skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Generally agree - but I'd argue current AI hype is centered around LLMs. The area is moving so fast DALL-E and Stable Diffusion are more-or-less old news in terms of attention (which is kind of ridiculous but indicative of where we already are). I still love them, and HN still loves them, but you're not going to see a DALL-E or SD focused story in the Wall Street Journal these days. The most recent DALL-E focused WSJ article was over a month ago (and it was about the controversy surrounding theft/use of work to train). The most recent WSJ article focused on ChatGPT was 43 minutes ago. At this point that's a lifetime in AI land.

Additionally, most consider DALL-E to be vastly superior to SD and between this and the technical challenges of making use of SD I think it's an exaggeration to say the DALL-E moat has been "destroyed".

Yes, eventually an open "close enough" ChatGPT equivalent will likely exist. However, the resources required to practically utilize it will likely be at least 10x compared to SD (from consumer GPU to multiple A100/V100/H100 80GB VRAM level). That's a significant barrier leap.

Meanwhile, by that time OpenAI and the other big players I referenced will be sucking the oxygen out of the room with whatever other significant developments they unleash unto the world.

I, for one, would love to see more open models and weights but for obvious monetary and resource reasons the big players will almost certainly always be a few steps ahead. Open models and weights are still a great thing for those of us that can make something of them but it's already a two-tier ecosystem and that gap is likely to continue to grow.
Politically me and Trudeau are very far apart, he is very much further left than I am. I just don't think youthful indiscretions that harm no one and are not criminal in nature should haunt someone for the rest of their lives.
An open source project I'm involved with is thinking about its communications future, since we're currently on Google Groups and have been nervous about it for a while.

The leading contenders for us are either groups.io for a more email-list-focused setup, or Discourse, for a more web-forum focus but that has a (hopefully decent?) email-only interface.

For "realtime" chat, which we don't really do today but are getting pressured to have something, we are thinking gitter.im

Most of us grew up on either Usenet or Majordomo/Mailman lists and still have an email-first preference, since once the message is delivered anyone can handle it in their own workflow and with their own tools.
> Alcohol is no longer fine?

Parent is clearly referring to Prohibition
It isn't. Free movement of people hasn't been a thing since the invention of civilization. You needed seals/papers to get in/out of city-states, duchies etc. They reference passport-like paperwork in the bible. I know history is boring, but it doesn't hurt to try it sometime.
Here! Using on an old mom's laptop and it does the work!
_all_ PDF features are complicated as hell apart from the "Export to PDF" feature of your word processor :D
If he approaches her without bowing.
I was going to make a joke about bees on the blockchain, but it looks like it's actually a real idea...

https://urbanbeelab.org/projects/the-future-of-food-saving-t...
Because TSMC is the fab that can mass produce today the highest density transistor count.
> The down payment required by banks before regulation was often 30% or more.

I am talking about lending before regulation. High down payments were not universally applied, so yes sometimes a loan might require 40% but other borrowers might offer nothing. My point is you can’t simply say the required amounts were excessively high some of the time because they weren’t universal and selected based on a perception of risk.

It’s not just regulation at play here, the government has decided to reduce bank’s risks while also subsidizing home loans. Net result is more home owners but also much longer mortgages. https://www.thetruthaboutmortgage.com/wp-content/uploads/201...
I don't think the FBI cares about TikTok, to be honest. It seems like we're entering a period of posturing against the Chinese, using implicit 'sanctioning' methods:
- Banning TikTok
- Accusing them of the COVID lab leak theory
- Posturing with Taiwan

Seems were just building a substrate for... something. Not to sound too conspiratorial. ;)
And we know what happens when you flip the disk to side 2.
TikTok is a threat in many ways:

* The extent to which TikTok tailors content, normalization of over-simplified content, ease of creating content and other factors make it great for radicalization. As well as extremist groups, this applies to more regular protest movements and generally an active citizenry, which is not in the interest of the feds.

* It has encouraged regular crime and idiocy. For example it spread knowledge of the Kia/Hyundai ignition bypass, and is full of pseudomedical nonsence.

It also serves as a useful scapegoat.
> However when the mirrors are mass produced and cheap and you have no control over their place in your life,

you have control to not use this application. It's not like you're forced to use it. You can also go there casually to see your friends pictures without thinking too much about it.
On Availability Cascades
huge, huge fan of Eugene's blog. he is almost singlehandedly documenting the industry SOTA of dozens of ML efforts in practice, doing the hard work of collating, comparing and contrasting between published posts from various companies. Work that you'd have to do yourself if you were tasked to do something like this, but now you have an authoritative, well researched/argued source. For free. (I mean i guess you could also pay him for extra consulting)

I think every sub-industry needs a Eugene.
An open research project about period apps
- Whether you win or lose a dispute, card networks charge Stripe a fee in either case. To cover these costs, starting June 1, Stripe will no longer return the $15 dispute fee for successfully contested disputes. The dispute fee itself is not changing.

Wow.... So if your product is under $15, it no longer makes sense to fight a dispute and let the customer lie to their card issuer?
You need to get root in first place. Good luck trying to crack any pledged process running something outside it's allowed syscalls without being ABRT'd in zero time.
Human crops are generally pollinated by livestock bees, not feral pollinators.

If we depended principally on natural produce, most of us would have starved to death long ago. Forget about the bees; just think about the Haber-Bosch process.
> By comparison, solar and wind seem like classic "worse is better."
> I know the HN crowd loves big engineering, and that in theory all these problems could be solved with enough investment and practice building plants etc., but I think in the messy world of reality micro generation is going to swamp everything else in the very long run.

Trying to get solar and wind to reliably provide baseload will likely be a big engineering project too (assuming it can be done). I also like the idea of smaller power generation sites. I think it would be really healthy if we had a mix of small nuclear, gas, and renewables, so we're not reliant on one thing. We need a bit more overlapping capacity in our grids.
I'm fully on the Apple ecosystem nowadays so don't feel this pain anymore, but I would have used this before. Not sure if I would have paid for it though
Stripe pricing and sales tax updates for businesses based in the United States
Money is but one piece to ensure longevity. How many people even work at groups.io? What's their business continuity plans in case the founder or someone critical to the team dies, either due to old age or some sort of tragedy? Or becomes tired of running it?

I'm not convinced it's preferable - people get old and tired of running a thing, or undergo some big life event that changes their priorities, and it's so tiresome to find a successor. Groups.io doesn't have the kind of transparency for me to trust in its longevity. (I am in a group or two hosted there though.)

Meanwhile, large tech can keep something running well past the initial creator's interest as waned. Sergey Brin and Larry Page left Google 20 years after they founded it, but I doubt they've had the same passion for new algorithms to improve Internet search for far longer. Despite that, Google is going to be around for a long time. Can you say that about groups.io? I don't even know who the CEO is or where the company is based.

In the case of google groups, the important thing to realize is that Google is from an older era of the Internet, when people used mailing lists to keep in touch and wrote long form posts rather than pictures on Instagram. So dropping support for mailing lists simply would not work with the current company culture, and something deep ingrained into a company's culture is difficult to change, especially as new employess get steeped into that culture.

I'm not going to deny the idea that Google Groups it's been "left to die", but I'd expect to see a facelift and a upgrade to Google Groups long before it dies, simply because it's an important dogfood product.
I wonder what happens if you have a DIY, FOSS, local setup with full disk encryption on the footage storage drive, and you simply refuse to give up your password for the footage.

At least in some states¹ in the USA, police cannot compel you to give up a password².

¹ https://www.reuters.com/business/legal/us-supreme-court-nixe...

² https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28955830
> "the Chinese/Russian/Turkish way of governing has won, freedoms are no more"

Banning foreign apps != allowing only state controlled apps.
Parents and other older adults have a moral responsibility to explain career realities to youths so that they can make informed decisions. For most people following their dreams and passion is a bad idea because they lack the necessary talent and discipline (and luck). Any job related to sports, art, entertainment, or fashion is likely to be terrible because most of the leaders in those industries are just fundamentally broken and toxic people (often outright narcissists or psychopaths). That is the reality, and no amount of social pressure or stricter labor laws will change it.

If a young person really wants to pursue a career as a fashion designer or video game programmer or classical oboeist then go ahead and good luck. They just need to understand that the most likely outcome is failure followed by a painful transition into another career.
Since no one has specifically mentioned it yet.. OpenBSD has had the ability to do FDE from installer since FDE was added to OpenBSD (sometime prior to 2007).. This change makes it more convenient.
I have to think it's along the lines of the Strava fitness app data used to create a heat map of the positions of US military personnel.

Only a lot, lot worse.
I feel like the FBI has politicized quite a bit since Comey.
Well, you can verify if it is sending all data all the time, or only when you invoke it for a request.

I believe most people are uncomfortable with all data being sent all the time, but more okay with sending some data in the exact cases they choose, since they have control.

So I'd argue that the extension being open source helps a lot.

You're right that it doesn't guarantee anything for how the server is behaving in the case that you do invoke it though. For that we'd need either transparency into that source code and server operations, or, more likely, a strong privacy policy and maybe SOC2 or other certifications.

I believe the reason XP1 is subsidizing this right now is to grow their user base to attract investors, and as they develop their LLM platform, and then probably charge for business users down the road, but they don't seem to state that intention as clearly as they could.
i'm building a couple of planter boxes in my backyard specifically to plant native wild flowers. it will merely be a drop in the bucket, but it's what i can do where i'm at currently. i'm hoping to see any type of insect attraction. i have a running water fountain that i see bees coming to drink, so i'm really hoping wild flowers will attract them as well as the butterflies.
> "Stripe will no longer return the $15 dispute fee for successfully contested disputes."
My dad on family dinner last week :D
> Why do you think relocating everything to the West would be feasible or solve anything?

> a naive view of globalisation

I am talking about jobs in Western societies which were relocated elsewhere. And I admit that my views might be naive. But it is on you to convince Western middle class that shipping their jobs overseas, without an equally good job or social safety net lined up, is actually better for them. If you are just going to move jobs in the name of efficiency and let the Western labor rot and fend for itself, you are going to get Trump, Le Pen, AfD and Brexit.

In this whole thread, I still haven't seen a compelling case about how getting some goods cheaper / better is a worthy tradeoff to moving my stable job overseas.
Create an AWS Account with CloudFormation
I use Feedbro since I reach the maximum number of feeds on Feedly.
I'd definitely be more apt to have this as part of production system instead of the Rust one.

Rust has got to be the ugliest, most unfriendly programming language I've ever laid my eyes on. And I wrote Perl for 10+ years, so that's really quite a feat of aesthetics failure.

Anyhow, I'm pretty impressed with the performance thus far, I like the idea of having multiple JITs available for a single-language ecosystem, regardless of how disgusting the language used to implement them. I think having competition means that there will be a race to the bottom and towards the "center" of general work. It's already really cool to see how the different approaches have clear preferences of the tasks they excel at and where they fall short.

This is hugely valuable because it pushes Ruby forward for everybody, and will hopefully result in not only a faster Ruby for X, but a faster Ruby for everything, which is just an objectively good thing.

Python is in a weird spot in this arena, because it is very clearly and very strongly orienting itself to continue to dominate practical data science work, and that means the need for JITs to handle regular jobs like text munging and whatnot fall by the side in order for the latest NumPy and Jax stuff, whatever is the current hot shit in the AIverse. Ruby doesn't suffer from that because it's pretty solidly lodged in the web development sphere, while also having a capable presence in netsec tools, application scripting, and probably a few more areas that I'm not aware of.

If you're interested in some of cutting edge Python stuff, I'd recommend taking a look at exaloop/Codon. Codon will soon be able to output Python extensions that are compatible with Python's setuptools, so it will soon be possible to just include some .codon files with your project, use setup.py, and have decorators that can (literally) 100x your hot loops.
By "climate change" people mean the sort of change that will be realistically caused by humans within the next few hundred years, not the sort of extinction caused by massive volcano activity that takes 10,000 years and happens once every 100 million years. Obviously if the climate changes drastically enough fast enough then everyone dies but nobody is suggesting that's the case for preset day human activity.
I actually just applied. I'm not expecting to hear anything back, but I just want to say how much I appreciate the in-dept explanation of how roles in the company are designed and how long each portion of the interview process would take. That kind of detail and information is rare, but I appreciate the thoughtfulness.
What subsidies? What about businesses and their taxes? Wealthier people don’t always pay more in taxes, even at a localized level, and businesses tend to be based out of the cities.

When people talk about the “subsidy of the suburbs” they usually talk about the cost of maintaining suburban life, vs the tax base that supports it. Eg property tax usually goes to the town to pay for the town’s infra, while income tax goes to the state to pay for other thing. When the town can’t cover its cost and depends on the state’s money or when the state pays to build things in the town, that’s where the “subsidy” comes in. Often towns just can’t cover the cost of their basic infrastructure maintenance, but even when they can, the state usually still build highways and other big projects which can cost $10s to $100s of millions, and rarely can be affordable by the actual tax base of the town.
Their big concern is NOT data stealing. That is a small thing.

They are very worried about the US citizen population saying they are DONE with Lobbyists and congress selling out. US Citizens are done with the GDP being stolen via rigged industries (pharma, 2008 crisis, Medical, taxes, etc.) US Citizens starting to all agree together on TikTok, enables citizens to galvanize into a united front.

The US Gov needs to control US citizens, by banning them. This is why US intel services have removed 100% of US citizens in militia community groups people from Facebook. 100% have their facebook accounts have been shut down. They can't shoot people over facebook. The gov's risk is that people see many other citizens galvanize that they find congress w/lobbyists effectively stealing GDP.
That escalated quickly. Considered eating a Snickers?
If the chinese government asks you to spy on your neighbors, I would hope your "right to do so" is not protected by the first amendment.
Awesome! I'm glad spectrum and charter can't offer more than 30 meg up yet we are trying to solve bandwidth at the moon.
If he started working at 15, doesn't that put him at 45 years in the workforce and 30 years retired? He has to make it to 105 to meet your original claim.
> There's a third option you omitted: That the first comment was clear, that the second comment clarified, that other commenters have clarified, and you still don't grasp it, so I'm not inclined to keep spoon feeding you this.

To be clear, your behavior in this thread is inappropriate. You are expected to disagree with people without talking about “spoon-feeding” people explanations, or acting like the person you are talking to is some kind of idiot child.

> When something like 5 slides are spent explaining the coin system, explaining that they are also drip fed by capping how many players can earn per day, …

The cap for gold is relatively high. It’s not unlimited, it’s just high. That’s what I’m talking about. You farm it by playing every day, doing the daily quests / challenges, and you get a decent number of coins. This is different from rubies, which are more limited. Rubies you get like, once every 5 levels or something, and when there’s a new tour. Not often.

> It almost seems like you're a victim of this type of game and so for you, what the rest of us see as predatory, you see as perfectly normal.

Again, your behavior in this thread is inappropriate. It is wrong to make conjectures about whether the person you’re talking to is a “victim” of “what the rest of us see as predatory”. You should not behave this way.

There are a lot of games out there without microtransactions that have the same kind of currency as the gold coins in Mario Kart Tour. These coins are not primarily there to manipulate you into spending real money—that’s what rubies are for. The purpose is to manipulate you into play the game regularly—you get rewarded for playing the game consistently, every day. I’m making a distinction between the currencies which are there to manipulate you into playing the game, and the currencies which are there to manipulate you into spending money. Obviously there’s not a hard line here between the two types, but I think that they are distinct enough.

It would be nice if we could just disagree and have that conversation. Again, it’s inappropriate to conjecture that I misunderstand something because I disagree with you on some point. Disagreement is normal, your behavior in this thread is not.
And the order of adoption was hard liquor came after prohibition
The consistency of the format. PDFs are pretty much the only realistic way to convey items like legal documents to a wide range of customers. I certainly wouldn't want to receive my legally-binding bank account documents as a pile of HTML soup that would render arbitrarily (or not correctly at all).

I also have a rule about reading PDFs. I almost universally print them off to actual paper if it's more than 2-3 pages worth of content. Printing websites is a non-starter.
China doesn't ban apps, even US made ones.

Instead they mandate that apps that operate in China must follow Chinese regulations, privacy laws and of course provide access to Chinese agencies as requested.

Many American companies have decided they aren't interested in operating in the Chinese market if they have to do so under these rules. That is completely their choice and completely reasonable if you have moral issues with how the Chinese government operates their market.

Meanwhile many American companies like Microsoft for instance are happy to comply with said regulations in order to gain access to the market.

I don't think the regulations the Chinese impose are protectionist (like what the US is talking about doing) but they definitely are morally queasy for some, especially the censorship and government access rules.

So the whole "American companies are banned in China" is mostly nonsense AFAICT.
> If you are just starting out on your Linux journey, save yourself (possibly many) years of varying woe, and go straight to Debian.

Debian is a great OS and still runs on some of my servers! However, what about the release/EOL cycle, which might affect some people's reasoning? Along the lines of: "I'll set this up and I want to keep it running reasonably for X years with unattended-upgrades."

Debian releases are supported for just a few years: https://endoflife.software/operating-systems/linux/debian

In contrast, Ubuntu LTS releases are around for about 5 years or longer (HWE): https://endoflife.software/operating-systems/linux/ubuntu

Technically you do have Debian LTS, but it's never mentioned anywhere as prominently like Ubuntu LTS is, which feels a tad odd (because it works fine): https://www.debian.org/lts/

Of course, many looked in the direction of something like CentOS for this, or RHEL, or Rocky Linux or Alma Linux etc., which are supported for around 10 years usually. In my experience, DEB distros play more nicely with most of the software that I want to personally run, though.
Yeah, I think it's the former, so it'll feel more like "sell to cover" for the employee. I'd have to imagine that paying it as a perk would trigger its own tax liability.
Vertical farming's $2B investment well is drying out
Follow up: https://github.com/facebookresearch/llama/issues/79#issuecom... claims 65B was able to fit in 128 GB by unsharding & merging weights into a single file instead of the multiple pth with 172Gb max swap file usage & appears to stream to GPU.
> I don't remember many people being upset about Google stepping in

I don't remember any former/active usenet user not being upset! Specifically because Deja had a full archive and robust search, and it was expected that the service would be Googlified into oblivion. Which happened, and even faster than the biggest doomsayers predicted.
Up to 90K for 3-5 years of experience in Toronto? Good luck with your search.
You can just feel yourself go in and out of ketosis? What's that like?
Be honest, you mostly write this post so you can say you hate Rust, didn't you?
Free systems offered by Corporations survive as long as there is incentive (justified ROI). Headcount movement decisions are done based on numbers. That said, 10+ years is a GOOD life expectancy of a software product used at scale.