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Ask HN: What's the best personal ML setup these days?
I think I'm looking to do some fine-tuning on SDXL, Llama, Mixtral, as well as play with some different RAG ideas and setups.

Should I get a 4090, or use a cloud host? Which one? Will my 4x2080tis still be useful?
If you’re doing some kind of documentary work, like showing how a city is being affected by a drug or a major homelessness problem, photographing someone in that group is basically necessary, but taking the photo just to take it does feel like it’s crossing a line, so it’s hard. This definitely feels like it’s crossing the line, and really reminds me of the movie Nope, making a spectacle of something that shouldn’t be.
Sorry about that, I guess everything on the internet is stolen these days.
Why shouldn't engineers consult with a PM? Isn't that a key part of the role - to break down external requirements into engineering needs?
I spent half a decade working with climate data from institutions around the world. There are dragons in those datasets and it is really frustrating to watch denialism at large and have to deal with it personally.
I know it's not the US, but here in Europe you'd run afoul of GDPR - filming or photographing people is an activity regulated by it. In Germany, there's an explicit criminal code protecting "helpless" persons from filming (§201a Abs. 1 Nr. 2 StGB [1]).

In the US, there are numerous states who require consent for recordings, so that may be another avenue.

[1] https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/stgb/__201a.html
It turns out the Bash manual groups the Bash specific features into its own chapter [1] and it's a short read and also there are not nearly as many Bash specific features as I thought.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html#Bash-Feat...
(a) Sometimes the wrong people get put in prison or solitary confinement for life too, which is effectively decades-long torture. It is arbitrary to draw the line at the death penalty, which generally causes less suffering. (Read statements from prisoners in lifelong solitary confinement.)

(b) It's not. Killing people that are evil is fine. Killing babies is wrong. You are intentionally simplifying the moral argument here to "killing people is wrong."
The situation was unclear for a while, but a few months ago the NRC decided to regulate fusion reactors like particle accelerators and hospital devices, rather than like fission reactors. It was a unanimous decision by the five commissioners.[1]

According to the CEO of Helion, this essentially means they get regulated at the state level, in their case by the WA Department of Health.[2]

A poorly-designed fission reactor can turn into Chernobyl. A poorly-designed fusion reactor just doesn't work. It's not the same level of risk at all.

[1] https://www.fusionindustryassociation.org/nrc-decision-separ...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/fusion/comments/18k8roi/age_of_mira...
In the EU, hate crime laws. (Just to be clear, I think it's unfortunate that it's likely illegal - I disagree with the parent post)
The first Willa Cather I read was O Pioneers. Long after college. I thought I was reasonably well read. I knew the name, Willa Cather, of course, but assumed that since I hadn't read any Cather (hadn't been induced to read any Cather as part of my many years of formal education) that her work must not have quite stood the test of time, somehow. I bought the book in the Gateway Arch gift shop in St Louis and read it on the airplane home. I think I must have expected a certain amount of schmaltz. Simple stories from the prairie simply told, perhaps.

You could have knocked me over with a feather. So, so, so, so good; unrelentingly, from the opening paragraph to the last page. Easy to see, in just that one slim book, why her contemporaries ranked her with James, Yeats, Faulkner, Joyce, and Hemingway.

Katherine Ann Porter wrote a short, lovely, trenchant essay, Reflections on Willa Cather, which is largely about looking (or not) for connections between an author's life and her work. Or perhaps it's mostly about Katherine Ann Porter.

> This is masterly and water-clear and autobiography enough for me: my mind goes with tenderness to the lonely slow-moving girl who happened to be an artist coming back from reading Latin and Greek with the old storekeeper, helping with the housework, then sitting by the fireplace to talk down an assertive brood of brothers and sisters, practicing her art on them, refusing to be lost among them — the longest-winged one who would fly free at last.
Please do not use vulgar words here.

We are already way too lax on the usage of these words and this only propagates blind violence (in French: https://www.legorafi.fr/2013/03/20/toulouse-il-se-fait-abatt...)
Put them in jail.

Make the company pay for externalities. If it bankrupts them, they deserve it.
it's satire
There's some truth to that saying about "academic politics", but I think it can also twist the understanding of a situation, so that people unfamiliar are less sympathetic than they should be.

Consider all the kids aspiring to pursue some field that at some point funnels through a university. They're not knowingly signing up for some niche bloodsport. And that's not what the situation actually is. The complaints about academic research dynamics in some fields aside, there's a more immediate problem of frequently unchecked bad behavior by individuals, often victimizing people who are in very vulnerable positions.

The term "academic politics" invokes our ideas of "politics", such as around those who run for elected office: that it's largely BS and lies, and only for those who have the stomach for that, and that everyone who plays it has to learn how to play dirty. Fortunately, that's not an accurate characterization of all that goes on in a university, and it's certainly not the traits for which we want to pass-filter all our researchers and university teachers. When some individual in a position of power is behaving badly, and the consequences rain down upon the defenseless, that's not "politics".

("Politics" only kicks in when the abuser brings in enough money/prestige that that a corporate-oriented official wants to silence the messenger, or when members of the abuser's academic caste implicitly close ranks in ignorant solidarity. But the abused still aren't political operators.)
I hate it as much as the next person when people make unwarranted comparisons between AI and humans, but... there are multiple fields dedicated to studying effective human communication, with research into which writing techniques are most effective for pedagogy, technical communication, legal communication, and so on. Even if we achieved full smarter-than-human AGI, I don't expect prompt engineering to go away.

The real problem is that we insisted on giving a discipline that is far more art than science the title "engineering".
I’m saying that 10x should be a low expectation for a system that doesn’t get distracted, doesn’t get drunk, doesn’t get drowsy, doesn’t get angry, doesn’t get a bruised ego, doesn’t have a TikTok account, and can look in every direction at every moment.

But if the best we can do is a 9x improvement of course we should still deploy it. The question is whether society will accept it. I’m not sure it would. I’m not sure it would accept a system that reduced deaths by two orders of magnitude, or 100x.

Imagine for a moment, Tesla fully cracks the FSD nut, and every car on the road is replaced with a self driving Tesla, 100 times safer than humans. “One person is dying at the hands of the pedestrian butcher Elon Musk every single day!” the headlines will cry.
I'm shocked people are even talking about prompt engineering like it's a new discipline, when the measure of success is basically how you feel about the results.

I've found that GPT-4 works pretty well if you just talk to it like a person.
Ah, yes, the dongle, it means you choose between charging or headphones, and your port is more susceptible to damage.

There was no reason to remove it in the first place.
I love rap, and I've found many gems in Russian and French rap.

These 2 scenes are extremely innovative!

> I especially love the music coming out of Mali, Senegal and Algeria (Rai, anyone?).

Yes please! Can I ask you for more suggestions, even besides Rai?

In the old school, I love Magic System (Gaou), and for current hits, Aye Nakamura

EDIT: I can't understand why this comment is downvoted, except maybe for political reasons:

> French should be proud that their language and culture are being spread and transformed by the French speaking nations in Africa

Apparently, they're angry about that!
The split had more to do with GCN being very compute heavy and AMD's software completely failing to take advantage of that. GCN got transitioned into CDNA, and got heavily reworked for graphics as RDNA. This is why while RDNA is nowhere near as good at compute oriented features, it tends to outperform NVIDIA in pure rasterization.

In contrast, current NVIDIA GPUs are very compute heavy architectures (to the point that they often artificially limit certain aspects of their consumer cards other than fp64 to not interfere with the workstation cards), and they take great advantage of it all with their various features combining software and hardware capabilities.
I go to this place

https://ithacareuse.org/

quite often and most of the time they have VHS decks for $12 at both of their stores, frequently you can find the same as the Salvation Army or Goodwill. Reuse sells the tapes for 50 cents.

I watch them in a 5.1 home theatre w/ a Samsung HDTV, picture quality is not as bad as I remember, the VHS HiFi soundtrack is very good and is expanded by Dolby Pro Logic for cinematic surround.

VHS is the obsolete format for collecting with the lowest barrier in terms of cost, I think.
This is exactly what I wrote in my last sentence. Every country speaking a language influences its version.
Well, what do you expect std::vector<T>::at() to do if the index is out of bounds and it can't throw exceptions? Or std::vector<T>::push_back() if it can't reallocate to a larger size?

These are just some obvious cases. Not to mention that any use of operator new is UB if memory allocation fails and the system can't throw exceptions.
How exactly do you get rid of 3M? They make so many chemicals necessary for modern consumer products that they are an irrevocable part of the global economy. There is no substitute for 3M. I wouldn't be surprised if they actually supply Intel, AMD, and other high-tech companies with chemicals necessary for photo-lithography. This is before we even get to what they supply to the military-industrial complex. Even if they don't make the end products I am certain they produce the necessary chemical precursors for so many industries that there would be no way to do anything about whatever crimes they have committed against nature.

It doesn't matter how much people complain about these companies. Their existence is a necessary evil because of how the global economy is structured.
> Unfortunately many people listen to terrible advice and get exploited by companies before learning the lesson the hard way.

It's my opinion, not particularly advising anyone.

> I'd be more inclined to believe your advice if your other comments on this topic was... realistic or actionable I guess?

Not really asking you to listen to my "advice", just sharing my perspective.

> realistic or actionable I guess?

Not being cynic is pretty realistic and actionable.

> Caution = cynicism, and companies are either "good" (reward hard work) or "shitty" (??? not good?).

That's your understanding. I am a cautious person myself, a bit cynic at times, but they're different things and I'm not the one mixing them up.

You are also oversimplifying "good" and "bad" companies. I never said it was sufficient for a company to reward good work to be a good company, but good companies do reward good work (either with promotion or just better comp and benefits).

A company that doesn't reward good work is shitty yes, I did not think that was controversial.
In California you don't need an ID to vote. If you aren't registered you can still fill out provisional ballot at a polling place.

The problem in the US is each state is basically it's own country. And states are the ones that record birth certificates and issue ID cards. So the Feds rely on the states for that. Are you a native citizen? State of Georgia says yes.

It generally works on the idea of good faith. So where that applies it's fine. Where that doesn't there are problems. Like all the former states of the Confederacy.
The point of the guideline is not that these things aren't distracting or annoying but that they're not interesting to talk about, especially not every time someone feels inconvenienced by them.
> if he is allowed to have a Doomsday bunker

Who exactly needs to allow him? This is a free country. If he has the money (and he does) and wants to set it on fire, he can do that. If he wants to build a Doomsday bunker, it's his choice. It's not all that different from setting his money on fire, but why would I, or you, care?
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Killing innocent people is wrong, killing murderers is good. Therefore we should give accused murderers fair trials before executing them.
The optimistic side of me wants to think that exposure will ultimately lead to improvement
New version of VSCode Groovy Lint refactored
VsCode Groovy Lint, the most downloaded Groovy Extension of VsCode Marketplace, was bugged for more than one year, and has been refactored for a brand new fixed version, and also more performant :)
Not reading a whole page, without noticing it, by effectively looking at it and letting your eyes run through its line while thinking about something completely different is peak literature.
I agree with you on death penalty but the parent also says removal of all assets.

So I think life in prison with no possibility of parole plus removal of all assets is ideal.

But I think this should only apply to the CEO and the board not everyone up and down the chain at least in the US where we have a “right to work”.

I don’t know if the law will allow an effective removal of all assets. I’m thinking of trust fund babies and such…

Edit: at least in the US, I think there is a possibility of a pardon or commutation by POTUS. I think we need to abolish that as well or at least it should be that if you pardon or commute the sentence for one person for a crime, it automatically makes the same change (pardon/commutation) for everyone convicted of that crime.
Those RC dynamic soaring gliders pull up to 80G, which might also be an indication that this is probably not a good fit with manned flight.
Allowing fraud is a gift to speculators just as much. And criminals.
Not obvious to me, since the person in the article took money for it. There clearly is an economic transaction thus consent is implied.
It seems common to tiktok, Instagram, and any other platform where the majority of the people are craving followers that this kind of behavior will be rampant. Once you commit to these platforms there will always be someone pushing the boundaries of decency and those will be elevated by the platform itself. The only game is not to play.

There is also some irony in the fact that a Chinese company is profiting from the drug trade and social problems caused in part by that same country. The drug trade by now is a decentralized and multi-hop production process of course and the USA certainly can't claim innocence either. But, it is fascinating.
> until the divergence will be so large that they will just disappear into nothingness, and people will ask: "why did people bother with them for so long?..."

They won't disappear as long as there is money.
Base62 is fantastic for URL-friendly encoding. I use GUIDs for primary keys in my web app, and encode them for frontend consumption using Base62. Looks much neater and doesn't cause issues like Base64 extra characters might.
it is easy? It is the named constructor idiom.

I don't understand why jupp0r is getting downvoted?

Most big public c++ projects turn off exceptions, so it seems to be the norm more than anything.
I'm going to part with the accepted dogma to say that I don't think that equity ownership motivates workers towards doing a good job, at least at large companies. If you are engineer number 54,291 moving a protobuf from one layer in the stack to another, nothing you do is going to move the needle on the stock price, either positive or negative. You could write the best, most efficient code, fully unit tested and crash-free, but if Morgan Stanley downgrades the company's stock because of some bad earnings call, it's going to go down.

I have equity as part of my comp package, and I know there is zero link between how good a job I do and which way the Wall Street Wind blows today. So to me it's just like cash but with extra steps.

Maybe it's different in the startup world, I don't know. The only startup I was part of, everyone's equity went to zero when the business failed, regardless of how well anyone did their job, so I'm not much of a believer.
and? the TBW guarantees are known in advance.
Which is why abnormal people are drawn to this kind of power.
Given you can look at the batteries for sale and observe their cost, you can apply your logic to determine something about current demand levels.
Wouldn't change much, cats kill a magnitude more than power lines.
Sounds like you are ambitious without an ambition. Why not spend your time interrogating what the drive behind that is?
Different stuff gets you promoted in different places. I've absolutely worked at organizations where technical prowess and high output were rewarded with raises and promotions.

But for the most part, doing an ok job combined with being liked by your supervisor is far more effective.
It's interesting to me that the line between "this is important journalism" and "this is bad and we should stop it" seems to be arbitrary aesthetics around distribution medium and production style.

If this is bad, would it also be bad for NYT to film the same things and publish a piece about how bad the situation is, with ads?
Your friends were able to purchase new machine guns? Not old ones that were grandfathered in, or modded to become semi-auto?
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You could apply the same argument to normal people. Normal people eat meat, which causes incredible, extreme amounts of torture and suffering to over 70 billion land animals per year.

The average person's dinner involved a tremendous amount of sheer pain and suffering, but it's satisfying to their taste buds, so they are fine with it, and will find ways to rationalize it.

Most everyone is a psychopath at some level, capable of discarding empathy or rationalizing evil when it serves their own interests. The only difference with the CEOs is that they're doing it for money, not for taste. It's quite easy to imagine someone moving the goalposts for what is worth causing suffering for.
This is not in the EU
> It's absolutely straightforward to uphold Democratic principles over Fascistic enterprises.

That may be, but it also seems perfectly logical to claim democracy is broken because a voice of an educated person carries same weight than that of a high school dropout. All you need to do is extend this logic a bit. I think it is because of our emotions, empathy or maybe something else that we see that this "flaw" in democracy isn't really a flaw.

> ill-equiped individuals being manipulated by other ill-equiped individuals

Except fascism wasn't only a manipulation. Had fascism succeeded it would've made the participating states extremely rich, powerful and influential throughout the next (maybe) hundreds of years.
Yeah, that's what I meant by "nexuses like that" but see now I left unstated "everywhere"/"in every area". Politics is an obvious one, since we see them campaigning and talking to lots of people, but trade shows, professional associations, parties, jobs, incidental effects of jobs (talking to reporters who talk to "everyone") all tend to connect a lot of people to a smaller set of far better connected people.
> It's because engineers will build what engineers want rather than what the customer wants.

I’m not sure you can generalize like this. Do the engineers have RSUs or financial incentives where they do better if the firm does better? I’d argue they’d care more then. Also, a lot of engineers intentionally chose to work in market segments they’re passionate about. I’ve been at the same company for over 13 years. I could likely make more elsewhere but I find the domain I work in quite rewarding and interesting.
Exactly. All of the species have adapted long ago. I let out my cats, they hunt lots and lots of mice and like less than 1% of prey is birds.
> Something is lost today by most kids being removed from hard work, I think.

I'm not sure I agree.

The work was hard and you didn't get anywhere.

You worked the farm, the mill, the mine, etc. just like your father did and his father did. You didn't get rich. You didn't even get comfortable. You were still poor, and your children were going to remain poor.

The window where labor unions made mill, mine, and factory jobs something livable was quite short--1960 to 1980, roughly.

Yeah, shitty, excruciating work was a good way to beat you kid over the head with "go find ANYTHING else to do as a career." Worked for my dad. Worked for Joe Namath's dad. etc.

Not sure I count that as anything "being lost" though.
I am currently exhausted by being the go-to person at my job.

There are 4 types of questions

1. Questions from architects/leads

2. Questions from peers which learn from what I am saying

3. Questions from peers which do not learn but wants me to do their job

4. Questions from product owners

Naturally 5. Own work - suffers.

1, 2 & 4 are ok. I would like to get rid of 3.

I think my way out would be to promoting 2. to help me with 1, 3 and 4. So I can do more of 5.
This is certainly where the modern religious justification comes from, but it was commonly prohibited except in extreme cases or for adultery among many peoples before Christianity: the early Roman Republic/kingdom, among ancient Germans, etc. Indeed one imagines that the social practices of the early Germanic peoples may have had more influence on 19th century norms than religion- theory is one thing, practice another. In a parallel universe without Christianity we might expect a similar social norm!
This is about the physical weight of the cards bending the pcie slot.
I know, but TFA says that some of the people recording are coming from Europe.
The death penalty is never a fitting sentence.
Prosecutors and judges can make mistakes. Executing someone is something you can never undo.
I'm going to be the controversial one here and point out that despite saying they're "harmful", they've been everywhere for all these decades that a lot of other measures of quality of life have been increasing?

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfluorooctanoic_acid#Global_... there is this interesting quote:

Most industrialized nations have average PFOA blood serum levels ranging from 2 to 8 parts per billion;[57] the highest consumer sub-population identified was in Korea—with about 60 parts per billion.[52] In Peru,[58] Vietnam,[59] and Afghanistan[60] blood serum levels have been recorded to be below one part per billion.
Right, I didn't mean to imply it's earth shattering by any means, but at least they're not hopelessly behind on the hardware side. Software can't magically conjure performance from anemic hardware.

That said, software hasn't been AMDs strong side in this arena, so a lot of catching up there as well.
Amazing. I am having a hard time though separating dynamic soaring from ordinary slope soaring. I'll have to keep thinking on it until I understand it.

Edit: very cool. I watched the video referenced in the HN comments (BTD10: The 835kph Sailplane and Dynamic Soaring) and I get it.
How do you force yourself to read? I have a mountain of books in my backlog but every time I pick one up, I lose focus and keep reverting to skim reading. The information density just feels so low compared to what I could find on Wikipedia.
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