skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> music I've purchased

They really ought to stop using "buy"/"purchase" metaphorically to mean something more like "one time fee for an indefinite lease that ends upon account termination." If they simply used a word better suited to the reality of the situation, then it wouldn't be a surprise that the account (which is a privilege, not a right) is a dependency of using what you paid for. Maybe something like "micro-upgrade [my account]."

Obviously eliminating that dependency is even better, but baby steps.
:: cough :: You've been preselected for a great deal on solar for your home! :: cough ::

(every time, me: "Have you bothered to look at the google maps for my home before you called?" Them: "No, let me check... Ohhhh" me: "Yeahhhh... I can't get rid of the trees because they are rooted in the neighbor's property. Not that it wouldn't be quite ironic to remove decades-old trees just to install solar on a roof.")
Ask HN: Is OpenAI going to be the biggest company of all time?
I have a feeling that OpenAI can surpass Apple, Microsoft, Google, Meta, Amazon, etc. due to its laser focus on a technology that is truly transformative and disruptive.
> Banks engage in maturity transformation, in “borrowing short and lending long.” Deposits are short-term liabilities of the bank; while time-locked deposits exist, broadly users can ask for them back on demand. Most assets of a bank, the loans or securities portfolio, have a much longer duration.

> Society depends on this mismatch existing. It must exist somewhere. The alternative is a much poorer and riskier world, which includes dystopian instruments that are so obviously bad you’d have to invent names for them.

I guess I'll dispute this. It is useful that this mismatch exists, since it (1) lowers the cost of long-term borrowing for mortgagors, businesses, and governments and (2) lowers the (direct and/or opportunity) cost of holding cash. But I don't think society is dependent on this mismatch, and I don't think the alternative would be anywhere near as bleak as Patrick suggests.

If bank regulators changed capital requirements to require banks to fully back deposits with cash equivalents, long-term borrowing would be a lot more expensive, but the market would still clear. There's already plenty of demand for safe long-term debt, and that demand would only increase as long-term interest rates went up. E.g., if checking accounts paid -2% interest and CDs paid 10%, lenders would put less money in checking and more in CDs, even if it meant they would have to sell the CD at a discount if they needed liquidity.

Of course, the US government will take any and every opportunity it can get to indirectly subsidize mortgages, so this is pretty moot in practice.
When it comes to generative ai it's not really a content problem, it's actually more of a filtering problem. Whether data was created either partially or fully by an AI doesn't actually matter. What matters is the aesthetic quality of the data, as assessed by human tastes, and the diversity in the aesthetic nature.

If you can raise the average quality, while maintaining representative diversity of the training data (or fine-tuning), it shouldn't really matter if some of that data comes from generative AI.

However this is clearly an unsolved problem. Goodhart's law is a thing and ML is likely to run into similar issues as Search did when attempting to automate aesthetic assessment. You also have issues with AI tools exasperating the content filtering problems by drastically increasing the content to be filtered, as well as distorting the aesthetic diversity. Things that AI is currently already particularly good at will tend to be over-represented in this additional data.

I expect large, well-filtered data sets will become closely guarded competitive advantages. I also wonder if we will see Models that get trained/fine-tuned specifically for the task of curating high quality data sets, similar to how we have both content creators and content reviewers/curators as unique roles in human society.
The OP goes through a lot of trouble to obscure they are asking for $35 a month, which honestly I think most people can afford, even if its open source software they develop only out of kindness. So I'm not really buying that argument.

That said I don't really want to reward Docker for writing themselves in as the distribution hub for all things docker and then more or less extorting money from people.

I think the solution is don't give Docker a dime, just run your own registry in Digital Ocean, thats $5/m. If we can front the registry server with a CDN then its potentially free.
This actually looks really, really good. Looks like I need to update macOS from 10.15.5 sometime soon. I use a Hackintosh, so this'll be fun (I've been putting it off because I finally got it to "work" and got scared/wanted to be productive again).

Any idea on their plans to monetize? I assume they will eventually charge, since they raised a 10M series A.
In addition to those resources, Episode 4 of the Netflix series "Web of Make Believe" is basically a one hour documentary all about how sextortion operations work. Every episode of that series is solid gold.
Was this ChatGPT?
Show HN: Watercooler – A desktop GUI for interacting with the ChatGPT API
Watercooler is a desktop GUI alternative to the ChatGPT site or the OpenAI playground, written with Rust and Tauri (https://tauri.app/).

If you get a chance, check it out! Any feedback is welcome!
Except proton I guess?
> the video game industry is struggling to monetize their work.

The video game industry is exceedingly profitable. It makes more money than the movie industry, at nearly $100 billion per year.

I don't think it's struggling to monetize. It seems quite successful at that.
Yeah, I sort of feel that way too but maybe also is a good lesson learned.
Tmobile offers a 15$ prepaid plan too. They just don't promote it as much. I've been on it for about 3 years
As an adult who’s partner plays Fortnite with her cousins and occasionally gets dragged in, I haven’t seen this. I’ve spent maybe 25, and it seemed pretty obvious what was going on. Maybe I just haven’t found the dark pattern path. It should be clear what’s going on before charging.

I don’t love the “v bucks” vs real dollars they charge for things. though I get that the reward for those who grind isn’t actual dollars.

As someone who let a younger person play on my laptop, I will note my balance was quickly brought down to 0 though I had some new “emotes”.. lesson learned.

I’d rather just pay once for games, though that seems to be on its way out.
Flatseal is only a convenience. I think you'll find that the flatpak CLI [1] has commands to do everything Flatseal does, albeit in an arguably unwieldy way.

[1] https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/flatpak-command-reference...
Lettuce wrap?

Increase the amount of meat (and cheese if you have the budget), wrap with lettuce, hold lettuce, get your munch on.
Seems like the person who wrote the blog works in "classical" deep learning. So do I, so here's the fairest take I can come up with: "AI" has for recent memory been a marketing term anyway. Deep learning and variations have had a good run at being what people mean when they refer to AI, probably overweighting towards big convolution based computer vision models.

Now, "AI" in people's minds means generative models.

That's it, it doesn't mean generative models are replacing CNNs, just like CNNs don't replace SVMs or regression or whatever. It's just that pop culture has fallen in love with something else.
That works on Windows because Microsoft have made a commitment to doing things that way, as an intentional moat.

If you've got $$$$ of CAD software (or whatever) in binary form, which you know will work on pretty much every version of Windows but will absolutely not work on Linux or OS X - that's a good reason to stay on Windows. Microsoft is willing to do a bunch of compatibility testing etc to maintain that moat. They've got the money to pay developers to make sure Office 97 still runs on Windows 11.

Linux, on the other hand, has a lot of different stakeholders - and some of those stakeholders take the opinion that closed source software can go fuck itself. Maybe a Linux distribution wants to update from OpenSSL 1.1 to OpenSSL 3.0 and they're quite happy to patch all the software that's part of the distro. If you want to run some closed-source binary-only software from 1997 - that's between you and the software vendor, buddy.
Lol as someone who lived quite some time before 2000, we had all kinds of ways of bootlegging. Ear worms would bootleg grateful dead shows, we would tape everything we could off public TV, we'd record radio to tape, we'd trade it. Radio was free and ubiquitous, cable TV didn't come around until the 80s and even then public access TV was much bigger pre HD and Y2k. And of course we simply spent more time together, something which our cultures has wound down quite effectively these last few decades.

Just saying, humanity has always found ways to be entertained for free, and Blockbuster is a short aberration in a long history of human culture. The aggressive monetization going on right now is not the story of history, and it's IMO not sustainable.
$100m future dollars are still still $100m dollars. It is the value of the dollar that is changing, not the number of them that you hold.

The day you are paid, you will still get handed exactly $100m million.

Every day between now and then you will still have exactly $100m in bond holdings. How many cheeseburgers you can buy with that number of dollars may change from day to day, but the number of dollars will not.
In the case of crypto, you might be confusing crumbling with weeding out. The long lived scams from traditional finance have a shorter shelf life there.
That's entirely on T-Mobile for not providing capacity. Mint works fine in Manhattan. I could even get service from the basement of a masonry building.
I'm baffled by the notion of 500 cals just in bread. I make sandwiches at home with large sourdough slices, and that's 180 cal for the bread. [The meat is 90 cal, the cheese is 100 cal.] This is a hearty sandwich and I have no satiety issues.
Counterpoint: after they fired their CEO, he founded Brave, which seems to be doing just fine. And I take issue with Mozilla not being a for-profit org, despite whether they are a "non-profit foundation" or not; they made literally more than a billion per year for a decade from putting Google as their top search "partner". Call it what you like, but to me, that's just paid advertising.
This essentially equivalent to Roko's basilisk, which is not regarded as an useful argument
There's about ~10% point improvement left (i.e, from 80% to 90%) before it starts to stagnate. We've seen the same with predictive models benchmarked on ImageNet et. al.
Bye bye Ting, I guess.
The type named, DIN Alternate, is included with MacOS (bold and condensed bold only). The GitHub page has some notes about this, along with more info about what systems support which typefaces.

https://github.com/system-fonts/modern-font-stacks#industria....
There must be bots that do this. I need to look through that old Cambridge Analytica code (or use ChatGPT 4).
Yeah, I replied in the thread earlier, I suspect he saw me put my pin in. But at the time it happened he was on the other side of town.
> And if this is just refunding the purchases, it's kind of a good deal for Epic. As they essentially got an interest free loan from their customers.

Just a minor note: I believe credit card transaction fees are not refunded to the vendor, so there is still a non-zero cost to refunding customers which likely doesn't make it a "good deal".

(Disclaimer: It's been over a decade since I did anything related to payments, so this may be out of date, or I may be misremembering it.)
Samsung's response on 'moonshot' controversy
This is the case - New York cop cars and New York cabs had the same key because the latter were often old copies of the former.

And all elevators in the USA have the same key, and you can buy a key set with almost all tractor keys.
Not a question, just a comment that after having read several of your posts now, building up knowledge as I go, this one is the first I've understood from start to end. Most satisfying!
I doubt it, recreating what they've done in a short span of time only requires a small amount of capital. All the big players probably have teams working on this internally, and there are probably dozens of stealth startups gathering money to compete.

I just don't see OpenAI scaling to the moon when the moat around their product is so shallow and disruptable. What is their long-term play besides having an API that can be replaced with by changing a POST request URL?
you can just print money, no need to have any revenue as a state. States are run different than a household
Yeah, I feel like if this author had jumped in some IRC channels back in the late 90's/early 2000's, they would've described the users there as lonely
The cops have a pervasive misallocation of resources from the top down.

For example, US police eventually come up with enough evidence for prosecutors to start proceedings only in about 50% of murder cases [1]. Yet police departments spend very little of their time working on murder cases. [2]

Assuming you believe police investigating murders is valuable, I don't see how you can think police should be wasting time on broken taillight stops when they're failing that badly at it. (If the cops can't be reassigned they should be fired and their salaries used to pay cops who can)

[1] Technically I'm describing the murder clearance rate, but I use this phrasing to avoid the common and incorrect implication that a cleared murder means it's necessary actually "solved"

[2] There's no great metric for this. Assuming a police officer who just filed an incident report about a traffic stop for a broken taillight probably wasn't working on a murder case immediately before we can use incident reporting data. For ex, https://data.sfgov.org/d/wg3w-h783/visualization
For one thing, the government can’t freeze the accounts of its opposition, like Trudeau did with the trucker protest.
I read (here?) Texas was just putting the panels on the ground. No mounting hardware, no gimbals or tilting. Panels are so cheap, land is so cheap, the money saved on mounting them can buy more land and panels, give more W/$ that way.

I don't see expensive water-based panels that can't be tilted as beating that. Not to mention, it doesn't scale (create new shallow water? More expense)
By stagnate, you mean beating humankind at the task, right? :)
Apparently they are keeping that under cover for competitive reasons:

https://twitter.com/skrishna/status/1635998864531439617
hmmm, could be, but at the time it happened he was on the other end of town but I wonder if will we were in close proximity he could have connected a BT device somehow and planted something.
Most iphone have only 4GB RAM (and even latest iphone 14 has only 6GB RAM). Pixel 6 has 8GB RAM. But bigger issue is on iOS still OS limits how much RAM your app can use and might kill your app.
https://archive.is/qGvyr
An unfortunate metaphor. Judging from the first sentence I assume it’s pre-iceberg-Titanic we’re talking about.
Exactly this. This is when I stopped thinking of Open AI as a potentially positive force.
Some of these employee/child “monitoring” apps rival Remote Access Trojans (RATs) that used to wreak havoc in the early days of Windows, before Windows Defender and detailed permissions level access prompts were brought to the attention of the user (Windows UAC (User Account Control prompts).

I feel like mobile operating systems have been stuck in the early Windows “undetectable RAT era” for far too long, only recently getting basic UI prompts for oversight/control of OS-level permissions settings per app.

I believe it was Apple that forced this privacy angle on the smartphone space and Android was forced to comply, since Android and Google’s business model is to track, profile and harvest user generated data for targeted advertising. AdTech is too profitable and has pervase incentives to keep spying on users.

With all that said, I really respect the approach the EU takes to safeguard privacy and enforce compliance from big corps.
I used the documentation and Bing Chat AI.
I agree with the first paragraphs. Tried everything out there, and decided absolutely nothing other than recursive descent is worth it. Parsing is a solved problem and you can throw recursive descent at any practical problem. When this is theoretically not sufficient you can use "lexer trick" or multi stage parsing. [EDIT: This is unless you have extreme performance requirements, or unless you're parsing a theoretically adversarial grammar that can only be parsed by Earley parser etc. This is for practical human programming language problems. As always, use your discretion.]

Oh but unfortunately I don't agree with the last paragraph. In my experience it's the opposite, parsing works the best if you roll everything on your own, in fact in my codebases my principle is parsing is a no library zone (except regex, if necessary). This is because writing a recursive descent parser in any language is easy and using libraries simply increases the maintenance cost imho. What value do you get from not rolling your own parser?
No clue, I'm not affiliated with the devs in any way, I've just been very excited about it since one of the devs tweeted this: https://twitter.com/nathansobo/status/1498053586059620354

However, my first impressions of the keyboard navigation aren't great :(
Still works to freak out the AI cultists, no?
I think he will fess up eventually, but is sort of being a dick about it for sure.

I was hoping HN could give me ideas, but now he will probably read this on HN and then really give me a hard time about it.
No, why? Or how even? Is there an Hackernews API for it?
the difference is that the person in control would be attesting to their state of mind, versus the person out of control attesting to their understanding of the relevant circumstances.
Interesting, I've got a bunch of old iPhones in a drawer and would be interested in doing some sleep tracking. What app are you using/any idea how old of an iPhone would still work for this?
This would be useful for predictive text. That's exactly what LLMs are actually built for.
Sun Microsystems
The truth is Docker ( the company ) could never capitalize the success of their software. They clearly need the money and I have the impression things have not been "great" in the last couple of years. ( regardless of reasons )

The truth is also the fact that most people/organizations never paid a dime for the software or the service, and I'm talking about Billion dollar organizations that paid ridiculous amounts of money for both "DevOps Managers" and consultants but the actual source of the images they pull are either from "some dude" or some opensource orgs.

I get that there will be many "innocent victims" of the circumstances but most people who are crying now are the same ones who previously only took, never gave and are panicking because as Warren Buffett says: "Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked."

And there are a lot of engineering managers and organizations who like to brag with expressions like "Software supply chains" and we'll find out who has been swimming with their willy out.
I’m not sure I understand a definition of AI that doesn’t include the ability to generate things.
Ahh bummer :/

> https://github.com/zed-industries/community/issues/174

> Hey y'all – We are excited that you all are excited to try Zed. Just want to make sure expectations are in check – We plan to release on multiple platforms for 1.0, but work on these has not even begun yet.
Will it be open-source?
I had the same question. There exists a USD addon for Blender that support Hydra, so probably you could get that to work with a bit of trial and error!

https://github.com/GPUOpen-LibrariesAndSDKs/BlenderUSDHydraA...
That's probably true for some part of the scams, but others are domestic. The one I was looking into was most likely speaking German natively, and from what I could tell, he was a German in Germany (some info pointed to a specific German state, and his homedir was a common German first name).

You'll still have scammers from India, but you'll also have a lot that are running more elaborate scams and do a lot of damage by defrauding the government and companies.
SimCLR in PyTorch – An ELI5 Guide
90% seems high.

Pick the best IDE hot reloading experience you know of - for me that's JRebel so not actually provided by my IDE but available to me there and way more powerful than the hot swapping natively available in the JVM and usually exposed to me through intellij IDE. E.g. i can change the arity of a function with jrebel but not with hot swapping in intellij.

Compare that experience with editing my code and inline without starting any companion process, without triggering any hotreload function, without even saving my source file, being able to evaluate the results of changing a function and seeing the results either inline or in a dedicated buffer depending on the keystroke i chose to trigger the evaluation.

I'm doing a terrible job of explaining the difference i see - what i'm digging at is the lisp approach is completely frictionless. The JRebel experience which is great, the best i know if in a non-lisp language, is full of little (and some large) frictions.

>> tooling matters much more than the language itself

I'd suggest a counterpoint to that, the tooling for java is really very good - and yet, there's a better experience to be had with "structural editing of forms" in clojure than there is going back to "normal editing of lines of code" with java.

I think most languages i've experienced can be interchanged to a large degree - java, javascript, c#, c, rust, python, ... unless the task is something exotic, i can probably complete the same task in any of those in a comparable way.

Lisp, SQL, prolog and array languages are different though. The way i would solve the task in those is likely to be radically different in approach.
Hah me too! EC2 instance retirement was so long ago I’d forgotten. :D
It's not a false equivalency with respect to the question of overriding concern, which is existential safety. Suppose nukes somehow also provided nuclear power.

Then, you could say the exact same thing you're saying now... but in that case, nukes-slash-nuclear-energy still shouldn't be distributed to everyone.

Even nukes-slash-anti-nuke-shields shouldn't be distributed to everyone, unless you're absolutely sure the shields will scale up at least as fast as the nukes.
do you have a recommended lettuce variety? Most of them crumble away before I can use them.
Type the message you sent again into a random text message window and see if it changes to the smart alec comment again.

My guess is that at an earlier time he had access to your phone unlocked (when you stepped away perhaps) and changed the autocorrect for a common word or phrase to be something else as a prank.
I wish someone would launch an Irresponsible AI challenge. That'd be a lot more fun and interesting.

Oh, wait, Mozilla? So trustworthy (in their own vapid minds)
This is just like ant pheromone paths.
I had their classic $30 prepaid plan at one time and you were treated as a second class citizen. My caller ID showed up as someone else's name and they refused to do anything about it. Sorry, you're on prepaid.
Thanks for your feedback! Unfortunately your story is a common one - not much has changed with these APIs since 2012... or since 1999 for that matter.

Our current integrations include Yardi, RealPage, Entrata, Propertyware, Buildium, Rent Manager and Rentvine. On the roadmap are Appfolio, MRI and ResMan.

Necessary disclaimer: we only support integrations for customers who have officially sanctioned relationships with each PMS. We do not do anything that violates ToS (e.g. scraping, chrome extensions, etc.).
Anyone using moderator bots?