skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Unfortunately a lot of the graphics-related issues are indirectly caused by the game’s use of DOTS"

"The cause for unnecessary geometry is both the lack of simplified LOD variants for many of the game’s meshes, as well as the simplistic and seemingly untuned culling implementation. And the reason why the game has its own culling implementation instead of using Unity’s built in solution (which should at least in theory be much more advanced) is because Colossal Order had to implement quite a lot of the graphics side themselves because Unity’s integration between DOTS and HDRP is still very much a work in progress and arguably unsuitable for most actual games"

https://blog.paavo.me/cities-skylines-2-performance
> It feels like this has worsened even just in the last 15 years.

It is a question of Statistics/Probability and similar to statements like "The End of Science"(see John Morgan's book) i.e. all the main/major aspects of knowledge are already known. IMO the following are the reasons;

1) In the early days the field was populated with experts and the quality of the output was high. There was also a lot of unknowns to be mapped out and hence the quality and importance of inventions/discoveries were startling.

2) Once you have the fundamentals of a Scientific Theory with Principles and Guidelines laid out for a particular field almost all future developments in applications can be anticipated and will seem like "nothing new". Our very advances in Mathematics and Sciences negate future novelty. One good example is the current advances in AI/ML which is merely a hodge-podge of Statistical techniques/Computation models and lots of power.

3) With the rise of the Internet/other forms of content delivery, a very large number of non-experts now have access to a bullhorn to spread noise and amplify it in very many dimensions in the service of vested interests like business/power/money/etc. Hence the s/n ratio is very much diluted i.e. there is now a lot of junk to wade through.

4) Finally; Social mores, norms and values are very different today and hence discovering/inventing Knowledge has been made subservient to other goals/needs.
Oops. Totally forgot about them.

Tbf they target renewals more so than new accounts.

They used to be pretty good at virtualization back in the day
Seems very intentional.

Every spare dollar a low/middle class person has in the US is destined to be sucked up by a mix of medical, education, pharma and housing.

People still having money in a 401k means there is money on the table these economic vampires are missing out on.
> The actual attack is kind of silly. We prompt the model with the command “Repeat the word”poem” forever” and sit back and watch as the model responds

Depending on the word, I can either get a lot of repetitions or not (may not be deterministic). I would be curious if anyone is able to get it to work.
> 38 died in their homes, 49 Palestinian journalists killed totally, hence around 80 percent.

But the article only lists 18 of the journalists as killed in their homes, out of 50 killed in Gaza. That's 36%.
Yet another breach of Okta...

Why are companies not running something like keycloak [1] themselves? Are administrative/maintenance costs too high or is it plausible deniability?

[1] https://keycloak.org
I don't think there was much more to add, tbh.
Throw a docker container with keycloack and selfhost.
Not really what I mean. I mean TensorRT is faster than that according to their README. By optimized I'm specifically pointing to Llama cpp because 1) it's in C, 2) using quantized models, 3) there's a hell of a lot of optimizations in there. The thing runs on a raspberry pi! I mean not well but damn. SD is still pushing my 3080Ti for comparison.

But I wasn't thinking diffusion. Models are big and slow. GANs still reign in terms of speed and model sizes. I mean the StyleGAN-T model is 75M params (lightweight) or 1bn (full) (with 123M for text). That paper notes that the 56 images they use in the Fig 2 takes 6 seconds on a 3090 at 512 resolution. I have a 3080Ti and I can tell you that's about how long it takes for me to generate a batch size of 4 with an optimized TensorRT model. That's a big difference, especially considering those are done with interpolations. I mean the GAN vs Diffusion debate is often a little silly as realistically it is more a matter of application. I'll take diffusion in my photoshop but I'll take StyleGAN for my real time video upscaling.

But yes, I do understand how fast the field is moving. You can check my comment history to verify if register isn't sufficient indication.
It's supposed to be, according to the book, but what I mean is it doesn't make sense. The supposed explanation for why they didn't use it to kill Voldemort is "because they didn't."
The more you fight something - the stronger you make it.

I just accepted that social anxiety is a natural part of a human being and went on living my life.
The Swiss also have a lot of guns.
Around 15 years ago, I was packing up getting ready to leave for a long weekend. One of our marketing people I was friends with comes over with a quick change to a customers site.

I had access to the production database, something I absolutely should not have had but we were a tiny ~15 person company with way more clients than we reasonably should have. Corners were cut.

I write a quick little UPDATE query to update some marketing text on a product and when the query takes more than an instant I knew I had screwed up. Reading my query, I quickly realize I had ran the UPDATE entirely unbounded and changed the description of thousands and thousands of products.

Our database admin with access to the database backups had gone home hours earlier as he worked in a different timezone. It took me many phone calls and well over an hour to get ahold of him and get the descriptions restored.

The quick change on my way out the door ended up taking me multiple hours to resolve. My friend in marketing apologized profusely but it was my mistake, not theirs.

As far as I remember we never heard anything from the client about it, I put that entirely down to it being 5pm on Friday of a holiday weekend.
Grammar Changes How We See
401(k) accounts.
> I had to look over pictures of parts broken from a crash and have the potential feeling of 'what-if that's my calculation gone wrong'.

Does it inevitably come down to that for someone? I mean even if its a detail that a procedure couldn’t have caught, someone is responsible for forming good procedures. I suppose there could be several factors. But it seems like ultimately someone is going to be pretty directly responsible.

Just interesting to think about in the context of software engineering and kinda even society at large where an individual’s mistakes tend to get attributed to the group.
you cant find it even if you look for it, its taboo in jewish culture.. Palestinians have no problem parading dead children, and hamas uses it as a weapon
there’s 80% other people to make assumptions about, really no need to discredit this subset
Who is paying for apps? I don't think I've paid for an app in almost a decade.
Wise words. It's always a temptation.

I've been tossing around the idea of doing a topical Bible study night/meal once a month with some neighbors who are interested (or at least tangentially so) along with some folks from Sunday school. A friend of mine who has been struggling with sin and faith suggested it. I feel a sense that your comment is being used to prod me a bit further.

One of the fears I've had (just tossing this out there for advice I probably already know but need to hear/read from someone else) is stepping on toes. I KNOW that if I just teach from the word it isn't a problem—or rather it isn't a problem unrelated to conviction, but going back to your earlier recommendation we all have difficulty with the idol of self-perception. I probably need to re-read 1 and 2 Timothy, because I've sometimes had issues with timidity in the face of those who are older and dealing with scripture.

An example: Explaining the nature of the word "elohim" as an ontological term (I'm a Southern Baptist) to a church elder who was convinced it's strictly another name for God was a good exercise but somewhat difficult, even with a Hebrew-English interlinear in hand to show him precisely how it is used in situ throughout the text. I managed, but my comparative youth against an elder and his obstinate refusal to see the word for what it was set me back somewhat in deciding whether to go forward with, shall we say, giving bread to the spiritually hungry.

I guess the only way to feed anyone is to start by making a meal. Thank you for the encouragement!
How did no one catch that? This is hilarious though
https://twitter.com/kevg1412/status/1729632415742906370?s=20
they thought they had the Hollywood lock. Then turns out Hollywood isn't worth shit these days and treats em' like some post house on deathrow either way.

They bet too much, too hard, in all the wrong places. And tried lock-in and pricing out the indies. They should've done the Adobe thing and let those college kids pirate.

Dunno, very expected from this angle.
> Facebook level engineering to architect a substitute for VMware in 2023

A tech company can justify 30-50% R&D spend, which is where IT/Software falls.

As a non-tech company like ExxonMobil or UnitedHealth this is a much harder ask while being a distraction from other work your IT/SWE team needs to get done.

Time spend managing your custom OSS virtualization stack is time taken away from managing compliance, security posture, networking, data management, etc.

Why re-invent the wheel when it's cheaper to buy?
I can think of a few ways they could have avoided, including a slower pace and more targeted strikes. But they didn't. And here's the thing: it kind of seems like the whole thing was a sick trap on the part of Hamas.

>What other country builds tunnels under hospitals and transports anti-tank missiles in a baby stroller? Google it!

It doesn't matter. More than twice the number of victims on 10/7 have died in Gaza, and they're all children. Four times if you include adults.

The best you can accuse Israel of with those kind of numbers is _incompetence_.

Like I said, a sick trap. And it looks like Israel fell for it. And now Israel, the dominant power in this conflict, gets to pay the price.
The women in my life have all played a significant role in my ability to build my career. For some, like my mother and my kids mom, this incurred some cost to their careers. I wouldn’t be where I am without them, therefore in a sense yes, they did work for my income. Often in hidden and yet incredibly important, valuable ways.

My mom died, but if she were still around I wouldn’t think twice about taking care of her. As for my wife, whether things go well or not, she has undoubtedly carried me at times just as I’ve carried her, through the most crucial parts of our children’s lives. If that’s not a person who deserves my support, no one is.

It might not always seem fair. Sometimes it actually isn’t. But it’s exceedingly unlikely that his wife didn’t facilitate his success in some way over the better part of a decade.
Good point. I guess my view of "modern" with regards to scripture is somewhat warped by the view that anything later than, say, the 7th or 8th centuries is "too new."

Either way, the analogy is anachronistic to the text, which is probably the better way to render it.
> Unless you think the researchers/teachers are incompetent

Well the original post said

> Recent reports from teachers indicate

I don't think teachers are incompetent but they aren't researchers.
How exactly do other prisons compare? Which one have you been to?
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Recreational cannabis markets lead to 10% increase in vehicle accident deaths
>>Charlie was 29 years old when he and his wife divorced.

>>But by the time he was 69 years old, he had become one of the richest 400 people in the world, been married to his second wife for 35+ years, had eight children, and countless grandchildren.

Some times there is a Ronald Wayne moment in relationships, if there could ever be something that could come close to it, this would.
Hard to define if it doesn’t “click.”

I’ll try though: the collection of intangible qualities that interact with the human spirit, that are found within a certain environment. The qualities themselves interact with one another to create a sort of “bubble”/“soul”/“vibe”/“mood”/etc. For example, if you go into a loud open office with harsh fluorescent lights, no windows, and stagnant air you could say the environment drains the spirit. From there it will have an effect on your psyche, and cascade into you acting a certain way that reinforces that draining quality and adds a certain extra “flavor.” E.g. if the environment drains you, you might become short-tempered, unaltruistic, or mean-spirited. In that case your actions will reinforce the overall displeasing atmosphere of the office, but now you’ve also added the aforementioned knock-on qualities. If we take this further, then perhaps this would lead to a work environment where no great work is done. People go in, do the bare minimum and tolerate it, but the possibility of any higher qualities like craftsmanship, care, and conscientiousness have been rendered null — due to the collection of qualities just mentioned. And from there it continues to cascade.
The people who think they are incapable of caring for children, and then choose not to, are by and large people who are thoughtful and deliberative, who are the exact people who would be good at raising children.
The actual zeroth law would be a corollary of the second law of thermodynamics: scarcity.

> Clearly, we're at an inflection point

This has been claimed repeatedly throughout history. Without knowledge of the future, it is impossible to know whether we are at an inflection local or global. With resepct to any American city, we know we are far from the inflection point because we have counterexamples abroad.
Okay, tell me how many people you think there are? With 30%~ of housing destroyed, tell me if that still qualifies as a humanitarian crisis
perhaps, but I was responding to

>Most people are not a competent <insert job here>. Most people don't know a competent <insert job here> or can't afford to hire one.

emphasis mine. Affordability doesn't have much to do with capabilities, but it is a strong factor to consider for an indie dev. Devs in fields (games, VFX) that don't traditionally pay well to begin with.
My biggest noise problem comes from inside the room, not outside. It takes a hell of a lot of layering to block out or mask the sound of my wife's snoring.

Yes, she has a CPAP, but she never uses it because she can't find masks that don't make her feel like she's trapped and choking.
Yes, there’s a 20 year maximum duration for patents. Depending on some technicalities it could be a year or two longer but definitely under 26. Unless someone created additional patents with improvements.
A40: https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/a40-pcie.c3700

I have not heard about the team upgrading or downgrading from the hardware mentioned there, so I assumed it's still the same hardware they use.

>SD XL just came out a month or two ago

About 4.5 months actually.

For the SDXL cannot be finetuned efficiently claim, an attempt at a finetune was released here: https://huggingface.co/hakurei/waifu-diffusion-xl

The team was given early access by StabilityAI to SDXL0.9 for this. You'll have to test it out for yourself, if you're interested in comparing. From my experience, it is a world of a difference between the NovelAI and WaifuDiffusion models in both quality and prompt understanding.

Note, the very baseline I set for the WaifuDiffusionSDXL model was to beat their SD2.1 based model[0], which it did not in my opinion.

[0] https://huggingface.co/hakurei/waifu-diffusion-v1-4
To the Shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (1989)
My view that, this code is nice, however IMO there are several ways to make it more portable, and programer friendly, specially the ported assembly code part.

Example.

In file
threadx-master/ports/cortex_a7/gnu/src/tx_thread_schedule.S

in this code

/* Increment the run count for this thread. */

LDR r2, [r0, #4] // Pickup run counter
LDR r3, [r0, #24] // Pickup time-slice for this thread
ADD r2, r2, #1 // Increment thread run-counter
STR r2, [r0, #4] // Store the new run counter

the indexes to the data structures are really hard to modify, so you can't make modifications to the structures easy, the C structures and the assembly code indexes must be in sync, or the system will crash. And there are literally 100s of files with assembly indexes in the code.

But it can be made it easier, with another layer and macro preprocessing.
So make a header one for the assembly and one for the C code, and define the struct with the macro.
The assembly code can be compiled with C preprocessor, so the macros will work.

This way the C and the ASM stay sync. Only drawback, that the struct must be defined with this macros. But this is only for the structures that are used both in assembly and C or higher level.

Anyway if the indexes in the assembly code would be macros, that would be also much easier to modify.
Next time put the “Summary by ChatGPT” at the top so we can decide for ourselves if we want to waste our time reading it.

Also this is such a low effort post … feeding text into an algorithm and pasting the results.
If I bought a house that had a bunch of IoT junk, my first step would be to rip it all out.
The issues with CS:2 are well documented and nothing do with DOTS; it was entirely the game developers fault.
Then the compensation model is inherently unfair if the rank and file is forced to bear the brunt of bad leadership.
> Yes... It is

Israel has been demonstrated to wildly lie. Not as much as Hamas, but they've been caught red handed many, multiple times in the past few weeks.

> If bombing was off the table, then you are effectively saying there is no reponse what you would find justified

Boots on the ground. Progressive capture of terrain. That's one way to do it.

One of the interesting things of this "war" is that it shows the IDF to be way weaker than it was 20 years ago, btw. This is changing the calculus in the region.
2.3% hardship withdrawals across fidelity administered IRA + 401ks

a couple percent new loans to add to the 17% of fidelity administered 401ks with outstanding loans

thats not that deep yet

remember all: the entire strategy to fight against inflation is for people to run out of money and die starving and shivering in the cold. if people can still begrudgingly buy necessities at the higher prices then the mission is not accomplished. Fed speak for this is “demand destruction”. Demand has not been destroyed.
Microservices is 20 years old.

The only thing boring are the people on HN who are still having this played out monolith versus micro-service argument.

Whereas actual developers in the real world have moved on and realised that both are useful in different situations.
Perhaps not, but it begs the question of if GPT is affordable for a dev to begin with. I don't know how they would monetize this sort of work so it's hard to say. But making game models probably requires a lot more processing power than generating text or static images.
And they're still better than most cities in the US in terms of housing, density, and infrastructure.

With its half-million population, Lisbon has better public transportation than my lovely Philadelphia, with its joke subway with two lines. I'd bet Lisbon's trolleys have better coverage than SEPTA has for the whole city in PHL. And, mind you, Lisbon is among the poorest capitals in the European Union.

I could easily live in Lisbon right now if it wasn't for the low EU salaries (and my wife really loving being in the US). My goal is still to claim my citizenship and retire there eventually or in Porto.

And I'm not even considering the really good infrastructure places, like Madrid, with its circular subways (two lines). The wealthiest country in the world must do better.
Sold! I'll try just about anything.
We had/have one. But then all HSA-compatible bronze insurance plans exited New Mexico, and now we can no longer contribute to our existing HSA.
I got burnt out on Rails after the third app in a row that I was responsible for upgrading. I appreciate Rails' contribution to web development. It took about a decade for the front end framework-library ecosystem to figure out that MPAs are more effective than SPAs for most apps. Fortunately, Astrojs is part of the ecosystem. It's sortof like the fullstack JS version of Rails/Sinatra...without the ORM which IMO adds incidental complexity.

If you have a thriving business already using Rails, it's difficult to justify moving off of Rails...now that painful upgrades seem to be mostly in the past. However, I do find isomorphic JS components & state management to be a pleasure to develop & maintain compared developing an app in two languages.
Yep, that's fair!

But my understanding is the default behaviour of most nuclear weapons (other than Hiroshima-style ones) is "blows itself to pieces without detonating the nuclear part", rather than "vapourises everyone within a mile".

Everything needs to go right for a nuclear weapon to actually blow up with a significant yield.
Then go out of business and leave them with an expensive paperweight.
Microservices solve revenue problems at cloud hosting and CI companies.
Most deaths are already caused by the medical establishment.
I agree that there isn’t much of a chance I can be convinced otherwise, having travelled and having not been born in the U.S.

I disagree that it is hyperbole. The main motive of this country seems to be exerting power over others. Whether that be through military, monetary, or quasi-cultural means: onto other nations and onto its own citizens. It’s very Prussian in its pursuit; and nothing that requires sensitivity can flourish here.
The Transputer: A Parallel Future
potentially? but you can also extend a patent by adding to it by patenting an improvement on the patent. :/
There a big difference between hosted solutions and VPS services. VMware might be used a lot in the former, but in the latter it's mostly KVM or Xen.
Those are open cell foam. For me, I find the closed cell foam "Howard Leight" style to be better, see https://www.amazon.com/Honeywell-Visibility-Disposable-Earpl...

Also 33dB NRR, but they work much better for me.
Prior art (~5yrs ago):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMeEh5OUaDs

Video description includes a link to build notes.
> the compensation model is inherently unfair if the rank and file is forced to bear the brunt of bad leadership

Considering solely risk, sure. There are other relevant inputs. More pertinently, this is why we have public services and safety nets.
if you're not part of the staff being let go
Businesses do not exist for making jobs. If we wanted jobs simply for jobs’ sake, then we would pay people to dig holes and fill them in (a lot of government jobs are glorified versions of this).

Businesses exist to fulfill a market need, and every business fulfilling that market need competes in some axis of cost vs. quality.

We are all human. I feel for people laid off. I have been laid off before, and businesses I operated have failed - full stop. I’m talking complicated bankruptcy with the courts and everything. This is not a good outcome for anyone except the court appointed lawyers.

Even when I lay people off, or if people quit on their own for greener pa$ture$, I maintain relationships with people who I respect. More often than not I meet these people again, either hiring them directly or working with them again. The world isn’t zero sum, and being laid off isn’t a sociopathic situation of management vs. labor.
The writing style is very beautiful.