skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kinda worse? That's highly debatable. It's just a different risk profile. I personally don't expect the US government to take an interest in my activities, but I'm not as convinced about the Chinese for various reasons.

More to your point, as far as I'm aware, individuals can't be forced under law to cooperate with US intelligence. In China, individuals have to cooperate - by law - and the penalties for non-compliance are harsh.

In the case of an open source project maintained by individuals, that's an important consideration.
Definitely something like that. Before it's too late?
App Tracking Transparency is more App Store policy than technical feature, and even if Apple were stonewalling third party dev access by technical means, outside of the App Store there's nothing to stop Facebook from using a rotating set of holes to pull data through, turning the situation into an arms race which will only result in iOS being locked down progressively further, despite having sideloading.
Looking at the data set, it's a shame each Pokemon isn't at least named.

Or, sometimes even worse, here's the caption for the Jolteon image: "a drawing of a yellow and white pikachu"

Still, might be worth a try. Thanks.
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2014/10/14/is-alaska-next-on-...

Is the deputy prime minister of Russia demanding Alaska back enough of a citation?

Or do you actually not care for any evidence, comrade?
None of that negates what GP said. Apps have the ability to interoperate, but they still have to build that functionality. Apps can’t just take over other apps or their data at unawares.
Bing generating snippets of text from websites isn't going to generate hallucinations like you think it is.
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When I was at one of the FAANGs, the corporate legal people wanted to make a patent for a recommendation system I was the tech lead on. They called me into a room with two patent layers for a disclosure meeting. In general, I have an issue with software parents, but I definitely didn't believe our work was patentable since everything seemed like an obvious extension of standard practices to me (think agents reaponding to events).

I then proceeded to spend the next hour telling the lawyers that there is nothing novel in our system, that all of the connections and features would be obvious and intuitive to anyone familiar with the trade of software engineering, that all technologies in the system are common practices, and just in general refusing to let them reframe it in legalese to make it sound like something it wasn't. I could tell they were getting frustrated by the end, but it was one of the best hours I have ever spent. I'm proud I didn't let a megacorp patent standard software practices.
How else are they supposed to test without a large number of people using it?

How is DuckDuckGo supposed to compete without?

How is this not an improvement to search?

(presumably whilst still respecting people's privacy)
In light of this fact, I'd guess "their" preferred pronouns are he/him/his.
Peter Zeihan's take is that urbanization leads to less children because there's less space, you don't need the free labor kids provides on the farm, and children are very expensive in the city.

This is coupled with the speed of urbanization for countries that industrialized after the second world war- the later you industrialize, the faster that industrialization happens, the more stark the transition to a childless economy.

As mentioned in the article, there is a demographic boon for that industrialized generation. Less money needed for schools, etc, more time your prime working age adults can contribute to the economy.

Except all those countries industrialized around the same generation. That generation is aging out of the workforce and there's nothing to replace them.

Zeihan posits this leads to demographic collapse, and that these countries just simply "go away" because there isn't enough children to keep the country functioning. I'm not sure how much I believe that, but I do know that nobody has a clue how to fix it. Japan has been front and center for this problem and still haven't found a way to reverse the trend.
> ROM dumping is not a crime or YouTube content violation

Depends on the territory.

It is definitely not legal in the UK for example.
Apple's cash back is OK. If you want to play and win the points game, Amex Gold for dining/groceries and Amex Green for all travel expenses can net you some nice travel options in the future. Getting 100,000 points (the rough equivalent of $1000 cash back) can get you some nice business class seats over the oceans to EU and Asia that can be worth 5-10x the cash value of the points.
> we are training a full suite of models, with the first becoming available in the coming weeks.

Sounds like they already have the compute and began training.
Google search is AI-powered and has been for many years.
And that's a fair response to the question.

But it is true that the vast bulk of their revenue does come from ads. So it gets complicated.

If you were to take away their non-ad revenue, Google would be fine-ish. If you were to take away their ad revenue, Google would be in serious trouble.

Compare with Microsoft. Their biggest revenue source is Cloud services. And that's only about a third of their total revenue. And it also includes "server products".

Why is Google unable to diversify to the level of Microsoft? The products are ostensibly there, they just can't make money from them. Or the only money they can make from them are by virtue of selling ads on them.
Partial privatization is often (always?) worse than no privatization.

Privatization works only because of market incentives. When you take away some of those incentives then you have the illusion of a free market but free market controls cannot encourage good outcomes.
I can assure you that when I add a Drake song to the party playlist, it’s because the song is a bop, not because I want to feel a deeply emotional human connection with Aubrey Graham.
Thanks, my original explanation was not very good, IANAL.

I was getting at you don't patent the code itself (which has copyright protection).
Android is a much bigger market worldwide. Only in the US and a few other rich places Apple is still the #1.
Ask HN: Can I switch stacks without decrease in salary
I am a PHP developer who is reaching the salary ceiling for PHP senior devs, and am considering switching to another stack (Java? Go? Python?). However that would probably mean starting at a lower level (entry level?). Has anyone done this without a decrease in salary?
It's probably just you.

Fortnite went sideload-only on Android in 2018, and had ~40m players on Android. Their userbase is 60% 18-24 years old, so you may not know many players. [0]

Leading drone maker DJI's app for Android is also sideload-only, and they've sold hundreds of thousands of drones to people, many of whom probably use Android.

[0] https://www.sportskeeda.com/esports/how-many-people-play-for...
> Pro gaming and speedruns are still free marketing

Nintendo hates those. Look at how they treated the Smash community. It shocked me and I don't even like those games. Nintendo sucks and doesn't deserve anyone's money. Don't even try to understand them or their motives, sucking is just a part of their DNA.
We're going through it now, the same book 100 lessons. I have two kids, one is almost 6 and one is 3.5. We got the book because the 6 year old was struggling considerably with reading. The book is a real effort to go through and requires a lot of patience with the 6 year old. Thankfully we are 80% of the way through it. The incredible thing is the 3.5 year old sees the older one do it and she wants to do it and she's actually on track to read much earlier than the 6 year old. It's really something to watch. I'm glad we found this book (actually on another HN thread..)

My wife, who is actually an early childhood montessori educator, was vehemently against the book, and I had to tell her, "look whatever we're doing right now isn't working, we need to do something different". Educational methodology is almost something like a religion hence such a strong need for what should be more "experienced-based" teaching. Do what works, tested on children, versus proving of academic scientific hypotheses. Sometimes what works just works and should be continued until something better can be identified. Again, a lot of this is anecdotal, but it was definitely an uphill battle. Frankly I don't think she's still completely convinced, but I refuse to sit on the sidelines and watch my kids not be able to read.
The hostility towards children is a real thing you can see today. I saw it first hand in Japan; parks had signs with dozens of prohibitions, while news stories about this phenomena inevitably had an 80 year old complaining that there were children outside at 8 and politicans saying that it was a "complex problem". These are not new parks mind you; just there are silver-haired "main character syndrome" types who consider public spaces as public spaces for their own personal pursuits.

As the proportion of the elderly (and mentally ill elderly) increase, creating age restrictions on elderly voting may be necessary if we want to prevent these selfish behaviors from damaging the long-term viability of our own democracies.
Do you mean are people going both ways? I don’t think gif is settled. I’m in the soft G camp on gif.

I think magi is already an English word with soft G, so I don’t know if there’s any room for controversy on this one.
The rate is great! But how long before US switches back to a 0 interest rate policy and this plus wealthfront cash aren't paying nice rates anymore?
If inflation is above the savings yield no matter what the particular values are, you're still losing purchasing power.
A little bit, but I am not sure whether it is really comparable. It's a relatively new trend here in germany (started 2002). Translating a recent article: "According to this, in 2007 only 16.2 percent of children attended an all-day school. In 2017, the figure was more than twice as high, at 42 per cent."

As I understood it (not a parent and it was not available when I was at school): You have all-day classes and "normal" classes at school. The kids in all-day classes stay together during the day and the kids in the other class go home, it is not an optional add-on. My niece is attending all-day school with a musical focus and likes it very much. All day classes differ between schools and classes, with school on 3-5 afternoons until 4 pm. Supervision is given for homework and studying for exams.
The news here is that Fujitsu also made chips. When/why did they stop ?
I think you just couldn't stand seeing all those unclosed braces ;-))))))))
no, I did not say that. My intention of referring to the difficulties is that some rigor is required. The play store is a rubber stamp.
My guess is that it has little to do with FDIC and a lot more to do with them not wanting to pay so much interest on that much money.
Why in the world does it matter? If Facebook wants to use the iOS sideloading scene to promote organ harvesting or whatever, we use that to sue them. From the outside-looking-in, it seems like another one of those hissy-fit scenarios where Apple's petty disagreement with other companies actively reduces the capability of their devices.
It is. Add that with the rest of the problems Canada has, it might be the worst of the first world countries.
FWIW We used the 100 easy lessons book for all of our kids and they read very well for their ages and enjoy reading.
BLIP2 is a contrastive Image-Language model. The embeddings from the BLIP2 image model are already both aligned with text, and linear. It should not be a surprise that only a projection is required to translate it to LLaMA's embedding space.
What are the custom chips that Google has?

This feels like it’s not on my radar.
I try not to partake in tinfoil hattery, but this getting the upvotes that it did, in the time that it did, given the content, and compared to the demographic of the platform, might alarm some folks who care about the integrity of submissions on HN.

Maybe that's nobody, maybe I'm paranoid, maybe I'm not following HN guidelines. IDK.
Whew, boy. There's a ton of loaded phrases in this piece . . which, well, I'll let others do the googling. Anyway. Ideologies (Evangelicals, Feminists, Transsexuals, Insert-Your-Evil-Genius-Here) don't shunt people's life decisions around willy nilly like this. Money does. People don't have kids in industrialized countries because children rapidly transform from a net investment to a net burden. Thus, ideal industrialized states have political policy to skim improved industrial productivity into incentives for childbirth[1]. This typically doesn't happen, so kids don't happen either.

This isn't a new phenomenon; urban areas eat birthrates, and you can see it in records from as long ago as the 14th century. Industrialization turns urbanization up to 11.

[1] Or a rational immigration / naturalization policy, but that's another subject, and it's not really tenable for some cultures.
In general literature reviews are the best starting off point.

However, I don’t know what if anything would be relevant to you. If you’re helping kids with dyslexia learn to read then that’s very different than normal tutoring etc.

Really though research tends to have really narrow focus such as classroom lighting.
I could be wrong, but I thought you could sell T-Bills fairly easily on the secondary market. You might take a bit of a haircut, so it's obviously better to hold onto until maturity, but I think in a pinch you can get most of the money back.
Making this some anti-diversity thing cuts both ways: "Frito-Lay would rather give credit to a white person in Corporate than a Latino factory worker" ain't exactly a better look.
Ah thanks, that indeed clears up my confusion.

I don't understand how is that relevant to savings or Apple Card though? I mean sure Apple Card is currently a credit card, but I don't think that's relevant? In France most banks just give the customer the choice between credit and debit cards, and we just mostly prefer debit cards. Apple could probably just do that as well.

That being said, I guess the reason there is no Apple Card in Europe, is that you can't make 2%+ markup on card payments.
Yeah, it's pretty trivial to change the base model from LLaMa to this next one. You just have to finetune it with the same data used previously to train Vicuna.
They did test it: see Project Follow Through. They didn't like the results, so they ignored them.
Brave is also injecting "summaries" into its search results

they're harmless I guess...but also mostly irrelevant to what I am searching for most of the time
I'm still very happy with Ally for general banking - still prefer their app over others that I have seen. For Savings they are still very good but also have a "No Penalty CD" thats at 4.25% APR and their "High Yield CD" is at 4.8% for 18 months

https://www.ally.com/bank/cd-rates/

For kids we did go with Chase, and I maintain a balance to avoid fees and allow for a monthly transfer for allowances. I have a recurring transfer from Ally to Chase to keep things level. Easy to setup and forget about.

https://account.chase.com/banking/first-banking

That aside... I think you may want to look at US Treasury "Series I Savings Bonds". The rate changes every 6 months but you can lock in a 6.89% for that time (if you get them before April 30, 2023). Again, you need to keep them for at least a year and other terms apply. Their website is not great but once you get over that....

https://www.treasurydirect.gov/
This might be affecting the number of children a couple has (probably is, in fact), but I doubt people factor it in to their decision to have a kid or not. I had absolutely no idea what day care or diapers cost before I had a kid. It's hard for me to picture a young couple approaching it that way.
Yeah, Bing has been consistently profitable for a long time.

People mock it because its not bringing in obscene amounts that google search does, but it's revenues have consistently been growing for years:
https://fourweekmba.com/bing-revenue/

$11.59B is pretty damn good revenue for a 'laughing stock'.
Especially Consider that gaming 'only' was $16.23B.
I think it's a somewhat useful proxy. You can't measure "friendships formed", so you find something you can measure that hopefully correlates with "friendships formed".

As you point out, it's not without it's flaws, but I think most people would say that some data is better than none.
It makes me wonder why people like him bother with it in the first place. Why help market Nintendo games and contribute to their ecosystem, when they clearly don't care about you at all and will happily throw you under the bus. This isn't anything new, Nintendo has been behaving this way for many years.
Homines libenter id quod volunt, credunt.
Copyright is about DISTRIBUTION

Copyright is primarily about copying.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/106

Subject to sections 107 through 122, the owner of copyright under this title has the exclusive rights to do and to authorize any of the following:
(1) to reproduce the copyrighted work in copies or phonorecords;
Talk dirty to me!
TreasuryDirect's website is pretty horrible, but for what it's worth they actually have the option for automatic reinvestment of T-Bills built in. You can even set the number of reinvestments you want to do, or just have it automatically re-deposit into your bank account when the T-Bill is mature.
Many people here are afraid of being able to install apps on iOS from somewhere else than the Apple store because then Facebook will be able to be fully evil on iOS.

A relationship without trust and with fear of evil actions is called a toxic relationship. If you don't trust Facebook, don't install it. Even from the app store. There is no world in which you need the app.

First, if you use Facebook because of the network effect, don't stay passive. Advocate for using something else, like Signal, mastodon, anything.

Second (in the meantime), if you still need Facebook, I'm sure you can access it from a browser in private mode.

Get out of this toxic relationship now.

Get your news and your fun from somewhere else not amenable to a filter that suits a manipulative company.

We should be happy for such new possibilities. Of course it requires putting your time and money where your mouth is. But it's worth doing either way! Stop the dissonance!
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I wonder if there will still be two classes. I imagine sideloadable apps will need notarization like they recently implemented for macOS apps delivered outside the mac app store. They can require a developer account for that, or make it behave differently for the separate classes.
Management. The a company grows, top management becomes risk-averse, and middle management cares more about their carriers than the company future. They will kill anything perceived as even slightly risky coming out of engineering. And guess what, anything good and new will be controversial and risky.
No, technically it’s all very impressive. My displeasure with them was there doing a Napster-style maneuver to force artists into accepting AI art generation
Amplifying right wing extremists is an improvement?
On Fidelity, not every account type has access to those high yielding core positions (I don't know why).

But you can choose to invest your cash directly into the high yielding money market funds by placing a trade.

The relevant tickets are FDRXX and SPAXX.

Do note that this is different than changing your core position.
There are several engineering tasks that I've just found explained better by ChatGPT than scouring Google for out of date documentation or abandoned forum posts. For example a while back I needed to encode some AAC audio frames into the ADTS format. In the work I've been doing recently, this isn't a hard task given you have the spec. The problem was I couldn't find the spec on Google - arguably it's not well supported either.

No problem for ChatGPT however which was not only able to write the code, but write it in Rust - the target language Iw as going to. Now I've just found it easier to ask ChatGPT first then go go google.
I know you’re being sarcastic but you’re inadvertently correct.

Very quickly “no security airlines” would go out of business as no one would want to risk their life needlessly, especially if the lack of security led to an incident.

However an airline that used nonintrusive, convenient methods for security, fmight find a loyal passenger following.
Not GP, but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensor_Processing_Unit
"Embrace, extend, extinguis" was Microsoft's way to address widely used standards in its early quest to be a monopoly [1]. What they're doing with their AI solution seems like a similar case.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...
I think "creepy"
If a channel gets three copyright strikes it's done... and all those subscribers and followers you lose. It's incredibly high stakes if youtube is your job.
A quick note to say that this article is mostly a rehash of the New York Times article it references as its source. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/16/technology/google-search-...
Glossy Magazines sell Ads to people interested in those glossy magazines. The Magazine-content defines its target-group. This doesn't work for platform-based advertising, the platform needs to offer ways to select the target-group to address.

Google purchased transaction data to connect online behavior to the real world and refine their Persona profile. Apple doesn't need to do this, because they already collect data from their users' behavior in the real world via their Apple Pay / Apple Card purchases.
In 2017 Google didn't know whether you actually have money to buy a new TV, they only saw that you kept looking at TVs online. So they thought it's a good idea to buy this data to refine their Ad Personas.
In 2023, Apple already owns sufficient data to know if you can afford a TV or not. They curate your persona from your Apple ID and your Apple Pay transactions and even know whether you went to BestBuy recently.

Putting you in a matching advertising cluster for that isn't a legal privacy violation, your private data will never be shared with anyone. Just like Google and Meta don't share your private data with anyone.

I don't like any of those practices, but let's not buy into the illusion that Apple is doing anything different to Meta/Google. They all create and refine Personas to allow targeted marketing, and protect the underlying data to be the gatekeeper.
Hell, I was probably born a crank. I think the causal relationship is more likely to be "cranks become engineers" than "engineers become cranks".
Some things I have read suggest the civil war didn't start per se over slavery. The decision to emancipate the slaves occurred sometime during the war and was sort of made on the local level when some commanding officer chose to give asylum to two Black men, escaped slaves iirc. And then it became official policy at some point and after the fact we remember it as having been the reason for the war from the start.

My general understanding is the South wished to secede. There were many differences between that region and the rest of the country, slavery being only one difference. The Deep South continues to be a distinctive region and is more religious than most of the rest of the country.

I read a compelling account of how Grant was an alcoholic and ne'er-do-well for much of his life and attributes that fact as the cause of Grant's decision to be unexpectedly compassionate when he set terms of surrender.

Lee was reluctant to surrender. Surrendering was typically a bad thing.

Grant laid out only three conditions, one of which was "You must let us help you rebuild." This is why there were carpet baggers.

I'm not going to argue this further. As stated above, "from what I have read....etc."

You aren't required to agree with me.