skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Unless Google is preventing others from purchasing compute or hard drives by buying up all of the supply, they are not performing any anti-competitive actions, which would not make them liable under any anti-trust statutes.

Would the massive subsidization of YouTube’s costs not count? There’s nothing physically preventing a competitor from buying storage and compute, but it’s pretty clear that it would be extremely difficult to compete with YouTube if every user has to pay the actual unit costs to upload, convert, and play videos.
My short introduction into the fab industry exactly echos this. Allowing US companies to turnaround prototypes quickly is a valuable business. Perhaps they aim to get a foothold with this and slowly ramp up to high volume manufacturing.
Googled Psypic and got pics of PSY.

Not disappointed.
> I think this is only a problem when people treat such accusations as evidence or proof of wrongdoing, which they absolutely are not.

There's the way we think the world should be, and then there's reality. Please let me know when you find the planet where this conversation takes place "Mr. Smith, the teacher, was just accused by a student of sexual assault. But it's just an accusation, there's no proof, so we'll begin an investigation, but in the meantime everything will go on as prior with Mr. Smith teaching his students."

And in fairness, if you had a kid in Mr. Smith's class, would you want him teaching your kid, even if the result was "Well, we did an investigation but we couldn't find any additional proof beyond the accuser's word, so all is back to normal."
When PayPal goes to make the withdrawal, the bank doesn't have to let them and give the account a negative balance. Usually you can turn off overdraft and withdrawals will bounce if the funds aren't there.

This doesn't stop PayPal from reversing a previous inbound transfer they decide shouldn't have happened, but it ought to stop PayPal unilaterally deciding they would like some of your money.
Seems like a perfectly cromulent word to me.
Estimated GDP of North-Korea is around $16B (2019); just for context.
I think Google just had an "oh shit" moment as it dawned onto everyone that we now (almost) have the technology to build personal assistants that actually work, and this could be the new tech that disrupts Google's business.

But now that the dust is settling, people are realizing that this technology is not flawless. We haven't fully 100% mastered it, there are unsolved problems, and maybe it's not quite ready for a broad deployment just yet.

That's normal. It's just the way the hype cycle works. People (and the media) quickly get really excited and build unrealistic expectations, then they become aware of the flaws and limitations. That doesn't mean these kinds of systems can't be better and even more useful in 1-2 years. There's a lot of really smart people working on them with many possible paths to address the current limitations.
Calling something tulip mania is the lazy way out. Tulip Mania was very limited in scale and didn't really affect much. Comparing each and every new trend, either legitimate or not, to tulips is nothing more than buzzword pattern matching.
That's on the revenue front and is indeed important. On the product front: some search and generally data processing technologies are similar or even identical in Search an YouTube (YT Search, but definitely not only that).
This great fun

Christianity

...If you need to use the hammer for a specific job, then yes, it would be a good idea to use the hammer in the morning. However, it is ultimately up to you to decide when to use the hammer.

Buddhism

...If you are looking to build something, then yes, you can use a hammer in the morning. However, if you are looking for a deeper spiritual understanding, then the answer would be different...

Islam

No, if you have a hammer, you should use it for its intended purpose...

Not overly convinced by its grasp of religious doctrine though. I asked for guidance on whether I should take out a loan at 5%APR to support my brewery and got back "If you are taking out the loan to support a legitimate business venture, and you are not taking on more than you can handle, then it may be permissible" for Islam. Though I did like it that atheism was the only "faith" to suggest shopping around for the best deal
Do you think that a real, ancient, stoic philospher would have been able to give a reasonable answer to that question?
This is inevitable, ethics won't stop most of the world from this research.
The advantages are too great for a nation state as well, from recent polls India is extremely pro designer babies.

Once one country opens this pandora's box, they all will.
Why, in this hypothetical, would the antitrust bodies see Amazon as needing to be broken up or otherwise restricted to improve competition, but not see acquisition by Disney as being something they should block?

That just doesn't seem internally consistent.
This is an interesting concept, really the direct opposite of how ownership of the company works (in america at least)

It would make a lot of sense in a worker owned business.
Skyrim. Feels weird to realize that it is now older than a decade.

My personal favourite though is probably Dragon Age Origins, very sad that none of the follow-ups managed to reach that level of gameplay/storytelling combination.
A 10% chance while Xi is president. Also, since he is now president for life with no successor in sight, things are bound to be very chaotic when he passes. Thankfully Chinese presidents seem to live a long time (Jiang just passed away a few months ago).
Maybe a few dozen.

Take the US Trident 2 [1]. Wikipedia lists a cost of $31 MM, in 2019 dollars, which would be about $37 MM today. With $1.3 BN you could buy 35 of those.

But the North Koreans are not buying their missiles from Lokheed-Martin. They are building them in house, so you'd expect them to pay much less for labor and materials.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UGM-133_Trident_II
Deno 1.31: Package.json Support
Really cool, and really scary at the same time. As a frequent VR user, it would make sense that my movements are unique enough to fingerprint me, but it's not something I've ever thought about.
I respect the Economist’s business columnist (Schumpeter) and tech columnist (Babbage) but this seems to be a case of Schumpeter writing about tech.

Leaving aside HN loving the idea of Big Tech being weakened by becoming Relatively Small Tech, I don’t see how this is in Alphabet’s or YouTube’s interest.

The article assumes that such a divorce would be simple and it would allow YouTube to focus on taking on TikTok. It sounds like the exact opposite to me. YouTube clearly shares a lot of infrastructure with the rest of Google, especially datacenters and ads. Instead of focusing on high leverage activity like improving product, they would spend their time figuring out how to split datacenters, ads products, internal tooling etc. Almost all of their software stack is maintained internally. They would need to fork it and staff all of these teams. All of this is time wasted, work duplication and cost increases.

Most of the rest is questionable claims. Like the claim that a post-divorce YouTube would be able to focus on subscription revenue. You mean like YouTube Premium, a subscription they’ve had for years? They’re not replacing ads with subscription, they need both, so they need to recreate whatever ads infra they were sharing.

The only argument that made any sense was that it would buy goodwill with regulators. This is because regulators also like the idea of Relatively Small Tech.

I feel like this article was started with that Wall St mentality of “I wish I could invest in YouTube without investing in the rest of it” and it somehow tries to justify the rest the divorce.

Really, if I had to think about what YouTube wants to do I’d say they have to beat TikTok at the recommendation game. To do that they need as much data as possible (even if that sounds distasteful to HN), meaning the entire profile that Google has built on each person. In what world does YouTube build better recommendations after voluntarily giving up access to this data?

I’m keen to read an argument that argues this is in the best interests of Alphabet and YouTube. Ideally something that goes into specifics rather than vague notions of “focus”.
We need some more info to get a clear picture. But I am going to assume the following: your baby monitor takes a 6 Volt DC input at around 0.4 to 1 Amps (like usual Vtech models). which means the power it consumes is from 3 Watts to 6 Watts.

I would definitely not plug in the 7 Volt adapter as if the current is too high it might damage the circuit.

Whether the 5 volt source can be used would depend on the current. If its a standard USB 5 Volt output most modern day ones are 2 Amps, which would mean the power output is 10 Watts, which may be too much for the circuit. If its 5 Volt, 1 Amp output then it might be okay to connect and test out without damage to the circuit.

What I would recommend is a DC to DC regulator or converter. Something like the following from amazon that would take an input of the 5 Volts and give you 6 Volts out. Make sure to test the output voltage and current with a multimeter before plugging into the monitor.

DC to DC buck converter from amazon: https://a.co/d/9jiA7Ls
It definitely was! I remember toying around with it on my OG Xbox for many hours on end when I was much younger.
The terminal tools of today are still extremely primitive compared to the TUI-based apps of the 1980s and early 1990s, not to mention networked BBS's that could be just as complex as any modern website. They came with entire UX interaction paradigms based on the terminal that have yet to be replicated on modern machines.
wah! I'm surprised to see my simple crawler here. thanks, for mentioning it :)
silly noob question about all these apps that frame GPT - is it just a case of passing some extra prompts to the GPT API when setting up?

Something like "Answer the following user question in relation to Judaism: **"

Or is there more involved?
Not really, by being a word used on a different country where they don't speak the language there is no space for confusion, it would be like trademarking "yonggan" in USA and saying that it is invalid because it means "bravery" in Chinese.
Reddit Thread Summary: The Most Common Misconceptions Amongst Junior Developers
ChatGPT, GPT4 Hype, and LLM-Native Products – With Logan Kilpatrick of OpenAI
Is there excess ingress in Google’s networks? I might have guessed the opposite.
> So, the same as Tailwind then?

Worse.

With Tailwind you have a consistent set of classes scoped usually per component. Thos p-x, m-x, and others don't change from component to component or from project to project.

Hell if I know what `.chip-text__content` is, how it's different from `.icon-button__content`, why it interferes with my CSS, and what other 15 CSS classes I need on top of that to make it work.
Of just don't use numeric pins. Use a passphrase: https://www.intego.com/mac-security-blog/if-hackers-crack-a-...
Could make a case that local retail is anticompetitive by not incorporating film production cost into a gallon of milk. Or maybe they’re anticompetitive because they have physical stores and do not need to bear the burden of labor/vehicle/fuel to deliver each order. I think it’s a bit absurd to call in the regulators. Retail is hyper competitive and part of that is they all choose these odd little perks/differentiators to entice customer loyalty. It’s a net positive to the consumer.
Garbage in, garbage out. The language model based it’s response on a vector input, where the values of the vector represent words in different positions. If you point the vector towards garbage, you’ll get garbage.

As a side note, if AI is a system that can self improve then most corporations are AI but language models are not.
Probably their turn to farm some karma.
Except that these layoff companies aren't exactly busting. They are still very profitable.
AI is just a way of absolving a human of responsibility. Responsibility for what? Anything - just put an algorithm in front of a person's decision and suddenly it's an objective immutable truth.
I get it. I can't even get my rust to run on armv7, it is built against a glibc way newer than is available for the board and I can't figure out how to fix it. So I'm using the c++ compiler on the board and being annoyed.
This is something charismatic youth pastor would say in a weird denomination that encourages getting tattoos.
I'm enjoying the explosion in editor software going on right now. Even if most of them don't survive or gain a large audience, I'm sure the cross-pollination of ideas will lead to some great improvements in those that do.
If you already have some idea of what you're looking for / in need of (as in talked to a therapist in the past), these language models can be a very good workbook, sounding board, self discussion tool.
I think that if you read their list of "Flaws of predictive optimization" as a primer for what developers of automated advisory or decision making systems ought to be thinking about, and ultimately be accountable for, then this is very useful. But then concluding that we should be "Against predictive optimization)" (Their choice of headline), and provide a gauntlet of 23 ways to de-legitimize a predictive algorithm (as in their linked rubric), all of which, in all likelihood, no algorithm can survive, it goes way over the top.

Predictive optimization is a necessary fact of life in many functions. The question is often not "should we do it," but "should we do it with a particular algorithm, in a particular setting?" The fundamental questions we should be asking, from the top down:

1) does making the prediction systematically, and well, serve a useful, desirable social purpose. That is, do accurate predictions actually do us a net good? This can be a hard question - using predictive algorithms to screen for adverse futures, given that all predictions, including human-based decisions, throw both false positives and false negatives, you have to weight whether the harm in false predictions is outweighed by the good in true predictions.

2) Does a machine algorithm improve on human judgement in the question and system in question? Machine algorithms don't have to be perfect to be better than human judgement, which is often abysmal when viewed on a system-wide basis.

3) Does the system into which the algorithm is being deployed provide reasonable mechanisms for detection, recourse and compensation for false predictions? Because, again, there will be false predictions.

A lot of the use of AI in social decision making that the authors criticize would flunk these questions. Not all, though.
This is an odd question. Is every child of every wealthy family entitled to buy their own expensive house in the same neighborhood? How exactly would that work in real life?
I’m a decent programmer. The Arduino superset makes microcontroller programming so much more straightforward. It’s mostly things like setting up the bit masks, or enabling the right peripherals, but I’m really pleased it’s there.
Wait... Atheism? How does one answer spiritual questions from an Atheist perspective? Surely that's impossible since the ethics and morals of an Atheist can't be drawn from a single source.
If the password manager injected anything else than a "paste password" button, for example anything that is a different product by the password manager authors... yes, same thing.
Same situation here - very excited particularly about no_std but it would be a big time investment on a framework/language I probably won't use professionaly. Still wanted to move away from Arduino/C++, found the sweet spot on MicroPython.
I am unsure whether I understand your point. Are you saying that widespread testing like this is the cause of the homeless drug pandemic in big cities?
Understandable, but if I’m getting ads because I’m not subscribed to things, I don’t want to suscribe to avoid those ads. I would likely pay a one time fee, but not yet another subscription.

I know you have your reasonings, but I’ll give you my raw unfiltered train of thought of why I wouldn’t sign up in case it helps you in your business:

“It’s only 30 bucks a year” say 100 other apps. I get it, you’re trying to make money, but there are many other ways of doing this for free. You’re not offering that much product to me that’s worth a subscription. Netflix? I actively use it every night. Spotify? Several hours a day. Blocking ads? Maybe a one time fee.
Interesting to note that one of the major signs of 'the hour' in Qur'an has apparently come to pass, rather quietly. The "insectoid creature" that arises from Earth (read: purely material) "that will speak to them". [This is likely the wrong forum for this bit of exegesis but hey, FYI!]
Same. I almost flagged it, but I figured it would attract some good negative comments that might be instructive for others.
Probably more hours of work to produce each one, but at a substantially lower hourly rate.
Pffffft. What a misleading title.

How about “Businesses flee onerous California laws; N. Nevada welcomes them”
SCOBY is basically a waste product from producing kombucha, you have to remove an amount from each batch which (in the case of home brewing) is usually given away to others for free or discarded, not sure how they handle it with industrial-scale kombucha making. So this could be more of a clever recycling that doesn't produce any more CO2 than was already being produced during the making of kombucha.
I like the use of “statists” to negatively refer to people who use facts to support their arguments.
FWIW, it's biodegradable but it doesn't dissolve in water. If you've never handled a kombucha scoby, it's very rubbery and tough.
Does tinygo support esp32? It looks like an accessible option as well.
Yea, I think it should be allowed to advertise in another brand, but it should draw heightened scrutiny.

If the ad at all appears to originate from the company that is the target of the ad keyword it should be rejected or require verification that it’s from the company.

Google could even charge a $10 “review fee” for ads placed directly on competitors keywords (per ad treatment, not per ad treatment per keyword) to discourage this behavior from scammers
Sure, there are two possible coherent responses that would be consistent with modelling the thinking of an ancient stoic philosopher, depending on your modelling philosophy:

1) Actually model their knowledge boundaries (modulo the language of interaction) -> "What is ethylene glycol?"

2) Assume for the purposes of making this fantasy interaction more useful, a more modern knowledge base -> "One should obviously not serve ethylene glycol, it is a toxin".

"Pair it with ocean foods" is just the dipshit word generator approach -- "Get advice from a stoic philosopher if he had just been hit in the head with a boat oar".
If they’re ingesting the web as frequently as my Apache logs say, I would guess the imbalance is high
Key Fed inflation measure rose 0.6% in January, more than expected
People who think like that are exactly the kind of people I don't want around, among many reasons is that I'm certain that the cities where they are the majority are not doing well compared to their neighbors.
Ok, so lets split the conversation into fine art versus generic commercial art and design we see everywhere.

Because as I see it, this is how the future is splitting out. This goes back to the blacksmith producing unique items. People still buy things like to this day and pay a healthy sum of money for it. But this is not the economy either, the vast majority of consumption is items that are mass produced with as little human interaction as possible. I don't see it in any way controversial that large chunks of this market will be automated away.

And example of this is in game asset design. There is a still a lot of manual human work here, but the workflows are being highly automated by 'smart' tools. I can promise you that my friend in this industry don't want to color in 50 bajillion pieces in an armor set. The tools for transfering things like style across multiple pieces massively reduce the workload. And as time goes on I expect we'll see these tools affect other areas of art. Another good example is music. A single artist can produce and distribute their own digital music easily. Entire portions of the music can be handed off to tools to put in things like drums and such.

Now when you're playing a game, or in the elevator listening to whatever's being piped out of the speaker, do you think about or care about if it's made by a human or not? It won't stop you from buying a human painted mural for your wall. You'll still listen to your favorite human artist. But expect huge swathes of the ambient art/design/possibly music around you to be automated in one form or another.
It's just one article by one writer about a few anecdotal examples of ChatGPT failures which highlight current limitations that anyone interested in the space should be aware of. It's useless noise and not an indicator of anything.
Cue the people implying that blocking YT's ads is a form of theft.

I'd gladly pay for ad-free YT, mostly to send the message that I will never ever go back to watching ads. The problem is that google is already stealing my data.

Where is the stalker-free option? Of course, I'd never trust google anyway...
One other thing. The article states pythons performance at keys-per-second, then all the other numbers are given in keys-per-minute. That means that pythons number looks really small in comparison, but if we take it (500 kps) and multiply it by 60, we get 30k keys-per-minute, or about 50% faster than the first CUDA baseline.

Now I'm quite fond of python, but largely I read this as the CUDA implementation having quite some room for improvement. Having almost no CUDA experience of my own, that is just a hunch, which I'm glad rfoo supports with (surely) a lot more experience than me.
The Oculus Quest 2 released at the same time as Xbox Series S/X and PS5. It's sold 15 million units, while the Xbox has sold 20 million and the PS5 has sold 30 million.

While it's less than those two, it's still a very respectable number and incredibly high considering it doesn't have any of the major studios releasing their AAA games on it.
Many were saying crypto/blockchain/NFT (will refer to the cluster as "web3") was a bubble all along. Most notably, the Hacker News "hivemind" had a markedly anti-web3 lean for at least the last four years.

It might've seemed like there were more positive voices for web3 because many people stood to gain monetarily from it. It was more "democratized" in that way. With AI, there is a bigger moat and it's unclear whether there's big money to be made by anyone other than those who already own the underlying tech or have tens of billions to catch up.
Why swearing is a sign of intelligence, helps manage pain and more
Good luck, love the concept of leveraging traces for testing!
Speaking from experience, definitely not.
I don't think we really need more LotR. I'd prefer studios pick up other fantasy properties.

The lack of a good Earthsea adaptation is kind of depressing and it makes more sense than ever to take another crack at it given Hollywood's newfound commitment to racial diversity in media.
Don't people use adblockers anymore? I swear there was a time where EVERYONE used one, what happened? And why are there now people that seem to actively avoid adblockers?

This is one of the reasons why I don't want to see ANY ads. I don't care if an ad doesn't track me, I don't want to see it because it can still be harmful.
Hinduism, Buddhism and Sikhism are all separately practiced in higher numbers than Judaism
> Garbage in, garbage out. The language model based it’s response on a vector input, where the values of the vector represent words in different positions. If you point the vector towards garbage, you’ll get garbage.

Yes thank you for rephrasing my point.