skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Btw, those tables making intuitive sense to humans sounds like a strength, but it's also a big weakness. Humans aren't always good with thinking about corner cases.

Property based testing is one way to get past this limitation. (As you also imply in the later part of your comment.)
Oil firms forced to consider climate effects of new drilling, rules Norway court
That's fair. Thanks.
I'm curious, was this well-known by experts already? How surprising is this?

I enjoyed the write up.
edit: nevermind, i need to read up on these.
Wasn't this the last version before Matthew Dillon forked the project? I remember seeing some public arguments about SMP and few details of the kernel that resulted in fork and the new version 5.x.
It's only a bad deal if you ignore what a significant portion of the population prefers and value space lowly. There's more to life than optimal efficiency.
It's evolution and our responsibility to make it good.

Doesn't matter though if we like it or not because it's happening.

The only thing preventing this is a total economy collapse so crazy that our society doesn't continue chip production.
Most ads load asynchronously now so it won't really slow the site down.
As for your revenue, it depends a lot on your traffic and where it's from.
Stable diffusion (along with other text to image models like Dall-E) use a process called 'latent diffusion'.

At the core of a latent diffusion model is a de-noising process. It takes a noisy image and predicts what is noise vs what is the real image without noise. You use this to remove a bit of noise from the image and repeat to iteratively denoise an image.

You can use this to generate entirely new images by just starting with complete random noise and denoising til you get a 'proper' image. Obviously this would not give you any control over what you generated. So you incorporate 'guidance' which controls how the denoise works. For stable diffusion this guidance comes from a different neural network called CLIP (https://openai.com/research/clip) which can take some text and produce a numerical representation of it that can be correlated to an image of what the text describes (I won't go into more detail here as it's not really relevant to the VAE).

The problem you have with the denoising process is the larger the image you want to denoise the bigger the model you need, and even at a modest 512x512 (the native resolution of stable diffusion) training the model is far too expensive.

This is where the latent bit comes in. Rather than train your model on a 512x512x3 representation (3 channels R,G,B per pixel) use a compressed representation that is 64x64x4, significantly smaller than the uncompressed image and thus requiring a significantly smaller denoising model. This 64x64x4 representation is known as the 'latent' and it is said to be in a 'latent space'.

How do we produce the latent representation? A VAE, a variational autoencoder, yet another neural network. You train an encoder and decoder together to encode an image to the 64x64x4 space and decode it back to 512x512x3 with as little loss as possible.

The issue pointed out here is the VAE for stable diffusion has a flaw, it seems to put global information in a particular point of the image (to a crude approximation it might store information like 'green is the dominant colour of this image' in that point). So if you touch that point in the latent you effect the entire image.

This is bad because the denoising network is constructed in such a way that it expects that points close in the latent only effect other points close in the latent. When that's not the case it ends up 'wasting' a bunch of the network on extracting that global data from that point and fanning it out to the rest of the image (as the entire image needs to know it to denoise correctly).

So without this flaw it may be the stable diffusion denoising model could be more effective as it doesn't need to work hard to work around the flaw.

Edit: Pressed enter too early, post is now complete.
Free speech doesn't imply not being questioned or corrected, but I understand that some have that impression in these times. But that is exactly what free speech is, you speak, someone replies, you may have more to say, and so it goes.

"Die slow" or "I hope you die" are not threats. It's unconstructive venting.
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I tell every prospective employer that I work 4*8. Only once over the past 24 years has this been an insurmountable obstacle for an employer.

Thought I suppose that this might be a lot harder in more conservative exploitative cultures. Working 4.5 days, with one free day per two weeks, is incredibly common in Netherland. Part time is not uncommon.
Appreciation of automated IX Quarantine LAN testing
I hope society ends up settling on some fluid based sustainable fuel in the end. Maybe it's fuel cells, flow batteries, or even a combustible. The advantages of weight and refueling speed are hard to beat.
What do you gain from having a separate language agnostic file?

If you are going to have a table, it seems to make sense to have the table next to the code that's using it. (Though I prefer property based testing.)
Looks like it's: https://alexwlchan.net/theme/white-waves-transparent.png
Berlin, Munich and other big cities, where most of the tech jobs are, have had massive inflation over the last few years. There is a huge gap in terms of rents and mortgages between those who bought or signed a rental contract prior to 2021 and now. Meanwhile the strong CHF has led to Swiss inflation being somewhat lower. Kurzgesagt: German CoL is catching up but salaries remain behind.
You can target specific table driven tests by name in order to just run/debug a single case
Chinese will catch them soon, the way the Chinese caught their electric car efforts.

Having an entire nation state level effort, with far more capital and far better trained workforce, which China has, and the ability to copy the leader.

China will surpass SpaceX in a handful of years. The process is already underway.

In the whole it might be a good thing because it will probably force the United States to actually give a sh*t about competing in space, and subsidize SpaceX heavily.
Damn Small Linux 2024
I got Sharknado from shark + tornado.

Then Sharknado 3 from sharknado + sharknado.

Then Sharktopusnado 3 from sharknado 3 + octopus

Now I'm going at Sharktopusnado 9400000000000.

Great fun!
> Iirc, there are several of studies that imply that if you have the same developer working 40 vs 32 hours, the difference in output is often negligible, since not all hours worked are the same in terms of effectiveness.

I guess it depends on the work. In my example, hanging siding on a house, the non-productive work is quite minimal. I guess that can vary depending on the work one is doing. The non-productive work still needs to get done so the productive work can get done, though.

> Would you produce twice as much if you were to work 80 hours? Probably not, right? You'd maybe produce about 1.5 times as much, and the quality of your work would suffer greatly, leading to more work in the future.

I doubt many people can sustain their work output over 16 hours for most jobs. But that's not really what we're talking about here.

> The same effect might work in the other direction, up to a certain point.

Sure, if you work faster when you work less hours. Are you saying this is what happens? Are you seeing people get too fatigued after 6 hours of work so that their productivity is diminished? I've not seen that in general with the people I've worked with or the work I do over the years.

> The 40 hour work week is not god-given, in fact it has been reduced quite a number of times in the past (mostly due to unions, like most working condition improvemens). So I can not understand why so many people act as if it were set in stone.

I'm not sure where this came from because I don't think any of those things. I think that the only way for work to get done is to do it. However many hours per week that takes is fine. I don't understand the argument that working less doesn't mean you get less work done in general.

All that said, I realize there might be something different to brain fatigue vs body fatigue when doing brain work (software development) vs physical work (construction). I've largely done physical work and can't relate well to brain work except as a hobby and occasional small bits of work.
A recent study, "A Preliminary Study on Using Large Language Models in Software Pentesting," explores the potential of large language models (LLMs) in automating security tasks, specifically in software penetration testing. The research investigates how LLM-based AI agents can be improved over time through interaction with human operators and prompt engineering. Utilizing the OWASP Benchmark Project 1.2, the study compares the performance of these AI agents against traditional static code analyzers like SonarQube, highlighting the viability of LLMs in enhancing software security vulnerability identification. For more detailed insights, read the full paper https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.17459
I didn't realize how old Roberta Flack and Sonny Rollins are and that they might be close to dying. They both made important contributions to our culture. I wonder how easy it is to contact them and share my appreciation for everything they've done musically...?

Is that weird or morbid?
> I don't understand how adding homomorphic encryption makes a cloud virus scanner for physical pathogens a better idea

The reason to use a cloud service is that you can check whether someone is trying to synthesize something hazardous without distributing a list of the hazards. There are a lot of subtle ways to cause harm with biology, and you don't want to tell people where to look.

Then the reason to use homomorphic encryption is that otherwise the cloud service learns which sequences people are trying to synthesize. Biotech companies care a lot about keeping their in-progress work private, so they'd reject a cloud system without this.

> Does it enable denial-of-service attacks by returning false positives hospitals legally can't ignore?

Aside: I'm confused why you're saying "hospitals" -- medical providers don't synthesize things, it's researchers at universities and biotech companies. Maybe you're using "hospitals" as in "research hospitals" which is fine, but maybe you're using it because you're under the impression that synthesis is part of medical treatment?

To answer your question, though, if an attacker managed to add something normal and harmless to the DB then yes, a benchtop synthesizer would refuse to synthesize the sequence. The lab would escalate, it would be sorted out, there'd be a postmortem etc.

> Does it return false negatives as part of another attack? Example: printing known or novel virii which will be introduced in a specific lab?

Yes, if an attacker managed to remove a harmful sequence from the database then it wouldn't raise any flags if they or a confederate tried to synthesize that sequence.

Both of these cases come down to "it's important that you have good controls around what's in the DB, and a secure process for making changes."

> Metadata seems like it would enough to target the physical parts of an attack usefully, even without plaintext.

I'm not sure what you're saying here.
yep! Iroh documents [1] give you a very nice primitive that is technically a CRDT, but in practice most people use it as a key-value store. We really wanted a mutable solution that would support real deletions (instead of tombstones), and starting with append-only logs locks you out of that choice.

With Iroh + CRDTs you have three choices:
1. Use iroh's connection & gossip layers in conjunction with a mature CRDT library like Automerge or Y.js.
2. Build a more sophisticated CRDT on top of iroh documents.
3. Worry a little less about weather your data structures form a semilattice & build on a last-writer wins key-value store (basically: just use documents)

We've seen uses for all three. Hope that helps!

[1] https://iroh.computer/docs/layers/documents
Mass Save have various low or no interest loans available for improving energy efficiency and generating clean energy if you qualify for them. I used a Mass Save HEAT Loan about 10y ago to replace my old oil burning furnace with a gas furnace and paid zero interest. The new gas furnace had requirements on its efficiency.

While Mass Save sounds really generous, it's being funded by everyone in their electric bill. So in a way, you've already paid into the program. You might as well get something out by calling up a Mass Save auditor and seeing what you can get out of it.
or billions of feet
Credit cards were offering 0% interest for new customers for up to nearly 2 years (with good credit)

If I did a project like this, I certainly would max out a deal like that, and prioritize that payout over the duration.

If it was from a bank and 3+ years, I'd love to know how to do that too
The same guy that brought us https://github.com/FiloSottile/age

I really like this tool.
> They're one of the only 'Western' countries that's historically...

...in pretty much no sense of the word a "Western" country.
You think its insane but you forget a company made money two ways. The fact that everything we do at all is dependent on a company making money in the process is what is actually insane.
If anyone working in tech in Germany is feeling overpaid, I would recommend they get out of their current rental contract or mortgage and get a new one at current rates. Or simply forego their inheritance.

Saving for retirement in Germany as a middle-class employee is tremendously hard.
They are largely correlated in just about all work that I've done. Is your experience different?
> What if I have a billion or more embeddings? Can Postgres + pg_vector support a billion records with 1000’s or 10000’s concurrent users? Even if pg_vector is an easy add-on to Postgres, it might not be suitable for real-time similarity searching. You should use a database that is built for scale.

Has anyone tried pg_vector on an AWS Aurora cluster or Azure Citus cluster?
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Please read carefully: 'These suburbia homes are still pretty bad deal for the public.'

The original comment was carefully worded to avoid any statement about whether suburbia was a good or bad deal for the people who want to live there.

Similarly to how protectionism and subsidies can be a good deal for those people who benefit from them, but still be a bad deal for the public.
I have never heard of this problem before, and I have seen a lot of discussion about VAE from researchers.
yes https://github.com/reorx/hugo-PaperModX
That is a study I'd sponsor :D

Joking apart (for I am joking, I'd never sponsor something that forces people to do things they don't want) My only point is that whenever I read something like this... well it stinks, because it goes against what I perceive as common sense.

Someone took my first comment too seriously, my point being that after so many studies read, weighted, measured and found wanting... I don't want to waste my time reading something that doesn't pass the smell test.

Who did they interview? People who have cargo bikes
Do they like them? Yes they bought them and either liked them to begin with, or are rationalizing, then there is a minority who's objective.

Ask people with Mercedes what's the car brand they like the most.

For example: I drive an Alfa Romeo and once I was stopped by a guy (in Germany) that asked me if I wanted to join a Italian Car Club... and he was the proud driver of a FIAT Tipo, not a car I'd buy for it's beauty or one I'd show in a car club, yet he liked it, and we are discussing a study that hinges on what people like?

EDIT: just to say... I agree with you, there's a bit of selection bias at work here
Loud and public objections are the opposite of not caring.
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:))) whats wrong with my not-professional email address?
I really appreciate what PDF can accomplish, but I also really dislike that it turns into a black box. There really ought to be something that can describe a document structure and also describe document layout in a durable and portable manner. In the range of XML/JSON <-> HTML+CSS <-> PDF <-> PS <-> RAW, it really does feel like there's something missing between HTML and PDF.

And it can't be LaTeX, because the document shouldn't be a programming language at all. "The document is a program" has proven itself to be a terrible scheme overall.
It's regional and based on user likelihood to convert. So NA and parts of Euroland (particularly the anglophone regions) are being targeted most heavily right now.

They avoided the blanket rollout specifically to alleviate exactly what the person above you suggests. It was strategic and is, generally, working...but will probably be far less successful (numerically) when they get to LATAM, Eastern Europe, most of Asia and do a blanket rollout on the rest of the current countries.
Oh, yes - lots of unsettling, dark, and creepy. But within a kid-safe, G-rated context. And they're generally very cautionary (vs. any sort of pro-violence stuff).

And with how good humans suddenly become at learning, when they see someone else make a mistake and immediately suffer the consequences...I'd even call The Far Side educational.
This added weight is related to the tire eating article from a few days ago…? Also, added weight times millions of vehicles wears down roads and infrastructure more quickly, increases damage costs in simple fender benders… how much is this actually costing us?
I'm certainly adverse to the high volume of visibility killing, oversized vehicles - but the video card shows a truck smashing thru a jersey wall.

I used to open closed roads by pushing jersey wall sections with my 1969 Delta 98. JWs already seemed persuadable when confronted with a weighty personal vehicle (granted, those JWs weren't joined).

I'd like to know the failure rate of super-weight vehicles against corrugated rail or cable+post guardrail system.
yea: https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2003-Jul...
Trains, trams, microcars & bikes replacing most road vehicles and biofuels for the remaining ones would be much better overall.
That's not what MMT basically says.

MMT is more like: "printing money is not limited by the things you think it is".
It will be interesting to see if/how this will modify their argument "for the children". It is a nuanced discussion.

Is it a crime ? Why / why not ?

Is there a victim, is there harm being done ?

Needless to say I personally find it appalling.
> most interview procedures/ways in recent ~10+years do not check if interviewees can think

Oh, I remember questions that were ostensibly designed to detect whether an interviewee can think. "Why are manhole covers round?" "How to measure exactly 45 minutes by burning a rope that takes an hour to burn?", and others of that ilk. I believe I was presented with a question of that sort once during an interview very early in my career. I said that I don't do puzzles, and bade farewell to the interviewers.
Absolutely not, I’m at least 1/2 that age and remember has being $0.35/gal around when I started driving.
Im less than a minute in and already there are some rather interesting tidbits - not so much "Oh I didn't know that about Thailand" more, interesting about the actual video itself.

(a) The video is blocked in Thailand (works via a SOCKS proxy though). Not super surprising why though.

(b) I don't want to call out just the narrator on this, because my own English speaking friends do it too, but the way foreigners pronounce Pattaya is really grating, even to someone who barely speaks the language (me). If anyone is interested, it's not "pa-tai-ya", as he says at the beginning of the video, it's "putt-a-ya".

(c) As mentioned, I got less than a minute in, and the reason I stopped is because the translation of Wolfgang the German sex tourist (sounds like a character name from Eurotrip, I know) already sets the tone for the sort of views it's portraying:

> These girls aren't really prostitutes, they call themselves bar girls.

Right, sure, and Tony Soprano wasn't really a mobster, he called himself a waste management consultant.

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Ok, curiosity got the better of me. I managed another three minutes or so... I wondered if I was premature in my earlier presumptions about old Wolfgang.. He's currently telling the interviewer that no no, this isn't just a business transaction - there's a "relationship" there, in spite of the fact that he pays for her time, she doesn't speak either English or German, and when asked directly about this topic - with the option to respond in Thai, she chooses to say nothing...
Phalanx CIWS Downs Houthi Missile Dangerously Close to Destroyer: Report
If one ever tried to make edits to the latents prior to decoding them with a VAE in SD1.5 and then in SDXL, it could be seen that that local changes had somewhat unpredictable and global effects on the image in SD1.5, while in SDXL the changes have more predictable impacts to the output image and some of the different latent channels end up corresponding more directly to the resulting image channels.

Definitely a fascinating write-up. I have been curious about these differences for a while, though I had never considered this a "problem" per se.
Nothing will be "sustainable" with the predicted number of personal cars
I did this. Thrice, and worked hard on the problems since coming up with new ones and making them relevant to day to day work while still be something reasonable to ask in a 45 min interview is tough.

After about three interviews it ended up on Leetcode.
PSA: Email verification all it takes to delete 1Password, BitWarden account
I found that many password managers, including 1Password, Bitwarden, Dashlane, only require email verification to delete an account[1][2][3].

This means if your email gets compromised, your password manager account could be deleted permanently, without your master password or 2FA.

All of the password managers above mention that account deletion is NOT reversible, so this can be catastrophic for users without an up-to-date external backup of their vaults.

PSA: Back up your password managers regularly!

[1] 1Password: https://support.1password.com/delete-account/
[2] Bitwarden: https://bitwarden.com/help/delete-your-account/
[3] Dashlane: https://support.dashlane.com/hc/en-us/articles/202907531-Delete-your-Dashlane-account-and-data
Show HN: Wordl – Terminal Wordle with a web like GUI
Hi,

I have created a terminal app for wordle that has web like experience. In particular, it has keyboard hints and guess reveal animations. The idea is to able to play wordle in the terminal offline (and continuously if needed).

This is also kind of a Rust learning project for me, and my first public rust project. The terminal game is built with ratatui framework, which is great. I find it interesting that you can model a tui with `The Elm Architecture - TEA` principles for the terminal.

Feedbacks are welcome, particularly if you are a wordle person.

Have a nice day!
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