skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>like a CPU that can compute without consuming any power?

Erasing bits consumes power. You'll probably want to start investigating conservative logic:

>Conservative logic is a comprehensive model of computation which explicitly reflects a number of fundamental principles of physics, such as the reversibility of the dynamical laws and the conservation of certain additive quantities (among which energy plays a distinguished role). Because it more closely mirrors physics than traditional models of computation, conservative logic is in a better position to provide indications concerning the realization of high-performance computing systems, i.e., of systems that make very efficient use of the "computing resources" actually offered by nature. In particular, conservative logic shows that it is ideally possible to build sequential circuits with zero internal power dissipation

https://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/fall06/cos576/p...

...and also reversible computation:

https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-future-of-computing-depends-on...
I hope there is an option to disable this by default. My parents already manage to install tons of awful apps somehow.
Their self-image is VERY customer-oriented. It's just that we're not the customers.
If the engineering part is of secondary importance for you, then at least remember about the dataset. It is in the composition and quality of the training data that all the skills find their origin.

Most of our discussions are about model size, but few about dataset. Yet all the scaling laws hint at the great usefulness of more data. Sometimes even little data can have a great impact in the fine-tuning phase. In the end it is the training data that transforms a random init into the model.
Cool! Reminds me of the "most dangerous game" of the 80's, Lawn Darts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khHzGqgO2Bw
because driving sucks even more
No, I’ve seen two versions of that image. The one with 71/17 looked most obviously edited to me, but I was asking to get any more substantial confirmation either way.
That's going to end up the same way as Android if I have to guess yeah, as complicated as it gets for a normal user to activate so that nobody uses this outside of tech workers.

Then they can just say that it's technically "there" for the courts.
Thought to Be Safe: Replacement PFAS Used in Food Packaging Are Hazardous
I'm aware, just raising the flag
It's one of the attitudes being pushed in the education system itself. After a couple of generations, "expertism" has embedded deeply into the American mindset. It's very dangerous to live in a culture where we don't question experts.
I tried that and here's what it has to say:

> This painting appears to be a depiction of a child running down a dirt road with a kite in hand. The child is wearing a yellow shirt and blue shorts, and the background is filled with various colors and shapes. The overall mood of the painting is playful and carefree.

What's amazing is that it has correctly described the scene including details such as:

- A boy
- On a dirt road.
- Having a Kite in hand.
- Wearing Yellow shirt and blue shorts.
Your two statements don't match up. Sounds like they can offer at least 3% more, no?
No I'm not, I specifically said they shouldn't be forced to work... as in put to labor in a factory or something. Picking tobacco for extra money isn't being forced into employment. I think you need to read my comment again.
This might not be far off from the truth.

SwiftKey, Edge, and several other Microsoft properties are actually under the auspices of Bing Ads now. A while ago, Microsoft made the wild move to shuffle a bunch of branches under the leadership of former Yandex CTO Mikhail Parakhin. Gradually, Mikhail began to make moves that caused a fair number of the original Edge team -- those who had come from IE, brought up Spartan, then brought up Edge-on-Chromium -- to leave in fits of rage over the anticonsumer path the browser team was being forced down. The engineers revolted and left when they couldn't fight anymore.

LinkedIn tells a lot about people moving from Edge to other places and even other companies afterwards. Some of the longest time zealots of the platform have turned their back on the tools they helped make because of it.

Fast forward about a year and we get The Fucking Bing Button. A top Bing search query for several weeks was "Remove the fucking bing button in edge" (or some variant thereof). Top results are all how to get rid of the Bing discover button: https://imgur.com/qZQ1NLn

I would not be surprised if there was backlash against it in the forums that Mikhail did not like. SwiftKey is a much smaller product space that does not have a high revenue, which means that he has every incentive to make it bleed every penny it can.
Facebook has actually done this before with their Onavo VPN that intercepted all your web traffic in exchange for something like a $5 gift card every month. Distributed publicly using their internal enterprise certificate and got their cert revoked.
They really have a flywheel of internet destruction. The fact that they own the entire display advertising business + search and ping pong people from a 50% paid search listing to a CPM arbitrage SEO website and back is just gross.
I'm surprised the article doesn't mention North Korea more. The DPRK is probably the most collectivist (least individualistic) large society on the planet, so much so that it terrifies bona fide liberals. I'm sure the intense political polarization of the divided Peninsula has contributed to hyper-charging individualism in the South. You don't want to be like the enemy.

FWIW, DPRK birth rate is about 1.9, still below replacement but more than double the ROK, and much higher than PRC or Japan.
Exactly me. Podcasts in particular are terrible because they are rarely edited at all.

If you listen to someone like Terry Gross there's an enormous amount of editing involved to make it sound like a natural conversation. Podcast world is the opposite.
Is it a derivative work of a book to says "Given an english copy of 'The Da Vinci Code' replace all occurrences of the word 'Jesus' with 'Dave'. In the current 20th printing of the english language version of the book you will find these on pages 1,4,6,..."

It is not. Telling someone how to run a process on a work to transform it is not breaching copyright in any way. If the person how transforms the work then distributes it, they will have a problem. But the person who told them how to transform it would not.
You do have to admit that when they're urging you to commit fraud, they're at least not asking you to do something they're unwilling to do: https://cnn.com/cnn/2022/12/20/investing/wells-fargo-cfpb-fo...
Didn't bing change its index service pricing to be prohibitively expensive for ai powered search engines?
I suspect some people google for things on Bing.
Someone in Microsoft is going to deserve a huge bonus if they can talk Samsung into making a successor to Surface Duo.
You are saying "the evidence is bullshit", right?
Having just dropped Kagi in favor of DDG, does anyone have a recommendation for a search engine taking a stand against AI-generated content?
If you have a 3-4 year old: Bob Books
A good application for a Transformer system like GPT to listen to the podcasts and generate the single sentence inside.
> No one's saying it explicitly today and I am indeed drawing conclusions based on my experience but that's a normal human thing to do.

……

this is a disingenuous way of engaging

you’re trying to shortcut a conversation based on what you think will happen, hasnt happened, and instead makes like looks like you’re doing a a combination of a strawman argument and gaslighting.

you’re not able to treat me as an individual but part of an amorphous hackernews audience, yet think you’re exempt. how do you think your ridiculous form of argument is perceived aside from “classic HN”

I do not speculate on who the owners of a private company are and I don’t advocate for that. typically for marketing reasons they blast their public facing team and investors all over crunchbase for vanity.

as the article states, it is common for non-consumer facing investment firms and holding companies to have no information available to the public.
The childcare is free, but what about the rent?
You're being deliberately obtuse. I said the raw data for 2023-04-15 on https://api.joinmastodon.org/statistics matches exactly the numbers on https://joinmastodon.org/servers for "Data collected by crawling all accessible Mastodon servers on Apr 15, 2023." Everyone can see that, including you if you choose. I didn't say the numbers were "not believable".

The question is what "Monthly" is supposed to mean exactly, given that the raw numbers change every day, as everyone can see from the above link. And as I said, one possible interpretation is "unless perhaps it means they update the page once a month".

> Not for federated networks

Says you, with no evidence, again. What exactly was your methodology for producing the estimate "50,000"?
I think you're putting the cart before the horse, literally. The reason we aren't transit focused in the United States is because of 7+ decades of urban design focused on automotive transit.

> What do you feel would make you want to use them over your car more?

If it's cheaper and more convenient than getting in my car, including if I have to get into my car to get to the station/stop.

> Do you believe that the US could one day become as public-transit/micromobility friendly as Europe? Why/Why not?

I think it depends on the specific geographic location. Where I live now (suburbs of a major city), maybe but it would take massive government support and have a lot of local opposition. Where I lived last (in the heart of one of our largest cities) definitely, but it already had options for transit. Where I lived before that (rural North Carolina), with heavy and direct government subsidies (which is what they do now).

The other thing is that if by "micromobility" you mean electric scooters - you're going to face a lot of public opposition. It's not a transit solution insomuch as a nuisance and public health nightmare. People like myself will go out of our way to ban them from our neighborhoods.
I came off harsher than intended.

I'm actually all for everyone's property taxes being spent per kid not per school to see to their education. So a private school that is acredited (insert details here) would get funds from that pool too.

Saying that it should be contingent on learning outcomes sounds nice, but that's clearly not enforced in public schools today anyhow.
I think chatgtp itself with access to search / wolfram / apps etc is a more serious competitor than Bing.
>I’m not a fan of StableDiffusion

For some technical reason?
My wife mixed reading with spelling, starting when each boy was four. She'd work on simple letter sounds, then make a list of 'rhyming' words: sat, pat, fat, cat, mat and so on. They would sound out the list, then come up with some more, even some silly ones like dat or jat. Hilarious! for a four-year-old.

So they learned to read without really trying. It would take a few weeks of evening 'spelling time' and that was it.
Damn! Looks really useful, no more trying to figure out loops and nesting of classes.
A lot of people are running fairly powerful models directly on the CPU these days... seems like inference will not be a GPU exclusive activity going forward. Given that RAM is the main bottleneck at this point, running on CPU seems more practical for most end users

See:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35602234
Anthropic’s CEO is going to lead a live conversation on steerable AI
I don't think the kid even has to be confused about what the parent is doing.

If a kid sees a parent on the phone all the time (reading), they want to imitate being on the phone. The fact that the parent is reading is a second level distinction that matters less to young kids, especially when they can more easily imitate "using the phone" by playing games or watching videos.
> Mao or Stalin might have been able to rid their countries of pathological cultural factors

Mao did rid of the meritocracy-based education system, replacing it with an identity-based system. That is, if you were born with the right identity (blue-collar worker, peasant (not farmer, mind you), and soldier), then you get to go to a university without even any test. If you were born with the wrong identity (the right, the anti-revolutionary, the farmer or any family who has property, the "rich", the "bad"), then you can't go to any college. The results? Just look at China in the 70s. What a fucking hell hole.

As a for Stalin or Soviet, they never gave up their elite education. In fact, elite officers had to be elite students as well. Those who are good at STEM could even get a little leniency when they made the so-called political mistakes.
Yup, but the point is that you are losing less than other options with a similar risk and liquidity profile.
I don't think software developers are a good measure. They're not heavy users of any sort of word processing.
Hateful? Most of these are clearly porn scams.
You can buy direct from treasurydirect.gov . The process is a little clumsy, but still something an individual can figure out.
Isn't that about a technical feature of iOS that won't be bypassed just by installing an app from outside the App Store?
You've gotta wonder how a nation's schooling standards shift to something like "Whole language" without, say, at least testing the methodologies to see if it results in better or worse outcomes. Seems like no actual validation was done.
I wouldn’t call it propaganda. Facebook’s reputation in this regard hasn’t exactly been stellar because they’ve been caught red-handed spying on users at scale [1] [2].

And Apple was swift to limit the damage of their spying by banning [1] their app from the app store which is why the point the gp is making is sound. The app store is two things: a (heavy-handed) review process and a marketplace. Without the Apple app store review process, you’d end up with what looks like the Google Play store.

So it’s not hard to imagine Facebook disappearing completely from the Apple app store (to avoid being bogged down by Apple’s policies) forcing users to sideload the app directly from their website to “get their fix”.

1: https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/30/apple-bans-facebook-vpn/

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onavo
And you think it shouldn't have been patentable if it instead used a microcontroller to control the wipers even though the system is doing the same thing?
What do you expect—they're made out of meat! Meat!
Let's stop pretending that not being allowed to engage in "mining sensitive data" is the only reason a company has to not want to be on the app store.

- Discrimination against entire fields of endeavor like emulators and streaming clients

- 30% tax

- Victorian era morality clause that has forced applications to make UX degrading changes for NSFW content

- Anti-competitive behavior for anything that competes with Apple's own offerings, including e-books (audible), music (bandcamp), web browsers (Firefox/Chrome), and probably more I'm not thinking about right now.

- No GPL on the app store

If this were just about "Facebook is mad because they can't data mine and stay on the app store" there would be a much stronger case, but in the world we live in, Apple has abused their so-called "user advocate" position to advance their own interests at the expense of their competitors, and users, in many other ways. They did not have to do this.

If you want to be upset at someone, be upset at Apple for inviting the typically heavy and imprecise hammer of the state when they could have just stayed in their lane and not behaved like greedy controlling puppet masters.
That is not bad (less that 6-mos cd), subject to change at any minute, though. Per Apple, you must be using iOS first time I've ever seen that prereq:

>> Annual Percentage Yield (APY) is 4.15 percent as of 4/14/2023. APY may change at any time. Maximum balance limits apply. Savings is available with iOS 16.4 and later.
It’s almost if there is a downside to treating your users like shit. Google is such a weird company.
FARGonautica
Why are people bring up the early '00s?

This seems too obvious to have to mention, but I guess I do: the comp for iOS with side-loading isn't Windows 98, it's MacOS in 2023.
They are living relics of the ancient past! and we still use them today! English is cool.
Isn’t it a minority of people who want this?

I’d bet 99% of Apple users don’t care nor want this.

I know I don’t. I like Apple’s App Store standards. If I want to side load apps I’d use android. But I don’t.

If companies don’t like it just don’t support iOS. Others will and I’ll use those apps.
Duplicate of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35557848
They deleted most content uploaded by kids. More explanation here: https://web.archive.org/web/20160324122025/http://kotaku.com...
The thing is, yes Meta/Google did make mistakes in the past and malicious players were able to gather individual information from them.
But the current business of Meta/Google Ads is actually based on protecting your private information and curating it into anonymous Personas.

They protect your privacy for the very same reason as Apple: To be the sole gatekeeper for effectively reaching you with Ads.

There also won't be any "weakened privacy protections". The goal of Meta/Google/Apple is to reach maximum precision for those Personas they create from their users, and protect the underlying data for competitive advantage.

Personas are legally not personal data, they are abstractions. Advertising to you via a cluster with other people who recently purchased a new car is not a legal violation of privacy.

This is how Meta/Google advertising works and how Apple Ads works as well, their T&C already state this clearly ("your information will be used to show ads relevant to you").
I kinda wonder how this song (and video) got by, or maybe Nintendo realized it was well into fair use.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZeR-vxREvw
Eh... I think it's both. A lot of end-users don't understand understand what a web browser is. The older crowd is completely weirded out about running an app in their browser.
> That does NOT say "Daily". Surely you can read that.

Yes, I discussed the issue in the link I gave. Surely you can read that.

> So as long as the exact DAUs is unknown, the figures can be estimated to be as low as 100,000 DAUs and even worst case 50,000 DAUs.

This doesn't follow. I can estimate it as 2 people. Or 2 billion people. Where does 100,000 or 50,000 come from? You repeatedly refuse to give any evidence that you haven't made those numbers up out of thin air.

Anyway, it's redundant to argue the exact same thing in 2 different threads, so let's stick to the other thread please, since it has more info and explanation.
We only had one civil war because after Lincoln was assassinated, reconstruction was basically scrapped and we openly ignored what happened while letting prominent Confederate politicians and sympathizers get into power and twist reality into their "Lost Cause" myth. To this day, some American students are still taught that the Civil War was started and caused by "Northern Aggression" and that slavery wasn't important.

Would a marshal plan style rebuild/de-confederation of the south caused a second civil war? Most likely not? Would it have helped black people not be screwed over for the next hundred years? I sure hope so.
It makes sense to me, the person choosing to be all "eh, I can't be arsed to care and shan't read the whole thing."

What doesn't make sense to me is why so many internet strangers feel compelled to argue it with me.
> How can a public institution foster intrinsic motivation within an individual?

Honestly, it is part of the social contract that the government, or at least society, needs to maintain.

If you look at cultures where education is valued, where academic achievement is high, there is a very strong social contract in place that equates academic success to success later in life. China has had national exams for over a thousand years, with the same promise: Anyone who does well in school and succeeds can have their station in life elevated by doing well in school.

Rich or poor, rural or urban, everyone (or at least a large swath of people) in China has traditionally had this guarantee lying around.

Do good in school, and you will be taken care of after that. You can get a good spouse, a good job, and life will get easier.

America has actively worked to break such promises. Historically when a minority community worked together and excelled, their houses and businesses got literally burned down to the ground, or sometimes, less violently, just taken away from them.

That teaches a lesson right there, "work hard, and fuck you".

Rather recently, middle class white students in America studied hard only to find the social contract involved universities jacking up tuition fees to sky high levels, loading them down with tons of debt, and then leaving school for crap jobs and a life of constant interest payments.

A shit ton better than being burned out of your house, but it still shows how American society is willing to tear up social contracts so that powerful institutions can earn some extra $$$.

Housing then folds into this, it used to be American cities worked hard to expand the housing supply, they eagerly courted young families, now cities are actively hostile to anyone new coming to town.

But the fact is, maintaining that social contract pays for itself many times over with social stability, a lesson America has apparently forgotten.

Some parts of the government get this, some types of inefficient contracts (build/buy American) are in fact job creation programs, but we need to do a lot better.

Build more housing, a ton more, and force state universities to have much lower tuition by removing the obscene overhead. I rarely advocate for "just cut funding and make people figure it out", but honestly, pass a law saying State Universities aren't allowed to cut any faculty positions, then demand they cut tuition by 50%, and have their new budgets independently audited. Sure the student swimming pool may get shut down, but too bad.
Home Depot in my area (Seattle) has rolled out touchless/apple pay. They’re not like walmart wherein they were purposefully holding out, they’re just slow
Are they still downranking non-mainstream news?
Super easy, you buy direct:

https://www.treasurydirect.gov/
> Personally I use GrapheneOS in order to "de-Google" without switching to the Apple ecosystem.

GrapheneOS only supports Google devices like the Pixel though. It's the only reason I'm considering buying one.
Did you mean optimally? Maybe optimistically is a word too I just got confused while reading.
Isn‘t sideloading already available with sidelodely?
I think that getting startups to pay helps align everyone. Otherwise there might be a conflict of interest between Jumpstart, candidates and said startups. This way, startups can make sure that Jumpstart works for them, fulfilling their needs.

This is important given the value prop, it's definitely a lot more risky to take on juniors in these kinds of environments. If juniors were paying, Jumpstart might be incentivized to help them despite it not being a great fit for the startup.

Companies which focus on vetted skilled individuals have more flexibility if the brand is trusted. They can charge candidates, ask for % fee of 1st year salary etc. while still providing an acceptable risk.
They rely on advertising sure, but the part that comes from Search is ~150B $ (out of 250 B $).

People kind of dont realize a large chunk of their Ad Tech is not Search related. Its the tooling for the Publishers to sell ad real estate on their sites. Its the tooling for Advertisers to target that real estate based on data collected. Its the ad auctions. Its the ad exchanges. There is ton of shit of going on that no one on the planet is anywhere close to replicating.
+1 here. This seems like the best option for fixed income assets right now.