skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find the feature-happy kitchen sink product philosophy in programming languages quite insufferable.

It has become an unpleasant chore to keep up with PEP squabbles and accepted changes.
If you call one of the fathers of fascist ideology your “patron saint,” in the context of also listing several other right wing thinkers, I think you know what you’re doing and should expect corresponding disdain.
Mondo: Unifying Diseases for the World, by the World
"There are thousands of distinct disease entities and concepts, each of which are known by different and sometimes contradictory names. The lack of a unified system for managing these entities poses a major challenge for both machines and humans that need to harmonize information to better predict causes and treatments for disease. The Mondo Disease Ontology is an open, community-driven ontology that integrates key medical and biomedical terminologies, supporting disease data integration to improve diagnosis, treatment, and translational research. Mondo records the sources of all data and is continually updated, making it suitable for research and clinical applications that require up-to-date disease knowledge."
Not only that Chicago has some of the strictest gun laws in the US. When that video was made you couldn’t _possess_ a handgun in Chicago unless you owned it prior to 1982.

That law has since been struck down as unconstitutional but the recently passed statewide assault weapons ban was patterned on the Chicago ban, also in effect at the time that video was made that is still in effect.
According to their most recent 10K (FY 2022 + FY 2021 data) their operational costs vs. revenue are:

* 25% payment fees (google and apple app stores)
* 28% developer exchange fees (they have to incentivize other people to build those games on their platform)
* 31% (up from 24%) infrastructure (servers/cloud) and trust and safety
* 39% (up from 28%) R&D
* 13% (down from 16%) general and administrative
* 5% (up from 4%) sales and marketing

In total that is 142% of revenue, up from 126% of revenue.

They'd have to slash the last 4 of those items by 70% to get to a +20% operating margin.

In FY2022 and averaged over the past 4 quarters revenue growth has fell back down to 15% (in FY2021 revenue more than doubled, which is likely where everyone felt that the gold rush was on).

If they could hold the last 4 of those items constant and grow topline revenue while letting payment fees and developer exchange fees grow with revenue it would take them ~8.5 years to get to a +20% operating margin.

It's kind of interesting how they pile trust and safety into infrastructure so that you can't tell if they're either underfunding trust and safety (freaking everyone out over their kids using the platform) or those T&S costs are exploding (indicating lack of scalability of T&S and making it even harder to achieve any kinds of operating margins). One very obvious problem with the idea of across-the-board 70% cuts in everything is that they likely can't do that in T&S.

Now the next problem is that their cash has dropped from $3.08B to $2.12B in the latest quarterly report, they have $1.65B in long term debt up from $1.39B a year earlier (although it looks like only $1B in an actual loan and the rest in capital leases, which is what has been growing). They have total assets of $5.6B and total liabilities of $5.4B (with Goodwill and intangibles of ~$200M) for effectively zero net equity.

They look pretty well doomed unless most of the company goes on a pretty severe diet.

And given the "higher for longer" interest rate environment they're not going to get any cheap financing bailouts to kick the can down the road.

This article is pretty funny:

https://www.fool.com/investing/2022/04/06/will-roblox-be-a-t...
Well, yes. It's called plain yogurt or natural yoghurt. Have you really never heard of it? What else would you use if a recipe asks for yogurt?
>wreckless vs. reckless

is there a name for homonyms that are antonyms?
I think we shouldn’t describe this as a confusion or ambiguity or anything like that. “Opt you in” is simply a nonsense phrase. Opting in means to proactively agree to something. It is impossible to be opted into something.

They are just lying, and you know they know they are doing something unethical, because they wouldn’t need to make up nonsense phrases otherwise.
Speed limiters should be an on all vehicles, especially commercial ones. Speed limiters are virtuous technology; they remove a source of dont-ask-dont-tell coercion for delivery drivers to beat a schedule. Slow(er) moving trucks and cars also make neighborhoods safer. It's win-win.
It doesn’t need to eliminate all bots, just reduce the number.

And I think there are far fewer blue check bots to regular, free bots.
VB used to be one of the most important technologies in our field. No, it was never "good" nor "elegant". But it allowed a huge humber small and medium businesses to benefit from computers. All those DVD/VHS rental stores? VB. Line of business applications for government? VB.

Visual Basic allowed people with minimal knowledge of computers to write useful applications that powered the economy. This is something we often forget nowadays in the flood of frameworks, programming paradigms, microservices etc. Computers exist to serve humans, we must never lose the connection with how useful our systems are.
I recently watched the launch video of Windows 95. It’s really kind of sad how little progress we made. If it’s not worse today.
> major draw for people is "he/she is my future husband/wife, if only we could meet once"

Even if they are OK with their celebrity getting an SO, they might take issue with who the SO is.

Either way, it’s a loss.
A dict_to_object function would be a good little intermediate exercise.
Right I am not trying to say that fiat doesn't have problems. I am trying to say that in the real world, crypto has solved none of those problems.
You mow one large yard every couple weeks. Landscapers mow multiple in a day. It's already a low paying gig, with how expensive batteries are I don't think they'll be using electric equipment anytime soon.
Microsoft is preparing to bring on Amazon as a customer of its 365 cloud
The class of games that "PC Pinball" fell into has been subsumed by mobile games— the criteria fit in terms of small numbers of inputs, ease of learning, friendliness to short play sessions, and over the top graphics/scoring/progression.

Even if Angry Birds, Cut the Rope, Flight Control, Subway Surfer, Candy Crush, Temple Run, and their thousands of descendants are not anything like actual pinball-based games, I expect that they're occupying much of the mindspace that would be filled by pinball in the market.

Even indie games trying to do pinball-y things are having to build considerably on the formula to make a "big" enough game, eg turning it into a Metroidvania a la Yoku's Island Express.
I'm not familiar with any adjustable rate bonds tbh. All corporate bonds and gilts I've ever seen have had fixed coupons to maturity.

I just wouldn't call treasuries weird or quirky when fixed coupons are the textbook definition of a bond taught in school.
Bookmarking for when you provide the relevant statistics
Not to change drastically from the subject matter of the original article, but I think really the most troubling thing to me listed here is how willing many men are to interacting with openly fake AI accounts on these apps. And this is not meant at all to mock these men, I'm genuinely concerned for the welfare of the kind of man who is so deprived and isolated of attention that he's ready to swipe his credit card for an AI-powered chat-bot with generated titties to tell him it loves him. It makes me think of all the Replika users who got (somewhat rightfully I feel) pissed off when they paywalled erotic/romantic engagement. Again, not judgement. Pity. I feel bad for these people who are so without any kind of social connections and/or the ability to get them that chat bots feel like their only options.

There are so many social sicknesses here that technical and market solutions are attempting to band-aid and it's genuinely depressing.

Also as an aside, using real people's faces for deepfake pornography should be prosecuted just like any other kind of sexual assault with similar consequences. That shit is disgusting and I will not respond to any comment saying otherwise, I don't care if you didn't actually touch her, or whatever excuse you have on offer. You have created exploitative material of a sexual nature without consent, that's assault, period, paragraph.
DC passed a ban on gas powered leaf blowers. It has been excellent

Longer term I feel like two thirds of this job is very automateable.

I fully expect a fleet of little mower bots to be rolling off some mothership vehicle in under a decade. There's still shrub trimming & gardening roles that seem infrequent enough to be manual. And for a while I expect there probably would be an onsite human, but eventually it feels like it'll be regular enough for many dwellings.

I also wish this sort of thing were just done municipally. Trimming is once every other week. Bot swarm has a preprogrammed path. Rates are incredibly low for basic service. Shuttling gear & crew around for individual lawns like is bonkers inefficient.
Similar sentiment with Rust (love the ecosystem, and love the language, except for the many, many parts of it that I don't need). F# comes up a lot in discussions like this. From a thread a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37892666
This is too complex, difficult, and case dependent to make it a standard that requires implementation by frameworks. Nothing in the system can know how long each other part will take, let alone what downstream parts will be used to serve a request... so what float value should it be sending back when?
Yeah, but that's a little beside the point: the liability and social pressure exists (in part) for that reason, especially since without it we all kind of understand what companies like Amazon would do.
https://archive.ph/Auqjz
Because if sucked then, and it would suck now. You had Dreamweaver.
Hybridly – Server-driven, client-rendered applications
> they're using the $1 charge to test that the stolen card details work before going and buying a $500 gift card somewhere else

Why would they start using twitter for this rather than the current merchants they use?
It lobbies just like any other corporate giant.

https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/clients/issues?...

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/walmart-lobbyists_b_3632526

On the far right front, here's what I found:

https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Walmart_and_Politics

https://www.ufcw.org/press-releases/new-report-on-political-...

> A new report issued Tuesday shows that Walmart and the Walton family that founded and controls the company have dramatically increased their political contributions over the last decade and that the vast majority of those contributions have gone to Republicans and right-wing causes, including anti-gay, anti-environment and pro-gun politicians and causes. The report asserts that Walmart, the world’s largest private employer, and the Walton family have spent over $17 million in federal elections and millions more on state and local initiatives. Since the 2000 election cycle, more than $11.6 million—69% of Walmart and the Waltons’ contributions—has gone to Republican candidates and committees. At the same time, 83% of the Waltons’ contributions, including their contributions to Super PACs, went to Republicans.

> The report further underscores Walmart and the Waltons’ turn to the right and shows that political contributions doesn’t simply stop at supporting Republicans; in 2008, Jim Walton gave $75,000 to the Arkansas Family Council Action Committee, which at the time was supporting a ballot measure to prevent gay families from adopting. Meanwhile, 94% of the Walton family’s contributions to candidates from 2000 to 2012 went to those who were opposed to or silent on the issue of marriage equality.

The report is archived here:

https://web.archive.org/web/20130715154825/http://makingchan...
Is anyone buying the Vision Pros? I thought I saw something saying they're $3500, which seems a bit steep to me. I did a cursory search, but couldn't find any data about how many apple has sold. Maybe that's super secret info.
Don't Overfocus on Implicit Bias
Lots, but I don't think they'd be of interest.

Instead, here's a list of things I still use and believe are better without recent "advancements":

- Automatic (mechanical) watch: Aside from being amazing piece of technology just to marvel at, it's great because it's reparable and doesn't need batteries

- Paper books: I've had a Kindle for a long time, and appreciate the portability in certain circumstances, but nothing seems to be the same as a paper book. Can't put my finger on it, but it's probably to do with the immediacy of physical objects

- Non-IoT everything (fridges, light-switches, TVs, thermostats, etc.): I think we're all on the same page on this one, so I'll just say this; they're pointlessly shite

- Pen and paper, for study: Numerous studies show people remember things better and more deeply when they write them down

- Cash: Makes transactions more personal, and the spending of money more tangible

- Games consoles without internet: Switch it on, play games. I don't have time for a 20GiB "patch" that wasn't there on day one because you didn't have time to finish the game before release
A bunch of single-comment related threads. Others?

AutoGen: A Multi-Agent Framework for Streamlining Task Customization - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37855314 - Oct 2023 (1 comment)

Microsoft's AutoGen – Guide to code execution by LLMs - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37822809 - Oct 2023 (1 comment)

Making memes with Autogen AI (open source LLM agent framework) [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37750897 - Oct 2023 (1 comment)

AutoGen: Enabling next-generation large language model applications - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37647404 - Sept 2023 (1 comment)

AutoGen: Enabling Next-Gen GPT-X Applications - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37220686 - Aug 2023 (1 comment)
> when rates rise, people tend to use their savings to pay down any debt

Why would a rational actor with 2% mortgage (in USA fixed rate) pay it down early, when they can get 4%+ in a money market?
Your post reminds me of a music forum I’m on where a lot of regulars seem to have got bored discussing music, and now are more keen on discussing how a certain band or genre is either harmful to whatever minority, or progressive and liberatory for whatever minority. Room for endless sanctimonious tweets indeed. How did contemporary anglophone society end up like this?
That's so much work though! And I still have to sift through lots of stuff that I don't think is any good.

I feel like there is a very open niche for a game-review site that takes strong opinions on this stuff and just tells me what the highest-rated games are by people who also like the games I like.
This game doesn't make any sense. What am I supposed to do?
Their comment uses two (valid) context lengths: "organizational total" and "single agent." The latter is a subset of the former.

By analogy: no agent can summarize War and Peace, but several agents can, Peace-wise (sorry). Like AI map reduce. The question is thus "why not use one agent for this recursive merger?" Answers maybe being:

1. Different scholars (Russian lit. agents, ...war strategists?, etc) pay attention to different things with valuable insights

2. Multiple readers parallelize well, and some are faster than others

3. Managers can direct talent to (re)read chapters most relevant to their specialties, and coordinate meta-learning and communication

You might not get much mileage out of this approach with book summaries, but other domains are a different story (sorry).
OK so this could go multiple ways.

On the one hand, they might be very specific, like "anything other than the Missionary Position between heterosexual couples of the same race and age are banned."

On the other hand, they might have a 100-page document filled with legalese that nobody understands, nor follows.

Perhaps we could look at this from another perspective: If we were in North Korea, how would they regulate the use of AI for the reproduction of the likeness of the Dear Leader?

Edit: To put it another way:

* They either define in clear terms what IS allowed.

* Or they define in clear terms what IS NOT allowed.
According to the following blog post, it uses a web API exposed by the Binance Smart Chain (BSC) platform:
https://labs.guard.io/etherhiding-hiding-web2-malicious-code...

This diagram show the full flow of the attack:
https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/format:webp/1*by4...

Because reads from blockchain are "free" (meaning, there is no cryptocurrency payment required to read data from the smart contracts on BSC), this is effectively free storage/hosting for the attacker.

The malicious code is served by BSC web API. According to the Krebs article, BSC "is aware of the malware abusing its blockchain, and is actively addressing the issue." I am not clear if they are taking this situation Very Seriously(TM), but I assume they are.
Apple and Google absolutely have fraud capability and will cooperate with merchants and law enforcement.
> when she gets a call from a number not in her contacts. It's not losing relevance, it's lost relevance so long ago

This isn't the network losing relevance, she's literally still using it. She's just gatekeeping with her contacts.

I'm not saying we don't need to clamp down. But the downside of clamping down too hard is the calls from contacts in her address book not getting connected. That, and HN being littered with stories about people who are--for some random reason--unconnectable due to no fault of their own. That's the natural response if you let the "throw everyone in jail for the most minor infraction" crowd into the building.
To the degree that's true, an AI creation may be more appropriate than a real person. At least it won't teach people to objectify real human beings.
Are there bugs the FBI tells you not to patch?
Related:

Bill Gates demonstrates Visual Basic (1991) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24435217 - Sept 2020 (11 comments)
I don't think the comment implied that it was the "raison d'etre". A company who has employees on the road should strive to make them follow the law. If the vehicles are owned by corporation XYZ, the drivers are employed by corporation XYZ -- it stands to reason that they should ensure that laws are followed. e.g. that the drivers have valid licenses, they are authorized for employment in the region they are employed, etc.
Why should following speed limits trigger this train of thought?
underwriting and offer terms can be configured to each use case, depending on a few key factors:
1) applicant data - kyc, bank balance, credit score etc (pretty generic stuff here)
2) our customer's proprietary data - unique platform driven insights (e.g. revenue bookings, customer loyalty, typical order size, etc.) - this is more the secret sauce that allows our customers to offer better underwriting than traditional banks/lenders ;)
3) our customer's platform incentives - customers can align credit offering with their growth/strategy - e.g. if they wanna promote HVAC for Q3, all orders with HVAC can get more competitive rates, which would help them increase GMV & conversion
4) last but not least - compliance - ie state & fed regs (max APR, fees, etc)
In real world practical tests, speeding does not reduce the overall travel times proportionally with the speed. This is ESPECIALLY true for city driving and for a job with a ton of stops like a delivery driver.

Going 45 in a 40 is a 12.5% increase on paper but maybe 3% more deliveries in a day at best. I'd be shocked if that much honestly.

Speeding does not help anyone.
Yeah, everyone knows that these hourly workers get impossible schedules that have every moment allocated and they can't recover when something slows them down, speeding is one way to get there.
Show HN: Excalichart! Like Excalidraw but with Charts
Japanese celebrity endorsement marketing is almost entirely focused on the spokesperson’s image, so when that image becomes sufficiently cracked, it has the potential to take the entire promotional strategy down with it, and it wouldn’t be a shock if the advantage of being able to opt out of all those risks is part of why Ito En is going with an AI model this time.

Such a risky bet, what would it take to compromise an AI model using AI tools? About ten minutes I'd guess.
It also allowed a lot of young people (ie me) to learn to make legitimate looking GUI programs without a difficult barrier to entry, on whatever windows machines our schools/houses had lying around.

That and Delphi, how I miss you.
The real money is probably in services that let you upload any photo of a person and delivers custom made porn with that person in it.
If you refer to bitcoin, that‘s not new, you could with withdraw and store cash before. Or even gold. Or other small assets, such as art. Bam, no banks. And all of those options are as good or better than crypto.

At least as long as you can‘t pay taxes in crypto and can‘t pay most services.
I think they're definitely trying to maximize _cause_ for firings, such that if and when they do firings, they can't (as easily) be accused of firing for wrongful cause.
Typically, you need to use some tricks for pre-training in lower precision (finetuning seems to work at low precision), with FP16 you need loss scaling for example. With MX, you can train in 6 bits of precision without any tricks, and hit the same loss as FP32.
Isn’t that how we got USB 3 Gen 2 PD 130w Muffin-Spec?

Their names are terrible.

Besides. If companies are going to make non-conforming cables, they can put fake labels on them too. No normal person is going to check for the right labels.

They need a “USB C 4 cable”. They type that into Amazon and buy the thing with a low price and 4 stars.

The exact markings on the cable don’t make a difference.
> do you really think that Clooney’s presence on this brand’s advertisements had no effect on at least some consumers?

He certainly did, and that's the precise reason why they hired him instead of say some coffee expert that would cost them 1/100. They don't even need celebrities; just look at how many hot girls you see at motor shows posing by the various cars: they're 100% unknown but the induced association "You buy this car -> You'll get laid with her" will help sales for sure.
Yeah, let me just put ALL of my passwords in ONE location. Like that is any better than reusing a password.

Then you are relying on that password manager, what if you lose access to it or the data with your keys? Welp...
> Sign up for the alpha waitlist

This looks great but let's have a thread once the actual thing is there to be discussed. On HN there's no harm in waiting:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

This is in the interests of the project as well, btw, because if there's a big thread now, then a subsequent thread will probably get downweighted as a follow-up (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...) or buried as a dupe.
About 95% of the people I know who bought a VR headset wore it for a few hours, then out it in a box and put it in their closet.

It's definitely anecdata, bit I do wonder I'd Facebook is tracking number of hours these devices are being used.
> The company said all addresses associated with the spread of the malware have been blacklisted.

I thought web3 was supposed to be uncensored so we could serve and download all the malware we wanted?
I think this is like a block explorer type url. They can refuse requests to view those blocks. I don't think they can stop the creation of those blocks.

The malware guys can probably still find another 3rd party block viewer . But it is hassle for them.