skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When you bring money to a bank, that money is treated as both a liability (to you) and also as collateral against which the bank can lend money to others.

When a bank lends money to you, it's net neutral. A $100,000 mortgage creates a -$100,000 position on the bank's liabilities list and a $100,000 deposit in your bank account. They create $100K in new money to fund this loan collateralized by both the reserves on deposit at the bank and by the property which you purchased. As you repay that balance, the money that was created to fund your loan blinks out of existence. It is the constant origination of new loans and the constant repayment of old debt which defines the supply of money in the economy - which is why interest rates matter. Neat huh.

I would argue that your balance is both an asset and a liability as defined by your bank's reserve requirements. Your mortgage is net neutral to the bank except for the interest paid on it, which is an annuity of sorts with a net present value offset by the difference between projected recovery rates and your risk of default. The value there is itself created in the origination and underwriting process.
Wholly agree on the immersion: a decent VR game, even if janky, has a great advantage in immersion by actually feeling _present_ in whatever virtual world you're in.

Two examples I'd add: VTOL VR, somewhere closer to the Sim genre but simplified for VR controllers.
I've played a few flight (combat) games before, but the combat is heart-pumping unlike anything else.
Another more popular one is VRChat and similar, where there are desktop versions but you definitely feel like you're missing something without the VR aspect. Emoting, gesturing, and actually "touching" others in VR is easy. If you're in desktop mode, you're mostly limited to standing nearby and talking.
Yes they can, unfortunately. Much worse and slower that west would expect, but they can. They have a lot of broken soviet stuff in the storage, which can be somehow repaired at least to the drive and shoot condition, even without fancy active armor or heat optics. They have a capability to manufacture dozens of ballistic missiles per month, so each new month is another 2-3 days of new bombardments in the future. Iran and NK are supplying them with contraband chips and other small but hard to get stuff, while these sources are just a trickle in the active war, but during the peace time they can accumulate a lot of stuff such way. And humans - their mobilization capability is approximately idk 100k-150k of soldiers at one time, due to lack of equipment for them, officers to train them and locations to quarter them. That's why half of new mobilised soldiers recently were sent directly to the active army. But a peace time would afford them to a) train a lot of troops in a batches of 100k, and b) expand mobilisation capacity by a lot, maybe x2 times for example.
That's why Putin dropped all of his public demands recently and just about begs USA and Ukraine for the peace talks. ANd it's not because he will admit his defeat, it's to gain a tactical peace for his war.
I see you don't speak of the literal Nazi PMC in Russia (Wanger).

I mean they are so not evil they commit war crimes on camera.

> NATO pushing closer to Russia the past 30 years didn't protect anything except the paychecks of the war makers.

NATO pushed closer to Russia over the past 30 years because of exactly what Russia is doing in Ukraine.
Think of a time in the past. Say the 70s. Did everything look the same? Maybe not as converged as now, but still, if you walked into a 70s bathroom you'd be like "This is a 70s bathroom". You could probably look at most cars from the 70s and say it was a 70s style design.

Trends follow fashion and capability and regulation. Cars all look the same now because they need to achieve a certain industry wide mpg set by regulation, therefore they follow the same aerodynamic constraints, leaving the makers with the same limited room to make a difference.

Room design follows fashion. You can have whatever you like, but when you want to sell a place you need to appeal to the mass market and so you go with the current up-to-date look.

And things like AirBnBs all having succulent plants and Nespresso machines - people like plants and succulents are the easiest to care for, people like coffee and Nespresso is cheap and easy to provide.

Many things are just waiting for some technical capability. Like folding phones - we'll get a flurry of interesting designs, but if they work out then eventually they'll all converge on the design that works.
Attribution is an important part of most licenses, so not only would you need to track the license, but also the authors.
The problem is I have no idea how to find them, so it seems more like IRC.
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I guess bite is relative. But this site has been a great resource to see what fines have been handed out https://www.enforcementtracker.com/
The question isn't "should or shouldn't". The question is how.

Web standards are supposed to be based on a) consensus and b) at least two independent implementations.

As an example, let's take a recent Chrome-only non-standard that made HN frontpage, WebTransport: https://web.dev/webtransport/

The status of this API? "Editor's Draft". That is, scribbled on a napkin [1]

--- start quote ---

These drafts have not received formal review and are not endorsed W3C.

These drafts MUST NOT be cited as W3C standards and may or may not become W3C standards.

--- end quote ---

Guess what its status is in Chrome? Already shipped, and advertised as available.

As with other such non-standards expect HN comments decrying other browsers as being "the new IE" because they are in no rush to develop this.

[1] https://www.w3.org/standards/types#ED
I read recently on the Atlantic newsletter that in sports that’s more the Moneyball statistics of playing. Sports have become overoptimized. 3 pointers in basketball. Strikeouts or home runs in baseball.

Maybe it’s too much a focus on math and statistics instead of design in other spaces too? Is that what you mean?
/r/AskHistorians, /r/askscience, /r/science etc
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A very interesting interpretation of the github TOS. Kate Downin is saying that users of github is giving a special license to GitHub, one that bypasses the original license. However if that is true then any upload of code that users do not have 100% copyright control of is then a copyright violation since the user would not have the authority to grant github that special license. It would be similar to a user uploading a copyrighted movie to youtube, and google using that as a license to use the movie in an advertisement.

I wonder if a court would think that microsoft in this case has done their due diligent to verify that the license grant that they got from users are correct and in order.
Around 1998 I broke my collarbone and had to use Dragon Dictate.

I found that for general subjects it was quite difficult to use because of the fairly poor recognition rate.

But when I talked about computers, it got almost everything right. I assumed it must have been trained by the developers, who talked about computers mostly.

This is another special purpose vocabulary, so it seems as if it would have a good chance of a high recognition rate.
Saying no is just as important as saying yes.

There is no value in reinventing the wheel, and not doing so gives you time to do other things that will give you value so someone should always be asking the question of if something should be done.
I don't find this surprising at all and blaming this on big platforms like AirBnN seems to fall a bit short.

It's simple:

The more global communication gets, the more global the styles and patterns become.

Avocado and salmon on sourdough is just good breakfast, no matter where you woke up. And plain concrete rooms have a good aesthetic quality everywhere. Not sure if needs to be advertised on blackboards, written in chalk, though.
“because operators wanted the cash flow“

It's impossible to put too much emphasis on this part. The envisioned MMS money deluge never happened (at least outside Japan? I have zero understanding of market history there), but it was the sole reason that suddenly all phones had cameras. In those days network operators were still the almost exclusive sales channel for phone hardware, so if they decided that phones without camera would not sell, that's what happened. Even if no consumer actually wanted that feature.

I really believe that in an alternative history where the SMS goldmine never happened (and thus no MMS goldmine illusions) it's possible (though not likely?) that we might still use dedicated hardware for image capture. And in that case, given the political implications of "every person always has a camera with them", world history would be meaningfully different, just because its past does not contain that future that never happened (MMS goldmine).
I think the main issue a media company like the BBC has with moderation, is that they want to discourage harassment of their employees. I understand it can be particular bad for women and minority journalists, because some people will make sexualised or sexists and racist comments in response to an article the truth of which they cannot contest, but the existence of which they abhor - in order to discourage such journalists from writing on this topic.

Does the federated model deal with that? I understood that the owner of an instance can moderate any posts that come from that instance, whereas the only moderation you can do of external instances is to ignore the whole thing. That would mean a BBC journalist could neither hear legitimate criticism from positive participants, nor harassment from negative participants. And anyone on that second host would continue to see the harassment, and it might simply have its chilling effect on the next generation.

I think the interest of journalism companies in having their own instance would only be met if they could moderate replies and mentions no matter where they're from. In such a world, perhaps the user could say, "Please ignore moderation from these instances" - so that you could continue to see a post on a third-party instance excluded by the BBC if you didn't trust their moderation.

Alternatively, they would only want to have two-way federation with trusted third parties, who they could trust to moderate extensively. It would end up the way some people say today, "You can't run your own email server" because Google and Microsoft tend to look askance at any email not sent from the servers of one of them. (If the trusted third party instances allow federation, it might be much more interactive than email is.)

A final possibility would be that the BBC and other major content producers would treat Mastodon as "write-only", in much the same way that Reddit links to content and people discuss it, but generally the major media companies ignore it.
> People have certain rights, duties and prohibitions. Equating the right of George Lucas to use ideas he saw with rights of a machine to do that misses the point

Hardly relevant, given that the machine has no rights, so no one is equating those with anything. The point is that the machine is doing automated learning on behalf of the developers who are training it, so what should be decided is whether those very human people have a right to train their model in that way.
So you are going to have to verbalize something, interpret the code, build a mental model of how it works, and then if it does not match what you want go back to step 1?

That sounds exhausting when we have spent countless human years developing languages which let us communicate our intentions precisely to computers.

If you don't do this there is no ambiguity detector. Meaning it's entirely possible for the computer to interpret what you are saying completely different than intended, yet it is a perfectly valid interpretation. So the only one who can qualify if it got it right is you.
Lobby to pass a law in your country that gives everyone a $1 per person in household tax credit. Agree to fund it.

Use that as an example, get it inserted into the next big trade agreement as a mandatory thing.
FWIW I find it highly unlikely that (at least in my country, Germany) a court would agree that Microsoft/GitHub could hold you liable for uploading a vendored AGPL dependency in your public GitHub repository because Copilot used your repository as part of its training corpus and someone won a lawsuit against Copilot for reproducing the AGPL code without a license.

Just because it's in the Terms of Use doesn't mean it can be upheld in court (or more specifically: in every court). If you uploaded your repository to a service advertising itself as a version control service, the service using your uploaded code to feed a commercial code generation product would likely be ruled as "surprising", which at least in Germany has been used by courts to dismiss claims of Terms of Use violations (e.g. when WhatsApp banned users for using third party apps).

Replace "AGPL" with Old Microsoft's "public source" (i.e. proprietary code published without an open source license) for a more likely scenario.
It's not just netflix. I hate the my Google TV pops up with ads for media. My PS5 boots straight into the store. At least my Apple Tv mostly doesn't shove ads in my face though my iPhone seems try try to shove Apple Music and/or Apple TV+ at me now and then
I mean it's a bit absolutist but that's to make a point; it's like the antithesis to Jim Carrey's Yes Man. A lot of developers are over-eager, simply looking for opportunities to work extra hours, pull an all-nighter, and show off to their peers. A lot of companies are over-eager to keep cramming features into their product, to keep pumping up those numbers, to build and release more and more services and products.

The nuanced point of view is of course in the middle; don't pick up more work or responsibilities without knowing the full story, without having done due diligence, homework, looking at alternatives, etc.
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Ahh, fair enough the pride seemed unreasonably low.

Though the reason they mention it is still valid even if they might be a scam.
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The cheapest way to downsize is to have employees quit of their own accord. Removing benefits like WFH incentives this.
Both have pretty impressive engineering. The focus just appears to be different. Apple really cares about user experience (or, maybe, used to), while it seems like Microsoft is trying to (and according to what I hear mostly succeeding) nail the administration experience instead.
You do realize Einstein was always studying? Sergei Brin worked like a maniac. Struggle breeds success. Not everyone successfully picks the right thing to struggle on.
I only use Docker Desktop for one thing - to see if one of my containers has accidentally started itself as amd64 instead of arm64. Sadly Colima doesn't seem to provide a way to do that.
A simpler (IMHO) Python version, plus lazy and working on any iterable. Also, it's quite easy to adapt it to work on any number of iterables.

def myzip(x, y):
x, y = iter(x), iter(y)
try:
while True:
yield next(x), next(y)
except StopIteration:
return
Someone emailed me the other day to share their FOSS voice control system. I was really impressed. It seems to map syllables onto actions in a modal sense ala vim. If I were to build a voice control system, it would look much like this.

https://numen.johngebbie.com/index.html

It's free software, it's local to your machine, you don't have to sign up for it, and it works today.
> under the MIT license

This is a poor choice for a donation-driven project because it allows easy proprietization. It also does not protect from patents, tivoization and so on.

GPLv3 would be a better choice.
They will probably threaten both areas and then attack whichever is weaker at the moment, just like in September.
The performance cost in isolation is not high, but the benefits of being able or reinterpret cast the buffer you got form the network and access it directly without any intermediate preprocessing is high. Most programming languages do not allow accessing fields in an endian agnostic way, you need accessors and a lot of custom code, so the code complexity benefits of ignoring the issue are great.
Nice attempt and interesting workflow using a prompt based transformer. I would prefer being able to spawn a command palette and skip over the voice, alongside having the choice between different variations.
As a VR dev, the field would be barren in that future, but for entirely different reasons.

The "common" API to access VR does exist: OpenXR, and is not great and has remained that way for years. Oculus's APIs Just Work (tm) and SteamVR's are fairly usable and more open to accessories, if a bit jank at times. On top of that - a great deal of Meta's XR research has been/is released to the public. We could do better...but we could do worse too.

Low-hanging fruit such as controller offsets have been incorrectly specified and remained incorrectly specified for years. Input latency and prediction are unacceptably high and/or incorrectly implemented by at least one game engine, in a way that screws up certain motion vectors unless you take some very much unspecified guesses about implementation and filter them appropriately.

I pray for the Khronos groups and members who are party to OpenXR to improve their support going forward, but it's going to require some risky bets on the part of game developers to adopt the APIs, and a lot of legwork from all stakeholders to tune and improve their platforms to something converging on acceptable. And where is Apple in this? Absolutely nowhere - so the platform convergence is guaranteed huge future divergence anyways.

So that explains that although there exists a standard platform that multiple hardware manufacturers can target - and have targeted - it has not yet achieved mainstream acceptance. It's just not good enough (yet), it's a pain in the ass to work with, it requires engine updates, and there's a high risk it will be majorly disrupted.

Additionally, it must be emphasized that there would be no VR market if not for the Quest 2; no other hardware platform has paved a way to a sustainable consumer ecosystem, from end to end: low priced hardware, high baseline quality of developer experience for something this early in its lifecycle (it bootstrapped developer experience based on very polished developer workflows), consistent install base to target and optimize for.
It makes sense. If the west is worrying about things, it would make sense to build more capacity at home, and then everyone will just follow.

IMO, US's colonization of the world has been through finance, which has been ok for the world. Globalization is a good business for the US, de-globalization will actually accelerate the empires' declining.
The voice interface experience(in general) so far is like trying to make a really stupid person do something for you. Out of context misunderstandings are the worst because it breaks your flow trying to understand why that happens and how to fix it.

I imagine that voice to code would be like standing over the shoulders of a junior coder who knows the syntax and some techniques just enough to follow orders but has no idea whats doing and when gets it wrong will be very wrong.
the people fleeing twitter over Musk's dedication to the freedom of speech will find themselves at home at mastadon, where problematic instances are defederated from - sometimes for as little as refusing to ban a particular problematic individual, and where developers are bullied into blacklisting those in their apps.

even late pre-Musk twitter was far more tolerant than mastadon. for example, any instance hosting the harry potter lady would get defederated from by 90% of the network, I guarantee you that.
MMS actually work now as everyone has data on the phone. Ten years back, MMS was crap.
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If an excavator is digging a trench so large that no human could dig it by hand, does that mean that what the excavator is doing can't be called digging?
Cars mostly look the same now because they're in the final stages of commoditization, the same as with phones. They converge as their designs reach "peak appeal" of 80% for maximum profits. Then the niche producers carve out from the remaining 20%.

Airbnb apartments are tending towards the "hotel room" look because that's what most of them essentially are. However, every Airbnb I've been in over the past few years has not looked anything like that, so I suspect some bias from places the author goes.

Interior spaces most definitely don't look the same. I think this is just the author extrapolating from their Airbnb experiences. The middle class homes will definitely look similar because they all use the same source material (same as they always have - just websites now instead of interior decorator magazines).

Consumer brands are all over the map, just like they've always been. And it's not like we haven't had bland brands like General Mills and Polo and Sears for ages.

Apps and websites follow the trends because that's what you do in the media space. Nothing new there.
See: WSL
I think there's a difference between communicating your intent to a machine, which is hopeless since it has no model of intention; and commanding a machine to reproduce something.

Ie., when you're managing your house you want something that can be communicated in an infinite number of ways, but the "AI" accepts a tiny finitude of ways.

However when programming it seems like we arent asking the machine to "write a function to do X", but rather saying, "def open-paren star args...."

This seems like a pretty trivial problem to solve.
A good problem: growth in headcount, more teams, more communication required, less you can know all that is going on.
Renewable energy, and agriculture come to mind. This includes established industries, as well as the emerging ones (eg. Ag-tech) come to mind.
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Well, Dick Costolo, a previous CEO, was actually a clown: "Upon graduation, he decided not to accept offers from technology companies and instead moved to Chicago to work in improvisational comedy" [1]

There is even a 2012 New York Times article: "A Master of Improv, Writing Twitter’s Script" [2]

I always wonder how media portraits an alternate reality where people and organization behaves as if they were living within The Truman Show [3]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Costolo

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/07/technology/dick-costolo-o...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Truman_Show
When working on UI apps we have teams dedicated to making sure every single decision is driven by data. Every little single thing is A/B tested. All of the designers, UX experts, developers opinion is always secondary compared to just good old "increase of clicks".

But then we're just building supermarkets and it makes me angry, well because, supermarkets are ugly.

I'd argue that the "most sellable experience" is almost never the "most beautiful experience". In fact most of my memorable experiences are ones that are NOT mass-marketed. This is also the reason why the "blockbuster hollywood movies" are always worst compared to a more unique indie experience.

This is also why I think the "AI-diffusion" future where new experiences are created off of old massively marketed ones is doomed to fail.

People want diverse unique experiences that have been thought out by experts with decades of experience and with a craftship-level mindset; not things that have been copy/pasted from an AI neural network.
Great for accessibility, but I don't see this would work well in an open office, or even at home if other people are around. Seems really annoying.