skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There’s a lot to unpack, this is from my perspective doing work in advertising innovations for these customers on social media.

Snap’s biggest problem is it’s a crummy place to work with too many… let’s say personalities that are not commensurate to what they deliver. Same could be said of Amazon, though they have a far higher revenue ad product than Snap ever had, so shows how much those two are related.

To this specific quote: Generative AI meaning image generators are anticipated to replace creative agencies for display ads.

They are not good ads right now. Mondelez and Unilever who are trying this for example have not found a big breakthrough. Part of this is that neither of the two latent diffusion models create sufficiently creative creatives. You need programmers with art backgrounds to master these and the brands have neither of these. They’re super rare generally, you cannot just pull them out of the professional recruiting pool, and they most definitely do not want to work for brands or Snap.

However the appeal is in the race to the bottom costs. Hard to compete with “free.”

These AR experiences still require opinionated creative development which Snap, its agencies and the brands lack. So that’s really what ARES in particular failed.

The product people want is “Ads people like.” That’s expensive to make, which is the opposite of the incentives for creative production in the ecosystem.

That said I have found success creating and supporting interactive, instant streaming games as branded destinations for Meta and TikTok. Try the one I made for Hyundai: https://appmana.com/watch/virtualtestdrive - tap drive and see for yourself. This isn’t meant to be self promotion so much to prove that I dogfood my opinions into a proven, factual reality. You can see more at AppMana.com for huge brands like Nike, VISA, etc.

The AR experiences people make are too “2D” IMO; also they are not that fun. They might hit 15s of engagement on average, and most of that is spent loading, so it’s kind of a fake number compared to that virtual test drive which has instant loading and average engagement measure in minutes at million-visitor scales. Video ads have a median zero watch time and mean of 2.1s so there’s lot of opportunities for “marginally” better. Ultimately it comes down to costs.
I think expires is just a signal for a feature that should "potentially" be removed. I believe it's a good way to focus on the ones you should pay attention to. But, it might be cool if you could say "Yes, I know, please extend this for another period" (or do not notify me again for another month)
> YAML is a JSON superset

On the sense that any JSON file is a valid YAML file.

But absolutely not in the sense that you can just treat your json file as YAML and expect it to contain the correct data.
Note that the name "Y Combinator" was intended to appeal to a specific kind of hacker. A kind that was likely interested in functional programming, Lisp, and Paul Graham. Which was to say the kind of person that Paul Graham wished to convince to start startups with Y Combinator.

And Hacker News was started as a discussion site to attract that kind of person here to where they would all become aware of each other, aware of Y Combinator, and aware of the opportunities to have from starting startups.

The community of people here expanded out from that core. But category theory is pretty close to that original core, and so it isn't a surprise that it gets more attention here than elsewhere.
No need to call me names for providing evidence that supports my opinion that humans aren't doing a damn thing to change the climate for good or bad. If you disagree that's fine. I find Milankovitch cycles and catastrophic events explain enough historical climate change that I can use it as a baseline for what to expect in the future. The climate has changed drastically over millennia without any human influence. It is irrational hubris to look at the small slice of time since industrialization and say "aha, we did something different and the ice is melting it must be our fault". The ice was already melting at an unknown rate. Saying we caused it is a post hoc rationalization. I do not ascribe to the belief that humans are a scourge on the planet and we should do everything we can to undo our sins of using energy to improve the lives of billions of people globally. Since the start of the industrial revolution humans have raised atmospheric CO2 from 280ppm to 410ppm. A change in atmospheric fraction of CO2 from 0.028% to 0.041%. Plants require 150ppm CO2 to survive and grow significantly better in concentrations around 1000ppm. This is why greenhouses increase CO2 levels inside. Higher atmospheric CO2 means more plants to photosynthesize it. The argument for human caused climate change and that we must do something about the changing climate is simply unconvincing to me. If you are worried about CO2 emissions we are improving on that front by using cleaner fuels like natural gas instead of coal. If we used nuclear we could reduce CO2 emissions even further.
An iPhone can easily last twice as long if you treat it well, at least as far as the hardware is concerned.
It's relative to sea level. After transition altitude (18k feet in most places) the pressure setting to the altimeter is changed to standard (iirc 1013 hPa) so all aircrafts are in the same reference regardless of terrain.
Not terribly negative, but yeah I always assumed it was cheap for a reason. I think I'd probably do a 1-2 hour flight on spirit if it was a good deal. Past that I'll spend a little money for a more comfortable flight... Guess I could also just bring a cushion on board with me lol
Cutting expenses doesn't really put in perspective. Head count was cut by over 80%. Everything was switched to austerity mode.

These are not minimum wage workers, these are thousands of people who on average got payed more than the president.

Beyond that, we also have twitter blue. I'm guessing they have crossed one million by now. Thats bordering $100m ARR.

Then there is the advertising revenue, Twitter made $5 billion in revenue with a total loss of 220m. Even if advertising was cut by half, thats still $2.5B in income.

Honestly I'm surprised they are not profitable now, let alone next year.
Japan’s silent movie culture is still going
> Enterprise leadership seems to constantly be chasing buzzwords and silver bullet solutions that don't pan out. I've seen it time and again.

This is what gets them stocks and promotions. Doing the "right thing" is much harder and requires them to understand internals of systems before making a call. They'd much rather point to the buzzword of the day as the "next big" corporate initiative.
Epic Games Cutting 870 Jobs, 16 Percent of Its Workforce
Riiight...
I found https://www.nasa.gov/goddard/2023/webb-discovers-methane-car...

which says that K2-18b is 120 light years away, in the Leo constellation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_(constellation)

Also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K2-18b
In maths though there was some fluctuation. Mathematics in Roman times saw a decline, and in medieval times a complete breakdown (at least in Europe). If we take Euclid to be the bar for a first-rate mathematician, then there were none in medieval times, but later there appeared Gauss, Newton, Leibniz, Euler, Galois etc. I’m also not sure if today anyone clears the bar for Hilbert-level genius. So I don’t think the bar for “top 10 today” keeps going up. From time to time it goes down.
I genuinely think it's because of people trying to understand WTF a monad is.
If I ‘flex my ear’ (the tensor tympani [0]) I can make the noise cancellation produce a mic feedback ringing sound.

[0] https://www.sciencealert.com/some-people-can-make-a-roaring-...
The software engineers working on the best projects don't follow "scrum" frameworks. Where are the story velocity ticket points in Linux kernel development?
On one of the earlier flights with wifi, I found that my Google docs were saving correctly even though I didn't pay for the wifi upcharge. The router wasn't blocking those ports. It seems like this has changed recently. Too bad.
> "airspeed": null

[nervously looks out window]
This should be banned everywhere.
Musk dogs unite, I guess
To add to this, Japan is increasingly viewed as a harbinger for much of the Western world.

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34486824
> When I was younger, Progressives were striving for color-blindness

Now that that ground is conquered and secured, it is time for new conquests.
The best thing to do is go on walks. Walking and getting your heart rate up to 120-ish not only is shown to help slow or stop the progression of Aatherosclerosis, it also helps prevent clots from forming in your legs and causing serious issues elsewhere. The only other advice is to avoid excess in your diet.
Is there a universal remote desktop protocol, that works both for windows and linux?
$15.99 for 1x https://www.amazon.com/Works-Portable-Emergency-Re-Charger-B...

$10.49 + $5.16 shipping ($15.65) for 5x https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256805076529896.html?spm=a2g...

$1.50 + $2.59 shipping ($4.09) for 1x https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256803289357326.html?spm=a2g...

Literally the exact same thing.

I tend to use AliExpress for small electronic doodads and things like battery boxes. I'm not some AliExpress wizard, but I don't think the shipping is fixed per item (and I'm usually ordering several) and I think sometimes they batch orders together (which may lower the shipping price?). I don't know how to get a breakdown of the shipping cost I actually paid, which is one of the things that annoys me about the site.
Would you continue to choose the fairphone 3 if parts were readily available? It seems that the modularity/repairability reduces reliability relative to the iPhone.

My iPhone mini 13 is a tank possibly even more than the Nokias that I've had.
And they didn't know these things six months ago? No. They tried something, and it failed, and they don't want to say that.
Beautiful though I'm sure it is, I can't help but wonder how your comment stumbled into this thread. ;-)
There isn’t a production studio on the planet that owns the rights to what you shoot when you aren’t explicitly shooting for them. Independent contractors or not. Their teaching you and providing employment is immaterial. Hell even if they use company hardware as long as they get permission.

If i go joyride behind the company’s back sure, there’s a discussion potentially because i violated the rules and jacked company property. But even then…hardly legally enforceable to claim they own the rights and not super applicable since it depends on someone effectively stealing gear to shoot.
... I mean, it could be in nautical miles, no?
Winklevoss twins secretely withdrew $280M in assets before crypto firm collapsed
this shows how lethal are humans with their "swimming pools", that's more my thought, not just directly with that water but all the plastic, energy and resources wasted

I truely love flies, many beautiful species in trees, extremely useful and evolved insect
"Doing exclusive deals to lock out competitors is our move!"
> the AI vomit

You don't need to use such biased language, it only hurts your argument
in my opinion the only thing a debate proves is who is a better debater. Debates can turn on bon mot that sounds true but doesn't stand up to careful, measured thought.

I think of debates as more like a verbal pugilism or jousting, verbal violence for the amusement of the spectators.

I think in the end, if a debate changes your mind, you hadn't thought deeply about the issue discussed.
If they as a culture are no longer willing or able to reproduce, this means they have had their time under the sun. This technology is evil and will lead to immense evil. It is an abomination.
You can't currently create a human being via the old-fashioned method and (legally, in post places) force them to be any of those things.

There's no reason creating a human being via a new method should suddenly flip the rules and allow it.
And to be fair, those phones quickly got to the point where the flap over the USB port would break or not seal. And the back would get loose, because Samsung ruined the OS so it needed frequent battery removed reboots. And the finger print sensor wouldn't work if your finger had been near water in the last 12 hours. So it had constant warnings about the above.

The S8 I had was the low point of Android ownership for me.
I think TOML is a great format. Almost self documenting, easy to understand, less foot Gün’s for the uninitiated and the best is it’s based on INI format, but it’s smarter.

If you think you need to serialize something more complex, use XML. It might look ugly, but it’s very powerful, can be verified on many levels and has a mature ecosystem.

“Cooler” doesn’t always mean better, especially for bigger data. Neither YAML, nor JSON scales to that sizes while being readable and easy to maintain.
They are in Romania. Good design, guys !
precursor to FTC stuff
Thank you ... much appreciated.
It's a shame that this never got implemented, and now with the enshittification of copyright and "IP", it'll never happen.

The main feature was caching everything, and being able to make a copy of the "path" through things, along with a local copy of everything, in a nice exportable format, for your friends and colleagues.

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Also, the fact that HTML does not allow you to mark up hypertext in a sane manner, doesn't help the picture. You can take a paper document, and add all manner of markup to it, without needing to alter the original source. Why can't we do the same with hypertext?
I don't know why he'd say that, when he ended the talk literally saying it's the best way to govern a multi-racial society and that we should use it right now as much as possible.
Then these exclusivity deals should not be allowed!

In terms of making users choose an engine on their new phone ... a good UX to achieve this is by forcing them to choose once they do their first search whether via an AI assistant, web browser or etc... just show a bunch icons for a bunch of search engines to choose from. They are listed alphabetically.
+1 on Orbstack! def been a huge difference from the desktop client, and supports K8s too
> We know with certainty that IVF is gravely immoral.

Why?
xip.io was indeed useful. nip.io seems to still work.

Isn't the main useful aspect that you can do xyz.1.2.3.4.backname.io where xyz is anything you want? Perhaps you set this up anyway, but would be worth mentioning.
Thank you ... I very much appreciate that.
> Ummm.... Awful code that often looks right at first glance, maybe.

> Maybe LLMs can generate the kind of code that's really shallow in its complexity, but for literally everything I would call interesting LLMs have produced hot garbage. From "it doesn't quite do what I want" to "it couldn't possibly work and it's extremely far from being sane," though it always looks reasonable.

None of this has any bearing.
Sex isn't recreational. But having said that, this is true of the West as well. So-called "casual sex" (again, does not exist), sleeping around, etc. is occurring at lower rates today than in the past. People are instead becoming porn-addicted shut-ins unable to have any sexual relations, let alone a healthy sexual relationship.
> Assuming any image or audio stream is available on the internet (not true but very close), you can have a super large compression by replacing the media by their url.

That reminds me of the "Dropship" utility: to save server storage and reduce file upload time, Dropbox used to deduplicate uploaded files globally in a way that files would have the same hash regardless of who uploaded them. Anyone who knew the hash of an uploaded file could download it to their Dropbox folder, so people could share large files by just sharing the Dropbox hash.

http://paranoia.dubfire.net/2011/04/how-dropbox-sacrifices-u...
How long until rich people start making their own clones for limb / organ / whole body transplantation?
I'm stuck at when doing pip install.

NotADirectoryError: [Errno 20] Not a directory: 'hipconfig'
So so surprised that nobody has found out the hack for free wifi on alaska flights. (At risk of losing awesome free wifi)

1. Open browser with iOS user agent and ios sized h/w.
2. Click on t-mobile free wifi link
3. Enter _any_ t mobile number you may know.
Don't take it personally. A lot of companies (and especially a lot of startups) don't have a lot of experience hiring/managing people and is sorta shows.
> accuses Google of paying $10 billion annually to wireless carriers and smartphone makers to ensure that Google search is the default on their devices

> Bing was not the default installed in any Android or Apple smartphone sold in the U.S. in the past decade, even though Microsoft would at times offer to give more than 100% of revenue -- or more -- to its partner

So they're mad that Google paid a bunch of money to keep them from being the default because they wanted to pay a bunch of money to keep everyone else from being the default, but Google had more money than them?

Cry me a river. Lol.

I switched to Edge and Bing when Edge started using Chromium. I used it for over a year, maybe two and had to switch away because Microsoft couldn't stop jamming stuff in my face and adding useless features.

Microsoft needs to reflect on how they're treating users instead of trying to find a scapegoat for their failures. They're not some little startup getting disenfranchised by an anti-competitive bully. They are an anti-competitive bully that failed to compete against someone on equal footing.
I suppose I can grant "feels a bit like", but unless I'm missing something (and to be fair I have not rtfa...) it hasn't actually reached refutation. The observation that there is enough information to determine grammar rules in the training set for an LLM is only very weak evidence that there is also enough information in the much smaller training set for a typical human.
And of course: http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com and https://perfectmotherfuckingwebsite.com
It might be a good solution to infertility; but since infertility is not the main cause of dwindling population, artificial babies probably won't be effective in solving the general population crisis.

People who don't want to raise kids probably also wouldn't want to raise artificial kids.

If the kids are put in state's care, well, current society can't take good care of existing orphans. How are we going to handle more parent-less kids?
But apple can ban other stores in it's store. They can say 'we made platform open to sideloading, you can even sideload other stores' in combo with several warnings that sideloading is dangerous when a user attempts to do it. This can guarantee that apps will stay inside appstore bc it will be too hard for users otherwise
Google Ending Support for Jamboard
This is what really gets me about loan forgiveness.

I'd be in favor if it was only for people who pursue certain degrees that we need. But going to party schools? Going for the cliche "underwater basket weaving" degree? The money being funneled into building a new pool and rock climbing wall for one of the dorms?

No, no, and no!
>There is no risk here that we might be doing something wrong using IVF. We know with certainty that IVF is gravely immoral.

Sorry but... what? What about that is immoral, or... even questionable?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_T%C3%A9n%C3%A9r%C3%A9
An author of this report made that commit. It's good to see work like this.
I understand what you're saying. I was just stating my practical experience. I'm not arguing anything here. My eyes are healing with visible and measured improvement, and I cannot care less about which theory matches reality, or what any theory out there says about what should and shouldn't happen.
Could a distributed decompressor be valid? I. e. something like bittorrent that provides a DHT for known files.
We have already had these throughout history without this technology! Humans are humans no matter what they look like or how they got here and we have to treat us all equally and with respect - that’s the solution to those problems.
There is none

Many people call it code gen, I would wager that it is at least a plurality that use "code gen" for what LLMs do.
Yes, I may be in favor of loan forgiveness if it was for appropriate degrees that the nation actually needs.
So what fraction of dissenters are allowed before the universal code ceases to be universal?
Unlimited thirst for conquest was the undoing of many - Napoleon, for example. Just saying.
PED: Performance Enhancing Drug
They could! They'd have to also change how faculty review and tenure work, to incentivize faculty to publish in alternative open access journals instead of the top (paywalled) journals in their field. Otherwise, faculty will continue publishing with the for-profit publishers even if there's alternatives available.
My experience as well. Heavy GPT-4 use (for a variety of things). Great for boilerplate, great for retrieving well-known examples from documentation, saves a fair amount of time typing and googling, but often completely wrong (majorly and subtly) and anything non-trivial I have to do myself.

Great tool! Saves a ton of time! Not a dev replacement (yet)
You can always buy one at any station and at most kiosks; even pay with cash!
Gavin Belson: "I don't know about you people, but I don't want to live in a world where someone else makes the world a better place better than we do."
> "We were just big enough to play but not big enough to win," Tinter said.

I don't think you're supposed to say this bit out loud are you?

Microsoft are just upset that they aren't the ones with the monopoly.
I typically just praise with upvotes, but I’m feeling grateful today: anecdotes like this one and gp are why I love hn
Yes — the point of a debate is to enable people to think more deeply.

Do you think there is any point to reading or writing?

By your reasoning, reading and writing are just verbal jousting and if reading or writing make any difference in your life then that is an indication that you really should have just thought more deeply to begin with.
Only if you think in absolutes. We shouldn't; we should view the issue in birdview, pragmatically with all pros and cons. The people for whom 3.5mm is a dealbreaker are loud, but seem rather minor if we look at the general market.
Clearly a reference to defining integers in the lambda calculus.
Well you have to make it useful obviously. Keep an open mind!
The one thing that I don't understand: for a company that claims to be so focused on protecting the environment, why couldn't they take from the frame.work laptop playbook and commit to 1-2 form factors and just work on releasing new modules independently?

I have the Fairphone 3 and I know that if I take care of it properly I wouldn't need to upgrade the display, but I would like perhaps a new camera if a module with a better sensor came along. If their software support is limited by the SoC they are using, perhaps I would be interested in upgrading the main board, but I could keep everything else after the 7-8 years.

Instead, they are expecting me to hold out for this phone as long as possible and then upgrade to whatever they are selling 5 years from now. Not only this will not happen (as I do not want a phone that does not have a headphone jack), this will basically condemn this phone to the same pile of obsolete-phones-with-perfectly-serviceable-displays-and-cameras that I have on my desk drawer.
>> We know with certainty that IVF is gravely immoral.

Can you expand? Are you making the claim that normal ivf is either immoral or illicit? Based on religious grounds, or actual discussable morality?

There are many ethical discussions to be had about research and potential genetic manipulation, but I'm not aware of any general "we" that believes IVF is immoral, other than orthodoxly religious. I'm eager to be enlightened otherwise!