skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the notion of “sincerity” should be viewed very skeptically here. Not because I believe you’re wrong about anyone’s intentions: but because intentions don’t matter. If I sincerely believe issue A is the most important issue in the field, and I sincerely believe my “obtain donor funds at all costs” strategy is the best strategy to pursue it, then I can end up dominating the movement without ever intending to do so. It takes a strong and explicit effort to prevent this from happening, and that defense won’t happen if everyone is more concerned about being amicable than about vociferously defending the mission.

And of course, once one branch of the movement dominates it, then you’re at the mercy of their continued sincerity. This means you have to assume they’ll always continue to behave sincerely, and their organization won’t be captured by opportunists in the future.
People get the choice all the time with loyalty and reward points cards. It's pretty much a unique identifier that people carry in their pockets and handover willingly every time they make a purchase. It's more obvious and in-your-face sure, but the principle is the same and they have the choice.

Personally, I handover all my fitness information, driving habit information, spending and banking and investing information, my health information, even my location data, my STD statuses, etc to a company so I can get massive discounts on a bunch of stuff in various ways. It alters my behavior in a good way, it alters other peoples' behavior too, and I'm all the more happier about it. I much prefer this over stupid things like sin taxes, consumption taxes and laws that most people don't stick to or agree with (talk about choice and consent, huh).
I'm still running Windows on my Mac mini. I used to use Bootcamp but don't do so much Windows stuff now so can get away with VMWare. After June next year I can drop Windows completely so will likely upgrade then.

I'm not sure how VMWare compares to Parallels but performance isn't as good as Bootcamp. I wouldn't want to use it all day long.
I have absolutely never set it because of how many bits of information it is in terms of fingerprinting me. Might as well send a header with half my SSN up along with it.
Reminds me of the "second guessing" menus that one of Ted Selker's students came up with at Media Lab (sorry I don't remember her name). It inspired me to implement the same idea with pie menus, many years ago (when JavaScript was young and XML and XSLT were cool):

JavaScript Pie Menus

https://youtu.be/R5k4gJK-aWw?t=255

Transcript:

This was inspired by some research at MIT Media Lab.

This is a demonstration of pie menus that guess what your second choice would be.

When I click up [a pie menu], it allows me to select my favorite color.

Let me zoom in here. Well I think it's blue [point at blue]. No, red [point at red]! Ok.

So it says: "I think your favorite color is red, but your second favorite color is blue."

And that's based on the fact that when I popped it up, even though I [finally] selected red, I spend the most time selecting [pointing at] blue.

People tend to browse the pie menus like this, looking at things, and when they find what they like, they'll click it.

But then they'll pause to consider things.

So I can click up the menu, and go [point at] yellow, oh no, I'll just cancel it.

And now it's guessing my favorite color is yellow, even though I didn't select one.

This is a really simple elegant idea that I applied to pie menus, and it can be applied to a lot of other things, like e-commerce, or art galleries, or whatever.

I wrote more about it earlier in a response to a question about exploratory pointing (what I call "browsing" and "reselection"):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17123091

pvg on May 22, 2018 | root | parent | next [–]

Although, since you're on the line, I have a question about your last post. In all the research and measurement that's gone into pie menus, have people looked into 'exploratory pointing' in pie menus? It's very common when looking through a linear menu with a mouse (many people also do it with text selection while reading) but it's super clunky and jittery in the actual pie menus I've seen in the wild.

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SDXL needs a lot more VRAM however, especially when training LoRAs
You can't if you have even moderately complex storage (like an SQL database). There is only one version of that, and while you can make sure that you can run one other version in parallel, it's just one version and a lot of extra complexity.
Another thread on the matter, with more substance in comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38076903
Let's be real. How many users care?

I don't - and I am fully informed and prepared. A month into the cookie banners avalanche and I just started clicking OK without looking. Now I have the "I don't care about cookies" extension and that's it.
I’ve had this argument so many times. If I told a European that an American law applied to them, they’d correctly explain why that’s nonsense. When I tell them that a European law doesn’t apply to me, an individual running a website hosted entirely in California, I’m told I’m an arrogant American.

I like the GDPR. I’m glad we have CCPA here. I’m also glad I’m entirely outside the GDPR’s jurisdiction and I’m not subject to it.
> Working from home is great for some people, and horrible for others.

Ok, but why the debate then? There is no shortage at all of companies who want people back in the office. So if it's horrible for you to work from home, just go to the office. Why try to force everyone in?
The theory is that microservices are supposed to be independent and self-contained, but such a wonderful implementation of DDD is a theoretical fantasy that rarely plays out in practice. It's not just a technical difficulty but an organisational problem where communication between teams also throws a spanner in the works.

If your typical microservice setup is simply distributing your call stack over a network (and oftentimes that's all it is), then you might as well use a language designed to operate in such a manner and reap the benefits of it. That kind of microservice architecture only really exists as a function of the organisation's structure such that teams can work more autonomously.
"or example, it’s in the US’ best interest for people to think (re: Govs) “US has no defense against hypersonic missiles”."

This is the crux of the matter. The USA was fine letting people think the patriot system was still suffering from the early teething problems and that it was an overpriced system that couldn't take down ballistic missiles as promised (and it did perform lacklustrely during the first gulf war). Queue the donations to Ukraine successfully shooting down Russia's "unstoppable" hypersonic missiles with quickly trained troops.

I really do wonder how the F-35 actually will perform in combat one day (which in a way I hope we never need to know).
The max is probably only going to be in desktops, so better to use the die area for other things than E cores
Thanks for the comments.

Yea I also like to say that if my will is truly free, it's not under anyones control.

One thing I want to add: I think will and intention is also a question of scale or perspective. Bacteria is capable of making "their own" decisions but they probably cannot dictate which direction body is going to walk.

In similar way Planet Earth is under influence of the Sun, and the Sun is under influence of larger forces of the Milky Way and so on.

You could say that every level of existence is probably under a will of some level above and maybe each level can impose their will on levels below them.

From this perspective we could say that pure awareness is beyond physical body, brain and mind, so then if you want to really will your body it must be done from the state of pure consciousness - and then the body, brain, mind must follow as they're level below.

Anyways, don't take me seriously, this just entertainment.
(Potentially in some US states): Your biological material was found in the bio-waste can of a facility that was performing illegal gynecological operations. You're under arrest for the murder of a fetus.
Yeah, I’m not sure where that figure came from either. My experience on an 8GB card is that it is always nudging up close to the limit and you don’t want to try to turn the knobs up much past the default.

SDXL is a total nonstarter as well on 8GB.
Fair enough. I guess ultimately it comes down to what you're used to and what you prefer.

I think more than anything, it's difficult to discredit something that you don't actively use and aren't completely familiar with. Like I'm just saying Windows is shit because it's not Mac, but that's disingenuous because I don't actively use Windows as my main OS. But hey, if you like Windows, use Windows. If you like Mac, use Mac.
I have to ask, to clarify some points: are you referring to a library for use in a project, or a standalone tool?

> have you installed anything with Python recently? It’s not exactly speedy itself

Yes? I’ve never thought, “man this is slow,” which is very unlike my few experiences with npm. IIRC yarn was quite a bit faster, but I haven’t used either in some time. If you have a list of packages as a benchmark, I’m happy to try to come up with an equivalently-sized Python list and compare the two.

> Given I can’t remember the last time I used an application that relied on the system providing the runtime (let alone the correct version) instead of shipping their required version, I’m not sure this is really much of a point.

I think you’re missing the point – systems often ship with tooling written in Python because it’s a reasonable language, with a relatively stable ecosystem. Python versions don’t EOL for at least 5 years. Node is about half that.
The Civil Rights movement lasted from 1954 to 1968. The Berlin Wall lasted from 1961 to 1989. The #MeToo movement is ongoing and still a long way from achieving its goals.

Not sure what reforms you're referring to with the 2008 crisis. Housing is as unaffordable as ever.

I think your list reinforces my point. You can't achieve meaningful reforms instantaneously. It takes years and decades. The zeitgeist moment might be a catalyst, but focusing on it exclusively ignores all of the work on the ground.

In any case where major reforms are needed, there will always be many people on the other side who need to be convinced (or move on). This takes a long time.
I guess this would be the context window size in the case of LLMs.

Edit: On second thought, maybe at a certain minimum context window size it is possible to cajole the instructions in such a way that you at any point in the process make the LLM work at a suitable level of abstraction more like humans do.
it's interesting that you start from the assumption that a piece of software should be judged by the same measure as a human.
Did you even look at the link I included that disputes that violent crime is trending up at all? Your chart shows that digital cameras have gotten cheap. Not that violent crime has actually gone up.

> The ONS reported that victimisation rates shown by the CSEW have been decreasing in the long term. They peaked in the year ending December 1995, when 4.7% of adults were a victim of violent crime. Rates have remained below 2% since the year ending March 2014.

> In contrast to the downward trend shown by the CSEW, the ONS highlighted that police recorded violent crime increased between the years ending March 2013 and March 2022. The ONS explained that these increases are thought to be driven by improvements in police recording practices
American here. I have my camera on when speaking/presenting, but off when consuming the meeting so that I can focus cognitive load on the meeting agenda at hand. This allows me to take written paper notes and think during the meeting vs spending cycles on what people may infer socially from my process in doing so on video (hard to take the lizard brain out of the human). Thinking takes effort.

I tell my team (remote infosec team) video is optional: on if you'd like, but no concerns if off. Respect and output is distinct from whether your camera is on, and I want those I work with (directs and peers) to be most comfortable during our work sessions, including consideration to introverts, those who might show signs of being on the spectrum and adverse to full time video, and so on. There will be no written test, but it will show if you are consistently not paying attention in these forums (assuming you are properly measuring output).

I admit this is culture and org dependent. I encourage those with the authority and aptitude to build good culture whenever within their control.

(my learnings for this topic come from several years at a fully remote startup, a variety of larger enterprises, and my own interactions with my children who are on the spectrum, have ADHD like myself, etc; TLDR give grace, its cheap)
> PC games have cheaters since forever, they’ve worked around that problem despite having less operating system and hardware control.

Have they though? Cheaters are rampant in most games, meanwhile consoles have been highly successfully in preventing cheaters from using things like wallhacks and aimbotting.
On 1. yeah this is a serious problem. If webapps start failing to work well under FF all bets are off. I didn't think of it. Testing on another browser increases costs of development. But the alternative (being in the hands of a single company owning the internet) is pretty terrible. It's one company that has a single choke point on how you deliver your product. If for whatever reason your company and the monopolist have incentives that are conflicting... you know what's going to be the result.
This seems to be written from an extrovert standpoint. As an introvert, I'm working from home 100% (being freelance helps) and I sure wouldn't like going back to an office. No feeling of loneliness either, and yet I'm single.
> If a controller has a disadvantage to KBM, they should learn to use KBM

Can you see how Microsoft, maker of the xbox, might not share your opinion?
I agree virtual meetings are tiresome, but aren't in person meetings tiresome too? I honestly don't feel like there's that much different between an in person meeting and virtual meeting in terms of mental strain.
> No country is seriously considering it

Schengen says hi.
>anybody who does any coordination with anybody is scamming

Scam: "a dishonest scheme; a fraud; a swindle"

I would argue, outside of our closest relationships, the majority of people are attempting to, or engaging in some kind of scamming behavior in at least half of their interactions.

At this point, 2023 worldwide, fear and distrust are table stakes for social interaction
Just last week we had people getting banned from CS2 because of AMD driver features. Cheat detection is on every platform.
AI can't reproduce a Picasso exactly either. That's the main reason the lawsuit was dismissed according to TFA.
Distributed SQL for Dummies – free eBook
I think US law has it backward, and health data should be publicly accessible by default, and very easy to share with researchers. I care so much more about solving diseases and reducing costs than I do privacy. I think people underestimate the costs of privacy on both. Unwanted effects (like discriminating based on data) can be legislated separately. Once we are all effectively immortal, I think we can loop back around to the privacy thing. I did 23and Me years ago hoping my data would be used for research.

I feel that privacy absolutists dominate the narrative, but given the choice of privacy, cost, and effective medicine…how many people really would choose privacy?
Is AV1 better than HEVC? Or is it about the same, just freely licensed?
I have two young kids and I'm constantly humbled by how fearless they are. They will dive right into a project that's way over their heads and just get it wrong until they get it right. My six year-old found my Lego Technic from 25 years ago and spent a whole month assembling a fully articulated, geared up, complex helicopter. He built it wrong maybe 15 times. But now he's this absolute wizard at assembling Technic gear systems.

There's this tremendous power in "not knowing what you don't know" that sometime in university disappeared from me and now I have paralysis: what if I'm just being annoying? Will I embarrass myself? I don't want to waste people's time. Am I being pedantic? etc.

I've spent the last handful of years refining my communication of, "I'm just trying to be helpful and have absolutely no expectations. No offense taken if this goes ignored or is rejected." It's kind of worked insofar as I feel less anxious about trying to be helpful and I've never had anyone really come at my throat for it. Not that they would have anyways, but good luck telling my brain that.
> In this case the Judge chose to say, in effect: unless you have explicitly copyrighted it, it's fair use

No, this has always been the case. The judge ruled nothing new.

You cannot sue someone for copyright unless you first register the copyright.

https://www.nycbar.org/get-legal-help/article/intellectual-p....
NYC's post-Covid recovery compared to other large cities [pdf]
Why a DSP Is Indispensable in the New World of AI
No. What you see are buttons so select from. Too often do students give the wrong answer because their input is wrong and not their math. We took at unnecessary pitfall out of the equation. So far, teachers and students are pretty happy about this situation,
.io considered harmful
OP of comment says they were applying for a federal job. So federal rules apply.
This is it. Most people are too vain to do it though. Do it for a day and you’ll never go back
Which is also illegal:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36720629

It just hasn't been broadly enforced yet.
but no photograph. the photo here is most valuable. I find the electrical receptacles with the yellow extension cord plugged in and the cheap shelving unit with almost nothing on it that is pretty much the identical shelves I use in my basement to store groceries to be the most fascinating aspect of it. seems like there'd be a more...I dont know, "special" kind of room to unpack rock samples that cost $1.16 billion to acquire
It seems like they focused too much on the details of how the model works and how data is encoded by the model.

"In his dismissal of infringement claims, Orrick wrote that plaintiffs’ theory is “unclear” as to whether there are copies of training images stored in Stable Diffusion that are utilized by DeviantArt and Midjourney. He pointed to the defense’s arguments that it’s impossible for billions of images “to be compressed into an active program,” like Stable Diffusion."

Perhaps future litigation will be more successful if they treat the model as a black box. Could an argument be made that a person's intellectual property was used to train the model without compensation and _that_ is the illegal act? From there one would only have to demonstrate that the output form the model is similar to a person's body of work.
This drives me crazy. Apple plays the market like Nintendo. Pick something that no one cares about, do it better than anyone else, and make a big deal about it.

I dream of a world where instead of a marketing company becoming a top 3 tech company, a tech company would have. Wonder what they would have done for their laptop...

Or maybe this is just an inevitable outcome of capitalism/human biology where a veblen goods company will become a top player in a market.

(I have my own Google and M$ complaints too)
And also meeting specific.

Some meetings can be useless even at companies with efficient meeting cultures.
- RAID5/6 are still not stable

Why does everyone insist on RAID5? I am completely fine with btrfs RAID1, survived few disk crashes as advertised.

- it will not mount a RAID in degraded mode automatically

it will if using -o degraded, it's the tooling which generally sucks and won't support this. I even had problems booting at all with / on multi-device btrfs using recommended tools (dracut, grub-mkconfig), the bugs are known and unfixed, ended up rolling out own initramfs.

- swapfile support exists, but it breaks snapshots

you are supposed to have all your stuff in a subvolume, and snapshot that, not whole toplevel root filesystem...and yes it should be documented better that it interferes with snapshots

- but snapshots are not integrated..

yep tooling sucks
Why would they do that? It wouldn't solve the problem @rueeeeru stated. They need to remain competitive and you can't do that by sitting on your backside for four or five years between products.
This a poor argument which basically criticize any cost sharing agreement with multiple payers.

“Look, GM is getting gov subsidies but we still have to pay for a car!” Not a strong argument indeed.

23andme has democratized DNA testing by making it affordable when the numbers didn’t work. This is remarkable in itself. Kudos to them.
Maybe they have a point.

It also fits with the Zen of Python (which tbf rarely seems to happen) of, “There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.”

Node / JS in general seems to take the path of, “this existing solution doesn’t precisely fit my needs, so instead of rethinking why that might be, I’m going to reinvent the wheel.”
Arguing 'legitimate interest' in front of a non-tech judge in one of the many EU countries where a local agency implements GDPR would be... not fun.
I can assure you that understanding woke buzzwords does not actually make you more intelligent. Usually the opposite.
It’s literally self evident that a person in jail can’t commit crimes on the outside. The statement itself contains all the axioms you need, citations are not something required here. It’s like saying a dead baker reduces the amount of bread in a town for that day and you asking for a source
No! LLM's must be destroyed!
This argument gets repeated often enough that it implies that there are a significant number of people who actually believe it. This is pretty depressing, as the only way you could think that a human is not fundamentally more capable of creativity than an LLM is if you are incapable of imagining anything other than a life of ‘consuming content’.
Page & Neuringer (1985) showed that you could teach pigeons to be more variable. The discussion around that phenomenon has similar branches: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3501427/
NASA spends $50K on liquid metal spacesuit material
> Borrowed time from limited resources can last a while.

In the past 30y more fossil fuels have been consumed than at all time before. Ok maybe peak oil has occured around now. But that's certainly not the case for overall fossil use. Or GHG emissions. That's still increasing.

Cutting down rain forest? Fishing? Many minerals & metals: all similar stories. The list goes on.

Every civilization that operated like that in the past, did collapse. It's only a matter of time.

For these civilizations, effects were localized. And a good # of people may have gotten out & moved elsewhere. But this time it's global. Good luck staying safe if logistics & social structures break down around the world.
People like this think they're so smart. Lol Just pay the man what you owe him. I bet they wouldn't accept coins for a fabrication gig.
That never happened afaik
Hmm, I don't get it. The prediction was accurate 49% of the time, which is what I was expecting in a coin toss like this one. In which way does it predict the answer at step 1 if it's a binary choice with 50% accuracy?
There are two ways that a system can get unworkably complex. The most obvious is to overengineer and introduce too many excessively complex abstractions. However, it is equally harmful to become dogmatically obsessed with using the most "straightforward" implementation when more sophisticated approaches would make things easier to understand.

I have not used Go, but what I have heard makes it seem like it is designed in a way that would encourage the second approach.