skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Secrets of Consulting", Gerald Weinberg advise against improving more than 10% of performance, and if so, of hoping to have any credit.
Just like the article, his reasoning is that if you improve performance too much, it makes management/the team look bad for not doing it before, while a smaller improvement in performance make management looks good.
…and the problem with that is what, exactly?

The only meaningful thing in this discussion is about people who want to make money easy, but can’t, because of the rules they don’t like.

Well, suck it up.

You don’t get to make a cheap shity factory that pours its waste into the local river either.

Rules exist for a reason.

You want the life style but also all the good things and also no rules. You can’t have all the cake and eat it too.

/shrug

If China builds amazing AI tech (and they will) then the rest of the world will just use it. Some of it will be open source. It won’t be a big deal.

This “we must out compete China by being as shit and horrible as they are” meme is stupid.

If you want to live in China, go live in China. I assure you you will not find it to be the law less free hold of “anything goes” that you somehow imagine.
Fair enough. They resolved it now and I was in a bit of panic considering our revenue depends on the website. As a developer though, I should have been more sympathetic.
And now it's even worse: https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/l6x2h1zp69bc https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38074906
They didn't want the company, they just want the trademark.
It seems to be backup
You really need some kind of free-tier, but I understand you're putting yourself at risk with that. Ideally you could run the model in the browser with WebGPU for trial users so that they could bear the cost.
It isn't no rhyme or reason. The issue has to do with layering caches over each other.

If you layer caches over each other and they don't pass hit rates to each other bad things happen, especially for designs like ARC. The ZFS caches explicitly take hit rate into account... but with a page cache over them... they don't know the true hit rates. Heck they are a secondary cache ;). Then L2ARC has the same issue one layer down. And there's the issue.

It isn't magical. It is just annoying.

Honestly on linux: btrfs is probably better for your sanity than ZFS.

As far as ceph goes, if you understand it, and can do the systems engineering.. yeah it is great stuff. My only complaint with ceph is just too complex for most mortals. (Despite that once you get to any real large scale... you can't avoid that complexity.)

ceph you can do some crazy shit if you know what you are doing. Want to do a seamless cluster migration? We got ya. ;) Not as good as AFS probably. But it is pretty scary.
> To help ensure messages you send to Gmail accounts are delivered as expected, you should set up either SPF or DKIM for your domain.

But spammers already do that, why would enforcing that even help ?
Then this is your failure, not mine, and not a failure of current technology.

I can, right now, upload an image to an AI and say "Hey, what do you think the emotional state of the person in this image is" pretty damned accurately. Given other images I can have the AI describe the scene and make pretty damned accurate assessments of how the image could have came about.

If this is not general intelligence I simply have no guess as to what will be enough in your case.
As an autistic person, my problem with authority figures throughout my life has always been that authority figures were generally incompetent for the role they were fulfilling and they behaved in arbitrary and capricious way. Ironically, my best relationships in my childhood were always with adults who were competent authorities in their particular field, and I had zero issues whatsoever following their instruction, but I was labeled as "oppositional defiant" and "having a problem with authority" because most of the authorities in the school system and elsewhere were low IQ petty tyrants.

At no point have I ever felt that authority or hierarchy or rules are meaningless, in fact I revel in the clarity of well-written and reasoned rule sets and often wished for some clearly documented guidelines of behavior in many situations. I appreciate when authority originates from competence, and I am brutally introspective about my own areas of competence or lack there-of, and immediately submit and cede control if I encounter someone significantly more competent than myself in the situation of the moment. The problem has always been that authority is mostly exercised for authority's sake, to stroke the ego of petty tyrants who are incompetent and mean.
Yah, so you are really buying into the kooky religious like beliefs I see. Communism says what you have in quotations above, but it has never, ever worked that way for any serious amount of time. It always devolves into a system where the government owns everything or nearly everything and apportions things base don how it sees fit and that is a monopoly and a monopsony since the government is the sole provider of goods and services and the sole employer. It's a monopoly and it exercises power for the benefit of the bureaucracy that controls said monopoly with lip service to some idealized utopian BS.

That is not the definition of capitalism. The definition of capitalism is a system in which owners of capital control their capital in accord with their interests, which translates into competition because everyone else is also controlling their own capital and labor for their own interests. The natural outcome of this system is monopoly, which does closely resemble all the harms and dead weight loss of communism but, unlike under communism, the government is supposed to be there to stop total control, bust up the monopolies, and restore competition. It did a passable job of this until the Rehnquist supreme court in the 70s and it's time to start back in that pre-rehnquist direction. It's never time for communism.
Heck even shared hosting for $3/mo works just fine
Kart repositories are also Git repositories - they're 'interopable' in the sense that there is a lot of tooling that will work, but the storage structure for vector data differs, and using Git on a Kart repository won't work very well.

Kart serializes vector/tablular data into datasets in the repository, and manages the process of writing them out to useful working copies (GeoPackages, or into databases).

For large binaries - rasters and pointclouds - we're using LFS. We include some additional spaital information into pointer files to enable some very useful GIS functionality, like spatially filtered clones (this works for vector data too).
If you actually learned using this you might end up with a mishmash of British and American pronunciations.
I feel like I've never seen anything even reminiscent of this bad in the twelve years I've worked as a software engineer. I really want to believe this pipeline as described is satire. Yet, somehow, it does not quite seem that way. This scares me. But also somehow explains why some companies contain so incredibly much more engineering staff than I can possibly explain looking at their output.
Ironically, most of my breakthrough spam seems to come from @gmail.com addresses...
What do you consider to be the alternative?

Fighting authority is (by definition) an asymmetric battle.

There are "honorable" ways to fight authority. Frontal assault, or just plain old disobedience. Sometimes those are the best ways. Sometimes not.
Sure, but there was a new generation of consoles in the meantime. The example I gave of Shader Model 3.0 had to do with the same thing, new consoles appeared.

The real culprit here was the chip shortage, cryptocurrency bubble bursting, rising inflation, and overall instability throughout the world (deteriorating China and US relations, for example).

All in all, it's just how things have always worked out, with the exception of external factors that had unforseen consequences.

I'm sure Remedy put on a ton of work, and is trying to raise the bar in graphical fidelity. Decisions like these had to be done early in the game dev stage, since all the game assets would've taken it into account.

At the end of the day, gimping progress in real time CG for the sake of compatibility with a 7 year old card makes no sense.
This article's author is so completely missing the point it's fucking amazing.

The rise of podcasters like Andrew Huberman represent the accessibility of lectures by Stanford Professors to the general public. The fact that said scientists can cite research and people can easily reference them is the tearing down of ivory towers in action, whereas in the past scientific research was only accessible to the academic elite. People being able to improve their health through self-help rather than going through the cartel-like medical system is a huge boon to healthcare accessibility and affordability. You can live in rural bumfuck nowhere and be able to access a YouTube lecture far far more easily than you will EVER be able to access a board-certified MD.

Sure, some of the things people like Huberman recommend are expensive, and they even shill for overpriced supplements like AG1 which you can get an equivalent of for cheaper. But this is the societal change that the author evidently wants to see happening, happening. The thing is, a lot of people on soapboxes simply think by vapidly complaining about inequality and societal injustice that they're doing something about it to the extent that they can't recognise when it's breaking down. They seem to have no sincere motivation to resolve societal level injustice, they just seem to have a personal motivation to be seen as an equity thought leader to enrich their own lives.
The most surprising thing, to me, was for once I got the timing spot on! Usually when I predict things like this I am way off on the timing but this is right on pace. In that sense it is like an economist predicting a crash, one of the twenty will be right.

The question is now, how many years until they start moving features behind the paywall like limits on how many people in a message chat? Or view limits (aka twitter/x) I suspect 3-5 years.
Is the story published anywhere that you know of? I'd be interested in reading more about this
Drivel.

I feel used having read this article. Used into getting enraged at the lack of respect the author has for their readers. Used into reading cheap clickbait that, at worst, is a shitty and throwaway attempt at eyeballs, and at worst is something the author was legitimately proud of having written. It is inconsiderate in its laziness and its nonchalance. Each paragraph is a mere two sentences long, sprinkled with "hella"s and "gonna"s. The arguments are caricatures that might have been radical 25 years ago, but today they add nothing new to the conversation. It's all been said before, and by people much better than yourself. Huberman's name is used as cheap clickbait, mentioned a little in the beginning, and then never again. We never get to understand what he does wrong aside from the fact that he sells supplements. The careless shrug with which she passes over the reasons we are attracted to self-help (overcoming childhood trauma, needing to prove ourselves strong to ourselves, being able to be a reliable adult in order to be a reliable partner/parent and all the rest of it) is a testament to her serious lack of empathy. The presumptuousness that we're all doing it to cope with social injustices or the political system (?!) rankles in its arrogance and cock-surity.

> But it isn't possible for many people who work even a 9-to-5 in certain parts of the U.S. — and certainly isn't possible for people who work odd hours.

So? They are free to seek out the litany of other methods of self improvement available on this vast, nearly infinite internet. Why must every piece of advice on the internet be applicable for everyone? If I can afford a gym or, fucking hell, sunlight, must I instead strenuously self-flagellate on my knees at the doorstep of every betrodden sod who ever walked the earth?

The FIRE community faces the same kind of reaction and it drives me nuts. Yes, a poorly-paid teacher likely cannot reach financial independence as easily as a highly paid software engineer. So? The FIRE community is trying to get that software engineer/dentist/lawyer who would otherwise frivolously spend all their money away and come to regret it to choose a better path. Teachers can look elsewhere.

This article is written by a caricature of a millenial and the arguments it makes, the structure of the story, the punchlines, they are all lousy and vapid.
Looks like it's working now as of 1:23 PST
I, too, would like an anarchist time machine
> How do you expect to regulate this and prove generative models were used?

Disseminating or creating copies of content derived from generative models without attribution would open that actor up to some form of liability. There's no need for onerous regulation here.

The burden of proof should probably lie upon whatever party would initiate legal action. I am not a lawyer, and won't speculate further on how that looks. The broad existing (and severely flawed!) example of copyright legislation seems instructive.

All I'll opine is that the main goal here isn't really to prevent Jonny Internet from firing up llama to create a reddit bot. It's to incentivize large commercial and political interests to disclose their usage of generative AI. Similar to current copyright law, the fear of legal action should be sufficient to keep these parties compliant if the law is crafted properly.

> What stops a company from purchasing art from a third party where they receive a photo from a prompt, where that company isn't US based?

Not really sure why the origin of the company(s) in question is relevant here. If they distribute generative content without attribution, they should be liable. Same as if said "third party" gave them copyright-violating content.

EDIT: I'll take this as an opportunity to say that the devil is in the details and some really crappy legislation could arise here. But I'm not convinced by the "It's not possible!" and "Where's the line!?" objections. This clearly is doable, and we have similar legal frameworks in place already. My only additional note is that I'd much prefer we focus on problems and questions like this, instead of the legislative capture path we are currently barrelling down.
Making Ollie: Creating a local iOS app in a time of React Native
Notably nuclear bombs are not actually used for any of these as this is either sci-fi or insane
Covid Lockdowns Were a Giant Experiment. It Was a Failure
They are now showing it on their status page and tracking it: https://status.npmjs.org/
I think you are realistic. I ask you to be open to other ideas such as those I suggested elsewhere here about small items that can compound to make bigger effects. Sometimes some of the ideas need lots of money, others are more community-oriented.
Remember Elon was sued to force him to perform to an agreement he signed, to buy Twitter. Up to the moment he announced he would buy it after all, he was trying to get out of the deal.

Based on what is actually known about the circumstances of him spending $44B to avoid litigation, the likeliest explanation is that he thought the value of Twitter would grow, or at least lose less compared to the cost of a settlement.

Now the spin is, as Pee Wee Herman said "I meant to do that!"
>> work for one of the magically sane company where all the incentives are correct and everyone is doing the quote-unquote "right" thing at all times.

Between the “perfect” company, and the shitshows described here, there is a lot A LOT of shades…

I used to work in a company which was far from perfect, but it was great to work there. Until the CEO changed…

I just search for a company where thing are just noy insane. I’ve been there, couple of times, and my current position is kind of ok…
Here is not a very good answer to your question, but think about how you know how to walk. It's something that is not entirely conscious. You legs just move between places that you desire to go without any thought to the angle of your knee or tension in your gluts. You feel unbalanced when you center of gravity is too far forward despite having no conscious understanding of where exactly your center of gravity is in the first place.

Spiders likely have a similar feeling but even further refined. They don't know how to build a truss, but they do end up building analogous structures because in their tiny bug brains it just feels right. This is the same way a human knows they are more stable with their legs spread apart and knees slightly bent. Part of that certainly comes from learning but a lot of it is built into our biology too.
> I'm surprised they're able to compete at all

They typically don't. When the government doesn't enforce it's own rules, these companies just buy up competition. They strangle the market and they get more inefficient all at the same time.
I am by no means an expert in particle acceleration, but I have worked with tube amplifiers extensively, specifically for audio (modifying and building tube guitar amplifiers).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12AX7

https://www.effectrode.com/knowledge-base/the-12ax7-tube/

The suggestion of the parent comment to use a nano-sized particle accelerator on a chip could somehow be useful for tube amplifiers just seemed ridiculous.
will look into that! Thanks for the feedback ;)
In addition to comments, I would also add trackbacks [1], and RSS feeds.

Trackbacks are mostly dead now, even more than RSS feeds. But back when it was a thing, I found it quite awesome and it's a feature that I always implemented in my homemade blog engines. This was the only time we had an actually decentralized social network, even if it wasn't called that at the time.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trackback
> Most of the spam I get in gmail apparently comes from other gmail accounts.

Are they actually from Gmail accounts, or are they simply spoofing the sender? My bet is on the latter, because Google has heavy restrictions on Gmail that make it impractical to use for sending bulk spam.

> I am not sure what a big improvement this will be for the average user.

It's not going to be particularly noticeable for the average user, except for the second part (single-click unsubscribe, as opposed to a multi-step flow, is slightly stricter than what's required by CAN-SPAM). It will probably make Google's work easier, though, by having a publicly-known policy of rejecting emails without DKIM, as opposed the the status quo of having that be merely an open secret.
What you seem to miss out on is the same people that leave their ear dangles in also don't offer those social queues and the ones they do offer are ambiguous. You really have no way if knowing if they're listening and responding to you or to the thing plugged in to their head.

This is not a take your hat off indoors kind of thing which would be a societal custom. This is a do I know if we are communicating and do I have your focus thing.

You seemed to have missed out on the part of showing the same level of attention that they would expect if they initiated the conversation. That's a big miss on your part because there the core issue of the over developed sense of entitlement. Because no one says, oh yeah it's fine if I have no idea if you're listening to me or not. No we all get irritated. So just do what you'd expect if the situation was reversed. That's not cultural custom specific thing. That's a society thing.
Hi! It's neat to see Kart making HN. These are great points, we'll get that Docs link much more visible.
> An example: The North Face edited wikipedia to change the photos of famous hikes/outdoorsy locations with people wearing North Face jackets with the logos visible.

I hadn't heard of this but it is beyond sleazy in my book. Though, to the company's credit, I cannot fault for the actions of likely one or a small group of marketing people. Though I don't know, maybe, that type of idea had visibility all the way to the top.
I'm not sure what TFA means (the first article), I appreciate being called competent, though the truth is that I'm just less blundering than some other people.

I'm here because there's some path-dependence in careers. I started at a mediocre company due to not having a permanent work visa, and have been clawing my way up. I should write something else on this, but I've also realized clawing my way up was unnecessary - it turns out that while I've had some skill atrophy from working at these places, good engineers recognize someone that isn't going to cause a spreadsheet dumpster fire, so I should have just jumped to one of the top rungs on the ladder years ago.
It's true that the more complex and capable the tool is, the harder it is to understand what it empowers the humans using it to do. I only wanted to emphasize that it's the humans that are the vital link, so to speak.
Is there any other type of development where you have to inform the US gov about it when you start developing it?

The EO says you must inform the gov when you start the training the AI if it's a risk to public health, etc.

How would one determine if it's a risk? Who determines the risk (I assume the government).

So effectively that means the gov determines what is right/wrong, true/false. Not good.
Hi, I've built the demo. Unfortunately, it's running on a single GPU and can only be used concurrently by a few users. For a better real-time experience, you would need a dedicated machine.

You can get the source here and how to run:
https://github.com/radames/Real-Time-Latent-Consistency-Mode...
See video here:
https://twitter.com/radamar/status/1718783886413709542 or on the Github readme.

FYI, this is made possible due to a new technique: https://latent-consistency-models.github.io, fine-tuning an existing models. The author will soon publish the training script. We'll see all the cool image models running at this speed! I'm excited for this! I can see many interesting experiments and projects emerging from this.
OK now I gotta know what was wrong with the house, and did you manage to back out?

Was it a meth factory?
Yes, which is precisely why I made the comment! The wolves are coming, but this person has seen "crisis" and "emergency" called for every little thing and now they just don't believe it anymore.
The one-click part I believe is referring to the unsubscribe smtp header.

CAN-SPAM is ignored for the most part anyway, e.g. LinkedIn requires recipients to authenticate in order to unsubscribe and openly violates the letter and spirit of the law to the point scripts are required: https://github.com/chengyin/linkedin-unsubscribed
No?

The only official pronunciation of X in English is "ks", and there are many languages that use X for many different sounds. Shitter is appropriate, I think some Spanish dialects might read it that way.