skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> company is shaping up to be to the future of society

It's definitely a terrifyingly powerful company, but "future of society" seems a little strong.

I think it's the future for spam, writing rote emails/documents/code, disinformation, plagiarism, lying, cheating, and impersonation, but those are subsets of society -- not all of society.
I think the difference is their target market. Credit card companies usually target people who they think can make payments without too much stress.

BNPL companies target people who are unlikely to afford the purchase and they will be in far worse position afterwards. Since these are high risk loans, so they come with even higher interest rates and fees too.
> I have increasingly become disinterested in CGI-heavy movies.

I honestly think that CGI has ruined most movies.
Since we are in ELI5, it seems that the concept of low rank approximation is required to understand this method.

(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-rank_approximation

Edited: By the way, it seems to me that there is an error in the wikipedia page because if the Low-rank approximation takes a larger rank then the bound of the error should decrease, and in this page the error increases.
I've never seen a project that uses Bazel that didn't also have a backlog task to remove it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edict_on_Maximum_Prices

>The Edict on Maximum Prices is still the longest surviving piece of legislation from the period of the Tetrarchy. The Edict was criticized by Lactantius, a rhetorician from Nicomedia, who blamed the emperors for the inflation and told of fighting and bloodshed that erupted from price tampering.

>During the Crisis of the Third Century, Roman coinage had been greatly debased by the numerous emperors and usurpers who minted their own coins, using base metals to reduce the underlying metallic value of coins used to pay soldiers and public officials.
Im very curious what religion this is. I havne't been able to find it in any of the linked posts. Does anyone know the real answer (and not the hilarious puns people are making)?
> If a gym offers an email address, real life support, and/or a phone number to cancel, are you going to be intensely morally outraged that you can't send a physical letter to cancel as well?

I think you misunderstood the parent comment:

> You should just be able to send them a letter, an email, go in and inform them

That's a "you should" statement.

The simple fact is, you can't cancel by just sending a letter, e-mail, or just going into the gym.

Usually, you have to fill out their form and send it as a registered mail to some corporate office that will likely completely ignore it for another month or two and keep charging you.

If you can join a gym by just showing up or creating an account online, then you should be able to cancel online or by just showing up and telling them to cancel.

> Doesn't it seem reasonable for businesses to [...]

Yes, but doesn't it seem shitty the way gyms operate? Fuck off with your "BUT THAT'S WHAT YOU SIGNED UP FOR" and just answer THAT question.

The problem is that every gym operates this way. Going to a competitor isn't an option.
General point taken but you can absolutely get out of that situation without losing reliability. You can get a good condition, perfectly reliable Maverick or cargo van for a fraction of that. Maybe $30k at the most, and most contractors will still have the utility they need. And right now, you won't lose much on a private buyer sale of a bigger or more heavily optioned truck.
The reality is not good - from the outside and the inside.
Indeed, at least for verification. I didn't mean for HN users to trust those, but perhaps should have warned about it: copied the fingerprints primarily for people searching on this page, so that they can follow the link to GitHub (and rely on PKIX to build a trust chain). I did `ssh-keygen -R github.com` myself, and saw the ECDSA key's fingerprint while connecting (which wasn't mentioned in the linked post, and wasn't on this page either), so figured it would be somewhat helpful for others following the same route.
Can confirm this is a very real problem with a long history. Quoting from a sort of Arch-specific security hardening page[1]:

> A common misconception about the Linux kernel is that it's secure, or that users can go a long time without worrying about security updates. Neither of these are even remotely true. New versions of Linux are released almost every week, often containing important security fixes among the other changes. These releases typically don't make explicit mention of which commits have security implications. As a result, many "stable" or "LTS" distributions don't know which commits should be backported to their old kernels, or even that something needs backporting at all. If the problem has a CVE assigned to it, maybe your distribution will pick it up. Maybe not. Even if a CVE exists, at least in the case of Ubuntu and Debian especially, users are often left with kernels full of known holes for months at a time. Red Hat and similar "enterprise" distros have the same problem and have been called out publicly about it on more than one occasion. Moreover, the Linux kernel security team doesn't request CVEs for any vulnerabilities, partly because there are just too many to track. Downstream's culture of trying to cherrypick security fixes in the name of stability does not work. Arch doesn't play the backporting game, instead opting to provide the newest stable kernels shortly after their upstream release.

[1]: https://vez.mrsk.me/linux-hardening.html (lots of linked sources in the actual paragraph there)
I just meant some correlation, not necessarily a particularly strong one.

I didn’t mean to suggest that there are no people who are both highly intelligent and also completely vile.
Hits meaning clicks. The project served a few purposes and I guess attention was one of them as far as anyone making art hopes someone sees it.
The article points out that while system colors are supported in Firefox (as of the time of the writing of the article), the "color-scheme: light dark" method he was using was not supported, and it looks like that was not supported until Firefox 96 (January 2022).[0]

[0] https://caniuse.com/mdn-css_properties_color-scheme
BNPL targets people who wouldn't otherwise qualify for a credit card or personal loan.

Here's a simple test – if everyone paid their balances on time and in full, credit card companies would still survive. BNPL would not.
GPT Everywhere All at Once
I worry about the "crisis" where the first AI significantly smarter than humans -- smarter in general, not just at chess or go -- kills all the humans.

The only thing preventing current generally-smart AIs like ChatGPT from killing all the humans is that they're not smart enough to devise an effective plan for doing so, but of course many groups are rushing headlong to make generally-smart AIs smarter. Most of these groups have published statements recently to the effect that they will be real careful to prevent their AIs from killing everyone, but none of them have a decent explanation for how they are going to manage that while continuing their headlong rush to create smarter AIs.
Maybe, but they still need a different type of capital. Unless property rights stop being enforced, where are all the people who don’t own land, or people who don’t own arable land supposed to farm? Are we bringing back manorialism?
That's a gross mischaracterization. Democrats trust government as an institution but that does not mean democrats trust all government, it just means they think government can solve problems, as opposed to the republican projected view (though not actual view of their voters IMO) that government is inherently broken as a concept and should be reduced to absolute minimal size.

There's no inconsistency in trusting a democratic process to do mostly democratic things but thinking the lack of accountability in policing has had negative outcomes. The vast majority of democratic voters in america do not support "abolish the police' in entirety, but rather that reforms are needed.
They didn't have the pricing power/their customers didn't have the tolerance for rising prices/coordinated action and corporate consolidation means prices are going up and it doesn't matter what your choices are.

Circumstances materially changed over the last few years, and inflation is a great time for profit taking as we're seeing, which reinforces the inflation. In a competitive environment the excess profit-taking should start pulling back eventually, but in the meantime the prices are going to the moon.
Are you saying that any factual reason is invalid and that the only reason one ever chooses Mac, Linux, Vim, Emacs is on purely non-factual, percieved ideas?
Quite a lot in the old days. Microsoft is a well-known brand in China. Grandma and grandpas are repeating stories of Bill Gates during 00s, they don't know who tf Sergey is. There are very minimal Mac users, so computer = PC = Windows + Office = Microsoft.
I started a new React project earlier this week and ran into approximately zero of the issues or concerns mentioned here in the comments.

I genuinely don’t get why the webdev community insists in making their jobs so difficult by refusing to actually learn the tools they’re using. CRA is unnecessary, Next.js is unnecessary. The simple tutorial on the React website gives you everything you need to get started, and you can research which other tools you need once and be good forever.
Right, but those are the "implicit" rules, and I was very specifically referring to the "explicit" rules.

I agree that the explicit rules are not the implicit rules. That is a big part of the critique. I'm accusing any "libertarians" who demanded a government bailout in this instance of being just as fake, and just as bullshit, as those explicit rules are.
They didn't have the billing system at launch, so maybe it was coded with the help of chatGPT.
Europe is also experiencing high inflation.
> This saw select fruit and vegetables rationed in UK supermarkets, due to shortages caused by bad weather conditions in the South of Europe and Northern Africa and many growers having to cut back due to rising costs of heating greenhouses.

Besides the obvious degradation of the energy and fertilizer markets from the war in Ukraine, the collapsed Pound is probably the biggest factor here.
I want to explain that I'm willing to work at their price and that I'm not a new grad.
I had just composed a comment with the exact same two quotes before I saw yours.

I suppose "abundance of caution" might apply, if they determined that the only ways it could've leaked were from requests that were logged, and they've removed all the ways and checked all the logs.

But if I had to guess, even a brief exposure can be picked up by bots (and perhaps they can already see log entries for this). Even if no one at all picked it up, there'd still be the question of whether traces of it are still left behind on various infrastructure, in storage and caches (even ML training?) not intended for key safety.
At that point it seems almost worth it just to buy another one so you have two laptops; a mainboard has to be a significant part of the cost of the whole system.

(this was my problem back when I built desktops - it was almost never worth upgrading anything but RAM or disk, instead build a whole new one and repurpose/sell the old one)
I'm not sure how it's possible to "not see a path" when every long-term global trend shows material wealth has been increasing for centuries. By every measure from standard of living to health and happiness the positive trend data is overwhelming.

I suggest you go look at the objective long-term data and stop letting negative spin from click-driven media and politicians trying to drive their various agendas rob you of reality.
Like I said, I'm using an animation loop, so of course it's going to keep doing things while the user isn't actively interacting. I fully agree there's ways to still improve it, and I might look into switching to entirely event based refreshing, but the 100% cpu core is due to your web browser being unable to offload the svg filters to your gpu. Maybe that's due to your gpu, maybe it's your operating system or web browser that's the problem, I don't know, but that's why people release things as a beta before fully releasing something. Hopefully I can work out most of those kinks, and people giving helpful feedback during beta makes that a lot easier!

For another data point, on my half decent desktop, it uses about 10% cpu and 20% gpu
Does that narrative actually exist? All I hear is that one dev + GPT4 does the work of many devs.
They just decided to start price gouging now?
I cannot wait until Pants supports Rust as a target language (they were looking for rust consumers as of 3-6 months ago if I recall). For our python needs it was a real breath of fresh air. I'm now at a shop without it and need to deal with slow dependency installs and dependency conflicts again :'(
I'm always surprised at how long it took to be able to draw perspective as we see it with our own eyes. Its not like ancient artists struggled with realism or anatomy, since the ancient Greeks were chiselling perfect human forms dozens of feet tall sometimes. Maybe it was just extremely challenging to think about converting a 3d field of view into something 2d until more drawing techniques were established?
I personally can't see how, but somehow he must have found a profitable angle.
Give it a try if you feel like it is a good thing to do. I'm sure some nation states are doing it.

P.S. this comment does not reflect my personal values. But I would rather someone with values try it almost like a white hat pen test.
> How on earth are solo indie devs outperforming entire well-paid teams?!

They don't outperform them, they have a different goal. The indie devs develop for the user. The company develops for the money, meaning more revenue, and whatever metrics for success they have.
Brexit plus sanctions.

War has nothing to do with that, at least not war in a classical sense. Economic or total war that some countries are involved in can be considered as a major reason.
You're right. I apologize. The fact that there was a PR actually shows that some people care.
I did misplace the apostrophe. There is no guaranteed common parent directory of all users other than `/`.
You should strongly reconsider how you choose to interact with people on the Internet. You'll be happier for it.
AI chatbots compared: Bard vs. Bing vs. ChatGPT
Every country in Europe is feeling the effects of the war in Ukraine but the UK seems to be dealing with it the worst. There's clearly an extra layer going on there.
Is this a bit? If it's illegal to train on copyrighted material, then OAI has broken the law ten times over by training GPT3. There's absolutely zero reason for them to sue, they'll just ban the responsible people.
The article even quotes on of Thiel's bought politicians who came to his wedding despite opposing gay marriage.

The whole thing seems utterly contradictory to me, but clearly principles are flexible when money and power are concerned.
You’re assuming a lot more intercompany coordination than would exist. Even though it’s research by Microsoft labs, the researchers themselves are to a large extent autonomous and also narrow experts in their fields.

This process involves low rank approximations -> Lora is a namey sounding term that uses characters from low and rank -> call it LoRA in the paper. That’s all there was to it. Probably didn’t even know the other lora existed.
Meanwhile in Sweden the CEO of ICA, the largest supermarket chain in the country (53% of the market) said yesterday: "It is actually the consumer who controls what they are prepared to pay for a product. In the end, it is they who decide." https://omni.se/icas-vd-det-ar-kunderna-som-avgor-matpriset/...
Docker Helped Invent Containers, and Is Now Reinventing Itself
Own a decent sized boat or 5th wheel camper? Probably gonna tow it with an F-150.

Do lawn or woodworking projects? Probably gonna haul materials in an F-150.

When I purchased my last vehicle, I had several considerations in mind, but the reason I didn't purchase a truck was that the gas mileage on those vehicles is typically not great AND it would cost me less month-to-month to simply rent a truck from U-Haul or Home Depot on the days that I needed it.

I pay almost $500 a month for the right to drive a 2019 SUV that cost $19K when adding up monthly payment and insurance. There are far too many people on the streets paying over $1K a month simply for the right to be mobile in a recent-model truck.
Anecdotally, my buddy (31M) in London says he's having the time of his life. Making a lot of money at BP, parties every weekend, just moved into a nice flat with a partner. I suspect, just like in America, that if you're inside the "formal economy" (corporate job with real benefits and potential for career growth) your life is pretty great. If you're outside that (service worker, gig economy, small business owner, NEET) then things are pretty grim.
it begins with everyone has enough to begin with, and whatever is importent is available as public services. there are different flavors to do this, the currently best implementation is to have very high&progressive taxes that fund a strong public sector, that in turn makes people feel safe and allows them to pursue higher education (doctors, teachers, ...) that again are needed for all this.

Sure you can work to have more, but not 100x more than your neighbor, nobody is worth that. instead of focussing on the single one elon musk, try to give everyone access to a good safety net and encourage them to try something, so statistically you will end up with many high-contributors instead of few parasitic billionaires.
> one of the finest films of our generation

I agree with this, but I think that's a pretty strong condemnation of movies these days.
The UK politics seems like a separate level of dysfunction. It seems like all the worst decisions being made together. For some reason people voted for Brexit. The PM who was the chief Brexit Campaigner (Boris Johnson) had to resign because of entirely avoidable mistakes. The next PM had to resign too soon due to trying to bring policies which were not well thought out. The current PM had to be annointed since it didn't seem like the Party membership would vote for him.

It doesn't seem like Labour has a charismatic leader either. I could never even find a concrete stance by Corbyn on what he was running on wrt Brexit.

HNers from UK, what does the outlook look like policy wise for the UK.
Oculus is not even being sold in Germany, the largest EU market.
A better comparison would be other EU countries and I'm seeing food inflation estimates for ~22% in Germany at the top of Google.

0. https://tradingeconomics.com/germany/food-inflation#:~:text=....

1. https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.dw.com/en/germany-inflation...
If a good cop doesn't stop the bad cops from doing bad things, they are, by definition, a bad cop.

> How many times have you ratted someone out in an environment with oversized peer pressure?

Why has this culture of oversized peer pressure been permitted to continue unabated for so long?

When I was in the military, there was an incident where someone witnessed another serviceman committing a war crime. The commander dragged us all out, stood us at attention, and made 3 things abundantly clear: 1) if we committed a war crime we would be punished. 2) if we witnessed a war time we were expected to report it. 3) failure to report is a UCMJ violation and will also be punished.

What's so special about cops? Why do they get held to a lower standard than the military?
Not sure about the US but in the UK it's now supposed to show up on your credit report.

You also need to be the type of person that keeps on top of your finances. The main trap for inexperienced/impulsive people is getting locked into paying for more than they can afford. Without BNPL they might look at their balance and decide not to buy the item. BNPL introduces a different type of calculation where you now "it's only $5/mo", and need the experience to consider "how many more $5/mo payments do I have".

The other problem is people with a volatile monthly income. They might be fine paying $50/month for a few months but due to their industry or changes in their financial situation they're now stuck with a commitment they can't afford and otherwise wouldn't have had without BNPL.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/food-and-drink/features/overlook...
Can you even call it "learning"? We use the word as a metaphor, but it's really not the same thing as what a human does.
> How was your interview prep worth money if you failed anyway?

You can learn a lot from failure, and from the conversations and practice runs leading to the interviews.
Demand for food is inelastic, so it makes sense that companies are raising prices as high as possible since people still have to eat. Generally this leads to price competition from other food brands, but when single companies own dozens/hundreds of food brands it’s easy to act like a cartel and keep prices high.
"keep smiling as the boot continues to crush your face and breaking your jaw"

Optimism is a trademark feature of a population untouched by traumas of war or famine (how many wars were fought on American soil? Would you say American military veterans are an optimistic bunch?).

Otherwise it's an individually variable characteristic.
Consumers notice price changes. So you don't want to adjust prices unless most of your competitors are also doing so.

Therefore you can see prices fixed for years, and then suddenly a sudden flurry of lots of manufacturers all raising prices 50%.
No, it is because the sanctions are really working. Against their own people. But hopefuly the war deliveries are not affected. /s
That does not contradict the situation in the UK.
Touché. GOOG probably does in fact, have my phone number through this vector.

What I mean is that they probably have a hard(er) time assigning this identifier to my activity.
Give her TempleOS instead
Something interesting is that this article breaks the narrative about it all being about the vegetables and the weather. Veg inflation was 18%, slightly below the average. Several other food categories like grains and fats had higher inflation.

This certainly seems to be more of a sign of a weakening pound not buying as much in n imports than something about food alone.
> Have we tried blaming climate change yet?

You would be surprised, but German press is full of such stories.
Try poe.com which is a Quora-provided frontend for OpenAI's models, it requires your phone number though.
Restoration and content analysis of ancient manuscripts via color spaces
That's the rising income inequality working the way it does. Inequality is the reason many third world countries are as bad as they are. Now the US and the UK are seeing rising inequality and for sure you'll see they having more of this stupid problems happening.
When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time. Have you seen who he bankrolls?
It cannot be expensive enough because it only ever costs taxpayers. Nobody responsible pays or loses anything.
How is this a security flaw? Recently I made a browser extension to change the theme of a website. I discovered from the html that there was already a (work in progress) dark mode that could be enabled by adding a css class to the root element.

Did I hack the site by using this unreleased feature?
FAA is laying out steps for air traffic controllers to avoid more close calls