skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Its like paying to be a second class citizen! :)
>That is, these companies are largely not doing the hard part, which is creating and training these models in the first place.

fyi, for Adobe Firefly, we are training or models. From the FAQ:

"What was the training data for Firefly?

Firefly was trained on Adobe Stock images, openly licensed content and public domain content, where copyright has expired."

https://firefly.adobe.com/faq

(I work for Adobe)
Maybe you wonder what it is
Makes people good or bad
Why some guy, an ace without a doubt
Turns out to be a bastard
And the other way about

I'll tell you what I feel
It's just the nickel under the heel
Oh you can live like hearts and flowers
And everyday is a wonderland tour
Oh you can dream and scheme and happily put
And take, take and put
But first be sure
That nickel's under your foot

Go stand on someone's neck while you take him
Cut into somebody's throat as you put
For every dream and scheme, depending on whether
All through the storm
You've kept it warm
That nickel under your foot

And if you're sweet then you'll grow rotten
Your pretty heart covered over with soot
And if for once you're gay and devil-may-care-less
And oh so hot

I'll know you've got
That nickel under your foot
South Korea planned a 69-hour workweek. Millennials and Gen Z had other ideas
The US actively supported death squads, drug trafficking, and dictators in Central America in the 80s. Nothing about what the US did during the Cold War (and realistically the “war on terror”) could even remotely be called “soft”, or for “good intentions”.

Propaganda is when other countries sell a narrative.
"We’re releasing it initially with our lightweight model version of LaMDA. This much smaller model requires significantly less computing power, enabling us to scale to more users, allowing for more feedback."
https://blog.google/technology/ai/bard-google-ai-search-upda...
Now granted most EULAs and Terms of Service documents aren't legally enforced, most software licenses explicitly prohibit decompiling or otherwise disassembling binaries.

So, yes: They have a right to stop you from "learning" from their code. If you want that right, see if they're willing to sell that right to you.
Might be worth looking into PostgreSQL as well. It's just as readily containerized (docker) as well as being more ANSI compliant and consistent. I only say this because nearly every time I've ever used MySQL, I find annoyances.

Such as the fact that 'utf8' isn't 'utf8', 'utf8mb4' is... the feature was in testing as utf8 was being standardized and mysql used 'utf8mb3', and never updated the reference for 'utf8' for compatibility, even across major versions.

There's also the fact that collation on indexes for binary fields are case-insensitive if your default collation is, even if it's "binary".

Also, PostgreSQL has nicer support, imo, for JSON (JSONB) data, as well as a rich extension ecosystem.
If you've done Node.js with TypeScript (or even JS), you may want to consider C# and .NET Web APIs. C# and TS are syntactically similar.

.NET minimal web APIs are very similar to Express in setup (at least initially; you layer in middleware as needed).

You can get an API up and running in Google Cloud pretty quickly.

Short video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlnEm7JyvyY (< 7 minutes to get a minimal web API into Google Cloud Run with no special tooling involved).

Entity Framework (ORM) is pretty good and supports a variety of databases (SQL Server, Postgres, MySQL, others). Working with JSON is low-friction.
Felt Becomes First Flagship Sustaining Member of QGIS
I strongly suggest everyone to read this:
https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/06/is-adobe-using-your-photos...

I hope it's fair to say that they do train on your work.
If they were only increasing prices to a degree that covered their (temporary) higher costs, they wouldn't be making record profits. Since they generally brag on these calls about their record-breaking profits, and say that their record-breaking profits are linked to the fact that they raised prices, we can safely deduce that they're increasing prices more than they had to.
The "&&" approach is how you express that same logic in an if statement in Java today.

Given this pattern matching syntax change, you'd write:

switch(obj) {
case Tuner t when guitar.isInTune() -> ...;
...
}

For a switch, but for an if statement it's written as:

if (obj instanceof Tuner t && guitar.isInTune()) {
...
}

Edit: I do wonder, actually, if avoiding "&&" is to allow the "when" case execution to be reordered (e.g. to allow JIT to extract common "when" conditions prior to the switch expression), which would be wrong to do given the short-circuiting rule implications of "&&"
Yeah, you're right. Sketcky is probably the wrong way to describe it. I more just mean something we haven't done before/don't know about.
Did you read the article? The headline is pretty accurate, if not pretty abstract.
Like I have tic-tac in my car but its not driving the engine.
That’s a UK-centric perspective. The rest of Europe did not, by and large, use Spectrums or BBC Micros; they all mostly used Commodore 64s. (I am not an American.)

AFAIK, Americans mostly used Apple ][, not Commodore, which also had the Microsoft BASIC without named functions, IIUC.
Haha thank you! I'm really grateful that everyone at PlanetScale gave me _so_ much time to work on this. We're really committed to doing everything as high quality as we can, even the free stuff. Let me know what you think!
Memo to self: try to stay on the "shelf of cool stuff".
Counterpoint: BYTE Magazine artwork (1980s) compared to macabre SVG libraries of wavy modular body parts stitched together to show human activity.

[0]: https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/bytecover.jp...

[1]: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Co...
What is the source for your beliefs?

I'm assuming you are talking about nuclear fission because fusion is pretty much a pipe dream right now.

A 2020 report (https://www.lazard.com/media/451419/lazards-levelized-cost-o...) by Lazard (investment bank) points out significantly higher levelized cost of energy for nuclear energy compared to renewables.

In additions, most recently built reactors finished neither on time NOR on budget, and most of those were just expansions/additional blocks for existing plants, which is a big "free" decrease in risk/problems already compared to new plants (compare that with renewable costs which are trending down).

Nuclear is also absolutely not sustainable: Mining fuel is a dirty business and reserves are limited.

Nuclear proliferation is another undesirable side effect, and both nuclear waste and decomissioned plants are difficult and expensive to clean up.

Regarding popular support:
What is your source for this? Maybe it is talking about delaying decomissioning of existing plants to keep electricity prices lower? I am extremely doubtful that this "support" could be leveraged into securing new places to build plants anyway.

Also consider that specifically the German electricity mix is basically 50% renewables already-- scaling that up seems more doable, faster, cheaper, and ultimately environment friendly than starting to build nuclear plants on a massive scale NOW.
>Since the man of common sense makes his appeal to feeling, to an oracle within his breast, he is finished and done with anyone who does not agree; he only has to explain that he has nothing more to say to anyone who does not find and feel the same in himself. In other words, he tramples underfoot the roots of humanity. For it is in the nature of humanity to press onward to agreement with others; human nature only really exists in an achieved community of minds.

Phenomenology of Spirit (Oxford, 1979), p. 43.
Not really. You are getting coverage on projects that are already public or are being promoted or it is a persuasive piece. The best news to ingest is that speaking of markets, trading, acquisitions, etc.
Nextcloud Hub 4
A Googler explained it to me once - it's something like as if the Workspace accounts are on a completely different instance of Google, and supporting both in an app is surprisingly hard.

Still, after all this time the geniuses at Google kinda ought to have solved this :)
We're still developing this proposal. be patient LOL
> Everyone ran into supply issues at the same time and naturally raised prices to the new point on the demand curve.

Some fancy pants buying a car with cash at $35,000 over MSRP last year during the new car shortage could be called a "new point on the demand curve." But actually financing a car for that last year? Unless there was an enormous increase last year in down payments, it points to bank shenanigans. Loans typically last longer than a year, and banks look at trends past the year in which they write the loan. Granted $35,000 over MSRP is the worst case I've heard. But the more common case of vehicles financed for 5 - 15k over MSRP for rapidly a depreciating asset is still a problem.

And now, a year later, it seems we're already seeing the other end of those shenanigans-- increasing delinquency levels and banks holding off on repos. Because after repo, the difference between the loan and the actual value of the vehicle is stark for all to see.

I have no idea where this market is going. But greedy dealers and finance depts have added so much energy to "natural" market dynamics that it could push many of the cash-strapped used car dealers out of business. Hell, even Carvana may not have the billions needed to survive this volatility. None of this is good, and it's all based on short term greed with little to no basic oversight last year to stave off the obvious risk.

If that behavior is in the set of "natural market forces" then the term is so broad as to be meaningless-- might as well say "inflation is what it is" at that point.
Well I am 50% sorry for that message. I was on mobile and the first thing I saw was a FAQ about the license. Nothing about what the product does, no screenshots. Today I checked it out again on desktop and the message was a lot clearer.

The rest of 50% remains as per the poor mobile experience.
https://archive.ph/yPAzS
LiFePO4 batteries that you'll find in some vehicles (more often than not for running accessory loads, not starting the engine - though some models are intended for dual purpose use) usually have a decent degree of intelligence baked into an on-board BMS system.

Typical car batteries are not yet so 'smart'. The post-battery-swap 'coding' that many euro vehicles need is to instruct the car-side BMS about the battery's characteristics so that it can tune things like its start-stop routine, alternator behavior, etc. to optimize battery life and resilience.
Nuclear Fusion: Who'll Be First to Make It Work?
(just on the following up on this)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_version_history

The non-LTS releases are every 6 months and have support for one year.

LTS releases are every 4th release which falls on odd numbered years in September.
Where did I say any of that?

War crimes are a serious problem, of course. But it's also quite possible that Assange's distribution of Russian propaganda affected elections in multiple countries and allowed for Russian human rights violations in Africa and Syria.

So you'll only accept evidence of war crimes if they are committed by the US?

And yes, I know you didn't write that but it's just as fair of a characterization as the one you provided.
>People pay for it because they don't have a choice.

But that money has to come from somewhere. Money is not infinite from the perspective of any individual actor.

If you spend more on gas and 2x4s you have to spend less on something else. Consumer and business credit makes this kind of fuzzy but for the most part it holds.

>If I run a donut shop and can produce 100 donuts a day. According to you, the only way to run the business is to charge as much as possible to still sell ~100 donuts so I can make the most profit. What if by selling them at a reasonable price, everyone is able to afford them and we are still able to pay our workers and ourselves well? Gasp! Another solution presents itself which makes the overall society better off. It doesn't have to be about charging as much as possible, where that extra money will just go to the owner and not the workers anyway.

What are the margins on this hypothetical donuts shop and what do you do when the price of labor goes up 20%, energy goes up 80% eggs goes up 100%?
It's no more fanciful than assessing exorbitant damages for distributing each copy made via BitTorrent. The courts were fine with letting that happen.

Just because the plaintiffs aren't operating billion dollar businesses doesn't make their infringement claims less valid. The terms of the GPL explicitly spell out Deere's obligations. If they ignore them it converts to plain old copyright infringement with damages due for every illegal copy made.
>In late 2021, Kelley and Meka were analyzing the chances that a team of players in a certain cooperative game would be able to win, a standard type of computer science problem. It occurred to them that techniques from research on the size of progression-free sets might be helpful. But they found it easier to directly study those techniques than to apply them to the cooperative game. “My best idea for how to make progress on this problem [was] to actually improve the tool itself, not to use it in a more clever way,” Kelley said.

I wish they went into more detail about how this problem was relevant to the other problem.
Given the terrible result we came up with in the Python community, I understand the JS wants to take their time. It's a great feature, but it's hard to get right, especially on an existing language.

Not to mention JS is not typed, but pattern matching that can't match typescript types would be terrible.
Dragonfly, a startup developing a ‘drop-in’ replacement for Redis, raises $21M
If you can swing it, the 15 year rates aren't terrible, I just closed at 5.3
I'd say that I can't decide whether or not I want to move to another country for a job without knowing what I'll be payed there, and what lifestyle that salary would buy me. Once I got the offer, I asked for one week to think about the offer itself. Would you say that's unreasonable?
Name one leftist who got on that bandwagon.
I was just going to downvote you, but really, this deserves some very public shaming! Ugh!!! /h

But it does appear that we are all doomed to spend our lives with assigned clippai’s

Dystopia. Dystopai?
Can't really comment on the material... but a minor suggestion might be to have a section on ANSI-SQL statements and quotes, and where mySQL/MariaDB breaks the standard (such as foreign key references in table creation). As well as pointing out that you should use 'utf8mb4' for UTF-8, and not 'utf8' encoding.
I got an ad for their password manager too. They’re pulling out all the stops for this one.
Nvidia Launches DGX Cloud, Giving Every Enterprise Access to AI Supercomputer
As another comment mention, they did use && in the 2nd preview, but then switched it, so you're right, it must have been confusing.

FWIW, though, I don't find it "bizarre". While it's not a boolean expression per Java, at least in my mind it serves the same purpose: "in the case that thing x is of type SomeType and ...some other thing about ((SomeType)x) is true...".

I think it's a tough choice, I'm sure they were probably not wanting to add a new keyword, but at the end of the day "when" is so familiar to anyone who's ever written SQL (which I'm guessing is most Java devs) so seems like a good choice.
“Off switch” makes explosives safer
It's click bait because it contains zero information about what was actually done.
Together with my wife we've created a game in 24h that was solved by 3000 people within 7 days of it's creation. You can read how we host it it on a Raspberry Pi from our home.
Absolutely! You can't possibly say you own something if you have to pay rent on it to keep it. and not allowing someone to even own a home is basically tantamount to taxing their right to live.

And, you can always have a tiered system, for example, 0% on the first 1 million, then 0.5% on the next 500k, etc. that way at least people can downsize to something that they can own.
> What's the point of spending "time" (brain cycles) on such problems?

What's the point of anything?

> Is it just a mathematician's version of brain teaser?

All of mathematics can be characterised as "brain teasers". Make of that what you will.

> What useful development comes out of such?

I'm not qualified for this particular example. However, it seems quite number-theoretic, and number-theory has given us such "practical" things as asymmetric encryption and universal computation (Turing's famous paper from 1936 was titled "On Computable Numbers", after all).
So basically trading one provider for another
I don't fundamentally disagree, but if spam filters are "AI" then my bloody toaster is also artificially intelligent.
Nice work! Congrats on shipping it
I have to say that I have never seen Microsoft shipping things this fast. Meanwhile, Google has just released a waitlist for AI chat, four months after ChatGPT's release https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35246260
Yes, trends are the "era" you mention and fashion is the battle to be noticed within a trend.
PostgreSQL, however, is one hell of a PITA to upgrade. Keeping a cluster of MySQL machines alive is way easier than PostgreSQL, not to mention how easy it is to shoot yourself in the foot with its authentication mechanisms.
In fact, the disablement of JavaScript itself is a very identifying characteristic.
A code snippet showing a simple program right on the home page and "selling" whatever features makes it special would go a long way. It's quite off-putting to have to delve deep into a guide in order to get a feel for a language.

Some examples done right:

https://lfe.io

https://elixir-lang.org

https://imba.io

https://ocaml.org
Almost all of those converted to liberal democracy after communism economically collapsed in the Soviet Union, and West Germany and Italy after a literal war forced them to.

If we could go back in time and not economically prop up communism in China, and let it collapse the same as the Soviet Union, then I would anticipate a similar outcome there too. But you have to let communism collapse and become totally discredited in order to achieve that outcome.
This makes sense. Prices are literally encoding information - first the demand for the item being priced and then the cost of supplying the item. The price of beef is signaling a lot of phenomena including consumer tastes, weather, costs for feed, slaughter, and transportation, etc.

You could argue that central banks putting non-market pricing on the money supply distorts the information that a market-priced money supply would transmit effectively - and that's why all these crises seem to originate in the finance sector.
Collapse of SVB shows why monetary policy is the wrong tool to fight inflation
Off topic but have you considered adding Chat-GPT added summaries to your videos as a TL;DW? There is a plugin called eightify.app that produces summaries. It just feel like sometimes you are limiting your audiences to the hard core nerds with your long winded rants.
Seeing Io lang mentioned was a trip to memory lane, back in 2005/2006 when I started to rely much more on JS for frontend interaction and client-side rendering (AJAX/XmlHttpRequest was the new shit back then, kids!) I remember studying Io as another prototype-based language, as that concept was pretty new to me and I liked Io quite a lot at the time. Unfortunately there was no use for it whatsoever in professional-world and I dropped it quite quickly.

I had completely forgotten about it until this popped up on HN so thanks for that.
I wanted to think about the whole offer, not just the migrating part. I knew I'd have to move, but I didn't know for how much, or what that salary would buy me in Switzerland. Why is taking one week to think about an offer unreasonable to you? I gave them a total of 2.5 months for this whole process, and they couldn't give 1 week. Are we serious?
Thanks for correcting my bad assumption, appreciated.
Thank you for that recommendation. I didn’t know Flyvbjerg had a new book.

For other HN readers interested in the topic I can recommend “ The Oxford Handbook of Megaproject Management”. Bent Flyvbjerg is the editor of the book I believe.
And what price would we choose? Yesterday's price? Last year's price? And if we sold out immediately, what then? Would we just have a race every morning for buyers to secure the prior day's production? Why wouldn't we increase price and see if we sold out again? And do the same the next day? You'd quickly wind up at the same place -- that is, charging what the market will bear. And while I was doddling along, my many competitors would be selling to the highest bidder, then using that money to bid up the logs I have to buy, thereby putting me out of business.
I'm a big fan of Sabine Hossenfelder's videos, as they give me a window into areas I find interesting but have little background on. I'm interested in fusion + the related physics, and this video gave a pretty good background on the current players in the field and their status. Posting her latest video on fusion here to hopefully get some good discussion and hear from people with a better understanding of the landscape + physics.
Not enough to be game changing yet but for documentation on processes it has helped. Where I do enjoy using it is for learning though and digging into things that have always itched me but I could never bother to find the answers to ( due to slog of search/review cycle ). For example when reviewing history of math I would ask about where the word equation came from, and so on. I always liked to dig a bit beneath and teachers hated that! Not GPT :)
Consider Phlebas Published by the Folio Society
Yeah its just my theory. I'm not aware of any public reasoning given for their actions, although it's possible they may have mentioned it in an earnings call or something.
haha yeah the github readme is a bit unwieldy at this point and ive been tempted to break it out
Do you actually know that there aren't good reasons for the law or is that purely uncharitable speculation on your part?

It's easy to imagine how this might have gone down: Gardener Joe uses animal carcass compost but it stinks to high heaven, poisons the water, attracts the wrong kind of scavengers, etc. People ask him to stop but he's not bothered by the problems nearly as much as they are, he's convinced it makes his grapes taste great, and he refuses to stop. Eventually the community forces the issue with a law. In this case it would not be a meaningless law and anyone who repealed it would get to learn the same lesson all over again.
Not if it was done well, unfortunately... I suppose there's always sending a text to a friend saying "I'll leave the money in a blue bag on the corner of 4th ave at 10am tomorrow" and hiding in the bushes (but sadly we'd expect an attacker who was halfway across the world, not across town). I am pretending everything is fine until I can't.
Why the lie? Bengaluru is a small metro?
An year ago was in Hyderabad also Delhi and many shop keepers and auto guys refused PayTM/PhonePe. Small businesses don't like cash in accounts, since many of them run on daily loans, and daily loan vendors generally don't like paying taxes on that amount so they only take cash. And those business owners need cash to pay back. There are a lot of other hurdles, which I don't want to post because it's off-topic. But no The adoption isn't a majority. And cash is still king.
Just to be really clear what we do and do not train on:

Firefly was trained on Adobe Stock images, openly licensed content and public domain content, where copyright has expired.

https://firefly.adobe.com/faq

We do not train on user content. More info here:

https://helpx.adobe.com/manage-account/using/machine-learnin...