skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Products that confusingly label “cancel” or “unsubscribe”

> Some websites that are subscription-based hide the cancellation flow under a new name: “auto-renew” or “edit plan.” With Daily Harvest, Express VPN and Vimeo, there isn’t a button or area that says “cancel.” Instead a user has to look for “auto-renew” and turn off “auto-renew” payments, which effectively cancels the subscription. This kind of naming is confusing, adding unnecessary friction to the cancellation process.

This particular case doesn't seem like a dark pattern to me, although it depends on how difficult they make it to find the feature. However, as far as the button label, there is no "cancel" button because seeing a button explicitly labeled "cancel" will make some users think that they are exiting the dialog rather than performing the action they desire. This would be poor UX, and I see nothing nefarious about not naming the button "cancel" exactly as stated in the blurb I quoted.
Midjourney is higher quality by a fair bit, from my personal experience and from being near a few of the top early AI artists for a good little while.
What is meant by "decades"?

GitHub?

The cloud?

GPUs? Multi core CPUs?

Subscription models?

SPAs? Ajax?

VC funding?

Mobile phones?

I don't think you appreciate what has happened over the last several decades. I'm sure I'm missing a ton of things as well. Stack, overflow and chat GPT probably wouldn't even make my top five list over the last 3 decades. If you look 3 decades out, I'm sure there will be some AI stuff in there, but it is not even close to making the list right now IMO.
I'd buy this t-shirt
I can understand to some degree only manufacturing one physical product and limiting it to create multiple retail products. And once you do that it only makes sense to allow people to "upgrade" after delivery. But I am really not sure why they'd want to do a subscription rather than a one-time purchase? Is it just to get better conversions? Is it because they want a recurring revenue stream (it can't be _that_ big for their business)?
Maybe that attitude is one of the things it is good at screening for?
Ah, yes, this is the classic crowding in effect.

Okay, let's be serious. This matches Keynes' liquidity trap. Unlike time preference theory which predicts that people will simply consume once the interest rate is below their time preference. According to liquidity preference people actually keep cash or short term assets, because interest doesn't compensate for delaying consumption, it compensates for going from a more certain and liquid asset to a less certain and less liquid asset near zero interest. So what happens instead is that there is a crowding out effect at the zero lower bound. You could think of it as if the private economy stops and the only thing left to do is for the government to micromanage things.

The only private market solution would be to get rid of cash and just let interest rates be negative. That way the crowding in effect that e.g. Austrian Economists predict when the government spends less money actually happens.

So yeah we are stuck in this situation where the private sector isn't credit worthy anymore and everything has to be threaded through the government. People rightfully complain but what exactly is supposed to happen? There are no answers left. Economists don't do money so they simply assume this situation never happens or resolves itself automatically.
No, they're the heroes going on the main quest!
I'd say the fact that they write-off repeated examples of existing systems that are deployed commercially failing, and then also haven't responded with any real world examples of systems that are "nearly foolproof" as a pretty good indicator of arguing a hypothetical.
I keep waiting for someone to scream this out in one of the committee hearings. Going after one company and attempting to ban them from the country is pretty clearly Constitutionally dubious. But passing strict data privacy laws isn't. They must know this.
Isn’t there New Jersey legislation banning this type of subscription
I mean, sure, there are flat parts - as with all cities. But if we are ranking cities by flatness, SLC would be somewhere in the bottom 10 percent. "Flat" is just a horrible descriptor for that city.
What's disgusting is all the defense of it, since it's "above market rate" in those countries. Bald admittance that all the "entrepreneurs" here would pay similar rates if they could get away with it too.
I'm guessing that this statistic wouldn't be very helpful or interesting. Even if the number is 100%, they all drink water and eat food too.

A more interesting statistic would be rate of 1st-3rd degree murders committed on different drugs, and/or what percentage of cannabis users commit violent crimes in general.
Not a helpful contribution to your first question but I agree with the i3 comparison. Trying to get my volume buttons working on i3 reminded me of using AHK to reconfigure the numpad with numlock off to media control on one of my old windows desktops
Yeah, I totally hear what you are saying. At the same time, I at least do know that Clang and GCC do the preprocessing in-line with parsing, rather than forking out to an external preprocessor. In fact, I assume these days, the way it works is actually that your cpp binary would basically be the compiler except it disables the part after the preprocessor and just dumps the resulting AST.

That said, I have not read a lot of compiler source code to back this thought up. I have read some, but mostly in the C++ backend side, usually to resolve curiosities about vtable implementation details.
"I have no moat, and I must scream"
I know his entire shtick is doing dumb stuff and getting hurt (or at least pretending to?) in the style of "Ow! My balls!", but he wouldn't have been able to touch across 170VDC without flinching (@ 1:55). I've felt ~48VDC in the summer with my hands a bit sweaty. And both those terminals were actually still bouncing between +/- 170V along with the AC supply.

Then at 3:55 he gets shocked from touching those same terminals (as he should), with the circuit disconnected from the AC line, to segue into the need to discharge capacitors. This is what makes me question how much of his "getting hurt" is actually acting.

(Also just in case anyone is watching those videos and thinks there's a distinction between his usual haphazard behavior and when he gives explicit "safety" advice - there isn't).
I’m merely quoting someone else there. Idk what you mean. Im pretty sure neither me nor the person im replying to and quoting from are talking about trans people. What are you going on about?
Amazon Engineer admits Serverless can't be used in Production
> I don’t want [my car] to be connected [...] to the internet

Really? No remote access, security notifications, navigation facilities? No watching TV while charging? No OTA updates that obviate the need to take it to the dealership for routine fixes? No open source location analytic API?

I mean, I'm sure there's some bad stuff that happens too. But this is very much throwing out the baby with the bathwater. I won't tell you what you, personally, want in a vehicle. But the market as a whole absolutely wants their cars on the internet.
"Manufacturers may intentionally damage a portion of their goods ... "[0]

The intel chip example has already been mentioned in comments. The general idea of "Damaged Goods" (and how this can benefit consumers) appears here (at Preston McAfee's site).

[0] https://mc4f.ee/Papers/PDF/DamagedGoods.pdf
The banks are also serving several orders of magnitude more people than the bitcoin network. The energy usage per transation isn't even close to being comparable.

Even with all of the inefficiencies of modern banking, by comparison cryptocurrency is like lighting oil wells on fire.
Salt Lake City also has a major airport. (It's a Delta hub, and it connects to everywhere.) That, um, didn't make SLC into Denver.
On the other hand, SoftRam 95 took the driver kit paging driver and claimed to compress data, but actually didn't. All you got was a small buffer in memory where pages would be paged to before they actually got paged to disk.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20211111-00/?p=10...
You do realize that the US government itself has a history of lying, running malevolent information operations and invading other countries in order to de-stabilize them and install friendly dictators? That is why I don't buy this China and Russia scare tactics. Everyone's doing it.
If you don't like it, just don't buy cars whose performance is artificially limited. Let the market decide the issue.
Free Colabs have started blocking any SD web-ui it detects (presumably because it's meant as a community service for ML researchers, not for people who want to play hentai gacha, and they're running out of server time)
Ah. Totally makes sense.

My “kid” is nearly 30, so we never had to deal with this.
Very true, I've fleshed out RPG scenes/characters with it.
Existing security cameras don't turn off when a kid walks by; otherwise they'd be easy to defeat.
It is Sisyphean, but there also many synergies (I work on real-time computational imaging systems). And the specific things you mention were mostly not my work (I made typeof in GCC more coherent, which helped getting it standardized). But yes, I have a semi-complete C compiler around and many unfinished GCC branches...
That makes sense. However, it does sort of remind me of the old saying "a good C programmer can write C code in any language." It seems like if you use very simplified easy to optimize code that more-or-less looks like Fortran style coding, it can compile from any language to basically the same thing the Fortran HPC code would compile to, with the same performance.
There are two types of software projects, roughly:

* Speculative, with the hope that the ROI will be a multiple of the money put in. These are often in support of revenue-generation.

* Maintenance, where the goal is to keep the software useful for as low a cost possible, so they have a shoestring budget.
Indeed.

That's the correct thing to do and it's what real software engineers will do. But from the horrors I've seen in offshored websites, that's science-fiction to some coders. They will assume whatever version of Chrome they are running is the only one in existence and will use user-agent string once someone tells them their site is broken in Safari.
From. My. Cold. Dead. Fingers.
Would you please be more explicit? I'm curious about the relative strength's and weaknesses other's see
Gold, ideally. It's the best store of value and has been for centuries.
I know but it had to be said. If the range is ridiculous, just dont share a range. I would prefer they do, but I wont complain about it.
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The doorman at a certain medical facility in New York was one of the most AMAZING people I have ever seen. He was as much a part of those people's treatment as the doctors/nurses there. I often had to wait in the lobby during our software implementation for someone to escort me around and ended up spending a total of days worth of time in that lobby. He knew every patient. He interacted with people and made them feel human. I went home and cried every night the amount of human suffering that went through that place, but he lifted every single person I saw come through that door up and I imagine had a huge therapeutic benefit to those people, giving each one a personal, human, intentional and present positive interaction when they were facing horrible chemo, body part removal (people would have cancerous noses, ears, arms, legs removed), etc. Dude was a friggen saint and should have been paid millions the amount of people he touched and strength and positivity he had within him to give. I haven't had a lot of interaction with New York door men but that dude made me a lifelong champion of them. Sorry for the random off topic anecdote.
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I find it strange people are saying facebook's leak was the 'Stable Diffusion' moment for LLMs. The license is awful and basically means it can't be used in anything involving money legally.

Facebook has a terrible reputation, and if they can open source their model, it would transform their reputation at least among techies.

https://github.com/facebookresearch/llama/pull/184
Maybe not. Maybe the leaving side has been what it's always been. Maybe there's no one moving in? And now the net is a loss?

Yes, could be for the same reason. Or it could be just the way things are. Given the USA's population is stagnent, perhaps CA isn't all that unique? Or is also an immigration issue (which "economic growth" is often used as a false proxy for).

Nonetheless, populations do decline. To make it sound like a "failing" - as if it were a business - is where I take issue.
Presumably the party that prefers old-school Roman republics over old-school Greek democracies.
a lot of people have said similar things here
At least WG21 actually acknowledges solving security issues and UB problems are a real problem that needs to be sorted out.

Meanwhile, WG14, "not our problem ".
Again, the point of this post is that the blizzard is still primarily the same non-local news. Needles existing in a haystack doesn’t mean we shouldn’t discuss the problem with having an ever-increasing haystack.
How do you distinguish between an opinion you disagree with and 'spin'?
This is interesting. Mercedes is making a bold move trying to enter the subscription arena. Its customer base is affluent to say the least but I think this move won't fly with them.

I'm willing to bet that if the EU forces Car manufacturers to stop making ICE cars, China, South Korea, Japan will become the biggest Car makers in the world.
Vicuna-13b is based on LLAMA that was millions to train. $300 is just to finetuning.
What I don't understand is why with a passkey they don't ask for the second factor anymore. I feel like I would want that.
It doesn't have to be a startup, no. But GM is discontinuing the Bolt, which I assume is the car you're referring to. And as far as I know, most EVs are evolving in the direction of more software complexity, not less. When I say a dumb EV, I'm talking analog knobs and buttons, no touch screen, no over-the-air updates. A disconnected vehicle.
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I don't know exactly what would happen, but I assume they'd get a collection agency to harass you for it, or possibly sell the 'debt' to one. Suing you would be more effort than it's worth.
> The real interesting question is "why did Colorado develop so many cities when no one else in the intermountain west did?"

Depends on who you ask.

The answer I liked was that CO had a good blend of farmable land and minable mountains which gave it a slight edge over the other Rocky states so early on it was just slightly bigger. And then when it came time for the USG to start establishing a bunch of west-located offices it was a winner take-all situation.
> Paradoxically, the one clear winner in all of this is Meta. Because the leaked model was theirs, they have effectively garnered an entire planet’s worth of free labor. Since most open source innovation is happening on top of their architecture, there is nothing stopping them from directly incorporating it into their products.

One interesting related point to this is Zuck's comments on Meta's AI strategy during their earnings call: https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/1373nhq/di...

Summary:

"""
Some noteworthy quotes that signal the thought process at Meta FAIR and more broadly

We’re just playing a different game on the infrastructure than companies like Google or Microsoft or Amazon

We would aspire to and hope to make even more open than that. So, we’ll need to figure out a way to do that.

...lead us to do more work in terms of open sourcing, some of the lower level models and tools

Open sourcing low level tools make the way we run all this infrastructure more efficient over time.

On PyTorch: It’s generally been very valuable for us to provide that because now all of the best developers across the industry are using tools that we’re also using internally.

I would expect us to be pushing and helping to build out an open ecosystem.

"""
None of the models will "win" because it is just a foundation. Google won because they leveeraged the linux ecosystem to build a monetizable business with a moat on top of it. The real moat will be some specific application on top of LLMs
I don't think we know where weights stand legally yet. They may end up being like databases, uncopyrightable.
The accepted proposal does address and preserve `auto`'s use as a storage class, so `auto x = foo(y);` means type deduction based on the return type of `foo`, and `auto int x = 10;` declares an integer with automatic storage duration.
> Besides, no safe is fireproof

lots of high-quality safes are more than capable of surviving a home fire

that doesn't mean paper stored inside is necessarily retrievable, but metal objects like gold or firearms would definitely be fine

some examples

https://www.sturdysafe.com/pages/gun-safes-survive-house-fir...
C++ had this forever (I assume), but for C this would be a breaking change which we try very hard to avoid.
Interesting, I hadn't realised...

So in standard c, all function prototypes and definitions must always appear at toplevel?
The question I'd love to be able to ask the author is how, in fact, this is different from search. Google successfully built a moat around that, but one can argue, too, that it should not have been long-lived. True, there was the secrete page-rank sauce, but sooner or later everyone had that. Other corporations could crawl anything and index whatever at any cost (i.e. Bing), yet search, which is in some sense also a commodity heavily reliant on models trained partly on user input, is what underpins Google's success. What about that problem allowed it to successfully defend it for so long, and why can't you weave a narrative that something like that might, too, exist for generative AI?
Everything run and controlled by exactly one major company. Not so much open source, as faux-pen source.
Max(X% net worth, Y% Income, Z% taxable income)

Fixed.
>If you don't like it, just don't buy cars whose performance is artificially limited. Let the market decide the issue.

You are unfortunately one of the apologetic quote, "dickfucks", endquote the parent was referring too. When all players eventually do this, where will you got to buy?

There is no more free market left in the auto industry after a century of consolidations. We're at the mercy of a few giant automakers who own the entire market and make the rules in their flavor. The current greed-flation is another nail in the coffin of the "free market competition benefits the consumer" trope.

If we had left everything to the so called "free market" our food would have still contained lead, mercury and arsenic. That's why governments need to step in and regulate some things in flavor of the consumer because we can't expect the corporations to do it themselves through "free market" competition, as it's much easy and profitable for them to form rent-seeking cartels and work against us that compete for us.

It seems all lessons from the past have been forgotten.
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Which I agreed with you is a reasonable stance. To quote myself:

> Ii is, because it inspired both the Smalltalk branch and the more mainstream OO languages, and hence it makes sense to consider it as a possible ur-language in that sense.

I then went on to argue simply that because Smalltalk is at the root of a significant branch, I wouldn't have an issue with considering that an ur-language if one considers that branch important enough and/or consider message passing and late binding to be essential for a language to be object oriented, as opposed to having some object oriented features.

But I went on to again agree with you:

> I agree with you that Simula at least on the surface will seem more familiar to people familiar with ALGOL-derived languages with OO mechanisms than to Smalltalk.

To sum it up: I've argued that a reasonable case can be made either for Simula or Smalltalk depending on how you define OO, but that no well established definition of OO would make Self a reasonable candidate.
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The worry about whether it's stable enough is valid but bitcoin asics are long term.
My understanding was that most of the current research effort was towards trimming and/or producing smaller models with power of larger models, is that not true?
This is why I don't subscribe to Sirius XM even though it's built into both of my car stereos. They have no way of cancelling online and there's no way I'm playing phone tag with a company to stop them charging my credit card, I'll put it off and forget about it. Every time a Sirius XM sales person calls me I tell them the same thing. Maybe if more people made this a deal breaker for them companies would change.
> someone decides the latest LLM du jour is "woke".

This would be an argument against giving the big players a regulatory moat monopoly. The zeitgeist would have to decide that LLMs are all inherently woke for this to be persuasive to GOP voters, in my estimation.
We don't know what legal protection a bunch of weights have. They may not be copyrightable.
I am still absolutely baffled that people think weights are copyrightable and hence licensable.

There is no reason to believe they are, which means any restriction placed on the weights themselves is bullshit.
% of what lol
> Your strawman is ridiculous, and you should feel bad.

I'm pretty sure that this kind of statement is against the site guidelines. Take this kind of posting somewhere else.

The rest of your post was OK. Why include this paragraph?
You are making an assumption that seems very strange to me - that the license matters for important use cases. It doesn't. Access to the technology is the only important factor, because nothing interesting about AI involves commercialising anything. It's a tool and now people have it. Whether they can make a company out of it is so far down the list of how it could make a difference that it doesn't even register.
Even if he was "at fault" (in terms of being the individual policy decider), it doesn't really bother me as he was one of the people chosen by the leadership to communicate and make difficult decisions.

We should always be so lucky to have highly intelligent, compassionate, hard-working individuals helping our government. These folks have to make difficult decisions in ambiguous situations with many constraints (such as the abysmal state of the health care system in the US). I can't imagine that you could fire Fauci and end up with somebody who magically would have changed all the parameters that affected the US during COVID.
I don't think it's off-topic at all. I appreciate these comments so I know which companies to avoid wasting time on.

If someone else doesn't want to read it, they can simply minimize the thread.
Creatures Inc. has been involved with Pokemon since the beginning, prior to the introduction of the card game. Their name is present on the boxes, carts and in game of the original 1.0 release of Pokemon Red and Green in 1996. I believe they helped out with some of the development a few months before Red/Green went out the door.