skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google was not really created by a natural market outcome when you consider what it takes to be a large multinational corporation operating out of the US. Any time a policy decision is made that can benefit either the larger or more politically connected stakeholder versus the smaller stakeholder, guess who gets the short end of the stick almost every time in practice. It's not the big guy. Google is open about this, they have a political action committee, they have a website page where they open with "At Google, we believe it is important to have a voice in the political process..." (1). To suggest that they don't use these mechanisms to better their own position in this market you allege to be free is naive.

https://www.google.com/publicpolicy/transparency/
It can do components like figma, it does not have autolayout and component variants yet.
I like to use `joblib.Memory` for my caching as it catches changes in functions which prompt rerunning over loading from the cache and then overwrite the old result.
really nice ad for Keenforms!
>Because people know how sex works and how filming works.

Not exactly, because both sex and filming could be done in a non-porn setting - including those two together (e.g. a sexual art film). And the question mentioned wasn't what is a "film that has sex", but what is porn - and even more so, what is it's definition (the same thing you asked for in the original comment, as necessary to "marks the goal").

The answer here (but how do we know we made a porn if we can't give a strict definition of what porn is) is that we can tell intuitively. Well, the same holds for intelligence.

That's perhaps the case for many things. Famously, we don't need to know what quadratic equations are to catch a baseball. Even though formally predicting its trajectory means solving one.
Why do you expect them to crack down? The intent of disallowing working on tourist visas is to protect the local labor market. Digital nomads work for foreign companies and don't get location based market benefits that would be restricted to locals (consensus among the various communities seems to be that having local clients was a big no-no), so they add no pressure to local labor markets. In regards to the local economy, digital nomads are nothing but tourists.

Rather than cracking down, the current direction is legalization. Countries where digital nomads are common know what's happening and they ignore it as it's beneficial to them and are now legalizing to get an even larger slice of the pie (by attracting those who were previously fearful).

Others have mentioned the issue of housing stock, but regular tourists are actually more inefficient in that regards (very seasonal and short stays. Think about how many empty room-days most hotels have).
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Wait so you think that in the Stairway to Heaven video posted, the prompt was really was nothing more than the lyrics shown at the bottom? That implies something boring about the painterly look and content (woman looking away) of Midjourney output.
That whole market was Photoshop and Illustrator for a long time. That changed because of better and cheaper alternatives (like Sketch).

They have tried and failed to get it back and now seem to have given up on competing and just bought the competition instead.

It's also not just UI. Figma is a very capable vector and general purpose graphic tool. Figma made a lot of common things much easier than they are in Illustrator and Photoshop. While being online and fully collaborative. It's really an amazing tool and imo Adobe was rightfully threatened by it as I don't believe they could deliver anything close. It would just continue taking over more use cases.
Personally, I haven't moved the goalposts a millimetre in 30 years, and I won't in future. When a computer does maths - not as a tool wielded by a human mathematician, but in its own right discovers/invents and proves significant new theorems, advancing some area of research mathematics - I'll take seriously the idea that we've reached AGI.

Maths in and of itself doesn't require any physical resources. It's possible that doing maths in practice requires knowledge of the world to extract some kind of product from (I'm skeptical, but it's possible), but in principle a rack mounted server could demonstrate its mathematical ability to the world with nothing more than the ability to send and receive messages.

This hasn't been done so far, not because there are obvious missing prerequsites, or because nobody's tried it, or because it has no value, or because there's a prohibitively high barrier to entry for people to have a go. It hasn't been done because nobody knows how to make a machine be a mathematician, and I've seen little evidence of any progress towards it.

That's my goalpost, always has been. Reach it and I'll be overjoyed. And FWIW, I strongly believe it can be reached. I don't see the latest round of ML (or any ML, really) as a step towards it, but I'd love to be proven wrong.

When I mention this someone always points at some bit of recent research, such as [1], but it's invariably just a new way for a human mathematician to make use of a computer. If anybody knows of any progress, or serious attempts, towards a true AI mathematician I'm very curious to know.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04086-x
Isn't that a good thing? Benchmark defeats AI, AI defeats benchmark, new benchmark comes along, progress is made. How else would you measure success? Certainly not with old benchmarks that 10 different methods all score 99% accuracy on.
There's another reason why (mathematically related) to use a power of 2 as well: it makes the modulo a simple and fast mask, instead of a slow division.
If people actually looked at what they were paying for MS Office over a decade they'd wonder wtf they were doing.

Small numbers are easier to sell. Before a company spends $20k on a PM tool, they would discuss it to death. But signing up for $299 a month and giving it a shot is easier.
> Change is hard; As a Figma consumer you are probably uncomfortable with the change, but Adobe acquiring is better than Figma going shutting down due to lack of mass adoption

Hilariously bad take. Figma has very strong adoption. Lacking the same scale as Adobe doesn't mean it has bad adoption.
There may be "plenty" of other competitors, but I think it's pretty undeniable that Figma is the "up-and-coming" (or maybe it already got there) market leader among "design tools for web design". I also think it's pretty apparent that Adobe knows this and that's why they want to buy them.

This is the exact same pattern as Facebook buying Instagram, and heck the same as some of Adobe's previous acquisitions, where large corporations buy out competitors that could potentially overtake them.

If antitrust means anything it should block these types of acquisitions.
Sure, but the government should legislate that companies be given a reason and not stonewall customers. The absurdity of allowing companies to giga-scale and not have real customer service is just dumb and bad for society
at least with paypal it's possible to allow future deductions without explicit authorization through paypal every time.

i don't know if their terms allow this to be used for recurring payments, it is used e.g. for services such as steam and humble bundle, where you can choose to remember your payment method.
What payment processors are safe to rely on?
Government hasn't made entry to this space hard, the banks that Stripe partners with have. Because they don't want to deal with high-risk transactions. They are the gatekeepers here, and Stripe has to bend over backwards to make them happy. They'd much rather burn individual customers, than jeopardize their entire business.
> would require an amendment to article 1, section 3 of the US constitution which explicitly requires that senators should serve staggered terms

The Constitution doesn't, to my knowledge, require both Senators from a single state be in separate classes [1]. You'd still have a staggered Senate with consolidated elections. A third of the states would simply vote their Senators together every two years.

[1] https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/article-1/section-3...
How many fraudsters are maintaining a business relationship for 6 years? 6 years! And the OP doesn't even get a courtesy phone call before termination. That's messed up.
That doc is from 2013, so it's pretty out of date.
If you made all the alternatives also pay to capture their carbon cost, I think nuclear would be very competitive.

Obviously it blows fossil fuels out of the water, but hydroelectric also uses huge amounts of concrete, and IIRC the energy return on investment (MWh you get out per MWh it takes to construct) for solar and wind is quite poor and so I'd expect that to take a while to pay off too.
It sounds like more work than doing the implementation yourself.
LOL, what a troll!!! (ROFL)
Ask HN: How does your company manage browser extension releases?
Our team has been struggling with a good release process for our browser extensions.
With Chrome Extensions, every build needs to be reviewed by the chrome team. This can sometimes take 5-6 days and has never taken less than 24 hours. If a version is published, there is no way to revert to an old version in the event of bugs/issues that make it through the testing cycle.

True CI/CD is out of the question since we have no way to automatically release. Additionally, because of the extension architecture, automated testing is limited almost exclusively to unit level testing the client code.

How has your team overcome this? Any advice welcome here.
> It won't move, but the utilization will change to be minimize the cost.

Yes people will build more medium density housing instead of having zucchini gardens in one of the most expensive regions of the world. Higher density would be good for renters in the local area.

This, taken to it's "extreme": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax

Pretty well studied, and has a lot of support across ideological viewpoints.
Maybe it's just fun to spend money you don't need, or stole, or swindled, or need to launder.
> I can imagine people mine to keep coins alive.

I don't think that's a solid argument. Some coins were structured such that there would be a finite supply (21M in the case of bitcoin IIRC). The health of a coin seems to me to be its transaction volume, and somewhat related its ability to be directly exchanged for physical goods or services.

So back to a previous user's suggestion: instead of buying energy to mine coins at a loss, one could instead buy the coins at a lower price which seems on many levels to make more sense than to continue mining.
Delivering the software is much easier:

* Do you want to build it for mac? And windows? And linux desktop (lol)?

And from the clients side, it's also easier:

* You just need to open your browser you're good to go.

* No need to install updates. Just imagine what kind of hassle rolling out updates for desktop software is in a company with more than a few employees. This used to be a dedicated job.

And feature wise, it's also better:

* Compare working with google sheets to excel files being sent around as email attachments.
FPTP has more failures than IRV in general, they're just less visible because you don't have the ranking data to work out the hypotheticals. That may be good for FPTP's popularity, but doesn't make it a decent voting system.

FWIW I also disagree with the suggestion that people can't handle it. Plenty of countries use ranked or proportional voting systems and their citizens understand how to use them just fine. They may not be able to perfectly optimise their preferences, but then they can't do it in FPTP either (and it's provably impossible to do so in every case whatever the voting system).
PS2 was dominant because it had great games, backward compatibility (for awhile) and was also a DVD player. The piracy angle didn't affect sales, despite what Sony says.
Just remember that you can't eat just any leaf:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32089650
You can export each artboard. Usually, there would be one design/variant/mockup on one artboard. This is the same model of export as figma does it.
We’re using markdown + liquid with custom liquid tags.

This looks so similar to that.
I keep my phone in do not disturb at all times. Have done so for 10 years at least.

These days I no longer give notification permissions to apps. But I used to. So I go back and remove when someone’s being a problem.
They first approached Lex Fridman, but his home-spun test had zero questions. /s
From what I understand, the government introduced legislation sometime in the past 20-30 years (Was it the PATRIOT act? I can't remember) - which I believe put the onus of blame on the credit card processing companies instead of the government when it came to fighting fraud.

I assume the government didn't want to put all the work in of making sure the currency they've societally coerced the world to use isn't being used for fraudulent transactions, they'd rather pawn it off onto the banks because it's easier for the government to not do anything about it.

Now the banks have been shooting anything and everything that has even a semblance of fraud with account locks/funds freezing/etc., because if they don't the government will go after them.

How does this system make any sense to anybody? So frustrating. Let me exchange currency with anybody for any reason at any time.
The impact of Willowdale discovering you are gay and ejecting you is limited specifically because they (I assume) don't maintain a blacklist in coordination with Springfield.
The point is that the probability space of potential generated images is enormous so a 3/5 success rate represents an absurdly unlikely probability of being due to chance.
Sketch is perhaps most analogous, but I remember a couple years ago where designers left Sketch in droves to move to the better features of Figma.

If Adobe thought Sketch was a competitive risk, they'd be buying them instead.
This is nothing short of a call to slavery for those yet- undiscovered quantum organisms we just can't detect yet. How does it feel to be a fascist? /s
The lightning network is, yes.
I haven't computed it, but you need to take into account the energy it takes to mine a block and the number of transactions in that block.

The transaction fee is irrelevant, as the fees being paid were mined in the past and already "paid for" with electicity.

In the end, transactions drive the chain forward. You don't need (a lot of?) them to continue mining, but they are the only "useful" part of the blockchain.

I have no idea if bitcoin operates at max capacity, but I think it does. If so, I think it's perfectly fair to attach mining energy use to transactions.
They slap anything they can find with a subscription because it is an easy way for them to rent seek and grift as much as they can.

They don't want to admit that they are part of the griftopia that they are creating; especially building a SaSS on-top of something that does not need to be a SaSS or that can be done for free.
There is even a feature called auto-sweeps that can be requested via support to enable automatic daily payouts
Have you ever heard the words "prodrazvyorstka" or "kombed"? Bolsheviks literally robbed the peasants - who, to remind, was the actual majority of the population by a factor of 4x of so - blind at gunpoint to feed their forced industrialization in the cities, triggering more than one famine in the process (Holodomor being the most famous).

If you look at early Soviet history, it's littered with peasant uprisings for this exact reason. In my hometown in Russia, such an uprising was big enough that Soviets decided to use chemical weapons against the rebels; ironically, I used to live on a street that was named after the guy who signed that order.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tambov_Rebellion
You can't host the actual entire ethereum blockchain from the beginning of time for less than $500 on your own hardware.
Imagine we can achieve that throughput with a single server without breaking a sweat![1]. The number of economic transactions all humans engage everyday including cash is perhaps 100x of that: so just in order of 500,000 TPS or less that feels quite small to be honest.

[1] Yes these systems are complex and very distributed and have lot of checks and balances and the actual transactions apps and DBs are running on infra in hundreds or thousands of servers in DCs all around the world.
The defintion in 4.26.13.3(1)(f) makes it clear that it covers the evading the "Recordkeeping requirements for transmittal of funds at $3,000 and above, additional records to be made by a dealer in foreign exchange at $1,000 and above, and records to be made by casinos and card clubs" as well.
Feels anticompetitive, and maybe even bad for Adobe as they prioritize acquisition over organic development.
I just got a replacement card from my bank. It still has no chip in it.
Not sure how the Tule fog related to the SF fog, but:

https://news.berkeley.edu/2019/04/10/falling-levels-of-air-p...
"I'm not value judging this, I'm just trying to determine if it's worth reacting to"

Sorry... but some nice contradiction you have there.
I think your "algorithm" might be a bit off ;)
This is getting into Fly.io stuff and not WunderBase or SQLite stuff. GPU is a ways off for us: the programming interface for GPUs is tricky to implement with full isolation between VMs. The post we're commenting on talks a bit about cold start delays (a couple hundred milliseconds).
It only helped sales in third world countries which to start with is not a big chunk of total sales, so doubt that it had any significant effect.
It is very common because it is not benefial for the company to clarify reasons. It includes many risks.

They can be proved to be incorrect, for exmpale if they refer into their own ToS, which is public information and binding. And then some legal expert says that this is not how it goes and it ends up into court, because customer sees risks being lower.

If they made a mistake or there was a software failure, it is bad PR.

If they ban someone for some specific reason but not someone else, there will be drama.

It is very beneficial to just say nothing.
Gary Marcus is a notorious Goal Post Mover so this is no surprise coming from him.

Edit: Gwern has an extensive history with this so I'll let him do the talking.

https://old.reddit.com/r/TheMotte/comments/v8yyv6/somewhat_c...

Further Edits: Not to mention Scott Alexander who has directly rebutted you numerous times. Or Yann LeCunn. Not sure who exactly is backing down.

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/my-bet-ai-size-solves-...

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/somewhat-contra-marcus...

https://analyticsindiamag.com/yann-lecun-resumes-war-of-word...

Presumably you approach these arguments like Ben Shapiro and imagine you have "Dunked on the Deep Learning geeks with Facts and Logic."
I personally liked the anecdote about Clever Hans.

I also learned there's a long history of AI skepticism, the root of which comes down to "Compositionality(?)"- and this wall of understanding meaning has vexed AI for decades.

That would be lost in proposed short form summary.
Yep, ye tricks of olde like repeatedly saying „help“ or „customer service“ don’t seem to work on those… i recently dealt with an especially frustrating case when moving and buying a brand-new fiber connection. Turns out, they got the activation date wrong, so I called the support hotline mentioned in the confirmation mail. The menu prompted me for my customer ID - which I didn’t yet have - and wouldn’t let me through, even after trying all possible options. In the end, I just called the sales hotline and let them handle the transfer…
It started on r/anarchychess
I'm surprised there is a next time.

I think that's the biggest thing I see on this thread. That Stripe gets the chance of a next time. This validates what Stripe is doing to developers.
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You can do both of these things in El Salvador right now.
Scott didn't make up the rules, he agreed on them with another person who thought this would not happen in 3 years. Gary Marcus might have thought it was a bad bet, but someone was on the other side of it, and they presumably thought it was fair or they wouldn't have made it.

The original terms of the bet:

My proposed operationalization of this is that on June 1, 2025, if either if us can get access to the best image generating model at that time (I get to decide which), or convince someone else who has access to help us, we'll give it the following prompts:

1. A stained glass picture of a woman in a library with a raven on her shoulder with a key in its mouth

2. An oil painting of a man in a factory looking at a cat wearing a top hat

3. A digital art picture of a child riding a llama with a bell on its tail through a desert

4. A 3D render of an astronaut in space holding a fox wearing lipstick

5. Pixel art of a farmer in a cathedral holding a red basketball

We generate 10 images for each prompt, just like DALL-E2 does. If at least one of the ten images has the scene correct in every particular on 3/5 prompts, I win, otherwise you do.
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Not to be confused with the Berkeley Unix software company called "Mt Xinu". (The operating system's name is a recursive acronym, while the company's name is a backwards spelling.)

"We know UNIX TM backwards and forwards." -Mt Xinu

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MtXinu

Famous for the great posters they handed out at Usenix:

"4.2 > V" BSD -vs- System V, X-Wing / Death Star Poster

https://www.ericconrad.com/2008/12/

I love all the old telephone equipment in the explosion!
Is it just me or does that sound like an insignificant amount? Finland has a tiny population, if ETH mining only used that much electricity sounds like it it was pretty great to begin with.
Most? Can I see the data? I'm imagining you and I exist in parallel Europes.
Question from a non-crypto person. Why did you assert so plainly that Bitcoin scales linearly with transactions? Even I know that's not true.

Things I'm curious about:

- Where'd you learn this?

- Have you read any academic material about Bitcoin? (eg: Bitcoin white paper, etc)

- Why did you post five times on a thread about something you know very little about?

Edit: it concerns me that people are so passionately posting misinformation on this post.
I agree, and this is more of what many other developed countries are doing with things like cheap or free education, social safety nets, wealth transfer etc. But the US seems to be allergic to all of those.
I lived in SF from 1989 to 2006. In the summer, downtown was usually sunny during the day while sunset and richmond were socked in. Fog moved further in towards the afternoon/evening. I lived in the sunset and richmond the whole time and didn't see any change. In 1989 I sometimes didn't see the sun for weeks and 2006 still didn't see the sun for weeks, in those districts. Maybe something has changed in the last 15 years?
I only see you attempting to constrain the topic that far, rather than just the ways that advertising based models in general can pervert a company's incentives by turning away their core user base. Sometimes it's just changing the UX until your userbase no longer wants to show up. Sometimes it's literally just banning a huge chunk of your userbase for some reason.
Ask HN: Is there a video conference software with call log?
Hello,

I am currently looking for video call software that is reliable and has a call log. The log should show call duration and missed calls. In an ideal world, I would be able to see how long the other side has let the 'phone' ring, or at least if the other side has cancelled the video call before was able take it.

Cheers!
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