skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anyone can launch a system to manage subscriptions on any platform other than Apple's, and yet somehow all of the systems people have launched on every platform other than Apple's are worse than Apple's. In Epic's case, illegally so.

I responded to a comment from someone who apparently didn't realize that Apple's subscription system makes it exceptionally easy to cancel subscriptions.

They said:

> while Epic uses predatory tactics to trap people into subscriptions Apple and Google do the same

Which is as far from my experience as it is possible to get.

The comments from people stating that Apple exercises platform lock-in seem roughly as relevant as the current price of tea at a Foxconn factory in China.
> why even go after her for (relative) pennies?

Because (potentially) stealing $6 million is still a very large crime in the absolute sense, even if it is smaller than other related crimes. Because it would be bad to alert white-collar criminals to the fact that they can escape prosecution by not being the largest participant in the criminal enterprise. Because $6 million is roughly 1000x larger (not a typo) than the typical bank robbery, which carries a 20-year sentence, and we don't advocate for non-prosecution of $500 bank robberies. Because it's only fair in a justice system that routinely imprisons people for stealing much smaller amounts.
The bent propeller blade at for example 1:39 is significantly different in appearance than other propeller blades around the same time, indicating that it's not a camera artifact.
AI development has reached a point where to work on this stuff is like selling suitcase nukes off the back of your Ford --- yes, it's cool that you were able to do that, but no, it's not okay to proceed.

If you're reading this, and you work on AI, please stop. Yes, I know someone else will just take your place; it doesn't matter. There is a personal moral hazard to your soul, if you can still be persuaded that you have one.

Moral injury is real and you do not want it.

You don't have to be a political scientist to notice not only the power of this technology, but the world into which it is born, and the ends to which it will certainly be put. In a matter of months, not years.

If you already have a god, pray. If not, one will be confected from math shortly.

If you want something to read, _The Golden Gate_, by Vikram Seth, which touches ever-so-slightly on nuclear arms development, is a good place to start --- 'about the thing without being about the thing'.

[Full disclosure: I quit a job in AI myself for this reason. Hardest thing I ever did.]
Yes, launch stage was pretty bulletproof, 2nd upto the liquid stage were the problems (should be fixed by now that the tech exists). The systems are likely the same as 2005 that new VC funded launch companies can undercut price with updated designs/tech (R&D expenses absorbed by VCs). I think the telemetry live stream/OpenGl viz of the last minotaur launch looked like a slightly revised UIX of the original live stream tool I built back in the 90s (I worked on Pegasus), aka old tech, not shiny.

Edit: Really it's a potential energy to cost problem. 5% more efficiency is [actually] big when leaving this planet, but yes, cost of air launch is still stuck in 1990 times. From the outside I didn't see any innovation from the VO team aside from electronics. As for VG, I used to work with their new CEO and Eng VP: they know ops, but I thought the systems/tech hadn't been flush out 100%, so may have the similar fate if a few customers start canceling. I have some ideas to 'fix' air launch requiring big R&D, but knee deep in fixing autonomous drones!

Peg was not financially successful cause prior 2002, the space race was maybe 15 launches a year: not profitable. Stuff like Iridium failed, shutting down ideas of having thousands of sats in LEO, mind that the only markets were communications (cellular/fiber won), science experiments, and imaging (imaging/remote sensing? Drone tech will eventually win). Luckily LEO payloads are a cool idea again-- tech is better + moore's law, thus demand is HOT. Heck Orbcomm is up there today, but old tech no one really wants.

Today, Elon played the long game (2002) and kept innovating where SpaceX has found the cost-benefit balance via reusability, and [with timing] being the only system post Shuttle it's a duopoly with ULA--charge as much to stay in the black. BUT the markets are still the 3 above, nothing new (Elon's Mars thing == passion project) though every country now wants their 'own constellation' cause of the NRO, hehe.

Trivia Edit: Peg's GNC computer was an 80386SX :)
Look at the changeset :) It contains a link for "ggml-alpaca-7b-14.bin".

Because there's no substantive change to the code, I assume this fork exists (and this HN post exists) purely as a method to distribute the weights.
What you describe is different from sabre rattling. It's the contrapositive. Sabre rattling is just emphasizing you have the capability and willingness to use violence.

Claiming "the AI says so" or delegating to some other fail-deadly or dead hand device is rational irrationality. It's telling your opponent that you lack the capability to not use violence. By forcing your own hand, it forces their hand.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fail-deadly

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_irrationality
IIRC there was a Mac program that proved it was being infringed on because the knockoff software implemented the same Easter egg when a certain series of hot keys was pressed
Does anyone know how much context this supports?

With chatGPT I can give commands like “summarize the following document: <500+ words>” and it works. I’d love to be able to do this locally with my obsidian notes.
Yes. That is literally the reason we have the FDIC.
I don't agree that "fair" is inherently subjective. There are many sensible ways to objectively define fair. For example you could say HN ranking is "fair" if the probability any viewer would upvote that article is independent of its position-history on HN. That is an objective definition that is "fair" with respect to positions.

This and other notions of "fairness" are very common problems in ranking (I used to rank things on Instagram) that have to be addressed, even if you're only doing content based ranking.
Yeah I agree. It's just a shame LinkedIn's tests aren't as good as Triplebyte's.

I just retook the Linux LinkedIn test and what a bunch of garbage it was. Lots of memorising commands (e.g. nm-connection-edit) and obscure Bash nonsense.

And it only says whether you're in the top 30% or not, which apparently I am despite the fact that I guessed half of the answers. I just guessed the least intuitive option every time heh.
I see the most likely "bad outcomes" more narrowly focused:

- total loss of trust in online content due to unending torrent of AI content leads to either a return to traditional media for news & etc, or leads to the end of online anonymity to try to figure out who's an AI and who's not.

- Education doesn't respond fast enough to redesign schools around in-person computerless teaching, and a generation of students use AI to do all the work that's supposed to teach them reading comprehension and communication skills, creating a generation that is totally at the mercy of the AI to understand anything more complex than a menu.

I'm more worried about the second one, honestly
I've used Citymapper for maybe 5 years, and while I remain a fan, Transit[0] just seems like a much better product. They support more cities, their user tracking is (generally) more accurate, and (at least in my opinion) their app just better designed & thought out for transit use.

[0]: https://transitapp.com/
While I have briefly been to China I cannot claim particularly deep knowledge about Chinese culture, customs & values and thus prefer to turn to people with more knowledge & experience, such as a local:

Based on this video by Naomi Wu (a.k.a RealSexyCyborg), it's certainly been possible to convince at least one Chinese company to fulfil its obligations under the GPL:

* "Getting GPLv2 Compliance From A Chinese Company- In Person!": <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vj04MKykmnQ>

Content Advisory: If you are an employee of YouTube.com the above video may be considered NSFW.

(If your own cultural context means you feel compelled to comment on how Naomi chooses to present herself to the world, feel free to watch this explanatory video she has generously provided for your benefit: "Why Do I Look Like...This? The SexyCyborg Origin Story" <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9vW_MpXTfs>.)
So noncompetes are just a result of the human tendency to assert control wherever possible?
I think some people want things to be DSL-like. However, I don’t think, long-term, using a DSL-like syntax wins. Ruby was famous for abusing Ruby’s unique syntax to make everything into a DSL and it turned off newcomers. Similarly, Java’s DI frameworks meet a lot of resistance because of their heavy use of annotations. Ultimately, DSLs are separate languages. Most people don’t want to learn a new language.
That's gonna end well. Particularly as Russia's Internet Research unit has direct, immediate and pressing need of a chatGPT-like thing as a weapon of war.

Back in the day, they had to make use of troll farms staffed by humans.
Agreed, as I progress through my career I'm starting to value companies that are willing to actually speak to me instead of using these middleware services to find out if I'm even qualified. It's a complete time waste for me (and them) to pass these assessments and realize the culture of the team is something I want nothing to be a part of.
History shows change only comes about via revolution and revolutions are often violent and often leads to undesired changes. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I'm afraid there's no "soft landing" here. Between AI and climate change our future doesn't look so good. Certainly doesn't look peaceful.
And objects. And so many more things.

Wasm is a cpu or low level operating system and not programming language
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It's time to freak out about AI the same way it was time to freak out about industrialization in the 1800s. AI seems like a much more rapid change, but it's not fundamentally different. We will struggle to adapt and may have some scary conflicts during the process (nobody was ready for machine guns in WWI), but we've been through stuff like this before.
The human+ai being scarier I feel is the real deal. What worries me the most is power dynamics. Today building a gazillion param model is only possible by the ultra rich - Much like mechanization was possible by ultra rich at the turn of the last century. Unless training and serving can be commoditized would ai just be yet-another-tool wielded by capital owners to squeeze more out of the laborers? You could argue you won't need "laborers" as ai can do everything eventually which is even worse. Where does this leave those "useless" poor/labor/unskilled weights on the society? Not like this free time is ever celebrated yeah?
Apt username, haha. But you can't impose your finicky grammar unto rants.

The lack of commas was a deliberate stylistic choice meant to express grumpy breathlessness. I am like James Joyce. Or Dr. Cox from Scrubs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlMWVwAHll0
Neither Firefox nor Chromium work for me, from neither stable (v3.17) or edge Alpine Linux repositories. And back then when this started happening, I also could not login with Firefox from FreeBSD.

But I can login with Firefox from my Steam Deck without any problems.

I know musl libc has weird compatibility issues (e.g. Nvidia, Widevine, etc), but as far as I can see I have no other issues with the website; I can play streams, and I can see chat messages and stuff. It's only the login form that for some reason responds with an error when I try to login.
From my experimentation it seems like there's some significant loss in accuracy running the tuned LoRa models through llama.cpp (due to bugs/differences in inference or tokenization), even aside from losses due to quantization.
I agree, writing is something I like to do, but often don't as I question the relevance of my thoughts to others.
I am realising it doesn't mater what others think, no one reads it anyway, and it is really something oersonal, like a diary.
This post spurred me to write a post about posting, very meta I think.
I didn't have money or income for the vast majority of this. Parents couldn't help. What else do you have to do than think about where your next dollar will come from?
we’re talking about development, not usage

it doesn’t take masses of processing power to develop a crypto coin. or really any at all. it’s just a bunch of network calls combined with a hash function. any old idiot can develop one on a device with an IDE and access to the internet

yes, mining them can use a load of compute, but that’s not the point
If I'm understanding this correctly, it's always been true but there has also always been some "real" content on the internet. We're all on a site right now that, say what you like about it, it isn't bot spam.

If looked for warez or porn in the late '90s, there was always some kind of circular ad and scam infested network of links promising stuff but never going anywhere. It's more sophisticated now and there's more of it, and it's expanded into shopping and travel and hotels and recipies and whatever else. But there's also more real content.
Interesting. What's your estimate on how much overhead it was to support multiple clouds vs. just settling on one? Any tools/libraries/abstractions you can recommend that makes developing against multiple clouds easier?
Regarding pricing: do you offer monthly subscriptions for "view-only" users?

Here's my use-case. I am fine paying $50 a month for someone to make dashboards, create queries, etc.

However, that's too much (and significantly above other tools) for the "users" of the product: for example, salespeople who I would like to enable to see what products their customers have used. I'd expect something in the 10-20 range per head per month for them, in exchange for more limited functionality.

Some companies solve for this by charging for "creators" (dashboard designers, the people who set up the database connection, or run more custom queries) versus viewers. This encourages broader adoption within a company. $50/mo for any type of user is pretty steep.
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The score should be removed from the interface. Maybe it is useful for the first X points but beyond that it is weirdly distorting the experience.

I had a floating video on top of the browser one time (covering up the right top of the page) and it was impressive how often I look at it without intend or being aware of it.

It is only useful if you dive below X or lost Y points in the last Z comments so that you know your kung-fu sausage isn't awesome enough in the HN kook book.
I think this boils down to:

- Users upvote, because they want that story to get MORE attention, BECAUSE they agree

- Users downvote, because they want that story to get LESS attention, BECAUSE they disagree

So the intent is still attention control, but the reason is (dis)agreement.

But in the case of HN, the downvote is a moderation mechanism, instead of a community poll. So this might be confusing to the user. Treating downvotes differently, based on a top-level reason (disagreement, violating ToC, false or misleading, not interesting, etc) makes a lot of sense to me.
I don't know either. I've been wondering if it's largely because SVB is a weird bank. They were huge --- larger than American Express --- but with an unusually small and extraordinarily correlated based of depositors. I think it's hard to understate just how strange SVB's customer base was; the closest analogy I can come up with is the Last of Us zombies, all perfectly connected with fungus hyphae.
The weird thing is they were only insolvent under artificial pressure. A lot of banks would have similar trouble there's just not as concentrated of a depositor spread where a scant handful of people can create a run on the bank by themselves.

A distinction between held to maturity assets and market priced assets makes sense though, there should be some consideration in the calculation about term though for sure. The question of that though seems very complex to answer.
I'm seeing now that I should have disclosed this again at the beginning of this thread with my first reply, because now it's coming across as a deception, which was truly not the intent as shown my by earlier comments. Apologies folks
That does seem to answer one of the questions raised about why there are two different formats for the number 4, and one of the ones used is included in several of the selectric fonts linked here.
Ah, sorry; I brainfarted and missed the ".ts" part. I was thinking of the ".js" extensions, which are required in newer resolution modes (but are supported in older ones, and therefore using the strictest mode produces the most compatible code).
> If all the depositors were merely semi-wealthy commoners with only $300k in their accounts, they would have only gotten $250k back.

No, they would have gotten $250k + ~90% of the balance. Maybe even 100%. Annoying but I wouldn’t care enough to take to twitter about it.

To explain why: it’s an overall loss of a few percent. The same as the daily fluctuation if I had kept the money in the stock market or whatever.
Inflation has not been kind to the dreams of BNL.
So Turbo pays the streamer the same amount per stream as the non-Turbo ad supported account? That sounds good and fair. I don't know why you would expect otherwise.

Heck, Turbo users probably watch more videos and so are better customers even at the same rate.
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All the advances relying on new concepts and discoveries or inventions in science, math, logic and technology would suggest that the basic known parts are not set. So yes, there's been plenty of genuine novelty. Culture as well as new forms of music, food and entertainment come into existence. New words are always being coined as languages are fluid.
I've seen it pushed as a potential way to launch into orbits that are harder to achieve via current launch sites; in theory, a plane-launched rocket can start from anywhere in the world.
The main source of upset I've seen (disregarding the silly "woke bank" hot air) is less about banking industry regulations per se and more about viewing government priorities writ large through a blurry sense of class warfare. For example, there's a particular feeling of a double standard between SVB depositors and people with student loan debt. When the government decided to bend the rules for the former, it was done swiftly with a minimum of serious political conflict. When the government decided to bend the rules for the latter, the swift action was to arrange for the program to be challenged at the Supreme Court.

There are all kinds of legal and practical reasons that this isn't really a fair comparison, but again, it's not really about the specific policies, it's about a sense of where the government's priorities are and its flexibility seeming to only bend in one direction.
It definitely works. But whether the it works economically compared with the traditional static ground launch is the question. Pegasus is simply more expensive than it's ground based competition.
Uh, I guess I do? I mean, there is https://pypi.org/project/chromedriver-binary/ (and a lot of similar packages)...

I honestly don't remember which one I've used for chromedriver when I needed it for my project, but I've surely installed all the stuff with "just" pip/poetry. Larger projects are typically packaged like this, with setup.py performing the downloads, while wheels solve the problem with Python libraries with native dependencies (e.g. how psycopg-binary works).

Maybe Conda makes it slightly more convenient, but I've always treated pip as the standard Python package management tool (it's a part of the standard library now, after all) and Conda was always "that weird non-standard thing some folks use for some odd reason" for me.
Stan Wawrinka(tennis player) has this tattooed on his forearm! Love the quote
Take a look at Cryptomator. If offers transparent encryption across windows, Linux and MacOS. Desktop clients are free, iOS/android costs a one time fee.
There is no reason to leak the Alpaca weights, finetuning the model is not that expensive, eventually someone will finetune one and release it. (Also LoRA should performs on-par or better than fine-tuning in model quality)
> wealth inequality exists even in corrupt organizations.

I'd argue that it's worse in corrupt organizations. Sometimes much worse.
I can barely comprehend what you're saying. Of course it has legal standing in terms of likelihood of copying.
I cant wait to see his sentence. He's going away for decades.
When I was in Tokyo last week google maps had carriage suggestions
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Does NSFW necessarily mean pornographic though? I can well imagine that there exist employers that would readily discipline or terminate someone if they were caught viewing a scantily clad female on a company owned computer.
The grand irony is if these ugly badges are widely adopted, AI will plaster ghosts of them just like it does with the "Getty Images" watermark today.
With ChatGPT and language models, code licenses are either:

- 1. Moot, and therefore language models are fine

- 2. Enforceable, and language models will be neutered
Can't count, though. That's way more than 100 hands
The phrase comes from Sima Qian's "The Records of the Grand Historian" written in 94BCE. Zhao Gao was a eunuch and hid the first Emperor's death and schemed to have the rightful heir killed. Zhao installed a puppet and tested everyone's loyalty by declaring a stag a horse and dared anyone to question him.

https://cesnur.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/tjoc_6_4_5_che...
> The obsession is because we are going to anthromorphise it, and then we're going to put it in charge of important things in our lives

and that is the risk, its not the AI that's the problem, its people so removed from the tech that they fail to RTFM. Even the GPT4 release is extremely clear that its poor in high-stakes environments and its up to the tech community to educate ALL the casuals (best we can) so some idiot executive don't put it in full charge of mortgage underwriting or something.
Currently we allow databases to whitelist our IP address and access from anywhere.

For internal databases we do offer VPN and on-prem (Dockerized) solutions for our enterprise customers.

Private databases that are on localhost we don't _currently_ support on our native Mac app but it's on our roadmap!
Nuclear and space weapons proliferation have been slowed down but not stopped. The number of nuclear powers is larger now than ever before. While no one has launched kinetic weapons into orbit lately, the superpowers are currently engaged in an anti-satellite weapon arms race.
Ironically, the badge sounds robotic "written by human". How about "written by a human" to make it grammatically correct? And while we are at it, why are the letters AI the biggest thing on the badge? Seems backwards. I suggest flipping the emphasis so "written by a human" is bold and the "not by AI" part is smaller to indicate its inferiority.