skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like this example because I tried making a greeting card "by hand" and it of course sucked ass. (As I have zero idea how to use Photoshop despite religiously reading the tutorials 20 years ago on a community site :D And, of course, I used PhotoPea.)

So by spending the same 20 minutes fiddling with some kind of graphics if the outcome becomes 10x better then I see that as an advantage. (That said I haven't tried this.)

Basically this is "exactly" that kind of capability that we already seen in "artist paints kid's drawing" [0] just commoditized. And this is where I (as a user) would be looking for the style transfer. Because I saw something famous/trendy/fancy/aesthetically-pleasing and now want to imitate it as a gag for this hypothetical birthday card. (Sure, copyright already doesn't care if I download someone's famous photo, and cut my friends head out from a photo I made, and put the head part on the copyrighted photo. Yet it was a straightforward derivative work. Just it's not commercial, damages are none, or even negative, ie. the artist benefits from that famous exposure! :D)

> legit benefits of this tech

I wanted to try to find an example that could apply to a lot of users. Because as awesome as using GenAI to generate Lean proofs (and then add a feedback loop by actually running the generated code through Lean) to solve Math Olympiad problems [1], it's not really an everyday thing.

> we evolve to where we push a button and get a birthday present. the logical conclusion is a system that does not even require to push a button.

Well, maybe! In no time we'll board the Axios and just chill. [2] But at the same time crafts and DIY and experiences (tourism, festivals, concerts) are ridiculously popular. (And it has its own problems. [3])

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dB-Q0eNsUaQ KID'S ART Redrawn by a PROFESSIONAL ARTIST! - Ep.6

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41069829

[2] https://www.thelist.com/img/gallery/things-only-adults-notic...

[3] https://edition.cnn.com/2024/07/08/travel/barcelona-tourism-...
* https://github.com/matklad/config/blob/a6ee2271a303fd4e6ea50...

* https://github.com/matklad/config/blob/a6ee2271a303fd4e6ea50...
Even worse. It doesn’t work. Yet, it either way requires large scale harvesting of everyone’s personal information.

If it wasn’t allowed, the value of all this personal information wouldn’t be as high.
Docker compose, swarm - yes.

K8s etc - no, except if your product is really really big _and_ complex. The rest are using it because a) no better alternatives b) mindlessly following hype
Friend, I am no longer a part of this team.
A huge problem seems to be that everybody wants to eat their cake and have it too. They want taxes to be paid by "corporations" by which they mean "somebody who isn't me" as if a tax increase on e.g. Amazon is not going to come out of the prices they pay for stuff on Amazon or the wages of people who work for Amazon or their 401(k) which contains shares of Amazon.

Corporations are just a legal fiction around some economic activity. If you're even tangentially involved in that activity, some of the money will end up coming from you. But since people don't want to hear that, the policy that passes is the one that obfuscates what's really happening enough that people can no longer understand what's really happening, and everyone who likes the status quo can point the finger at someone else and claim they're the villain.

Probably the best thing we could do in the US is take a bulldozer to the entire tax code and constellation of existing federal programs and replace them with something much simpler, like VAT as the only federal tax and made progressive through a UBI. No more tax avoidance, shell games, poverty traps, lobbyist corruption through the revolving door, massive federal bureaucracy, just the most basic system that causes lower income people to pay low or negative effective tax rates and higher income people to pay higher effective tax rates.
Blacklisting Intel. We don't need them anyways, AMD already has plenty powerful chips that don't come broken.

Intel lost their engineering abilities years ago. Got eaten by sharks.
I think clients are the least to worry about. They can be built by someone else if the need arises.
I really see no reason why digital should be any different from physical goods. If you want to sell something in other country you have to follow regulations there. Which is fair enough. You can always choose not to do business in other countries.
Just holding it down until it shows you the power off slider does the same. Easier to do in a panic.
Back in the 70s when shortwave was still king, we used to pack communications radios, rolls of antenna wire and jump on a train to travel up to northern Scandinavia to listen to faraway exotic stations on the medium and shortwave bands. It was an ideal environment with no electronic noise, mainly due to scarce population, and we were free to roll out 500 meters of longwire in various directions without upsetting anybody. Fun times indeed!
I normally do but using Windows is sometimes unavoidable.

I'd add that in addition to the two Windows laptops mentioned in my reply to the above post, I've also a Toshiba laptop that's running Linux, it's audio hardware is so shitty that it can't be rectified by Linux. Not only is it's audio output low but its crummy little speakers sound terrible. Linux, which I love, sometimes is only part of the solution
I don’t know if it’s the same issue, but the problem I ran into is that I misunderstood how it works for families who just use gmail addresses. It’s quite counter-intuitive. The organization stuff isn’t for you - instead each person creates their own tailnet and you connect them. See:

https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/issues/10731
I’m sorry you’ve been priced out of one specific neighborhood, but that’s not a fair reflection on the state as a whole, which builds housing faster than just about anywhere and, as a result, is starting to see housing prices drop (if not outright “crash”) in places like Austin.
I suspect that he'll dismiss all this on some irrelevant grounds but this is supremely patient and helpful. You've given him all the feedback and tools to completely change his life if he can lower the shields and soberly introspect.

Very kind. I'm sure it felt thankless but I appreciated witnessing it.
It sounds like Uber Eats drivers will be the real winners here, if they bring back the code.
You don't "need" to live anywhere in particular. Many of those 237 cities are part of larger high-cost metro areas.

Move to the Columbus, OH area (or something like that). There are plenty of affordable homes for sale there. Or buy cheap vacant land and build whatever you want. The unemployment rate is low so it's not hard to find a job. Some people are just too picky about location and only want to complain or find excuses instead of doing something to improve their situation.
It doesn't actually do that though. It doesn't in the example above, for example -- the real increase in value is zero so any capital gains tax collected is a loss in real terms. And it would be trivial to fix it; just adjust the tax basis for inflation when calculating the capital gain. But reasonable tax policy is not a thing that we have.
I think the best person who explains housing trends is Kevin Erdmann. This article provides an overview of his conceptual model for why prices fell nationwide in the Great Recession (people with bad credit were prohibited from getting a mortgage), why both prices and rents have been increasing since the Great Recession (when the Fed reduced prices too low, the construction industry collapsed), and why it is a mistake to attack build-to-rent landlords (they are a major source of new supply today). https://www.mercatus.org/research/policy-briefs/getting-corp...
had that too. did not react. after some time got a mail "workspace closed"
Twenty (YC S23) Is Hiring a Software Engineer in Paris
> They did though, they just don't call it that because it's implicit in the existing tax system and happens without any legislative action

Those gains also fuel wealth effects. Our tax take as a fraction of GDP has been flat since WWII [1].

An MMT anti-inflationary cash-destruction programme would involve hundreds of billions, perhaps trillions, of borrowing or tax increases (with no increase in spending). That didn't happen for obvious reasons.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FYFRGDA188S
Stripe is not at any risk of having services cut by payment processors. They can leverage an excellent case against them if so. It's time they and the others get together and dunk on Mastercard before they decide to eat the whole pie.
> As an European, I heard that 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck

Yes, and we all declare bankruptcy every month, and charge $10,000 to our credit card to be allowed into the doctor's waiting room, where we announce our arrival by firing a gun in the air.

Where do you guys hear this stuff?
Serving web pages is cheap. You’ll probably hit network I/O limits before you saturate the cores.

I wonder what about its HPC performance. I think cooling this won’t be big problem, but might be wet one, requiring DLC after a certain point.
Good intentions but how well is that working out so far?

Only thing we got was annoying cookie popups everywhere, where consent is one click away and reject is three layers behind a small “learn more” button.
> It seems like the lookahead past n+1 would make cache evictions much more likely, so maybe I'm missing something here.

The frontend is already predicting dozens of branches ahead of what the backend can actually confirm. Looking ahead by one extra branch ahead doesn't really hurt.

Also, modern TAGE branch predictors are scary accurate, well above 99% on most code (including unpredictable indirect jumps). Besides, the majority of branch prediction targets are already in the L1 cache, it only predicts them because it saw them recently.

The branch predictor in Apple's M1 actually takes advantage of the latter fact. It doesn't predict what address to fetch next, it predicts which cacheline in L1 holds the target. So you only actually get branch predictions for targets in L1.
Making everything rely on subscription (consider European TV license fees as such) and word-of-mouth is what you end up with. Except in the case of former, over-subscription is getting into a problem too.
VirtualBox 7.1 Beta: 'Modernised' UI, Wayland Clipboard Sharing and More
More context:

- The US Defense Budget alone is $842 billion for 2024 [1]
- The US has given over $90 billion to Israel and Ukraine in 2024 [2]

All funded by debt. $1 billion here is theater to make us feel good about "sticking it to the rich"

We talk about getting the rich to "pay their fair share" as if the whole tax system isn't designed to get that money into the hands of whoever is greasing our politicians' palms. Good ol' military industrial complex.x

[1] https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/332687...
[2] https://www.cfr.org/article/us-aid-israel-four-charts
This essay by Neal Stephenson was first published in 1999.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Beginning..._Was_the_...

The analogy of OS as cars (Windows is a station wagon, Linux is a tank) is brought up in the recent Acquired episode on Microsoft, where Vista was a Dodge Viper but Windows 7 was a Toyota Camry, which is what users actually wanted.
This is covered in section 9.3 in CLRS book - Medians and Order Statistics
Use the most obscure fork of Android possible, learn the most obscure language in Africa and set your UI to that language, ...
In regular applications, most (serious) companies I’ve worked for used a combo of clang, GCC, and/or MSVC to have the largest list of warnings and bugs.
I’ve wondered the same thing. How much does a company have to spend on ads just to keep up with their competitors’ ad spend? I don’t know but if I had to guess I’d say most of the ad budget. Not to mention that ads are a cancer that infest and overrun anything they touch.
Where are you seeing that? Or are you counting taxpayer funded and taxpayer paying programs as welfare?
> Scalia’s originalism—the dominant strain today—is textualism

Sure. As I said, "Scalia was textualist." All dachshunde are dogs. Not all dogs are dachshunde.
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This is a progressive property-tax system. It works because it avoids counting houses. (It's different because houses are discrete. Housing value is not. Dividing discrete assets is trivial. Dividing continuous ones is not.)
> Science as handed down by authorities

A certain pandemic recently showcased this to the world as it was told to „follow the science“ and never mind who was leading it.
Its give and take: we could make the statement "american tech weaponizes tax discrepancies to extract billions from EU countries"
If you’re paying taxes, you’re already winning. Is not paying taxes a matter of principle of some sort?
"The solution presented here is ~550x faster than the following naive program."

... std::cin >> v; ...

Oh come on! That's I/O for every item, I'm surprised it's not even slower.
A modern Reactive C Web Server
If you have a lot to do, you're gonna want to spend some money on a good scanner, at least $400+.

I had the pleasure of using a Epson FastFoto FF-680W. I was very impressed with the color correction. It brought back some color prints from the mid-70s that I've never seen without their color fade.
this is a modern and popular take because we live in very egalitarian times but inherent to scholasticism is one simple observation, that to work with knowledge you have to have an adequate capacity in the mind of the person handling the knowledge, that is to say, knowledge in some sense is just like anything else. Knowledge needs to be tended to.

We wouldn't call a maintainer of watches, guns, flowers or any other artifact a neo-something-ist when one points out that it requires great skill to handle the respective artifacts in a way that does them justice, but when it comes to knowledge very quickly people are accused of being elitist, gatekeepers or worst of all, academics.

Proprietary language is treated like a conspiracy, not like a natural development in any domain where people invest a lot of time to build specialized knowledge, on the grounds that apparently someone who hasn't invested any time can't understand what's going on. The decline of scholasticism is honestly one of the single worst things in our age and responsible for most modern grifting.
> Surely you must also predict the next branch to predict the one after. Otherwise you wouldn’t know which is the one after.

I'd think if you are at PC N and there are branches at N+1 and N+2, predicting just branch N+2 is fine because you predicted the N+1 branch previously, at PC N-1.
Probably since 'patreon-like' means 'onlyfans-like'.
"As a fraction of GDP" is kind of the point. If you have 10% inflation and taxes as a percent of GDP are flat, the inflation has increased nominal tax revenue by 10% and caused 10% more nominal dollars to be removed from the economy.

The part that didn't happen is that the government then needs to not spend that extra money, or else it goes back into the economy and continues inflating prices.
My favourite part explaining how unix/linux users feel regarding windows: 'THE HOLE HAWG OF OPERATING SYSTEMS'.

This essay should be a mandatory reading for all CS students and anyone wanting to call himself hacker.
HVM using interaction nets as alternative to Turing computation deserves a mention. Google: HigherOrderCompany
Physical and chemical processes don't care how incredulous you are.
Build your own SQLite, Part 1: Listing tables
Windows XP would probably be an old 1970s Volvo that is still, somehow, running in all kinds of places otherwise forgotten by the waking world.
Server boards don’t mean it’s being run in-spec. The workstation boards will let you configure many parameters out-of-spec and in fact some vendors will configure them out-of-spec by default. For example W680 is definitely capable of configuring memory speeds higher than the official spec (which is only 4400 for any quad-slot board even if not fully populated!). But also things like disabling the current limiting or setting an increased or unlimited power limit.

https://images.anandtech.com/doci/16959/DRAMADL.png

Insofar as GN was saying that, it was because Steve was out of his depth and Wendell has had to go out of his way to correct this in subsequent interviews like the one with Ian Cutress. Not the first or the last time GN makes an innocent (or overtly malicious, in some cases) journalistic boo-boo. Not even the first problem with their coverage of this topic, in fact.

https://youtu.be/5KHCLBqRrnY?t=2694

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41063806

People are letting the outrage way overtake the facts here. And this includes the tech media themselves. No, it’s not in-spec just because it’s a server board with w680. Actually asus in particular was shipping with very out-of-spec defaults.

People don’t like it when IHVs keep the partners on a short leash. People literally whined about nvidia capping the voltage on Turing, for example. And then things happen (like this, or like AMD’s problems last year with chips physically exploding and deforming from over voltage) and people indignantly ask why the IHVs were allowed to do these things.

https://x.com/Sebasti66855537/status/1816955349636710535

At the time people said this was utter crap, everyone knows electromigration isn’t really a big deal and takes years to even slightly affect anything, assuming it ever does at all. Like you have to really cook a modern processor, like 4.7 GHz sandy bridge for a couple years.

2-3 prompt-electromigration disasters later, it appears that maybe “the community” doesn’t actually have a particularly firm grasp of silicon aging mechanics. Or gpu costs/economics, for that matter ;)
Can sbdy explain how this is diff than rsync?
Improved error messaging for require(ESM) in Node.js
You're not really saying "They're not offering a product" - so much "They're not offering a product at a price I want", which is really a very different statement.

They're intentionally differentiated in the market and marked up due to the relatively higher R&D costs from targeting a much smaller market niche, with it's own demands on development. I doubt you'll just be running games on them, after all.

If that is your niche, AMD is effectively saying they don't want your custom at that price. No point selling products that lose money, after all. AMD have done it before - arguably are doing it right now as their graphics BU lost money last year if you exclude APUs and consoles - and it went badly each time (despite what some people say about "Market Share!" on some internet forums).
This week in KDE: features and UI polish
> Does anyone know of a nice "pedagogical" color space? Where the space's highly-noticeable characteristics are actual features of human perception

When talking with students about color, I find the HSL space the easiest to employ. From a color maths point of view I have been told that it is very messy, which is one reason why Adobe stopped using it in version 3 of Photoshop. But from the perceptual point if view, it is the artists favorite.

Perhaps a better option is the Muncell color space. Muncell chopped up the entirety of the color domain into thousands of small chunks. The distance between each chunk was a single units of 'barely perceptual difference' which he established through meticulous user testing. Hence the green domian was much larger than the yellow. The story behind his development of this space makes for facinatting reading. He was an artist (a painter) yet his work paved the way for more modern spaces.
Water conducts electricity. I wouldn't play with it near cables or connectors.
Dockge – Self-hosted – Docker compose.yaml – Stack-oriented Manager
> dumb courage to risk annihilation by directly attacking the democracies they hate? Doubt it.

Why would any of them do that? They can seat, wait and watch the west crumble apart with almost no intervention.
> Stop french bashing please

Why should I? What were the French military success in the last 100 years? Paris is just degraded right now. French bashing please!
Mh, I do not see the whole course but... The sustainable real estate is one who can evolve because the best energetic performances of today will be very bad performances tomorrow and the "ideal design" for today will be a very bad one tomorrow. So essentially only small buildings are sustainable because they can be made in an "industrial-like" manner (meaning the same design can fit pretty any needs with just minor changes) and changing them is sufficiently cheap.

Beware that in the past a condo was cheaper than a home per apartment because there was only one roof, a bit less in equipment and so on. BUT that's in the past where there was not much about anti-seismic design, fire safety, HVAC and so on. Today a modern "green" condo cost more in raw materials than equivalent single family homes PLUS the condo can't evolve. A tower? Even FAR worse. Just the mere structure need more steel than homes, just the elevators alone cost more. Similarly modern rails cost MORE than people moving with personal cars. The narrative of course it's the opposite because finance capitalism need big things and profit from rent and services in such setups, but the narrative and the reality are really different.

Today the sustainable real estate economy is those of spread single-family homes mixed with small commercial buildings (sheds, essentially) to reduce significantly the amount of commuting residents needs just to buy some groceries, modern small buildings built locally with mass produced components produced around the territory in most cases in not so big setups simply because there are standards like home appliances sizes or Chinese battery tools connectors (the same battery works essentially any tool from any vendor) or cars (yes, most component of Chinese cars are the same even if cars came from various brands). Essentially today sustainable real estate is a FLOSS/open hardware one spread/personal and built around the world without megafactories for most of the component (we still need some big scale for steel, for some electronics, mining etc, but not much more). This real estate of course is VERY opposed by any means by large actors who know well this model is for individual ownership, SMEs not for them.
Me: seems like my sort of thing.

Me: navigate to linked website, see wall of text.

Me: clicks reading mode

Me: *193 - 245 minutes*

Me: bookmark to read later; probably not
Hah! Hard relate... Once or twice I've gotten side-tracked by the writing of, and ended up shipping a blog post about the code I was writing, before I finished the code itself.
That strategy doesn't win though. The enterprise is going to buy the enterprise GPU anyway because they're spending someone else's money and it's a tax write off and the enterprise GPUs are faster and have ECC memory in addition to having more VRAM. But giving something for hobbyists to play with is how you build an ecosystem. So not only do they get higher margins on their consumer GPUs, they get more code written for their architecture, which lets them sell more of the expensive GPUs.

Not doing that is making a mistake.
Bit rusty here but what if you replaced

if (*file_lo == 127) {
++count;

with

count += (*file_lo == 127);

That might save you the occasional branch mis-prediction, and might possibly open up some hardware-level loop optimisations. Any difference?