into a language alone is an art, to say that its only innovation is a bit like claiming paintings are innovations because we have all the colors :)
> BSD Now, being produced by actual developers, bridges the two solitudes.

This[0], however, is uniquely Canadian…

[0] https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/two-solitu...
What is the business problem you are trying to solve with this?
There's a disagreement between archive's boss and Cloudflare DNS. If you use different DNS it works
I think we should all have recess and play tag.
That potato burrito was fantastic! I wouldn't recognize that place by name, but I still remember how good that burrito was.

Kaimuki has had some great places come and go. Years ago there was a Japanese restaurant (called Restaurant Ko or Izakaya Restaurant Ko) that had a fantastic Kaiseki style menu. It was one of the best Japanese meals I've ever had.
if by plethora you mean different web implementations, sure. but there has basically been less than a handful cross platform UI toolkits since GTK/QT
I kinda like this approach.
You can change the combination of used APIs for different cases.

"Widget" that you provide for partners to put on their web pages? Of course you'll use shadow DOM, because you don't know the page context, surrounding styles, etc.

A component to share on different parts of your site - you can skip the shadow DOM, because you share common styles everywhere, and probably you want to inherit some of them.
Bitport: Download files in the cloud and stream them online
This package suggests building a dataset and then using LLM-assisted evaluation via GPT-3.5/4 to evaluate your RAG pipeline on the dataset. It relies heavily on GPT-4 (or an equivalent model) to provide realistic scores. How safe is that approach?
The Wikipedia page may be a more accessible summary¹.

¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOAF
Alphabet's cloud division misses revenue estimates, as Microsoft's cloud booms
The new PS5's optional disc drive requires an internet connection to connect
React is a framework because it calls into the the components to make them go, not the other way around - the Holywood Principle.

This shows up with restrictions like that you can't mix and match components with different versions of React in the same tree.
It is a fact that poor/undeveloped countries are currently developing faster than any country ever has at any point in history.

If you have not read it, Factfullness by Hans Rosling is incredible.
13% is a large effect size, you'd have to presuppose a systematic bias in the unreliability between the comparator districts.
Also, this is the case where research needs to be conducted but reality makes it hard but you can't just +not+ do the research. Field tests are always messy, and I'd posit that community reporting is probably more reliable thn politically motivated reporting from some governments.
There are a number of highways in Texas with an 85 mph limit.
Wow, more than 100k in Knuth hexadecimal dollars!
if you build a dataset of question with responses to test you rag app with this metrics package, how do you know whether the distribution of questions match in any way with the distribution of question you'll get from the app in production? using a hand made dataset of questions and responses could introduce a lot of bias into your rag app.
> If it were up to me, I’d recommend keeping it with a flag that notes it as closed, rather than deleting it.

OpenStreetMap has you covered with a so-called lifecycle prefix: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Lifecycle_prefix
Show HN: Fingo – Learning Finance made fun and easy
[Fixed the login issue faced the last time.]

Short easy to read chapters and fun quizzes mixed with gamified learning on a wide range of topics to help you manage your money better.
Your math only makes sense if you’re assuming they got all their customers year one and have had no growth since. Who’s to say the donations last year weren’t $100,000 putting the estimated profits at $1.2m (assuming all months are roughly equal)?
What I find interesting about this are the things the specific example leaves out. Many engineers consider code reviews a real drag, but they aren't just busywork or wasted time or compliance checkboxes. Done well, they are a learning tool, a teaching opportunity, and a form of communication between engineers working in different areas of the code at different skill levels and knowledge levels. All of those things have value and add to team productivity in the long term. The "cost" in terms of hours spent doing code reviews is not wasted. But if you turn that job over to AI (even if you could), you lose almost all the benefits, adding a drag on your future productivity as knowledge gaps grow and communication declines.

On the other hand, if you're doing code review poorly, and it's just a waste of everyone's time, then you're far better off just dropping them altogether than spending money on an AI system to do poor code reviews for you.
Reminds me this video I saw a while back about a guy who documented his life on a desert island for 300 days: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leHb2hdCLqo
> The generation after that allowed the workers to form unions

That is a very interesting way of describing that process. Lives were lost in that battle.
Scan the dark web for your email address
> If you would like to be one of the first developers to get access to flawless as part of our private alpha. Join our waitlist.
Maybe you have your reasons for not looking to expand/change your responsibilities within your current company, but that's often the easiest avenue. Especially if you can get colleagues in Engineering within your company on board.

Sometimes Software Developers will get folks in the same organisation coming to them asking "can you teach me programming?". This is not what you want to do because it doesn't show much commitment on your part.

What you want to do is take what you've learned so far and apply it to a project, perhaps one to improve something in your current business development workflow. When you hit a roadblock and try a few things to solve it, THEN you can approach someone and ask for advice on moving forward.

Folks are more likely to spend time helping you if they see you're on a path and are putting the work in. So take their advice, follow through, implement, come back to them and let them know how it went.

Then they'll probably help you more as they know it's not a waste of their time. You've also then unwittingly derisked yourself as a Junior/Intern Software hire for them when a position opens up as you've demonstrated you try things before asking for help (but you also know not to spend too much time blocked).

Hopefully that helps as a blueprint to show that getting paid and getting trained are not mutually exclusive.
You should never be loyal to a company more than you need to perform your job well. Similarly you should never be loyal to a company as a customer. What makes people not understand these two principles? The need to belong? I just don't get it. It's like those people that demand to work in offices, at the cost of personal and family lives, mental health, and great financial cost, simply to please a boss.
what did you think this gotcha was? you just look annoying and pretentious. he didn't say literally every PDF for a reason
HTML/CSS sites will outlive it all. Because they're actually the text, images, layout all in static things that can live forever without being touched and without any need for complicated execution of code or mantaining of obscure rapidly changing pseudo-standards. (*1)

If you want to make sites and have a skillset that last, learn how to make progressively enhanced HTML websites. Anything like Web Components (where you invent useless non-defined HTML-elements-with-hyphens and then define them after executing a bunch of Javascript), Javascript frameworks (where you don't even pretend to involve HTML) will last only a handful of years.

(1*: at least until HTTP/1.1 support is removed from browsers)
Anecdata but I saw it on the front page for a while. I thought this post was just following in that one's footsteps.
Falling metal space junk is changing Earth's upper atmosphere