skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> you just sold 15,000 copies at retail by having a full price version when you otherwise couldn't sell any

That's wishful thinking. No business buys 15,000 copies of an app just like that.

My experience from the point of view of an independent software developer is that:

1. The company will email you to fill out some forms because they are considering a bulk purchase. You get all excited and jump right into filling out their forms.

2. They will ask for a volume discount.

3. They will ask for some more forms to fill out. They'll casually mention that they are looking at competitors as well. Okay, maybe now they can finally make the purchase...

4. Ultimately they will order 5 licenses and move them around between employees as needed.

In the mean time, 50 private customers will have bought a license without ever contacting you.

If there's a market where businesses randomly buy 15,000 copies of an app let me know and I'll switch to making apps in that market.

(Also, in my experience, most bigger companies don't use Apple Business Manager, they buy software via resellers like Software One)
I don't think there's a writeup out there, but mrsk just uses docker under the hood. So, if you have a CMD in your Dockerfile, it will use that.

If you have an image that can run multiple things, like a rails app that can run the app process for web traffic by default, but it can also run job workers with the right command, you can provide the cmd in the mrsk config. You can see this in the jobs role in the example: https://github.com/mrsked/mrsk#using-different-roles-for-ser....
Interesting. Please link one.
Isn’t this pretty bad for the Block, Inc leadership. KYC and money laundering laws are one of the few corporate laws that can result in doing actual jail time.

In addition, politics being what it is, with the SVB “bailout” the Biden administration will be looking for something to show that they are not coddling Silicon Valley. Throwing a few execs in jail would send the message.
Switch to OpenBSD, you get FVWM (and CWM) by default. Or Hyperbola, where libre licenses, a BSD-like philosophy and light desktops (no XFCE, Gnome or even KDE, just Lumina and JWMKit) do a match. OFC you get FVWM and CWM too.

EDIT: I omitted some words, sorry.
I thought the gotcha was that nowhere was it stated which of them are actually children.
It's the other way around. Focusing on walking and running not being good comparisons rather than making valid comparisons is a distraction.

Like a lot of the stuff being done with large models certainly isn't thinking, but they can clearly characterize sets of data in ways that an unassisted human can't.
The sad part is that there's going to be a few people who got their YT view spammed with the fake Tesla and they unsubscribed. Even with YT reverting the videos/ratings/etc. I'd be really surprised if they reverted the unsubscribes.
That would probably be the safest place to work, can't fire anyone with the risk of bad PR.
ChatGPT cannot search the web. Bing and Bard search the web. If ChatGPT doesn't know about your topic it just lies. Bing will ground its answers in web results. Bard is supposed to do that but isn't smart enough for it to work apparently
If I were designing a production line, every step of the process would record video footage of every part being made, tested, and fitted.

Then, if any quality issue is identified, the footage can be checked to see exactly which cells that went into which cars were faulty.

It's far quicker to check 30 seconds of video to verify that a worker remembered to tighten some critical bolts than to recall the car and have a service technician pull the whole thing apart to find that this car was fine after all.
Wouldnt know what the OP refers to but silicon valley has been skirting regulations and running as close to a ponzi scheme as humanly possible, the likes of uber with blitzscaling, esentially growing their userbase with venture capital only to increase the amount of venture capital they can get to 'eventually' make a profit. Or SVB wanting to not be regulated because they hold less than 250B only to fail with terrible consequences. Then theres the numerous crypto startups that promise return on stake funded by new depositors to pay the old depositors. Money was cheap but in an economic downturn any weakness will result in investors leaving, cash drying up. So whoever cannot show profits will quickly wither and cause chain reactions in similar weak companies. I'm sure you can find an amazing list on hindenburg and you'll see most of them are tech companies because thats where the biggest venture capital pie was between 2008 and now.
I wanted to make some minor changes and the kind of toxicity being directed at developers was scary, even as someone who was only looking to help with some translations, etc.

Ever since that experience I’ve become highly sympathetic to open source devs of all stripes. The only partial exception are blatantly corporate projects making blatantly corporate decisions (eg React/Angular or VS Code telemetry)
The X299 (2017) PCH certainly still has the proper DMAC for LPC[1].

That's a link to a CPU datasheet. The X299 datasheet is your second link, which you can see mentions "LPC 24 MHz, No DMA" on page 19.

(I hope I'm not talking to a GPT here.)
How big are these guys :/
This is not necessarily true, however, for example in reinforcement learning there is a lot of work on "intrinsic motivation", i.e., creating systems that set and pursue their own goals.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.06976
hef19898 wasn't saying Wells Fargo targeted the criminal demographic, they're saying Block did.
Google could literally survive just providing work email and nothing else
>Sorry, an awesome set of dreads doesn't make you a "guru".

Got a critique about the topic at hand, which is what he's said about AI, or do you just have cheap, physical appearance potshots?
Libraries and librarians need to back to having one political cause: freedom of information.

It seems like this concept of "don't censor books" and "make all the information open to the world" have become openings exploited for activists to push their agenda.
When I commented all the top comments fell under "lack of solidarity, raw greed and lack of long term vision".

And there were about 5-10 of them.
Wait until they hear what rappers say about gold or cash...
What Wells Fargo did was despicable. What Block did, and I should have been a lot more concise, is similar in opening up multiple, and sometimes fake, accounts for show growth measured in number of accounts instead of actual deposits or clients. In that regard there are similarities. Wells Fargo targeted minorities, Block targeted criminals and fraudsters. This of course doesn't mean the people Wells targeted are criminals, as you said they were victims of Wells business practices.
>Given the technical challenges Wells Fargo has had lately, I'm not sure who trusts Zelle.

I trust Zelle (i.e. the bank itself) more than I trust a third party to ACH money into and out of my account.
Sounds like the start of BLIT by David Langford.
Not sure. Depends how heavy handed Apple and Google want to be. App store removal is a given.
But almost every HN post to pay-walled content includes an archive.is link to bypass the paywall.
Sure, just like large fuel tanks are a fire hazard. We have to take the correct precautions. In the case of batteries that is make things with the right margin of safety, and be careful how we charge. (probably more, I'm not a battery expert)
Good day, could you point to how to use this script? Is it meant for a plugin?

That's cool for filtering. Thank you!
Why is fair use even an issue? The content provider provided a lawful copy to the recipient. The first sale doctrine means it’s theirs to use as they please. Since the data is distributed as a software program the copyright act permits copying it as needed for a machine to actually use it.

There’s a reason it’s called COPYright and not USEright. It’s remarkable to me that some private attorneys working for Microsoft somehow hypnotized the entire population into believing that they need to be licensed rights that they already have by law.
Jack Dorsey’s Block Falls After Hindenburg Says It’s Short the Stock
> but I think this one is just different. It might change the world really drastically.

FWIW crypto did change the world in a number of ways:

1. CBDCs actively being explored.

2. Increased concern about the environmental cost of compute.

3. It probably raised the public's level of bullshit detection...
I dig the independence sentiment and agree somewhat / in general on the "should know how it works underneath" part but Heroku is still the one platform I can recommend to most of my exclusively-dev friends.

The systems evolution that led us to Kubernetes does have it merits of course:
I just know I can trust the simple foundations of control loop meets immutability in order to maintain complex distributed systems, including expectations for self-healing and resilience. Though IMHO the "freedom" aspect you hinted on above is the more important one these days - yet usually cloud platform dependence unfortunately creeps in, in other ways still.

Personally though I bet that for an easy 80% of "need to deploy software" cases, Kubernetes is indeed overkill - as long as it isn't "managed" / abstracted away at least to the level of a Heroku. And of course there are many other ways and platforms to benefit from "containers" and their promise (?) of independence these days.

All power to anyone though if they have the money/time/energy to put work into that layer, in addition to whatever else they are trying to achieve. Disclaimer being that learning can definitely be its own merit (that's how I got started myself) but it's important to know when it's "just" that, when it's more and when it's simply overkill.
Most likely, it would be illegal for businesses to do work with Tiktok. So no US advertisers, no payout to US creators. The company would then most likely kill its US platform, as it would no longer be economical.
Around 2002 he had the wild idea about Ethernet for intra-bus and peripheral communication. Nobody in the room thought it was a good idea. Glad he was smart enough to abandon that idea and stick with networking. I didn't want my mouse and keyboard getting an IP address.
Sharon Stone: The Beauty of Living Twice
I've often thought Sharon Stone was an interesting person, interesting beyond her film career. The more I learn about her the more I am amazed. I really wish I'd met her.

Oddly, I just found out she wrote a book (and I call myself a fan ... HA).

It appears she's had a rough road in life.

I think this book is somewhat relevant to the hacker community. I know a few people who have had difficulties and find solace in solitary programming or gaming. It is easier to interact with machines than people. Her story might touch a few lives.
It's training for when we're all poor, and unemployed thanks to ChatGPT thank you very much.
My wife worked for them in Dublin and a huge amount of them were content moderators looking at horrifying things people had posted on Facebook. It sounded like a terrible job that destroys people's minds. She wasn't in that department but _detests_ Accenture regardless.
A google search returns about 10,200 results for this, gpt4 probably picked up this sequence as well during the training.
> Just about all of silicon valley seems to have run the longest and broadest grift we've seen.

I would say nearly all of Silicon Valley tech startups. Around 90% them are a complete SaaS grift and are also eternally unprofitable and are very good at losing money.

Hence why they are solely dependent on begging for VC money every month to pump the pyramid scheme that recently collapsed a week a ago. We saw which startups were affected and would have instantly been bankrupt had it not been for them beggeing to the government for a totally-not-a-pseudo-bailout scheme to 'save' them.

To see who was caught in the fallout, we needed catalyst events such as the start of the market crash in November 2021, the collapse of crypto in 2022 and now in 2023, a large tech bank (SVB) becoming insolvent and failing.

> It's incredible that since 2008 it actually seemed immensely easier to skirt regulations and laws (under the banner of 'innovation'), and not just in finance.

Now the grift has continued to spread into the AI hype squad with everyone and their bots spinning their own ChatGPT SaaS startup. Don't be surprised to see them falling like dominoes since the real winner in this AI hype is OpenAI. Not the startups built around it.
For websites I visit a lot I like adding a custom search engine to Chrome. If you go settings -> search engines -> manage, you can add a new keyword to open a certain webpage.

For example if I type "pr" it takes me to a Github Pull Requests page that I visit daily. If I type in "dd" it takes me to Datadog.
I'm confused - I see multiple repeating patterns. three light blue hats in triangle around dark blue. grey boomerang pattern. two white tiles with same rotation and layout. I'm sure I misunderstand what is meant by "pattern that never repeats", but please dumb this down for me.
If verifying people is hard and so a company chooses to take the easy route of not bothering and therefore attract lots of customers who do illegal things, surely in any world that's at the very least knowingly facilitating illegal conduct? There are a lot of platforms that do far more than Block to verify people -- Block absolutely could do the same if they wanted to.

This is what Block do: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2uhWTFvug8
Do you need special connections to tour one? I would love to go, but I assume it would be difficult as a member of the public.
Rent seeking is the end game of capitalism, especially with minimal regulations
Like ARM, there are many implementations of the x86. Intel has all the various "creeks" and "lakes", AMD has various implementations and there have been others like Cyrix.

If there's a serious problem w/ the x86 architecture it's that the instructions are variable length from 1 to 14 bytes so if you wanted to build a decoder that fetches, say, 5 instructions at a time it would have to read 70 bytes. It has to run very quickly, ideally it doesn't consume a lot of power, so it is going to take up a lot of die area and if you want to make it wider still it is a challenge.

Intel and AMD do really well despite this and the long instructions mean you can build all sorts of acceleration into the CPU which can make up for this (some of why the double-pumped AVX512 is effective on AMD's latest is that even when it s getting work down at AVX256 speeds at the core, it is wasting fewer resources dealing with instructions.)
It can only predict words, is like saying all neuron's are just switches, all matter is just protons, electrons and neutrons.

It's just reductive. What we're seeing from LLMs is simply amazing considering what they are supposed to just do.

Whatever LLMs are capable of, big or small it exceeds such reductive thinking as 'it predicts words'.
Oh man I am crazy, it spit out the months in order and not alphabetical order. Wow. I'll go home now.
The lawsuit is unquestionably about controlled digital lending. It was filed after the start of the National Emergency Library, but all the contents of the lawsuit are attacking CDL with the pandemic actions only a way of showing the Internet Archive is an organization that can't be trusted.

You can see this in the filed paperwork, where amusingly they also attack the IA by saying they've occasionally incorrectly labeled things as in the public domain, which was clearly done maliciously.

If this lawsuit was only seeking damages over the National Emergency Library, nobody would be writing stories about it. And publishers were openly hostile to CDL before the pandemic, you could see them preparing for this lawsuit in 2019.
That was indeed worth watching.
The “innovations” of many (but not all) post-2008 unicorns are more about creating a legal grey area to bypass regulation than they are actual technological advances. Uber and Airbnb are prime examples. If Uber was forced to used licensed cab drivers or Airbnb forced to use licensed hotels, you would see the breadth of what these companies actually bring to the table, which isn’t nearly as much as their valuations would indicate. That’s before we get into the adverse externalities these services can create (looking directly at Airbnb here)
Typically battery fires with no obvious cause are due to a fault in the manufacturing process. Big batteries are more vulnerable simply because there are more cells to potentially have a defect.
Yes, this is verily what I objected to. It's called "semantics", similar to when people say "hair" everyone knows what that means. But sooner or later someone will point ut that this hair is different from that hair and if you split one hair, now what do we have? This process is always a possibility in any discourse, but largely frowned upon, rightly so.
I think the claim really should be that the defaults are "defective." Reading the thread, it seems the API does support truncating the opened file.

Interesting gotcha nevertheless.
Landlords selling private sector rentals as new rules slash their income
Not a leftie, but this is a common theme in FP communities. Loads of videos on YouTube, for example this [1] is one of multiple videos from Goulet on this subject.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3sAngid8aI

There's several points but iirc the other main point of focus is getting an ink/pen/paper combination that gets ink dried asap. But that's quite finnicky and you can't just start writing on any random document…

Honestly, if you've been traumatized by a fountain pen as a leftie, maybe don't force yourself through this again, but for many lefties it seems to be going great!
Independent contractors would have no leverage because there are too many people who will do the job. Also, companies won't like someone paying per hour when they can push 80+ hour workweeks on salaried employees.
> Cash App, which analysts have said is the most important driver of the stock, has demonstrated signs of stagnation with slowing inflows and account growth.
I'm willing to bet that the vast majority of tik tok users have iPhones. Politely asking (with a threatening order) Apple to delist the app would be enough to kill it dead.

It would be a mortal wound, remaining users would bleed off, and the small contingent that remains would hold much less overall influence.
Lol, I think it's mostly a sponsor doc or windows+Android malware especially after their recent Tarkov coverage
> Both of these problems do not occur if you take the time to understand the tooling React gives you.

Wait, there’s people in this industry who are taking the time to understand things before using them?
Domain was previously elrond.net (redirects to outerproduct.net). Previous submission to HN is a jewel:

"Why no one should use AT&T syntax ever, for any reason, under any circumstances"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26122532
An AI bent on taking over the world would write posts like this.
I feel like this is true for most jobs.

Doing 3D/animation as a past-time? Super fun. As a career? Stressful and annoying

Doing programming as a past-time? Super fun. As a career? Stressful and annoying

Doing movies as a past-time? Super fun. As a career? Stressful and annoying

Doing music as a past-time? Super fun. As a career? Stressful and annoying

Literally any time I've gotten good enough at a hobby so I could earn a living doing it, and try to make a living doing it, it got way less fun and relaxing for me.
>Google looks to be caught in an innovator dilemma. They can’t roll out a good chat system comparable to its competitors because it directly competes with their core revenue stream of search.

That's one way to look at it. The other is the immense advertising opportunity these systems can provide. You no longer need to perform multiple queries and various results to get your answer. You're now essentially in a walled garden. The search/LLM platform has your complete and undivided attention.

After providing an answer, the follow-up can be a relevant ad. It is important for their credibility to not make it seem like the ad is impacting the integrity of the result.

They already have a moat being an established player with existing agrements. Google was able to pull this off with traditional search. They are probably best currently positioned to do it again.

Edit: Something else to consider, does Google have the same DNA that they did in the early 2000s?
Hello HN, I made this website to simplify playing with image models and training your own.

Considering many (like me) don’t have a powerful GPU or enough time to do a local setup.

It’s expensive to do Dreambooth training but I will keep it free (until I run out of money). I may add some Pro features later to make it sustainable.
> Hi there! Iris here~

> It’s always been a dream of mine to meet that special someone…and file their tax return. Join me and we’ll search for deductions while searching for love!

> But be careful! We’re not alone. Corporate tax filing services like TurboTax are (by dint of extensive lobbying) predatory, parasitic bottlenecks that deliberately complicate the tax filing process in order to make it unnavigable by ordinary people. They feed us their poison so that we buy their medicine!

> Most wealthy countries make tax filing free, if the burden of preparation is even passed along to individuals at all. TurboTax actively seeks to backdoor the regulatory structure that could otherwise seek to rein it in. And it works! The villainous corporation that controls the government from the shadows is a sadly mundane reality. It’s the most boring industry imaginable.

> TurboTax, per its own internal documents, is built on the “Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt” that ordinary people have about their taxes. Against this, we pit free software instead built on parasocial desire for intimacy and benign horniness! If TurboTax is Dark UI, TH3K is Pink UI, the nightcore of tax software.

> Videogames are, at the end of the day, pieces of software–ontologically akin to Microsoft Word. All of TurboTax’s cutesy loading animations are fake graphics; TH3K simply makes the fiction the point. For some reason the game-to-real-life interface has tended to remain in the purview of corporate metaverse fictions. TH3K is a dongle that adapts from a visual novel to the IRS.

> Come on, let’s get started! I can already tell I’m going to like you ♥ And remember, ~~if you die in the game you die in real life~~ if you file your taxes in the game, you file your taxes in real life.

( from https://taxheaven3000.com )
Making Modern Pixel Art
How we’re using 3D workflows to make more realistic sprites
That would be awesome.

I was just thinking yesterday that AAA game graphics aren't really materially better than they were a decade ago. OK, ray tracing is starting to become a thing, but it's in it's infancy, and only remotely practical with expensive, power-hungry GPUs.
> If this was not a PR move, but a desire to get a sense for work conditions, real problems, etc, it would not be publicized.

And it wouldn't work. I don't think a lot of people would be comfortable sharing real complaints with the CEO who parachuted in for a single shift. It will probably end up being a bit of a Potemkin village situation. The shift will probably be filled up with the highest-motivated, most ass-kissing employees, whose focus will be keeping the CEO comfortable.
>Yep, Gensler has outright said that “everything else other than bitcoin is a security.

>Why is Bitcoin not a security but if I fork Bitcoin it is a security?

You are right. Gensler was either misquoted or mispoke.

If somebody forks Bitcoin, distributes the majority of coins for free and renounces control; then random people (not connected to the founder) start voluntarily improving and giving it value, it probably wouldnt be a security.