skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, they get the 200m yachts for building the capability first. There will come a time on our trajectory that artificial scarcity is such an obvious canard that we will move past it into a post scarcity world. I don’t know how it’ll be constructed, but the need to work being a moral imperative will necessarily fall away as it becomes obvious it’s not necessary nor imperative nor moral. I think this is unavoidable, sans some sort of plateau or limiting factor or regression, and the rate of change I see makes it look like we aren’t far away - although the realization of that the wizard is just a man behind the curtain may be.
Really cool article, looking forward to more. I've used antlr quite a bit previously but never really understood the LL vs LR and how it just outputs pre/post fix type stacks. Very well written and I like pro/con analysis at the end, thanks.
tl;dr

These AI diffusion models extract images from a fMRI scan of a person's brain to see what their eyes see.
Yeah they only would have realized 20-30B of loss tops, why are we even wasting our time discussing a non-issue ?
Crypto: Going from banking the unbanked to unbanking the banked!
> I did run a proper camera with a f/1.8 85mm lens for the first year of Covid, but as great as the results were, that was just a logistical pain and overkill

I always wondered if this was something for a Raspberry Pi and one of those Pro cameras they got. Is that something that can be done easily?

edit: Quick googling revealed that it is not that easy. The RPi can provide a video stream but that needs (more) software on the computer than just a USB webcam.
No. HIPPA applies to software as the software company would be considered a business associate.

"If you handle, store or transmit protected health information (PHI) to or from a covered entity then you need to be HIPAA compliant."

Source: https://github.com/truevault/hipaa-compliance-developers-gui...
Mullvad is a great example of how all VPN companies who promote privacy should behave, if only for the signup process itself. Zero personal information required.
So what were the terms? Sort of pointless to write an article and say you were the good guy without saying.
I thought it was more cool, being able to generate such images than taking it from an aircraft/drone.
> stale ideas

> whole metaverse thing

pick one
Their uk banking partner for faster payments is withdrawing from there relationship with binance in May. Wire transfers unaffected. Continuation of operation chokepoint.
I think you both are correct. Take normal graduate, split spacetime continuum into 2 parallel universes, and let 1 join same company remotely and onsite. Unless given company/team is very toxic, graduate who has gazillion questions every day and gets stuck even more will get them answered more easily if he just comes in person to seniors, rather than chasing calls/chats every time he is stuck or uncertain how to decide.

Quick brainstormings, pair programming. I mean its not up to discussion, real world on site is more efficient. Now from perspective of senior always bothered by those pesky juniors with their stupid questions, loud environment etc. its a different story. Company can set itself up to be much more open to fully remote, but its a conscious and continuous process that needs to be accepted by all seniors, people tend to revert to previous way of working.

Personally, I can see this also for seniors who are also onsite. In truly global teams, you are constantly chasing people and teams to do their work, approve processes, deliver stuff etc. Compared to person X who will respond to your email/chat in 4 hours it takes 1 minute including walking to get feedback, understand problem, manage expectations, push things further etc.
I would be surprised if the 200 accounts they lost were losing them money on average. Many of the complaints seemed to be from customers who simply want peace of mind, rather than to calculate their average usage and determine subscription value. I think it’s likely that customers who were subsidizing heavy users disproportionately left.

Of my two accounts, one used about 20 queries per day and the other used single digits. It’s not the price required to cover my usage which matters, it’s the price required to have peace of mind, which increased 150%.
> What's the point? Saving power?

Saving costs, if you're in a cloud environment.
If you plan to practice the "salary arbitrage" mentioned above, it needs to be a good deal for the employer. If you can provide the same amount of value as someone in the Bay Area at 20% discount it is a good deal for both parties.
Heat pumps extract heat, either from the house, or from the outside air.

When heating, it pulls it from the outside air. As it gets colder, there is less heat to pull out. Typically heat pumps will still keep pulling heat at >100% efficiency nearly into the negatives, but the amount they're extracting isn't enough to keep up with the heat loss of the house.

Heat lost of the house is a factor of insulation, surface area and heat gradient. It's a lot harder to keep a house at 68F when it's 5F outside than it is when it is 50F.

So when it's cold out, you need more heat generation, and there's less heat to pull from the air. That's why heat pumps have backup auxiliary heat.
> I think a lot of people working there just made the calculated decision that Meta being at the very high end of the compensation scale made it worth it.

That didn’t help. It’s like saying “I don’t know why the guy died. Maybe it’s because he got shot in the head at point blank range”?

Of course people work at Meta because of the money. No one works for Meta to make the world a better place
It's a little frustrating that they don't seem to break down earnings for Instagram and WhatsApp. My impression is that their monetization of Instagram is probably ok but not great compared to Facebook and their monetization of WhatsApp is probably awful.
The story with Java vs Bedrock edition is far more complicated. Microsoft, even with all of their resources, is in a bit of a pickle with this one.

First off, while the two games are roughly 95% the same, they are entirely different codebases (Java & C++), with their own bugs, quirks, incompatible formats, protocols, a couple unique mechanics, etc.

Java Edition (the OG Minecraft) has too huge of a following; it was heavily reverse-engineered early on, with a couple independent efforts (Fabric, Forge) creating modding bridges that enabled a thriving community of mod makers, that many servers heavily rely on. Even if you only consider the creator communities on YouTube (like Hermitcraft, Empires SMP, SciCraft) - some creators from these communities have millions of subscribers. You can't neglect Java edition because you will alienate an enormous part of your community and basically kill the brand. In fact Mojang's strategy is usually to release new features in JE development snapshots, and trickle them to Bedrock Edition once a stable JE release is cut.

But JE is also some of the most poorly-optimised software in existence, even after you install third-party mods (Sodium, Iris) that fix a lot of the performance issues. To even have a remote chance at supporting all the underpowered platforms, Bedrock Edition (formerly Pocket Edition) had to be created. Mojang/Microsoft is in one hell of a pickle, maintaining two parallel implementations of their core product, bending over their backs to maintain feature parity, with no real hope for cross-play ever.

Now why is there no Bedrock for Mac & Linux, is indeed a very good question. Perhaps it has less to do with being evil and more to do with the fact that these are likely already niche, as a total slice of JE installations, and Microsoft doesn't see a market there. Personally I am not bothered, as I prefer Java Edition anyway, but I understand why someone could get upset over it.

Funny thing is, thanks to Minecraft JE being Java, it works quite well even on completely unsupported platforms. The community built custom cross-platform launchers, figured out pretty quickly how to run the game natively on M1 Macs, heck it runs perfectly fine under *BSDs as well.
Except that we've already created synthetic genomes: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/15/science/synthetic-genome-...

If we can define what "generally intelligent" means in concrete terms, we can absolutely create it. The problem is that we don't have a good understanding/shared idea of what we're trying to achieve. We can create models that can learn to play many different games using the same weights, solve IQ/logic tests and pass the Turing test consistently, but people are going to move the goalposts and say those are just complex mashups of autocomplete and flowcharts.

To be honest I don't think AI skeptics are ever going to believe until there's a Skynet trying to exterminate them.
So, should we, or should we not use a VPN?
If most sites nowadays are on HTTPS, is vpn still needed for daily use

I think the only reason now to use a vpn, is to login to a site as if from a different location, if the site blocks your region, or sensor some of its content

Any other good reason to use a vpn
That's basically what the article says: elevator doors (in the US) have a minimum open time, as specified by the ADA, and try to close as soon as this minimum time is reached. The close button can't override the minimum, so generally it seems like the button does nothing.

Meanwhile, some elevators (hospitals are the example given) do hold the door open longer than the minimum, and the close button works in those places, per their testing.
As a kid in the 80's I could clearly see the handwriting on the wall, and it was pretty disheartening to see nearly all the grownups put their heads in the sand. Environmentalists have been derided as silly hippies for decades. So yeah, it can be a little galling when the same people who wouldn't listen back then suddenly switch to "getting it" w/o going through some sort of i don't know? Contrition? Apology? But then, who cares? It's not like their personal growth is intrinsic to saving the Earth? Anyway, I try to look on the bright side: at least they're getting it now, eh? The important thing is to stop destroying the environment.
It has happened. Lots of these devices ARE on botnets. I think it was cloudflare who claimed a significant amount of DDoS traffic comes from hacked IOT devices
I think this was a common problem in Hollywood
This other link works for me. https://www.ibtimes.com/binance-announces-suspension-uk-depo...

"Starting Monday afternoon, new users will no longer be able to open accounts with GBP deposits on the platform.

"We regret to inform you that our GBP fiat partner, Skrill Limited, has informed us that it will stop offering GBP flat services, namely deposits and withdrawals via Faster Payments and card, to Binance users," the email read.

The suspension of GBP deposits and withdrawals will commence on May 22 and those who make any GBP deposits after that day will be refunded within seven working days, according to Binance."

I believe the acronym is SNAFU, not SAFU. :P
Funny how Kraken/Nexo/Coinbase etc can still manage to maintain sterling deposits and comply with the regulators. I like Binance, but they dropped the ball in the UK market.
Recently https://tychomusic.com/ released some old vinyl record as digital music for the first time.

You'd think a market place like https://bandcamp.com/ would make this a trivial event: create the release, set the release date, let people pay, once the release date hits everyone downloads a ZIP with some FLAC files and a JPEG cover.

Instead, this was an "NFT" release: took 15 tries (and several credit card charges) to "reserve" my spot. My purchase is now on some confusing website with random ID's all over the place, and I need to "mint" a "ticket" to log into it.

If ever there was a solution in search of a problem, NFT's are it.
The Defining Decade of Vertical SaaS
Of course, medical dictation is a whole industry. https://www.bls.gov/ooh/Healthcare/Medical-transcriptionists...
I'd bet that this is the difference between having good middle managers and not. If you have confidence in your directors and middle managers, you can target the C players. If not, then you can't and you'll wind up shedding B players anyways.
After sharing it internally. Probably posted on fb.com as they know it would just leak otherwise, and the memo is written with the mindset of it being public regardless.
This is a pretty neat approach to parsing by hand, and it's probably helpful to build intuition about LR. Basically if you give an explanation of LR including shifts and reduces, then you can show how that maps to the hand-written parser (i.e. the `_cont` functions are shifts that eventually result in a reduce when they return and use the parameter that they were passed).

Shameless self-plug, in case you want to understand more about LR parsing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UDWd-Axd5A
> with the end state surely being that both sides of an email exchange are ML models churning away at each other.

The end-state is an ML model running on a client device in isolation. Why bother using SMTP?
It was cracked but they had to burn a hardware exploit to do so and the key was (I assume) subsequently revoked. So they are only doing it sometimes when there is a sufficient buildup of content.
To me, THAT is the most powerful intuitive description.
Off prem is also a rats nest of regulations.
The reason for the snow is largely because we're getting more frigid air from high pressure areas on the north end of the Fraser River Valley, which starts in northern Canada and ends just north of Vancouver Island. Every snow event over the past 3 or 4 months has been from Fraser outflow.
I’m engraving this on a plaque and throwing it on the lawn of the super rich.
Bedrock clients can join Java edition servers if the Java server is running the Geyser mod, which acts as a compatibility shim between the two. It works pretty well.

Of course it would be nice if Microsoft/Mojang bridged the gap themselves instead of leaving it to the community, but that'll never happen.
I'm not a materials scientist or display engineer, but the full paper[1] seems to describe something very different from an IMOD display.

* IMOD is a reflective display. This display is a replacement for the LCD layer in LCD displays, but still seems like it would require a backlight.

* The pixels in this display are controlled via heating to change the optical properties of the silicon. The pixels in IMOD are switched by moving a reflective membrane very slightly in relation to a thin film stack - a MEMS analogue of the radar-absorbing skin of stealth aircraft.

* IMOD doesn't require power to maintain the state of a given pixel, only to switch it. Since the metasurface display is controlled by heating, I imagine one state or the other (not sure if it's the "allow light through" or "block light" state) needs to be refreshed constantly.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41377-023-01078-6
You didn’t have a thought experiment, just a straw man. I thought I was clear on that point. Overwriting substantial portions of a law that took effect in 2020 with another law passed in 2020 isn’t “harmful” and doesn’t rank with your hypothetical anti-thumbs bill.

> It sounds like you are reasoning that harm is fine when it morally shouldn't be

That is exactly what I did not say, that is what you are attempting to reduce my argument to because you believe your position was morally superior and you don’t want to concede the legitimacy of my vote having voted for the losing position. I’m okay with you thinking your position was morally superior—it’s not, never was and we clearly disagree but I was done persuading people the moment the polls closed on November 3rd 2020—but having lost, you don’t have carte blanche to deny the election’s result nor its legitimacy. The “No” voters have exactly the same voting rights as the “Yes” voters, and they were outnumbered by a difference of 2,930,605 votes, nor are either the “Yes” voters or “No” voters morally superior people to each other for having held their positions and voted the way they did.

So lacking carte blanche and moral superiority, why under the laws of California and the United States should my vote and the other 9,958,424 people who voted “Yes” on Prop 22 in 2020 be nullified when we have deemed ballot propositions for good or for ill to be a legitimate form of lawmaking in the State of California?
Charisma, humor, and religious-like ideological framing that can acquire true believers who believe they are saving the world.
If I were a provider, I'd probably want to see their BSA with OpenAI.
That's not at all what this well-researched article finds.
Shattered Pixel Dungeon 2.0.0 Released
I have always wondered about these providers. Their margins must be amazing considering they can justify this amount of influencer marketing. Or is there also big amount of VC money they are still burning through?

Usually the offers in addition have pretty good discounts from original price.
I'm not disagreeing with you, I'm just saying that people have lots of different reasons for choosing to be vegetarian, and animal welfare isn't always their concern. I certainly recognize dairy has a large ecological impact (I live in Ireland after all; we're choking on dairy) but someone who eats dairy and beef probably has a greater impact than someone who eats dairy and plant-based foods.
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Fair point. I personally end up using those a lot, especially in articles that I skim (instead of reading end to end).

I'll start collecting data on its use, because people on the orangey site (including me) tend to have opinions that don't represent the average user.
I thought the implications were pretty obvious. OpenAI prohibits this in their TOS for explicitly this purpose and is called out in the Alpaca post[0]

> You may not ... use the Services to develop foundation models or other large scale models that compete with OpenAI

[0]: https://crfm.stanford.edu/2023/03/13/alpaca.html
srcpy can actually emulate a keyboard and mouse in OTG mode! Discovering that was a thrill for my use case.
Same feeling for Wix. Hate those ads.
Hard to make money adjusted for inflation buying government bonds that are still negative in real terms...

Also, FB isn't buying treasuries...
Just need an * on the button.

Close doors when all other parameters are satisfied. *
* The minimum door opening time parameter might be the standard door closing time parameter
Why Your Product Needs Webhooks (2022)
It also sounds like it was written by chatGPT. It doesn't sound like the rest of the article.
> and "all executive staff were let go this morning, I saw no reason to keep those jokers around".

Or you can do the opposite, like Boeing did: import all the managers of the firm you acquired (McDonnell-Douglas) into your own organization.
It's worth noting that the concept of risk justifying disproportionate gains in most incarnations of capitalism isn't any sort of foundational principle. Instead, it was largely just a narrative people thought held true (and there's some truth still).

These days it's largely the mantra that if you can't find a way to pass risk and costs off, you're incompetent at your role. We've learned to optimize risk away from the reward system and made it socially and culturally acceptable. Before, it was less accepted, hence the narrative. Anymore, people don't even paint the facade.
Or if you wanna pay by cash, just send it to them in an envelope. No need to buy a card first then using that, when you can pay by the alternative that gives you the most privacy.
Arguments ad hominem are inappropriate for hackernews. Let’s leave this type of argument to Reddit or blind.

I understand your perspective though. layoff announcements trigger an emotional response esp. in an uncertain economic condition.

To answer the question, I think it’s worth explaining my perspective first. My company did “hidden layoffs” where an entire org was cut without any leadership announcement. Everyone freaked out, and we got no response from company. We found out about increased PIP quotas from blind. We have a mountain of technical debt hindering developer experience with no priority to address it.

Zuckerberg in this article, is the exact opposite of the horrible leadership that I have dealt with on my job. This is why I feel inspired to see specific reasons for restructuring, with multi month transparent plans, and pre-determined goals. When execs preach of transparency, point them to this article from Zuck which is entirely public. This content shows a proactive culture, and is so so refreshing when my experience has been as an employee of reactive leadership.
Switching to hydrogen fuel could prolong the methane problem
Then the west should spend trillions of dollars providing clean energy production to African countries, India, and China. Will that happen?

Those guys aren’t going to stop polluting so they can grow their economies and feed their people.
We were negotiating over 90-95c on the dollar while hedge funds and banks were offering 60-70.
FOX/CNN/MSNBC spend millions on influencing politics every day. That's freedom of the press. Uber has the same rights.
> Of course, SV is not blameless, but I think a lot of the characterization here is biased overall.

I am sort of a silicon valley hater myself, but I agree that SV is not the only party to blame, not should it take the lion's share of the blame. SV did what SV does - take big risks. It did not help that the federal reserve help turbo charge risky investments via extraordinarily accommodative monetary policy.

To blame SV alone is to ignore a bigger problem, which is the fed.
There should be a separation between historicism and ethics and factual data. If you want to blame the school curriculum because they dont teach ethics or morals, im fine with that but moralizing what should be a factual recount of some events is another thing. This is like me opening a chemistry book and reading, the formulation and process of synthesizing cyanide, despite its multiple uses in crime and assasinations by the soviet union, is .....
If I had never paid any tax in my life it would have been the same price. If I were a refuge, child, homeless person it would have been the same price. If I had lost my job due to being sick it would have been the same price.

That is my definition of free
Anyone taking Roko's basilisk seriously has likely had their brain damaged beyond repair by decision theorists and people like EY
Compilers are capable of very effective optimizations, but they need certain guarantees to be able to apply them and sometimes it's a pain to communicate those guarantees adequately in your source code, or your platform targets don't support all the hints you might need to apply.
Unfortunately I've had interactions with the medical system where the doctors wrote their after meeting notes with severe errors and pieces of fiction, as well as specialists who almost ran out of the room after 5 minutes of an appointment they billed 45 minutes for to the insurance. I doubt such cases are rare and I suspect this sort of product, which I'm a priori neutral about, would change the situation much for the worse.
Do you understand the concept of rhetorical questions?

Because your comment indicates that you clearly don’t understand that people sometimes ask questions not because they want an answer but for emphasis or dramatic effect.

This was, clearly, such a case.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhetorical_question

Digging down on your snark when you’re called out is a bold play that doesn’t generally work. Most people have this thing called humbleness but I guess you left it with the rhetorical questions.
I was wondering the same thing. How would my ISP even know that I am using a site like z-library if everything is over HTTPS?
Not sure why you’re getting downvoted. I’m also curious where these people are going to earn massive comp.
Maybe Fandom?

https://www.fandom.com/
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