skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looking at other popular JS projects, they monetise by basically creating a ‘cloud’ offering which is just re-selling AWS resources in a highly specialised way.
Only among "racial purists" is immigration seen as the drive force of pessimism.

Most of society view politicians and the failed project of neo-politics responsible for this development.
You don't need to accept that license to download and read the code.

A license allows new uses that copyright would otherwise block. Some kinds of AI training are fully local and don't make the AI into a derivative work, so they don't need any attribution and you don't need to accept the license to distribute.
Inverted pyramids don't last, and growing GDP at this level serves to benefit the rich, not citizens. If the Japanese don't struggle to find jobs and afford cost of living, if they have quality of life, what is the significance of a stagnant GDP?
Classic: a billionare who never worked in his life wants to fire everyone or wants them to get min wage.

The funny thing is his whole investment in google is just a tiny tiny fraction
Dark patterns are frowned upon here on HN.

Letting the user upload dozens of images and only after that telling them they need an account. Not good.
Yeah; I think far, far too many people think that the decline of a company like Google would look like a near-immediate collapse into either irrelevance or outright destruction.

That's not remotely realistic. It's much more likely to look like what's happened to IBM since the rise of personal computing: its special "no one ever got fired for buying it" status goes away, and while it may linger as a company that still provides a product and/or service to other companies (those it's managed to make itself indispensable to), it may shrink, and its popular image fade, for a number of years. Given the differences in Google's portfolio vs IBM's, I'd say there is more of a chance that Google would eventually collapse down to nothing, or nearly so, but it would still take a good while for that to happen.
There are communists who believe in accelerationism as much as there are white supremacists who believe in it. Basically "destabilize the current status quo to provoke an outright war, and then we win that war and take over".
He's lived in Japan for a decade, been married and divorced to a Japanese national, has several kids there, and speaks Japanese pretty well.
There are a vast many important and meaningful questions someone can type into Google that don't have a single factual answer. At that point, credibility, sourcing etc all matter a lot and misinformation is dangerous.
I would posit that it's more Microsoft freaking out over ChatGPT than Google. MSFT will never get that $10 billion back.
Haha you and hundreds of thousands of others I expect - Turmills and Fabric closed down a long time ago now (late 00’s I think?)
Coz those countries will get to same slump in decade or three, and meanwhile you're just increasing public unrest because the vastly different cultures very rarely mix well
"Reunification" would only be even in the realm of possibility of a correct term if the KMT took control of PRC territory. Since the CPC has never ruled Taiwan, it's nonsensical to say unify or reunify.

In any case that's impossible, the kmt government that once ruled is gone. It's been replaced by a government that held the name but is Democratic, and the KMT party has been losing power ever since then. The people have clearly decided to detach themselves from that way of doing things.

Furthermore, given the identities of the people in the PRC and Taiwan, any term involving "unify" is just engaging in cultural propaganda. The taiwanese identify as taiwanese, and lately as distinctly anti-chinese (binary oppositional development is an important sociological concept, see the difference between femininity and masculinity in many cultures, or, the French vs the English cultural identities), the PRC people identify as chinese, these cultures and preference for forms of governance are too different to "unify."

If one government rules both of these people anytime soon it will have been imperialism, plain and simple.

"China" died at the end of the Qing dynasty imo, since then it's just been a couple han supremacist governments weaponizing the term to leverage nationalist sentiment. There's no more Chinese nationalism in Taiwan so it won't work here anymore (despite even older taiwanese government officials blundering around with han supremacist presumptions even today). I think it's still working in the PRC and that's why they're allowed to do cultural genocide there without much pushback from their citizens.
Perhaps they should only have headcount to keep the service running. Twitters value proposition is still exactly the same as it was 10 years ago, and removing any new features since would not be noticed by most. Developing new features once the initial success has come could be considered making it worse if anything (e.g. reddit). Isn't the lack of new features one of the reasons we like HN?
Why though? It’s not like they need the money in the short term. They have almost $200 billion in cash. For the majority of Google’s departments the need for employees isn’t tied to demand.

Google desperately needs to find another money printer, and ostensibly they staffed up to help them do it. That hasn’t changed, and Google‘s workload won’t drop noticeably in a recession outside of a few departments.

And even in the those departments, they have so much still growing cash on hand, that they’d probably be better off to weather the storm the lay off only to rehire in a year.
I find it either so naive or just to be a self-relaxing attempt to blame the gamer instead the game itself. Attacking and blaming those individuals or those patciular campanies which play the game as the rules are set, have always been easier than criticising corny capitalism we are living in.
Virtue signaling over individuals or particular companies like this have always been a comfortable spot to be rather than trying go for the real reasons such as crony capitalism indeed is incentivizing everyone in the game to drop everything else but just what's written in the law related to morals or anything about being a human and just focus on the profit.
In most of the times those individuals know all the rules they are given so good that they even calculate the penalties if they break them and they do so if breaking them is more profitable than paying for them.
Yet we the people working under this rule feeling so accomplished pointing at fingers to those while all we do is distracting ourselves and everyone else from the real reasons not realizing doing so is just the same thing as sending "thought and prayers" to the ones who lost their jobs and mostly lost about their future, at least for a while.
Or just use

git diff —-word-diff
First off, your tone is bad.

ML is currently capable of the tiger case you mention. It’s generally called “few-shot” or “one-shot” learning. In the context of an image generation model, having never seen a tiger before, if you show it a few pictures of a tiger, it could immediately draw you thousands of tigers in any variation or scenario you can think of, which is way more than a child can do.

As for the need to train on millions of images for the base model, I believe you are trying to say something about “sample efficiency”, and how ML differs from the brain in this regard outside of the few/one-shot contexts (which ML is absolutely capable of). I would argue that sample efficiency of the brain is actually also quite low, much lower than people assume. It’s irrelevant to an argument that ML is not superior, because ML is clearly is capable of learning richer, more effective representations in a shorter wall time than we can, whether it is sample efficient or not. And in the sample efficient few/one-shot contexts (learning what a tiger looks like from one picture), it also outperforms humans in speed accuracy and creativity. It’s not even close.

As for classification errors, ML is capable of some errors we are not, actually by virtue of being superior at learning representations we are not even close to being capable of learning. But those are edge cases, and they are fixed by various means. In the main cases, ML outperforms humans in speed, accuracy and class complexity, all exponentially.

You said something about graph approximation but it doesn’t make a lot of sense. I’m talking about learning and you’re complaining that machine learning is not “logical reasoning”. Whether ML is currently capable of logical reasoning is another discussion. Certain models do demonstrate some types of it today.

“Graph approximation” is a type of learning task. ML is a billion times better than humans at it so it also doesn’t help you argue that ML isn’t superior (in that regard).
One day, Google may also need the work that $36B would have accomplished to survive.
CNBC talking heads, economists, etc. have been calling for one. Better to prepare now. By the time the recession is confirmed it will probably be over anyway.
> I'm not sure OCR counts as AI

This is a great example of the AI effect where people would call something AI when it was a daunting research problem but give it another label once it’s working:

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

In this case, Apple’s modern OCR is a complex neural network system which I think most people would class as an AI tool. It’s notably better than traditional approaches which were optimized for business documents.
The same company that stopped officially maintaining their golang library when it wasn't getting "the growth we were hoping for".

https://github.com/prisma/prisma-client-go/issues/707
Microsoft used to deliver Solitaire as a little toy for computers that had 20Mb harddisks.
While we're not in a recession, I agree with your point. It sucks for the people it happened to, but the big tech layoffs so far have been minor compared the headcount growth the last couple of years. Economy wide, unemployment is at record lows. Step outside big tech and companies are still struggling to find talent.

There's also an argument that big tech keeping a bunch of people on payroll when they don't need to slows down overall growth in the industry as it makes it harder for startups to find talent.
I'm guessing Ruby or Rails hurt him.
Would you give me 2% of your salary if I asked you to? This isn’t intended to fix every problem, right away. This is a single measure. By the way, the fine you referenced is also calculated using a percentage of revenue: https://competition-policy.ec.europa.eu/antitrust_en
Is housing in Japan affordable? From what I have heard, it might be OK outside major cities, but the most desirable jobs seem to be overwhelmingly centralized in those cities.
Hello!

I couldn't find this information on the website, what DEM do you use for othorectification?
The Abrams uses the Honeywell AGT1500, which runs on jet fuel, gasoline, diesel and marine diesel:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeywell_AGT1500

Poland already has Abrams tanks and is buying more, so there is infrastructure. I also assume that Poland buys Abrams because they work in that kind of environment, which is similar to Ukraine's.

Fact is, both the U.S. and Germany are reluctant to ship, so excuses are being used. Germany is the easy target of scorn, so the press talks about Leopards.
I kind of like this version better than the altruistic fantasy. It’s a capitalism-driven win-win for Johnny and the settlers.
I don't understand why they freak out.

Every single time I have used ChatGPT (which isn't many), it gave me an absolutely unusable answer completely off the mark.

It's funny to see FAANG CEOs have FOMO over what is essentially smoke and mirrors.
Consider All Microservices Vulnerable – and Monitor Their Behavior
Blimey that was a sombre read. I thoroughly like Japan, the impeccable cleanliness and politeness, stiff and formal on the outside, but on the inside quite caring.

I haven't spent nearly as much time there as I'd like. 3 weeks/year or so for the last 10-15 years. But this article is not wrong on at least some accounts. The one super obvious thing is their aging population, and shrinking farming life. Towns are shadows of their former selves, and outside of tourism, you ask what people do, and you get mumbles about "not much", vague gestures towards the farms, or simple silence.
Would this withstand an energetic EM pulse?

E.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_electromagnetic_pulse
The actual technical recession that started in Summer 2022 and then ended the next quarter could still have lingering effects, couldn't it?
I also spent some time in Japan. I want to push back on this:

- my wife found her job opportunities and career growth severely limited by the heavily patriarchal culture, beyond anything I have ever seen in the West

- there is vast discrimination against foreigners in housing and many other aspects, more so than in most Western countries

- like the author mentioned, students in Japan (I taught at a university) were less worldly and less knowledgeable about things going on outside Japan, extending into even their direct professional activities

- there is an abnormal amount of nepotism. It is incredibly difficult to start your own business without connections (there is basically no startup economy) and it is equally hard to advance in a large company without being related to someone important
I mean, IMO he’s right for the wrong reasons. The head count of Big Tech companies is - to me - absurd. I…imagine that there are some negative societal precipitations of orgs being that big, of all of that human effort pouring into some shit Google is going to - at best - launch and axe a moment later, instead of something with more use and longevity, all subsidised by squeezing more and more from their ad business.

I don’t give a rats about Google’s profitability though. Even if Google’s engineering ranks are filled with incredibly privileged highly paid people, I’m all for them sucking the company dry if it perturbs people like this investor.

I’ve also got the privilege of nobody caring what I think. If there were an iota of a chance that me writing this comment changed the head count at Google, I’d keep my mouth shut.

This guy can suck a lemon.
Macron wants €400B to ‘transform’ France’s forces through 2030
Second question: the area I'm interested in has notoriously bad DEMs (including Tandem-x), is it possible to download images that are not orthocorrected?
Didn't even mention YouTube.

Google is so big and diverse it's easy to forget all its major bits.
Are they actually the reasons for your move, or are they post-hoc justifications, and how would you know?
I doubt it puts us to shame on how failure is dealt with within Japanese culture.

Or how kids from gaijins keep being one for their whole life, even if born and raised in Japan.

Or work to death culture.
sub optimal for what?

in a boom market you optimize for growth: spend some more to be ready to take on the next big thing.

with a looming recession you optimize differently.

basically they are showing they are prioritizing according to changing climate
This is why I use no ORMs and use mysql like a man.
How is it "rent seeking" to state the fact that Alphabet has too many employees, and is overpaying them.

It's been a continuing meme on hacker news for the last decade, that Google/alphabet hoover up all the talent in the market and pay them "f*ck you money" with golden handcuff stock vesting schedules, in order to keep them off the job market and out of competitor's hands. that's been the understanding of the situation for 10 years.

Alphabet has hoovered up some 180+ small businesses that threaten their monopolies over the last decade, only to throw away all the IP and bench the employees, just to keep their markets intact.

Those are things to be upset about, and much more serious and manipulative business practices. Don't be upset that an investor has just pointed out Alphabet's bullshit and wants them to course correct, now that the free money has dried up, and you can no longer afford to feed an army of useless rest'n'vest employees.

And the Overton window has absolutely nothing to do with this conversation.
Outrageous salaries are part of FAAMG’s* moat. It’s very hard to lure a googler away to your startup when you can only afford to pay them half their current salary. And even if said googler is interested, their lifestyle is now depends on that salary.

* I don’t count Netflix as in league with the others
> combined with the fact that search in general has plummeted in quality

Every time this comes up I am baffled. I have not noticed a single drop in the quality of results.

Every time someone said that and shared their search methodology, it became very apparent that the problem was not with Google.
Tik Tok is slowly being banned. And for good reasons.
Delimited files are hell– a comparison of methods to read bad files
A comparison of duckdb, PostgreSQL, pandas, readr, and fread when reading a delimited file with strange data.
2% of an individual's salary isn't the same as 2% of a megacorp's revenue. Also, I 100% would if it meant 12k people kept their jobs.
What’s disgusting about it? I do not see anything objectionable in the Wikipedia article.
An update regarding this thread:

I received a pull request that adds pixelated rendering to the game canvas: https://github.com/susam/invaders/pull/4

I have merged it now. Thank you, everyone, for the discussion regarding retro-style rendering on this thread.
Japan is completely unequipped to take immigrants at any significant scale. It’s a delicately balanced society that depends heavily on people being socialized into the same rules from birth. Even if Japan could socially and economically integrate those immigrants, which is doubtful, it wouldn’t be Japan anymore. Tokyo would become like London or New York or Toronto, chaotic places where nobody knows the rules because they just got there five minutes ago.

Indeed, it’s doubtful to me that immigration is a fix even for Western Europe. Most European countries have failed to integrate their growing Muslim populations. They’ve imported an underclass, one that’s going to be increasingly furious that they’re stuck in socioeconomic ghettos. For whatever reason, European countries are starkly different from the United States, where immigrant groups have long enjoyed similar economic mobility to the native born (which continues to be true for the contemporary wave of Latin American immigrants).

More generally, it just outsources the problem to immigrants. You’re compensating for a culture that has become broken in a key respect by importing people from a culture that isn’t b
They could get multiples of that $10B back if they sold it to investors now.

Remember, in today's world you don't even need a viable product to make loads of money.
>you would reduce education levels, make people poorer, and raise religiosity.

The important part of this is making sure women lose their agency over having children by both removing access to effective contraception and their financial independence.
The trick is to capitalise on their inevitable early death!
"In order to change an existing paradigm you do not struggle to try and change the problematic model. You create a new model and make the old one obsolete."

Transcribing this profound insight of Buckminster Fuller to the current debate: You cannot out-do google by inventing "smarter" search. You need to create a new business model that makes the old one obsolete.

Is there any evidence that all this algorithmic magic is enabling new business models that are not based on adtech more likely? It would be a blessing (presumably, because things can always drift further into evil) but, so far at least, there is little to point to such an imminent disruption
Not an answer to your question, but just to shed light on the framing, it's slightly more abstracted than just a Node ORM - firstly it's Javascript and you can use it with any runtime other than Node, but it currently works with Go too and I believe their goal is to offer more languages in the future.

It's also a bit more abstracted on the 'data' side too. They offer a web interface, Prisma Studio, that abstracts over the physical database actually being used to allow you to do CRUD on the data. I think this is pretty useful.

In my mind (no connection to the company or knowledge beyond being a user) the business to be found there is in being the aggregation and intermediation layer of databases of different services, accessible to people with and without technical skills, in a uniform way.
Billionaires in blue states face coordinated wealth-tax bills
To be fair to both of you, yes it's a ludicrous proposal but also yes governments might enact it anyways.

Most laws these days seem useless at best, Orwellian at worst.
This will be an entrenched recession. We can’t do QE without exacerbating inflation and we can’t tighten without being unable to service debt.
>But must this happen? Can't the developed countries perhaps pass their developed traits on to other up-and-coming countries to also stabilize and then slow their growth, and eventually we arrive at a stable and peaked, or perhaps smaller global pop the planet can actually more easily sustain with a sensible energy mix?

Not if you promise the productivity of people in future generations to the current generation, but then find out the productivity of people in future generations falls short (perhaps due to insufficient people).
C'mon. Suboptimal would be having staff be off by 20%-30%-50%. Google laid off what - 6%?

It's terrible for the people laid off, but from a company standpoint that falls within normal fluctuation range.
> It’s notably better than traditional approaches which were optimized for business documents.

I'm not sure I agree, primarily because "better" is subjective.

A pipeline with template matching is extremely effective at extracting fixed form text in a standard layout, such as telephone numbers or credit cards, and computationally cheap as well.

But I presume a drop-in black box model which isn't bound to a low computational budget, can output plenty of false negatives and false positives, and can run on a single pipeline might be preferable at least from a product management point of view.

Also, neural networks looks good on resume while template matching doesn't. Just like statician/image analyst looks lukewarm but AI engineer looks superb.
> Example 2: ... The zoo attendants have a $1000 pool going and you have to bet on which baby will weigh the most when born.

There are some games that have a single property that is clearly sortable, like weight. In this case clearly the there is one winner. (Actually, here you have a distribution of weight, like the average and the dispersion. So it may be more complicated.)

There are more complicated games. When I was young we had cards with the properties of cars, like weight, length, price, and other stuff. The game was to pick the card at the top and pick a property, and compare with the same property of the top card of the other player. Some cards were stronger than other. I don't remember the strongest card, but I guess there was one. Anyway, that card didn't win against all cards, it was just good against most card, but you could be unlucky if it was at the top of your deck and the other player selected one of the bad properties of the best card.
>They are a MegaCorp that is so monopolistic and dark (design) in its behaviours

You mean the once self claimed most righteous Do No Evil company and now currently the 2nd most righteous company are monopolistic and employ dark design patterns?
Again on the Quartz64 SATA
So that's more like half of responsibility in total
Yea, actually I tried and it worked on other pages. That's why I got pissed and suspicious at Twitter. I deleted and reinstalled Chrome and now it's working fine :shrug:
I don't think this is an "An unexpected benefit", I do it like for a long time conceit, that idea is based on "The Hemingway bridge" idea from the Nobel prize winner of literature in 1954.

I wrote about it a few months ago called it "1. Always go home with a broken build"