skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The main outcome will be companies figuring out creative ways to abide by the word of the law while flagrantly flouting its intentions.
Minio is FOSS and a lot cheaper. I don't see your point
I noticed the same thing, though then I realized that I have to have my cursor over the main content area. Not a great thing, still.
Gary Marcus is the definition of petty. He brands himself as an ai skeptic but in reality he's just a clout chaser more obsessed with being right and his own image than anything else.

In his mind he is always right. Every single tweet he made, every single sentence he has said is never wrong. He is 100% right everyone else is 100% wrong.
I think the same thing is going to happen to the new models as well. Something better and more efficient is going to eat their lunch. Maybe we'll see more application specific models and a general model sitting on top of that to compost results together down the road.
One common driver of headcount is enterprise sales and support. Once you charge at least $75,000/year, you need to put salespeople on planes, you need to provide actual tech support, and (unless you're disciplined and lucky) you end up with hundreds of features that are only used by one or two big customers each.

Enterprise software is fundamentally a whole different beast. Customers will write big checks, but they expect a lot of different things in return for that money.

I don't know whether this applies to DocuSign.
It doesn't matter if you get a perpetual license, the companies that host the data themselves are ephemeral.

I do the opposite -- I rent everything, and expect it to be a rental. I have never been disappointed.
Agreed, I do think we need to make sure creation is rewarded, but creation should also be used for the good of society not hoarded for wealth. That's the problem we need to solve, we need to look for systems that encourage creation WITHOUT the need to create artificial scarcity and means for people to collect rents on intellectual property.

To wit, intellectual property itself is likely a concept that keeps us locked in a local maximum.
This is a bizarre non-sequitor "what aboutism" that I feel is stolen from some pundit

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Edit: Same thing with the "But what is politics??" comment duplicated twice below
Line layout rules are a bit complex. Long long ago when i was 19 someone handed me a photocopied set of around 50 rules for line breaking Japanese text and followed them to implement our first draft of it in a text layout program we were adding Japanese support to. I implemented it blind, I dont speak Japanese , it never shipped and I dont remember the rules but i do remember quite some complexity around punctuation etc. This section from W3C covers some of what I remember and quite a bit more I'm sure https://www.w3.org/TR/jlreq/#line_composition_rules_for_punc...
The flipside of it is that surely Amazon did not agree to continue serving the film from now and the heat death of the universe.

Regulation of these shrink-wrap agreements is the only non-insane solution to this problem. Lawsuits are too slow and too expensive, and by the time you get enough people behind one, may be an exercise in squeezing blood out of a rock.
Nice Vonnegut bastardization
They go to other places.
Dagger is Apache 2, no signup required: https://github.com/dagger/dagger#readme

I struggle to think of what I would need a SaaS service to run BuildKit for me unless they're trying to take on GitHub Actions's compute side or whatever
* they’ve already been prosecuted for doing this with the current opaque salary system

* these nightmare scenarios have not played out in markets where this is already the law like CO. Jobseekers aren’t naive, they flood towards good job postings and leave shady practice job offers dry.
US was near tier1 technologic autarky post war until 90s, it had unrivalled STEM talent pool (by virtue of others having relatively very little) as well as FP tools to constrain foreign high tech competition while feeling her own via favourable immigration / brain drain policies. US crushed JP semi in 80s, but chose not to
continue crushing other east asian tech ambitions / indy policy in 90s-10s because it was deemed acceptable cost of feeding alliances in era of US primacy. Now US is desperately trying to reshore semi and other strategic supply chains now that she realized sensibly that interconnected world is increasingly not secure, especially in potential future frontlines of allied soil. Ultimately what likely will prevent US from recreating tech soveriengty according to analysis is lack of talent - domestic doesn't produce enough, nor can current immigration policy close gap.

> especially important in evaluating China

Not particularly. PRC doesn't need alliances to leech off, because she has the demographics headroom to generate massive talent and governance power to systematically build academic / R&D / S&T institutions to harness said talent to be directly competitive with US + co. Mostly indigenously with big bux programs to recruit critical foreign talent and espionage to fill gaps. There's a reason PRC is rapidly catching up to tier1 tech levels on almost every sector within the last 10 years now that it's producing comparable STEM talent than ALL OECD countries combined, with lagging indicator of # of PhDs undergoing similar explosion that will ultimately drive PRC to tier1 levels. PRC has the most prospects and extremely strong advantages going forward simply because it will have the most skilled workers working off a relatively comprehensive industrial/tech chain and can souly focus on achieveing technologic sovereingy without stepping on toes. Unlike US whose has to balance providing advanced allies both security and prosperity. It's increasingly unable to do the former in PRC's back yard and now the latter is being harvested/reshored to US soil

As for PRC's neighbourhood... was US at height of primacy threatened by Cuba / South America? There was some fucking around and finding out. Folks in the neighbour hood can see which way the winds are shifting. PRC's growing power has already pushed most of region into neutrality and hedging, while actual US alliances are giving nothing but platitudes - very little concrete actions that actually boostered US defense position within 1st island chain. Also PRC has massive blue water navy with expanding replenishment fleet, it just doesn't choose to project outside of 1st island chain much, but it does regularly. Aleutian Islands this week.
IBM unveils ad campaign touting peace, love, & Linux computing (2001)
As a casual observer of Firefox development (well, maybe not casual, I skim through the pushlogs occasionally), I find it interesting to compare this to some Firefox security bug guidelines.[0][1]

Although it looks like in these cases the issues were reverse-engineered in <1 day (making release timing less of a solution), two items in those that stand out to me as potentially helpful are "land tests in-tree later" and "bundle with other changes in the same area."

[0] https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/bug-mgmt/processes/s...

[1] https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/bug-mgmt/processes/f...
I noticed the wonky scroll behavior, but it's debatable to call it broken.

On most web pages, you can scroll the entire document by putting the cursor anywhere on the page.

On this web site, you can only scroll if your cursor is within the <main> element, which has a rather narrow width. So most of the page area is not scrollable. Also, the CSS hides the scrollbar so that no affordances are given.
UTF-32 !== UCS-2 and makes no guarantees about fixed code point size like UCS-2 did (and is considered deprecated because of that). There's an encoding issue with UTF-16 extending past the current "Astral Plane", but neither UTF-8 nor UTF-32 have that problem. We have no current idea at all what we might ever think to encode past the "Astral Plane", but that doesn't mean you should ever assume UTF-32 is UCS-2 and free of surrogate code points.
Again. This was a reply to a strong, clearly expressed claim. You can make up other related claims to argue with, but you should find somebody actually making them in order to be more effective.

It is not obvious that growing your own wheat will always be cheaper than buying bread.
And that you accomplish your tasks well enough that they are willing to keep paying you. And that you have the login credentials of the person they were expecting. And you are familiar with the things they expect you to be familiar with.

I mean if you can somehow find someone who is able and willing to do your job for you for sufficiently lower than your salary that you'd be willing to pay them and who wouldn't just get the job (and the full paycheck) for themselves without the middle man, then cool, go drink margaritas on the beach while your subcontractor slaves away. As long as they're not like foreign spies or something, why would anyone care?
Not an accountant. But I suspect the network assigns “value” to the show, based on its cost to produce, and ability to bring in long term revenue.

By eliminating the long term revenue, and effectively deleting the show, they’re basically destroying an asset. Which means they can claim the value of the show as a loss, and offset their profits. Thus reducing their tax burden.

Presumably the savings in tax are greater than expected long term income from licensing. So it makes sense to write off the asset and take the value of the asset as a loss.

I suspect that big part of why this makes sense, is because it often possible to claim the value of an intangible asset is at-least the cost of producing (in terms of salaries etc). So when writing off the asset, you get the ability to recoup some of the cost of production.
The value prop of AWS/GCP etc go beyond bare metal vs VMs. Running HA databases (even if you are a startup, you need this), centralized logging, secrets manager, KMS, making sure disks are encrypted, something like pub/sub as a messaging backbone for your application, load balancers... the list goes on.

Huge difference b/w reading a few pages of documentation on secrets manager, and clicking a button to get the service on vs deploying, and maintaining a vault on bare machines.
I'd say political speech is a very important category of free speech.
There’s nothing there that would tell how it compares to Figma.
>The mundane interface between human and machine caused social anxiety in the late nineteenth century

The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster (written in 1909) has a lot of buttons. The novella is an indication that they were more of a symbol than the real source of the anxiety. It was caused by anticipation of things like:

- Disconnect of people from nature an each other.

- Replacement of real things with simulacra, which then begins to be perceived as the real thing.

- Mounting, yet fragile complexity of systems people interact with (initially) and within (eventually).

Looking at our society today, it's pretty clear that none of these fears were irrational.
Amazon clearly felt threatened by the tens of people with a Kobo Elipsa and the dozens of people with reMarkable tablets.
Ah, that makes sense. Thanks for that!

I was coming at it from a, "Let's isolate ourselves!" type thing.
The points are indeed very specific, but they are about opinions, mostly not-even-wrong statements, just reasonable unquantifiables.
The elephant in the room is the use of the word "deep" in the field IMHO: it means something else than "many layered neural network" in common parlance...
> It is widely thought that SCOTUS decides based on ideology and politics, and only justifies it with the text of the Constitution after the fact. Although they like to present it as some kind of rigorous reasoning, there are always sufficient vaguenesses and internal contradictions to justify any interpretation they prefer.

I'd say that this is true for the three liberal justices and the four most conservative justices. Roberts has demonstrated otherwise, and Kavanaugh to a lesser degree has joined him in disagreeing with the other conservatives on some cases

I think your view of the court is grounded in a sort of cynicism that becomes a self fulfilling prophecy. If we convince enough people to see the court as a political institution it will normalize packing the court, which will permanently turn it into a political institution

the merit of the court lies in its ability to operate independently of partisan influence. While this doesn't happen often, normalizing the court as a political institution will prevent it from happening entirely
Yep. This is definitely the flip-side of Google's process.

It makes some sense; take a step back, and the story is "If Google software engineers don't care enough to make it good, and Google users don't care enough to keep using it in spite of its flaws, why is Google throwing money at it at all?"

Google is a weird company because so many priorities are set by software engineers, not managers; some projects die because they literally run out of passionate engineers to work on them and management isn't incentivized to force engineers to work on projects they hate, instead asking the question "If nobody wants to work on this, is it worth it to keep doing it?"
A long winded reply -

S-Matrix was the beginning of fifty years of string and SUSY leading no where beyond some interesting maths (imho). I call it an industry because of the number of people involved and the self-preservation need to keep the funding going.

I would disagree with the idea that the theoretical community decides where efforts should be focused - who ever is paying the bills ultimately makes that decision. Clearly, there are groups within interest areas that make recommendations to those agencies and nominally propose long term plans. But no dollars, no research - plans or not. Communities also tend towards preserving the status quo rather than cutting losses, splitting up and moving on to new things.

If there was more pushback from the funders we would not have seen so many working in and around string theory and susy for such a very long time with so little to show for it. That is not to say nobody should do such research, just that at some point someone has to say this no longer looks like it warrants the effort of so many, bring some new ideas/areas of research for the majority of you.

In the case of HEP experimentalists, the problem is magnified as the monies involved are very large as are the number of people, many of whom have nothing directly to do with physics (techs, etc). CERN quotes a figure of 17,500 including 2500 of their own staff. All involved have a very vested interest in making sure things do not change meaningfully and that upgrades continue to be made to LHC until funding is secured for another collider.

Otherwise where do they go? The notion that it is not in the best interest of the entire physics community or the wider public tends to fall on deaf ears when your career and paycheck are on the cutting block.
But there must be a point, where you still have full digital original signal, but decoded. It has to be possible.
Thanks for advertising these, I missed them!
They're mostly sales, marketing, and customer service. Engineering is mostly supporting integrations with every arbitrary platform and CRM they can possible handle.
It's quite easy to figure out if you look at their annual report, for example. [1]

Literally the first two pages of content explain, emphasis mine:

> To address this opportunity, our sales and marketing strategy focuses on businesses at all scales, from global enterprise to local very small businesses (“VSBs”). We rely on our direct sales force and partnerships to sell to enterprises and commercial businesses, and our web-based self-service channel to sell to VSBs, which is the most cost-effective way to
reach our smallest customers.

> Hundreds of integrations with other mainstream systems where work gets done, such as applications offered by Google, Microsoft, Oracle, Salesforce, SAP, and Workday.

> Globally adopted. Our expertise in electronic signature and other agreement technologies is truly global. This is key, given that different regions have different laws, standards and cultural norms. We assist multiple parties in different jurisdictions to complete agreements and other documents in a legally valid manner

> Vertical offerings. We offer enhanced solutions tailored to particular industries, such as financial services, real estate, life sciences, and government. In some cases, these may be variants of a product like DocuSign eSignature —for example, our additional DocuSign eSignature options for assisting with compliance with U.S. Food and Drug Administration regulations. In other cases, it may be a distinct product for an industry, such as Rooms for Real
Estate, which includes task management, templates, and workflow for real estate transactions.

You can see from their expenses that they spend two and a half times as much on sales and marketing than they do on research and development.

It's very easy to imagine how you could need 2,000 engineers to build and support e.g. 500 different integrations and 50 industry-specific solutions, all of which need to be actively maintained for compatibility. And then an even larger salesforce that is selling to companies literally across the globe. Not to mention the lawyers and legal analysts attached to all of those.

Docusign isn't a mere PDF viewer computer program, it's a business that provides ironclad legal services that are vetted by lawyers and guaranteed for your industry's specific legal needs in the countries where you operate.

[1] https://s22.q4cdn.com/408980645/files/doc_financials/2022/ar...
Standard response, but it’s not true is it. Again, level of trust in the person posting is minimally measured, so again the cognitive load is placed on the searcher. Which means that at scale it devolves into nonsense.
Not taking any sides one way or the other regarding whatever debate exists between Yann and Gary. But for what it's worth, I'd just like to point out that this overall notion of "neural symbolic" integration is fairly old by this point in time. It's gone a little bit in and out of vogue (sort of like neural networks in general, but not to the same degree) over the years. Outside of Gary, the other "big name" I'd cite who has spoken about this topic is Ron Sun. See:

* https://books.google.com/books?id=n7_DgtoQYlAC&dq=Connection...

* https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/10719871

* https://www.amazon.com/Integrating-Connectionism-Robust-Comm...

* https://sites.google.com/site/drronsun/reason
I mean, they all click agree, because they DGAF about the terms, they just want to use the service. Consumers can absolutely refuse to accept these terms (and some do, like me), they just choose not to.
On the website the button does not say "rent", but "buy".

That's theft. The theft pure and simple, ancient, which has been around forever. Nothing new.

If you SOLD something and somehow REMOVE it or the ability to use it, it's theft. Whether it's done using modern technology (software) or old technology (crowbar) is not important.

The TOS do not override the law.

Amazon and others use the technology to commit very old crimes.
> An AWS large server is around $500/year, which is about 1-2 developer hours (with taxes, overhead, etc) at the cost scales last time I priced this out. That's crazy expensive in the absolute, but if it saves a couple of hours, it makes sense.

For comparison's sake, the net salary for a software developer in Latvia is roughly between 950 and 2800 euros per month: https://www.algas.lv/en/salaryinfo/information-technology/pr...

Given the above number, some calculations of the gross salary land at between 1350 and 4000 euros per month: https://mansjumis.lv/darba-algas-kalkulators

So essentially one of your developer days would represent weeks of work for a Latvian developer (depending on additional expenses/overhead), which I find curious.

Developer costs are still likely to be higher than infrastructure costs, but not nearly by as much, which might explain why I've seen a lot of on-prem deployments locally, and people shying away from going all in with cloud technologies.

I wonder whether these differences are more pronounced for other countries where developers can be comparatively less expensive (at least in relation to using the cloud and/or hardware), like India, Russia and elsewhere, how much the development culture differs. Also how many would opt for alternative providers like Hetzner, DigitalOcean, Vultr, Scaleway, OVH and so on...
This gets upvoted due to inexplicable DALL-E hate, but on the other hand I'm keeping my DALL-E account and cancelled my MidJourney account because the DALL-E account doesn't cost me anything when I don't use it. Having an account I barely use is great because I can go generate an image whenever I want for comparison purposes.

(Furthermore, if I don't use it very often, I'm in the free tier due to the 15 free credits a month.)

Also, do you realize that Stable Diffusion is also running a pay-for-usage model at dreamstudio.ai? I like that too.
Anyone can also do both if they like. Buy and download to have an archival copy.
Hey man, I didn't know I had restless leg syndrome until they told me I did in the commercial. My left eye twitches now but at least my legs don't shake when I sleep.
I could be wrong, but I was under the impression that you can get cheap Chinese HDMI splitters that strip the encryption.

I would think it has to be relatively easy to decrypt given that the Blu-Ray player has to either send a decryption key to the TV via the HDMI cable, or the TV has to already have a decryption key that could presumably be skimmed.
(minor correction: the pegs of a harp, not the foot.)
Not meaning to be rude, but you may be living under a rock. There’ve been many, many HN posts [0][1] about the open source, free to use txt2img and img2img ML model that is Stable Diffusion over the past few months.

Though I agree that their website provides no useful information at all.

[0] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32665587
Although Blu-ray encryption was cracked back in 2007.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41...
Interactive Disentangled Editing for High-Resolution 3D-Aware Portrait Synthesis
The author was probably trying to make the header and sidebar sticky by doing that, there are better ways though (such as literally the position: sticky CSS property)
Any time I hear a political ad, it makes me think of the spoof ones in Vampire Bloodlines: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ovLsFhd-EM
There's no way to define "political ad".

Anything can be a political ad, whether it says so overtly or not.

That ends up meaning subjective reviewers looking at things an just deciding they think something's "real" purpose in political, and failing to identify others that actually are.
> i just meant that no future population will see each and every foible we exhibit perfectly, because that's like hitting a trillion heads in a row. effectively impossible. but they could perhaps hit a hundred.

My motto is: aim for adequacy, not perfection.

> in any case, the hard part is not finding candidates but culling them down, analogous to the halting problem (or the bullshit asymmetry problem). is it an infinite calculation? probably.

Maybe. But also: maybe not!

> and this thread has dropped pretty far into the archives, so i think it might be time to retire it. perhaps we can continue in a future thread.

Haha, not a bad idea...I enjoyed the conversation, a breath of fresh air for HN.
After confirming the ukraininan phone every page gives the same error - "OpenAI's API is not available in your country." The same goes for GPT-3. They just banned our country as a whole.
For a ukraininan right now this situation is admittedly not the biggest problem in my life. Still don't see a reason for OpenAI to restrict our access.
100% the pattern I saw in other countries too; Mozambique, South Africa. No reason to expect a different trend further north