skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I froze my credit, I have yet to suffer any meaningful financial damage. As litigious as America is, there typically has to be some sort of financial impact for a lawsuit to be viable.

I don't know what to sue over that would harm them enough to make it worth my time. And I am extremely vindictive about credit bureau bullshit. I don't care if I benefit from the lawsuit, I'd do it purely out of spite if I thought they'd notice.
Hmm. You can find a nice townhouse in downtown Philadelphia for ~$500,000. Same for nice parts of Baltimore, Minneapolis, Pittsburgh, Chicago, DC, and so on.

I mean, NYC and SF and LA are expensive, yes. But there are plenty of great, affordable cities/metros in the US.

So I don't understand the premise of the article. Unless it's only talking about the SF/NYC/LA metro area.
Could this replace quants?
Propping dumbphones up as cool is a whole genre

* https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/26/style/flipping-out.html

* https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/16/magazine/is-a-dumber-phon...

* https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/15/style/teens-social-media....

* https://time.com/3318573/flip-phones-millennials-iphone6/

* https://www.wsj.com/articles/gen-z-flip-phones-might-be-onto...

Enough to make you wonder if someone (Nokia?) is deploying 'the submarine' [0] ?

[0] http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
Tech giant Qualcomm lays off 1,250 employees
Was that before the native Americans from the South Pacific arrived?
Yeah, I suspect it sounded like I was asserting that cars are not sources of privacy concerns. My post was not really trying to assert that. I'm only saying that cars are not even close to the worst place that privacy is lost. Your ISP and the general financial institutions know far more about you than the car can help reveal. (Heck, your purchase history alone is probably more than enough to get a good idea of where and how you have traveled throughout the day.)

To that end, I can fully get behind efforts to protect how information about people is used and stored. I don't know why "in cars" is particularly important to that discussion. Outside of the fact that cars need to be added to the same list of sources that other items are on.

So, yeah, outside of my not seeing cars as a nightmare, we probably fully agree. I don't know what makes the car a nightmare moreso than most anything else out there.
> Go on CivitAI and sort by popular... There is an awful lot of nudity and anime, and SDXL struggles with both

Whether the base model does them well or not, there were (and very quickly after release) far more resources (checkpoints, LoRa, TI) for both for SDXL than the ever were based on the 2.x base models.
- paying for parking in private lots in my area is becoming impossible without a phone app
A world based on planned obsolescence is aligned with minimum cost optimized components.

It is of no interest for a company to just sell you a thing for cheap, not extract some sort of rent from it and for you to not replace it constantly.

In theory a revenue model based on subscription fees is also more aligned with the preservation of the environment and providing the end-user long term quality components, as to extract said rent smoothly and for as long as possible.

That of course assuming those subscriptions cover actual vehicle maintenance (somewhat like Managed Services Provider do for, say, printers), why not? Transportation-as-a-Service seems a very reasonable X-as-a-Service model .
So what I did:

Trying UBports. Got an used phone from this list: https://devices.ubuntu-touch.io (in my case, a Google Nexus 5, bought it 4 years ago, I think - I'd get something newer today) and get a prepaid sim-card without internet.

I do my updates and app installations at home when it connects to my router. Without internet, I never use the browser, don't have chat/social media apps installed. Maps work offline (download the regions you need at home beforehand). Music is stored on the device as well.

If you need an overview of available apps, this is the store available on the phone: https://open-store.io

For app development (I don't do that though) I think this is a good starting point: https://docs.ubports.com/en/latest/appdev/ and probably https://forums.ubports.com/category/35/app-development
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> I don't know why they would pick an early stage startup founder

Further down she uses the example of an NFT artist who you _are_ supposed to feel sorry for - although the topic is an important one, the thinly veiled Marxism of this article trivializes it.
Text to speech models like Whisper are getting good enough that screen readers would stand a chance. The video itself is still more difficult to caption, but the things that would be shared in video are probably being shared with screenshots right now, so it would not be worse.
Totally I would love this feature. Even to the point where you could use reverse incentives. Pay a fee for having fewer apps. Pay for freedom.
Do you know which of the features specifically they wanted to pay for?
Related ongoing thread:

The Thumb Calendar - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37866999 - Oct 2023 (29 comments)
I did the opt-out linked below and the volume of junk mail dropped significantly.

https://consumer.ftc.gov/articles/how-stop-junk-mail
The housing crisis is (in part) a transport crisis.

A city is a technology for optimizing time.

In North America, the car made suburbanization possible. You could live much further out, and still get everywhere you wanted. (Or at least, that was the promise; sometimes not the reality).

In our most desirable cities, we have simply run out of space that can be reasonably traversed by car. At least given our current patterns of land use. We're not running out of land - most of North America is very empty. We're running out of land that's close enough to urban centers that can support the lifestyles we want.

If we had some better methods of transport - flying cars, high speed trains everywhere, who knows - that might be an answer. But that doesn't seem likely any time soon. So we have to rethink land use, or rethink the lifestyles we want.
>why downvotes with no explanation

I'd wager people aren't likely to be as methodical in their analysis of comments' verity on this topic as they might be normally. I thought US politics was polarizing, israel palestine legit seems to drive people to even further extremes
Hitachi: Nuclear plants and sex toys

(https://nuclear.gepower.com/company-info/about-ge-hitachi)

(https://web.archive.org/web/20140827183517/http://www.engadg...)
I welcome anyone who works at Adobe to simply answer this question and put it to rest. There is absolutely nothing sensitive about the issue, unless it exposes them in a lie.

So no chance. I think it's a big fat lie. They'd have to have made some other scientific breakthrough, which they didn't.

Using information from https://openai.com/research/clip and https://github.com/mlfoundations/open_clip, it's possible to answer this question.

It's certainly not impossible, but it's impracticable. On 248m images (roughly the size of Adobe Stock), CLIP gets 37% on ImageNet, and on the 2000m from LAION, it performs 71-80%. And even with 2000m images, CLIP is substantially worse performing than the approach that Imagen uses for "text comprehension," which relies on essentially many billions more images and text tokens.
That wave is gone, previous gen of GPU's are sold very cheaply.
Yep, turns out he went on to work on the best selling mp3 player of all time

https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/dcs/magazine/article1.pdf

Pretty sure he lent me an Acorn CDROM once too
Related ongoing thread:

The Compact Calendar 2023-2024 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37869809 - Oct 2023 (15 comments)
How do you recognize a breakthrough in literature ?
I wish I could buy a real, high quality feature phone. The only apps Id enjoy is a calendar, a flashlight, a quality camera, and -maybe- navigation.

None of my asks are attention drains.
I can't answer why you should care. Maybe you're more tolerant than me. But I can list a few ways in which not having a smartphone can be more annoying:

It's part of most multifactor authentication systems, as has already been mentioned. You could get by with SMS-based MFA, but you really should not as it is demonstrably insecure. In the future, these other methods will likely just go away as well, as they should.

At some point during COVID, a lot of restaurants stopped giving you printed menus, and expect you to use a QR code to access a menu on the web. Some provide printed menus upon request, but I've been to places that just don't have them anymore.

Here's a personal one: On a road trip a while ago, I stopped at a gas station to buy a map, only to discover that they don't sell them. This blew my mind: growing up, this is just what you did when you were in a state far from home, and you could count on any gas station having a folded paper map of the state in it. I don't think you can count on being able to navigate that way anymore, so you'd either have to plan ahead and buy maps, or buy a dedicated GPS unit, or use a smart phone for navigation.

Later on that same road trip, I stopped in a small town and wanted to walk around for a bit. I discovered that all the parking spaces cost money (fine) but that there were no parking meters or kiosks to pay at. Just a sign with a QR code on it, presumably pointing to a website or app download where I had to pay. In theory I could have pulled my laptop out of my suitcase, connected it to wifi somehow (not via tethering, but maybe a nearby coffee shop or something), and used the webcam instead, but come on.

My insurance company offers a "service" where they track your driving via a smartphone app. This is an optional service, and naturally I told them to screw off. It is not hard to imagine, however, this becoming not-optional, or being penalized for not submitting to it in the future.

Oh, here's another one: my last employer bought me a smartphone on day one of my job there. Not avoidable. I did not stay at that job very long, but I don't think it's all that unusual for companies to just assume you're going to use a smartphone and be in touch with them.
Isn’t that like the Tesla heat pump?
Was just about to post this one. Amazing series.
The problem is not the uber app. Its the browser. Right now I should be napping for a long evening. Im reading HN instead
You may have come across this concept already, but this is where clean rooms come in.

One person views the "contaminated" decompiled code and writes a specification. A separate person writes the code based solely on the specification. This is an accepted method of demonstrating that there is no infringement.
Israel is an Apartheid state that has kept Gaza as an open-air prison for decades, getting worse since 2007, when the siege/blockade started and the people there were 'put on a diet' i.e. enough calories are allowed in so that the population doesn't starve outright, just have chronic malnutrition. A million kids under 18 have known that reality since birth.

Now Israel is openly calling for genocide, have cut off what little food and water Gaza had, and have asked a million people to move in 24 hours. Where they might go, in an area the size of Detroit, is left unstated. This is somehow called 'self-defence'.

No, I'm not an anti-semite, put it back in the deck.
No, I don't want Israel to be destroyed
No, I don't support Hamas, though Israel did back in the 70s/80s as a counterweight to the PLO

Yes, I think Israel has a right to self-defence, but so long as it continues the ethnic cleansing, the building of settlements on occupied territory, as treating millions of people as subhumans to be kept under heel, I find I have no sympathy. The only real difference between Bibi and Hamas, is that Bibi has killed and terrorized a lot more civilians.
>why are you in the comment section of Hacker News and not just asking ChatGPT to generate social media comments on the article?

Because I know the brains generating these comments have rich, diverse experience and a large set of refined, domain-specific heuristics derived from it - that is, they have top-notch training and alignment, at the cost of 20+ years of upfront incubation in an evolution-optimized meat harness with unpredictable success rates (and occasional personality defects). I can encounter new perspectives here that I don't think any current LLM could imitate efficiently or reliably. But if I wanted to know what Fox/MSNBC/NPR commenters had to say about this topic, I would absolutely ask ChatGPT, because those are commodity-grade opinions, and it excels at producing them. (It is not obvious to me that HN will still be an exception for, say, GPT-10 or whatever.)

This is definitely speculative and a little catty, but I suspect a lot of "hatred" of AI art is a) emotional solidarity with working artists who feel economically threatened by it, and b) a personal sense of insecurity along the lines of "what if I love this piece and it turns out to be AI - does that make me a boring NPC/a chump? better reject it as fiercely as possible to avoid introspection!"
> struggling to find the right spot on a window corner/border to grab in order to resize it

I suggest mapping <modifier>+click (e.g. Meta/Win key + left or right click) to trigger resize/move anywhere in the window.
It always surprises me that laptops maintained such as large market share over desktops. I'd have thought that as PCs became more of a niche, power user tool (a lot of people only use smartphones these days), desktops would prevail.
> If I were to add something (well take it away really) its to use whitespace for array element separators. Eliminates the whole trailing comma issue and looks cleaner, though I admit it might create parsing ambiguities.

Indeed:

var array = [
5
- 3
]

Does that produce [5, -3] or [2]?
There's a wide range of workloads for small business owners. Sometimes a strategy finds a market and after significant effort to get to capture customers, doesn't take a lot of work to maintain. Others might be pulling 80 hour weeks for $40k/year
DMCA != copyright
It’s funny because her fans probably see her as a heroine but all I see is greed.
- Embrace the web with Internet Explorer.

- Extend the web with CSS as an open standard.

- Extinguish competition by being the main browser and not following the CSS standard.

Still follows the recipe quite well in my opinion.
Most video creators choose to upload only to YouTube.
I assure you, there are many scientists that would love to test that, given the resources to do so.

Of course no one would fund that, meaning it's the funders deciding on what they think is plausible.
LOL. "M E G A C A R !"
Only a hosted API for now it seems? On page 12 they mention https://www.nixtla.io/ .
I can only speak for myself. I was pretty keen on starcraft and starcraft 2 back in the day, and I made a decision a few years back that blizzard wasn't the sort of company I wanted to support with my money anymore.
Azure Voidtools, powered by Cortana AI. Microsoft Account required for use.
I respectfully disagree. I care about supply chain attacks to the level that I only use reputable, preferably small dependencies. I check their dependencies too. However if I could limit their interface to a limited set of operations and be warned if a new version changed the APIs it uses, I would be exstatic. This goes into CI so I don't need to remember to run it, so it is fire-and-forget. Kind of CSP for JS (in browser).

Not using Rust though (yet?), so can't vouch for Cackle. Great idea though.
Latency is 90% of what matters in these products. Does higher resolution impact the latency?
Yep, sounds like it, which rules that out. Good to know that it might be on the served notice; I'll look for that next time.
Even without capitalization differences, acronym collisions between different domains are common, and this particular pair is usually easily resolved by context, though maybe not always in headlines.
Yeah, I think the realist future has us learn to treat digital stimulation as an intuitive hygiene thing: You can drink, but maybe don't start at 8am. You don't have to bathe every day, but go too long and you're not going to have a lot of friends. Flossing would be great, but at least brush your teeth. Go ahead and enjoy ice cream, but not for every meal.

We just don't have the cultural experience for anybody's specific suggestions to have much weight yet.
I would have no issue bankrupting firms like Equifax over data breaches. If the value of the business cannot outweigh the harm of data breaches then it shouldn’t be considered a viable business.

It’s a total joke that these business are not bankrupted by class actions against them. They just give out a token amount and FIVE YEARS of credit monitoring, as if such half-assed attempt at mitigation is good enough. They have legal licence to injure people who had effectively no meaningful ability to consent to having their data harvested.

Sell off the company and give the proceeds to the victims.
By not using a bank, using a credit card, taking a loan, or being employed. Basically everyone that collects the SSN gives the SSN and other info to these companies.
xCloud (Microsoft's) and Geforce Now (nVidia's) both allegedly have large player bases.

The "neat" thing about xCloud is that you can try it for free under most Game Pass subscriptions. I think that is actually where "cloud gaming" currently excels, as a faster/better/glorified replacement for the old "Demo" games and modes. (Try a Game Pass game for a bit without downloading it, on a day where you expect few connection hiccups, to see if it is worth the hour or so wait while it downloads.) I think that is also part of why xCloud probably does have large MAU numbers.

I've tried to see if xCloud is also useful on my mobile devices for on-the-go gaming, but the connection issues have mostly tanked that for me. (I do know people using it to play games on the Steam Deck that the Steam Deck doesn't as well support; but they generally play at home on home connections even if they prefer the "mobile-like" form factor of the Deck.)

But yeah, the argument is that the audience for "cloud gaming" is incredibly limited (needs a strong internet connection, doesn't want to invest in up-to-date gaming hardware, or wants stranger form factors) and always will be, which is why it is fascinating that Microsoft got so much flak from the UK commissioners about controlling the current "cloud gaming" marketplace: Microsoft seems to be the most successful mostly just because it is an incredibly limited audience with few gamers interested. Most everyone else who has tried to enter the market, including Google, has failed to find players. (nVidia seems the next most successful and even they admit it is a niche side-project for them. They've been partly so successful by how much money they haven't spent and how cheap they've managed to run it so far, comparatively to the investments of their peers and bigger companies like Amazon and Google.)
The academic consensus is usually reached through a social process, so who wields authority within the discipline also influences what the consensus is.

An example from mathematics: the shunning of Georg Cantor for his proof that the real numbers are uncountably infinite.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Cantor
I personally self host git and think that email gives a bunch of advantages:

1. Email has clients with full offline support. Sometimes I work in locations where internet is bad to nonexistent and with github I am limited in what I can do.

2. Anyone can contribute to my repos without needing to sign up to my website. Git with email truly allows decentralization of “forges”. So in the same vain, I can contribute with the same client to any project on the web that accepts email patches and it’s the same workflow for all of them.

3. Since I have an email client for my email, I can set up my own custom workflow that is much faster. Github siloes you into a begrudgingly slow one. My email client integrates into my editor and gives me the same keyboard shortcuts I use to navigate my code.

4. Did I mention it removes centralization? Having github be the center for all repos makes it ripe for enshittification. Given Microsoft’s history for EEE, I don’t trust them one bit.
a) That scroll bar decision was made a long time ago

b) Problems with specific dialog boxes or dynamically created features is evidence of problems with those dialog boxes or dynamically created features. As someone who's worked both as a developer and a designer, often the engineers win.

c) Assuming that these topics are simple enough for off-the-cuff reckonin' to validate or invalidate them are exactly why the engineers shouldn't win when it comes to interface decisions.
What an awesome use of cavitation - which can also generate heat at
specific and precise point.
ofc we are going to connect this to the stock market
If that's what you want, you're already treading a very non-standard path. At that point, you might want to think about changing languages.

Zig might be a better fit. The community tends to like minimal dependencies and bootstrapping. The downside is that it is a relatively new language with all the grief that brings. But, if you're going Rust with minimal dependencies, you're already in "Here Be Dragons" territory.

And, this might especially apply to you as you mentioned C. I see Zig as a better C while Rust is a much better C++.
Playing Pokemon Red with Reinforcement Learning
I still use a sony ericsson elm daily, no problem so far. maybe you could still find one online
Have we seen one from OpenAI apart from the one you mentioned for Copilot via MS?

Sorry if stupid question.
The Crimes Behind the Seafood You Eat
What Ethical AI Means [video]
I have one even though I don't have an ideal site for it because all I actually care about is the weather in my garden anyway.
Fault me for not paying terribly close attention to the conspiracy theorists, but it's true his approval ratings were dismal and dropping (and right after, he was around the most popular president in history). The bit about the leadup to the election is probably my mid-remembered addition.
The median wage in Philadelphia is $55K USD.

A $500K townhouse is a good deal for some kinds of remote workers, but not for anyone else.

EDIT: I found an interesting page about a useful metric - household income versus home price. You're right that it does differ by region and there are better deals in some places. But the ratio is becoming more unfavorable almost everywhere. https://listwithclever.com/research/home-price-v-income-hist...
A big part of Xbox Cloud Gaming, and also about ChatGPT, is MSFT built this huge cloud product and needs customers occupying its capacity to justify the capital expenditure.
You're probably less sensitive to the compression.
This behavior as very intentional, patterned after Bundler.
Controls? Regardless of whether or not you like the changes, device usage changes the way people use other devices. What you deem "correct" is not the objective universal truth you think it is. Not knowing that is why almost all FOSS interfaces are an absolute dumpster fire.
I'm happy if it goes down , nice excuse to not get any work done that day
> This is definitely speculative and a little catty, but I suspect a lot of "hatred" of AI art is a) emotional solidarity with working artists who feel economically threatened by it, and b) a personal sense of insecurity along the lines of "what if I love this piece and it turns out to be AI - does that make me a boring NPC/a chump? better reject it as fiercely as possible to avoid introspection!"

Strongly disagree, just take a look at the AI-generated tag on pixiv[0] -- it's 99% same-looking garbage, and since there's no barrier to generating, uploaders flood pixiv with tons of images. Browsing tags is basically unusable without it being filtered out.

[0] - https://www.pixiv.net/en/tags/AI-generated/artworks mildly nsfw if you're not logged in, very nsfw if you are. (edit: note that this isn't a lot because pixiv later added a meta-tag for AI art so it's possible for users to filter without pixiv premium; that's how much it was hated.)