skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're arguing the semantics of a monopoly, but you should just mentally replace the word "monopoly" with "market power".

When Apple buys components from a vendor, they have less market power. When they build their own components, they have more market power.

Both Apple and Amazon shipped their own ARM chips. This increased their market power. Because they're the only companies with access to those chips. Meanwhile, independent ARM vendors go out of business about once every 3 months because the biggest companies using ARM aren't part of their addressable market. Which means small companies have limited access to ARM CPUs.

When Amazon builds their own delivery company, they increase their market power. When they buy from Fedex and UPS, they decrease their market power. And, when they do their own deliveries, they limit competitors market power.

You can be fine with all of this. Those of us who are interested in competitive markets worry about it a lot. You don't have to be worried about competitive markets, though. It's totally valid to not think increased competition is a good thing.

There is a lot of nuance here. If you're stuck on the word monopoly, I don't think you're going to really hear the things antitrust folks have to say.
Sure. Is that the standard we want to be comparing to, though?
What also works is drinking one or two cups of pedialyte before bed, as hangovers are usually the result of massive dehydration.
Asbestos is also chemically quite inert. But in small fibers, it can physically interfere with cellular processes. I'm not aware of evidence that microplastics behave in the same way, but a number of other small nonreactive particles do have biological effects, so "chemically inert" doesn't seem like a good heuristic for "harmless".
> This would be impossible unless the reader have my LaTeX source code and compile it themselves. But it is super simple for epub, or html webpage (by modifying the css).

Well ..., wouldn't the html page be the source code in this case? Also, in most cases changing the look of a LaTeX document is as simple as changing the docuent class or switching to a different package. Also, modifying CSS is anything but simple in some cases, especially when the original style is not ideal.
At its core, GDPR is not about digital advertising, it's about all-encompassing rules for all industries to tackle privacy in an appropriate way. The clauses regarding consent have to work well (and generally do) for things like supermarkets asking 'consent' for privacy-invasive things in their loyalty/discount cards, for cell phone operators selling location data with 'consent' of the users, for employees 'consenting' to surveillance by employers, for consent in landlord-renter and real estate broker relations, etc, etc - that is the main purpose of GDPR, websites are a relatively small part of it which is only getting attention because this part is the one that works remotely and thus affects USA companies.

Adjusting GDPR core principles for the purposes of website ads would be like the tail wagging the dog - if it "fixes" web ads but worsens handling of much more sensitive things like companies wanting to exploit data in physical shopping, telecommunications, healthcare and banking, then it's not worth it.
It was a normal Hollywood movie as far as I could tell. I would have noticed if it was a Steven Segal movie.
Turning Plants into Biological Factories
I've played around with these mesh inference methods, and while I certainly value and respect the progress that has been made by people working in this field - Something feels fundamentally off about it - as if they aren't being quite ambitious enough.

Consider shape-net - while being able to generate samples from the shape-net distribution would be a very impressive achievement, and these would certainly be useful as "assets" (decorations in a game scene), they don't have any of the real structure of these objects that would allow real interaction. They are effectively just inflatable decoys compared to real objects.

In short, "AI" isn't going to replace the artists, it's going to massively amplify their productivity and we don't know of any limit to consumer demand for realism and rich interactivity in games. If anything the number of game artists is going to increase, only the bar will be raised on the quality of their product.
I think it is pedantic to say that POSIX's guidance is not the de-facto C standard, or at least that the union of rules between ISO and POSIX
Nice to see the Bay Area police doing something though a helicopter seems an expensive way to get a stolen car back.
Next-gen standalone expressive synthesizer
This was an opt-in issue in one OS component (albeit an important one) in one version that has since been fixed. For sure apple should not have let this happen, but I don’t see this as indicative of some evil anti-privacy plot. Apple made a mistake and paid a fine for it.
So I guess this is how they plan to sell persistent ALPR surveillance by the police to the public. I guess that’s just how it goes. Convenience will always be an easy way to convince people to give up any freedoms they have.
There was an article recently about how AAA games are requiring so much content lately that any development cycles starting today would need to target the PlayStation 6. I think there’s still some room for improvements in productivity.
When I asked for a squirrel with a hoodie, it gave me one with two heads:

https://i.imgur.com/UIBXXvj.png

We're definitely at the point where these tools can do amazing things, and yet they still manage to make bizarre defects in the output that no human would ever imagine.
I just had one of those 'why didn't I think of that' moments. That's really neat, thank you very much for posting it.
I replaced all of this with a PostgreSQL, a simple Sinatra Ruby script and a Dockerfile file.
Someone can create a chat bot which is fed HN comments and it tells you which GPT+search bot to use for your usecase
Tech workers had their pick of jobs for years. That era is over for now
Exchanges typically back client USDT/USDC assets partially with USD and partially with fixed interest products. If USDT goes to zero some of the big exchanges will make billions. These are your counterparties when you short USDT vs USD.
So glad to see the FlowX mention. I've been obsessed with that app since back when it was called WeatherBomb. The premium data is well worth the cost imo, and the customizable widgets are so useful once you dial them in for what you're interested in!
Yes, that's what I meant but I think I wasn't clear about it. Phone's need all this processing to overcome limitations of phone cameras (such as the iPhone green reflections).
Show HN: A GPT-3 powered slack app to get data insights using plain English
Hey there!
We just launched an application that securely connects to a Postgres/MySQL database and allows users to ask questions about their data in plain English, right from slack.
We’d love some feedback - our product is available for a paid subscription but I would more than happy to set anyone interested up with a free trial.
We appreciate any constructive criticism on this - it certainly has been exciting to see many similar products come out of the woodwork
Man, I'd love to short Tether too. But that would mean giving actual USD to some other exchange, and I'm yet to be convinced that there are any exchanges who aren't running some kind of fraud scheme as well.
This isn’t a religion. I really don’t see what is so controversial about suggesting OOP has clearly failed on the majority of its original stated goals.

That’s not to say that nothing has been salvaged from the wreckage; languages like Rust are a great example of retaining what actually was useful.
Ok, well, we're not talking about the same stuff here so I'm not sure it's worth going back and forth. We can just continue to be on different sides of the antitrust issue/
If your IT department at work refuses to give you a modern solution I think that's their problem, not yours. They should just know, X11 forwarding was already obsolete decades ago. They're just signing up for trouble and misery with that.

I doubt that X11 is going to disappear for good. It will still always be around for running the odd old X client or for historical curiosity. Just like how you can still emulate the original Macintosh (released the same year as the original version of X!).
Nuclear Strategy Simulator project with circuit diagram (1987)
The tutorials flows for buildah + podman never seemed to work for building an image, naming it, then creating and running a container of that image based on the name, maybe podman compose will work.
Lloyd, J.P.B., Ly, F., Gong, P. et al. Synthetic memory circuits for stable cell reprogramming in plants. Nat Biotechnol 40, 1862–1872 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-022-01383-2

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-022-01383-2
> And also doesn't Christianity give some good excuses to question or review these? Especially, considering that New Testament builds up on top of the Old Testament. I'm asking about the stuff around the quotes you've shown (otherwise we could fall for confirmation bias).

To some extent, yes. Also, there is a long tradition of theological debates in Christianity, right from the beginning. Christians are much more comfortable with the idea that the Bible should not be taken literally.

Of course, there are 2 points that show up immediately when you say that. First, some Christians are literal fundamentalists so a long tradition is not enough. Second, Islam also has a long tradition of theological debates, and many different views and movements. I am not familiar enough with the History of Islam in the 20th century, but the fact is that there are lots of aspects that we associate with the religion without second thoughts that are actually Wahabbi practices. The rules against sex and alcohol are no less strict in the Old Testament than in the Quran. There is no reason why Islam would have to be more literal than any Christianism.

> With Christian rules, it's easier to find excuse to augment or re-interpret them. I'm not saying there's no rules.

That’s because we let a fundamentalist sect (well, mostly 2) redefine a whole religion.
I’m fairly certain here in Los Angeles County they’ve being doing this for a while. Helicopters are only used if the suspect flees.
Fucking really?
Fucking really?!
Unless it says otherwise, it's generally safe to assume that an article put out of a university is in the early research phase.
Not just any man. Better headlines are available. https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/wells-fargo-sacks-emp...
IANAL but I don't think that's what's happening here: the gp was referring to circulation figures. DOS-protective measures need insight on individual bad actors but only derived aggregate figures are needed for circulation. That's not something covered by GDPR in any way - it's extremely explicit in defining what types of data points relating to "natural persons" it covers.
It's for the french market
Murder and bank robbery are fundamentally criminal acts. There is no version of these acts that become acceptable upon reaching the age of majority.

Calling out the fact that the majority of sex change operations happen at the behest of an adult who elects to have the operation is not derailing the discussion, but inserting a rather critical point of context when examining the issue broadly.

That doesn't mean the concern about minors is not legitimate, but clarifies that the conversation is much broader than this subset.

> Neither male nor female circumcision affects the ability to have children.

Why is this relevant? I have not been mutilated, but I choose not to have children either. I haven't yet undergone a vasectomy, but plan to do so at some point in the future so I don't have to worry about it. But this seems like a non-sequitur, unless you're implying there is some moral compulsion to procreate.

> Female circumcision is forbidden almost everywhere.

It's estimated that ~200 million girls/women alive today have undergone FGM, and a significant number still undergo this yearly. While the practice is in decline in many places, there are countries where no such decline has started.

But regardless of that, it's an orthogonal issue, and no more belongs in a conversation about sex change operations than bringing up ritual organ harvesting in a conversation about appendectomies.

> Too much apologia of child abuse!

Again, acknowledging that surgery is often necessary is not the equivalent of apologizing for non-consensual ritual sadism.
I checked Wikipedia and there doesn't seem to be any recent IRL studies on crowding. There was one study [1] in the 1970s that tried to see if over-crowding affected humans similarly. The study found that humans social ability allowed them to cope and organize, avoiding the negative effects. So people probably didn't really see a strong need to continue studying it since it didn't translate well to human social issues.

I'd imagine if you wanted to study crowding and the effects of excessive unwanted social interaction (minus the moral issues of killing mice or recruiting humans), you could study some over crowded prisons.

[1] https://nihrecord.nih.gov/sites/recordNIH/files/pdf/2008/NIH...
I still like DAI. Nobody seems to have heard of it or remember it exists, but it's a stablecoin that doesn't rely on "trust me bro". It's soft pegged to the dollar through its algorithm. While the crypto world seems to have been almost entirely replaced people interested in and having a basic understanding of the technological side of it with people who want to get rich quick while understanding nothing, DAI has remained successfully pegged to the dollar. Not perfect but also not likely to take a permanent dump.
It's not hard to tell that it has not produced human-level intelligence, so the process outlined by naasking has not yet run into an insurmountable problem.
Neat! I'll wait till OPNsense is properly supported but otherwise a nice bang for the buck. Decent replacement for my EdgeRouter-Lite
1. doesn't this describe FTX just as well?

2. if they're not doing anything shady, how come they can't be more transparent than they are?
- Podman is more "free" than docker is
Exactly. "Illegal with a fine" is "Legal for a price." If the fine is less than the profit, then it's just another cost of doing business.

Edit: What's controversial about this statement? It's patently obvious, especially when you factor in the odds that your behavior will go unnoticed or unprosecuted. Do you people think I'm advocating this?!
They never credit the developers that wrote the libraries either, nor the researchers that came up with the algorithm, or von Neumann...
A really good book produced with the help of GPT / ChatGPT ?
Unsure if sarcasm or not.

How would you do anything?
Ant Group says no plan for IPO, focusing on business optimisation
I'm always interested in knowing how they got caught but there usually does not seem to be any information about that.
have been wondering for a while why HFTs exist when exchanges have holidays and trading hours [1]?

doesn't the sub-milisecond speed contradict to the several hours pause in trading?

wouldn't be possible to impose some kind of a delay (say an hour) on all participants?

[1] https://www.nyse.com/markets/hours-calendars
This is all correct with the caveat around how you want your "features" to be defined and how you want your "bugs" to be defined. Most notably, that's around the grid.

Implicit in your assumption is that the grid is reliable, always on, not subject to geopolitical or climate risks, etc. "Inefficiently" converting solar power into otherwise portable fuel might be a feature rather than a bug for those living in conditions where the central grid is often unreliable. Before the past few years, I'd say that would generally be countries in the global south, but we've seen a lot more grid instability even in the US as of late.
Adobe’s CEO Sizes Up the State of Tech Now
> We could construct an artificial continent in the Pacific Ocean with a nice crinkly coastline and everyone could live at the beach.

I'm from that crappy little country that makes islands for other countries: outside of the continental shelves I highly doubt that you could reclaim land unless you feel like living at the bottom of a very, very deep hole in the ocean and somehow I don't think that's the proposition that will get people enthusiastic. Plenty of visitors already freak out when they learn that NL is in many places more than 10 meters below sea level, and that's with relatively mild coastal weather. If you were to create a dike 100's of meters high (and where would you get the material without making the hole even deeper?) it will end up as something that would qualify as the biggest man made structure without the slightest competition, including the Great Wall.

This is engineering on a scale that is currently as far as I know impossible.
Life as a peasant was fine until it was not. If a flood or drought wiped out your crops, you were completely screwed. You might be able to get by with rationing or foraging, but you'd have to start over the next year weaker and demoralized. As populations grew, it becoming increasingly riskier to live off the land, which is why they moved to the cities where they can earn money that you can save in the case of an emergency.

You live in an age of excess, where you can always fall back on the welfare of others, so you can't imagine working 12 hour days in shitty conditions, but this is not the case for people who moved from hundreds, if not thousands of miles away to work in a factory. For them, an extra hour of work is an extra hour of security. The fact that billions of people made this move is evidence that rural life was that bad. Dismissing these incredibly thoughtful decisions as the result of capitalist propaganda completely dismisses their agency.
I'll be curious to see if text-to-3d is better than text-to-2d with some other 2d-to-3d process.

I guess text-to-3d offers the potential of automatically creating entire worlds with very little human/artist intervention. But text-to-2d matches current processes with more chances for an artist to intervene, and also has more training material for art styles.
Go find the HN equivalent of physics or "real" engineering and listen to people complain about their work? /s

Or just use your current skillset to work together with others on side projects or simulations related to those areas?

Eg. I am a programmer, but I love fighter jets, missiles, guided bombs and such. I will never get a job in those fields, can't pursue war and destruction as a hobby, so I do things like learn how missile/bomb guidance systems work - laser, GPS, radiation, heat seeking, etc and try to build mini, super low fidelity versions of those systems in my spare time. Think off the shelf microcontrollers and components on model rockets and projectiles dropped from consumer drones...

This has sort of scratched my itch for these things...see if you can find something similar that works for you?
Does anyone know of similar lists of best practices, but for humanities? E.g. for writing papers, study notes, presentation slides, etc.

I use org-mode to produce Latex, and find myself always needing to remove the TOC, for example. The borders are always too wide, etc.

This is one that has some nice tips, wondering if there are others: https://www.colinmclear.net/posts/teaching-notes/
Entertainment:
- Blindsight
- Children of Dune
- War and Peace

Curiosity/Knowledge:
- Peter Zeihan (author)
- Atomic Habits
- Turn the Ship Around

Work:
- Domain Modeling Made Functional by Scott Wlaschin
- Designing Data Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppman
Feel the same sometimes. However, I'm wondering if that isn't just a "the grass is always greener on the other side" kind of problem. Have you considered starting doing something in these fields as a hobby instead? Have always liked working with CS and EE, but after starting to work with it, it sometimes feels like it's becoming more of a chore than something fun.
That's the thing - no, they weren't. They were inspired by how neurons communicate with each other. But that's not "the workings of the human brain", you're making an incorrect abstraction, same with these AI.

Why should I believe you and move on? "making art for decades" doesn't make you an authority on any of the relevant subjects: "how art is processed in the brain" nor "how AI processes these images." I don't think you understand the fundamental differences between the process of looking up references/inspiration and kitbashing.
Thank you, didn’t know this existed
I wasn’t able to glean this from the article: -which- site?

Is the number cited the unique members across every federated server? Or is it just mastodon.social? Is there a way to determine membership across the fediverse?
You are equivocating throughout this thread: you accept that we developed an understanding of fire incrementally, and concurrently developed fire-based technologies, yet you insist it is different for intelligence, without giving any good reason to think so.
> Imagine someone let you into an alien spaceship they landed in your backyard, sat you at the controls, and encouraged you to fly the ship. This is the opportunity Medley Interlisp offers.

This is rare and great.
Agreed. There are definitely adverse effects to the markets from these practices.

Could it be that the conglomeration of the startups controlled or at least heavily influenced by a few dominant VC firms essentially creates an oligopoly in the tech startup world? In other words, these startups, which behave like monopolies by razing certain markets with low prices while losing money, are small tentacles of the huge vc firms that are funded by large stockholders of the FAANG oligopolies.
Teaching notes, slides, and handouts using org-mode and LaTeX (2021)
I’d amend that to “whichever of python or typescript you’re most comfortable in”, but otherwise agree
As a linux user in 2022, I think the touchpad is as good as the Mac one. It's different for sure, but my Thinkpad has an excellent touchpad with great buttons. I don't even agree with the premise that there's a problem in the software.
Ps, side question. How do you make the quoted part of the comment come out in a different font like that?
Heh. Yeah, I was thinking that any kind of home synthesis operation was unlikely to offer a financial payback. Hence the low aspirational cost, but you are right that figure is laughably low.

Ethanol - easier to synthesize than gasoline (which is a complicated mixture of hydrocarbons). It has ~2/3 energy density of gasoline, which I do not think is horrible. I believe it is also less volatile and easier to store long-term.
Never occurred to me until now that a capable artist may just have a lot more jobs available to him once the AI-to-image revolution will be fully rolling. E.g. some kid will create a video game with AI art, sell tons of it and then need artists to make the updates. In other words, AI facilitates entry to the digital art world which leads to the need of artists. It's like free samples.
This sounds like a nightmare
So stop buying their stuff. It's a simple as that. As long as everybody keeps buying it the ratchet will be tightened another couple of notches.
Unclear from the article, but what audio sources are they using? Is there a meaningful 5hz signal in my Blu-ray soundtrack?
Because that would be a series of tortuously long encyclopedias that nobody would read.
For a moment I thought this was the no-semi movement (standard JS) in the JS community at it again. Then realized The Atlantic probably isn’t covering the code style debate
*in mice.
Why Shane (Of Stuff Made Here on YouTube) Left Formlabs
Perhaps. But VCs prefer the first.
Oh, so like 2+2=5 now, because enough of people have repeated that phrase often enough that it's gained its own contextual meaning and thus is now a truth we should accept without questioning?