skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is all down to greediness. Instead of IPO'ing in 2019 (Which was the optimal time to IPO and head to the exit as mentioned before [0]), not even $95BN is somehow enough?

A direct listing is probably a better option since it will be even more difficult for them to raise again for an IPO this year, given the current market turbulence.

To Downvoters: I will triple down. It is certainly greed. Here's why:

As far back as 2017 [1] and since then Stripe's founders just wanted more and missed the opportunity to IPO in 2019 and just almost forgot about it's own employees stock options expiring and becoming worthless.

They are now forced to delay plans for an IPO due to the market downturn and have to deal with a significant 50% down-round. They know they cannot raise anymore money this time otherwise it is another hit to their valuation.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20993919

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/07/stripes-patrick-collison-s...
I don't feel like this is a meaningful change.

If steam changed all the "Buy" to "Rent" on it's website, nothing would actually change.
Meanwhile I'm just sitting here in rural AK. Once again watching the "experts" of HN speak with authority on topics they have no experience in.
Has anyone put this to serious use? I played around with it at some point when it was fairly new and at that time I was able to transpile the C into Rust just fine, but that didn't help me much. The idea was to be able to use the Rust toolchain to better understand the code, but the resulting Rust code was even less understandable, and also much harder to refactor. In this case I wasn't attempting a rewrite per se, just trying to understand a C codebase plagued with memory safety issues. Quickly gave up on this avenue at that point and just started carefully refactoring the C to make the bugs easier to shake out.

Would love to see a technical write up of someone outside Immunant using this on a real world codebase for whatever purpose.
Some countries like El Salvador require court dates and evidence of a crime to be submitted within a fixed period of time (2-4 weeks?), or a suspect has to be released. Perhaps this kind of system will help US courts with their priorities.
LLMs are already taking over these sorts of systems in industry.

There are lots of systems where you're taking some information about a user and making a best guess at what action the system should take. Even without a need for super high accuracy these rule systems can get surprisingly complex and adding in new possible decisions can be tricky to maintain. In LLM world you just maintain a collection of possible actions and let the LLM map user inputs to those.
'You should try living in the Yukon and see how you feel about overpopulation. As climate change...'

Your experience is valid but the population density of a particular city (or lack thereof in a particular territory) is a poor indicator of whether the earth's population is too high for its carrying capacity.
The thing I'm looking forward to most is having Flash Attention built-in. Right now you have to use xformers or similar, but that dependency has been a nightmare to use, from breaking, to requiring specific concoctions of installing dependencies or else conda will barf, to being impossible to pin because I have to use -dev releases which they constantly drop from the repositories.

PyTorch 2.0 comes with a few different efficient transformer implementations built-in. And unlike 1.13, they work during training and don't require specific configurations. Seemed to work just fine during my pre-release testing. Also, having it built into PyTorch might mean more pressure to keep it optimized. As-is xformers targets A100 primarily, with other archs as an afterthought.

And, as promised, `torch.compile` worked out of the box, providing IIRC a nice ~20% speed up on a ViT without any other tuning.

I did have to do some dependency fiddling on the pre-release version. Been looking forward to the "stable" release before using it more extensively.

Anyone else seeing nice boosts from `torch.compile`?
Oh, that disclaimer wasn't because I'm afraid of, er, "being impacted". I just don't want to make anything sound even slightly like YC's fault which in fact is my own choice or weirdness. (e.g. the way that HN is limited in resources is mostly the latter, but if I say "sorry that HN is annoying, we're just so limited in resources", by default it's going to sound like a complaint about the org and that would be mistaken.) Getting to choose things and be weird is one of my favorite things about this job and about YC, and I want to be super clear about that and not throw anyone under any buses. I know this is a little vague and hard to follow but I hope less than before!
> They could have hit $120B market cap at one point, but all public tech stocks are significantly down since then

I think that's parent's point: investors and current stock holders could have transferred $120B from retail investors before the adjustment. Now they have to hold onto their own devalued stock like a bunch of rubes. /s
The term "AI" was corrupted as described. People now use the term "artificial general intelligence" (AGI) to refer to what used to be called AI.
They were called green as well as "M:N" threads: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_thread#Green_threads_in_...
That was not my experience. I worked a lot with various banking regulators (Fed, OCC, NFA, British PRA, a bit of SEC, FDIC and probably a few I don't remember now), although not on AML matters. My experience was that before being slapped with a Consent Order, you get warnings. They are either Matters Requiring Attention (MRA) or Matters Requiring Immediate Attention (MRIA). It is highly improbable the regulators just hit you with something out of the blue, just because they feel like that.
Good point, I've specifically mentioned Steam and Amazon.
I just ignore the ads on youtube. I don't own any animals so the pet food ads are a miss. I don't take any medicines so I'm not buying those either. I work remotely so I'm not going to buy a new car. I already have a VPN so those are all pointless also. I think that is all they try to advertise to me.

Oh yeah! I will never play Rage Shadow Legends in this life or the next. Give it up!
It's all open source software. Stupidly simple and easy to host. It's a low value commodity thing without mucb value that anyone can trivially self host. All you need is a docker capable machine (any linux machine basically) and some disk space to host the images. And a bit of operational stuff like monitoring, backups, etc. So there's an argument to be made for using something that's there, convenient, and available but not too costly. Which until recently was dockerhub. But apparently they are happy to self destruct and leave that to others.

They should take a good look at Github. If only for the simple reason that it's a natural successor to what they are offering (a free hub to host software for the world). Github actually has a container registry (see above for why). And of course the vast majority of software projects already uses them for storing their source files. And they have github actions for building the docker images from those source files. Unlike dockerhub, it's a complete and fully integrated solution. And they are being very clever about their pricing. Which is mostly free and subsidized by paid features relevant to those who get the most value out of them.

I like free stuff of course. But I should point out that I was actually a paying Github user before they changed their pricing to be essentially free (for small companies and teams). I love that of course but I was paying for that before and I think they were worth the money. And yes, it was my call and I made that call at the time.

Also worth pointing out that Github actions builds on top of the whole docker eco system. It's a valuable service that is built on top of Docker. Hosting the docker images is the least valuable thing. And it's the only thing dockerhub was ever good for. Not anymore apparently. Unlike dockerhub, Github figured out how to create value here.
Not for final shots that make to the cinema.. for tv yes
The employees would have had the option to sell the Stripe stock and invest in something significantly less volatile, such as an index or bond ETF.
If I was an employee of such company, I would just sell all my equity as soon as I got it. I suspect they have no clue how insanely lucky they are and how many forces have worked in their favor behind the scenes to put them in such fortunate position. After such insane winning streaks, it's the less arrogant ones who understand their luck who get to keep the spoils.
I have to wonder if OpenAI does this internally now.
Yes that's the issue! Most of the software is already ready, usable and just works... unless you use anaconda. Now that I think about it, is there some technical reason for that? I always thought it was mostly about stability, but I can't imagine python 3.11 being so unstable as to warrant waiting a whole year before even porting.
I used Fi for years, and was never super happy with it. There's a _rumor_ of it being the same priority, but I never actually saw any proof of that.
That isn't how it works. Going public at $120 bill valuation doesn't mean you raise $120 billion. They'd have raised something like they have here.
The Pi is _much_ better at decoding than encoding, though.
The PR in question seems to be https://github.com/RoaringBitmap/CRoaring/pull/446

I agree that the GitHub analyses are worse than useless, but I also think it highlights the friction between intrinsics and the program in which they appear. There probably is a better model.
They realistically can not, I believe. If Microsoft is right that this is under fair use, then you are only limited by OpenAI ToS, which also says that the copyright of generated content belongs to the user. Do the following:

Person A uses GPT3 to generate training data, and publish it on his blog, without representing it as human generated. Person A does not give permission for it to be used by Alpaca team.

Alpaca team comes along, scrape his blog, and uses it as training data, without permission from person A. Now this is fair use, so there is nothing person A can do to stop it, just like how Github scraped our code for Copilot without permission.
Correct. So are humans.
What do you actually know about Apple's internal culture, or working conditions?
Yes, it is.

const __m512i *ptr1 = (const __m512i*)container1->words;

Then later:

__m512i r1 = _mm512_loadu_si512(ptr1+i);
Fireball Spotted over Northeastern USA
Middleman feudal tax garbage always seems great at first.

In an abusive relationship that part is called the honeymoon period. The goals, the mindset of the perpetrator, and the end results are the same.
You know what I’d listen to is a podcast of just normal founders. I’d love to just hear about people like me, not the 1% on either side.
Im fine with your terminology and reference. The current date (or that of reporting) can be the reference time for a real dollar valuation.

I fully understand how bond market prices are impacted by interest rates. What most people seem ignorant of is the fact that bonds are not simply market trades asset, but are also have a value at maturity. Most people don't seem to know that HTM assets are reported separate from securities available for sale, which ARE tracked at market value.

And then there's the even stupider idea that the value of long-term assets should be listed as the maturation date npv, as if you can just look up future inflation rates for the next 10 to 30 years.

It seems obvious to me that if you never intend to sell a bond, the maturity value is a measure of interest.

Do you have anything else to add to the discussion, or was that your only point?
You're right. The turntable would have a lot more angular momentum. It has to be easier to maintain precise RPMs.
Eh, that 2GB VRAM isnt gonna cut it for long.
Consider the Peter principle:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle

Also be honest with yourself if there is a reason in your past performance why your manager is treating you this way.

Ask for a 1-on-1. And don't allow this to be postponed endlessly past 2 weeks. There directly state that you feel being micro managed and that you are not feeling well being managed in this way. It never hurts to be brutally frank in a 1-on-1.

Immediately start interviewing for new positions, it never hurts. Regarding work your only loyality is to yourself, your kids, your partner in life, your family and good friends. Your work is not your family. Your health is part of your capital, so do not allow your capital to be diminished.
Show HN: I Built a Reddit/Wirecutter Hybrid for Product Reviews/Discovery
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I noticed that there were a lot of fake reviews on other platforms, and I knew that people wanted a more reliable and trustworthy source for product reviews. That's why I decided to create a website that would prioritize genuine, honest curated reviews from real people.

Our platform is super easy to use, and you can browse reviews across a variety of product categories. You will be able to filter reviews based on different criteria, such as popularity, rating, and category. And with our commenting system, you can engage in discussions around the products you review and get a better understanding of their strengths and weaknesses from a variety of perspectives.

But what really sets us apart is our focus on video reviews. With video reviews, you get to see the product in action and hear directly from the reviewer about their experiences. We believe that video reviews provide a more authentic and personal touch that text-based reviews simply can't match.

I'm really proud of what we've built, and I truly believe that our platform is the best place to find genuine, reliable reviews of products. (Note that it's in Beta right now and new features are being added all the time.)

Edit (Temp Down, bringing it back online)
It wasn’t me who originally used market cap as a proxy for potential…
I suspect it was more: "never let a good crisis go to waste".
Remaking the excellent puzzle game where the logic of the game is changed during gameplay.
If you request a bot to write code that can accomplish a specified task, it needs to understand the task, understand the meaning of the code, and then write code that accomplishes the task. I don’t care about appeal to sentience or what it means to “understand”. Fundamentally the meaning and of these things must be embedded in a way that leads to a synthesis of new code that solves the problem. Comparisons to ELIZA are naive.

Too many philosophers waste time debating the definitions of words that they assert must represent intrinsic concepts. But they’re wrong. Sentience is just a word. It’s not well defined. You haven’t accomplished anything by finding more examples where its lack of definition is made more clear.

You could say the same about comprehensions but on some level the pedantry feels so obvious and unnecessary that it’s just annoying to hear. Ffs. These modes clearly embed a comprehension of many things.
Sure, some could. But between lock-up periods and vesting, almost everyone working at the company wouldn't be in the position to be able to do this.
‘A true toxicant’: Oil co dumps tons of polluted wastewater into Lake Michigan
Yeah I get that the lunar lander is a different thing, but presumably you could pack a return module into the Starship payload as well? Or dock with a Dragon in LEO?
An Introduction to Forest Carbon
My understanding is that green threads are different on the implementation side as well.
Basically they are cheaper at the system level?
The API do not even change much last time I checked. It’s all happening in how the JVM span threads
Hah. A few years ago my young child (6) racked up an $800 bill on consmetics playing on the Wii. It was my fault - I didn’t require a password to make purchases and he spammed the buy button.

To his credit he came straight to me and told me he got all of the items “for free”.

After a huge muck around I finally got a refund (dealing with a combination of Nintendo and Epic) but the outcome was that I could no longer use a credit card to make purchase on my account ever again.

They’ve known for a long long time that accidental purchases happen and avoided having a decent path to refund (up until somewhat recently according to TFA) so I’m glad they’re being slapped with regulations.
Then what is it? A ponzi scheme is inherently an embezzlement.
Cloud specific features and optimizations, particularly geared toward AWS hardware. Also a combination of a 2 year release cadence and 5 years of Amazon backed of support for each release.

Performance Optimizations: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/linux/al2023/ug/performance-opti...

Release Cadence: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/linux/al2023/ug/release-cadence....

Kernel Live Patching: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/linux/al2023/ug/live-patching.ht...

Cloud Init: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/linux/al2023/ug/cloud-init.html
This is pretty big, opening up Starlink to everywhere in the world. I guess it is renaming Starlink for RV. I can't get availability map to load so can't tell if it is really worldwide.

The in-motion flat antenna is five months old. It is $2500 but useful for those who want to use while moving or have easier to mount flat. I'm curious if the sailing Youtubers I watch will upgrade.
I don't think free speech absolutists believe that. I think I'm an absolutist..

Here's a question I like to ask people who aren't.

Which member of your family would you give the power to tell you what you can't say. Pick one. Once you pick, you can't change your mind. For the rest of your life you have to only say what they let you.
That direction is West for increases in the Financial sector, East for decreases and South whenever he has a new Baby Momma. North is probably a bad lunch in Qatar when seeking funding for Twitter.
I think you’re a bit confused. FedNow is not consumer facing, you need an account at the Fed to use it.
> With current hardware, it's not a big deal.

You should make this your marketing slogan.

"Try our CDN, with current hardware the gross inefficiencies other CDNs spend a lot of time and effort eliminating are not a big deal."
The dealers in Görli, Hasenheide etc are often there because either they have no working visa or have no identity papers at all.

Legalising weed wont change the systemic social issues of Berlin
I read this article not as complaining about static checking but as warning that a rule that compilation should not produce any warnings can be counter-productive if many potential problems that get reported are red herrings.

As an extreme example for C, if you had a compiler that issued a warning for every potential int overflow, I think every programmer would ignore those warnings because it would report a warning on such statements as

int foo = bar + 1;

and preventing that requires one to write

int foo;
if(bar != INT_MAX) {
foo = bar + 1;
} else {
???
}

Even ignoring that figuring out what to write for ??? can take a lot of time, that blows up the code. Macros can make the source smaller, but your binary will still be larger and slower.
>No one expects Switzerland to pick a side. They just expect their arms industry to honor their agreements and their government to be fiscally responsible and sell their retired gear back to it's manufacturers.

Can you provide a link which proves that switzerland has an obligation to sell its under licence in switzerland produced tanks which still are part of its military (reserve) to anyone? Thanks.
Uh nooo.... You don't call the number that's provided in the format of the outreach - be that a physical piece of mail or an email or an SMS message.

In every case where I've gotten a message / phone call informing me that I need to provide some sensitive information or make a transaction, I determine the organization that they are purportedly representing, navigate to the official website, find the relevant contact info, and call back.

I always assumed everybody did this to prevent these exact types of situations.
Large banks do better with more rules, but that's not necessarily the outcome actually desired, or at least I'm tired of the Goldman Sachs running the sector with little to no risk of any challengers.

The main problem is that the government is too involved; namely that banks can get Congress/Federal Reserve to bail them out, as we see yet again. It really doesn't matter what rules gov sets, if it's always going to panic and dole out printed money at the slightest hint of hardship (and thus potential incumbent demise), you will get bad behavior, and those involved will do something like this again (plus inflation to boot).

If the costs are instead borne by the bank, and depositors of that bank, yes it will suck for many, but also risky investments like the kind SVB engaged in will be shown not to pay off. Depositors will ask many questions on the status of their deposits at other banks, forcing banks to be more transparent/less frivolous with client money.

None of which will happen now; the Fed took care of it after all! Maybe we'll get more emotional banking rules implemented, maybe not. Can definitely kicked down the road though, I'll be expecting another such failure in ~15 years time, if that. It's really getting old, and seemingly happening with more frequency regardless of the number of rules implemented.
Nothing.

Anyone recommending antivirus apps for your android is clueless and/or after your money.
Yes and buying music on Amazon (which is what the comment I originally responded to was about), you get system number 2, i.e. a DRM-free MP3 download.

Buying movies on Amazon is a different matter entirely, but the comment and my reply were specifically about music.
I would spend $35/m on a hobby - but not on Docker. I wouldn't even spend $5 to host on my own registry. I think a dockerfile and a brew formula is all you'd get out of me.
The article shows what improvements they are thinking of so that it doesn't produce garbage rust. (If by garbage rust you mean unsafe rust.)
IPFS is the same free that Docker provides. Someone, somewhere is paying for the storage and network. The public IPFS would not likely support the bandwidth, volume, and most CSOs.
Oh dear, sounds like a tricky one, but I'm not sure that the "cultural" difference is what really mattered: the question is, did he have a willingness to understand where his worldview was falling short; to see that his limited experience of the world and college education was only a tiny subset of human experience and technical practices; to actively engage with those differences and continue learning? Unfortunately over the years I've also had some bad experiences with recent grads and the biggest problems usually boiled down to arrogance rather than ignorance... e.g. I can sort-of understand somewhere along the line that someone could have mistakenly learned that this new thing called "unicode" was invented for unix machines (after all, the names sort of sound similar) and that therefore we have absolutely no business trying to use it on a Windows system. But to then absolutely insist until you are blue in the face that you must be right about this because you learned it in college and everyone else in the team is just wrong, no matter what evidence is produced... well that is a difficult situation that I have personally encountered.
https://pytorch.org/blog/pytorch-2.0-release/