skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It'll be interesting to see how this attitude holds up over time. I think using (and acknowledging using) AI tools will become normalized, much like mobile phone use has been. I remember a time (less than twenty years ago) when I was going to dinner with friends and one of them made (at the time) the huge social faux-pas of accepting a call at the table. People seriously complained about it. Now that's normal behavior.
I still find it amazing how we've normalized the idea that Google can have 3BN and 20BN contracts with Samsung and Apple respectively to make Google the default search engine. This isn't free market or competition, it's buying the market.

On point, the path from search engine to AI chatbot, in case it does succeed, is quite dramatic in any case:

It might be economically challenging. My understanding is that an AI query is much more expensive to run whilst ad potential is lower. They can place an ad next to an AI answer, but Microsoft might not and subsidize it.

But that's not even the biggest threat. If the AI chat is as good as to give a direct answer, it means you won't hit the source website. Which currently runs ads. This might mean websites getting a fraction of their original traffic in the long run and ad impressions decimate.

Not to mention that even having a website becomes relatively pointless. Almost nobody would ever visit it, you're just a content slave for the big AI machine. You do all the work but get none of the rewards. The machine does no (human) work and gets all the rewards.

This breaks the content "contract" of the internet. The incentives were already bad, but its going to get a whole lot worse.
> The news report Doering remembers most vividly from that day was from Fox News. He says they played up the civil war happening in Sri Lanka between the Sinhalese and the Tamil Tigers, a separatist group known for setting off car bombs in the 1990s. “But that was mainly in the northern part of the country,” says Doering. Not to mention, he adds, “There were only three Tamil players on the team,” Doering says. “The rest were Sinhalese and one Muslim.” Nonetheless, the report suggested that a handball team full of Tamil terrorists had been smuggled into Germany.

Quality "journalism" at its best. /s
It never had an “understanding”, you just pushed an LLM conversation into a state where it would give higher quality answers.

Like I said, most of these applications of GPT currently just seem like a toy. Until GPT can be put to work to tackle problems that only an AI could do, we won’t really see anything from GPT that couldn’t have been done before by simply talking to a human.
But if you're using the freezing method, the parasites will still be there but be dead. Using modern methods, it seems any species of salmon is safe to use for sashimi. Some are just more palatable than others.
> There is no scientific reason why Denmark or Germany’s 12-week ban [permitted if mother's life or health in danger or for other reasons, per Wikipedia] is more justifiable than Texas’s 12-week ban.

It's not a purely-scientific question. Blackmun got it approximately right in Roe v. Wade.
Agreed, and my impression was there wasn't a lot of scrutiny there. It was purely numbers driven, if it could be tested and measured it would, and if it won it was adopted. Very little emphasis on UX, product cohesion, or any specific design principles.
What a useful and nuanced critique. Thanks!
Or: those that are are good at providing social welfare provide the means for people to become billionaires?
Because you invent a new word when you train dreambooth and teach it that your subject is an example of that word. The fact that the word you've created returns photos similar to subject is a sign that it worked.
Patently true
Was. And the linked Wikipedia article doesn’t capture nearly enough. I recommend picking up a copy of his “best damned garage in town” autobiography.
they don't have any legitimacy to disagree with any use of it
One nit of the author's analysis:

The Strava javascript file used for speed tests is 1.68MB uncompressed. But in a browser and most all other situations it should be requested with `Accept-Encoding: ...`. In Chrome, Strava responds with a gzipped response that's 463kB in size.

This doesn't really matter for the CLI speed tests, when its requested without compression, but it does mean that the speed test performance won't correspond with the actual in-browser performance and the traffic shaping may not be comparable when the request is made without compression. Adding `--compression=gzip` to the wget command will fix this.

To quickly show the difference:

$ curl -s 'https://web-assets.strava.com/assets/federated/find-and-invite-friends/827.js' --compressed -w '%{size_download}\n' -o /dev/null
462525
$ curl -s 'https://web-assets.strava.com/assets/federated/find-and-invite-friends/827.js' -w '%{size_download}\n' -o /dev/null
1759662
There are two Stripe keys. One is the publishable key, which is in the source of your checkout page. The other is your secret key, which, yeah, keep secret. Which key is this app asking for?
here are some alternatives:

https://www.sbert.net/docs/pretrained_models.html
How exactly? I’m not aware of any other technology/set of standards for this use case that are implemented and operational right now.
I’ve heard this before and if it is true I would be in favor of adjusting gas taxes on commercial vehicles to cover the cost of road maintenance. However, $0.10/mile sounds excessive and punitive and inflationary for all consumers.

I would love to see some data to support your claim.
Apparently the creator didn't make it available on Vimeo/Youtube, and someone did without his permission. Unfortunate.

https://twitter.com/RichardMisek/status/1647622806899765251
Pliancy : this is something you can manipulate
Well, I'm not giving bonus points for blonde hair and pale skin, and otherwise she's got a completely average bone structure and facial features on the verge of having chipmunk cheeks. I just can't see how someone who looks that plain would be able to coerce people to invest in her company based on her attractiveness.
Recommend `__attribute__((overloadable))` instead of _Generic. The former opts into C++ style name mangling, which is a bit of a mess in C, but interacts well with `static` as forwarding wrappers in a header. The latter is a ridiculous mess invented by the C committee.
Sodium chemistries currently have intractable problems with dendrite growth, limiting the cycle life to a level not viable for use in commercial cells. It's an active field of research though, and probably the most promising lithium alternative if that problem can be solved.
I live in a rural area but I am about two miles from the bus stop and get dropped off there most mornings and ride to work to a place where parking is scarce. Public transit in my area (Tompkins County) is great but I know that's the exception rather than the rule.
Why not contribute to K9s? Seems a shame to be separate
And what does a trademark policy have to do with guns? Draft or not, it’s an unnecessary insertion of politics.

They essentially turned their supposed trademark policy into a code of conduct, which would be hilarious if it wasn’t so sad.
Your statement about uranium is incorrect for a couple of reasons, but that's beside the point. You're asking us to take a leap of faith and believe in experimental technologies that have not been proven to work at scale at all. I'm not denying they might work one day, and I'm all for investing in them to see if they do. But in the meantime, hundreds of thousands of people will die due to switching to coal reactors. This is a concrete fact that is happening today. We have a safe energy source in nuclear, and we should make use of it to avoid these real, measurable, tangible consequences.
What business does the power company have knowing my income level? I already get offers to sign up for substantial low-income discounts from SCE, and it never strikes me as a good idea to pursue despite likely qualifying on my long sabbatical style stints of self-employment. My usage is so low in general it's just not an optimization worth further compromising my privacy for.

Furthermore why would we want to disconnect cost from utilization? This seems ridiculous on the face of it, and the rates they're describing for the high-earners strike me as low compared to how wasteful such households tend to be.

Am I missing something? Is some millionaire with an electric heated outdoor pool going to be paying $92/mo in this scheme? That's madness and incentivizing the wrong things entirely.

Or are those figures listed just averages expected under the new scheme, but still scaled by utilization?

Also what happens if you refuse to provide proof of income level under this scheme? Does it just default to the highest bracket? Many actual low-income folks won't be filing paperwork proving their taxed income level with the power company, will this just fuck them over by treating them as high earners?
how was the smell-o-vision?
Wonder if that explains partially the Windshield Phenomenon. Random lamps attacting flying insects kilometers away just to die surely helps decrease their numbers. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windshield_phenomenon
Why do all new apartments in the Bay Area look the same?
> I've tried replacing that flow with AI. It's slower to input, slower to get results, the results are opaque with regards to where they came from and how trustworthy they are.

You're probably not using it right. :)

Its utility as "search" is only partially overlapping with search. It's most useful for that when you can describe what you want but not with clear enough terms to search for it. For research now, I'll try the search engines-- if I don't get hits I'll ask GPT4. Even if it gives me a wrong answer it'll almost always use terms that let me form a more useful search, though often it just gives right answers.

Simple example, last night a old friend emailed me to ask if I remember the name of a 90s website that people used to brag about linux uptime and deployment. He couldn't find it via search. I remembered what he was talking about, couldn't remember the name, also couldn't find it via search. Asked gpt4 (by simply pasting in the email), it answered that it was probably the "linux counter".

It's possible that with more guessing and grinding on search terms I might have hit the Wikipedia article on it, but GPT4 gave an immediate and accurate answer and included the URL which is what I needed to load the page up on the internet archive (as the site is long gone from the internet).

The main thing GPT4 can't do is any kind of exact string search -- but unfortunately google more or less won't do that either anymore. In terms of figuring out what you intend from some vague text GPT4 usually does vastly better than google.

I think my ideal tool would in parallel give me an not-very-interpreted classical search result and a state of the art LLM result. It seems that Google's bard works kind of in that direction, but their LLM seemed extremely dumb and hobbled when I tried it even compared to GPT3.5 and the search elements are google. ... so worst of all worlds. :)
I wonder if commissions have dropped a lot in the past ~5 years, or if your hotel just has a better rate. I remember hearing that average commission back then was in the 20% range (less for major chains with negotiating power), and I know that Booking/Expedia would be happy to kick down 8-12% for any traffic people referred to them. Any startup with zero volume could sign up for an affiliate account to get access to Expedia's availability and booking APIs and get 8% for each booking, and larger customers could negotiate that upwards. I think I saw 14% for one supplier, but I don't remember if that was Booking or Expedia or a smaller company.
Everyone's favorite law to cite but I rarely see a lot of examples
Show HN: Web-Based Inspectors for Binary Formats
@dang: Can we change the link from Aeon to original website? It looks like Aeon re-published/re-shared without the permission, and are just enjoying the ride.

Creator's request to Aeon:
https://twitter.com/RichardMisek/status/1647622806899765251

Original project link:
https://www.ahistoryoftheworldaccordingtogettyimages.com
A similar argument: a billionaire could find themselves embarrassed when they run into something that cannot be bought because they don't care about money. But to conclude from that that being a billionaire hurts your chances in life seems ridiculous.
I would love a job like this someday.
I suppose that dreambooth is pretrained on a large dataset that includes many different dogs.

My point is that it is difficult to judge (for us) that the returned photos are actually similar to the subject.
The lack of proper memory hampers current AI. They can’t really test and iterate. Until we have an AI that can truly learn on the job I doubt we’ll be replacing many jobs.
Merck buys Prometheus Biosciences for almost $11B
If you are able to write “shameless plug:”, you are probably also able to not write the commercial plug that came after that prefix.

Your comment serves you, not the general audience here. Every action of the kind above degrades the core purpose of HN.*

* It is not even necessary to appeal to the “if everyone did X” argument.
https://archive.ph/2iJjB
You're conflating archiving and archive maintenance here. There are great arguments that can still be made for funding by charging for access the people who search out rare and wonderful things and create fine copies of those things for people to enjoy. Taking an old film from being found in a barn or an attic to a beautifully restored video is sacred, and if people stop doing it films burn and books rot.

Maintenance of a digital archive? Just put it out there with no legal threats or restrictions and let the right people download it once or twice. It'll last forever. Instead, everything is tied up in restricted access, legal knots or just the impression of legal knots. Eventually local hard drives will be as illegal as the RIAA wanted to make blank cassette tapes. All of your data will have to be in clouds managed by state-intimate monopolies to insure future legal compliance.

Datahoarders, academics, filmmakers and others would build communities around peer-to-peer film archives with no legal encumbrances.
Those people tend to comment on substantive articles not written by people with a history of emotionally laden axe grinding.
I would highly recommend using Photoroom's background removal tool. Does a far, far better job than Photoshop.
Me living in the DFW area:

This is great! I can open my window at night and feel the cool air blow in and never have to worry about mosquitos.

Also me living in the DFW area:

I opened my window 5 minutes ago and now I have a hundred crane flies in my office because my light is on.

Of course, this is all due to the window not having a screen due to my dog.
I don't see how "many talented individuals make the totally rational self-interested decision to move to the United States" follows from Canada being an American vassal state. Doesn't this phenomenon apply to every country in the world? If you're born anywhere on Earth it's probably rational to want to make your way to the USA.
AI Conductor?
If you're interested in learning more, deep packet inspection, and specifically "encrypted traffic classification" are fairly mature in industry. Many traffic shapers are using products like Enea's Qosmos ixEngine or home-grown equivalents which can identify thousands of applications and protocols.

Most providers that use traffic shaping don't care about content, and the encrypted traffic classification is enough to make traffic policy decisions.
I’m very jealous of your experience.

On booking.com I booked a place with a lockbox and it didn’t have all the required keys on it.

Multiple phone calls gave me no help and I found a way to effectively break into the building and I just did that every day for the rest of my stay
SolveSpace is an alien artifact. I can safely say that because I've spent months working on it, porting it to Haiku OS. It is validating to know that this phenomenon is real enough to justify a name for it! https://github.com/realtaraharris/solvespace/tree/realtaraha...
I really don't favor this, although I completely understand that they would want to prevent it being exploited in political advertising. Ironically, keeping King's legacy behind a paywall exacerbates the the very inequality he deplored and limits public access to an understanding of his ideas in the round. So instead we get smarmy politicians that exploit 1 or 2 particularly famous lines of his to shut down rather than open up discussion. By selectively quoting him, they inoculate themselves from criticism, suggesting that attacks on the politician's character or policies are actually attacks on the MLK lapel badge they are (metaphorically) wearing.
I'm interested in more info about your client. Is it open source, is there a website or blog post about it?
Bell in Canada is doing the same with their new 'unlimited' (vs the previous generation 'unlimited') and their cheaper data plans.

Even if you have any amount of 'fast data' left you're throttled to SD speeds for streaming video unless you pay for the higher tier of their plans. Data isn't equal any more. Their higher plans say "HD video is up to 1080p" so I suppose no 1440p/4K/60fps/etc either.

It's honestly fucking infuriating but there's nothing that can be done except use a VPN I guess. I'm on the previous generation so "data is data" and they don't throttle me yet but if I ever change plans it's there.

I'm not totally sure if the other carriers do (or their 'competition' in forms of MVNOs that they themselves own) but they tend to have a habit of copying each other, at least after a little delay.

https://www.bell.ca/Mobility/Cell_phone_plans/Unlimited-plan... (select your local area or just choose Ontario)

bonus fun bs:

every so often when you try to log into the web portal they try to trick you into letting them build a profile off your browsing/usage data so they can make even more money off of you. a popup with 'advertising is a reality in today's world' comes up with the nice attractive 'get this out of my face so I can do things' blue button being 'yes please opt me in'. shady dark pattern!

back when, they used to opt people in by default and make you explicitly opt out... but then the regulators said hey that's illegal. so now they resort to stuff like that to get the numbers back up.

here's some of the blurb if anyone is interested: "Advertising is a reality in today’s world, and people find that they receive ads that are irrelevant to them. With our tailored marketing program, Bell will work to ensure that the offers participants receive when using our services may be more relevant, rather than random marketing ads. In other words, participants won’t see more ads, just more relevant ads."

full text: https://pastebin.com/ESskYEUy it's honestly super gross what they collect and how they try to trick people into agreeing.
China also benefits from the second mover advantage here because they have a state-sponsored program to steal every piece of R&D they can get their hands on. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/15/business/china-technology... https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-64206950
Thanks for the counterexample; I'll have to look at them. (although my initial bias is to suspect that KR may have developed with significant external, as well as internal, non-market forces — eg, as far as I know, the war is still not over, just frozen)
The gift of incorporation should come with significant responsibility and deference to actual corporeal beings.
Age discrimination is a legally recognized discrimination.
When you open the form linked, SumatraPDF will warn that “The document uses unsupported features (XFA) and might not render properly”, and it cannot fill out the form. Perhaps it’s not XFA specifically, but some other strange technology.

I did see that note about how Stallman does his taxes. But if Stallman has a sectarian objection to basic things like using a cell phone, or to even more basic non-tech things like personal hygiene, an objection to taxes wouldn’t seem far-fetched to me.
higher contentiousness = better performance in jobs, research, anything requiring planning, punctuality, and directed effort.
The more I read, the more I believe the future of health / medical treatment is our understanding of (gut) bacteria.

Given the potential and scale of the impact (read: everyone) something on the order of the Manhattan Project or choosing to go to the moon isn't unreasonable.
Yeah, I'm confused about it as well. It seems like the candidates are the ones getting most of the value out of the program, so they should be the ones paying, right? And that "founder associate" role they hype up, it sounds like it's more like a "founder's assistant" gig than anything, which still sounds misleading, because I'm sure these people get little to none of the upside of being a founder.
I'd willing to bet chatGPT didn't do as much damage (if any) as we think. Google is playing marketing hype before the slope goes down.
Can we have an extension that calls them and tells them my entire family is booking rooms individually with the hotel direct, and there are now only 3 people left who will buy through booking.com site, so hurry and offer us an extra discount.
Impressive strawman, would cheerfully torch again.
* Photoshop-designed websites definitely peaked in the early 2000s*

It lasted longer than that. Sketch wasn’t launched until 2010 and it probably took a good five years (at least) for people to switch to that
> To be clear I'm not a fan of adding JPEG-XL to browsers rather I think you're presenting a strawman for why.

I'm trying to make a good faith argument that if even passionate fans of the format are not willing to bear the time and bandwidth equivalent of loading a small number of images to use the format, that's a strong signal that it's not worth it.
By scanline rasterizer I assumed a system similar to the original Quake scene rasterizer best described in Michael Abrash's Graphics Programming Black Book.

The method allows saving substantially on any overdraw since fillrate is really the primary bottleneck here.

I did a quick check on your page and it seems the implementation describes a per triangle setup vs the more complicated solution by Carmack and his team? Could still work well for larger triangles, maybe with a check on triangle size to avoid really small ones.

Quake did after all utilize 3 different rasterizers to optimize performance depending on use case.
Thanks for your feedback PaulHoule, that's pretty interesting. Would you say that more people would be willing to use public transit if they were able to find parking at/near the station?
Please have compassion for those harmed by what is by nearly all accounts a heartless, unaccountable institution. My comment is not substantially about taxes at all, and I mention that as a remedy knowing full well that the chances of it coming true are close to zero. What's the harm in letting a girl express her utopian dream? The worst that could happen is that I drag us forward a little bit
Hrm. I can get mugged for free? Really, though, what's the M?

How would it be funded? What is your plan for providing transit to rural areas more than 50 miles from an urban(ish) environment without making ticket prices untenable? Please give examples where your company or has used imminent domain. Please include documents that show how such efforts were received by affected communities.
Thanks, changed!
Beware the ‘sensible’ crypto crowd – they’re worse than the fanatics
This is absolutely the product of a power-tripping political activist slamming in whatever comes to mind.

Even the most worthless trademark lawyer would never add in unnecessary statements like banning guns at Rust-backed conferences.