skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You should practice what you preach, and throw away everything in your life that was made or designed by someone living in a city.
bartending
SDXL and ControlNet are already optimized, if thats what you mean: https://github.com/chengzeyi/stable-fast

(Note the links to various SD compilers).

But the whole field is moving so fast that people aren't even adopting the compilers and optimized implementations at large.
There's a number of serious errors here.

Here are the first two:

6 hours of focus work per is enormous for software engineers, not a bad sign.

They say Google has spent hundreds of millions trying to develop new businesses. It's easily hundreds of billions.
Agreed. Writing a reference is not just a matter of respect for the author who put in the work, but also a matter of material importance, as the practice can help both the author and the reader.

For the author, a reference to their original work can help the rest of their work (such as their website) become better-known. Their corpus of work (whether a book series or a website) can be a source of income. In this case, it appears that the author is able to use his blog to gain clients for his company—he describes his background, clientele, and company below the article, and includes a method of contact via the menu.

For the reader, a reference to the source material helps them find similar content by the author that may be relevant and interesting, as well as possibly a way to subscribe to notifications for future work released by the author.

Though online discussions don't require linked references—unlike more formal environments such as in academia or in ethical journalism—it's a good habit to link to references whenever possible (especially when quoting word-by-word): it can only help both the author and the reader.
That would be pretty interesting to be a way to make specific models. Local processing would work for the custom use cases.
Wouldn't the patent be expired?
If your app is just a postgresql database that needs to be exposed with auth, access control, etc then yes rails is fine.

If you’re doing a tremendous amount of parallel processing it will fall over without throwing lots of compute and scaling horizontally. Rails doesn’t scale vertically. You need to give it compute, and every other resource it uses will also need more compute. Average joes are fine with a 2 core VPS. Lots of businesses are not.

I need you to send 5-10 million API calls per day to 20 different API’s … are you using Rails? Every API is rate limited differently, with different batch sizes (each having unique parameters) and it needs to literally be done ASAFP to make certain deadlines. If you want to throw money at the problem, sure. If you want to do the same thing with 1/10th of the resources you’ll use a better runtime like Erlang/Elixir or Clojure/Golang something with CSP.

HN is so quick to dismiss things like kubernetes and wax poetic about simpleton life but there are very legitimate reasons to choose alternative tools for your problem space.
Joel Spolsky wrote about it, actually: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...
Just for history. Current values are available without internet on the esp32.
Then maybe refuse to register them, like the Hungarian authorities do? Understaff and reduce migrant registration offices to a bare minimum like the French are doing with immigration offices.

Hungary and Poland have repeatedly boycotted and vetoed the EU's migration policies. If this gets support from a country like NL, there is hope to change the EU's ill suited Merkel/Juncker policies on migration.

The alternative is right wing populists like Wilders winning elections in more EU states. Consider LePen's FN winning the French elections for instance. In the German government there is already consensus on a stricter migration policy in order to stem support for the far right.

Russia is also using migrants to put pressure on Polish, the Baltics' and Finnish borders. We shouldn't allow this.
An Israeli father (and media in general) thought his own daughter died and turned out to be wrong when she was released (she was kept as a hostage which I don't think is right but she was not killed).
https://twitter.com/moghilemear13/status/1728629391373029792

The same media that's wrong about this is giving other information based on similar assumptions (granted that they were corrected).
https://www.ory.sh/ bonus is that you can run it on your own as well.
CPU cost is the obvious driver of who will win in this space, ergo, the correct optimization is to rewrite in assembly.
I felt like the real lesson is a missing flight recorder system, if each action and behaviour is properly logged, it would have been pretty clear that the telemetry was lost before chris even began testing the RAT motor
I worked at JPL for two years in college and helped with flight hardware testing a few times (probably in the same clean room this story took place in, albeit several years later). I can definitely see how a mistake like this could get made. A few stories I remember hearing from those days:

1. Bending pins from trying to insert a connector incorrectly
2. Running a full day of testing but forgetting to set up data recording
3. Accidentally leaving a screwdriver next to the hardware inside a thermal vac chamber in an overnight test

Fun times!
I found that article about coaching very compelling. There's a few areas in my life where I've found that I've hit the limit of my capabilities (or find myself regressing) but I haven't been willing to expose myself in the way that the article describes.
I have this image of you spending years painstakingly rewriting this, just for Apple to release their ARM processors.

FWIW I have no idea what Wozmon is, just a sentence or two at the top for people not familiar with the original.
additional dissolution steps could definitely improve purity; i mean that's basically how zone melting does it
My logic is simple

If such a contract exists then the retailer has to uphold the contract

The associates at the point of sale are the people who are in the best position to uphold the contract

To uphold the contract they would need to receive training. They wouldn't have to know the exact language of the contract, but there would be a procedure in place that the retailer could use to demonstrate that they are upholding the contract to the best of their ability.

Since such training doesn't exist, then it's likely no such contract exists either.
They may be bragging about that, but they still make people use Liquid and tell their customers that features were released when they're in beta for another 3-6 months.
https://archive.is/h1ktG
How is that the case? This example uses a distributed MySQL cluster which was of course tuned for high performance. Similarly the Rails app is distributed as well. Arguably the Rails app likely wouldn't qualify as "high performance", but it's distributed.
Unless you’re an introvert in which case this design is maximally wrong.
From the Wikipedia article of that flight:

"The incident was featured in season 23, episode 5 of the Canadian documentary series Mayday . . ." [1]

Season 23 - I'm glad I don't fly!

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Astana_Flight_1388
sorry to tell you, but there’s no way anything will be generating clean topology for characters for a long long time.
Yes it is.

Diversity means restaurant options go beyond MacDonalds and the local bar

Diversity means that if you are Gay, non-religious or into Table Tennis you can find others who are the same
I thought the one in the article was from isreal.
There aren't actually 2 million people in Gaza. You can google their (mis)-counting tactics e.g not deducting those who emigrate etc
You're welcome!

It was my way out of Nihilism. The pursuit of being good is more important and valuable than us all agreeing on what is good (or even that good exists at all). And given that goal, all you can do is try your best.
This ^.

I love big brain responses.
Elixir's a lot of fun, but it's not the most performant thing either; it just does concurrency pretty well.

It seems most really big companies make the boring but safe choice to go with the JVM.
oooh, now that's an idea I had not thought of. Thanks!
GCC has `__attribute__((scalar_storage_order("big-endian")))`.

Note that the attribute is applied on `struct`s (and `union`s), taking effect for scalars within them, but does not recurse into further aggregates.
Aren't the full set of these numbers definitionally "high performance"?
> I have this image of you spending years painstakingly rewriting this

Initial commit: 5 days ago
This is exactly what I do. I call it my “Homeowner’s Operating Manual” and it’s based on the idea of an individual aircraft’s POH. It’s all there. Everything I’ve done to the house.
I'm not very familiar with this space, so perhaps someone could explain this to me. I was under the impression that a kernel panic indicates a problem at the kernel level, not in userland. Is it not the goal of most/all kernels to insulate themselves from userland mistakes?
It seems many commenters are stuck on the Israel-Hamas angle. The article itself is about more than just that conflict. I encourage others to read the full article (there are not many images of dead kids, for those fearing that this is a slide show of gore).

I think the last paragraph is well written:

"The past six weeks have made it clear that the world will respond to images of slaughtered children, and it’s worth asking why it’s taken this long for people to see what that looks like. There is no question that images of dead children carry an immense amount of weight, which, in turn, must be handled responsibly. But that does not mean that any attempt to get the public to see them is automatically manipulative or propagandistic. It is far more manipulative to edit out the dead children or to hide them under a veil of solemnity and manners."
I’ve generally found that reading a random page in the book is most indicative of whether I’ll like it. Especially with well-reviewed, famous authors that have awards and laudatory quotes all over the book cover.

For example, I picked up a book by Salman Rushdie, thinking “he’s an award-winning author and this plot summary seems interesting.” But after reading a few pages, I simply can’t get through the style…it’s not for me.

This is something that oddly enough isn’t covered in book review magazines like the NYRB or LRB, which don’t contain excerpts.
A lot of translated titles contain slight spoilers though, for example "predestination" becomes "time paradox" in Korean, it immediately gives you a hint of some part of the twist.
Assuming you're genuinely asking for the perspective behind this argument. I think these folks* mostly believe that cleansing is a "least bad" alternative because Palestine is a failed state with broad anti-Semitism and a Jewish neighboring state. No group in Palestine (even Hamas) is capable of enforcing a peace treaty, and Israel is not willing to abide by a peace treaty that Palestine groups do not abide by. Thus, the status quo of attacks from Palestine to Israel by various armed gangs will continue indefinitely, and the counter-cycle of Israeli retaliation, a counter-cycle which inevitable undermines Palestinian groups that deal with Israel. The most likely possible disruptions of this cycle are tragic - either the rise of a right wing group in Israel that cleanses Palestine or the regional hegemony of a current group in Iran that cleanses Israel - and even assuming one of these tragic disruptions doesn't occur, the status quo cycle is already pretty bad.

* I say "these folks" because I don't know that I agree.
What were the reasons to move from Redis to Ristretto? Both seem to be very different, since Redis is distributed where as Ristretto is local to the process.
Off the top of my head:
https://gluu.org/
https://www.keycloak.org/
https://github.com/OpenIdentityPlatform
I did not link the article. I was responding to the comment that stridently declared that the article provides no support for the claim that Israel is targeting journalists.

I got the number by actually fully reading the article, counting up the number of Palestinians who were listed as killed in their home or with their families (around 30) and then of the remaining, reading the provided linked reports that gave more detail as to how the journalists died (around 8). 38 died in their homes, 49 Palestinian journalists killed totally, hence around 80 percent. I may be off by a couple since here or there, but to say that the article “doesn’t mention anything near that number” is a stretch.
It is your job to anticipate the market – you are responsible for all the business decisions! If you're allowed to shrug it off and say "we didn't see this coming, we did the best we can, by the way 3.8% of you are getting laid off because of this but not me, even though I made the calls", well, it sounds like you're just milking the business for yourself until it well and truly goes kaput.
At least some billionaires created something useful. Finance guys don't create anything, they are just leeches who found ways to game the system.
> Or any big city in Europe?

Many big cities in Europe are having housing crises of their own - Lisbon, Amsterdam, London etc. Just today, there was this thread bemoaning the housing situation in Netherlands - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38444948

> Sometimes I wonder if Americans travel out of the US at all.

Sometimes I wonder if people know real facts about Europe or just have some rosy imagination or generalize some tiny corner to the entire continent.
Depends on what you’re doing. Elixir isn’t winning the war on raw compute but if you need to do literally 2 million things at once it can’t be beat. It’s ostensibly a drop in replacement for rails (Phoenix) but will do everything rails does better including background tasks.

JVM is indeed a powerhouse and that’s where I’d go Clojure without hesitation. Scala might be an easier sell but I’m a lisp fan and have used Clojure in prod (was briefly CTO at FarmLogs a YC company where most of our core infra was Clojure) and it’s really an amazing language but it requires very senior engineers to do correctly.
The so called "AI People" built the entire architecture, something people didn't think was possible at the scale and quality a year ago, and the matter of "artists should get whatever they want" because it trained on their works isn't the point. Diffusion Models don't rip parts of pictures together, they happen to be trained to make art out of noise, finding patterns in art. same things happening with LLM's in court with the LLama model and book authors claiming it only makes books.

I still remember that piece of art that was submitted to an art contest and won, only to be announced an SD prompt later
https://archive.is/ShGa2
That’s true, but also keep in mind executives aren’t fired for making bad decisions, they’re fired because the board (or CEO) thinks someone else can do better going forward.
> the term has been used to mean 'tests for units' for about a century

I assume you’re being hyperbolic here, unless there’s some pre-modern history to the term I’m not aware of?
Authentik is easiest to self host and give you everything you would expect in an premium offering, it's opensource and just need a single docker compose command to up and running.
https://goauthentik.io/
> In an anonymous online poll on how many “focused hours of work” software engineers put in each day, 71 percent of the over four thousand respondents claimed to work six hours a day or less, while 12 percent said they did between one and two hours a day.

I seem to recall many people on HackerNews being of the opinion that it’s almost impossible to do more than four hours of focused engineering work in a day so this seems relatively high.
Bloat can also refer to the invisible infrastructure code that's compiled into a binary when using certain language features. C has a fairly linear relationship to the size of the compiled assembly, iirc, but C++ will vary wildly based on which features you use.
I remember all those moments lost in wonder that we'll never find again - Roxy Music
I've bought clothes from Uniqlo and Kik, and none of them have been substandard. OTOH, Shein is a real crap factory as far as I'm concerned.
Extracting Training Data from LLMs
> I sometimes wonder how people managed in the 19th century.

In very harsh conditions. Looking at the history of the 19th century with all the wars, financial crises, social upheavals and whatnot.
well worth a mention, Fermyon[0] and Cosmonic[1], and Fastly[2] are all standards-based and mature wasm edge/cloud providers worth checking out!

0: https://fermyon.com

1: https://cosmonic.com

2: https://fastly.com
Oh, I read the parent comment to thank them for confirming that "you likely don't have a problem that is hard enough to justify it". But reading it again, it could be read both ways.

Edit: To be clear, I agree that this is an example of distributed, high-performance which is why the comment made little sense to me.
From testing out the 1024px outputs it seems to work okay for text2img tasks only, other tasks get deepfried results. Also got it working using SDXL-LCM with similar results.
At the risk of giving landlords too many ideas, I think it would be great if landlords provided documentation to tenants as well. There's a lot of maintenance that tenants would frankly be more than happy to carry out, but don't because they don't know what to do, and they don't want to be blamed by their landlord if they stuff it up. Many things I see landlords complain about seem like they could be fixed by simply providing clear advice for tenants. But again, most landlords have pretty warped ideas about wear and tear and what their legal and/or ethical obligations are twloward tenants. Most landlords would probably take this advice and run with expecting their tenants to do constant unpaid maintenance. So I dunno what the solution is there.
Careful, once you start down that route you'll end up hanging upside down with your toes over a bar doing inverted pullups | "squats" and other crazy stuff . . .
SQLite reads and writes small blobs (for example, thumbnail images) 35% faster¹ than the same blobs can be read from or written to individual files on disk using fread() or fwrite().

Furthermore, a single SQLite database holding 10-kilobyte blobs uses about 20% less disk space than storing the blobs in individual files.

The performance difference arises (we believe) because when working from an SQLite database, the open() and close() system calls are invoked only once, whereas open() and close() are invoked once for each blob when using blobs stored in individual files. It appears that the overhead of calling open() and close() is greater than the overhead of using the database. The size reduction arises from the fact that individual files are padded out to the next multiple of the filesystem block size, whereas the blobs are packed more tightly into an SQLite database.

https://www.sqlite.org/fasterthanfs.html
It is an engineers solution, perhaps not pretty and perhaps not semantic but certainly functional enough for this crowd. FYI I mostly use mobile for HN and the solution works fine IMHO.
Fascinating, thanks for sharing this!
no, i am speaking quite precisely. 01923 is hardly medieval, and that's when the term came into common use in engineering jargon, with pretty much its current meaning, plus or minus about ten years

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=unit+tests&yea...
How did Okta even get that big, it seems like sso could be cheap oauth in house. I've herd they ahve many other integrations/webhooks but that doesnt seem the cost of outsourcing one of the most vital part of your org.

Am I missing something, some magic other than sales and gullible pm's?
Don’t they also have a ton of custom ruby stuff like their own jit?
I have no reason to think this but that’d be great cover for a surveillance van checking tapes or something
I think a more charitable (and interesting, sociologically) interpretation is that certain Protestant groups want the authority of God to not be vested in a temporal organization like the Catholic Church, and so the book itself serves as a replacement for this. The problem of determining what that means arises then, and not initially from a desire to only follow the book directly.
> "I decided at an early age (like, under 10) that everyone is 100% responsible for everything that happens to them"

Do you think you were responsible for thinking like that when you were 9 years old?
That they can solve it at all is critical information. One could have expected the stack to not be able to horizontally scale this far. You are right though, that there is also a question of a trade-off between hosting cost on one and and the developer hours, risk, opportunity cost and lower hosting cost that come with a rewrite on the other for which one would need to know hosting cost among other critical factors.
Read the readme, consider myself a mostly-not-total-idiot. Would buy author a beer to add a whole two sentences to illuminate what wozman is. If it's just that niche and I'm ignorant feel free to ignore me.
Not a programmer, but as a QA "analyst", the productivity involved was probably less than 15% of my time spent on "projects". To the point where I quit (several years ago) because it seemed pointless. Another colleague quit within 2 months for the same reason. I felt I was riding the clock simply to make a paycheck. It paid well, yet I'd rather work in retail or something else and feel useful than simply be a body following "the process" as was asserted by my immediate manager. Screw "the process". It felt like a waste of time.

I don't think I'm an outlier in my thought process regarding my peers, but there was little upward mobility and couldn't stand the multiple meetings where I was supposed to provide value by making up CMMI metrics to please the other managers in addition to my 3 current ones in a team of 2 devs and myself. That's 4 managers in a team of 3 people. Too many chiefs... as the saying goes.

It's not all bullshit, but most of it is.

I have no problem saying it was at Dell Services, later acquired by NTTData while I still worked there. The rest is irrelevant.
OP here. First, thank you!

The site is a simple statically generated site (I use Zola [1]). The theme of the site is inspired by Researcher [2], a theme for Jekyll (another static site generator). I've been meaning to open source my version and add it to the official list of Zola themes [3], but just haven't gotten around to it quite yet. I also use openring-rs [4] for the pseudo webring at the bottom of the posts.

[1]: https://www.getzola.org/

[2]: https://ankitsultana.com/researcher/

[3]: https://www.getzola.org/themes/

[4]: https://github.com/lukehsiao/openring-rs
I understand the writer's complaints after working at a hedge fund like this. The firm made so much money that no individual could move the needle on revenue. So everyone was judged by how many people report to them.

Thus, everyone was stepping over everyone else to assign work to people that didn't report to them. It was the only time in my career that I've had to deal with office politics.
meh, $3,300 ≈ 45% median house price of the time, you'd need to be making ~200k today just to be even.
If code is executing past a panic, I think it is unlikely that you can trust the integrity of your database anyways.
Repetition. Go to meetups with the intention of one or two drinks, and chit chatting. A plus is a phone number exchange. Do it weekly.

Second, embrace anxiety. Exit the thought loop of worry people can see your anxiety by saying to yourself, "Y,es it might be visible to others, oh well. Nothing to do but push through it. And who cares. It's reality" You'll be surprised how much anxiety ceases to care about you when you fear it less.
Unity Software with a 'company reset' walks away from film VFX and the Wētā Deal