skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What's next? Microsoft RHEL!?

Why not? Not like MSFT and IBM haven't gone to war over operating systems before.
In theory someone like stub hub could operate as a super scalper by buying all tickets and creating scarcity. Alternately, they are simply trying to create liquidity in the ticket market by buying tickets today to resell tomorrow.
Context for the uninitiated

http://bash.org/?244321
There are a lot more jobs for programmers than musicians, at higher median pay (but a lower mean, because the pay for musicians is much more concentrated in a small cadre of very high earners.)

Very different markets.

https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes272042.htm

https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes151251.htm
One of the hooks of the PS3 architecture was that it sported a core count greater than 2 in consumer hardware (albeit as a very simplified core).

Rumours about Intel Larrabee were also flying around at the time, so it seemed like the future was here.
For what it's worth I have a few Signal group chats going. We had our video call to talk to the owners (we're moving to the Netherlands from Ireland) over Signal and it worked well, but that was on a strong wifi connection
how does inngest compare to temporal?
I think we're in for an era of a more social networks with distinct cohorts that want to do things in their own way, not necessarily prescribe to established norms for web communities.

Mastodon might have had slow growth but it definitely is a community. It's going to operate differently. It won't scale fast or make big ad revenue money. That's okay. That's great, actually.

Threads is _clearly_ a Hail Mary play to extract as much ad rev as possible from Meta's most engaged social network, Instagram, by putting those same users in a new space and hope they have enough juice to keep each other occupied long enough to justify the CPM.
The US government has fallen so far from the days of Jimmy Carter selling his peanut farm to avoid any conflict of interest to people being okay with aids to supreme court justices being given envelopes full of money.

Decades of partisan politics really does have cool effects on a nation state
From an ethical society stand point, yes. In the US, we agreed that we need to support everyone’s children and so we pay taxes so other people’s children can attend school.

If you refuse to help other people’s children get an education, you’re evading taxes and that is unethical.
The simple case is simple, but anything beyond that can get challenging. Some examples:

Multi-step functions. This requires chained jobs, and your dependencies get messy. Operating this kind of sucks. Change management here is hard. It's much easier and faster to write a single function using Inngest; basically any engineer can do it without learning infrastructure.

Absence of events/activity (eg. when a user adds a product to the cart, send an email if they don't check out). You need to start writing crons and depending on implicit state that occurs within your DB. I've done this; it becomes really buggy. Much nicer to do `step.waitForEvent` in procedural code.

Fan-out (eg. when a user signs up, add them to Stripe, intercom, etc, or mass ecommerce imports). You can definitely handle this with individual jobs, though this starts to stack up and then monitoring is overblown.

Retries and dead-letter queues. It's much easier to replay functions en-mass, or replay events that have failed, without worrying about dead-letter-queues and redrives.

Config generally sucks. You can manage concurrency, backpressure, etc. yourself, alongside managing the infra, but that's no fun. Or, you can use some existing queues and then manage cloudformation, terraform, infrastructure code, DLQ config, etc. yourself too.

Batching is annoying to build. I'm not sure how you'd batch high-volume events or jobs in Dramatiq. Maybe you can add your own observability, deploy new workers, and try to avoid batching — deal with that yourself?

There's more, too. Rate limiting, concurrency controls (eg. per user, not per job), branch deploys/preview environments/staging envs, are all pretty frustrating and require infra investment.

As with anything, handling the initial case is pretty easy but quickly gets hard.
The most popular stack will always be the preferred target of malware.

Seriously, if another platform would hold 90% of the juice, you realy think it would not be the victim of malware by a long shot?

FwIW, I used to be a front line malware eradicater in the 80's , the prime target back then were Apple Mac's on uni computer classrooms.
I agree, but those cases are VERY LIMITED. They would have to be something where the slowness and clunkiness of a blockchain is worth it. Anything private and small? Blockchains are stupid there.
"Our team is led by Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX."

the same Elon Musk who dropped 44bn on Twitter and fought like a child to weasel out of the sale for almost six months? You mean that same sink-dragging guy who fired everyone once he took over at Twitter, locked everyone out of the office, and unbanned Andrew Tate and Kanye West?

People still let this guy "lead" anything?
An ad would have to be a post to get into the metaverse, and for it to be pulled in someone would have to be following the account that posted it.
The idea is that you would subscribe to hashtags to see what people talk about. Or you can go in "Local"/"Federated" and you see what people talk about in your instance or within their network. But it's all chronological, there's indeed no algo to tell you who to follow (Twitter used to be like that, you'd show up to an empty feed basically)

Not sure why it is that slow, might be the server? Mine is quite fast and followed the WWDC keynote in real time with sometimes dozens of toots a minute
OpenAI’s DALL-E will train on Shutterstock’s library for six more years
I think most problem could be solved, if VBA would not have any access outside of the document.
Minor frustration -- I'm reading the directions to install, but when I focus out (to update my VSCode settings as instructed), the screen goes into low contrast, making it harder to read the directions.
You’re saying there’s no structural issue, only individual bad actors in this moment in time. Weird

edit Oh yea agreed that the structure exists as individuals enacting it
Rendering Rich Responses from LLMs
A blog post overviewing how https://github.com/skovy/llm-markdown was built with some of the technical details, packages, etc.
> https://lemmy.world/post/1232070

The image they're looking for is on Wayback machine, if that's helpful: https://web.archive.org/web/20230614091556/https://vlemmy.ne...
Well, the problem is that there are really many different markets for Windows. If my major use of Machine123 is to play old games, of course I'm going to be unhappy when Microsoft compromises my ability to do that. For that use, it might be better to lock down the OS in other ways (i.e., no internet).

The users were sold Windows as a solution to doing a wide variety of things. Now those things are getting compromised. They are not wrong that it was oversold.
> How realistic is this for regular users? And even power users, in some cases. Let's say you download the install script. It's either hundreds of lines or it in turn downloads and runs some blob. Are you comfortable asserting your review is enough?

> Is this truly so different to clicking on some random Windows installer?

Yes, because you literally can't look in a random Windows installer (or, at least, it's not made to allow you to do so). It's true that many users won't have the competence to read and understand source code, but … it seems like that may be a genuinely unsolvable problem (if you want powerful software to be available to non-dev users); I don't know much about my car, but I could, and, when it is genuine complexity making understanding difficult rather than intentional black-boxing and obfuscation, I don't blame that on the car manufacturer.
“Sean Connery” also misread it on a SNL Celebrity Jeopardy spoof.
Good memory, x.ai indeed was a calendar bot in place of a virtual assistant before chatbots were a thing.
It has been the collective goal of the many fields of science, throughout the history of humankind, to understand the true nature of the universe.

There's something that feels incredibly ostentatious about the opening sentence "The goal of xAI is to understand the true nature of the universe.". Not because I think it's a bad goal, or a goal that no company can claim, but because of the broader context around AI and Musk's antics.

I'm genuinely curious to see what comes out of this, but it also gives me the same queasy feeling in my gut that I got when looking at various crypto initiatives over the years.

I don't doubt that there are incredibly smart people getting involved. It's just a bit difficult to take it seriously. I hope to be proven wrong.
Not only is the relevance to hacker news dubious at best. The article itself makes a statements with no supporting evidence not even bad evidence. The author is demonstrating the exact narcissistic and toxic traits of putting out sensationalism and just having an accepted without question due to the fact that saying "violence is pervasive" is shocking. Because the underlying premise is if you question someone you are committing violence by asking them to substantiate their claims.

Even your repeated statements of, mass shootings, while not trying to downplay any shooting, are media hype. Because you can go and review the crime statistics data and see what has increased is the media presence not the actual criminal activity. By every conceivable measure the United States does not have a pervasive violence problem unless you include verbal disagreements. Because with the rise of narcissism it has become the norm to say you have committed violence if you choose to misgender someone, as one popular recent example. That's not violence that's just being an asshole.
It only loops if you modify the string in certain ways partway through the loop. Is that a significant problem? As soon as you stop your indefinite loop of race-condition writes, this loop is guaranteed to finish.
Commodity small mastodon instance hosting is modestly priced, compared to large org budgets

https://masto.host/pricing/
Yeah, I'm not going anywhere near this. Musk had the world beating a path to his door, until he outed himself as a petulant man-child and a fascist.
Ask HN: New business models leveraging AI
I am a big fan of "The Innovator's Dilemma". It took me about 1 decade to actually "get it". And I am also old enough to have experienced how the internet has changed the world.

I am now looking at the business landscape trying to figure out what new business models are emerging from AI(s), but so far I don't see any. Nor I can think of any either.

HN: What is that you see? What is that you forecast? What are you working on? What are you experimenting with?
To pose a question to think about: what inflation are we talking about exactly?

Short term inflation (usually horizon of less than 18 months) can significantly increase due to demand outstripping supply, absolutely. Market efficiency though, should cause rapid normalization and eventually prices will fall due to competition, at least in a healthy functioning market economy (that's another debate).

That said, I'm considering what drives long term inflation, which extends beyond an 18 month horizon. We're approaching year 3 of dramatically increasing inflation across the board, and one of the only mechanisms we have at that point is driving up the cost of new money and allowing that to ripple across the economy. So much of our economic system is centrally based around borrowing, whether its cars, homes, business expansion etc. These decisions are in part, driven by cost. When the cost of borrowing is lower, its easier to spend higher sums and drive long term inflation. It also lends people to seek greater and greater returns with "cheap money", driving these boom bust cycles.

My general argument is long term inflation is driven by cheap money, and short term inflation that may be caused by government assistance is just that - short term, and measurable, and should, in a functioning market, normalize itself away.

tl;dr, demand side inflation naturally curbs since high demand outstripping supply will natural raise prices to an equilibrium, and bring them back down as it cools off, supply side inflation is more opaque in reality, esp. when it comes to controlling borrowing costs (IE, creating new money)
It's not that you omitted nuance, it's that your basic premise - "cash assistance to the poor generally does not drive inflation in any meaningful way, because the cash used is extracted via taxation in the first place, its, quite literally, shifting money around" - is fundamentally incorrect, and goes against both economic theory, and lived experience over the last few years post COVID.

> Its false equivalency to think cash assistance and many other forms of social welfare drives inflation more broadly, in the general case.

This is also probably why you're getting down voted - it's just wrong

1. taxation, either explicit or implicit through interest rate manipulation, doesn't impact monetary supply at the scale we're talking about here. It impacts the cost of, and therefore the availability of capital.

2. cash assistance to the poor isn't a simple "take $100 from Peter and give it to Paul" transaction. It transforms capital (what taxes impact) into money. This is a weird distinction, but capital isn't money. Think of it as two separate streams - there's a fictionalized capital stream of stock markets etc, and a "real world" money stream that interacts with good and services.

3. Cash assistance to the poor directly drives inflation because the demand for goods is decoupled from reality. By giving cash to the poor, you generate increased demand for the same amount of goods and services. This is econ 101 - demand goes up, prices go up. Because the monetary supply has been manipulated by injections from capital, this demand is decoupled from the cycles that would tamp it down.

Let me repeat that: a sudden increase in demand, coupled with more money in the system, decouples prices from the systems that keep them in place and drives inflation.

If you'd like an object lesson in this, I'd refer you to the past 3 years of experimentation with wealth transfers in the US, and the current inflation as a result of that.

Edit to add - I make no moral statements here. I think that cash assistance to the poor _is_ generally the least bad option of government assistance; however, we should be clear eyed about the costs of these actions, and not hand wave them away, only to be shocked, shocked, shocked, when those costs come due.
> Commercial success is due to marketing, distribution and luck.

But we're back here. I still disagree with this, it's a poor analysis of what's actually happening.

In music, commercial success, more than any other factor, comes from making music that is liked by large numbers of people.

If you can make music like that you'll probably have commercial success.
Just to confirm my understanding; would you consider at least part of your product offering to be similar to temporal.io [1]? Your examples are reminiscent of theirs.
[1] https://temporal.io/
I like the affectations. It shows other users that noting something of relevance is good user behavior. "Is your comment actually worth noting??" is a good consideration to keep HN high quality. Some users will misuse it but that's very transparent so I believe it's worth mentioning when you believe something is worth mentioning (haha)
> The goal of xAI is to understand the true nature of the universe.

Who wants to bet it's going to end up launching a "me too" generative AI product.

Maybe Musk should first take these skills to Tesla's self driving division then worry about the rest of the universe.
An interesting take awhile back on this exact issue: https://jbconsulting.substack.com/p/on-shelter-futures-part-....

The fear (now largely realized) is that increasing interest rates mechanistically drive up inflation (because of how the price index is calculated in Canada), which the Bank of Canada combats by...raising interest rates.

Includes a good discussion of just how potentially screwed the housing market is.

(Also an interesting example of a market where "prices expand to fill the available money", which I have a hunch is a good indicator of a supply-constrained market).
This was a fun read I stumbled upon a while back:
https://web.archive.org/web/20210205014443/https://meanderfu...
Increasing rates affects people with debt -- mortgage holders mainly, as personal loans are fixed for the life of the loan. We see calls to limit the wages of those working people as if it's their income driving commodity prices up.

However we see both minimum wage and pensions increasing 10%+. Now sure those on minimum wage will spend it on something frivolous like food, but those on indexed linked pensions, who already pay far less tax per pound received than a working person, have even more money to spend.

Roll NI into Income tax, it will raise money spent and take it from those who actually have money to spare and are thus driving inflation by created demand where supply can't keep up. Throw in a land value tax to encourage people to utilise land better and thus reduce the cost of housing, and pretty much remove the planning system anywhere within 2 miles of a station with a <60 minute service to a major city.
> investors are just buying housing with cash

That seems unlikely. Investors are, if anything, the most rate-sensitive, both in terms of borrowing costs and opportunity costs (they will move their cash out of housing and into bonds, if the bond yield is higher than what they'll earn on rent and price appreciation). Ordinary residents will buy even at the peak, risking loss, because they need a place to live, but investors don't buy housing because they need it. They can't rely on other investors being the bigger fool, and so in a rising-rate environment they either buy if they can raise rents high enough, or else they will put their cash elsewhere.
> The goal of xAI is to understand the true nature of the universe.

That is.. a bit vague ? What is the purpose, and what does it have to do with AI ?

Why launch such a teaser without announcing the (actual) goal ?

They cannot really think that they will be able to understand "the true nature of the universe" ?
The goal of xAI is to understand the true nature of the universe.
Check out their podcast too.

https://signalsandthreads.com/
> In 2006 the total debt from student loans was less than $500 billion. Today it's $1.7 trillion. That's a huge chunk of money which is going to have meaningful economic effects.

"Meaningful" seems irrefutablely vague, but certainly not "significant". The numbers you point may look big as single sums, but they come out to ~$70B of spending per year. That's noise. It's absolutely not causing "inflation".

Also the numbers fail to show the "recent multiplicative exponential effects" at all. The slope of that curve has been dropping (because of covid, obviously). We issued fewer loans in 2020-22 than we did previously!

Again, it doesn't work. Your conclusion is wrong. You need to revisit your priors about why you're so sure about inflation and student loan assistance.
Is California a country?
Around here, the rising alt is kratom.

Non-alchoholic=yes. Liquorous=no. Sophisticated? I have no idea.
Hard for me to tell — the links all go to Twitter and I don’t have a Twitter account, so I can’t see what’s there.
The article does shoot some shots at "Richy Rich" characters, but I think it's mainly to convince/uplift the reader to stop comparing their own success with other people's success if their upbringings never made it a fair comparison in the first place.

Your worldly achievements and accomplishments in code should not be compared to a version of you who indeed had a secret pile of cash or someone funding them and never had to sacrifice things for their art, who might have achieved more worldly things.
Uh, that isn't evidence? That's speculation on potential future technical advances.

The only things we see self replicate are currently biological systems, and they can only do it under very specific circumstances and usually with a LOT of external help.

Circumstances which do not exist in space, let alone under the variety of environments on just the handful of planets we see in our solar system - except one, of course.

It's a very hard problem, and it isn't clear there is an actual answer that is economic to stick on the end of a rocket, even just to get to the moon. Something that survives 10k+ year journeys to unknown environments, and then does something useful? Even less clear.

Gets there AND then has the level of success necessary to transmit any sort of signal, or propagate itself further? Even less so.

Why we would do it, is also unclear.

Hopefully we'll figure out something that makes it less fantastical at some point - all the things that make it realistic would also help us in many other ways too!
This is the answer. No need to assume a conspiracy among a massive, dispersed group of developers across the country! The issue is zoning and NIMBYism.
I'm a little concerned about the phenomenon I've noticed on the shelves lately which is that every brand seems to be first, putting the ABV content in larger and larger font and a more prominent position on the label with each new offering, and that they are now starting to clock in at doppel and trippel and barley wine levels of alcohol on a regular basis. The number of casual drinking beers that have hit 10% or even 11% ABV which used to be an extremely exotic and limited availability product is insane.

the likes of Delirium tremens are now looking tame by comparison to some of these general market beers i.e. voodoo ranger and raging bitch.
… and a permit is required to hold the property? (I'm curious why people are having permits issued if they have no plan to build)

Is this like domain names?
Do Wizards Pay Taxes?
Can you please share with me some realistic tactical advice how can a bunch of unarmed civilians overthrow the government guarded by ~5 million armed, organized and well paid thugs who are currently on Putin's payroll?
I haven't watched over-the-air OR live TV for more than a decade, except I sometimes watch NBA games live (rarely, though, I like to skip commercials and 1/2 time) on YTTV.
I count a dozen dudes. I don’t think we’re gonna figure out the true nature of the universe via that kind of monocultural uniformity.
Is Europe?
> the Linux security best practices of curl | bash?

You do realize that even this is the same as downloading and running an executable from a website, which is still the norm on Windows, right?
Or Jara Cimrman, if we ignore the serious war background.
They are there too. https://www.government.nl/contact

I think the more pressing thing is that they want to get anyone affected by Twitter, and Mastodon is a similar type of service. I’m sure they’re evaluating Threads as we speak.
They can just turn off the .json endpoints for unauthenticated requests. Their own clients use a non-public GraphQL API that (supposedly, I haven't checked) uses elaborate fingerprinting to stop outside access. When I said "all apps" I should probably have clarified that it's all 3rd-party apps.
If the author is around here, the game has system dark mode detection, but the dark theme is broken.
Canada has an Office of the Privacy Commissioner whose job it is to actively promote privacy rights and respond to complaints about abuses: https://www.priv.gc.ca/en/about-the-opc/
Functions in functional programming have states, the input parameters and return output are states.
Having studied both CS and music, IMO the skill threshold where you can get paid to code is a lot lower than where you can get paid to music (unless you get very, very lucky and get paid to music because of celebrity rather than skill).