skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry, I left too much knowledge for inference.

I presumed it was safe to let users infer that a 2018 (StyleGAN) or 2019 (StyleGAN2) model was not going to compete with performance of a 2023 model, regardless of architecture. There has in fact been improvements in GANs in the last 5 years. Text conditioning is not unique to diffusion and is rather a subnetwork for conditioning (actually StyleGAN's whole innovation was creating a subnetwork for conditioning synthesis)

There are definitely modern GANs that are T2I and computationally cheaper than a latent diffusion model for a comparable benchmark score (but recognizing that our metrics are limited and only rough qualifications of image quality, but that the meaningfulness of the metrics decreases with increased realism so that's not really a hindrance for our specific use case and as mentioned before decreased diversity.)

> The quality is not really close, also StyleGAN is not conditioned on text.

Some examples of T2I GANS with comparable quality (not even something I claimed for context of the request...):

- GigaGAN (2023). Base generator @ 652.5M params and upsampler @ 359.1M params. While 512x512 generation has similar model size to SD 1.5 the inference speed is 16x faster. The gap widens for text conditioned super-resolution 128->1024 https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.05511

- StyleGAN-T (2023) (notably by Sauer who recently joined Stability and their first paper hit the front page a few weeks ago. Also includes the main SG authors from Nvidia) Figure 1 speaks for itself, noting that this is on T2I. It's also worth noting Sauer's previous work (StyleGAN-XL (2022)) did text conditioned experiments. https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.09515

- LAFITE (2022) comes in at a tiny 75M params for 256x256 generation and has quality comparable to the 12B param (autoregressive) DALL-E while being 1,600x faster in inference https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.13792

There are plenty more too. I'm not even suggesting proven architecture and train under comparable settings to that which the popular diffusion models have been trained to (which would be a fair one-to-one comparison), but what has already been done and demonstrated because the context is an engineering project not research. Certainly all the above works, including may diffusion methods, would vastly were they given the same treatment as Stable Diffusion but that's not the context here.

Stop buying into hype. There isn't one model to rule them all, there are models that are better in differing contexts.
Can anybody with a deep knowledge of the AI space, explain to me what's the real moat of CUDA ?

It's clear to everybody that it's not the hardware but the software - which is the CUDA ecosystem.

I've played a bit in the past with ML, but at the level of understanding I had - training some models, tweaking things, I was using higher level libraries and as far as I know, it's pretty much an if statement in those libraries to decide which backend use.

So let's suppose Intel and others does manage to implement a viable competitor - am I wrong in thinking that the transitions for many users would be seamless ?
That's probably not the case for researchers and people pushing the boundaries, but for most companies, my understanding is there would be not a lot of migration costs involved ?
Upper case is more legible. Simple as that.
Ironically, the few times that I see Firefox (for Android) render something wrong, it's because of an addon that is messing with the wrong stuff.
Also: https://xkcd.com/1189/
Show HN: A supersonic TCP SYN tool for stealth maneuvers
I'm excited to share with you a high-performance reconnaissance tool I wrote in Rust. It utilizes the "stealth" (or "half-open") technique (sending TCP packets with the SYN bit set), and has demonstrated impressive results -- inspecting 64K ports in under 3 seconds in a home lab test. The tool is licensed under the MIT License and it is very straightforward to use.

I welcome feedback and suggestions on how to improve this tool. Constructive criticism, whether about performance enhancements, feature requests, or just general feedback, is highly valued.
Thanks! So it sounds like it may work, but it's very unclear it'll keep working. (Also I happened to be more personally interested in the APs rather than switches, and it's unclear if that also has a local management mode.)

I notice that the linked docs article doesn't get listed if you go up the breadcrumb and try to go back down…
We also have a talk that one of our core team members gave earlier today at PGConf.EU that goes through some of the inner workings of our managed service. Its video is not posted yet given it's been just several hours, but should be available here once ready:

https://www.postgresql.eu/events/pgconfeu2023/schedule/sessi...
The BSL licensing thing has turned off a lot of the more hobbyist/tinkerer-centric users who really rocketed HashiCorp's products up the ladder in their orgs.

It's a bit like Elasticsearch, I think—it's gotten big enough it won't be a quick death, but I don't see Hashi's products growing/dominating as much now as I did a couple years ago.

(As an aside, I'd like to thank Mitchell for his work over the years, Vagrant especially was huge in my infrastructure work, and Terraform was a great companion to Ansible and CloudFormation as we automated more and more stuff.)
That would be rather defeating their purpose. We put golden records on the Voyager probes, which included instructions for reading them, so that should another intelligent civilization be in their flight path they can learn of our existence and some of our culture.
Instead of generating pseudorandom numbers you can just download files of them.

https://archive.random.org/
I don't think many people actually like discord, they just feel compelled to use it because their friends use it
Anecdotally, I've started transitioning more stuff from Nomad/Consul to k8s after Hashicorp's licensing changes. I somehow doubt I'm the only one.

Still happily using Vault for now, though.
ColdFusion is so old that there is likely still a great deal of documentation on it that got integrated into the Copilot model.
Snyk still reporting hacked Ledger package is safe, 12 hours after compromise
Postfix is fine, much better than sendmail. However I have to admit I always had a hard time thinking in the same manner that postfix operated. Something about the list based implied logic hurts my head.

Speaking of sendmail it always fascinated me, in the same manner as a train wreak. See sendmail is very nearly a completely generic store and forward engine and is configured such that it speaks smtp. Nobody really wanted a generic engine, they wanted an smtp engine and all the generic configuration was cryptic and getting in the way. so the standard method for actually configuring sendmail was a set of m4 convenience macros. The end result was you needed a configuration language for your... configuration language. Nether one of which was really any good. It sort of reminds me of those CSS compilers. or perhaps latex.
> on the podcast

Click username => Check website, last update 2016...

Copy the @_@_ junk to a search engine => Click on Mastodon instance, unable to find any link to "the podcast" in the "profile" => scroll through Mastodon posts, wading through food swooning and memes to find December 2nd ~"SEND US QUESTIONS FOR SCW PODCAST" => put "SCW Podcast" in search engine => Scroll past "SCW Fitness" and "Soft Cock Week"...

Put "SCW Security" into search engine => Click https://securitycryptographywhatever.com/

https://securitycryptographywhatever.com/2023/11/13/lattice-...
I don’t have access to the paper. I wouldn’t be surprised if they didn’t account for such sampling bias effects. Hope they did though (for science’s sake!).
The worst thing would be if some kind of virus or malware infected millions of computers or smartphones with such material. What would law enforcement do then? They can't arrest everyone under such strict liability pretenses. And it's not impossible for a state actor such as Russia to do this....
I'm a fellow programmer who has been self-learning physics for the past few months. My opinion is that a programming background is largely irrelevant to the "learning physics" part. It might help depending on what you want to do with the physics after you learn it, if that involves writing simulations or something like that. But really learning physics mostly involves reading books and solving physics problems.

I think the most important advice is don't try to skip ahead. It's tempting to jump straight into the cool modern physics topics like quantum mechanics and general relativity before you have the necessary background. I've gone down that route and didn't really learn anything that way.

If you haven't taken any physics at the university level, you probably want to start with one of the big calculus-based intro books like Young's University Physics. Calculus, differential equations, and linear algebra are really important, so you might want to pick up separate textbooks on those (or a single volume Engineering Mathematics textbook) unless you have already learned these subjects. Everyone speaks highly of the Feynman Lectures, but some say that they're only really beneficial after you already have a decent understanding of the subjects being covered. I believe I heard Sean Carroll say this once on a podcast, and I trust his opinion on physics matters.

The core subjects in undergraduate physics are classical mechanics, electrodynamics, special relativity, quantum mechanics, and statistical mechanics/thermodynamics. You will learn all of these subjects from an intro textbook as a first pass. After that, you'll return to each subject and essentially relearn it at a more advanced level with dedicated textbooks for each (except SR which is covered in electrodynamics). General relativity and quantum field theory are usually taught at the graduate level or as upper-level undergraduate electives, so those are best to save for last.

Having forgotten a lot of the math I learned a decade ago, I've found that having one of those Mathematical Methods books nearby at all times is indispensable. I went with Riley/Hobson/Bence, but Boas also gets good reviews. These books are a bit terse if you're learning a subject for the first time, but they're great as a reference and contain pretty much all the math you will ever need to know unless you plan on doing research-level physics.

Don't forget about YouTube. There are lots of lectures available from top universities, as well as independent content creators. I haven't looked much into physics channels yet, but on the math side I highly recommend 3Blue1Brown, especially his series "Essence of Calculus" and "Essence of Linear Algebra".

This is a good roadmap to guide your study path and has good textbook recommendations: https://www.susanrigetti.com/physics
What other games employ this type of restrict scrolling map mechanic? It seems unique to Zelda.
If that's the case, it's possible the money could be considered spent to overdevelop an area that will now be underutilized and will create an increase in maintenance costs for no good reason.
How does pricing compare with digitalocean postgres?
Discussed at length multiple times recently

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38629630 (yesteday)

- https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastMonth&page=0&prefix=fa... (multiple times over the last weeks)
Oh, sorry. I'm a Star Wars guy.
I specifically asked the author if he could add some extra info on Builtwith.

I can Google. But then I don't know if its truly the site the author was talking about. And I certainly don't know his or her insights on that site.
I wonder if the next generation chips are going to just have a dedicated hardware RNG per-core if that's an issue?
Too much misinformation, christ. After checking another thread, it appears the browser contains a softcore furry image, and the alleged CP is the anti-circumcision propaganda images the guy hosts on his public github.io page.

Furry easter egg removal commit is here:

https://github.com/Alex313031/thorium/commit/9947421f1480bd1...

And these are the alleged edits on the github.io page:

> the site for thorium at one point had a documentary about circumcision on it, alongside furry porn and other weird political stuff, when he was called out on it, it magically disappeared.

> https://github.com/Alex313031/Alex313031.github.io/commit/e4...

> https://github.com/Alex313031/Alex313031.github.io/commit/5c...
I find it even more interesting that people are defending either corporation. Neither of them is our friend, and they do what happens to be profitable. The core problem here is that Apple has a significant market share in the US, and for one reason or another, they are inconveniencing a portion of non-iPhone users and/or causing an unnecessary divide. Does it have to be this way? I think the answer would depend on whether or not this form of incompatibility brings them any competitive advantage.
I think this part of the discussion is just a disagreement as to what constitutes an OS, and whether running a process with a different rootfs entails "running a different OS".
Based on my limited experience Vault is actually becoming a niche tool. Big cloud players have been offering more limited solutions that are good enough for many if not most use cases. A few years ago as a consultant I'd unconditionally recommend Vault to my clients. If I were consulting today, I'd first ask what are they missing from KMS and Secrets Manager.
> The only way this is socially acceptable is if you get a piece of paper at the end which says you did it.

That’s true. Or if you’re really rich I guess.
The amount of VRAM is the absolute killer USP for the current large AI model hobbyist segment. Something that had just as much VRAM as a 3090 but at half the speed and half the price would sell like hot cakes.
In a nice coincidence: The end of vger.kernel.org (https://lwn.net/Articles/954783/)
I think that's essentially their point. The root of the term "balkanized" is war and the person they're replying to could have used a word with less violent connotations like the ones listed.
After having seen what various auto immune diseases can do to people, I would easily take a 5-10% risk of death for a cure.
The older cards are going to be supported by Mesa and RustiCL for the foreseeable future. Rocm is not the only game in town, far from it.
Ask HN: How do you plan your personal work?
Not just projects. How do you ensure your work matters, that what you're doing next week rolls up to and expands what you are doing next year?

A concept alongside this is "small bets" with your time. I tend to make bets, and hope they pay off, and I see results.

Anyone have a really comprehensive way of doing this that doesn't create outsized overhead?
The tournament rules, section 4.4, differ from the comprehensive rules and take precedence in tournaments:

https://media.wizards.com/2023/wpn/marketing_materials/wpn/M...
You probably could, assuming you had ptfe tubing (we didn't) but then controlling the flow velocity is harder. Heat of dissolution is real.
That's awesome to hear! Love hearing good news like this
Oh wow, finally, great. The inability to manually install add-ons was also a major annoyance for add-on development (at least for me), because without that you were restricted to temporary add-on installation via devtools, so you couldn't really seriously test drive your own add-ons for any extended period of time. (Or attempt tracking down some rare bug.)
The hard part for most people is learning to tell the devil in a necktie to fuck off every time they try to sweet talk you into volunteering for that kind of pain. Also with no recognition or compensation.

All it takes is one person on my team to defect and support an untenable amount of tech debt, and everyone on my team has to pay for it.
Sure, the average container in fact brings along an entire OS distribution like Alpine or Ubuntu or whatnot, but there’s still no extra layers added (save perhaps for the filesystem). Then again, running an OS at all is not “bare metal” by some definitions… it’s all various amounts of alloys I suppose.
I just had this experience with dbrand vs sopiguard. The former has great packaging but their product (and even their shipping) has gotten so poor…when you contact them they immediately take a defensive position and ask for more money to fix anything. Sopiguard on the other hand has bare minimum packaging and their product is good enough that I don’t know what their CS is like.

Oh, and for all their pretty prints, dbrand doesn’t put the name of what you actually got on the package, so you have no way to confirm if it’s a poor cut or a shipping error (in case of a MacBook skin).

Their subreddit is littered with these complaints.
Mitchell is an amazing human being. Met him in the hacking section of a conference and he was just this down to earth, really laid back dude. He was hanging out with us basically random people and didn't once bring up who he was and what he worked on.
Should it have been additively?
How does that work? Why not pick up where the previous team left off instead of everyone starting new ones? Or are they all targeting different backends and hardware?
This depends on the chemo dose. Curative chemo doses are worse in the short term. But palliative chemo usually improves quality of life.
> Extreme usage threatens the business model.

Right, and not all commodities have workable "unlimited" business models. The fact that somebody wants it to be a business model doesn't mean it should be one.

It's possible to offer honest unlimited plans. The all-you-can-eat buffet is one example. Just write it down somewhere that there's a time limit and that each individual person has to pay, and just like that you've imposed a practical limit without imposing a literal one.

Google Fiber competes with Comcast in my area, and they're happily able to advertise "unlimited gigabit Internet". Which is awesome. It's good marketing, and not dishonest: Their competitor imposes a type of limit which they do not impose (a monthly consumption limit of 1 TB). Of course, we know that there is still an effective limit in place: You can still only consume at the rate of 1 GiB/s. It's right there in the name of the plan.

But "unlimited storage" is just dishonest, especially when you're selling to businesses. Some businesses need cloud storage for documents, others need it for storing RAW video. There's nothing unreasonable about a few hundred TB unless you're just totally oblivious to the cloud storage business.

Essentially I think you're defending a somewhat dishonest marketing technique. What is lost by putting a 10 TB limit on the plan? I guess it wouldn't sell as well? Because it's not a lie? Maybe it's less "flexible" (i.e. Google can't just go change it whenever they feel like it). It's not like I can't see why that's good for Google, I just can't see why it's good for their customers. If there's a limit, just say it. Your customers would certainly appreciate knowing. And for crying out loud I do not care that being just a little bit dishonest about it makes customers excited and gets more sales.
Well - as an Easter European here - the Nutella made for Eastern Europe always tasted like shit compared to the one produced for Germany or Italy. I think the German one was the best. Also Nutella is getting shittier globally.

Any making home made gianduia paste is quite easy - you need a good coverture chocolate, butter, hazelnut nut butter and a dash of vanilla. And it tasted better than everything that Nutella has.
vercel.com. They have a free tier that links to your github repo and hosts your web app at "custom-subdomain.vercel.app".
Gotcha! I don’t mean to dunk on you… sounds like a cool project if you take appropriate safety precautions, but the possibility of accidentally creating some poisonous (or carcinogenic) substances seems pretty high. I’m far from and expert though.

I might have a low risk tolerance, but I would toss any cookware touched by, like, half of the chemicals you listed. Don’t want to find out the hard way that some nasty layer of something is slowly leaching into my food.

If you do move forwards with this, definitely write up your findings... "Removing burnt food with piranha solution without dying" will make a great blog post.
Because a lot of glassware is not easy to clean and manufacture, like beakers, flasks and tubes.

A lot of lab glassware involves complex joins. Condensers and refluxers have tubes in tubes with edges that are not even accessible.

There may be reasonable arguments to use some of the cheaper glassware once. I know I have chucked glassware instead of cleaning it. Specially if I used it for something I never want near anything else.
So the end result will be dozens of 'universal' 'standards'?
This is an important point, and making it doesn't mean you condone smoking.

"A study in Preventive Medicine Report looked at the risk of smokers developing lung cancer. The researchers found that the average risk for nonsmokers over the study period was 1.8% for males and 1.3% for females. The risk jumped to 14.8% for males and 11.2% for females in current smokers. However, the study did not take into account the number of cigarettes each person smoked per day."

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/smoking-lung-cance...

It's higher than 10%, but still, doesn't happen to most smokers. That's why so many of the anecdotes in this thread... person X smoked and lived to 90, person Y smoked and died at 35... don't make a strong point, other than cancer is purely a game of odds, and smoking increases risk by 5-10 times. Still, it shouldn't be surprising if somebody smokes and doesn't get lung cancer. That's the most likely outcome.
> So now if you have to choose between an Asian doctor and an African American one, you'd have to be pretty foolish to pick the African American one. In the 80s, I would have totally believed the African American doctor must be amazing to make it through. Now we know he was possibly let into medschool with scores that would have gotten an Asian doctor rejected.

I don't know if this was necessarily ever true, diversity quotas or not. It's a marketing narrative that "feels" good (which is how they get you) but I've always gotten the impression that minority candidates are more likely to take extreme risks to make a name for themselves. The west has never really valued craftsmanship as much as we value showmanship.

It was Ben Carson's "illustrious" career that put me off the idea of blindly choosing the underdog; he and Josef Mengele must have taken the same ethics class. Nobody can say shit about the black surgeon who fucks up high-risk, experimental surgeries-- after all, he had to work so hard to get to where he is.

Dr. Roxy too. I was disappointed to learn she wasn't actually a cocaine-addicted clown, but she's had her medical license revoked nonetheless.
I would guess they cut the normal sugar with some sweeteners.
Well it's dangerous to even check if it's true. Because doing so would be illegal, it would require downloading the browser. So you cannot even prove that it's really in there or not - or you risk breaking the law. This is sheer, utter madness. It is pure insanity. These crazy laws belong in the Middle Ages, not the 21st Century.
Istio Advisor Plus GPT: Expert System Meets AI for Service Mesh
If it's on stainless steel, why do you need to remove it chemically? Does a stainless steel scouring pad not work?
Personally i cant follow this line of reasoning. In the end this is an economical argument, as they still buy machines from the same manufacturer. At that point its a matter of being able to deliver and create a market for ICs with the given machines. Which is often achieved through political will and subsidizes to get to that point.

My initial argument is that while you cant compete with ASML products in 2023, you will be able to economically compete with some of their older products once you go back far enough.