skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Er, I could be wrong, but I think you’re missing the scope set in the first sentence:

If you make the functionality of the Program or a modified version available to third parties as a service, you must make the… SNIP …programs that you use to make the Program or modified version available as a service…

I’m eliding for clarity, but the NAS doesn’t make the program available as a service. The code that accesses the file system on the NAS to offer your service? Probably need to release code that calls fread/fwrite/NtFileX in your infrastructure code.

I get that it sounds vague and everything, but the FAQ also clarifies none of this applies unless you’re competing and targeting third parties. If you’re one of the few companies who want to do that, your legal team can formalize the line of demarcation.

Apologies, I hate defending the SSPL, but I can’t think of any better way to stop the monopolistic and EEE practices against open source projects. If anyone has a better solution to protect the freedoms of open-source developers, please, please publish it!
What kind of problems does mongo cause for sandstorm that postgres does not?
Anyway, don’t you get a savings by using some data structure that indexes the dictionary by word length first?

Or at least sorting by.
Get your domain hosted by another service, pronto. You're risking losing everything if Google decides to brick your account(s) by decision or accident.
Voyager was also only weighing 773kg.

The mass of JUICE is probably a big parameter here.
very different initial approaches to training dataset curation, to SD's detriment.
Its silly he lacks this much awareness, it reads like he just wanted to be rid of the burden because he can’t figure anything social out

People don’t even need actual bitcoin, they just leave their phone wallet open on a watch address while they “go to the bathroom” on a date, and let their nosy date take the bait and watch the tune change in real time

Money still overrides other preferences and exacerbates poor character development across genders, it just means his way was so bad…. Carrying around suitcases wow.
Amen on Google Reader, makes me sad to this day. I ended up migrating to Bazqux, which has been a great service in the same philosophy.
Seem about the same if you know how to use them imho. I’ll say one thing Midjourney images are always way more “basic” in terms of aesthetic. Everything looks like the Artstation front page, which while very competent is tacky look.
Musings about error handling mechanisms in programming languages
No doubt, they are growing fast! And naturally they would make more than Tesla, since BYD makes more than just BEVs.

BYD's numbers often contain plugin hybrids (PHEV). So if you're trying to compare apples/apples, be sure to look at pure-battery EVs between the two.

Note 'electrified' from a different article from Barrons: "BYD delivered 206,089 electrified passenger vehicles in March [2023], up about 98% from the 104,338 delivered in March 2022. The March 2023 figures include 102,670 all battery electric vehicles and 103,419 plug-in hybrid models."
Gmail was in beta for 5 years, from 2004 until 2009 — imho it didn’t make much sense to label something as beta when it is used by ~1B people.
I thought that too

The list of dictionary words isn't that big, so you can just have a long hash to reduce your conflicts to almost 0.

Also words aren't that long. The longest English word is probably less than 100 characters, whereas you could feed trillions of strings into the algorithm.
I have experimented with both pgvector (through supabase) and elasticsearch.

Both are great from a dev UX perspective and allow you to get the ball rolling quickly. You still have to generate the vectors yourself, so your LLM+VDB is only as good as your embedding algorithm. (I tried both OpenAI embeddings and using a random BERT-based model from huggingface).

I would say if you use either of PG or ES already in your stack, then as the article says they're very decent solutions. Better than adding a new piece of infra to your stack.
"Yet it ignores a Chinese newcomer" yup, i'm sure tesla execs are ignoring top competitors. 4th grade writing
Google Cloud “is under pressure from top management to pass Amazon or Microsoft—currently first and second, respectively, in cloud market share—or risk losing funding” [1].

[1] https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-brass-set-202...
Privacy...you are giving away info about your app and its users...you have to tell your users their info is going to a third party...you have to agree with a third party they will take and sell info about your users to other parties
Current llm can only handle so much text per generation, are generally slow, and often you pay per token, so there's an incentive in using them sparingly.

If you have a large text corpus to search that means restricting the search field with a query first, then feed the result on llm for extracting facts.

So everything hinges on having an excellent search index to reduce the search space, and the best tool we have as of today is running a semantic search over representations of a text's topics in embedded format.
Small correction: NFTs that point to images is one example of how to use the NFT standard, not what an NFT is.

The NFT discussion always ends up at "its just a link to a jpeg", when there are NFTs that have nothing to do with images.
Never, at this rate.
Colorado passes first US right to repair legislation for farmers
Learn Coding Through Gameplay
IRS Needs to Complete Modernization Plans and Fully Address Cloud Computing
Referenced by the WSJ article, which is behind a paywall: https://www.wsj.com/articles/tax-irs-technology-gao-report-1...
You are talking about data access, not data ownership. Google owns that user data, users need to change their data and manage their accounts via Google. Your customer service team cannot help anyone recover their account, etc. And if Google shuts down your access to their service, your auth mechanism is gone and nobody can log in.
I like your mental model here, I’ve described it to friends as it feels like beach combing looking for the perfect seashell. I have a vague idea of where to go to find nice pictures through prompts but am not totally sure what I’ll find when I get there, a lot of them are weird and broken, but some can be cleaned up, polished and look really nice. I can’t really affect what comes out of the “ocean”, though, like you said.
Very true, and we are mostly formed by our genetics, and it really helps to keep that in mind.

But as parents that doesn't stop us from overly attributing everything bad that our kids do to our own bad parenting.
These decisions look rational. Not capricious. Stuff that isn't reaching a sustainable audience at Google scale, and that can't be spun-off, like Niantic, for example, should get cut.
I keep seeing this – it's a meme at this point – and I don't get it. Answering questions truthfully from a broad set of data while citing sources seems to be ChatGPT's major weakness. It routinely "hallucinates," even with better prompting. It's much better at helping generate prose based on the prompt.

I don't even buy the idea that "exponential growth" will improve things. One of the few things OpenAI is still open about is that they will keep adding more parameters at any cost. Techniques to reinforce truthful responses or even provide confidence based on whether the response involves out-of-sample & out-of-prompt guessing (i.e. BSing) seem not to be a priority.
I think this is what makes the receptions between Microsoft and Google's axings different, the former at least tries to axe things with some cushioning while Google just offs things like it's Tuesday.
Nuremberg now: the legacy of Ben Ferencz
"Never spend 6 minutes doing something by hand when you can spend 6 hours failing to automate it" [1] becomes 'never spend 6 minutes searching for something when you can spend 6 hours arguing with ChatGPT on the nature of truth'. [2]

[1] Zhuowei Zhang, https://twitter.com/zhuowei/status/1254266079532154880?lang=...

[2] Incidentally, great book, The Nature of Truth, Second Edition, Classic and Contemporary Perspectives https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262542067/the-nature-of-truth
Learning from Houston’s Townhouse Reforms
“We shouldn’t let citizens have nukes”
Google really messed up their roll outs of new products so often that it is almost a meme.

You'd be hard pressed to pick a 'worst', between Google Glass, Google Plus, Google Wave and so on the list is long and getting longer all the time. It would be a lot smarter if they launched these separately so that they do not impact the trust relationship people have with their main brand. I don't know any other company besides Yahoo that has managed this in such a terrible way.
A product written by some notorious rock stars at Google, and with a reputation for corrupting data...

[1] - "...LevelDB has history of database corruption bugs.[15][16][17][18][19][20] A study from 2014 has found that, on older (non-checksummed) file systems, the database could become corrupted after a crash or power failure.[21]..."

https://github.com/google/leveldb/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=co...

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=261623

https://forum.syncthing.net/t/panic-leveldb-table-corruption...

https://github.com/google/leveldb/issues/333

https://ethereum.stackexchange.com/questions/1159/corruption...

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LevelDB
I'm not feeling like i want to bend my vocabulary to work around people who get offended by every second word regardless of its intent.
You can't serve ads in GPT chatbot responses.
HN has 2 perma-front page topics:

Google shutting down something noone has ever heard of

Is it just me or has Google search gotten worse?
> we need to depart from this strategy in the long run

What's the alternative you want to move to?
Shaquille O’Neal Can’t Be Served via Twitter DMs in FTX Lawsuit
At this point, what is the reason to use Google Cloud or any other critical service, if you have a clear track of record with higher probability that it will be shutdown sooner or later?
Name one FactoryFactory in the JDK
He did it for 8 years and even this FBI puff piece relied on an activity in 2020 that has nothing to do with the prior 8 years of cashing out

Nothing about this article suggests any breakthrough in investigative capabilities, it’s pretty embarrassing actually

The government got lucky that someone was trying to get rid of something they found to be a burden in their lives
Racket is a great choice for learning but also very batteries included if you want to make real projects in it.

Janet has a more Clojure-inspired syntax but the semantics and general ideas should carry over. I think trying to work through the books in Janet would be a great extra challenge. You can always drop that and focus on Racket if it becomes it too much for you.
That site really stretches the definition of killed sometimes, like "Backup and Sync" (the old desktop Google Drive client) is on there because it was renamed to "Google Drive for desktop" as part of a redesign. The only thing that was killed was the "Backup and Sync" branding, the actual functionality it provided still exists.
It seems to be the same evolution that we've seen in 3D rendering APIs (or more generally: GPU APIs) over the last two decades, and roughly for the same reasons (but it goes beyond just reducing syscall overhead, it's also establishing a pipeline for sending batches of work prepared by the CPU for 'decoupled' execution on the GPU, e.g. trading latency for better throughput).
There's a whole city in Georgia with your name. I have to be honest, when I first moved here, I saw it mostly on PlentyOfFish and assumed it was a joke.
Neat build ! Nice and elegant, loved it.
so ideally a single guy with ultra-prompts can create a whole AAA game on his own, while all the other people you used to need don't have to do crunch-time but can do their own great stuff instead? of course the prices for stuff also go down rapidly, but it only needs to be enough for a single guy instead of a whole publisher/development studio chain, so there are several orders of magnitude wiggle room to go
> ... so often that it is almost a meme.

It became a meme a long time ago.
Right up to the point where Google top management decides to pull the plug. Their messaging on this has been most unfortunate, if there is one thing that you can't do as a cloud services provider it is to threaten to pull the plug on the whole division if the numbers don't get into some arbitrary range for their definition of success. That pretty much guarantees that you won't make it that far.
> However, spending time learning base 20 arithmetic has obvious disadvantages that the article ignores.

They aren't learning base 20; they already use it in their language. They are learning how to write their language in their writing system.

From the article: "The Alaskan Inuit language, known as Iñupiaq, uses an oral counting system built around the human body. Quantities are first described in groups of five, 10, and 15 and then in sets of 20."

Not everyone counts in decimal. Base 20 exists in spoken French. For numbers 50-90, Danish uses base 20, in some cases mixed with fractions. There are other bases in other living languages as well.
not only competition but compliance. The legal obligations a car manufacturer has to satisfy in the EU nowadays is wild, IUPR, OBFCM, WLTP are just the programs regarding emission checks. There are many many more.
By a VC...
Google code jam is not a product. I doubt most people had heard of the other products..except stadia
i think it's about expectations
The academy is fundamentally broken.
Probably because that experience of trying a VR headset is 80% of what it provides. Once the novelty wears off you find out there is not much to do with a VR headset for extended periods of time.
The desire to have untraceable money isn't always because you're trying to do something illegal or immoral.

Privacy is important to people, and that even extends to privacy from your government. You never know when your government might change from a responsible, fair entity, to a oppressive regime.

If you do buy a mansion with unreported billions and you're buying from a reputable buyer, then you'd expect the government to know about that sale, but if you're stock piling assets in case you need to flee from your government to survive, having anonymous money that's easy to transport is valuable.
Maybe because doing so involves financing concentration camps? Just a wild guess
rolls eyes

Not at once

He was doing it over 6 years no problem

You don’t need a billion, you need a few million and he got that and it wasn’t even part of the investigation or why he got caught
I think “including, without limitation, […]” applies to the breadth of components, not depth, right? I mean, I’m not a lawyer, but that seems to be what syntactic context and logic indicate… no?

If you disagree, could you indicate the relevant text?
They want to say they're distinct from other "state media outlets" because their editorial agenda isn't the same as their sponsoring state's agenda. However, they don't want to admit that they do have an editorial agenda, because then people might ask who decides what that agenda is. If the state pays for their work but doesn't direct it, who is directing it?

That it is based on common goals of Truth and Public Good seems a bit of a stretch, given the lack of diversity of opinion in their coverage.
Crysis has a DX9 mode, so maybe.
I haven’t really used any of them, but my belief is that the USG wouldn’t have sanctioned TornadoCash if it didn’t work.
Where did you read that it was a sexual assault?
thank you for your recommendation.

a few errors are natural and can happen sometimes, and we fix them.

putting more details in the course doesn’t necessarily mean it can be a better option to learn for new learners. We appreciate the other free courses about Go lang, but they may not be suitable for everyone. Our style of teaching is writing easy-to-read and understandable learning materials.

If we wanted to put a lot of additional details then our courses would be exhausting especially for new learners, instead we have been trying to explain the concepts understandable for everyone in the beginning, and we will explain about more details in the next learning classes.

this is not a reference book to have all the details, a lot of students lose their learning track for caring too much about more details. In fact learning doesn’t mean reading more details at the beginning.

This is our style, perhaps you are not interested in it, no worries everyone has a preference, you can try other free options. This is why we have put a sample or demo post in the website for learners to check our style before the enrolment.

Moreover we never stop writing new learning materials.
The context is how the teachings of Jesus could make it bearable also for atheists to "get behind" swearing on the the Bible. As such, perhaps it's better to swear on the New Testament. But as you say, The Golden Rule isn't a unique philosophical stance to Jesus. So, sure, perhaps some people should rather swear upon the Pabca-sila, or something equivalent.

As for "self-evident social policy" I respectfully disagree. With so much corruption, evil and suffering going on in the world, I think both we and our leaders need some specific reminders from time to time, so we can learn about higher moral ideals, whether that is from Jesus, The Buddha or from Immanuel Kant.
Google's decision to deprecate JPEG-XL emphasizes the need for browser choice
The Lighter Side of Open Source with Meme Linux Distros
Chromium 934 stars, 397 comments: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=117805...

Firefox: 434 upvotes, 61 comments: https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/idb-p/ideas/status-key/...

Official support software list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG_XL#Official_support

Comparison/benchmarks: https://cloudinary.com/blog/contemplating-codec-comparisons

Feature comparison: https://jpegxl.info/comparison.png
There's no "would" about it, it is happening if the 2030 all-EV timetable is kept to. Other than Tesla, western (that includes Japan and South Korea) car makers stand to lose everything vice versa China who stand to gain everything with the current politics.
Twitter is a social network. It may have media features, but its not a media company like NYT, NPR; etc. They don't create or practice journalism. They're a platform.
> I think parent's point is not cultural as you are implying but rather practical.

I think this is exactly what I find distasteful in the original comment: Culture is ignored in favor of what is practical for someone other than a subject of the article.
I’m impressed because as far as I could tell Safari is equal or better than Firefox on all of these tests.
Holodomor wasn't an accident, neither where the killing fields. Please stop spreading communist propaganda.
> The official pixel case got destroyed due to wear in not even a year

welcome to the "official case" club. all my iphone cases get destroyed in max 6 months, with one lasting less than 3 months. during the course of an iphone (2 years) i go thru 5-6 "official" cases.
Also, I was right about THAT iPod! 2 years later they got the product right and when people reference this quote, THAT is the product they have in their minds eye.
> compel a candidate to regurgitate memorized algorithms

That's not what the author's question was about. Rather, it presented a problem, and wanted to see some approaches to that problem and a discussion of their properties (runtime, limitations, etc.).

> how do you approach solving problems
> Do you think learning new things is exciting? Are you able to admit you don't know something and do you feel comfortable asking for help when you're stuck?

All very reasonable criteria. So how do you evaluate a candidate on those metrics, if not by giving example problems? (ideally different ones: a few theoretical ones like the one under discussion here, a few practical ones with access to google/Stackoverflow/etc.)

> do you have an interesting personality that I'd like to interact with every day

That's your prerogative, of course, but I wouldn't make that a hiring criterion. I have colleagues who are incredibly boring, yet deliver solid consistent results. Who cares about their personality?
A Bayesian Analysis of Technological Intelligence in Land and Oceans
> According to YouTube, the new 1080p Premium option is “an enhanced bitrate version of 1080p” that’s supposed to make things look crisper, particularly with videos heavy on detail and motion.

So they agree that 1080p and UHD are only names for whatever they want to give you.

And how crisper is the new "enhanced bitrate version of 1080p" ?
They also killed all offline music support for Fitbit https://9to5google.com/2023/01/17/fitbit-pandora-deezer-supp...
Isn't privatized censorship already here? Cloudflare (disclosure: I am an investor), controls a large portion of the internet with their DDOS and CDN. Followed by Akamai, etc.

There are already cases and examples where Cloudflare and other CDNs have kicked sites off of their platform or responded to take down requests.

https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/cn-cloudflare
When is Google going to shut it down?
Yeah, with unlimited storage for life. Acquiring userbase with empty promises is their M.O.
> hopefully it’s to a Microsoft

as long as it's not Microsoft itself of course.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khmer_Rouge

A money quote for those who can't be bothered to read: Ultimately, the Cambodian genocide led to the deaths of 1.5 to 2 million people, around 25% of Cambodia's population.

And people still want to be communists. Ideology is strange.
which is some wild analogy for ...?

I'm just curious, I'm not really going to sway your mind if you call this my state and also liken this war to an actual genocide, that already says enough.
FYI they don't compare to trlX bc trlX is roughly just as fast. Similarly, they put trl in the worst light possible (trl is actually must faster than they claim.)
> I don’t think higher-ups at the RIAA or MPAA are so naïve as to believe they’re doing the right thing in any situation.

I learned last week when taking my kids to see the Mario Bros. movie that it's no longer MPAA, but now MPA, the Motion Picture Association. I saw it on the green preview cards before each coming attraction. It's a bit scary: they now see their toxic behavior not only afflicting America, but the entire world.
The majority of people in Scandinavia live in the south, where the temperatures are much milder. However, I think that even in the north of these countries, temperatures are still not as bad as in much of Canada during winters.
I have gotten over them killing Google Reader. But I will never forgive them if they decided to kill Google Keep.
Thing is... imagine they had announced "Thanks for being part of the gmail beta. We learnt a lot, but have now decided to close GMail. You have 3 days to download your emails and find a new email provider".

A lot of people would have been very pissed off, even though it said 'beta'.
We're doing some stuff with NVIDIA right now that I can't talk about yet. Super exciting though.
Oh wow, this looks really good! Just preordered as I have been meaning to learn more and I like your style from the video. No rush though in finishing it all.

Some questions if I may ask:
Is it possible to order the How A Car Works pdf in print?

Also did you actually write all of it? It looks like an old fashioned instruction manual. You know one of the good ones that explain concepts well. I only read a few pages and love the style.

I'm glad this popped up on hn!