skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm glad that it's helped you, but there's a big difference between an individual proactively using AI and a service forcing it on its users.
The fact that big corps have moved to Gsuite always surprises me and credit to Google salespeople. But they will never meaningfully breach Office, people at Microsoft fight tooth and nail when renewals are up and Google is in the picture
Only by user count. Last I checked, apple's worldwide app store revenue was nearly 10x that of Google's app store revenue.
Just make it hard to sideload, like the android dev mode.

Then your grandma won’t install anything, but power users can actually use their general purpose devices as such.
Does the 2% reward only work with tap-to-pay? So no walmart or home depot?
> In Q1 2022, Facebook had an average revenue per user (ARPU) of $48.29 in the US and Canada, $15.35 in Europe, $4.47 in Asia-Pacific, and $3.14 in the Rest of the World. Facebook reported a quarter-over-quarter decline in ARPU of 20% in the US and Canada, 22% in Europe, 18% in Asia-Pacific, and 5% in the Rest of the World.

https://www.globaldata.com/data-insights/technology--media-a...
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Any "is better than" statement is frought and pointless. You've got to specify better "at what".
My 1st car was a Citroën 2CV, with a 9HP engine, zero noise isolation, barely able to keep moving forward on inclines over 10%, top speed 70 km/h, not quite rainproof... was it a better car than a Ferrari ? Yes ! because I was able to afford it and keep it maintained, and because it could go on barely-there muddy dirt roads that would have stopped and ruined a Ferrari.
How could SpaceX fund a mission to Mars? Honestly it sounds whack but I bet Musk could easily crowd fund it.
"Mommy, how come birds can fly and we can't?"

"Well, you see, the universe can be thought of as a quantum foam..."
> These days dreamwidth.org is harder to view and interact with than facebook.com if you don't have an account. We really need to stop linking to it and link instead to an archive.is copy or the like.

I've made the suggestion to Dang in the past to just autogenerate an archive.is link for every story/link posted to HN and have that be an "alternate link" after the main one. I think it's kind of silly some people just post an archive link for every post and gets a buttload of points for it as everyone upvotes it which games the system. I think it would also be good in general to preserve the article as it appeared at the time when initially discussed and hasn't been edited, or removed, since.
Thanks for that info. I use uBlock Origin, and I'm not ever seeing these ads, so I was not aware!
I can only agree. The number of times we have seen corporations abuse “open source” and “open science” in the context of large language models have been baffling: OPT/LLaMA disallowing commercial usage, BLOOM having an ethical non-open license, GLM having a clause not to “undermine [the People’s Republic of China’s] national security and national unity”, etc. Every single one of these models have been happy to ride on the coattails of the hard work of the open movements by calling themselves open, while only paying lip service to the ideals and definitions underpinning them.

While RedPajama has yet to commit to a license (from what I can see, it is late at night…), they are making all the right noises and I am hopeful that my prediction that we are about to see the floodgates of truly open models blow open and that OpenAI’s “moat” will be proving to be a lot shallower than what they and many others have made us believe over the last six months will come true.
Hi havercosine, I would love to (my contact info is in my profile).
> There is no point in freeing blocks at the end of a program

...unless you are trying to find memory leaks in your program. In that case it would be very helpful if the program, and the libraries it uses, were written to actively free all allocated memory.

> I think many GNU tools just never free any memory

It is absolutely true that some GNU software (including libraries like glib) allocate memory that they never intend to free. This causes leak analysis of programs that link with these libraries to be more painful than necessary.
SD with ControlNet and some other open source plugins is far more flexible than MidJourney. It just has all the typical hurdles of OSS vs. commercial offerings. Default image quality in Midjourney is better in terms of its pedestrian aesthetic biases, but it’s not very interesting as an actual artistic tool. And I say this as someone who doesn’t like either service and used to be a commercial illustrator before moving into Data Science.
Apple M1/M2 Keyboard Backlight Support Set for the Linux 6.4 Kernel
I don't know whether it's standard feature on other keyboard, I love to use the clipboard and the ability to pin past clipboard and smiley shortcuts allow me to search.
Those two are probably small unimportant that make it feels home.
They are around since 1889 under just 6 CEOs, including the interim after the loss of the 4th. They care much more about holding a little family celebration at the next centennials than shooting for T2D3 and going Chapter 11 as soon as possible, which by the way SIE is on track for.
2 is no choice, that’s just ridiculous.
VW, Rivian, Nissan, BMW lose access to U.S. EV tax credits
If I use it I also make sure it’s something completely non-core business, like an arcane piece of sorting or ugly rxjs construction.

I get the IP angst, but some companies think their GetGenericObjectFromDB() REST bs is secret sauce.
I’m not the person you’re replying to, but I had been asking this question for a while but now I’m a convert. Here are some of my most recent uses:

how to create a multi line string in a bash script. I needed to encode a human-readable JSON string in a curl call and didn’t know how. Google game me crummy tutorial sites, GPT gave me instructions, and when provided with the target, did all the formatting too.

I found it also understands git well. I use git at work, but I almost never use anything beyond push/pull/commit so crazy rebases or merges and stuff I still have to search for instructions to remember them. Now GPT can just explain to me the steps for my particular case. When I googled things, I’d search for keywords and stuff based on my knowledge and piece together the steps myself.

On a counter example, I recently had an intern who botched their config on VsCode and didn’t know what settings to fix. I found it was easier to google search how to reset things than use GPT. Ymmv.
> So what does that change? They either have big impact or they don't.

Society isn't a subject. It shouldn't be treated like such, and no arbitrary organisation should assume the role of it's representative.
For most of the world outside US/Canada, WhatsApp is as mandatory as SMS or Phone Calls.
I don't use the same intellectual framework as the author (I'd prefer

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

as an "objective" as possible introduction to theology.) but I'd agree that people have a religious orientation towards A.I., particularly some of the people who'd argue vociferously about how atheistic they are.
> Google needs a Larry Page or Musk like character

These are not the same kind of character.
Give charity to the idea. Odds are high they had a ton of tracing stations available, and the kids that gravitated to it, used it. That is, the idea is to enable learning by availability of opportunities and encouragement.

So, no. This doesn't go against any research. Unless you frame it in the most uncharitable way that you can.
My bank, Capital One, is a glorified cafe and co-working space. If I try to do any "banking" there they will literally redirect me to use the app. You can definitely do banking completely online. You simply need to have the systems and employees in place to maintain or exceed expectations.

I stopped using BoA because the in branch experience has declined. I never used Wells Fargo for obvious reasons.
Exactly, isn't the point of research to publish your findings which explains the WHY?
Multimodal - Germanic languages, French, Latin, Greek and (to a lesser extent) Slavic languages have all produced common words in the English lexicon.
I wanted to check fb messenger on my phone for a marketplace thing so I logged into the website: wouldn’t let you look/ pushed you to the app and I couldn’t flip it into desktop mode
FOSS community would fork a good product in case the original author/maintainer selling it to Big Corp, which would decide to mess it up to stuff their new tech down users' throats.
> Glossy Magazines sell Ads to people interested in those glossy magazines.

It's entirely possible to sell ads based on the content of a web page, just like it's possible to sell ads based on the content of a magazine.

It's just not as profitable as relentlessly spying on everyone.

> Google purchased transaction data to connect online behavior to the real world and refine their Persona profile

Google already has more than enough data on it's customers through their search history. They don't need to relentlessly spy on every aspect of your life, including your bank account, to turn a profit.
I think I've gotten to the point I'm ready to drop DuckDuckGo. Recently it's been mixing in region-based results in to my search engine. These are results that have nothing to do with my search query, and go against the reason I started using DDG in the first place: non-personalized results and not leaking private information (such as location) to the search service.

Seems like their old core values are no longer their primary concern. I don't know of any decent alternatives yet, but I'll be keeping an eye out, and am happy to get any suggestions people have.
They're not doing fine as evidenced by the loss of value in their share price. AWS on its own isn't big enough, nor still growing enough, to justify a massive valuation anymore. And the web storefront is suffering too. Amazon simply isn't doing that well at the moment any way you look at it.
Midjourney also doesn’t have controlnet functionality like Stable Diffusion now does, which gives specific posing of a scene a huge edge on SD.

They’re very similar offerings if you’re willing to put in the work on SD.
If it takes someone to show you how, it is not there yet. I know many technical people who can't be bothered to deal with Linux on the desktop due to driver issues et al

For it to be ready to be a mainstream desktop, it needs to just work.
Without a heat shield, Starship wouldn't be able to bring a crew back from orbit (or higher), regardless of reuse.

Starship HLS, the planned lunar landing version, probably won't need a heat shield, but they'll definitely need shielding on any version meant to bring a crew back to Earth. They're just not bothering with heat shielding for tests that don't need it.

(I don't know what kind of shielding the Starship that was supposed to launch today has.)
Heck, I didn't know you could run containers in containers. I'm setting up some container VMs on my Proxmox soon and didn't even think of using LXC since I thought it technically infeasible.

And yes as others have said, LXC and docker use cases seem different.

LXC seems to be for the same use case as VMs, but smaller, easier to spin up, better resource utilization, etc.

Docker can be used that way too, but is more useful with the surrounding ecosystem of being ephemeral (all data stored on remote storage, container only contains the "app") and with supporting deployment infrastructure.
No True Scotsman arguments aren't particularly interesting.
Just let Putin genocide supporters to admit that they support Putin's genocide instead of supporting Ukraine's right to defense is good enough ;)
There is no explanation for what "a credit" gets you? i.e. how are people supposed to know, when they are prompted to pay after the first 10 minute test, how credits are to be interpreted? I.e. is a credit 1 minute? is it 10 minutes?

This should be described on your app home page, or at the very least in your terms of service. I cannot find it anywhere.

Also, the content user license is unsettling - giving you irrevocable rights to the user's content throughout the world into perpetuity (including the right to transfer).

I would recommend that if your audience is entrepreneurs / experts / thought leaders / content creators, that you balance this language with some thought for the user's desire to protect their IP.
They're making money on the difference between their interest rate and EFFR. Therefore, no, they aren't rejecting money for that reason because they're profiting from every dollar saved through this; it isn't a charity.

FDIC is a much, much, better explanation.
Well yeah you can get used to anything. Doesn't mean it's a good idea to begin with.
User count, yes. Expected value per user, and amount spent per user on software and computer services is far lower for Android, even if we only look at the US. That, combined with the relative ease of supporting a couple iOS versions on a handful of devices versus a whole universe of Android OS-device combos, is why a lot of apps go iOS-first if they're not doing dual-platform from day 1. The benefit for most monetization models is greater on iOS, and the cost of support tends to be lower.
(Edit: This was in response to a deleted comment that claimed nobody would be forced to use LLMs)

> Websites that we can stop using any time we want

This is naive. Soon (within the next 5-10 years) it will not be possible to contact any large consumer companies for support without "speaking" to an AI bot first. Next, banking and financial services will replace their customer-facing roles. Finally, frontline government and medical service will be automated.

I don't think it's hyperbolic to predict that within the next 15 years, it will not be possible for you to get help with your cable bill, your airline tickets, your credit card, your driver's license, or your knee injury without interacting with some kind of AI support agent. Maybe you will be able to beg for a human the same way you can mash 0 on the keypad today, but the wait times will be long.

Who knows? Maybe the AI bots will be great and this will be a newly utopian era. But you will not get a choice, and you will not be able to "stop using" any of these AI system.
Funny and irreverent? yes. Hilarious? No.
That's exactly what I want to do and what I hope this will eventually enable: Run my own apps on my own frigging devices (no distribution involved) without having to bribe Apple for the privilege (if you don't buy a Developer subscription, you have to re-install your apps weekly to keep them functional).
Funny enough, you replied to the creator of Oban.
Oh yeah, I meant at normal prices. Not imported ones at crazy markups on Amazon or at specialty stores!

I’m sure I used to be able to find UK/EU made Flamin’ Hot fairly easily in random corner shops, but now they only seem to stock the cheese ones and “twisted” puffs.
Ha - well here we are.

This post is, indeed, intentionally hyperbolic.

It's a reflection on the fact that making all of these mistakes with my own stuff allows me to make better choices at work - and provides a constant canary project where the stakes are lower, but it's actually hosted...so it strikes a good balance of continued learning and experimentation for me.

It's also an experiment in firing blog posts sooner - keeping them "living" in the sense that I can always update them quickly later. Some of the contrived examples I chose didn't really hit their mark, for example, so I'll probably revise them later.

Thanks for the feedback :)
They don't speak of the security model. But the compliance model, ie. "you can't block the entire app until the user enables precise 'always' location tracking".

But in terms of security, every jailbreak since ~iOS 8 besides checkm8 has been via a third-party app breaking out of the sandbox. The ramifications for shipping an exploit chain like this via the built-in app store is going to be extreme (possibly being blacklisted from iOS), but a sideloaded app can run such an exploit chain in the background (to install spyware if the user isn't on the most up-to-date version of iOS) with no consequence.
This is really interesting. If I understand correctly, it's drawing conclusions about the unemployment rate since the financial crisis.

I'm under the impression that even before the financial crisis, Portugal was considered one of the "poorer" European economies, which is what I was getting at. But I see now the comment I was responding to may have been concerned with Portugal's _recovery_ since 2008.
I had a Windows phone and android simultaneously - I actually liked the UI on the windows phone but I think I may have been the only person on earth that did because I virtually never saw another one. From that perspective, I can understand choosing not to build for the platform.
> 1 - Don't get me started with German grammar, especially the way prepositions conjugate with the (arbitrary) gender of the noun, and the various types of prepositions reuse the same conjugations.

Just FYI, pretty much all Indo-European languages have gender-based noun declension. This is not special to German, it’s English that’s one of the few special ones that have lost it, no other European Indo-European language had.

German, if anything, has rather simple scheme, where only the preposition declenses. Compare it with eg. Polish, which has 7 cases (compared to 4 in German), and declension is done on the suffix of the noun itself, which is itself pretty irregular, partly due to the fact that even within a gender, different noun types declense differently, eg. there are masculine personal, masculine animate and masculine inanimate nouns, and these three can be seen as subgenders. I simply don’t have an idea how any non-native speaker can have any hope to learn all of this other than through many years of practice.
Meh - using phind a few times so far :

- regurgitates stuff it hits on a shallow search as authoritative response (communicating uncertainty would be a great improvement for GPT models but I'm guessing that's not going to happen because of shallow RHLF preferences)
- search index is worse than google (eg. I've tried a search where google lands on a good solution, phind hits official docs and offers suboptimal solution)
- produces results slower than I can read source
- I still need to go to the source for full reference or do follow-up (but again it's slow)

Not seeing the value tbh. If it was gpt 3.5 fast with 4 quality now we might be on to something.
Unfortunately [2] is just a placeholder for now, but it does look like the intent is to publish the weights.
No idea what he’s talking about. It seems to be a thing in right wing groups now to talk about Europe in this way.
> you needed a Google Pixel to run it

That's correct. It's my understanding that this is for two reasons:

1) google opened api/support for verified boot on the pixels (so you can tell if a border agent hacked your grapheneos phone, for example)

2) it's easier to support fewer phone models (given they are not a large team)

I bought a refurbished pixel 3a last year for a little over $100 and have been thrilled with my grapheneos experience. I don't run google play, but it is my understanding this can be done in a sandbox (allowing for more privacy than usual).
I guess having an account enables that deterrance, but I don't see how it is related to unlocking the bootloader if there was not an account bound beforehand.

If signing into an account can be preserved despite the "unlocked" bootloader, there has to be some sort of hypervisor/"secure chip" type deal denying access to the part of the device the account info is stored, no? Otherwise one could erase the account info and pass the device as untainted anyways.

So, if that information is secured against alternative operating systems, then there is no harm in allowing them by default or upon local user authorization.

In other words, if it was strictly for theft deterrence then surely you would need an account to be able to factory reset the device at all, even with the bootloader locked?
>but having no tacky tracky shit shovelled throughout the OS

Like ads for icloud services in settings? Apple TV and Music subscription promotions appearing above all other the settings links? Personalized tracking being enabled by default?
lol is that the best you got? I'm still waiting to hear how 'mean things' don't have to be true or atleast a generally agreed upon belief for subjective matters. I just spent 3 days in the woods too and if I had to guess you've not spent much time outdoors. I can tell because your views are completely artificial and detached.
There are plenty of academics who oppose or have reservations about the capital-letters Science of Reading https://radicalscholarship.com/2022/05/23/nyt-blasts-calkins... . Of course they, too, could be ideologically motivated or stubbornly attached to their existing beliefs, for all I know, but it's clearly not a clean split between academics and teachers.
Or you can be SVB and take a lot of a haircut. Putting money you "need in a pinch" in an asset where you could take a haircut to get an extra percent or two of interest is a risk. A risk you can mitigate but still a risk.
I guess I don’t understand why you feel they’re “forcing it on users.”

Just don’t look at the results it generates or use ublock origin to filter the AI response off the page?
So, Americans decided to make their language as difficult to read as Chinese?!? Well done...
I dream of the unlikely day this lands in Canada. Banking is a highly legislated oligopily here in Canada. They will lobby long and strong to prevent Apple from entering the banking sector.
It just shows how powerful propaganda is, it's redefining terms
Those are the ads. That's their revenue source.
There is many no-code or low-code tools out there if you want to build something faster with much less time.
Riffing on this: another aspect of how business-life is harder for Google is, who actually is the customer?

For Amazon (at least in the classic retail sense), the customer is clear and obvious: the person buying a thing from your website, who wants good-selection, cheap and fast/delivered to their door. It's relatively easy to orient your entire company around the question of: "but is this actually good for The Customer?" That is, until you feel you've established your business model well enough, that you no longer need to focus on creating customer value, and instead turn towards growing your business value (i.e. the shift of 3p sellers going from "gee this is a cool way to expand selection for customers beyond what Amazon 1p offers by itself", into "wow this is just a cesspool for fakes and fraud, but who cares since they all pay fees to Amazon").

For Google, with the nature of the search business and the fact that it is their primary cash cow, the incentives are "mixed" to put it mildly. The true customer of Google is not the users, but the advertisers. The users are simply an ingredient to be fed into the advertising engine -- any decisions you make to benefit the user, are only from the perspective of, not pissing them off so much that they leave your platform (and even that, is a sliding scale depending on the viability of alternatives -- Bing along wasn't very viable, but Bing + ChatGPT might be...).

In a twisted way, maybe comparing Google to Amazon is more like this:

- G's search users = A's warehouse workers

- G's advertisers = A's shoppers

How well does Amazon treat its warehouse workers? Only as well as needed to achieve 2 goals: not break employment laws too egregiously, and not churn through the entire employable labor pool too quickly.