skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of people point out "I don't want to fund a commercial organization" as a non-starter. I have a few thoughts.

1. For this to be a non-starter, it really really seems like you're either overthinking the problem/not understanding the solution, or just thinking up excuses for why you won't give back. While I think the discussion is fair, for this to be a non-starter is rather absurd in my book. That said, the ability to say "I want to use stackaid but only for non-commercial dependencies" might be an interesting option.

(Plus, can't you just make your own json file for stackaid to use and exclude the dependencies you don't want to fund? I thought the feature where the GH app reads your dependency files was just kinda helper logic to get you setup with, and automatically update, a combined dependency list. They have an example on the website for how you'd fund the linux kernel even though it wouldn't show up as a dependency anywhere.)

2. I think people are perhaps overlooking the bigger ecosystem play here. If we can, collectively, create an ecosystem where important dependencies, regardless of their commercial status, ability to market, or position in the chain, etc., get funded then I can seem some interesting behaviors emerging.

For one, the price of your commercial product might decrease if part of its development is supported by the community.

Two, there's now possibly an incentive for project authors to minimize their own usage of dependencies. This could be good or bad, but I generally think people prefer fewer dependencies for many various reasons. If it costs you money to pull in leftpad... (although given a percentage is allocated on this might not matter).

Overall, I think a product like this will result in more funds being allocated to developers who deserve them. So I want to see this effort succeed. Who know what the future holds, but if we want to start moving the needle, we have to start somewhere.
You mean my intellectual property that they are now charging to buy credits to rip off with a plagiarism algorithm?

All rights reserved. I didn't agree for them to use my IP commercially.
"trustless" is not the word here... you are trusting the economic incentives of the blockchain system to remain in-tact. But I do agree with you that one could feasibly trust it "more" than a single entity protecting a key and acting correctly. However in practice "more" comes with a very very hefty price tag, in my experience one that makes it completely impractical in the real world. Look at the verification requirements:

- run a full bitcoin node, download the full blockchain
- wait several hours after the timestamp is produced for the system to publish to blockchain (which also reduces the granularity of the timestamp, within this window the system is only "as secure" as a solution trusting a single entity)
- download all the commits in the Merkle tree that was signed and published, and search for the commit you are verifying within the tree

Security in practice is about tradeoffs, and I can't imagine a scenario wherein these tradeoffs would work for me without ultimately having a centralized provider verify them for me, at which point I just have complexity with no gain over the traditional trusted timestamps.
ProRAW doesn't disable image processing, in fact it even says as much in the link you provided.

> Apple ProRAW combines the information of a standard RAW format along with iPhone image processing to offer additional creative control when you make adjustments to exposure, color, and white balance.
Listen, I love RLM, but I came here to ask why this is on the front page. It's a strange feeling to see a site I used to associate with tech (and startups), now have so many irrelevant posts.

Would categories/subreddits help this site or hurt it more?
consider every single little micro-scenario for a proposal

That does sound like a lot of effort to clone the branch from the F# team.
Heh… https://nitter.it/hn2images/status/1569465609892544513#m
I'll get downvoted massively, but porn is by definition art (meant to be viewed and evoke reactions, just as advertising art is), and has been some of the most important creative outputs for as almost as long as humans have been creating art.
> Distributing requests to GPUs with the best available price on the global market dramatically reduces cost

Can you provide more insight into how this is accomplished? I remember seeing a similar sounding gpu rental service, but the name escapes me. Is this distributed over end user GPUs volunteering their devices, or just spot style cloud instances?
The people who I have met, who have participated, are very interesting people. Very interesting stories from amazing engineers.

Edit: I don't know if these two participated but I knew them from the NJIT CSTR. Some of the smartest people I met who were basically volunteering just so they could get flown down every year: https://youtu.be/ciqAZSoOmr8?t=676. Gil was just getting through some back surgery at this point, was in massive pain, and still flew out that year if memory serves me correct.
How do you buy/activate a temp e-sim when traveling? And as most shops capable of doing so? My family goes to the UK often and usually get a local sim.
In a way, it's worse than the case few years ago in Poland [1] - there, the company that ended up servicing the ejection seat was just incompetent and no attempts at destruction of evidence happened as far as I know.

[1] A shearable component was replaced with thicker part, with larger strain capacity, resulting in pilot not separating properly from the ejection seat
He really likes to be unreachable - he's known to disappear into the wilderness to fly fish for days on end, and no one knows where he is.
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I have chip malfunctions at least once per month. I assume there is dirt or debris in the terminal or on the chip.
California Attorney General accuses Amazon of anti-competitive pricing
Awesome, I wonder if the app is recording what we do so it can replicate what we do, or maybe if not it should have a training mode where we tell it what we do then do it so it can learn.

I feel like some of this could one day be built using a shared model that understands HTML and JavaScript code etc with a few example prompts. Or maybe something that understands intent+a browser automation language like Selenium, if not then some custom input output language+training as adept alludes to.

If interested in building something like this also checkout https://text-generator.io which already pulls down links and images to analyse to generate better text so has a lot of the required parts
I'm not sure what you mean. Most of the "reversals" have already been done, the rest is media noise.
True, you heard about corporate culture at IBM, I just don't recall reading articles about it in Byte or Dr. Dobb's.
I… what? Your complaint makes no sense. What are you objecting to?

Chouinard’s wealth was his ownership of Patagonia, which was valued >$1B. Not a liquid billion in a bank. There’s nothing that contests he has 2 modest houses and a beat up Subaru. I imagine many folks at that age with a successful career have a higher spend on housing and transportation, never mind founders of well known companies.
They say a large branch fell on him, near the plains...we'll miss that fellow
Don’t you still need a 3rd party to dial back the smoothing applied by Apple? This was mentioned in the article.
How do you have the rights to use any of the images? They are clearly the same as what a Google image search would result in. However google links to the source.
> Crypto finance cant be shut down

But the comment also states

> China regulated bitcoin mining, well now its banned there.

I think that's an example of shutting down crypto finance. I think I'm not understanding your argument.
hi thanks for building this!
Could you also enable a simple search by matching exactly words from the caption text? rather than semantic similarity?
Democratic National Committee Edited Bylaws to Let It Overrule Convention
Certain markets in the US may incentivize anticompetitive behaviour to a sufficient degree to cause such problems.

Though that’s only for dynamics in the domestic market. In the global market such behaviour simply weakens the position of the US overall and thus the global market self corrects, eventually. Typically this is done by the global markets via boosting another rising country or bloc to displace the position of the countries with less competitive markets.

Of course this is a very long term process that could take centuries, but there was never a guarantee that market forces would resolve itself within a single human lifespan.
The same artists who have been pitching a fit about how the robots are coming for their jobs?

Pretty sure they are trying to figure out a way their art can’t be used to train an AI and won’t be willingly participating in making it easier.
Psychopathic men have an extreme focus on mating at the expense of other (cont)
I want to be able to fire my guns indiscriminately in the air.
IE on Mac was the most standards compliant browser of the time, on Windows or Mac.
In fact, it's biggest flaw is that running on IE on Windows and running on IE on Mac required a lot of "different browser" code.
Too many icons covering the girls, can hardly see them. On mobile though, maybe this works on a larger screen.
I'm not sure how to answer this. Do you really believe you addressed what I wrote with a logically sound rebuttal? I would be happy to try to explain my position if you were making a genuine attempt.
> 3rd world tier corruption and fraud.

USA corporations trying their hand at vertical integration. Normally they stick to 1st world tier corruption (directly buying off politicians) which is a scale far greater than anything the third world can imagine.
Is this the onion?

In all seriousness, if my bosses at G wanted me to do work when I was there, I would have had to explain to them that I would love to do work, but there are about 10 other people at G whose job it is to make sure that I don't do any work. The only work that gets done at G is done by virtue of herculean efforts from engineers and frontline managers to convince a mountain of other people that their work is a priority. After that, one offhand comment from a VP or an SVP can get your entire project cancelled.
Isn't this kind of how Valve's (Steam) corporate structure is set up?
I had success with Kiwi Browser, Chrome, Edge and Firefox for Android on a Pixel 4 running Android 13.
TBH this is a good argument not to trust timestamp servers. AFAIK usually you just want to stick to one, and not treat a group of them interchangeably (ala the Internet Root Bundle). In any case, the owners of the repo (or email message) would decide for themselves which one(s) they want to trust.
The trust only owns 2%, so 98% will go to the 4c.
This seems no different than the controversy over GPL code being used to train Github Copilot. Just because it's publicly available and allows indexing doesn't say anything about the license it's released under.
I think blind adherence to a doctrine is a big problem. I love talking about this stuff. And I want it to be approachable, reasoned, and something that someone might go, "well, I don't agree with you, but you aren't just a surface level ideologue".
Most of human interactions with each other are through natural language and it works very well for us. Most of our goals start with this kind of communication. It feels like to me its the natural way for us to interact.

We just didn't have the tech that was able to take our high level instructions and carry them out for us like a human can. I think that is the long term goal of human computer interaction. This product seems like a significant step towards that.
Thank you for the update, and the electricity crisis is (probably... :P) more important. No biggie.
I entered mine and it returns a ton of 1800's images of men (apt) with a similar first name and rather different last names. It has a long way to go on this front.
You just do it online. In the Wi-Fi the airport offers. I did just that with Ubigi. Far more convenient.
>If you go anywhere where they hold a tab open, such as a bar, you can't do that with tap/chip

???

Yes you can. At least the bars around me have no problem with holding a tab with chip and/or tap. Maybe they just use newer terminals.
I guess my impression is: why does it matter which ones are more and less impactful? If dependency X is a pithy trivial thing that doesn't deserve your funds, and you care so much, then write your own into a utils file. The reality is, you didn't and you're using someone else's work. I think there is a lot of weird power juju being projected here while people conveniently ignore reality. The reality is your project is supported by all these things, but the ideal in some peoples' head is that only some of them matter? I think we need a reality check. Either change your expectations to match reality, or change reality to match your ideals.

I like the idea that I don't have to go in an micromanage my dependencies and figure out which ones get what percentage of funding and this and that. I find this product compelling because of the egalitarian simplicity.
> and the acceleration delivers an outward force that levers the bike up against the friction of its tires

That force is there even if the bike turns at constant speed.
Ask HN: Does anybody prefer using their laptop with no monitors?
I kind of prefer it, but I get the sense that nobody agrees with me. Not that it matters, but I'm curious if there are any others like me out there.
> Change the framing from “white person was fired” to “black person was retained” and you’re suddenly back into affirmative action

Change the framing from "a victim was robbed of $1,000" to "a poor person gained $1,000" and the clear crime of armed robbery becomes a positive event!

Fortunately, playing these types of games with language doesn't change the facts, or else there would be no justice; you can always "change the framing" to make any crime sound positive, by emphasizing its positive impacts and ignoring the adverse impacts.

As a matter of law, the SCOTUS unfortunately let their political views override a clear reading of the law in one case (Grutter v. Bollinger), and allowed a very limited form of affirmative action in a very specific context.

Discrimination based on race or sex in hiring and firing is still very much illegal. It's not hard to see why it's both immoral and destructive if we allow it in our society.
Snark about Apple's shortsightedness tends to land better when you're not literally lying about using their product.
The training used in the current round of image generators is Contrastive learning - the idea is that you don't use "properly curated" datasets - you just throw volume at the problem and let it sort itself out. Which makes sense - humans learn by the same mechanism.

The LAION-5B set in particular is filtered by it's CLIP embeddings - basically run a better AI to classify the images, and check that the two descriptions rate highly enough for similarity, which in turn lets the system have some confidence an image isn't completely wrong (also the step you filter out NSFW and other things if you want, generally).
Well, yea—the person inside the 2-ton steel cage is probably going to be fine. It's the nearby pedestrians, cyclists, houses, etc. whose safety I was interested in.
I don’t think so. I was chatting with a couple that worked at two separate companies, both of which manufacture and process things like fabrics and other materials for many different companies. They both said Patagonia is far and away the most conscientious customer they have and that they are very proactive about finding solutions to problems in the industry. They told me about how Patagonia would set up meetings to collaborate with these manufactures to figure how to develop more sustainable practices and use alternative materials, as well as some of the programs the company was doing to offset the harm they cause.

That’s why I think it’s far more important that a company like this exist, one that works in the industry and understands it, but wants to fix the issues with it. The alternative is that they drop out and another company fills the gap, one that isn’t interested in those goals at all.
I previously asked "why cargo vet instead of extending crev" and I think the answer was that architecturally cargo-crev is meant to be a single repository of public audits, where as cargo-vet aims for a decentralized system where anyone can publish an audit anywhere, and each individual project has to opt into which audit databases they trust.

Also cargo-vet has some good ideas about how to suddenly introduce cargo-vet into an existing codebase.
Only on Windows, well duh. Microsoft post-1990 stopped cross development as soon as they could, even though it’s not like they weren’t capable of it (Visual C++ 4 Cross Development Environment for Macintosh, OLE 2.0 SDK for same, COMsource and DCOM for Unix). I’ll never like it, but I can’t really blame their cold, dead moneymaking hearts for it, only myself if I ever expect anything else. I seem to remember it was due to some pretty old and involved behind-the-scenes agreements that IE for Mac even made it to 5.5, but once again finding the relevant scan on the DoJ website is beyond me.

As for standards compliance, my recollections are principally of IE6 (last pre-arse-parking version) circa 2010, when it was indeed woefully behind the times. I expect that is what you are thinking of as well. But that is not the relevant characterization, is it? That would be IE6 circa 2002, and I read that at the time it broke Netscape-targeted sites because it did CSS 2 (etc.) better than Netscape, not worse. I didn’t even have an Internet connection at the time so I can’t tell firsthand (without scraping up an old Netscape or Firefox beta installer), but I can believe that.
How is it ensured that the app downloaded from the Aurora store is the same one from Google play store?
You forgot power cable. Inductive for the win. I figure the cable is just a backup for real problems
I believe this is among the most cryptic and niche compliments I have ever come across on any social platform, but would need to have a sufficiently large sample size of similar compliments to train a language model.
Reminds me of this thread by the Ukrainian govt: https://twitter.com/NAZK_gov/status/1501960273313345536
Opprobrium update urgently needed
It wasn't really "created" after the hack, it's simply the original chain continuing on regardless.
I'd say that it also holds true for Apple. It's primarily a hardware company, so have a hardware guy run it.
Really, a marketing piece on their own website where they make a extraordinary claim that they can protect against the “most sophisticated digital threats” without any evidence supporting their claim at all, let alone the extraordinary evidence required to actually support such a claim that is generally viewed as impossible by most technically competent individuals, cements their leadership in the security space?

It would make much more sense to look at their actual, independently validated security certifications that they advertise:

https://support.apple.com/guide/sccc/security-certifications...

https://support.apple.com/library/APPLE/APPLECARE_ALLGEOS/CE...

https://support.apple.com/library/APPLE/APPLECARE_ALLGEOS/CE...

Where they have only managed to achieve the absolute lowest levels of security.

Like, look at that last one, their security validation functionally consists of typing “public unpatched ios vulnerabilities” into Google and certifying that nothing comes up. It is utterly preposterous to claim they have any security expertise against highly skilled attackers at all when that is the limit of their advertised certifications. If they actually want to demonstrate security leadership, they should certify against the highest level, AVA_VAN.5, which actually verifies protection against HIGH attack potential threats instead of the lowest level, AVA_VAN.1, which only verifies protection against BASIC attack potential threats.
Yep, you're old and jaded. I can relate. iPhones and almost all of their features are old news and they're mostly pushing iterative updates or advanced features most people don't have a use for yet (satellite connectivity).

Still fantastic technology no doubt, but certainly not the wow of 10 years ago.
If I asked the average American if they were ok with government scrutiny of their bank account I seriously doubt they would agree with you. As some purely theoretical argument about stopping al capone from washing money he's paying to hitmen or something I'd sure they'd agree, but when it comes to the nitty gritty like not being able to open a bank account without an address or a report being written up because they pulled $11k out to buy a used car I think it's doubtful. I'd really like to see your survey showing Americans support AML laws as written.

In fact, Chevron Deference has resulted in many policies being implemented without the majority of even _representatives_ agreeing on a policy, let alone the majority of the public.
It's not this. It's that a large number of Google engineers are risk-averse, and a lot of the rest of them love to do empire-building. All of this means that there are a lot of people saying "no" in between any individual engineer and a project. When you can't do anything like this, a lot of people just check out.

It's not even about interesting work, it's about the fact that for each person trying to do X, there are >10 trying to make sure that X doesn't get done without their approval.
A pre-flight readiness check could do the 'dry run' with the explosives redirected to a test rig instead. As an armchair engineer, I would imagine this check shortly prior to munitions load, which would also be the best time to validate the rest of the platform fitness.
>I should say I’m actually not using the official Apple magnetic case...

Thanks, I needed this laugh.
Available to read for free on Open Library :)
https://openlibrary.org/works/OL98218W/The_soul_of_a_new_mac...
You also don't know what future you will be doing. Lots of activists where people with pretty boring lives until someone happened with them that triggered their indignation and revolt. Or maybe some relative of yours, or a friend. It doesn't matter, you don't know future you.
> So in the end, it was a bunch of privileged white people patting themselves on the back for hiring privileged Latin and Black people.

While whites and Asians born into poverty, who struggled all their lives against overwhelming odds, were deprived of these opportunities due to the color of the skin they were born in.

This is ugly, ugly stuff.
HN’s mandate is anything people find intellectually stimulating, not just tech. This is a video that explains a meme, and that kind of stuff shows up on HN every once in a while.

IMO Subreddits would hurt it, as there’s really not that many posts on the front page on any given day (60?). Most of these cultural ones degrade faster than the technical ones that garner a lot of discussion.
Recalcitrant cities have maliciously complied with the law and are preventing economically feasible housing from being built by leveraging SB-9.